tv Monday in Parliament BBC News January 21, 2020 2:30am-3:01am GMT
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this is bbc news, the headlines: doctors in china confirm a new respiratory virus that's spreading across the country, can be passed from person to person. officials say more than 200 people have been infected, four people have died. the world health organisation has called an emergency meeting later this week. the us senate republican leader, mitch mcconnell, has laid out plans for president trump's impeachment trial. under the proposals there's no guarantee that witnesses or new evidence would be allowed, and arguments for both sides would have to be presented injust21i hours. democratic leaders say it would be a cover—up. the authorities in mexico have prevented hundreds of people from central america from entering the country on their way to the united states. after some skirmishes, security forces rounded up those who managed to cross the river marking the border between mexico and guatemala.
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now it's time for a look back at the day in parliament. hello, and welcome to monday and parliament. defeat for boris johnson in the house of lords, it appears make as to his brexit will stop the we have everything to gain by doing the right thing and leaving on the issue and making people feel as though, after the 31st of january, people belong in our country. the
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government promises to speed up work to replace dangerous cladding on buildings. labour is appalled at the slow progress. blue thousands of people continue to live in unsafe homes, condemned to do so by this government's failure on all fronts stopping and peers poke fun at the idea of relocating the house of lord. i wonder if number ten might consider using somewhere else, therefore it can visit all parts of therefore it can visit all parts of the united kingdom. but first, boris johnson has suffered his first parliamentary defeat stopping the defeat was in the house of lords, where many peers have serious reservations about the eu withdrawal agreement will, which influenced the prime minister's brexit deal with the eu. one area of concern is the home office scheme under which citizens can secure status in the
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uk. a group of peers added measures to the bell, and to stop people who miss the application deadline from losing their legal right. despite their best efforts, the home office will inevitably not be able to reach and run settled status to everyone of the 3.6 million plus eligible eea and swiss citizens resident in the uk. asa and swiss citizens resident in the uk. as a result. possibly ten of thousands of otherwise eligible people will find themselves undocumented and criminalised in as little as 18 months time. inevitably, those most at risk will be the most vulnerable stopping young people in care, the elderly, the marginalised. physical proof of settled just would avoid difficulties. interactions with
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officials obliged to check immigration status will become fraught with anxiety with them, dependent on the frailty of an internet connection and the resilience of a government it for. the eu citizens in the brexit battle. this is not a fight of their mating. they have made a big tradition to the economic and social well— being of this tradition to the economic and social well—being of this country. it follows that we must take every reasonable step to ensure that they are not disadvantaged by our departure from the european union. in my years, i've often stood at border post, watching people being stopped, sometimes for absolutely no reason. but whether it was a reason
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or 110 reason. but whether it was a reason or no reason, the shades of emotion ranging from real distress to quiet acquiescence, the advantage of the simple measure which is suggested in this amendment would avoid the distress. it would mean that speeding through the border post really was quick and that we would really was quick and that we would really solve a problem which is bound to occur if we don't resolve it now. i really get the feeling that the government has got itself into a position where the government feels it would lose faith in the really quite small way. this wouldn't stop brexit, wouldn't change the rights other than my noble friend has said. we have everything to gain by doing the right thing and leading on this issue and making people feel as
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though after the 31st of january, people belong in our country. a new call of eu citizens living in the uk have found an overwhelming majority, and people who have chosen to make the uk their home to live, to work, to play, and be part of our country and our society. and overwhelming majority of 70% which favour physical documentation. on the evidence, the government is going against good practice and wishes of eu citizens currently living in the uk. the minister said the government rejected the amendment. the noble lord has continued to press for this change in the belief that the government has already provided the certainty through the eu settlement scheme. not as a proposal, but
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actually something that is up and running. the noble lord acknowledges it is working well. fundamentally, changing a system that is working well would have the opposite effect to that which i'd believe the noble lord is trying to achieve, and one would create a declaratory system under eu law where eu citizens may apply for a document can amend their resident status if they wish but do not have to do so stopping the government does not agree that this is the right way to secure status for eu citizens who are resident in the uk at the end of the implementation period. despite the minister's remarks, the house of lords voted for the amendment. later in the day, the house of lords defeated the government again, respecting their powers to direct the courts on which eu rulings they can discard. last year,
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the report's author, sir martin moore bick‘s concluded that the cladding panels on the exterior walls of the tower were not compliant with building regulations because they allowed the fire to spread rapidly. in the commons, the housing secretary robertjenrick said he was announcing a major package of reforms to the building safety system. there'll be a new national buildings regulator working under the auspices of the health and safety executive. and the minister promised to speed up remedial work on buildings with unsafe cladding. from next month owners of buildings that haven't replaced the cladding will be publicly named. this government is committed to bringing about the biggest change in building safety for a generation. we took action to address the fire safety risks identified following the grenfell our tragedy and in the autumn we committed to adopting the recommendations of the grenfell our enquiry phase one report in the autumn we committed to adopting
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the recommendations of the grenfell our enquiry phase one report infill. problems have developed over many decades leading to serious incidents and to risk of further loss of life. this is completely unacceptable. it is clear these problems will take many years to put right but all of us, building owners, the construction industry, local authorities, the fire service and government have an absolute duty to ensure action continues to be taken as quickly as possible so that a tragedy such as the one at grenfell our can never happen again. there has been progress but it has been unacceptably slow. labour was appalled at the progress made so far. i never thought i would be standing here too and years later facing a secretary of state, the third secretary of state who still cannot say that all the necessary action has been taken and that a fire like the rental cannot happen again in britain. —— like grenfell.
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thousands of people continue to live in unsafe homes condemned to do so by this government's failure on all fronts after grenfell. why two and a half years later our 315 high— rise blocks still cloaked in the same style of cladding. 72 lives lost in that grenfell our fire, yet no prosecutions, no fire safety fund, no legislation to make owners pay the costs and no legislation in place to overhaul the building safety legislation, more than 20 months after the government's own hackett review was published
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and accepted in full by ministers. i am pleased to see him bringing forward a building safety regulator but could i ask what additional funding for the executive get for this? they are already under significant pressure and should not be asked to take on more without the funds to back it. what recommendations is he taken from the scottish housing regulator? is a key meeting with them? will he be able to make complaints to the shadow regulated in the interim or will they have to wait until that is fully set up? with respect to the health and safety executive we will give it the funding that is required to ensure this setup. we chose the health and safety executive as opposed to creating a stand—alone building safety regulator precisely because they have the expertise, they have the capacity and they are ready to get going at a pace which i think we can all agree it is absolutely essential. would the secretary of state like to take this opportunity to apologise to all of those residents and those in privately
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owned blocks who still are living with this unsafe grenfell style cladding wrapped around their homes when the government set their own target of december 2019 to have this cladding removed, and in particular to a social housing block in my constituency where this work has been delayed and held up by chaos and wandsworth council are not taking responsibility for ensuring that this work is done and it is done to a high standard. i am sorry to hear about the example that the honourable lady raises and they will look into that if she can perhaps give me the details after this statement. since becoming secretary of state i have taken action to ensure that the remediation fund moves forward at pace. we now have a named contact working with every of these buildings. i have reviewed the lists regularly and we have reached the point where every building within the system is working within my department. the only ones that have not
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are those that have only emerged recently as having acm cladding on them and i hope that we will now finally make rapid progress. the commons will be hold a full debate on the report into the first phase of the grenfell inquiry on tuesday. you're watching monday in parliament with me, kristiina cooper. the education secretary, gavin williamson, has condemned what he said was "a completely unacceptable abuse of information" in the leak of personal data about students and schoolchildren. he's launched an investigation into the leak, which a senior mp said had led to betting companies obtaining the details of 28 million young people. mr speaker, i would like to address news reports which claimed that data from the department record learner record service has been shared with a commercial data broker. i want to reassure the house that my department has not shared any data with the commercial data broker in question. and indeed, the data broker in question has removed their claim
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that we do so. instead, an education training organisation in breach of their agreement with us wrongly provided information on learners from our learner record service which we created to support individual learners and increase their future opportunities. this is a completely unacceptable abuse of information. and we have immediately stopped the firm's access and ended our agreement with them. the department has begun a full investigation and any provider found to be in breach of their contract will have their access immediately removed. the secretary of state started the questions by describing the improper release of 28 million records of students and school children. that serious breach of privacy and data protection was made even more serious by the fact that it appears to have been used to hook even more young children on gambling. one of the problems of this area is that the companies involved view the fines just as the cost of doing business. through him, can i say to the information commissioner i hope the fine in this case is many multiples of the profit made and i hope the secretary of state will have his department sue the company coulfor
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breach of practice. the abuse of this information is something we take incredibly seriously and i certainly hope that we have referred this onto the information commissioner and we hope that the most strident action is taken by the information commissioner so such breaches never occur again in the future. earlier during education questions, ministers were warned that moving children in care away from their home areas had left more of them at risk of exploitation by criminals. the children's minister said she was about to launch a review of care policy but a child's best interests should always come first. it is a massive problem. a massive problem. so the minister clearly does not understand that the increasing use of out of area placements and particularly unregulated supported living has left more children at risk of exploitation, risk of not receiving the appropriate help and social care and governmental support, and also at risk of exploitation by criminals.
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this is happening. many people on those benches are experiencing this as well as me. i will do my best to answer that comprehensive question. i can assure the honourable member that both myself and the government do take this matter seriously. however, out of area placements can actually be in the child's best interest if they are at risk of exploitation or if they need specialist provision. three years ago instead of increasing children's care home capacity in england, the government introduced legislation that forced vulnerable children from england to be placed in scotland. in 2018, over 70 children were moved, some over300 miles, from their home and family and support networks. can the minister tell us exactly how the local authorities with care and responsibility for these children living miles away are discharging even their most
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basic statutory obligations, and is she content to preside over this harmful legislation? i believe the honourable member is referring to a case where there are a number of out of area placements made in scotland provision. we have recently put 40 million extra into capital funding for secure homes but the whole point is that this is a very complex issue which needs a comprehensive care review which was part of our manifesto and i've already begun to work on that. michelle donelan. britain is facing a decade of decline or renewal depending on the differing visions of the the economy outlined in the commons. it was the final day of debate on the queen's speech and the chancellor sajid javid and his labour shadowjohn mcdonnell were trading their plans for the economy and jobs in the next few years. if the government is going
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to plagiarise labour's policies, i fear they have a duty to do it competently. what all of these have in common is a failure to tackle the root causes of the problems which the government pays lip service, the grotesque level of inequality and income and wealth in our society. the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few. the ownership of the economy by an elite, with the vast majority of people locked out of decision—making. mr mcdonnell said an interview the chancellor gave to the financial times "threatened to throw the manufacturing sector under the bus". he actually said, he casually said and i quote, "there will be impact on business one way or the other, some will benefit, some will not." let's be clear. if frictionless trade is not achieved, in a future trade deal, or at worst in no deal, then these categories, the bulk of our manufacturing sector including cars,
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aerospace and pharmaceuticals food and drink. one recent estimate identified already that in the last decade we have lost 600,000 manufacturing jobs. today, business leaders and unions have combined to warn him his promise to split from the eu will cost billions in damage uk manufacturing. it is the most radical queen's speech in a generation. it will enshrine in law the largest cash settlement in the nhs history, and invest more in our school. it will revolutionise our national infrastructure and make great strides towards net zero emissions by 2050. it will level up, spread prosperity and opportunity across every region and country in the united kingdom. and it will build that brighter future for our country on the foundation of economic security and sound public finances. this is a one nation government delivering the people's priorities as we embark on a decade of renewal. he addressed head on the future for the uk's relationship with the eu and other potential trading partners. we are leaving the eu.
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we are leaving a single market for some and we are leaving the customs union. and we are seeking an ambitious canada style free—trade agreement. in doing so, we will be a sovereign and independent country, not a rule taker. so yes, some things will change. it is a new chapter. meanwhile, the snp said nothing had changed for scotland. of course the prime minister and his cronies will say this is all tosh and that we are going to get brexit done in abracadabra, and off we go come i'm afraid the chancellor knows just as well as i do that our relationship with europe cannot be formed using a three word magic incantation, no matter how many times it is said. there will be no getting brexit done this month. there is still years of negotiations ahead and i cannot reassure businesses in my constituency as to what our relationship with europe will look like. and i don't think the chancellor can either. over to the house of lords now
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where it's been debating an eye catching plan briefed to the media over the weekend that the government was considering relocating peers out of london. according to the sunday times, york has emerged as the frontrunnner to host the second chamber with government owned land close to the railway station already identified as a prime building location. my lords, the conservative party manifesto committed to looking at the role of the house of lords and to reviewing the relationship between the government, parliament and the courts in the constitution democracy and rights commission. the government has not yet decided what will be in the scope of the commission. and whether this will include the role of the house of lords, but we will make an announcement in due course. but my lord, that doesn't answer the question. can the minister confirm the report that number ten has said that this is a serious proposal?
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number ten also says it is one of a range of options being considered. what are the options? will the minister outline them? do they include moving both houses, which i would prefer? and how does all of this, how does he reconcile all of this with the billions being spent now on the restoration and renewal programme of this building? my lords, i know the noble lord to be a powerful advocate for the idea of in his question. on the one hand, it is the case that some years ago the joint committee on the palace of westminster looked at the option of parliament moving outside of london. and decided against it, on grounds of cost and proximity, the absence of proximity between parliament and government. but on the other hand,
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there is no reason why these matters should not receive renewed scrutiny and as i said, the options are being looked at. my lord, can the noble lord confirm that this announcement comes from the same policy plan that from number ten that desperate for a brexit headline came up with bung a bob for big ben bong. and we know what happened to that. but there is a serious issue. this house is part of the scrutiny of parliament as a whole. clearly, government must better engage with the regions and the nations. but does the noble lord feel that moving just one part of parliament, albeit the fantastic york, sounds more like the pm is as worried about lords scrutiny as about andrew neil? my lords, far greater minds than my own are applying themselves to this. laughter. to this important question. my lords, i found myself taking a renewed interest in this question. perhaps i could put on record that i will later this year have a large garden available in york.
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or a suitable marquee could be erected for this purposes, but since some of the most important business that we do around these houses is not in the chambers itself, but in the corridors, it seems to me to be a very serious threat to our democratic processes if we are not in the same place. i would ask the minister to perhaps say could we reconsider this one please. york is renowned for its ancient city walls, mediaeval streets and an area called the shambles. a reference that one peer couldn't resist... that centre of york, that great city, was known as the shambles and there is this not an attempt by the prime minister
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to cull the house of lords and meitner not end up another shambles? when the people and so many constituencies in the north lent their votes to the conservative party, they were longing for more politicians to be sent? or does he think that they wanted a government that would concentrate on the things that actually matter like health and social care and infrastructure and shouldn't the special advisers at number ten turned their attention to those matters. yesterday morning the people of yorkshire woke up to the knowledge and excitement of the possibility of parliament coming back to the north of england again. i think that the excitement was somewhat sullied by the later indication that it was only the house of lords that would be coming to york. whilst you work would welcome that,
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may i suggest that my noble friend ——york looks carefully at a new location also for the house of commons and in the interests of national unity, perhaps he should consider the house of commons going to either edinburgh or glasgow. and a former head of the royal navy ‘floated' a novel idea of his own. as a great maritime nation, if we are going to do anything like splitting us from the commons, iwould hope number 10 might consider using one of the great cunarders are somewhere for the lords to be based and therefore it could visit all parts of the united kingdom. the liberal word puts forward an extremely imaginative idea which again will be listened to. so it looks as if the house of lords will be staying put for now. but it's definitely time for me to relocate! mandy baker will be here for the rest of the week.
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but from me, kristiina cooper, goodbye! after mandeep is my sunshine i'm afraid grey is likely to be the orderfor the next afraid grey is likely to be the order for the next few days. the clu b a cross order for the next few days. the club across the uk, also for some dense patches of fog to contend with. the high pressure is still with. the high pressure is still with us for the rest of the week, driver the week, dry weather to come, but as the eye plummets into moist airfrom the come, but as the eye plummets into moist air from the atlantic, they will help to thicken our cloud. testing this morning, dense fog patches probably our primary concern across southern britain was up to the corridor, southern counties of england as far north as into the midlands and a good past of east anglia. and for the a lot of cloud around, the dregs of the weather front actually pushing to the west of scotla nd front actually pushing to the west of scotland picking brain into
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