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