:00:18. > :00:20.Hello and welcome to Wednesday in Parliament, our look at the best
:00:21. > :00:23.of the day in the Commons and the Lords.
:00:24. > :00:28.The Budget addresses the crisis in social care in England.
:00:29. > :00:33.The Chancellor has help for stretched local councils.
:00:34. > :00:38.I am committing additional grant funding of ?2 billion to social care
:00:39. > :00:41.in England over the next three years.
:00:42. > :00:44.But the Labour leader accuses Philip Hammond of producing
:00:45. > :00:49.Who is reaping the rewards of this economy?
:00:50. > :00:54.For millions, it is simply not working.
:00:55. > :00:57.Away from the Budget and back to Brexit, and predictions of long
:00:58. > :01:01.delays in the processing of residency applications
:01:02. > :01:07.It would take the Home Office more than 50 years...
:01:08. > :01:12.50 years to deal with 3.2 million European nationals in the UK.
:01:13. > :01:14.It was Phlip Hammond's first Budget and, curiously, it was
:01:15. > :01:20.Or at least his last to be presented in March.
:01:21. > :01:24.From now on, the annual Budget will take place in the Autumn.
:01:25. > :01:28.The Chancellor called it a 'fair' package of measures:
:01:29. > :01:29.there was ?2 billion for social care, relief
:01:30. > :01:34.for those hit by changes to business rates, and higher
:01:35. > :01:35.National Insurance Contributions facing
:01:36. > :01:42.In the late morning, outside 11 Downing Street,
:01:43. > :01:49.the Chancellor paraded the familiar red box,
:01:50. > :01:51.complete with its detailed contents - some unveiled in advance,
:01:52. > :01:55.The Chancellor posed for the photographers...
:01:56. > :01:57.And then made his way the relatively short distance from Downing Streeet
:01:58. > :02:06.As he started his speech shortly after half past 12, Mr Hammond said
:02:07. > :02:09.employment was at a record high, unemployment at a record
:02:10. > :02:12.low, but it was crucial to avoid complacency.
:02:13. > :02:15.As we prepare for our future outside the EU, we cannot rest on
:02:16. > :02:22.We must focus relentlessly on keeping Britain at
:02:23. > :02:24.the cutting-edge of the global economy.
:02:25. > :02:28.The deficit is down but debt is still too high.
:02:29. > :02:30.Employment is up but productivity remains
:02:31. > :02:35.Too many of our young people are leaving formal
:02:36. > :02:38.education without the skills they need for
:02:39. > :02:41.today's labour market, and
:02:42. > :02:44.too many families are still feeling the squeeze almost a decade after
:02:45. > :02:53.A word about the size of the national debt...
:02:54. > :02:57.Britain has a debt of nearly ?1.7 trillion.
:02:58. > :03:03.Almost ?62,000 for every household in the country.
:03:04. > :03:09.Each year, we are spending ?50 billion on debt
:03:10. > :03:12.interest, more than we spend on defence and policing combined.
:03:13. > :03:14.And borrowing over the forecast period
:03:15. > :03:17.is still set to be ?100 billion higher than predicted at
:03:18. > :03:26.My ambition is for the UK to be the best place in the world to
:03:27. > :03:30.Under the last Labour Government, corporation tax was 28%...
:03:31. > :03:33.By the way, they do not call it the last Labour
:03:34. > :03:43.On to his important announcement on the rising cost of caring
:03:44. > :03:49.Today, Mr Deputy Speaker, I am committing
:03:50. > :03:53.additional grant funding of ?2 billion to social care in England
:03:54. > :04:01.Mr Deputy Speaker, that is ?2 billion over the
:04:02. > :04:13.This will allow local authorities to act now to commission nuclear
:04:14. > :04:27.Today I can announce funding for a further 110 new free
:04:28. > :04:30.schools on top of the current commitment to 500.
:04:31. > :04:33.This will include new specialist maths schools, to
:04:34. > :04:36.build on the clear success of Exeter Maths School and Kings College
:04:37. > :04:39.London Maths School, which my right honourable friend the Prime
:04:40. > :04:44.We are committed to this programme because we understand
:04:45. > :04:52.that choice is the key to excellence in education.
:04:53. > :04:56.There would be action against tax avoiders...
:04:57. > :04:58.From July, we will introduce a tough new financial penalty for
:04:59. > :05:01.professionals who enable a tax avoidance arrangement that is later
:05:02. > :05:05.Taken together, these measures will raise ?820
:05:06. > :05:11.And money for the new technologies...
:05:12. > :05:14.?270 million to keep the UK at the forefront
:05:15. > :05:19.of disruptive technologies, like biotech, robotic systems and
:05:20. > :05:22.driverless vehicles, a technology I believe the party
:05:23. > :05:36.As the Chancellor's nickname to Westminster commentators
:05:37. > :05:38.is Spreadsheet Phil, why not live up to the name...?
:05:39. > :05:42.I turn now, Mr Deputy Speaker, to the OBR forecast.
:05:43. > :05:45.This is the spreadsheet bit but bear with me because I have a reputation
:05:46. > :05:51.The OBR forecast for the level of GDP in 2021 is to be broadly
:05:52. > :06:01.He justified changes to National Insurance contributions...
:06:02. > :06:03.Employed and self-employed alike, use our
:06:04. > :06:04.public services in the same way, but
:06:05. > :06:07.they are not paying for them in the same way.
:06:08. > :06:14.The lower national insurance paid by the self-employed
:06:15. > :06:16.is forecast to cost our public finances over ?5 billion this
:06:17. > :06:20.This is not fair to the 85% of workers who are employees.
:06:21. > :06:23.He said he'd listened to concerns about the new levels
:06:24. > :06:28.I will provide local authorities with a
:06:29. > :06:31.?300 million fund to deliver discretionary relief to target
:06:32. > :06:35.individual hard cases in their local areas.
:06:36. > :06:39.The Chancellor ended with a triumphant tone...
:06:40. > :06:42.Today we reaffirm our commitment to invest in Britain's
:06:43. > :06:46.future and we embark on this next chapter
:06:47. > :06:52.our strengths and clear in our determination
:06:53. > :06:56.to build a stronger, fairer, better Britain.
:06:57. > :07:08.Well, the Chancellor was on his feet for near enough exactly an hour.
:07:09. > :07:13.The custom and tradition is for the Budget speech
:07:14. > :07:15.to be replied to, not by the Shadow Chancellor
:07:16. > :07:18.Jeremy Corbyn accused Philip Hammond of boasting
:07:19. > :07:24.He said for millions the economy was simply not working...
:07:25. > :07:26.This was a budget of utter complacency
:07:27. > :07:34.Utter complacency about the crisis facing our public services and
:07:35. > :07:38.complacent about the reality of daily life for millions
:07:39. > :07:48.Yesterday, Mr Deputy Speaker, over 3000 people in this
:07:49. > :07:51.country will have queued up at food banks to feed themselves and their
:07:52. > :07:57.Last night, Mr Deputy Speaker, over 4000 people will have
:07:58. > :08:03.slept rough on the streets of this country.
:08:04. > :08:06.The Chancellor made his boast about a strong economy, but
:08:07. > :08:09.who is reaping the rewards of this economy?
:08:10. > :08:14.For millions, it is simply not working.
:08:15. > :08:21.The budget didn't provide the funding necessary now for the
:08:22. > :08:26.crisis in our NHS, which the BMA reckons needs an extra ?10 billion.
:08:27. > :08:28.It did not provide the funding necessary to end
:08:29. > :08:34.in social care now, which needs ?2 billion
:08:35. > :08:42.a year just to plug the gaps, according to the King's Fund.
:08:43. > :08:45.That is not met by ?2 billion over three years,
:08:46. > :08:48.This is a budget that lacks ambition for this country
:08:49. > :08:52.It demonstrates again the appalling priorities of this
:08:53. > :08:57.Another year, tax breaks for the few and public
:08:58. > :09:03.When she took office the Prime Ministers said, if you are
:09:04. > :09:05.one of those families who are just managing,
:09:06. > :09:06.I want to address you directly.
:09:07. > :09:15.This budget has done nothing to tackle low pay,
:09:16. > :09:18.nothing to solve the state of emergency that persists for so many
:09:19. > :09:22.people demanding and needing health and social care now.
:09:23. > :09:25.It does nothing to make a fair economy that truly works
:09:26. > :09:30.The SNP's finance spokesman said in many ways Philip Hammond
:09:31. > :09:38.We had the self-effacing jokes about the spreadsheets, we had
:09:39. > :09:42.the spun lines about being stronger together and then it went downhill
:09:43. > :09:48.and barely a mention of Brexit, the most
:09:49. > :09:52.momentous challenge facing the UK - barely a mention of Brexit.
:09:53. > :09:54.We've seen a scandalous attack on aspiration,
:09:55. > :10:07.Taxing them more, changes, 4.2 billion or so from people.
:10:08. > :10:10.The party of aspiration taxing those low self
:10:11. > :10:13.employed, putting an active, real, hard disincentives
:10:14. > :10:15.to starting businesses, to employing people,
:10:16. > :10:22.I think that is a decision that will come back to haunt this Chancellor.
:10:23. > :10:26.In fact, the Commons debate on the Chancellor's measures goes
:10:27. > :10:35.As soon the front-benchers are finished, it is up to backbench
:10:36. > :10:39.Some backbenchers were clearly worried by Philip Hammond's decision
:10:40. > :10:40.to increase the National Insurance contributions paid by
:10:41. > :10:50.The self-employed, who are working longer, despite earning
:10:51. > :10:53.less, typically twice the proportion working 50 hours each
:10:54. > :10:55.week than in employment, they are going to be paying
:10:56. > :11:02.If they are on ?27,000 of profits, they will be hit
:11:03. > :11:04.by an extra ?30 a month now because of this decision.
:11:05. > :11:09.I do have some small concerns around national insurance.
:11:10. > :11:11.I find myself in agreement with the concerns expressed
:11:12. > :11:15.by the honourable member for Nottingham East and
:11:16. > :11:18.the honourable lady, the member for Leeds West.
:11:19. > :11:20.It is very important to ensure we do not disadvantage
:11:21. > :11:28.This party on this side always has been, and I hope always will be,
:11:29. > :11:31.the party that supports white van man - and on this particular
:11:32. > :11:42.You are watching our round-up of the day
:11:43. > :11:44.in the Commons and the Lords. Still to come,
:11:45. > :11:55.could the NHS be transformed by genomic medicine?
:11:56. > :11:57.Jeremy Corbyn has again put Theresa May on the spot
:11:58. > :12:00.over the recent decision of Surrey County Council to drop
:12:01. > :12:03.plans for a local referendum and a 15% rise in council tax to pay
:12:04. > :12:08.In previous exchanges, the Labour leader had wanted to know if
:12:09. > :12:12.the county council had been given favourable treatment,
:12:13. > :12:15.in the form of a sweetheart deal, by ministers, in order
:12:16. > :12:22.He returned to the subject during the latest session of
:12:23. > :12:38.Could the Prime Minister explain the difference between a sweetheart deal
:12:39. > :12:49.and a gentleman 's agreement? I assume he is referring to Surrey
:12:50. > :12:53.County Council. He is making it as if it was a particular deal
:12:54. > :13:02.available to Surrey County Council or not to others. That is not the
:13:03. > :13:03.case. The ability to raise the social care precept is available for
:13:04. > :13:06.other councils. The Labour leader believed he had
:13:07. > :13:17.done unearthed some new evidence. Evidence has emerged that the leader
:13:18. > :13:23.of the Surrey County Council that it was a gentleman 's agreement between
:13:24. > :13:30.the council and the government. The question is, what deal was done with
:13:31. > :13:34.Surrey County Council? He is asking me if there was a special deal
:13:35. > :13:41.available to them that was not available to other councils, the
:13:42. > :13:46.answer is no. If he is working for a conspiracy, I suggest you looks
:13:47. > :13:54.behind him. The Prime Minister says there was no deal. She seems rather
:13:55. > :14:01.run clear. Does she know what arrangement was made with Surrey
:14:02. > :14:11.County Council? There is another area of deep concern. Could the
:14:12. > :14:24.Prime Minister tellers in a new school places will be needed by
:14:25. > :14:30.2020? The Prime Minister should listen to the answer is that I give
:14:31. > :14:34.before he asks the next question. I have answered the question if the
:14:35. > :14:38.claims about Surrey County Council. There was no deal with them that was
:14:39. > :14:47.not available to other county councils. The Prime Minister was
:14:48. > :14:53.also asked a question about the number of new school places needed
:14:54. > :14:59.by 2020. Could she explain why we have the crisis? Class sizes are
:15:00. > :15:07.soaring thanks to her government. A flagship scheme has meant schools
:15:08. > :15:12.being built in the wrong places. Millions of guidance been given to
:15:13. > :15:17.three schools will funding is falling in real terms. Is it not
:15:18. > :15:23.time this colossal waste of money was addressed? It is doing nothing
:15:24. > :15:28.for children, doing nothing to solve the crisis at schools and the sizes
:15:29. > :15:33.of commerce. That is what the people want. Not vanity projects from the
:15:34. > :15:42.government. It is not a vanity project. We will ensure that every
:15:43. > :15:47.child has a good school place. The majority of free schools have been
:15:48. > :15:55.opened in an area for other was a need for school places. They are
:15:56. > :15:59.also in areas of disadvantage. They are in the places where we want
:16:00. > :16:02.people who are disadvantaged to get on in life.
:16:03. > :16:06.It could take 50 years for the Home Office to process UK
:16:07. > :16:07.residency applications from European Union nationals
:16:08. > :16:09.according to Angus Robertson, the SNP leader at Westminster.
:16:10. > :16:12.At PMQs, he said his estimate followed on from reductions
:16:13. > :16:17.Since 2010, the Home Office has seen its full-time
:16:18. > :16:23.At the current rate of processing applications for residency, it would
:16:24. > :16:26.take the Home Office more than 50 years - 50 years -
:16:27. > :16:38.to deal with over 2.3 million European nationals in the UK.
:16:39. > :16:40.This is clearly totally unacceptable, so
:16:41. > :16:43.will the Prime Minister tell us how quickly she hopes to be able
:16:44. > :16:48.to guarantee all European nationals permanent residency?
:16:49. > :16:51.I would say to the honourable gentleman, he simply cannot just
:16:52. > :16:53.stand up and say, because the Home Office
:16:54. > :16:56.is getting more efficient, it is going to be longer for answers to
:16:57. > :17:03.Yes, the Home Office is getting more efficient in the way it
:17:04. > :17:06.He maybe has not heard of technology.
:17:07. > :17:19.But people apply online and are dealt with online.
:17:20. > :17:21.Meanwhile, the Liberal Democratic leader brought up the forthcoming
:17:22. > :17:23.service in London to dedicate the unveiling
:17:24. > :17:25.in London of the new Iraq- Afghanistan Memorial.
:17:26. > :17:27.Yesterday, we heard that hundreds of families of soldiers who
:17:28. > :17:30.died in Iraq and Afghanistan have been denied seating at tomorrow's
:17:31. > :17:32.unveiling of the memorial to our fallen troops.
:17:33. > :17:35.Inviting a relative of each of those killed in Iraq and
:17:36. > :17:37.Afghanistan would have taken up fewer than one-third
:17:38. > :17:40.Will she now apologise to those families for what, I assume,
:17:41. > :17:42.is a careless oversight, and rectify the mistake immediately,
:17:43. > :17:45.so that bereaved families can come and pay their respects
:17:46. > :17:52.Over half of those attending tomorrow are either current or
:17:53. > :17:57.No-one from the bereaved community has been turned away.
:17:58. > :18:00.Everyone of those who had applied for a ticket has been successful.
:18:01. > :18:04.But I have been reassured that, if there are any
:18:05. > :18:06.bereaved families who wish to attend, then the Ministry
:18:07. > :18:08.of Defence will make every effort to ensure that they
:18:09. > :18:15.We were hearing earlier about the change of heart
:18:16. > :18:17.from Surrey County Council on its plan to introduce a
:18:18. > :18:20.15% rise in council tax to pay for social care.
:18:21. > :18:23.At PMQs, Jeremy Corbyn asked if a sweetheart deal,
:18:24. > :18:25.or gentlemen's agreement between Surrey County Council
:18:26. > :18:31.and ministers in Whitehall had been made, while other councils had not
:18:32. > :18:50.In the House of Lords, one peer said the calims and counter-claims
:18:51. > :18:51.were eroding trust between central and local government.
:18:52. > :18:53.Does my noble lord, the minister, agree that
:18:54. > :18:56.subterfuge of this sort undermines the pre-requisite of trust and
:18:57. > :18:58.confidence that has to exist between local government and central
:18:59. > :19:09.government and would he ensure that te Secretary of State the
:19:10. > :19:11.comes clean on this gentleman's agreement and
:19:12. > :19:14.reveals all the other secret deals done with Conservative-run councils?
:19:15. > :19:18.Let me restate, and I think this was confirmed yesterday
:19:19. > :19:22.by the council yesterday, there was no deal.
:19:23. > :19:25.There was never any question of a special arrangement for Surrey.
:19:26. > :19:33.They are subject to the same rules as every other local authority.
:19:34. > :19:54.In the north-east, there is not a single place where those eligible
:19:55. > :20:01.for social care, as opposed to 1% in Surrey. In the north-east, the tax
:20:02. > :20:09.amount is much lower because of the lower property base, the property
:20:10. > :20:17.values, to be raised in council tax. What caused this? I have no idea.
:20:18. > :20:23.That is a question for Surrey County Council. We do have freedom of
:20:24. > :20:30.information. I believe we are very keen to respond to that and all the
:20:31. > :20:36.relevant documents I am sure will be disclosed. The leader of Surrey
:20:37. > :20:43.County Council said there was a gentleman 's agreement. Who is
:20:44. > :20:53.telling the truth? I will restate the government position. There was
:20:54. > :20:58.no agreement. The leader of Surrey County Council is not telling the
:20:59. > :21:05.truth? That is a matter for them to deal with. I cannot take questions
:21:06. > :21:15.which are properly for Surrey County Council. The question does have is
:21:16. > :21:20.to be asked, either the leader of Surrey County Council was not
:21:21. > :21:25.telling the truth or he completely misunderstood his conversations with
:21:26. > :21:34.the secretary of state. It was one or the other. Could he tellers
:21:35. > :21:41.categorically whether anyone in Downing Street was involved in the
:21:42. > :21:42.discussions? The discussions where conducted quite openly by Department
:21:43. > :21:46.officials. The National Health Service is going
:21:47. > :21:49.to be transformed through the use of Genomics is the study of how sets
:21:50. > :21:53.of genes and DNA work together and why that interaction sometimes
:21:54. > :21:55.leads to disease. Two experts told the Science
:21:56. > :21:58.and Technology Committee that this cutting-edge science was leading
:21:59. > :22:08.to the development of new drugs. We are already seeing
:22:09. > :22:10.the fruits of cancer genomes, in terms of our knowledge of cancer
:22:11. > :22:13.genomes and their So, by sequencing cancer genomes
:22:14. > :22:18.and finding the mutations, the so-called somatic
:22:19. > :22:20.mutations, that have occurred during the lifetime of an individual
:22:21. > :22:25.and that are responsible for converting a normal
:22:26. > :22:30.cell into a cancer cell, we find key genes that,
:22:31. > :22:32.when they are mutated, are And these genes, or the proteins
:22:33. > :22:38.that they encode, become targets And there is the potential to detect
:22:39. > :22:45.cancer very early on. Cancers are leaky.
:22:46. > :22:48.They leak DNA. And they leak DNA that then
:22:49. > :22:52.circulates around the body. Although that only accounts
:22:53. > :22:54.for a small amount of the DNA in the blood, you can
:22:55. > :22:58.tell that that is cancer DNA. And, therefore, in the next few
:22:59. > :23:06.years, as a result of research which Are we at the risk of being able
:23:07. > :23:09.to diagnose an individual, then not have the capacity
:23:10. > :23:12.within the NHS to be able to treat the individual?
:23:13. > :23:14.Is there a danger of that? One of the things we
:23:15. > :23:17.will find is that, when you do genome sequencing,
:23:18. > :23:19.you will find mutations Either that we are seeing patients
:23:20. > :23:25.who have mutations where there is not a trial open with a targeted
:23:26. > :23:29.therapy or that there is a need - and I think Cancer Research UK
:23:30. > :23:32.are working on this - for a national database,
:23:33. > :23:35.so that, for example, if you have breast cancer,
:23:36. > :23:38.but you have a B mutation, which Mike was talking
:23:39. > :23:41.about earlier, and there is no trial in your area,
:23:42. > :23:44.that you could find somewhere Because obviously, patients
:23:45. > :23:47.will travel a long way The Department of Health
:23:48. > :23:55.has set up a project, known as Genomics England,
:23:56. > :23:57.to sequence 100,000 genomes from people with cancer
:23:58. > :24:02.and rare diseases. The reason the project
:24:03. > :24:05.exists is to show that this can be done
:24:06. > :24:09.and can be done on a scale. One of the aims of the project,
:24:10. > :24:12.apart from the benefit to current patients, is to try
:24:13. > :24:14.to transform the NHS into a service which can
:24:15. > :24:16.offer the benefits of That aspect of the work
:24:17. > :24:25.has taken time. But there are concerns about keeping
:24:26. > :24:28.data out of the hands of some private organisations,
:24:29. > :24:31.such as insurance firms. The genome has a wealth
:24:32. > :24:34.of information. It contains very senstive
:24:35. > :24:35.information such as, in some cases, a pre-disposition
:24:36. > :24:43.to sensitive mental illness. If this kind of information
:24:44. > :24:51.is readily available, this could be extremely
:24:52. > :24:52.harmful to people. So, I think we have to be very clear
:24:53. > :24:56.about what constitutes an acceptable I am not supportive of general
:24:57. > :25:08.profiling, of people having But in the end, that is only so much
:25:09. > :25:12.they can tellers. I am not supportive of general
:25:13. > :25:14.profiling, of people having whole genome profiles
:25:15. > :25:16.to determine their risk of disease at this stage,
:25:17. > :25:18.because it has been shown in research that each of us carry
:25:19. > :25:21.genes which we may think should be fatal and,
:25:22. > :25:23.yet, we are clearly alive. We are at a very early stage
:25:24. > :25:27.of knowledge with this, so it would be premature to do
:25:28. > :25:32.that sort of thing. Do join me for our
:25:33. > :25:36.next daily round-up. Until then, from me
:25:37. > :25:39.Keith Macdougall, good bye.