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now on bbc news, it's monday in parliament. hello and welcome to monday in parliament, the main news from westminster. the failure of north hamptonshire county council to protect two vulnerable children prompts anger and frustration. minister, you really have to get a grip with this. it's no point in talking about good practice. you have to face up to the lack resources in local government. a senior huawei executive rejects security concerns about the firm.

regardless of who the country have been, if we were to be put under any pressure from any country that we thought was wrong, we would prefer to close the business. and mps marked two years since the grenfell tower fire. i know the pain of loss continues, as they wait for answers, and to see justice done at the police investigation and public inquiry continue their important work. but first, two—year—old dylan tiffen brown and one—year—old evelyn rose mugleton from north hamptonshire were both murdered by people who should have been caring for them. dylan was killed by his father. evelyn—rose was killed by her mother's partner. both men have beenjailed for life. labour's andrew gwen outlined the horrific treatment inflicted on the toddlers. dylan died aged until after sustaining 39 injuries to his face, neck, torso and limbs, including 15 rib fractures,

mr speaker, and lacerations to his liver. after a sustained beating at home by his father, a drug dealerfrom northampton, who was convicted for murder in october 2018, a postmortem found cocaine, heroin and cannabis in the two—year—old's body at the time of death. no social worker saw dylan in the two months between him being discovered at his father's home during a police drugs raid and his death at his hands. evelyn—rose, aged one, died three days after sustaining a traumatic brain injury from her mother's partner. she had sustained multiple injuries, including damage to her spine and both eyes. social care and health agencies that had been involved in the family had failed to recognise the neglect that was taking place. the safeguarding children board stated that the social workers had

been allocated to the case, but had, and i quote, started to drift, with little if any attention being paid to the children's welfare. reports into the children's deaths published last week exposed serious failings by northamptoshire county counsel. mr gwynne said the local authority had let them down. i hope we will now see and i believe we will, ministers use everything in their power to ensure this public institution does not failed children again, and to prevent other tragedies from happening elsewhere. these events have highlighted the seriousness, systemic issues in northamptonshire, and i want to assure the house, mr speaker, that we have already began taking actions. since those deaths and following an ofsted focused visit in 2018 which exposed a mode to make more general decline in the quality of services, my department appointed a highly experienced commissioner to ensure improvements take place, and has increased improvement support from lincolnshire county

council, one of the best in the country for children's social care. i've already set out my intention on the recommendation of the commissioner to create an operationally independent children's service trust, serving northamptonshire, to drive improvement in services. i can announce to the house today, that i have issued a statutory direction to the council to work with the commissioner in the creation of that trust byjuly of 2020. the county council has faced severe financial problems. last year, councillors voted to make major cuts to jobs and services. the public in kettering will want to know who is going to take responsibility for this appalling tragedy, and i'm afraid the answer must be the local councillor in charge of children social services at the time. now, that individual now

happens to be the leader of northamptonshire county council. he is a good man, and he is working very hard to transfer the county counsel into the two new unities. but i believe that my constituency believes that the buck must stop with the person at the top. will hejoin me in calling for him to resign as the leader of the county council? he will forgive me if i do not comment on the local political leadership. what i would like to see now is we move forward with the recommendations and get the trust up and running as quickly as possible. surely the minister needs to take a much more systemic view of what is going on in social services up and down the country, and recognise that funding is an issue. i'm grateful for the honourable lady's question, mr speaker.

i think and i hope i'm being clear by saying that i recognise there are funding pressures on children's services, and that i am working with children's services and the sector as a whole in preparation for the spending review. but i think to simply characterise this as a funding issue would be misleading. we're back at square one today, and i feel very, very sorry for what's happened to these kids in northampton, as much as some of the kids at coventry. but minister, you really have to get ahead of this now. it's no good talking about good practice, and you have to face up to the lack of resources. the minister replied that the government was learning the lessons and putting the structures in place to act on them. now, a senior huawei executive have

defended the company in the face of repeated challenges by mps about its potential involvement in the development of the uk's 5g superfast mobile network. several countries have voiced security fears about the firm, and it has been strongly criticised in the uk by the national cybersecurity centre. the former head of information for the uk government said huawei was not bound by rules in china requiring companies to co—operate with the security services. 0ur starting point in 170 countries in which we operate in is what is the law? what does the law define as what is acceptable and unacceptable? and i think it's right for governments to determine in essence their objectives, and enshrine that in law. so, if it's a dodgy regime, you'll go with it? i don't think it matter as much if it's a dodgy regime, as what is in the law. we do not create any moraljudgments on what we think is right or wrong. that's for lawmakers to do, and we execute within the law within 170 countries.

i'm interested in your involvement, and the australian strategic policy institute reports alleges that huawei supplies and assist the public security group, which has in turn been accused of surveillance and of human rights abuses, including, according to the reports and i quote, "an estimated 1.5 million chinese citizens and foreign citizens having been detained". thatjudgement is, is it legal in the countries in which they operate? that's our criteria. it's for others to make judgements whether they think it is right or wrong, predominantly the government. we are facing a situation where huawei is involved in the provision of technology and services that has led to very significant human rights abuses. that's not something that concerns you? well, i don't know the specifics of whether they have or they haven't,

based on one report. do you condemn those human rights abuses? we always condemn human rights abuses, in any country in which it occurs. he said huawei was an independent company. no one can put us under pressure. we've made very clear, regardless of who the country would be, if we would be put under any pressure by any country, we would prefer to close the business. should we do business with a company that's complicit in human rights abuses? i think you should do business with all companies that stick to the law. and he emphasised the compa ny‘s openness. we believe in full openness and transparency. we want people to find things. whether they find one or 100, we don't care. we are not embarrassed by what people find. people have talked about, you know, poor coding or poor engineering. we stand naked in front of the world, and it may not be a pretty sight all of the time, but we would prefer to do that, because it enables us to improve our products, and we all benefit from that. in a previous answer, you said that huawei didn't have any

links with the chinese state. has it ever — has there been an opportunity where it's failed to comply with a request from the chinese government? we have never had a request from the chinese government to do anything untoward. anything at all? anything. clearly, let me be honest here. we have to pay our taxes. in terms of the purpose of this committee, we have never been asked by the chinese government, or any other government, imight add, to do anything that would weaken security. you're saying that article 14 of china's national intelligence law, passed in june 2017, empowering the agencies of the chinese state to, and i quote, request the relevant organs, organisations and civilians to provide necessary support, assistance and cooperation to those intelligence agencies does not apply to huawei? i'm saying that the interpretation of what that means according to our legal advice does not require huawei to undertake anything that

weakens huawei's position in terms of security. and i'm saying that's entirely unbelievable. do you think, when we come to write a report, it would be fair to compare your company with the company who manufactured zyklon b and sold it to the german government during the second world war? a reference to the pesticide used in the gas chambers in nazi concentration camps. i'd paint a different picture. i would say, if you're asking us, "should we ignore the law," i'm sure you would say, "no, you must not ignore the law." basically what you're saying is, as long as we comply with the law, that's fine. we are amoral, we have no interest in what's happening. i think it's for governments to determine what is right and wrong. that is their sovereign — their sovereign duty. you make money out of it. we are a commercial organisation. right, you would. can i have an answer to my question?

my answer to the question is the same as it was earlier. is it fair to compare you to them? i don't know the circumstances around them. this weekend saw large protests in hong kong against a controversial extradition bill which would allow suspected criminals to be sent to mainland china for trial. britain handed the territory back to china back in 1997, but agreed that hong kong would remain semi—autonomous for at least 50 years, under a joint declaration lodged with the united nations. mps have been debating whether the new law might be seized upon by china to target political opponents in the territory. yesterday's huge protest march, peaceful right up until the end, was a clear demonstration of the strength of feeling in hong kong about this issue. hong kong's chief executive, carrie lam, has insisted that new legislation is needed to close a loophole that has prevented a hong kong national accused of murdering another

hong kong national in taiwan from facing justice. yet the taiwanese administration also opposes the changes. civil society, business and legal groups in hong kong have expressed the strongest of concerns about both the content of the proposals and the very short consultation period. as the house will be aware, the operation of the court system in mainland china is very different than applies in hong kong. there are widespread concerns that the extradition would have a chilling effect on hong kong's freedoms. we continue to stress to the chinese and hong kong authorities at the one country and to system authorities to be maintained, hong kong must enjoy the full measure of the autonomy and rule of law as set out in the joint declaration and enshrined and basic law. mr speaker, it is very disappointing to see that the secretary of state cannot make it to the chamber for1

million hong kong residents who took to the streets yesterday to protest against their government's proposed extradition bill, and if enacted, this law would allow suspected criminals to be extradited to mainland china, bypassing hong kong's independent label system. the last governor of hong kong, the noble lord barnes, said this bill's provisions are an assault on hong kong's values, stability and security. they create fear and uncertainty and a time when we should all be working to safeguard hong kong's reputation as one of the greatest business and cultural centres in the world. we have a long and enduring history with hong kong, with lasting ties, and as we mark the 21st anniversary of hand over, next month, it is crucial we keep our promise that hong kong will never walk alone. these laws constitute notjust an erosion but a fundamental breach

of the sino—british declaration and the one country, two government system. warning signs have been coming for several years now and we had seen increasing crackdown on dissenting protest. now we face the prospect of the direct line between beijing and hong kong's courts, that could see hong kong has sent thousands of miles away to face trial in mainland china's flawed criminaljustice system. they cannot be extradited for a crime that they have not been extradited from. normally you cannot go to a country where you cannot get a fair trial. so given the concerns, and i welcome the statements the minister has given, about the action that has taken just after the united nations for examples of all possible international diplomatic pressure

is notjust on hong kong but china to make sure that this law never becomes effective. the worries about this breaking of the firewall and the possible intrusion into one country/two systems would not exist if they were not serious concerns of the greatest breaches of human rights in china so i asked the minister what further information he can give us on the discussion between the british government and chinese government on improving human rights in china. dealing with the issues in the northwest of the country or a more general issues around human rights. you are watching monday in parliament with me, christina cooper. the second anniversary of the grenfell tower fire is this friday.

72 people died when fire spread through the tower block in west london. hundreds were left homeless. the speaker has hosted a reception for the survivors in westminster. in the commons, mps wore green heart lapel badges to show their solidarity with the victims. the housing secretary has praised the strength of the local community. i know the pain of loss continues as they wait for answers and to see justice done as the police investigation and public inquiry continue their important work. but they should know that they are not alone. the government, this house and indeed our whole country will always have a stake in the future of grenfell. and i have every faith that this remarkable community working in partnership will move forward, rebuild and emerge even stronger. there has been some progress over these two long years, which we welcome and which individual members and ministers and the secretary of state

deserve some credit. but a national disaster on the scale of the grenfell tower fire requires a national response on the same scale from government and that has not happened. ministers have been frozen like rabbits in the headlights. their actions have been too slow and too weak on every front. grenfell tower was in the constituency of emma dent coad. the time for platitudes is done. i am freshly shocked that members on the government benches have the face to wear a green heart. shame on you. how can they sleep at night when tens of thousands cannot across the country living in homes potentially dangerous or their investments are worth nothing? i cannot sleep. where is the leadership in this process? there is a whole generation of potentially unsafe buildings out there. it is hardly controversial to keep people safe in their homes. i recognise the passion of the honourable lady in the way in which she has sought very firmly

and i think actually very eventually effectively to represent her constituents, and i know that that passion and the real desire to see change quickly is one that is keenly felt. and i say to her that there is a weight of responsibility that all of us in government hold in respect of this. and that is something that i do take hugely seriously on seeing how we can speed up and make the progress that we need to in relation to both building safety as well as on breaking some of these culture and stigma issues, too. now, there are fears that some doctors are choosing to retire early because current tax rules mean they can effectively end up working for free. it is due to the limits on contributions high earners can make to their pensions. some doctors earning more than £150,000 a year have complained about receiving large tax bills on funds they won't be able to access until they are able to retire.

i am aware of concerns raised by nhs doctors about the impact of annual allowance tax charges. while there are no plans to have a public consultation on tax rules, on the 3rd ofjune, the secretary of state for health announced his intention to consult on introducing a new pension flexibility for high earning clinicians affected by annual allowance tax charges. i declare my interest as past president of the bma and also someone who has an nhs pension and whose husband does not stand to gain particularly by my death. but so be it. does the government recognise though the seriousness of the situation given the letter today from the bma to the prime minister that was in the financial times? because the 50—50 suggestion that came from the secretary of state is not the solution to the problem and clinical services are already being severelyjeopardised by consultants who are dropping their additional sessions and therefore waiting lists are already rising.

and those facing retirement have decided to carry on with leaving the nhs, thereby worsening our workforce problems. we join the lady's husband in wishing him a very long life. so far as the issue that... so far as the issue that she has raised is concerned, the bma asked us to introduce this flexibility earlier this year. the chair of the bma council said this is a step in the right direction. and the secretary of state is willing to discuss other models for pension flexibility. it is very much hoped that if we make these changes, high earning clinicians will be able to attend to more patients while saving for their retirement, incurring certificate tax charges. bothjunior doctors, younger doctors and consultants are greatly aggrieved at the provision of pensions under the 2015 legislation, my lords.

and ijust wonder why the noble lord could say with equanimity that we are getting around to a consultation. lord young replied that the changes were aimed at targeting tax relief on contributing pensions more effectively. nominations for the leadership of the conservative party have now closed. one of the contenders is the home secretary sajid javid, who was in the commons for home office question time. where a pointed question about his credentials was dealt with by one of his colleagues. they were 18,000 assaults and 17,000 robberies involving knife or sharp object in the year ending 2018. the government has cut police officers by 21,000. two weeks ago, a murder took place in tower hamlets due to a knife attack. does the minister agree with me that the home secretary is not fit to be the next prime minister considering he has lost control of law and order in his department?

i have to say i think this is such a serious subject. i understand the honourable lady's comments about her own constituency, but i don't think this is the appropriate forum to make those sorts of comments. but i do know is government working with the police and local authorities and medical professions and education and so on are doing everything we can not just to tackle the causes of knife crime through law enforcement efforts, but also to intervene early to help young people from stopping carrying knives before they take that terrible step which can affect notjust their lives, but other families and communities. sajid javid recently spoke about his childhood in bristol saying that he grew up on what one tabloid newspaper called britain's "most dangerous street". the home secretary might not be aware that he did rather upset people what he last spoke about his childhood in east bristol. can i urge him to look at what the police there are doing

with their early intervention diversion scheme, which has a 99% success rate in turning young people away from involvement in gangs and drug crime? i think if i understood the honourable lady, she is referring to my comment about stapleton road, but i was referring to stapleton road that i knew 40 years ago and i do accept that things have moved on. in fact, i was at stapleton road a few days ago and i very much enjoyed myself and met some local residents which was fantastic. one must always be careful what one says about bristol. for my own part, i fought the bristol constituency in 1992. the good news is for bristol and for the nation is that bristol fought back. we end with a new arrival in the house of commons. lisa forbes is the new labour mp for peterborough following a hard fought battle against the brexit party in the by election last week. she won the seat in cambridgeshire by just 683 votes. she joins one of the longest sessions of parliament

since the english civil war. will the member wishing to take your seat please come to the table? here here! she then took the oath and was formally welcomed by the speaker. i do solemnly and sincerely claim that i will be faithful and claim and claim allegiance to her majesty, her heirs and successors according to law. thank you very much. lisa forbes receiving the traditional extended handshake from the speaker there. that is it from monday in parliament, alicia mccarthy will be here for the rest of the week, but from me, christina cooper, goodbye.

tuesday is going to bring further heavy rain and there could be a lot of it, particularly across northern parts of england, the midlands, and wales. on monday, the heaviest of the rainfall was actually across eastern parts of the country in the south—east. if we look at europe, the big picture, we can see over the last two or three days, most of the clouds seem to be stuck across... from northern spain, france, germany, the uk. we have seen big thunderstorms on the near continent, heavy rain here, of course. eastern parts of europe a different story, a few summertime showers and thunderstorms but on the whole a lot of sunshine and very hot, and the reason for this is that this vortex has formed across western europe. it has been dragging cold air all the way from the north across the uk, france and into spain, whereas this side of europe, warm air has been coming from the south, affecting central and eastern areas,

so warsaw, for example, has been in excess of 30 degrees, when it was only 12 degrees in london. on tuesday, the early hours, rain across most of northern england, the midlands, wales, the south—west, just about starting to dry out in the extreme south—east, but no real rainfall across scotland and northern ireland except for a few showers. in fact, first thing in the morning there will probably be some sunshine in belfast, glasgow and edinburgh. the weather front is stuck. in fact, the whole weather pattern across europe is stuck, it is not moving or moving very slowly. through tuesday, this band of weather, band of heavy rain, will very slowly drift, at a glacial pace it will move its way towards the north. it will continue to rain across yorkshire all through the day, the north—west of england, wales, the south—west, it sort of curls back into the centre of the low. the south—east will see sunshine and heavy showers. in the north of the country there will be some sunshine around. at times it will be

cloudy, but dry at least. on wednesday, the weather system is still with us, a sense of things spiralling very slowly around, and again, more heavy showers being pushed into the uk, so again, it continues to remain very wet across many parts of the country into wednesday. wednesday and thursday, the low pressure is still with us, so this pattern is not in a hurry to change. it will be on the cool side, in fact, as far as the rest of the week is concerned very little change really, at times will be quite windy as well.

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