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0:00:21 > 0:00:22Hello and welcome to Wednesday in Parliament.
0:00:22 > 0:00:23On this programme:
0:00:23 > 0:00:25Jeremy Corbyn attacks the Government's handling
0:00:25 > 0:00:26of Carillion's collapse.
0:00:26 > 0:00:27But Theresa May says the Labour party has turned
0:00:33 > 0:00:36this isn't one isolated case of government negligence and corporate
0:00:36 > 0:00:38failure. It has a broken system.
0:00:38 > 0:00:42But Theresa May says the Labour party has turned
0:00:42 > 0:00:45its back on investment, growth and jobs.
0:00:45 > 0:00:49A Labour Party that will always put politics before people.
0:00:49 > 0:00:50Peers demand answers about why so many nurses
0:00:50 > 0:00:52are leaving England's NHS.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54And MPs hear about the children as young as 12
0:00:54 > 0:00:59being used by drug gangs.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02They are trafficked to remote areas and forced to deal drugs in squalid
0:01:02 > 0:01:03conditions.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05But first, Jeremy Corbyn, has accused ministers of negligence
0:01:05 > 0:01:08for continuing to award contracts to the construction firm Carillion,
0:01:08 > 0:01:10after it issued profit warnings last year.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13The firm went into liquidation at the start of the week.
0:01:13 > 0:01:18Carillion has around 450 public sector contracts,
0:01:18 > 0:01:21from NHS cleaning to school dinners, and prisons.
0:01:21 > 0:01:25It's also involved in the HS2 high-speed rail line
0:01:25 > 0:01:27and maintenance for Network Rail.
0:01:27 > 0:01:35Jeremy Corbyn thought ministers had some explaining to do.
0:01:35 > 0:01:40In the last six months, the government has awarded more than £2
0:01:40 > 0:01:46billion worth of contracts to Carillion. It did so even after the
0:01:46 > 0:01:52share price was in freefall, and the company had issued profit warnings.
0:01:52 > 0:01:58Why did the government do that?If it was the case that the government
0:01:58 > 0:02:02pulled out of contracts, or indeed private-sector companies pulled out
0:02:02 > 0:02:06of contracts, whenever a profit warning was issued, that would be
0:02:06 > 0:02:11the best way to ensure that companies failed and jobs were lost.
0:02:11 > 0:02:17It looks like the government was handing Carillion public contracts,
0:02:17 > 0:02:22either to keep the company afloat, which clearly hasn't worked, or it
0:02:22 > 0:02:26was just deeply negligent of the crisis that was coming down the
0:02:26 > 0:02:28line.
0:02:33 > 0:02:40I am very happy to answer questions, when the right or gentleman asks
0:02:40 > 0:02:44one. He didn't. Carillion went into
0:02:44 > 0:02:49bankruptcy with debts we understand to be 1.29 billion, and a further
0:02:49 > 0:02:54pension deficit, and at this time, this country is paying out
0:02:54 > 0:02:56ever-increasing shareholder dividends wildly excessive bonuses
0:02:56 > 0:02:59to directors
0:02:59 > 0:03:05dividends wildly excessive bonuses to directors, and today, workers on
0:03:05 > 0:03:08private sector Carillion contracts will no longer be paid. However, the
0:03:08 > 0:03:12chief executive will be paid for another ten months. One rule for the
0:03:12 > 0:03:15super-rich, another for everybody else. Can the Prime Minister assure
0:03:15 > 0:03:21the house today that not a single penny more will go to the Chief
0:03:21 > 0:03:26Executive or the directors of this company?He has raised the issue of
0:03:26 > 0:03:31bonuses, and of course, people are concerned about this issue and are
0:03:31 > 0:03:36rightly asking questions about it. That's why we are making sure that
0:03:36 > 0:03:37the official receiver's investigation into the business
0:03:37 > 0:03:42dealings of the company has fast tracked, that looks into the conduct
0:03:42 > 0:03:47not just of current directors but also of previous directors and their
0:03:47 > 0:03:49actions, and that the official receiver does have the powers to
0:03:49 > 0:03:56ensure that, in reviewing payments to executives, where those payments
0:03:56 > 0:03:59are unlawful or unjustified, he can take action to recover those
0:03:59 > 0:04:02payments. The Right Honourable gentleman said
0:04:02 > 0:04:06earlier on one of his questions it was the government's job to ensure
0:04:06 > 0:04:10that Korean was properly managed. We were a customer of Carillion, not
0:04:10 > 0:04:15the manager of Caribbean, and that is a very important difference, --
0:04:15 > 0:04:20Carillion was properly managed. It is also important that we have
0:04:20 > 0:04:22protected taxpayers from an unacceptable bail out of a private
0:04:22 > 0:04:26company. This isn't one isolated case of
0:04:26 > 0:04:36negligence and corporate failure. It is a broken system.
0:04:36 > 0:04:41Under this government, Virgin and Stagecoach can spectacularly
0:04:41 > 0:04:49mismanaged the East Coast Mainline and be let off a £2 billion payment.
0:04:49 > 0:04:55Capita and Atos can continue to wreck the lives, through damaging
0:04:55 > 0:04:58disability assessments, of many people with disabilities, and win
0:04:58 > 0:05:05more government funded contracts. G4S promised to provide security at
0:05:05 > 0:05:09the Olympics, failed to do so, and the army had to step in and save the
0:05:09 > 0:05:15day. These corporations, Mr Speaker, need to be shown the door. We need
0:05:15 > 0:05:18our public services provided by public employees with a public
0:05:18 > 0:05:27service ethos and a strong public oversight. As the ruins of Carillion
0:05:27 > 0:05:31lie around her, will the Prime Minister act to end this costly
0:05:31 > 0:05:37racket of the relationship between government and some of these
0:05:37 > 0:05:40companies? I might first of all remind the
0:05:40 > 0:05:43Right Honourable gentleman that a third of the Carillion contracts
0:05:43 > 0:05:48with the government were let by the Labour government. What Labour
0:05:48 > 0:05:50opposed isn't just a role for private companies in public
0:05:50 > 0:05:54services, but the private sector as a whole. The vast majority of people
0:05:54 > 0:06:01in this country in employment are employed by the private sector, but
0:06:01 > 0:06:07the Shadow Chancellor calls businesses the real enemy. Labour
0:06:07 > 0:06:15wants the highest taxes in our peacetime history, they have
0:06:15 > 0:06:19policies that would cause a run on the pound. This is a Labour Party
0:06:19 > 0:06:23that has turned its back on investment, on growth, on jobs, a
0:06:23 > 0:06:26Labour Party that will always put politics before people.
0:06:26 > 0:06:30The SNP Westminster group leader turned to Brexit.
0:06:30 > 0:06:34Can the Prime Minister tell the house what official advice she has
0:06:34 > 0:06:39had on the impact on the UK economy from leaving the EU single market,
0:06:39 > 0:06:45and when she requested any such advice?
0:06:45 > 0:06:49Well, I have to say to the honourable gentleman that of course,
0:06:49 > 0:06:52as we go through the Brexit negotiations, we are constantly
0:06:52 > 0:06:57looking at the impact of the decisions that are taken and what
0:06:57 > 0:07:02impact it will have on our economy. We want to make sure we maintain
0:07:02 > 0:07:05good access, good, COBRA hints of free trade agreement with the
0:07:05 > 0:07:09European Union, while also, as leaving the EU, we will be able to
0:07:09 > 0:07:12ensure we get good free trade agreements with other parts of the
0:07:12 > 0:07:13world.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15Well, the effect of leaving the single market
0:07:15 > 0:07:18and the customs union came up in the last day of Commons debate
0:07:18 > 0:07:19on the EU Withdrawal Bill.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22As it entered its final stages, a number of MPs put down amendments
0:07:22 > 0:07:24trying to make further changes to the bill.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26In a debate heavily dominated by remainers,
0:07:26 > 0:07:29Labour's Ian Murray proposed that the government must publish
0:07:29 > 0:07:32an impact assessment on both staying in
0:07:32 > 0:07:34and leaving the single market and customs union.
0:07:34 > 0:07:39And those assessments should be done before MPs held their final vote
0:07:39 > 0:07:45on the overall deal.
0:07:45 > 0:07:51We need the government to put this house, so both houses, a full,
0:07:51 > 0:07:54independently assessed analysis of the impact on the economy of the
0:07:54 > 0:08:00United Kingdom, comparing two conclusions to this debate - staying
0:08:00 > 0:08:04in the single market and the customs union, or coming out and looking at
0:08:04 > 0:08:07the deal the government proposes. The reason the government will
0:08:07 > 0:08:10resist this new clause is not through any principle, it is because
0:08:10 > 0:08:17they know that a negotiated deal they come back with, the deal will
0:08:17 > 0:08:20not be as good as the one we have today. That will be saying to the
0:08:20 > 0:08:23public, they will be bringing back a deal that makes a country poorer.
0:08:23 > 0:08:27Some of my right honourable and honourable runs on the side of the
0:08:27 > 0:08:32house seems positively relish the prospect of the negotiations
0:08:32 > 0:08:37collapsing and our leaving the EU with absolutely no deal at all. I
0:08:37 > 0:08:41happen to believe it would probably be the single most catastrophic act
0:08:41 > 0:08:46perpetrated by any government on this country in modern history. So I
0:08:46 > 0:08:51don't intend to allow that to happen. So, I simply make the point
0:08:51 > 0:08:55to my friends on the front bench who have this difficult task of taking
0:08:55 > 0:09:02this project forward, that the point that is raised in new Clause 17 may
0:09:02 > 0:09:07not be the right place to amend a piece of legislation which is not
0:09:07 > 0:09:10particularly germane to it, but my goodness, it is a relevant point to
0:09:10 > 0:09:18make. Because at what point can this house, and indeed, the public, have
0:09:18 > 0:09:22a proper understanding of what the government has in fact succeeded in
0:09:22 > 0:09:26negotiating? At the moment, it reminds me so much of that company
0:09:26 > 0:09:31set up during the South Sea bubble in the early 18th century which
0:09:31 > 0:09:39said, a company of great and innocent -- inestimable value to
0:09:39 > 0:09:43shareholders, nobody to know what it is. And that is what we are being
0:09:43 > 0:09:47asked, regularly and on a daily basis, to sign up to, while the
0:09:47 > 0:09:51negotiations proceed.The government has ruled out membership of the
0:09:51 > 0:09:55single market and Customs union. Everyone recognises that the single
0:09:55 > 0:09:59market issues are complex, link as they are two issues around
0:09:59 > 0:10:01immigration and also to questions around how we deal with future
0:10:01 > 0:10:08rules. But that makes more important for Parliament and the public to be
0:10:08 > 0:10:12able to scrutinise the government's decisions on those complex issues,
0:10:12 > 0:10:15and to do so, we need to know the facts and the impact on the economy
0:10:15 > 0:10:21and on our constituencies. 56% of Scotland's international
0:10:21 > 0:10:29exports are either to the European Union or two to countries which have
0:10:29 > 0:10:32a free trade agreement. This could increase to 90% by the time we leave
0:10:32 > 0:10:38the single market and a customs union. How much of that is
0:10:38 > 0:10:40absolutely unconditionally guaranteed to still be available
0:10:40 > 0:10:45after we leave? Right now, Mr Speaker, the answer is nil, or very
0:10:45 > 0:10:49close to nil. Were we to say to the British people
0:10:49 > 0:10:53that their express will in a binary choice to leave the European Union
0:10:53 > 0:11:00were to be frustrated, through obfuscation, prevarication, delay,
0:11:00 > 0:11:04confusion, that the trust between this house and the people would be
0:11:04 > 0:11:10broken in a way that would be very hard indeed to mend, so the cost
0:11:10 > 0:11:15would be not only to everyone here but to the system as a whole for a
0:11:15 > 0:11:15very long time indeed.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17Well, summing up the minister didn't address those demands
0:11:18 > 0:11:19for an impact assessment directly.
0:11:19 > 0:11:20There then followed a series of votes,
0:11:20 > 0:11:22all of which the Government won,
0:11:22 > 0:11:24meaning the bill was able to go on
0:11:24 > 0:11:25for its final reading in the Commons.
0:11:25 > 0:11:26A former cabinet minister argued Brexit had to work for everyone.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30And so the Brexit Secretary came to the chamber
0:11:30 > 0:11:34to make one final speech on the bill before it went to the House of Lords
0:11:34 > 0:11:39to be scrutinised by Peers.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42Mr Speaker, we are sending an improved piece of legislation
0:11:42 > 0:11:47onwards to the other place, and I hope that that house will
0:11:47 > 0:11:50acknowledge the substance and spirit of the debate and scrutiny this bill
0:11:50 > 0:11:54has received thus far, and that debate there will unfold in the same
0:11:54 > 0:11:57constructive way that it has in our house.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59But his Labour opposite number disagreed.
0:12:00 > 0:12:04This Bill has never been fit for purpose. It was not fit for purpose
0:12:04 > 0:12:11when it started its life last year, and after 64 hours at committee and
0:12:11 > 0:12:15ten hours at report, it is still not fit for purpose.
0:12:15 > 0:12:20It is fit for purpose, however, for implementing the greatest festival
0:12:20 > 0:12:26of democracy that we have ever known in this country!
0:12:26 > 0:12:31Where in June 20 17 million of our citizens voted to leave the EU.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34The SNP put down an amendment, saying the bill shouldn't
0:12:34 > 0:12:36get its final third reading in the Commons,
0:12:36 > 0:12:39in effect wrecking it.
0:12:39 > 0:12:45Ian Blackford argued the bill was incompatible with devolution.
0:12:45 > 0:12:50In declining a third reading this evening, we send a clear signal to
0:12:50 > 0:12:54the government that this has cannot allow the commitments made and
0:12:54 > 0:12:58broken to pass. It is the last chance for Scottish Tory MPs to join
0:12:58 > 0:13:00us and to stand up for the devolved settlement.
0:13:00 > 0:13:07But that SNP amendment was defeated by 322 votes to 295,
0:13:07 > 0:13:10But that SNP amendment was defeated by 322 votes to 295.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12The bill went on to get its third reading
0:13:12 > 0:13:15and will now go off to the House of Lords.
0:13:15 > 0:13:16You're watching Wednesday in Parliament
0:13:16 > 0:13:17with me, Alicia McCarthy.
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0:13:31 > 0:13:36MPs have been told that children as young as 12 are being used
0:13:36 > 0:13:39by gangs to traffic drugs across the country
0:13:39 > 0:13:42Known as "county lines", the gangs use the youngsters
0:13:42 > 0:13:44to transport drugs, weapons and money between cities
0:13:44 > 0:13:48and smaller towns.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50The National Crime Agency says there are at least 720
0:13:50 > 0:13:52of these lines in England and Wales, with 283 coming
0:13:52 > 0:13:57out of London alone.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00The Labour MP, Joan Ryan, raised the wide reaching criminal activity
0:14:00 > 0:14:07in a Westminster Hall debate.
0:14:07 > 0:14:12Vulnerable children as young as 12 are being groomed by county Lions
0:14:12 > 0:14:17goings with promises of money, companionship and respect. But in
0:14:17 > 0:14:21reality they are often forced to go missing from home for long periods
0:14:21 > 0:14:26of time, they are used as drug mules, with orifices plugged with
0:14:26 > 0:14:32class A drugs, predominantly heroin and crack cocaine, they are
0:14:32 > 0:14:34trafficked to remote areas and forced to deal drugs in squalid
0:14:34 > 0:14:41conditions. At all times, they are at great personal risk. Risk of
0:14:41 > 0:14:46arrest by the police, which is in fact probably the only time they are
0:14:46 > 0:14:50really safe, or from physical or sexual abuse from older gang
0:14:50 > 0:14:53members, local drug users or rival gangs.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56A Labour MP said she first found out about the problem when a mother came
0:14:56 > 0:14:58to her about her son, who'd been arrested for trafficking
0:14:58 > 0:15:00drugs between London and Portsmouth.
0:15:03 > 0:15:07Her son was involved in running drugs from Lewisham to the south
0:15:07 > 0:15:14coast. There are currently 317 under 25s from Lewisham believed to be
0:15:14 > 0:15:19involved in that activity, of which about 200 or of school age. They are
0:15:19 > 0:15:25supplying drugs in 19 different counties. That is 200 school-aged
0:15:25 > 0:15:30children from one London Borough out of 32. This is not an insignificant
0:15:30 > 0:15:36problem. In my first term as a member of Parliament, I visited the
0:15:36 > 0:15:42parents of three boys who had been stabbed to death in my constituency.
0:15:42 > 0:15:49I never want to do that again. I fear is that the post wars of seven
0:15:49 > 0:15:53or eight years ago, where gangs were defined by territory, violence
0:15:53 > 0:15:58escalated through revenge stabbings, this is being replaced with gangs
0:15:58 > 0:16:02running drugs down to different parts of the country. The outcomes
0:16:02 > 0:16:06of people being stabbed and poor kids living in fear, are exactly the
0:16:06 > 0:16:14same.Drug gangs targeted vulnerable young people, including, sadly, as
0:16:14 > 0:16:19we have heard from the Honourable Member for Stockport, children in
0:16:19 > 0:16:23care and those that have had very difficult times at home. They
0:16:23 > 0:16:27deliberately target those children because they know that they are
0:16:27 > 0:16:30susceptible to peer pressure, they are susceptible to the influence of
0:16:30 > 0:16:36these adults. They beguile, they entice, they flatter and they
0:16:36 > 0:16:42befriend them. When they have ensnared them, they put them to
0:16:42 > 0:16:47criminal work. It is exploitation, pure and simple, and this is why I
0:16:47 > 0:16:51am so pleased that we are beginning to see these cases prosecuted under
0:16:51 > 0:16:55the modern slavery act, so that we give them the stigma that they
0:16:55 > 0:16:58deserve, as well as tackling their criminality.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00Victoria Atkins.
0:17:00 > 0:17:01Under changes made three years ago the Probation
0:17:02 > 0:17:03Service was split in two.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06High risk offenders were supervised by the state run service.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08While low to medium risk cases were handed
0:17:08 > 0:17:09to Community Rehabilitation Companies.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11New rules were also imposed so anyone sentenced to under 12
0:17:11 > 0:17:14months in prison had to be supervised on release.
0:17:20 > 0:17:24That meant the number of cases has risen by a fifth.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27Labour member of the Public Accounts committee Shabana Mahmood
0:17:27 > 0:17:36could barely believe that this increase hadn't been anticipated.
0:17:36 > 0:17:40I can tell you for nothing, I am no expert in this area, but four times
0:17:40 > 0:17:45a month in my surgery I see people who fall into this category and they
0:17:45 > 0:17:48are the hardest to help. They have chaotic lives. All of the things
0:17:48 > 0:17:55that you said in your answers about an hour ago. I can tell you that for
0:17:55 > 0:17:57free. Your department does not appear to have anticipated that
0:17:57 > 0:18:01level of change. I am worried that this level of expertise and basic
0:18:01 > 0:18:04common sense appears to desert officials in the department that the
0:18:04 > 0:18:13point where you negotiate contracts. That it is not right. The new code
0:18:13 > 0:18:20was anticipated and custard for.It was clear from the outset, the
0:18:20 > 0:18:22providers knew they would have a higher caseload because they were
0:18:22 > 0:18:30taking on short sentenced prisoners that were not on the system before.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33Community orders have reduced, suspended sentence orders have gone
0:18:33 > 0:18:38up, but they also have a higher caseload because of the people
0:18:38 > 0:18:44coming out of prison. Those individuals, through those services,
0:18:44 > 0:18:48the ones least paid for the service because they are the ones where we
0:18:48 > 0:18:51pay less upfront because the expectation is that if they are
0:18:51 > 0:18:54successful with that group they will gain income from the payment by
0:18:54 > 0:19:00results. So, they expected that. What they didn't expect was the
0:19:00 > 0:19:03reduction in community sentences and, specifically, the change in
0:19:03 > 0:19:08activity requirements on the community sentences from the
0:19:08 > 0:19:11activities that got greater income towards that got less income on
0:19:11 > 0:19:16contracts.My point was referring to the fact that this is an ecosystem
0:19:16 > 0:19:21of types of prisoner, sorts of things we can expect from types of
0:19:21 > 0:19:26prisoner, the behaviour of the ports. This is something that is the
0:19:26 > 0:19:29bread-and-butter of your department. Also, the sort of organisations that
0:19:29 > 0:19:35are providing the services by way of CRCs and the charity sector. You
0:19:35 > 0:19:40don't have too delve into the sector very much to work out where the
0:19:40 > 0:19:42pressure points out. I'm concerned that time and again, and we have
0:19:42 > 0:19:46this before when we talked about economic monitoring, the expertise
0:19:46 > 0:19:50that should be inherent within the operational capacity of the ministry
0:19:50 > 0:19:53seems to desert the officials at the point at which contracts are
0:19:53 > 0:20:00negotiated. You would agree that are simply not good enough?I think this
0:20:00 > 0:20:07demonstrates the complexity of trying to their service like this,
0:20:07 > 0:20:13the contracts which we are adjusting reflect complexity. I cannot argue
0:20:13 > 0:20:18with the fact that the changes are much greater than we anticipated,
0:20:18 > 0:20:23anybody anticipated, us or those that are going to deliver the
0:20:23 > 0:20:27services. That demonstrates the degree of volatility that there can
0:20:27 > 0:20:30be in a system where we are reliant on demand being determined by
0:20:30 > 0:20:31others.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34New figures show that one in ten nurses are leaving the NHS
0:20:34 > 0:20:35in England every year.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38And last year more than 33,000 nurses gave up their jobs -
0:20:38 > 0:20:41that's 3.000 more than joined the service.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44When Labour raised the issue the Lords a Health Minister insisted
0:20:44 > 0:20:52nursing numbers had increased since 2010.
0:20:52 > 0:20:57Including 11,700 more nurses on hospital wards. In order to retain
0:20:57 > 0:21:01more of these hard-working staff, and to build a workforce fit for the
0:21:01 > 0:21:06future, the Government is increasing the number of moves trading places
0:21:06 > 0:21:10by 25%, supporting new, flexible working arrangements in the NHS and
0:21:10 > 0:21:17delivering a new homes for nurses programme.Even for the minister,
0:21:17 > 0:21:20that is remarkably complacent. The overall number of nurses might be
0:21:20 > 0:21:23rising, but that has not kept pace with the increasing number of
0:21:23 > 0:21:28patients. For years, the Government has failed to recruit new recruits
0:21:28 > 0:21:34coming through, while failed policy decisions like the NHS pay cap, the
0:21:34 > 0:21:36ending of the NHS bursary, contribute to a growing crisis.
0:21:36 > 0:21:42There are now more than 100,000 vacant posts in the NHS. My Lords,
0:21:42 > 0:21:46will the Minister accept the need to lift the pay cap, fund proper rises
0:21:46 > 0:21:52for nurses, restore bursaries and support this precious profession,
0:21:52 > 0:21:58who have been so unappreciated by this government EU?The noble Lord
0:21:58 > 0:22:01is quite wrong to say that they are underappreciated, they are deeply
0:22:01 > 0:22:04appreciated by everybody in this country, including members of this
0:22:04 > 0:22:10Parliament. Of course we want to reduce the number of nurses leaving
0:22:10 > 0:22:13the profession. It is important to point out that they are down onto
0:22:13 > 0:22:21two years ago, the peak, in number or proportion. The number of nurses
0:22:21 > 0:22:27has risen over that period.Can my noble friend tell me how many of the
0:22:27 > 0:22:30nurses that have left the NHS are now working for agencies and are
0:22:30 > 0:22:37still in the same hospitals, the same wards, doing the same work, but
0:22:37 > 0:22:43costing the taxpayer rather more money?Well, in the last few years
0:22:43 > 0:22:53there had been an increase in agency spend. It does tend to be more
0:22:53 > 0:22:57expensive. We have managed to reduce agency spend by reducing the
0:22:57 > 0:23:00availability of what are called nursing banks, the people employed
0:23:00 > 0:23:03on flexible contracts. That is very welcome for many nurses looking for,
0:23:03 > 0:23:12they say this in staff surveys, looking for more flexible
0:23:12 > 0:23:14conditions. Cyber-criminal of those leaving the profession are new
0:23:14 > 0:23:21recruits, many of them --Many of them are leaving the profession and
0:23:21 > 0:23:27they are new recruits, but I ask, it costs £20,000 to trade a nurse. Any
0:23:27 > 0:23:32employer with sense would want to retain them, and when they have
0:23:32 > 0:23:35left, would like to know why they have left, where they have gone and
0:23:35 > 0:23:41how we can get them back.We know that pay is important, that is
0:23:41 > 0:23:42lifting the cap makes an important difference to show how we value
0:23:42 > 0:23:43these staff.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45Lord O'Shaughnessy.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47Later in the Lords, the Government suffered a heavy defeat
0:23:47 > 0:23:50after a former head of the judiciary criticised plans to give
0:23:50 > 0:23:53ministers the power to create new criminal offences.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55Lord Judge, who is a former Lord Chief Justice of England
0:23:55 > 0:23:57and Wales, told peers, proposals to allow ministers
0:23:57 > 0:24:00to create new money laundering offences without having to get
0:24:00 > 0:24:05a new bill passed by parliament were "constitutionally troublesome".
0:24:05 > 0:24:07The amendment won cross party support and the Government
0:24:07 > 0:24:17was defeated by 264 votes to 184, a majority of 80 votes.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22Finally there was a warm welcome at PMQs for one bit of Euronews.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24The revelation that the the Bayeux Tapestry is set to be
0:24:24 > 0:24:28displayed in the UK.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30The tapestry tells the story of the future William I's
0:24:30 > 0:24:32conquest of England, culminating in the Battle
0:24:32 > 0:24:36of Hastings and the defeat of Harold in 1066.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39It is on permanent display at a museum in the town of Bayeux,
0:24:39 > 0:24:42in Normandy, and has very rarely been moved.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45The tapestry is unlikely to be transferred before 2020.
0:24:45 > 0:24:55But at PMQs one MP was putting in an early bid to host it.
0:24:55 > 0:24:59I understand London has been mentioned as a potential host to the
0:24:59 > 0:25:06Bayeux Tapestry. Given that visitors to London who wish to see two size
0:25:06 > 0:25:09chucking things at each other are already catered for by the gallery
0:25:09 > 0:25:13in this chamber, code the Prime Minister put in a good word for
0:25:13 > 0:25:16Battle Abbey in Sussex, where viewers can not only see the
0:25:16 > 0:25:20tapestry, but look through the window and see the rolling east
0:25:20 > 0:25:24Sussex countryside, where sadly the Normans gave the Saxons six of the
0:25:24 > 0:25:28best?I bid that he put in. From a sedentary position on the front
0:25:28 > 0:25:32bench, my right honourable friend the Home Secretary and member for
0:25:32 > 0:25:36Hastings is also putting in a bid for this particular issue. I am sure
0:25:36 > 0:25:39we will be looking very carefully to make sure the maximum number of
0:25:39 > 0:25:41people can take benefit of seeing this tapestry.
0:25:41 > 0:25:42Theresa May.
0:25:42 > 0:25:46And that's it from me for now, but do join me at the same time
0:25:46 > 0:25:49tomorrow for another round up of the best of the day
0:25:49 > 0:25:49here at Westminster.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51But for now from me, goodbye