paul maynard was also the minister to answer more hs2 criticism from a former tory cabinet minister.igh—speed rail but deliver it better than with a project that at the moment at least will cost roughly double what its perpetrators say it would cost, and whose route is designed only for speed but whose justification is about capacity? and don't the substantial delays in the delivery of hs2 we can fatally be argument against taking the time to find a better way to deliver high—speed rail? always with some very interesting comments on hsz. as i listen to radio two in the morning, that was not covered in their news bulletin, however. paul maynard there, joking that he hadn't heard the latest hs2 news stories becase he listens to radio two over breakfast! in the lords, peers raised the plight of british nationals stuck in china because of an outbreak of the deadly coronavirus. the britons had been hoping to return to the uk, but were grounded when the chinese authorities refused to let their plane leave. as a precaution, we are asking anyone in the uk who has returned from wuhan in the l

paul maynard. you're watching tuesday in parliament with me, david cornock.ur daily round—up from westminster you can catch up via the bbc iplayer. ministers have come under pressure to reverse cuts to legal a, but question time in the comments showed labour's shadow justice secretary said legal a human right and they referred to the un report on poverty in britain by the special rapporteur. what people need as a basic right from the government ‘s action, not words. the un special raconteur said these cuts overly affected the poor and disabled people —— raconteur. labour is calling for a return to all legal a funded advice and this would be a lifeline to the single mother standing up to the lousy landlord, the workers standing up to a bullying boss or the migrants fighting cruel home office policies. doesn't it say everything about whose side the government is on that it is deliberately preventing these people from defending their hard—won rights? mr speaker, rights? mrspeaker, ido rights? mr speaker, i do not accept that and igo mr speaker, i do not accept t

that is paul maynard, the transport minister, answering an urgent question in the house of commons onfifth of adults in england and wales experienced some form of abuse when they were under 16. it also found that 3.1 million 18—74 year olds were victims of sexual abuse before the age of 16. that number equates to about! in 13, or roughly 8% of adults in england and wales. 52% of those who experienced abuse as a child went on to be abused as an adult, while four in ten adults who experienced abuse as a child experienced multiple different forms of abuse — be it emotional, physical, sexual or domestic. meghan elkin is head of the crime team at the office for national statistics and spoke to me earlier. so the report today has been the result of collaborating with a range of organisations, as well as using the crime survey for england and wales and bringing that range of data sources together in order to produce a more rounded picture about what can know about the extent and nature of child abuse. where does that leave us, with these figures. it is an extraordinary statistic that one in