this is bbc news. i'm ben brown. the headlines at three. drama at the oscars provides the ultimate cliff—hanger, after the wrong film is announced for hollywood's top award. this is not a joke. moonlight has won best picture. moonlight. moonlight best picture. it's a moment i'm never going to forget. i don't think it's ever happened in the history of the oscars. it was a little awkward. an apology‘s been issued following the blunder. we'll have the latest from hollywood on what was an extraordinary night. the other headlines on bbc news. the independent inquiry into historical claims of child abuse has begun, the first hearing focuses on british children sent to australia after the second world war. i'mjane hill at the i'm jane hill at the inquiry in central london. the first day has

been overshadowed in the last couple of hours. the inquiry's had to apologise for a data breach. we'll have more on that later in this half hour. the government faces calls from its own mps to scrap plans to limit access to a key disability benefit. i'm maxine mawhinney, also in the next hour, driving up the cost of insurance. industry experts say that the average price of premiums could increase by up to £75 as a result of a government ruling. calls for the chancellor to prioritise schools in the budget — and all mixed—up; claims household recycling levels are too low because council schemes are too confusing. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. it was all down to a mix up over a couple of envelopes.

price waterhouse coopers has apologised saying the wrong envelope was give tonne the stars announcing the award. what should have been the climax of the glitziest night in tinseltown turned into a hollywood farce. warren beatty was about to announce the academy award for best picture... and the academy award... but seemed confused. ..for best picture... in the end, faye dunaway made the announcement. la la land! and la la land's producers were midway through their acceptance speeches when on came the man in the headphones, frantically trying to clear the stage. it turned out that la la land hadn't won the oscar after all — it belonged instead to the producers of moonlight, the low—budget underdog.

this is not a joke, moonlight has won best picture. "moonlight, best picture." la la land producerjordan horowitz gallantly handed the oscar over as the audience looked on aghast. it was left to an embarrassed warren beatty to try to explain the producer's mistake. i want to tell you what happened... i opened the envelope and it said, "emma stone, la la land." that is why i took such a long look at faye and at you, i wasn't trying to be funny! moonlight, the drama of a gay black man growing up in miami, was dwarfed by la la land in terms of nominations, but it ended triumphant in the most extraordinary of circumstances. very clearly, even in my dreams this could not be true. but to hell with dreams, i'm done with it because this is true! oh, my goodness!

moonlight‘s triumph capped a record—breaking night for african—american talent, which the oscars have been criticised for overlooking. mahershala ali. the star of moonlight, mahershala ali, became the first muslim actor to win an academy award. viola davis was named best supporting actress for her role in fences. casey affleck was named best actor for his role in manchester by the sea, and la la land captured six awards, 32—year—old damien chazelle becoming the youngest person in oscars history to be named best director. its star, emma stone, picking up the award for best actress. i still have a lot of growing and learning and work to do, and this guy is a really beautiful symbol to continue on thatjourney, and i'm so grateful for that.

but who won what was eclipsed by that extraordinary blunder over best film. is that the craziest oscar moment of all time? cool! my heart was a little broken but it was kind of, just like one of those things that gets thrown at you and you can kind of choose to lean into it or push away from it, and, as i said, it was a real honour to be able to give it to them. the blame seems to rest with the people who hand out the winners' envelopes, of which there are two identical sets kept at either side of the stage. employees of the accountancy firm pwc hand them to the presenters as they walk on. in a statement, pwc said it was trying to work out how the mix—up occurred. "the presenters had mistakenly been given the wrong category envelope and, when discovered, the error was immediately corrected," the statement said. pwc has overseen ballot counting at the oscars

for more than 80 years. the fact that such an extraordinary episode was allowed to play itself out in front of an audience of millions around the world will no doubt be a source of soul—searching for quite some weeks to come. let's remember, it's just an award show! the british actress naomie harris who missed out on a best supporting oscar for her role in moonlight spoke to our correspondent james cook after the ceremony. naomi harris of moonlight, wonderful performance. thank you. it really was, it was most enjoyable, if that's the right word, i mean slightly grim as well. yes. what about the end of those oscars? it's about the end of those oscars? it's a moment i'm never going to forget. i don't think it's ever happened in the history of the oscars. it was quite extraordinary and, i have to say, a little awkward. more than a

little awkward actually. and i winth went up on stage with a gormless expression because i didn't know what was happening when they finally said it was moonlight, i was just like stunned, shocked and even shaking in fact, like stunned, shocked and even shaking infact, it like stunned, shocked and even shaking in fact, it was a very strange moment. poor la la land? yes. actually, i hadn't thought of that. i was only thinking of it from oui’ that. i was only thinking of it from our perspective. but you are right, poor la la land, yes. it's not a nice thing to have happened. they won best director. not everybody, but most of the movies got recognition. there was some really nice surprises. it was diverse in terms of the number of representations. that's what people like as well, it gets a little boring when it's just one movie. it does. tell me, just about moonlight and why for you your piece of work won best picture?” moonlight and why for you your piece of work won best picture? i think because it is such an honest,

authentic and personal story, you know. the piece was written because the writer's mother died and he was trying to recount his past and make sense of it. in that personal journey that he penned, it actually isa journey that he penned, it actually is a universal story that appeals to so is a universal story that appeals to so many people. ultimately at the heart what connected people is because it's about this yearning for connection andicth i think we are all yearning for connection. naomie harris talking to our correspondent james cook. the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse in england and wales has started its first public hearings. it's beginning by focusing on the cases of british children sent to australia between 1945 and 197a. henrietta hill qc, counsel for the inquiry, said claims of "systematic sexual abuse" in institutions and work environments would be heard. the inquiry will go on to investigate failings in england and

wales, including schools and hospitals. live to the inquiry in central london, and jane hill. this is the first formal day of a very long process now to hearfrom so very long process now to hearfrom so many very long process now to hearfrom so many sui’vivoi’s very long process now to hearfrom so many survivors of child abuse. that is the focus for the next couple of weeks, as you suggest, the emphasis on child migrants. thereafter, after this week and next when we'll be talking a lot about that, it then moves on to look at other institutions and groups of people. in the last couple of hours, u nfortu nately, people. in the last couple of hours, unfortunately, this has been rather overshadowed by a data breach. the inquiry's actually put out an apology, apologising to a group of people whose names were included on an e—mail list — they'd subscribed to the e—mail — but all the e—mail addresses were sent out in a group

e—mail. of course it's possible to send group e—mails and blind copy people in so that you can't read other people's e—mail actresses but that did not happen in this case and the inquiry's apologised for what is an embarrassing data breach on the first day of hearings. first let's ta ke first day of hearings. first let's take a look at this inquiry thus far and what we might expect in the coming days. this is an inquiry with the powers of a court to obtain evidence, and so many of these people are lawyers, for the victims and for those accused of responsibility. but it was for the inquiry's own barrister to set out the dark history of britain's child migrants. child migration programmes were large—scale schemes in which thousands of children, many of them vulnerable, poor, abandoned, illegitimate or in the care of the state, were systematically and permanently migrated to remote parts of the british empire. the liner asturias arrives at fremantle from great britain with 931 new migrants

for this country. they were being offered a new life, and countries like australia what was described as white, anglo—saxon stock, but the inquiry will hear they were given little understanding of how their lives were about to change. many will say that they were taken without the consent or the informed consent of their parents or guardians. many will say that they were wrongly told that they were orphans, separated from their siblings, and deprived of basic details about their identities. but this is an inquiry about sexual abuse in places like the catholic school at bindoon in western australia. victims will come back to the land of their birth to give evidence. the international association will say that we were sent to what we can only describe as labour camps, where we were starved, beaten and abused in despicable ways, and all ties to our families were severed. the woman who uncovered the child migrant scandal in the 1980s will also give evidence.

we want to know what's happened. we want to know who did it, and we want to know who covered it up for so long. of course we need to know about it, there are consequences for children today. of the long—term consequences... and it will be harrowing. david hill is a former child migrant who has extensively researched the history. and he will give evidence as part of these hearings which will take place over the next two weeks. let's talk to dr sarah nelson who's written the book, tackling child sexual abuse radical approaches. thank you for your time. as this is the first formal day finally of this

inquiry, getting under way, the first formal day finally of this inquiry, getting underway, i'm interested in your thoughts first of all on the importance of today. what the people that work alongside you and work with you want to get from this? i think as far as the survivors themselves are concerned, not everyone has the same outlook and that's absolutely fine. for some people, it's simply sufficient to make that testimony that they haven't been able to make and to be listened to for many, many years. for others, they are actively seeking justice and if there is specific information about those who have abused, they'll be passed on to the police. there is no simple a nswer to the police. there is no simple answer to that. as you know, from speaking to people already, some have not talked about this for 30, 40, even 50 years, and there's

something very powerful about speaking in public, even though it's a very difficult thing to do. all the work that you have done, people watching this i suppose from as far as you are concerned should not be at all surprised that some people have not spoken about this, almost until this point. some have been unable to talk about what happened to them for decades? it's bad enough being sexually abused, physically abused or neglected or whatever, but when you may have been both, but when you've been removed from your family and, as you know, some people were not orphans at all, you've been sent to a situation where there's no

recourse, there's no family, relatives or anyone to help you, you may not even know what your real name is, so that the legty of all that which is deeply humiliating and profoundly distressing accounts to the damage and distress that people have suffered and off tonne the inability to speak because they have such a low opinion of themselves until they've actually been given reason to think otherwise, which fortu nately reason to think otherwise, which fortunately they have now been. and are there those that tried to speak out and were similaribly not believed? i suspect the group talking now who've been moved to australia and so on may have had less recourse to that, certainly when they were children and teenagers often later, but as we

know from many things that are happening much more recently, it's very common for young people and indeed older people who've been sexually abused not to be believed. i suppose this leads me on to what i think is a very central point here, that people might think this all happened in the past and it's really not relevant today. we could just say, you know, never let this happen again and these kinds of cliches, but one of the main reasons children we re but one of the main reasons children were able to be treated like that was because they were stigmatised children that might have been seen as delinquent or orphans who used to be looked down upon and, we need to ta ke be looked down upon and, we need to take from this inquiry what is releva nt take from this inquiry what is relevant today and what is not so that 0k relevant today and what is not so that ok some things will not happen to children thank good today, but when we look at, for example, child sexual ex—ployation in rotherham, rochdale, oxford and derby and all

these things, these were girls from 11,12,13, these things, these were girls from ii, 12, 13, treated like nothing —— exploitation. they were treated like nothing by police and social services who did nothing about it. so we have to look at what is similar in modern times and we have to look at whether these young people today are considered not as worthy as many of the middle class so—called innocent children who receive enormous publicity when they are kidnapped or killed or abused. and that is so interesting, that you bring us up—to—date with some of those appalling situations that people will be familiar with, for example rotherham, examples like that make some people say actually an inquiry such as we are all talking about today is it relevant because it's looking at something

that was decades ago. is it your point that we never stop learning and regrettably this sort of behaviour is continuing today? yes, not exactly that sort of behaviour in the sense that fortunately we don't have these huge institutions where this kind of thing goes on, but the question we must always ask about child sexual abuse indeed any sort of child abuse is, what enables it to continue, its not that it starts, but what enables it to continue unchecked and the reason for that is very often usually that somehow the children concerned are not deemed worthy of our curiosity and our determination to intervene so that i don't think it makes sense to say these things can never happen again, we have to distinguish

between the kinds of attitudes which allow this to continue and which still allow it to continue among very stigmatised people. in fact, back to your question about why adults may not be believed, you'll be aware i'm sure, along with many other people, the results, the effects of child sexual abuse will often effects of child sexual abuse will ofte n lea d effects of child sexual abuse will often lead people into offending, into drink and drug misuse to try and blot out what happened to them and blot out what happened to them and into mental health issues. all these things combine to make them a p pa re ntly these things combine to make them apparently less credible witnesses. well they are not realry less credible witnesses because there is no evidence to suggest that they'll invent what's happened to them and there's absolutely no benefit in inventing because the kinds of unpleasantness inventing because the kinds of unpleasa ntness they'll get in inventing because the kinds of unpleasantness they'll get in court makes it a very difficult thing to come forward with. dr sarah nelson,

thank you so much for your time. we'll have more in the next hour as the evidence continues here on the first formal day of the child abuse inquiry in england and wales. we'll have more from the venue here in central london a little later in the afternoon. back to the studio. the headlines on bbc news: an apology is issued after the wrong film was awarded best picture at the oscars, following an envelope mix—up — moonlight eventually walked off with the award. the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse in england and wales holds its first public hearing more than two and a half years after being set up. the government faces calls from its own mps to scrap plans to limit access to a key disability benefit known as personal independence payments. world rug by world rugby says it's too early to

speculate whether there'll be changes to the laws after tactics we re changes to the laws after tactics were used that led the england head coach to say it wasn't rugby during yesterday's six nations match. leicester city will face liverpool tonight in the premier league for the first time since claudio ranieri was sacked. craig shakespeare is in charge with leicester many the relegation zone. jose mourinho has asked manchester united fans to camp outside ibrahimovic‘s house to urge him to stay with the club after he scored the winning goal to secure the efl cup last night. i'll be back with more on those stories later this afternoon. the government is facing calls from conservative mps to scrap plans to limit access to a key disability benefit. it's thought changes to the rules on who qualifies for the personal independence payment could affect around 160,000 people. let's get more on this from our chief political correspondent vicki young who's at westminster. not the first time a headache has

been caused. we have heard a lot about austerity, bringing down the welfare bill and only last year, the then chancellor george osborne ran into a lot of trouble as he tried to reduce the amount of money that was going to people. so the question is whether really conservative mps feel as strongly this time around. now, 12 months ago, one of those leading the charge against the government was steven crabb, a cabinet minister at the time. he opposed what the government were doing. this time though he says things are different and says what is happening here is that the courts, he says, have interpreted the law, not in the way that it was intended. he says it's broadly in the criteria, saying thousands more will be eligible and it will be a huge cost to the government. nobody is stopping. this is not

about stopping anybody from applying for benefits, it's different kinds of people living with different illnesses and conditions. it relates to people's mobility, moving around. we have always drawn a distinction between somebody for example who has trouble navigating because they are for example blind from somebody with a psychological illness that prevents them from leaving the house. what the tribunal has decided is that these should be potentially link lumped together. we think that will create confusion in the law. i think it's right that the government come back and bring clarity to the law. i'm joined by come back and bring clarity to the law. i'mjoined by ben harris-quinny, the chairman of the old est harris-quinny, the chairman of the oldest conservative think—tank. you opposed last year's measures, what do you think is going to happen now? when we opposed the measures last year, they were going to affect eve ryo ne year, they were going to affect everyone that was taking the pip pretty much. this time it seems the

government's emergency legislation is going to attack the most vulnerable people. we feel that that's just wrong. i think there's a strong feeling building in parliament towards that as well. people have talked about the government wanting parity between mental health and physical health issues, but others say this, the pip payments weren't designed for that, they almost made that distinction almost on purpose. isn't the remit going the be so broad that the legislation won't do what it was intended to do in the first place? obviously there needs to be some method of assessing who is deserving of benefits and who isn't. we have got to remember that mental health issues are now the biggest cause of death for men under the age of 35, almost 30% of people in this country suffer from almost 30% of people in this country sufferfrom some form almost 30% of people in this country suffer from some form of mental health issues. attacking people on benefits with mental health issue, not just benefits with mental health issue, notjust in terms of legislation but also talking in terms of people taking pills at home are not the

people who're disabled. actually they are and they are suffering such as much as other forms of disability and it's quite extraordinary that the government has spent so much time investing in a mental health strategy where they've talked about taking mental health as seriously as other forms of illness and health and they've come out with this policy and with these sorts of state m e nts policy and with these sorts of statements that reverse all the good work that they've been doing over the past year. what do you think it does in terms of the image of the conservative party, does that concern you and, do you think lots of tory mps agree?m does concern me. what you have seen in the last six years with the conservative party, theresa may famously coined the phrase — the nasty party at the conservative party conference — there's been a lot of window tressing in the conservative party, policies like same—sex marriage, gender neutral passports, international aid. same—sex marriage, gender neutral passports, internationalaid. but the role of the conservative government, indeed any government, is to protect and seek prosperity for british citizens. and the last place you should start looking to

make cuts is the most vulnerable among those citizens and that's what we are seeing here and i think tory backbench mps see a fundmental unfairness in this legislation. there is the question of money. what the courts have done is interpreted the courts have done is interpreted the law as it stands. it will mean £3.7 billion over the next four yea rs, £3.7 billion over the next four years, money that has to come from somewhere? it does but you hook at the fact that we are spending £13 billion on international aid, £4 billion on international aid, £4 billion approximately on nhs provision for foreigners, and billion approximately on nhs provision forforeigners, and i think the conservative point of view which may differfrom think the conservative point of view which may differ from the labour party point of view which is always saying we have to spend more money on everything, the conservative point of view is absolutely we have a debt in this country, we have a deficit that is continuing on, about £50 billion, so that absolutely need to be taken very seriously front and centre but you don't start making

cuts with the most vulnerable, you start making cuts with the least vulnerable. thank you very much. that is one view from the conservative party. the house of lords and the house of commons will get a chance to vote on this in the next couple of weeks. we'll see how far they're prepared to go and whether a rebellion on this starts to build. there's debate in the house of lords this afternoon, as peers discuss the bill giving the government the authority to trigger brexit. some 500,000 nhs documents containing medical information, including cancer test results, were mistakenly put in storage rather than being sent to the gp orfiled in the patients' records. a short time ago i spoke to out health correspondent sophie hutchinson. she explained how this error had happened. nhs england employed a private

company called nhs shared business services to insure they did end up at the right address but instead of doing that itjust stored the documents so they never got to the gps. now, the mistake happened over a number of years between 2011 and 2016 in the east midlands, the south—west of england and also north—east london. it's thought 2500 patients may have been affected. it's a staggering number there and people will be obviously understandably worried but what has been the reaction to it? we know the health secretary disclosed this back in the summer. he said that a mistake had been made but what he didn't do was say quite the number of patients who might have been involved. today, labour have accused the government of a cover—up. this is what their frontbench said. this is what their frontbench said. this is an absolute scandal and patient safety's been put at risk. nhs bosses are still investigating whether there's still patients at risk as a result of this

incompetence. this has happened on jeremy hunt's watch, he often goes on about transparency, yet it appears they have tried to cover this up. there's been strong reaction from the royal college of gps as you might imagine saying this is potentially posed a serious risk to patients and it's asking questions about private companies and whether actually when bidding for contracts, whether they know how complex thejob for contracts, whether they know how complex the job is for contracts, whether they know how complex thejob is in hand. at around 3.30pm, we will cross live to the house of commons where labour has been granted an urgent question on their confidence in confidential nhs correspondence. let's check out the weather. hail, thunder and sleet and snow in some areas, particularly at the moment across parts of southern scotland. it won't be much fun driving through this at the moment. it may pull into parts of north—east

england before pulling away. at least a few centimetres to higher ground. from the tell showers running from west—to—east in england and wales, especially on hills. you could see a light covering. watch out for widespread ice as the temperatures dip away with some of the wet weather around going into tomorrow morning. tomorrow morning some of us will have some sunshine to begin day but things will change very quickly for northern ireland, western scotland and some wet, windy weather will feed into the north—west and wales. sleet and snow out of that as well, maybe notjust on hills. the showers push on through the rest of england and wales into the afternoon. looks like the northern half of scotland will fa re the northern half of scotland will fare reasonably well for sunny weather and brighter spells coming back to northern ireland later. single figure temperatures once again. windy in the west and the cold, unsettled weather continues as the week goes on and there'll be more from john hammond just before four. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines at 3.33pm:

it's a mistake. moonlight. an oscars moment sure to be remembered as one of the most infamous in history. la la land's producers were half—way through their acceptance speeches for winning best picture when it emerged moonlight had actually won. the independent inquiry into historical child abuse in england and wales has begun hearing evidence from those sent to australia under a government—backed migration scheme. the inquiry has also apologised after confidential data about dozens of those involved was mistakenly sent out in an e—mail. the government is facing calls from its own mps to scrap plans to limit access to a key disability benefit. it's thought changes to the rules on who qualifies for the personal independence payment could affect around 160,000 people.

insurance companies are warning that a decision by the government to increase compensation payments for long—term injuries will mean customers paying more for car insurance. some 500,000 nhs documents containing medical information, the government has been urged to make schools a priority in the budget after a report by an economic think—tank said that schools in england were facing their first real—terms cut in 20 years. the government is facing calls from conservative mps to scrap plans to limit the access to key disability benefit. it is thought the changes

could rules on who qualifies for personal independence payment could affect around 160,000 people. it comes as a key aide to theresa may said disability benefits reforms were needed to roll back the "bizarre" decisions of tribunals. earlier i spoke to maxine wallace from the mental health charity sane, and i asked her what she made of the comments. the flaw in the argument is a person who has got crippling anxiety or depression isjust as who has got crippling anxiety or depression is just as disabled as a person who maybe confined to bed or a wheelchair with spinal injury.|j a wheelchair with spinal injury.” should say that he has actually said he regrets any offence caused by those comments and said he has personal experience of the problem. but what do you think is the impact of that on wider government policy? where are we with government policy on this? it is really quite demeaning to people with mental illness because it is invisible, because it's actually quite difficult to diagnose as disagreements and because it is much

harder to prove the impact that it can have on your life. it looks as though they're going to be far more discriminated against than they were before. it doesn'tjustify using this carrot and stick approach for people who are already doubly punished, they have a terrible condition and then they are told well, you have got to prove that more to us well, you have got to prove that more to us because well, you have got to prove that more to us because are' not as disabled as a person in a wheelchair. people will say there have to be guidelines and boundaries? of course, there has to be for everybody whether it is physical or whether it is mental and the affect it has on their lives, but i think we can't go down the route of these comparisons and if they are in fact wanting this carrot and stick approach saying, the idea that people are sitting around with anxietyjust that people are sitting around with anxiety just taking pills, that people are sitting around with anxietyjust taking pills, we have cause to say all the same, very few people want to be sitting at home taking pills for anxiety, they are desperate to get out into the world

and desperate to get help to get back to work. surely the government must be giving that help rather than depriving them of benefits. in terms of government policy, downing street are saying again today, no complainedant will lose out as a result of their changes to pip, to the personal independence payment. what do you make of that assurance from downing street?” what do you make of that assurance from downing street? i don't really rate it muchment they are saying also at the same time that several billion pounds will be taken out of budget for these kinds of payments. i think you've got to get right back to the fact that for some people with mental illness, it's fluctuating and actually disabill tating disease far long time and you've got to be able to be much more open and sympathetic to that as well as to people with the physical handicaps. so you want a re-think of government policy? it would be good to look at that instead of these sort of divisions that have happened and with that, the kind of hurtful discriminations. let's cross live now the house

of commons where labour has been granted an urgent question on their confidence in confidential nhs correspondence. i gareth snell si south easterly and truly declare... it is a swearing in at the moment. we are waiting for jonathan ashworth is going to put the question tojeremy hunt. it is about confidential nhs correspondence. that's after some nhs information has gone missing into storage and not gone to gps. we will be straight back as soon as that question is asked. iraqi government forces battling islamic state militants in mosul say they have taken control of a key bridge over the river tigris.

the army said it could potentially establish an important route to bring in reinforcements and supplies. un aid workers say they are concerned by the humanitarian situation in the area. our correspondent wyre davies reports. iraqi government forces are fighting door—to—door and street—to—street as they slowly try to capture the western part of mosul from so—called islamic state. the fighting is brutal and both sides are taking casualties. this is the islamist group's last major stronghold in iraq, and, almost completely surrounded by government troops, they're putting up fierce resistance. straight to the house of commons for that urgent question. the speaker: the secretary of state for health. secretary jeremy the speaker: the secretary of state for health. secretaryjeremy hunt. on 24th march last year i was informed of a serious incident

involving a large backlog of unprocessed nhs patient correspondence by the company contracted to deliver it to gp surgeries, nhs shared business services. the backlog arose from the primary care services gp mail redirection service that sps was contracted. however, in three areas of england, the east midlands, north—east london and the south—west of england, this did not happen affecting 708,000 items of correspondence. none of the documents were lost and all were keptin documents were lost and all were kept in secure storage, but my immediate concern was patient safety might have been compromised by the delay in forwarding correspondence. soa delay in forwarding correspondence. so a rapid process was started to identify whether anyone had been put at risk. the department of health and nhs england immediately established an incident team team

led by jill established an incident team team led byjill matthews. all the documentation has now been sent on to the relevant gp surgeries, where it is possible to do so following initial clinical assessment of where any patient risk might lie. 200,000 pieces were temporary residents forms and a further 500,000 pieces we re forms and a further 500,000 pieces were assessed as low risk. a first triage identified a further 2500 items which had potential risk of harm and needed further investigation. but follow—up by local gps has already identified that merely 2,000 of these as having no patient harm. the remainder are still being assessed, but so far, no patient harm has been identified. as well as patient safety, transparency both with the public and this house has been my priority. i was advised by officials not to make the issue

public last march until an assessment of the risks to patient safety had been completed and all releva nt g p safety had been completed and all relevant gp surgeries informed. i accept that advice for the very simple reason that publicising the issue could have meant gp surgeries being unundated with inquiries from worried patients which would have prevented them doing the most important work namely investigating the named patients who were potentially at risk. for the same reasons and in good faith, a proactive statement about what happened was again not recommended by my department injuly, however, on balance, i decided it was important for the house to know what had happened before we broke for recess. so i did not follow that advice and placed a written statement before the house on 21st july. since then, the pac has been kept regularly informed, most recently being updated by my permanent secretary only last friday. the information commisioner

was updated in august and the national audit office is currently reviewing the response. i committed injuly 2016 to keeping the house updated once the investigations were com plete updated once the investigations were complete and more was known and will continue to do so. this is a catastrophic breach of data protection. hover500,000 patients data including blood test results, cancer screening results, biopsy results, even correspondence relating to cases of child protection, all undelivered, they we re protection, all undelivered, they were languishing in a warehouse on the secretary of state's watch. it's an absolute scandal, mr speaker. time and time again this health secretary promises us transparency. well today, he stands accused of a cover—up. but the department of health knew about this in march 2016. so why did it take this

self—proclaimed champion of transparency until the last day before the house rose last summer to issue a 138 word statement to parliament? that statement said, "just some correspondence had not reached the intended recipients." when he made that statement was he therefore aware that it amounted to over # 00,000 letters? if so, why did he not inform parliament? if he didn't know, does that not call into question his competence. now, what guarantees can he give us that no further warehouses of letters are yet to be discovered. was the private contractor involved paid for the delivery of these letters? and if so, what steps are being taken to recover the money? how many patients we re recover the money? how many patients were harmed because their gp did not receive information about their ongoing treatment? do patients remain at risk? he talked about the

ongoing investigation by nhs england, when are we likely to know the outcome of that investigation? we understand that capita now has the contract to delivering these services. what scrutiny is he putting capita under so this doesn't happen again? and is it not better that rather than the relentless pursuit of privatisation, that we bring services back in house? mr speaker, two months into 2017, and the health secretary lurches from one crisis to another. hospitals are overcrowded, waiting lists out of control. he can't deliver the investment our nhs needs. he can't deliver a social care solution. he can't deliver patient safety and now he can't even deliver the post, mr speaker! he is overseeing a shambles that puts patient safety at risk. patients deserve answers and they deserve an apology. mr speaker, the right honourable

gentleman is reasonable and sensible, but sadly these commendable sides to his character are not on display. i answered a number of questions that he said before he read out his pre—prepared questions. he said, he told, he said that there had been a catastrophic breach of data protection. let me remind him that no patient data was lost and all patient data was kept in secure settings. he also, i know it's a great temptation to go on about the privatisation agenda, but can i gently privatisation agenda, but can i ge ntly tell privatisation agenda, but can i gently tell him what happened since sps lost this account, this particular work was taken in—house, it is not being done by capita, it is being done by the nhs. so much for his relentless pursuit of the private sector that he continually thinks this government is pursuing. now, this morning, this morning, more seriously, he said, he told the

guardian that patient safety will have been put seriously at risk. patient safety, as he knows is a lwa ys patient safety, as he knows is always our primary concern. but as things stand, if he'd listen to my response, he would have heard that there is no evidence so far that any patient safety has been put at risk. well, we have been through over 700,000 documents and so far having been through all of them, we can finld find no ed, but there are 2500 that we're doing a second check with gps so that a second clinical opinion is being sought and of those, so far, of the 2500, in 2,000, nearly 2,000 cases, we do not think that there is any evidence and we're going through the remaining ones. but let me say, that it was indeed, totally incompetent for sps to allow this to happen and we take full responsibility as a government because we were responsible at the time. but the measure of the

competence of the government isn't when suppliers do things, when suppliers make mistakes. it did happen a few times when labour were running the nhs. the measure is what you do to sort out the problem and immediately, we set—up a national incident team. every single piece of correspondence has been assessed. around 80% of the high risk cases have been assessed by a second clinician and then he went on to suggest that the government has been trying to hide the matter. now, if he'd listen to what i said. i did not follow the advice i got from my officials which was not to publicise the matter. i actually decide that the matter. i actually decide that the house needed to know and it was only a week after i was reappointed to thisjob last only a week after i was reappointed to this job last summer. i only a week after i was reappointed to thisjob last summer. i didn't just lay a written ministerial statement, i referred to the matter in my annual reports and accounts and he said this morning that i

played down the severity of what happened, but what did that annual report actually say? it said a serious incident was identified and it talked about a large backlog of unprocessed correspondence relating to patients. it couldn't have been clearer. so let me be clear, this, for this government, has always been about patient safety. we have listened as i know that he would have done had he been in office, to the advice of people who said that if we had gone public right away gp surgeries could have been prevented from doing what we needed them to do which is making detailed assessments ofa which is making detailed assessments of a small number of at risk cases and that was why we paused, but as soon as wejudged and that was why we paused, but as soon as we judged it was possible to do so, we informed this house and informed the public and we stayed absolutely true to our commitment both to patient safety and to transparency. studio: john ashworth accused him of

a catastrophic breach of patient data. the data was kept securely and that all the documents are now being gone through and a lot have gone back to where they should be. of the 700,000 documents, 200,000 were temporary registrations. in a moment a summary of the business news this hour but first the headlines on bbc news: an apology‘s issued after the wrong film was awarded best picture at the oscars, following an envelope mix—up — moonlight eventually walked off with the award. the independent inquiry into historical child abuse in england and wales has begun hearing evidence from those sent to australia under a government—backed migration scheme. the government faces calls from its own mps to scrap plans to limit access to a key disability benefit known as personal independence payments. hello.

in the business news: car insurance premiums could be set to rise by up to £75 a year following a government shake—up of the injury payout scheme. a discount is applied to payouts for personal injury when they're awarded as a lump sum. but a change means payouts will be higher for victims of accidents because low interest rates which mean they won't get much of a return when they invest the lump sum. tesco has announced plans to replace 1700 deputy managers in its chain of express convenience stores. their work will be taken by lower paid

shift leaders increasing staff numbers by 1500. it looks like one of europe's biggest mergers is off. the london stock exchange and it's german rival the deutsche boerse say their coming together is unlikely to be approved by the european commission. there will be some job losses, but that doesn't mean that london will lose its eminent position as the financial centre in europe. from a german prospective should the business of a bank be looking to moving to germany? we will not accept empty shells. we will not accept empty shells. we will not accept letterbox companies. we will make sure that the management, the controlling, the risk controlling etcetera is done out of germany. that does mean that we couldn't have back—to—back booking models, but

dual—headed structures and the like is not something we would give. trinity mirror has seen annual pre—tax profits rise by a quarter to £133 million. it is the uk's largest regional news publisher. revenues from print advertising fell and so did the sales of the daily mirror newspaper. the chief executive said they saw digital advertising increase and the group was become more digitally focussed. we've seen pop stars and actors from past decades making comebacks — and now a phone company is trying to do the same. remember the nokia 3310 — well, 17 years on it's being relaunched. many consider the original handset iconic because of its popularity and sturdiness. the announcement was made at the mobile world congress tech show in barcelona. and waterstones, the uk's leading bookshop chain, is on the defensive after going incognito at some of its newer stores. it has opened three shops in sufffolk, sussex and hertfordshire, that do not feature its distinctive

branding, prompting accusations of deception. but waterstones' chief executive, james daunt, has defended the move, saying he wanted the shops to have a more independent feel. a quick look at markets. the ftse 100 doing well. quite positive despite big falls with direct line insurance down despite the shake—up by the government to premiums and shares at the london stock exchange are down. that's it from me. i will be back in an hour with more business news. environmental campaigners say household recycling levels are too low in england because council schemes are too confusing. keep britain tidy says at least 300 systems are in use and government figures show one council's recycling rate is just 15%. dianne oxberry reports. keep britain tidy says there are

over 300 systems for collecting household waste and says people are confused as to what they can and can't recycle. the pressure group wants the government to impose a blueprint for recycling, to make the situation simplerfor recycling, to make the situation simpler for householders. recycling, to make the situation simpler for householdersm recycling, to make the situation simpler for householders. it is very difficult to actually have a national conversation about what we should recycle and what should be recycled, when everybody is doing something different. every local authority in the uk has been given the target of recycling 50% of its waste by 2020 to meet eu guidelines. but the figures obtained by bbc inside out north—west reveals some councils are recycling as little as 15% of their waste. london boroughs are among the worst offenders with none of the councils in the capital currently hitting the 50% mark that they'll have to reach within the next few years. keep britain tidy believes we can learn from wales which has a 60% recycling rate. the devolved government has

set ambitious targets and every household has food waste collected. that's incredibly important as we waste seven million tonnes of food in the uk every year. it is time for the weather withjohn hammond. a huge variety in the conditions up and down the uk. so your perception of today's weather will depend very much on where you have been. just to give you a flavour of the variety. many had heavy showers. it felt miserable at times. there has been some snow. some fairly significant snow over the high ground of northern britain in particular, but snow at low levels and hail mixed as well. for others, it felt very nice indeed with spring—like sunshine out there. we'll keep the mix going over the next few days. hardly surprising with a satellite picture. clumps of

cloud with clear gaps in between. nailing down where the clear gaps and where the cloud is going to be, ain't easy. a rash of wintry showers pushing their way west to east across england and wales. a lot of clear sky in between and ice will be a significant issue particularly across the north and the west. the odd freezing fog patch thrown in as well. we will have another area of rain and perhaps snow for a time pushing into western scotland and northern ireland, down through the irish sea. ahead of that, some brightness and sunshine around. it will be a cold start. this is sam. but plenty of dry and bright weather to kick off proceedings. though again, ican't to kick off proceedings. though again, i can't rule out a shower almost anywhere. there could be the odd early shower. mostly of rain, but a bit of wintriness is possible for a time particularly in association with this lump of rain pushing down across western areas. i think most of the snow will be up

over the higher ground. it shouldn't cause too many problems, but gusty winds as this slides down across england and wales. much of scotland having a fine afternoon, but a chilly one. temperatures held in single figuresjust chilly one. temperatures held in single figures just about nationwide when the showers come along, those temperatures falling away. this little feature runs eastwards through tomorrow night and frost again will be a hazard as we head into wednesday morning. watch out forice into wednesday morning. watch out for ice and then we've got a front coming in from the south—west this time. that will introduce rain on wednesday. the forward progress of this is uncertain, but some wet weather turning up across southern areas. the best of the brightness further northwards on thursday. we have got a strong jet stream through the rest of the week and that will propel areas of rain. with this kink in thejet propel areas of rain. with this kink in the jet stream being a factor in how far in the jet stream being a factor in howfar rain in the jet stream being a factor in how far rain pushes in later in the week. so day—to—day changes and nailing down the detail won't be easy. a mixture of rain and shine.

there is the risk of snow across the north. that's it. we're back in half an hour. this is bbc news. i'm ben brown. the headlines at four. the major inquiry into historical child abuse begins hearing evidence from those sent to australia under a government—backed migration scheme. you are likely to hear very emotional accounts from child migrants, of the decades of pain their experiences have caused. i'm jane hill at the inquiry in central london where this afternoon an apology had to be issued after a data breach involving e—mails sent out by the inquiry. la la land... the ultimate cliff—hanger at the oscars, after the wrong film is announced for hollywood's top award. this is not a joke. moonlight has

won best picture.