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now on bbc news, it's time to monday in parliament. hello again, and welcome to monday in parliament. as the new health secretary looks forward to the end of covid rules. for me, the 19th ofjuly is not only the end of the line, but the start of an exciting new journey for our country. mps want to know how his predecessor matt hancock was filmed by a camera in his own office. i can confirm the department of health and social care has launched an investigation, and that is supported as appropriate by the government security group. the secretary of state knew it was there, and yet, - we have all seen the video. i mean, if that's true, i he must be the stupidest man on earth.

also in this programme, a defence minister apologises after secret military documents are found in kent. there was certainly something of faintly sub discovery of these documents behind a bus stop in the garden of england. but first, the new health secretary has told mps that covid restrictions in england are still set to be lifted onjuly the 19th and that ministers see no reason to go beyond that target date. sajid javid was appointed on saturday to replace matt hancock, who resigned after he was filmed breaking social distancing rules with an adviser. having visited a hospital opposite parliament, the new health secretary came to the commons to make a statement. but if mps thought he was about to announce the early lifting of restrictions, they were to be disappointed. mr deputy speaker, there remains a big task ahead of us to restore our freedoms,

freedoms that — save the greatest of circumstances — no government should ever wish to curtail. so my task is to help return the economic and cultural life that makes this country so great, while, of course, protecting life and our nhs. whilst we decided not to bring forward step four, we see no reason to go beyond the 19th ofjuly. because in truth, no date we choose comes with zero risk for covid. we know we cannot simply eliminate it, we have to learn to live with it. we also know that people and businesses need certainty, so we want every step to be irreversible. labour and the snp both sounded warnings. now, today, he's let it be known that july the 19th reopening will effectively go ahead.

he told the news this morning that there is no going back, that lifting restrictions will be irreversible. well a word to the wise, mr deputy speaker. i've responded to a lot of these statements these last 15 months. i remember ministers telling us there was nothing in the data to suggest june the 21st wouldn't go ahead. i remember children returning to school for one day before the january lockdown. i remember, "it will all be over by christmas." now, i want to see an end to restrictions. our constituents want to see an end to restrictions, but i hope his confidence today aboutjuly 19 does not prove somewhat premature or even, dare i say it, hubristic. while vaccines are reducing the likelihood of hospitalisation, i lcases are rising exponentially, | so does he recognised thatjust allowing the current surge | to go unchecked would put pressure on the nhs and run the risk of even more - infectious or vaccine - resistant variants emerging.

can my right honourable friend confirmed that the 19th ofjuly will mark the end of the road map out of lockdown and that "terminus" means the end of the line, not an interchange, and that it is his intention that all restrictions will be lifted on that date? it is absolutely our intention to have that step four commence on the 19th ofjuly and remove restrictions and start returning to normal. she's asked me specifically about all restrictions, which restrictions, that is certainly our intention to remove restrictions, but as we follow that data in the coming days, we will set out more in due course. the secretary of state will be aware that during the course | of the pandemic, well- in excess of 40,000 people lost their lives to covid in - care homes, and the protective ring his predecessor talked about being in place - at the start of the pandemic went in far too late. - so will he help his boss -

to make good on his promise of almost two years ago on social care reforms? | there was cross party concern over education. one of the vectors here of the current increase, the surge in cases, is being the rise in cases in schools, on the 17th ofjune, we had a quarter of a million pupils away from school. what steps does he think needs to be taken to address the decline in the number of tests being carried out in schools? does he think that the wearing of masks should become mandatory? the point he is rightly, i think, making is that when we are asking children not to be in school for these reasons to try and control infections, that it's having a huge impact, a knock on impact on the education. that's something that none of us want to see. just on this issue, i have already asked for fresh advice from my department, and it's something that i intend to discuss at my right honourable friend, the education secretary,

to see what more we can do. estimates suggest that - a quarter of a million children are missing school today due to precautionary isolations, i the vast majority of them - sequential due to the bubbles they are caught in. ten days of isolation is been. unavoidable under the current rules, even with - a negative pcr test. haven't our young - people suffered enough? this is a very important issue, and something i have focused on on day one on the job, that's why i have asked for fresh advice on this. as he knows, this decision was made with the data that was available at the time. clearly, data is changing all the time, and we must make sure that we keep that under review. tory lockdown sceptics looked to the future. there are those in government from documents i have seen who are preparing the ground for the return of restrictions in the autumn and the winter. can i ask my right honourable friend to rule out the use of lockdowns and restrictions in the winter as a mechanism for managing covid and look at alternatives to make sure

the nhs is able to deal with us getting back to normal. when it comes to restrictions, he should know that it's my intention, the government's intention, as i have said, i think from day one on this job, is to remove all restrictions as quickly as possible. now that thousands of people l are allowed to gather together at a football match and shout - and cheer as much as they want, isn't it time that we allow - congregations in church to sing hymns together if they want to? i can tell my right honourable friend that i... that's certainly what i would like to see, and that is certainly my intention to allow that to happen as soon as possible, and when it does, i hope we can sing a hymn together. sajid javid in harmony with some of his backbenchers there. mps have expressed concern

and surprise over the existence of a camera in the office where the former health secretary and his aide were filmed kissing. opposition mps have also challenged the government over further newspaper revelations that matt hancock had potentially breached guidelines by using his personal email account for goverment business. called to the commons to answer an urgent question, a ministersaid an investigation had been launched. given the public interest in this case, i can confirm the department of health and social care has launched an investigation, and that is supported as appropriate by the government's security group based in the cabinet office. until this investigation is complete, mr speaker, it would be inappropriate to give further details, and i am sorry to all the members who will be understandably seeking a lot of details on this matter. as for the use of a private email service, she said government devices should be used for communicating classified information. other forms of electronic communication may be used in the course of conducting

government business, but each minister is responsible for ensuring that government information is handled in a secure way. the conservative who put down the urgent question remained concerned. it is totally unacceptable for private conversations between ministers, civil servants, members of parliament and members of the public to be secretly recorded. my understanding in this case was this was a cctv camera operated by the department of health, which is why it is being investigated by the department of health. we do not believe there are covert concerns at this moment. the government minister is saying that the camerai in the secretary of state's office was not covert. - in other words, the secretary of state knew it was there, . and yet, we have i all seen the video. i mean, if that's true, i he must be the stupidest man on earth. is she really trying - to persuade us that he knew that there was a camera in his office? _

when he had other meetings with other ministers, - were they informed that the - meetings were being recorded? i'm afraid it's for the department of health to account for themselves when it comes to what happened there. they have already conducted an investigation which we will want to look back at. does the minister think that it would be made much easier for everyone as the department of health starts this investigation if the, let's remember profit—making media organisation involved here, simply made it clear how they were able to see inside a senior government minister's office? i thank him for his very poignant and important question and i hope through the course of the investigation the department is leading that some of these answers will come through so that we can scrutinise them ourselves. questioning then returned to the reports of ministers using their private email accounts for government business. the justice secretary- agreed that private e—mail was a huge security issue. he admitted that this revelation does raise|

legitimate questions. on this, he is right. now it is time to answer those questions. - will they refer themselves - to the information commissioner so that a genuinely independent investigation can take place? i if any ministers have used i private email for government business, what action will be taken and what will be done i to prevent it happening again? my understanding is if a public authority, and clearly the secretary of state the public authority, uses a private enough for government business, then that private e—mail and those e—mails are subject to the freedom of information act, and the destruction of any e—mails in order to prevent them being disclosed would actually be a criminal offence. that information, i think, i will obviously be of some reassurance to people. i can confirm that officcal information held in private e—mail accounts is subject to foa. the public are entitled -

to transparency over issues raised over things i like private e—mails. our government already hasl answers to give to the nation on the prime minister's flat, l the donors, tax breaks by text and unlawful contracts l to associates, so would the ministers agree that our. government's murky dealings are the real sordid affairsl that the public should see a light shown on? the minister replied that there had already been a number of investigations into allegations. there are processes in place that people went through. there are a number of other challenges we face in the height of the pandemic which i have been candid about in westminster hall and in other places, but the public should be assured that the money has been spent with care. julia lopez. you're watching monday in parliament with me, david cornock. don't forget if you miss one of our programmes orjust want to watch it again you can catch up via the bbc iplayer. well, matt hancock may have resigned as health secretary but his team of ministers remains unchanged. it was notable then that when a question was asked

in the lords about care home residents, lord bethell, wasn't there to reply. of lady penn, who's a whip that is, one of the conservative business managers was at the despatch box instead. a labour peer wondered why. the noble lady, the minister is doing a very excellentjob answering the questions and it does raise the question as to why the minister responsible, lord bethell, is in hiding. is it because unlike the noble lady, he is one of the guilty people responsible for the care home scandal? or may be is it because of his links with gina? my lords, i think given the number of times that my noble friend has appeared at this dispatch box to answer questions from noble lords during this pandemic, his question is without any merit and i'm sure he will welcome the fact that he will see my noble friend at this dispatch box two or three times tomorrow. lady penn. a defence minister has apologised after secret

military documents were found at a bus stop in kent. an investigation is under way into what happened to the papers, which included information on hms defender�*s mission last week in the black sea. jeremy quin said the loss of the documents appeared to be "a mistake". a number of ministry defense classified documents work lost by a senior official early last week. upon realising the loss of documents, the individual self reported on tuesday the 22nd ofjune. the documents lost including the paper that was secret uk eyes only. the documents were found by a member of public at a bus stop in kent. the member of the public then handed in the papers to the bbc. the minister of defence has launched a full investigation. the papers have now been recovered from the bbc and are being assessed as i speak. to check that all documents missing have been recovered and what mitigation actions

might be necessary. the sensitive mod documents found behind a bus stop in kent last tuesday morning is certainly embarrassing for ministers but it is deeply worrying for those concerned with our national security. our front line forces on hms defender mr speaker, were totally professional in dealing with aggressive russian actions in the black sea last week. but they must be asking what about our back up at the mod when top—secret documents about their mission, ahead of their mission, found their way to the back of this bus stop in kent. there was something - of self—discovery of these documents behind a bus stop in the garden of england - and i don't think we can help. but notice the general context too. these documents were discovered in the same week as a more - serious security breach that i of a confidential cctv images from whitehall ministry which leave many of us| uncertain and distrustful of.

the motives of those involved. the whole thing reminds me i of when my favourite quotes. cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment, - while respectable gentlemenl have been moved to appalling treachery of watery cabbage in a departmental canteen. i it appears it's a mistake made by an individual and it's important that one gets on top of that mistake and what can be learned and how we can help that such mistakes do not happen again. i'm here to speak about this particular incident and i think an urgent question follows this one on other issues. but i appreciate the concern of the honourable gentleman. i know it's genuinely intended. i'm very sorry this incident has happened and the investigation will be thorough. because of the nature of my constituents, i rarely speak about defence matters but i cannot begin to tell that house how angry i am that this civil servant or whoever it was that scattered papers, put the lives of 190 personnel

at risk on hms defender. if you go, mr speaker to a military funeral, you will appreciate as i'm sure you do, how precious our service personnel are and i want the minister, if he possibly can, to confirm to the house that the punishment for this sort of breach of security will match the risk that those people on hms defender were put at by their stupidity and incompetence. the commander of the grand fleet, all documents pertaining to what the fleet was doing were kept totally confidential to the ministry of defence and never ever left the building. so, hopefully inquiry will pick up what happened here. this isn't the first time there's been a security breach. it is the third time in six months and the minister said in his remarks that there are policies and procedures in place to secure documents leaving but clearly there are policies and procedures there are inadequate and not working.

recent incidents suggest that they do have some difficulty in safeguarding the nation secrets. aside from the loss of documents that would also been a deliberate act in removing pink paper from a secure area. can the minister please confirm that when the culprit is proven to be negligent, that he or she is invited to walk the plank? the minister said he understood the concern over the issue. i think it's important that we have the investigation and we will find out exactly who is at fault here. that also includes an examination of our policies and procedures to make sure that they are fit for purpose. jeremy quin. the eu's chief brexit negotiator says he is "confident" a solution can be found in the next 48 hours over a possible ban on chilled meat products from great britain being sold in northern ireland.

maros sefcovic, who's vice president of the european commission, was appearing before a committee of mlas. products such as sausages were due to be prohibited from thursday as a result of the northern ireland protocol part of the brexit deal that creates a border in the irish sea. but maros sefcovic�*s confidence didn't satisfy everyone at stormont. what does she think with less than 48 hours to go to either helpful or respectful to the people of northern ireland that the european union has still allowed the movement of chilled meat products coming into our own country? first, i welcome the fact that the commission vice president maros sefcovic is meeting with them today and a very good exchange, i believe, over a considerable period of time and i hope that within the conversation, there was a balance put on the fact that the protocol is mitigation, the protocol is the best effort we have against the worst excesses of brexit and i think that

maros sefcovic would have an opportunity to hear from all of the other and i welcome the fact also that there is an indication that in terms of the extension for the chilled meats that there's going be a positive response there so that is good. but what we need here is his longer—term solutions and i hope that we can find the solutions in the period ahead. michelle o'neill. in the lords, there was a call for covid—19 test and trace services to be "wound down" so funds could be diverted to deal with the growing nhs waiting lists. this morning, it was announced that there was a new contract with the health and social care worth up to 322 million to continue providing covid—19 test and trace services. i would like to ask the noble lady and the minister to justify this just days after the review found that 600 million tests were unaccounted and the £22 billion scheme was still missing targets and i quote, it's racked with problems.

can the noble lady explain why more taxpayers money has been handed out towards what has been an ineffective and inefficient company instead of supporting local public health teams to do this work? well, my lords, over80% of the budget for test and trace go towards the testing part of that programme and that has proved to be highly effective and the programme also is working to increase its partnership with local authorities, with local directors of public health and we are also reducing our reliance on the private sector down by around 17%. but we also recognise the work that those partners have done with us in terms of building up the system over the past year and continuing to work with them where it's in the best interest of the country. economy efficiency and effectiveness in

the national audit office and public accountance committees in measures of competence in public expenditure. on economy, does the government regard the 22 billion budget and track and trace. good value for money. on efficiency, it is the response rate of 14% on 700 million kits an efficient use of resource? and on effectiveness, don't european calls for the quarantining of uk tourists suggest a total lack of confidence in our tracing systems here in the united kingdom? well, my lords, the noble lord is correct that the government allocated £22 billion in the last financial year and over 80% of that has been allocated to testing but he is right that we have sought opportunities to drive down costs where possible and free up resources and so we have taken a number of steps to reduce costs to relieve {2.2 billion of savings and technological advancements.

the latest variant is pretty mild. the deaths have gone right down but we are spending billions of pounds on this while there are huge waiting lists building up in the nhs. is it not about time that this programme was wound down and the money was spent on the millions of delayed operations and procedures? my lords, we are looking at the evidence in relation to the variant and in relation to the effectiveness of the vaccine against the variant all the time. but can i reassure my noble friend that additional resources have already gone into the nhs to catch up on those waiting lists which have grown because of the pandemic. can also say to them that if we were get this wrong and there were increased admissions in the hospitals to the covid—19, we would not be able to make the progress that he and we all want to see

on tackling those waiting lists. finally, mps have demanded the government acts urgently to make it compulsory for vets to scan pets�* microchips before they treat animals or put them down. hundreds of thousands of people have signed petitions to tighten up the rules. it's impossible to overstate the importance of the urgent action required on this matter. the pandemic has seen a surge in pet ownership with over 3 million pets since the start of the first lockdown, most of them cats and dogs. for this rising demand has tragically been accompanied by an unprecedented rise in pet theft too. if we add this to the picture that 99% of pet owners consider the pets to be family members, and get only one in five stolen pets or ever return to their families, we see immense distress in the gaps distinct and worrying lack of microchip and scanning is causing to families.

a minister said the government would consider the responses to a consultation before putting forward proposals in the autumn. the veterinary profession recommends that they scan cats and dogs on first presentation to make sure that the animal is correctly identified when checked against the database. and they recommend that regular checkups, this is done again. where the checks was a concern that the animal might've been stolen has procedures in place handle this. all of us have a shared goal to reunite pets with their owners. victoria prentis. 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. best place for the drier and sunnier weather during the first part of this week certainly in scotland and northern ireland. over the blue skies out in the highlands on monday, temperatures lift to a very pleasant 25 celsius. and we will see similar sorts of temperatures in southern scotland on tuesday. england and wales, though, it has been a different story. lots more cloud. and into tuesday, the same area of low pressure that brought the cloud on monday revolving around. it keeps the temperatures up as we start the day. so, again, mid—teens, quite a humid start, whereas clearer skies into scotland, northern ireland, northern england. single—figure temperatures to start the day. but here, some sunny spells, but a few changes. bit more cloud to the north and the west of scotland, later into northern ireland, drifting in. a damp start for parts of northwest england, wales and the southwest, but brightening up here to sunny spells. but through the midlands, east anglia and other southern counties of england, the cloud will be there, always the threat

of some showers, maybe the odd heavy and thundery one, and cooler to east anglia and the southeast in recent days. cumbria and across parts of western scotland, 211—25 celsius possible. so, for wimbledon on tuesday, it will be cooler. there will be plenty of cloud, but i can't promise it will stay dry. we're likely to see showers develop in the nearby areas, which could come along. same, too, at wembley. always the chance of some outbreaks of rain as we head into the evening for england's match against germany. and where the showers do form, there is still the chance of the odd rumble of thunder. showers continue into tuesday night across parts of the southeast in particular, as well as east anglia. more of a breeze down those eastern coasts, feeding lots of low cloud in further and further westwards. temperatures for most, though, in double figures. not as chilly a night for scotland and northern ireland. but on wednesday, we will have a lot more low cloud around to the north and the east of the country, so a bit of a grey day. still the chance of some rain across east anglia and the southeast, but for many, it will be dry. sunshine will develop more widely towards the west, but because of that cloudier start, it will feel a bit cooler across parts of scotland and northwest england. then, as we go through wednesday into thursday, our area of low pressure starts to pull away,

but it mayjust be close enough to throw in some influence still towards east anglia and the southeast for thursday. high pressure in the north and the west. a lot more sunshine once again more widely. but eastern counties of england, that cloud, a bit of a breeze, and for east anglia and the southeast, there could be still the chance of a few showers. temperatures at their highest in western areas, at around 21—24 celsius. and then through the rest of the week, it looks like by the weekend, showers will develop more widely. see you soon.

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