we welcome any new powers as well for sir wyn and the review of scope.sses to give testimony under oath and to force the post office to hand over documents. can the minister can firmness and will that power apply to any other entity or organisation from which evidence is sought? whilst the terms of reference have been updated, they do not seem to reflect the issues raised by my onward friend, the memberfor newcastle central previously. for example, pomp —— compensation seems to be out of the scope of the enquiry. why? and who has been consulted in the revised terms of reference? fujitsu were the ones who provided the faulty software and an independent investigation second site drew attention to this as far back as 2013 that the government don't appear to be doing anything to hold anyone to account. instead the software has been renewed and they have rewarded fujitsu with a new £a2 million contract, so will ongoing government contracts be reviewed? the leader of the post office during this time was honoured with a cbe along with a long list of others. is

the independent inquiry into the post office computer scandal, led by sir wyn williams, will be givenruling at the court of appeal exonerated 39 of the hundreds of sub—postmasters and sub—postmistresses prosecuted by the post office for stealing money — cases based on faulty it evidence. some even went to prison. the landmark court of appeal judgement changed the context for the inquiry. following it, the government did not hesitate to act to give the inquiry more teeth and to equip sir wyn to affected postmasters and their families, madame deputy speaker, my message is this — we are listening, and we will get to the bottom of this appalling affair. but less than a month ago, in this chamber, four days after the court of appeals appealed the decision, the minister rejected calls for a statutory inquiry on the grounds that it would take three, four or five years. so can he tell us what actually has happened in this period to change his mind? paul scully didn't answer that point, but said the inquiry would report in autumn next year. labour has called on the government to set a deadline

in september, the government announced an enquiry under ex—high courtjudge sir wyn williams, but chik into the affair. while we have the greatest respect for sir wyn williams, his enquiry has no real powers and key questions about compensation, the criminal prosecutions of postmasters and the responsibility of civil servants and government are outside its remit. as such, the enquiry is toothless and may even lead to a whitewash. there's a statutory enquiries under the inquiries act 2015 — 2005, the average length of a statutory enquiry has been 3 — nearly 3.5 years. 3.5 years is a long time. we want to make sure that we get the answers now. the minister stated that the chair of post office ltd has apologised, but i note with regret there is no direct apology from this government. yet again, this government is acting as though the post office has absolutely nothing to do with them. can i remind the minister that the government is the single shareholder of post office ltd and civil servants should serve on the board and therefore, it must apologise. in fact, the prime minister should a

the business minister explained why he was strengthening the inquiry under sir wyn williams. to act and equip him with more powers. two effective postmasters and their families, my messages this. we are listening and we get into the bottom of this appalling affair. four days after the court of appeals appealed the decision. the minister rejected calls for statutory inquiry on the grounds that it would take three, four or five years. can he tell us what actually has happened in this period to change his mind? paul scully didn't answer that question. but he said the inquiry would now report in autumn 2022. mps on the transport committee have been trying to find out whether smart motorways are safe. these roads use technology and other measures such as opening the hard shoulder to cut congestion. but there are fears about their safety after fatal accidents involving stationary cars being hit from behind. the mps are looking at whether smart motorways in england should be scrapped or whether they need better safety measures. the committee took evidence from industry experts. wher

. >> so what political theater is in terms of the biden administration, just wynning the favor of thetheorist you know waving the protection won't manufacturer other vaccines because there's other problems like there's no factories necessarily equip to manufacturer the vaccines there's a global limit to the materials needed to make these vaccines and other limitations, is that part of the theater you're talking about >> it is i think waving intellectual property rights -- you don't snap your fingernd have a plan the that produced mrna vaccines, you know as you said there's not an artificial supply constraint today, it's about high-quality manufacturing to gmp standards, it's about raw material supply and finish in a sterile environment. there's a lot of technically complex things here that are not going to be solved just by waving intellectual property the u.s. government wanted to assist in providing these vaccines to poorer countries they should have helped to invest in manufacturing here in the united states, created jobs here in the united states and we could have supplied those v

weatherman 0wain wyn evans tries to explain. hello.ulation that he was filmed taking drugs. eric cantona willjoin us for a chat at 8:30am. he's written and narrated a new documentary about his glorious spell at manchester united. and we have a very special reunion for you this morning. rob burrow, stephen darby and doddie weir gave it everything on the rugby and football pitch. now they're helping each other through the many challenges of motor neurone disease — and they've just met up in person for the first time in more than a year. we're now just four weeks away from june 21st when england is due to drop its covid restrictions, and the health secretary matt hancock has said he's "increasingly confident" it will go ahead as planned. 0ptimism has also been boosted by a public health england study, which found two doses of either the pfizer or astrazeneca vaccine were highly effective against the indian variant. let's take a moment to reflect on those developments with one of our regular gps — dr nighat arif. what actually are monday m

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