:00:00. > :00:00.bigger problems to deal with. Join me to find out more now
:00:00. > :00:08.100 million to spend on social housing but will
:00:09. > :00:17.A BBC investigation finds a consultant on
:00:18. > :00:19.a failed care contract had his own business fold
:00:20. > :00:23.And it may be spring but winter is fighting back.
:00:24. > :00:25.Join me later in the programme for
:00:26. > :00:32.a full look at the weather for the week ahead.
:00:33. > :00:42.The new devolved authority for Cambridgeshire has started life
:00:43. > :00:44.with ?100 million to spend on social housing.
:00:45. > :00:46.They had their first official meeting in Wisbeach today.
:00:47. > :00:49.It was set up to make decisions on big infrastructure spending.
:00:50. > :00:51.But as Mousumi Bakshi reports, it'll be hard to please everyone.
:00:52. > :00:55.Seven years after her search began, Katie Phillips finally has
:00:56. > :00:59.Priced out of Cambridge, the mother of two moved
:01:00. > :01:07.into this affordable housing scheme in Caxton near Camborne last month.
:01:08. > :01:11.We went on a list to hopefully get given a house, bid every week, every
:01:12. > :01:14.month, any time we could on anything because we couldn't afford to move
:01:15. > :01:19.out because we were paying so much in private renting.
:01:20. > :01:23.Then after seven years, we got this opportunity
:01:24. > :01:28.and it has been amazing, I just feel so lucky to get given it.
:01:29. > :01:30.Katie lives in South Cambridgeshire, one of the most expensive places in
:01:31. > :01:33.the UK and so it makes sense that devolution money will be
:01:34. > :01:39.But concerns that other parts of the county will
:01:40. > :01:44.We don't just want to build a lot of affordable
:01:45. > :01:46.housing in one place, we want to build the infrastructure
:01:47. > :01:48.that will enable people in key roles, key jobs such
:01:49. > :01:50.as, you know, nurses and hospital workers
:01:51. > :01:54.and teachers perhaps even, that they can
:01:55. > :01:57.have an affordable house in one part of the county
:01:58. > :02:01.and they can quickly get to work in an economic hotspot.
:02:02. > :02:04.So if you want to get on to the housing ladder,
:02:05. > :02:07.how far do you have to leap just to get onto the first rung?
:02:08. > :02:11.New figures suggest people working in Fenland take home an
:02:12. > :02:19.In South Cambridgeshire, the weekly wage is around ?200 more.
:02:20. > :02:21.But when it comes to buying power, people in
:02:22. > :02:24.South Cambridgeshire are relatively worse off,
:02:25. > :02:31.with the average price of a detached house ?507,000,
:02:32. > :02:33.more than double the cost of a similar property in Fenland.
:02:34. > :02:36.Today the authority that will be headed up
:02:37. > :02:43.a ?170 million affordable housing package, with at least ?70 million
:02:44. > :02:48.The government says the rest of the money will filter through
:02:49. > :02:51.to the parts of the county that need it most.
:02:52. > :02:54.It's not just about Cambridge, it's not about the areas that most
:02:55. > :02:56.people have heard of, it's about those parts
:02:57. > :02:57.of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough that sometimes,
:02:58. > :03:03.perhaps in the past, haven't got all the support
:03:04. > :03:06.they needed and now there is a real opportunity through powers,
:03:07. > :03:08.through money and the right leadership to make a difference.
:03:09. > :03:10.The dichotomy of dealing with both urban
:03:11. > :03:12.and rural Cambridgeshire will be one of the challenges facing
:03:13. > :03:16.The BBC bus has been in Wisbech today, one of the most
:03:17. > :03:19.underfunded and deprived parts of the country, and what matters to
:03:20. > :03:21.As well as transport, the combined authority
:03:22. > :03:24.will also have responsibility for boosting economic growth but it is
:03:25. > :03:27.low-cost housing that has made a difference to people like Katie.
:03:28. > :03:43.But will Wisbech get the funding it needs from the new authority?
:03:44. > :03:45.I asked the leader of Fenland District Council,
:03:46. > :03:47.John Clark, what he wants money spent on.
:03:48. > :03:50.I think first of all it has got to be transport.
:03:51. > :03:52.We want to be connected to Cambridge and Peterborough,
:03:53. > :03:54.which we are connected to Peterborough but Cambridge is
:03:55. > :03:57.the main thing that we feel it would improve this area
:03:58. > :03:59.by being under an hour to get to Cambridge.
:04:00. > :04:02.And is it train lines or roads you want investment in?
:04:03. > :04:06.We would like to see it go from Thorney directly with a river
:04:07. > :04:10.crossing all the way to Wisbech, but we would also like to see buses
:04:11. > :04:13.improved and we would also like to see the rail link direct from
:04:14. > :04:19.So how will you ensure that your voice is heard
:04:20. > :04:21.as loudly as, say, Cambridge City Council's voice?
:04:22. > :04:23.How will you make sure that there is a fair allocation
:04:24. > :04:29.I think first of all it will be down to lobbying
:04:30. > :04:32.the mayor, the mayor will have a lot of the ultimate decisions to make on
:04:33. > :04:36.But today we have had the allocation for the
:04:37. > :04:39.100 million for housing, all the councils have talked,
:04:40. > :04:43.it's all been allocated and it's all been agreed.
:04:44. > :04:47.So what's politics like in a meeting like that?
:04:48. > :04:49.Because obviously you have got politicians from cities,
:04:50. > :04:55.from more rural areas, different political backgrounds as well.
:04:56. > :05:00.I don't think there has been any conflict whatsoever.
:05:01. > :05:03.As we say, we know the city is under a Labour
:05:04. > :05:06.administration and the rest are Conservatives and we have got the
:05:07. > :05:12.But up until yet, sitting around the table,
:05:13. > :05:15.politics hasn't entered into it at all.
:05:16. > :05:18.It's what is best for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and
:05:19. > :05:21.how do we deliver it and I am really
:05:22. > :05:22.pleased that politics, at the moment,
:05:23. > :05:26.is not taking a part in that.
:05:27. > :05:29.The BBC has learned that a key advisor on a failed health contract
:05:30. > :05:34.in Cambridgeshire had already seen his own consulting
:05:35. > :05:38.The Uniting Care contract was worth ?800 million.
:05:39. > :05:42.But the deal collapsed after just eight months in 2015.
:05:43. > :05:46.A BBC Inside Out investigation has found that Martin Peat,
:05:47. > :05:49.who worked on that contract, had a business which was declared
:05:50. > :05:55.Our political reporter Tom Barton explains.
:05:56. > :05:58.This is Jack, do you remember he came yesterday to see you?
:05:59. > :06:01.76-year-old Jim Noble has a high fever and this morning
:06:02. > :06:05.Normally someone his age in his condition would be
:06:06. > :06:11.But instead, today, Jim is being seen at home in
:06:12. > :06:14.St Neots by Jack, a trained paramedic from Cambridgeshire's
:06:15. > :06:22.The joint emergency team's one of the few things to have
:06:23. > :06:24.survived from a project which saw the trust which runs Addenbrooke's
:06:25. > :06:27.Hospital and the one which delivers mental health services in
:06:28. > :06:30.Cambridgeshire come together to form Uniting Care partnership.
:06:31. > :06:33.That company should have delivered health
:06:34. > :06:37.services for older people in Cambridgeshire.
:06:38. > :06:41.But after just eight months, it collapsed.
:06:42. > :06:43.So, how could such a high-profile and expensive
:06:44. > :06:49.contract be allowed to fail so spectacularly?
:06:50. > :06:53.Well, big expensive contracts are extremely complicated
:06:54. > :06:56.to put together and, whether you're in business or in the NHS,
:06:57. > :07:05.Key to ensuring that the NHS commissioners
:07:06. > :07:06.had all the expert advice they needed
:07:07. > :07:11.It had been relied on to help put together some of the biggest
:07:12. > :07:15.contracts in the health service and it did have successes,
:07:16. > :07:17.like setting up the friends and family test to
:07:18. > :07:25.But when it came to the Uniting Care contract, key details were missed.
:07:26. > :07:28.As a result of the Uniting Care disaster, NHS England closed
:07:29. > :07:32.the Strategic Projects Team down last year.
:07:33. > :07:35.Look East can reveal the consulting team at the heart of
:07:36. > :07:39.The team's most senior adviser on the
:07:40. > :07:42.Uniting Care contract was this man, their commercial director,
:07:43. > :07:47.I can reveal that when Martin Peat was working for the
:07:48. > :07:49.Strategic Projects Team back in 2012,
:07:50. > :07:56.That company, Martin Peat Consulting Limited,
:07:57. > :07:58.was wound up by this High Court order
:07:59. > :08:01.which declared it insolvent and unable to pay its debts.
:08:02. > :08:05.The reason, the company owed the taxman, HM Revenue and Customs,
:08:06. > :08:14.So the man overseeing the process of awarding
:08:15. > :08:17.the biggest contract in the history of the NHS was someone who it seems
:08:18. > :08:22.was unable to stop his own company from going bust,
:08:23. > :08:26.leaving the taxpayer thousands of pounds out of pocket.
:08:27. > :08:28.We put these points to Martin Peat and he told us
:08:29. > :08:35.NHS England told us that the Strategic Projects Team's
:08:36. > :08:38.role in the contract was restricted to the process of the agreement
:08:39. > :08:43.and that the Clinical Commissioning Group led the contract
:08:44. > :08:50.and make decisions based upon advice from auditors and lawyers.
:08:51. > :08:55.As Jack heads off to see his next patient,
:08:56. > :08:57.there is already evidence that this team is a success.
:08:58. > :09:00.But how much more could have been achieved if the project
:09:01. > :09:02.which set up the joint emergency teams hadn't failed?
:09:03. > :09:11.And what could that have meant for patients across Cambridgeshire?
:09:12. > :09:14.Lorries will soon be banned from overtaking on part of the M11.
:09:15. > :09:17.HGVs won't be allowed to use the fast lane between junction eight
:09:18. > :09:19.for Stansted Airport and junction nine for Saffron Walden.
:09:20. > :09:22.Highways England says it will speed up journey times
:09:23. > :09:27.The ban will be in place between 7am and 7pm.
:09:28. > :09:31.Let's get the weather for the week ahead with Dan Holley.
:09:32. > :09:35.Certainly a much cooler feel to things out there now
:09:36. > :09:39.Largely clear skies, we do have one or two showers
:09:40. > :09:41.just feeding in from the west on that breeze.
:09:42. > :09:45.Temperatures dropping close to freezing by the
:09:46. > :09:47.morning so maybe a little bit of frost here and there.
:09:48. > :09:50.Not quite so widespread thanks to the strength of that wind.
:09:51. > :09:53.But a lovely sunny start to Tuesday, and keeping quite a bit
:09:54. > :09:55.of sunshine for the bulk of the morning.
:09:56. > :09:57.We will see more cloud building through the day and again,
:09:58. > :10:00.one or two showers just feeding in on that breeze in
:10:01. > :10:03.the afternoon but very hit and miss, some places staying dry.
:10:04. > :10:05.Temperatures close to average at around nine or ten
:10:06. > :10:09.For the middle part of the week, low pressure, three of them all rotating
:10:10. > :10:12.around each other and that gives us some uncertainty in the forecast.
:10:13. > :10:15.We'll have a band of rain trying to work its way eastwards
:10:16. > :10:17.on Wednesday but some uncertainty about how quickly
:10:18. > :10:21.Stay tuned to the forecast because things may change between now
:10:22. > :10:25.The uncertainty then continues into Thursday with a risk of that
:10:26. > :10:28.as we get a north-easterly wind developing.
:10:29. > :10:30.The same can be said for Friday, again, the risk of
:10:31. > :10:33.a little bit of rain trying to work its way up
:10:34. > :10:36.But for the bulk of the day, probably dry.
:10:37. > :10:39.Eventually that rain could arrive as we head towards Friday evening.
:10:40. > :10:41.But it doesn't hang around because that low-pressure pulls away.
:10:42. > :10:43.As we head into the weekend, high high-pressure building in,
:10:44. > :10:45.toppling in over the top, settling things down.
:10:46. > :10:48.So, as we go into the weekend, it does look mainly dry.
:10:49. > :10:52.It will be pleasant by day but also the risk
:10:53. > :10:55.of some frost at night and, of course, as we go through the
:10:56. > :10:58.weekend, British Summer Time starts on Saturday night with the clocks
:10:59. > :11:01.That's it from me, I'll leave you with the national forecast
:11:02. > :11:15.for something dry and settled, sunny spells but a bit on the cool side.
:11:16. > :11:22.This week we are starting off with a taste of winter. This is Paul and
:11:23. > :11:27.maritime air, it has come from a long way north and will push in lots
:11:28. > :11:31.of showers. The last of any mild air gets swept away with the cloud.
:11:32. > :11:39.Tonight we have showers mostly across the northern half of the UK,
:11:40. > :11:42.which will turn wintry and that means more snow, particularly across
:11:43. > :11:48.Scotland and Northern Ireland, perhaps northern England. With those
:11:49. > :11:55.temperatures it is not just snow that is a concern, it is icy roads.
:11:56. > :11:59.Quite a few wintry showers still packing in across the north and west
:12:00. > :12:02.of Northern Ireland, west of Scotland by this stage. Eastern
:12:03. > :12:05.Scotland much more sheltered so it should be drier and we may have
:12:06. > :12:07.early sunshine here as well.