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and now it's time for a look back at the day in parliament. hello again, and welcome to monday in parliament. the expert with a covid catch—up plan for children quits, putting gavin williamson in the spotlight. the secretary of state has spent 18 months presiding over nothing but blunders, putting the future of our young people at risk. so, does the secretary of state think that the right man resigned? a former minister denounces cuts in overseas aid. the government's failure to address this issue will indisputably mean that hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths will result. mps discover the impact of covid rules on pubs and restaurants. none of our businesses -

are profitable at the moment. none of the businesses that are open are trading - above break—even. also in this programme, what's eating matthew hancock? but why? but first, stinging criticism of the government's plan to help children in england catch up after missing so much schooling during the pandemic. the latest package is worth £11; billion, far less than demanded by the catch—up tsar, sir kevan collins, who resigned in protest. the education secretary, gavin williamson, admitted to mps that he would have liked a little more, but he said that 250,000 children would receive tutoring this year who would not have had access to it previously. the lion's share of this new money, £1 billion of it, will fund a tutoring revolution, delivering 6 million 15—hour tutoring courses for schoolchildren and the equivalent of 2 million 15—hour courses for 16—19—year—olds who need

additional support to catch up. year 13 pupils will also have the option to repeat their final year where this is appropriate. mr deputy speaker, i was frankly embarrassed to hear the secretary of state proclaim that the funding announced last week will deliver a revolution when what his government announced will amount to just £50 per pupil for the next three years compared to £1,600 in the usa, £2,500 in the netherlands. when all delivered, less than one hour of tutoring a fortnight for children who have missed more than half a year of being in school in person. sir kevan collins has - a distinguished 30—year career as an expert in education i whilst the secretary of state has spent 18 months presiding over nothing but blunders, - putting the future of our young people at risk. i so, does the secretary of state think that the right man - resigned?

well, the honourable lady sort of points out that we're very grateful for the work that sir kevan has done and actually some of the key elements of the work that working side—by—side with him in terms of both tutoring and also the driving up teacher quality and standards are very much of the heart of this package. but as we look at the future and we look to the comprehensive spending review, we're very much looking at how we can drive that third element of time about the school day, how we can best use time in order to be able to give children from all backgrounds the best advantage. conservatives, too, were keen to see some of sir kevan collins�* ideas implemented. does he agree that the heart of levelling up must be education, getting people to climb that ladder of opportunity? and what more evidence is needed to convince the treasury to implement kevan collins' proposal to extend the school day? do we need pilot programmes? do we need evidence from the 39% of pre—2010 academy schools who successfully implemented longer school days?

i personally very much share my right honourable friend's views that actually, you know, there is a body of evidence that can be collected that shows some real benefits to actually delivering for pupils in terms of extra time in the classroom. and it is about getting that combination right. i mean, as we've seen so much evidence from parents, they're concerned about their children may have missed out on in terms of english and maths, mr deputy speaker. and what we want to do is to look at how we can boost that. with an old etonian prime - minister and a chancellor who's old school fees are in excess of £40,000 peryear- and an overwhelmingly- privately—educated cabinet, it's no surprise that - working—class kids across the country are being failed. mr deputy speaker, as a comprehensive lad who went to a good and decent comprehensive school in scarborough, i actually at the very heart of everything

i do want to make sure that like so many of my friends who i went to school with, that their children do incredibly well. many labour mps thought gavin williamson had lost a battle with the treasury. so, can i urge him to keep arguing for that extra funding? because without it, this is not going to level up, this is going to be a disadvantage that will continue not just this year, but for many years to come. like all sort of secretaries of state, i must confess there is sort of sometimes that sort of tendency of always maybe just wanting a little bit more because we are all incredibly ambitious in order to be able to deliver more for those we represent. why are the secretary - of state's powers of persuasion so inadequate that he's only been able to persuade - the chancellor to fund a mere| one tenth of sir kevan collins' admirable catch—up plan? don't children deserve - a better champion fighting in their cornerthan. the secretary of state

and his risible efforts, - which are holding children down across the country? mr deputy speaker, _ if i was marking his own work, i would give him an f for fail. well, we are investing heavily in teacher quality, so it would be very difficult for her to get the opportunity to be a teacher, mr deputy speaker. gavin williamson. the health secretary, matt hancock, has announced that people aged 25 and over in england will now be offered the coronavirus vaccination. he said the move would bring closer the goal of inoculating all adults in the uk by the end of next month. but when he addressed the commons, many mps pressed him about whether restrictions would be lifted further in two weeks' time as planned in view of the rise of the new delta or indian variant of the disease. as of the 3rd ofjune, our data

show that of the 12,383 cases of the delta variant, 46a went on to present at emergency care and 126 people were admitted to hospital. of these 126 people, 83 were unvaccinated, 28 had received one dose and just three had received both doses of vaccine. we should all be reassured by this because it shows that those vaccinated groups, who previously made up the vast majority of hospitalisations, are now in the minority. we do face, as we often have done throughout these last 15 months, some uncertainty, but we do know that the delta variant is now the dominant variant in the uk. we know that 73% of delta cases are in unvaccinated people. we know that one dose offers less protection against this particular variant. and although hospitalisations are low, we know that if we see an increase in hospitalisations, that will put significant pressures on the nhs as they're trying to deal with the care backlog. it is incredibly encouraging that just three cases out . of 12,000 cases of the delta

variant were double jabbed,| but is the debate inside government now about| a potential short, temporary extension of the restrictions| to allow more people to get. bothjabs or a more permanent slowing down of the easing of restrictions? _ because that is a massive difference to all of our. constituents in terms i of what may happen in the announcement next week. the honest answer, which i will give to any question about this, is it is too early to say. i tried to give a studiously true answer on the tv yesterday, mr speaker, which some people interpreted as gung—ho and others interpreted as overly restrictive. that is the nature of uncertainty, i'm afraid. it is too early to say. but that didn't stop mps from continuing to ask the question.

i note the secretary of state is still considering ending all social distancing measures on the 21st ofjune, but does he not think that would be dangerous in the face of rising cases of the significantly more infectious delta variant? would it not be better to actually adhere to the government's mantra of being guided by data and not dates? given that the delta variant is more transmissable, - has a higher risk of- hospitalisation and has more vaccine escapability. than the kent variant, can he explain why he's not ruling out now any further. lifting of restrictions - on the 21st ofjune so we can get more adults double vaccinated first? - but why? why would you... why on earth would you say, "i'm going to rule out doing something in two weeks' time," when we know that the extra data that we'll get over the next week will help make a more refined, more careful decision? now, i don't understand this argument that's been put by the snp and the green party that we should just make

a decision now when we'll know more in a week's time. so, that's what we're going to do. on any possible delay to stage four of the road map on the 21st of this month, i totally get the logic my right honourable friend is talking about, and he's absolutely right to reserve judgement till one week before, as was always the case when the road map was published. but can ijust gently press him to tell the house what we'd be delaying for? would it be a world without covid, therefore without any possibility of a variant of concern in the future, which i don't think is his belief? and can he see, though, why for many that would be to write covid a blank check and just continually delay? we're in a race between the vaccine programme and the virus, and with the delta variant, the virus got extra legs. our goal sadly is not a covid—free world because that is impossible. the goal is to live with covid much as we live with some other unpleasant diseases, including of course flu.

matt hancock, with an update on the situation in england. in wales, the welsh government has announced that next week every 18—year—old there will be offered a jab. now, you're watching monday in parliament with me, david cornock. a conservative former international development secretary has warned that cuts in british overseas aid will lead to hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths. andrew mitchell accused ministers of "riding roughshod over parliament" in avoiding so far a vote on a cut in the share of national income spent on aid. he and other tory rebels wanted to reverse the cut of £4 billion a year by changing a proposed new law that creates a new research agency. but the speaker, sir lindsay hoyle, ruled that attempt out of order. he did, though, tell ministers there should be a decisive vote

on the issue. the law currently says 0.7% of gross national income should go on aid, but the government says that share should be reduced to 0.5% because of the pandemic. up until now, however, the house has not — and i repeat — not had an opportunity for a decisive vote on maintaining the uk's commitment to the statutory target of 0.7%. i expect that the government should find a way to have this important matter debated and allow the house to formerly take an effective decision. —— formally. mr speaker, in the wake of the british chairmanship of the g7, the government's failure to address this issue will undisputedly mean that hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths will result. it is already attracting criticism from all round the other members of the g7. what advice, mr speaker, do you have for my right honourable and honourable friends and i to seek to stop

the government from riding roughshod over parliament in this way and seeking to thwart our democratic rights as members of the house of commons? i share the house's frustration. it is quite right that this house should not continue to be taken for granted, but we must do it in the right way. and i believe the government need to respect and need to come forward. i totally agree with the honourable member. not only for this house, but the country needs this to be debated and heard and an effective decision taken. i now put that on the record and hope the government will take up that challenge and give this house its due respect that it deserves. we are the elected members. this house should be taken seriously, and the government should be accountable here. a less than impressed sir lindsay hoyle. and later, andrew mitchell returned to lead a successful call for an emergency debate on the issue that'll be held on tuesday. now, seniorfigures from the retail and hospitality

industries have told a group of mps that they will need continued government support to prevent a wave of businesses from going under. although shops, pubs and restaurants have reopened, the treasury committee heard that many firms were facing major financial problems, with large numbers unable to trade profitably due to social distancing and other covid restrictions. the witnesses accepted that the government had provided unprecedented levels of support, but said more was needed. hospitality, we're coming out with about £6 billion worth of government debt, government—backed loans, two and half billion pounds worth of rent debt, and then there are other forms of debt that our businesses will have taken on through banks, through investors, through private equity, and that level of debt is going to take a long time to service. you're going to have to get very high levels of revenue back—up, and at the moment, trading under restrictions, we are not profitable, we are not breaking even, so you can't begin to pay down that debt, so it will lengthen the amount of time of the recovery that we had. many businesses, she said,

faced a huge burden of rent debt, with £2.5 billion coming due on the 1st ofjuly, and she called for the moratorium on court action over unpaid rent to be extended. so we urgently need those moratoriums extended. we are two weeks away from the next quarter rent day. we need that extending as a matter of urgency, and then we need the government to work with us, with lenders, landlords, leasees and investors to be able to get a solution to this rent debt, to have it rescheduled over a longer period of time, so that we don't avoid tripping up businesses and creating unnecessary insolvencies just at the point we start to exit the crisis. that appeal was supported by a senior figure from the retail industry. so there's another 2.5—3 billion of retail related rent debt. and we have had a number of conversations with government on this. so i know that both the business department and mhcrg are still considering what they may do.

are we facing a tsunami of cases of, sort of, - demand for this rent to be paid back immediately, i which willjust simply cause j businesses to go bankrupt? we got back that a third of our businesses are saying that a third of the premises, there is no concession, rent is being demanded in full the day the moratorium lifts, and i think, you know, the other thing to factor in is that most hospitality businesses are multi site and will have the multiplicity of landlords. so if you have 50 sites in your hospitality business, you have got probably 50 different landlords, and all it takes is one landlord to be recalcitrant and to not concede or not negotiate, and it could be enough to trigger insolvency across the whole of the estate. what we would see is a slow, sort of, chipping away of all of those decisions when a business that's got lots of sites, they are looking at their whole portfolio,

and they are deciding what to do with it, and the line between which stores they will keep open and which stores that they will keep closed will move depending on the outcome. so, it will be much more of a chip, chip, chipping away... it's more of a wave coming in rather than a tsunami i crashing over - everybody's heads. a what coming in? the waves coming in. the waves coming in, exactly. so it sort of looks like nothing is happening, and then suddenly, the tide has gone out. if you have still got restrictions in place and a quarter of hospitality businesses legally not able to open and the rest unable to trade profitably, i don't see how you can, in all good conscience, remove those protections of the moratoriums and expect to save...have the businesses sort it out themselves. how are businesses bouncing back so far? are people cautious about going back, or is it going quite well foryour members?

none of our businesses are profitable at the moment, none of the businesses that are open are trading above break even. table ordering, table service, those were new. they weren't there, table ordering wasn't there last july, so we are opening now with more restrictions than we had in place lastjuly. that is adding to staff costs. so we are running at about double our staff costs at the moment — table ordering adding a significant amount. whether we use more shops. going forward then we need to, will depend on, going back| to the moratorium decision that we talked about earlier, i so giving the space to business that need to renegotiate and what happens with i the business rates review. now, local children's services in kent say they are at breaking point, with the pressure increasing daily on their services in dealing with unaccompanied child migrants. kent county council has launched legal action against the government to deal with the issue. at question time, ministers faced a grilling on what they were doing to help stem the numbers of migrants of all ages being ferried towards the uk by gangs of people smugglers.

a home office minister tried to address their concerns. people smuggling is a wicked and vicious activity that puts lives at risk, indeed, a young family tragically drowned in the channel last autumn. we are prosecuting people who are involved in people smuggling. since the beginning of 2020, there have been 65 prosecutions related to small boat crossings for those people facilitating that sort of activity. we are now explicitly going after the people that drive these boats, and our objective is to prosecute as many of those wicked facilitators as we can get our hands on. sir edward. does the minister recognise the public anger at us being made fools of in this? border force is little more than a taxi service for illegal migrants. it's ridiculous. so will the minister assure me that he will use his powers

under the 1971 immigration act to arrest all illegal immigrants, put them in detention, prosecute them, imprison them, and deport them so that we can stop this horrible trade dead in its tracks? yeah, well, i completely share the honourable gentlemen�*s anger at the situation, and the home secretary and the prime minister does as well. as i say, we are actively prosecuting the facilitators and in the forthcoming sovereign borders bill as part of the new plan for immigration, we plan to significantly strengthen the section 2a illegal entry offence that he refers to in the 1971 act to make it easier to use and easier to implement in practice. and at the same time, we are going to be increasing the sentence for illegal entry. i'm sure the home secretary must share my frustration i and those of my constituentsl about the volume of migrants coming across the channel- by dinghy, often being escorted here in the process. when can she assure my. constituents that real action will be taken - to stop this flow? and will she introduce a regime whereby people who try-

and claim asylum, who come here from an already safe . country like france, _ will be automatically deported and sent back there, - because that will make a big difference in stopping them i from coming in the first place. well, i thank my honourable friend. mr speaker, my honourable friend has already made the case for a bill that has yet to be introduced into this parliament, which is the new plan for immigration, and that data is coming for introduction and second reading. but he is absolutely right. i mean, the british public are fed up. they are absolutely fed up and demoralise with what we have been seeing. and, of course, i have been very clear to my department, as i have been over the last 12 months, about operational activity from borderforce. i've actually asked the department now to urgently investigate the circumstances behind the very incidents of the weekend that had been reported. but fundamentally, my honourable friend makes an important point, which is people that are seeking to claim asylum should be claiming asylum in the first safe country, they should not be participating and making these dangerous crossings, which as we have already heard today, has led to the catastrophic and devastating loss of life

too many times. i asked the home secretary in february if she followed public health advice when putting people in large dormitories in the napier barracks in the middle of a pandemic. she told our committee that it was all based on public health england advice. "we have been following guidance in every single way." but last week, a damning courtjudgment said, "the bottom line is that the arrangements at the barracks were contrary to the advice of public health england, the precautions were completely inadequate to prevent the spread of covid. the outbreak was inevitable." so will the home secretary now correct the record and explain why she did not follow public health advice in the middle of a pandemic, putting people's health and lives at risk? hear, hear! well, mr speaker, first of all, let me be very clear to this house, that at every single stage, i have been clear about the need to protect public health and to stop

the spread of the virus, and that is in relation to the napier barracks that the right honourable lady is referring to. and, of course, in light of the judgements, we will study out and look at various measures that we may need to bring in. however, the department did work fully with public health england and i maintain that and i still maintain that point. and also, that comes to delivery and putting in place the wide range of covid compliant measures that were in place, and everyone in this house and across the country would expect that of the home office, that we were absolutely dealing with the pandemic in the right way, working with public health england and other stakeholders. now, practices such as cropping dogs�* ears and removing sharks�* fins have been condemned by mps during a debate on a series of animal welfare petitions presented to parliament. a conservative mp who's also a vet urged celebrities to do their bit to change attitudes. ear cropping is a cruel, horrific and unnecessary practice that is rightly illegal in the uk, but sadly,

there are increased reports of cropped dogs — with six in ten small animal that saying that they have seen cropped dogs in the last year, begging the question of not only increased imports, but also the horrific concept of the cropping being done illicitly here in the uk. celebrities and people in public life have a role to play here by not endorsing or promoting the ownership of cropped dogs. also in culture and media, we need to be careful. one of my favourite comes as disney pixar�*s "up", a touching and funny film cleaning the inspired phrase to describe a veterinary buster collar as the "cone of shame". but take a closer look at one of the dobermans in the cartoon film and it looks like it's years have been cropped and splintered. these subtle images normalise something in our psyches that we should be calling out is unacceptable. 0ne mp described using shark fins in soup as "toe—curling barbarism".

a once rare and frequently consumed dish for the chinese aristocracy to a macabre edible trinket of no nutritional value that i understand must be comprehensively seasoned before it even has a taste. the global demand for which of comes down to a chinese middle class has created a totem for conspicuous consumption and ultimate status symbol, resulting in a demand that is literally insatiable. there will never be enough sharks to sate the demand currently running at 73 million sharks annually. he hoped that shark fin soup would soon be consigned to history. and that was monday in parliament. thank you for watching. i do hope you canjoin me at the same time tomorrow for tuesday in parliament. until then, from me, david cornock, bye for now.

hello there. it's been a warm start to the new week. quite a bit of cloud around on monday, but i think certainly for today, it's looking sunnier across the board. it's going to stay warm for the rest of this week, and in fact, we're going to start to import some tropical air across the country, so it's going to feel quite humid. there will be further patchy cloud and rain across northern and western areas, as low pressure will always be nearby. and that's certainly the setup into tuesday, higher pressure to the south, lower pressure to the northwest, so it does mean we'll start off rather grey for much of scotland and northern ireland, through this morning, some patchy, light rain and drizzle. but conditions will start to improve for northern ireland — skies brightening up here and across northeast scotland. elsewhere, after a bit of early cloud and mist, there's going to be a sunny day, and it's going to feel warmer with more sunshine around. we could see 25 degrees across south east england, 22 or 23 for the northeast of scotland. there could be just the odd shower here and there, but most places will be dry. now, as we head

through tuesday night, we'll see further cloud returning to scotland and northern ireland. patchy rain here, some coastal fog, too. further south, and it's drier with clearer skies, and we'll start to see some humid air being imported from the southwest, so everywhere staying in low teens celsius. on wednesday, we'll have high pressure to the south, lower pressure to the northwest with these weather fronts, and the orientation of these pressures will draw up this warm and humid airfrom the tropics, so it really will be quite noticeable on wednesday. again, rather grey across parts of scotland and northern ireland, perhaps western england and wales. best of the sunshine further south and east. could see a little bit of light rain and drizzle over western hills, but it's going to feel warm, particularly when you factor in the humidity. could see highs of 26 degrees on wednesday in the sunshine. if you add the humidity to that, it's going to feel even warmer than the temperatures suggest. thursday's another warm and humid day. perhaps a bit more cloud across the board. patchy rain for northwestern parts of scotland and northern ireland. bit more cloud for england and wales, but some sunny spells here and there. most places across england and wales should stay dry, but it'll be a bit

breezier across the board. windier in the far northwest of scotland, where we'll have most of the rain. but you can see, it is another warm day. low to mid 20s celsius for england and wales. factor in the humidity, of course, it's going to feel warmer than that, and nights are also going to be warm and muggy. could see something a little bit fresher across scotland, northern ireland on friday. otherwise, it's going to remain warm with some sunshine into the weekend.

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