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