cabinet office minister made it clear he would release the papers labour was asking for to the public accounts committeepowers to require the government to supply it with papers. and whether or not this motion passes this evening, it is my intention to share with the committee of public accounts as i reasonably can. that will help them with their inquiries. and he defended the use of outsourcing. he resorted to ideology, instead of looking at the people, our constituents actually use the services. and who benefit from the better value for money, the —— and who benefit from the better value for money, the innovative quality, that private—sector contractors are able to bring and have brought successfully to that work. well when it came to the end of the debate the motion did pass, and afterwards, mps wanted to know what would happen now. ijust wanted to confirm that the motion that we‘ve just had a has actually been passed unanimously. but if this is the case, have you received any indication from the government as to when the public accounts committee will be provided with the relevant report? thank you.

someone from the public accounts committee hasjoined us. ave an overpayment and as they are transferred on to universal credit, there is a risk that overpayment follows them and the department for work & pensions, who administer universal credit, have much greater powers when it comes to recovery of money by way of overpayment. they can take money directly from your earnings, which isa very directly from your earnings, which is a very different approach to what hmrc currently have in relation to tax credits. we were concerned that this might fall through between two different government departments and there has not been a conversation between both of those as to how they will work together to migrate claimants. my particular concern is a constituency mp, was a lot of constituents on tax credits, they might find that they are pushed further into poverty when they move into universal credit through no fault of their own. one of the important thing is universal credit, brendan‘s topic is fattening, —— fascinating, clearly there should be much

a 2014 report by the public accounts committee recommended open book accounting to help scrutiny, greatertter information on contracts and their performance, focus on encouraging new and smaller entrance in to boost competition, investment in developing cabinet office and departmental expertise, and, crucially, contingency plans on all contracts, should a supplier failed. a follow up by the committee chaired by meg hillier in 2016 called the pace of change disappointing. we see repeatedly the same things, failure of contract letting, failure of contract management and companies that promised more than they can deliver for the price. really, there is still a very long way for government to go. the system isn't working. there are too few large companies bidding for the contracts. they get good at bidding, but there is no guarantee that being good at bidding is good at running the service. but companies in the sector would agree that change is needed. years of austerity and the drive to cut costs has put the sector under pressure. this chart shows operating profit margins for the uk construc

a public accounts committee report said the programme, which includes two new carriers costing 6 billion the mod said that it was committed to keeping costs down. the british author peter mayle, who wrote a year in provence has died, aged 78. the book, published in 1989, told the story of his first year as a british expat in a village in the south of france. in 2002, the french government awarded him a knight of the legion of honourfor his contributions to culture. the crew of an antarctic research expedition has a new team member. the scientists were out collecting water samples, when up popped an adelie penguin. the curious bird had a quick look around, decided it wasn't for him, and jumped back in to the icy water. the crew was from the australian antarctic program. why not? what a lovely visit! a temporary crewmember. it was like a bus in the old days, you jump on and youjump off again. bus in the old days, you jump on and you jump off again. yeah, that his fare. do you know what i'm talking about or not? it is going to be one of those mornings, isn't it? can you feel that? so you ha

bim afolami, on the public accounts committee behind today's report. welcome to you all.hat i was being asked to do on a daily basis. asked to do on a daily basis. tell the audience about your workload. the audience about your workload. but the amount of time and energy that takes out of you as a person. that takes out of you as a person. commitments you have are going to go down the drain for a while. down the drain for a while. choice between having a life or a career. career. aren't most people working really long hours? really long hours? professions, i can tell you teachers are exhausted and on their knees. are exhausted and on their knees. department for education as "failed to get a grip on teacher retention". to get a grip on teacher retention". workload, as lucy said, and other issues like housing costs. issues like housing costs. why has the government failed in this area? the government failed in this area? teachers compared to retaining the ones we have. ones we have. 250,000 trained teachers out there who are not teaching. who are not teaching. resources that

this is the public accounts committee in february. and homelessness". are they wrong?are in place. we do expect people to comply with those conditions. it is appropriate to have a sanction. and you don't change behaviour. david finch is from the resolution foundation. living standards in the uk as it is rolled out. the system is "fair". one million people in work could still face being sanctioned? still face being sanctioned? there are two sides of this. are two sides of this. sanctioning, but the support that can bring to low paid people. can bring to low paid people. the uk we have got a big low pay problem in the labour market. problem in the labour market. fifth of low paid workers are in the uk. uk. provide some form of support to people who are in work. people who are in work. support right and you don't end up with a kind of unfair system. 0k. doesn't sound like you're that worried then. would that be fair? there is reason to be positive. this at the moment and it will be hard to get the process right. hard to get the process right. them more into work and get i

mp's — the committee which would trigger any leadership contest — and also a member of the public accounts committeeegotiations. welcome to both of you. john redwood, what is the problem as far as you are concerned? no problem. i ama as you are concerned? no problem. i am a strong supporter of theresa may andi am a strong supporter of theresa may and i want her to do good deal over britain. we have been pleasant and friendly in responding to their agenda and not ours. now we need to say to them, are you serious about the free trade deal and do you want a comprehensive partnership question of if so, say yes. everything has a sequence. of if so, say yes. everything has a sequence. the government decided to follow the eu sequence. the eu has discussed all the things they wanted to discuss and it is our terms and we need to be very fair and say, look, we're very interested in a full partnership and we will extend free trade to you without the wto tariffs, if that is what you would like if you are not prepared to sit down and sorted out in the next year, we will leave without an agreement. some people wa

a public accounts committee report said the programme, which includes two new carriers costing £6 billioncostly. the mod said that it was committed to keeping costs down. new zealand prime ministerjacinda ardern has announced that she is pregnant. ms ardern said she and her partner, clarke gayford, were expecting their child in june, after which she planned to take a six—week break. ms ardern is now set to be the second elected world leader to give birth while in office — and the first to do so in almost 30 years. winds from a storm across northern europe reached up to 200 kilometres per hour causing severe disruption to travel and plunging thousands of homes into darkness. a car has ploughed into crowds close to copacabana beach in brazil, killing a baby and injuring a dozen more people. eyewitnesses said the car went over a bicycle path and across the promenade, hitting people and crashing through the tables and chairs of a cafe. the driver, who was detained, had an epileptic fit at the wheel, and drugs to treat the condition were found by police in the vehicle, reports say. the duratio

a public accounts committee report said the programme, which includes two new carriers costing £6 billion ntly bridge. the foreign secretary has apparently floated the idea of building a 22 mile bridge across the english channel, linking the uk and france by road. that the channel tunnel could be just the first step, borisjohnson reportedly raised the idea for a new link between the two countries during a summit with the french president yesterday. 22 miles sounds like an overly ambitious idea for a road bridge, sounds like an overly ambitious idea fora road bridge, but sounds like an overly ambitious idea for a road bridge, but there are already a number of overseas bridges around the world which are even longer. do take a look at these poor prove. this is the late pontiff can cause weight near new orleans. up until eight years ago it was the longest oversee that act over water bridge in the world. 24 miles long. that prospect to the post in 2011 when the bridge in china was finished, an incredible 26 miles. it took 10,000 people for years to complete. somewhat closer to home, i have bee

and major scandal is brewing and i think the public accounts committee will want to look at this in dueng huge co ntra cts to grayling was given giving huge contracts to carillon after those p°p‘up contracts to carillon after those pop—up warnings. at the time people got this was a very unwise proceeding and it has turned out to be disastrous. what will happen is all of those contracts will need to be renegotiated and the taxpayer will pick up a bigger tab for it. these are big questions to answer. these are big questions to answer. the immediate issue today is what will happen to the services, the school meals service is, the hospitals and prisons, the service back carillon provides. it is important that the government is pragmatic about this. it is the best way to provide these services is for them to be provided by the government itself, taking on the star previously employed by carillon, it should do that. the big concern about this is that the government has such a blind spot about having public sector involvement in the services that it may just have involvement in the services th

public. >> what we want is all of this information to come out so that transparency can reign supreme and accountability can occur. >> this committee voted to put the president's personal interest, perhaps their own political interest above the national interest. >> the justice department opposes releasing the memo and some officials warn it will harm national security. >>> new at 11:00, a beloved cafe that's been serving the people on the peninsula for 30 years is closing its doors. it's on an historic site. the owner says the new development happening around around it is forcing them to shut down. janine with the story. >> reporter: when we first drove up here, it was really hard to actually find the depot cafe with all this construction that you see. the owner says that that's really part of the reason why it's closing. inside the depot cafe it's very homey. eggs and bacon are being conserved while being warmed by the fireplace and all around you are trained, hundreds of pictures fitting for the train at the san carlos train station. >> it means a lot. my family and children came here. we've been coming here for probably about 3

the select committee has decided this morning to invite the director general of the bbc to account for the actions of the bbc on gender pay since the publication important to see what progress they've made and what progress needs to be made. does he agree with me that this whole thing underlines why we were right to insist on full disclosure of top pay notjust for executives, but for on—screen talent as well. i strongly agree with the chair of the select committee and i welcome his committee's scrutiny of this. i would say this — the bbc resisted these transparency measures and now we're starting to see why. the laws need the equality and human rights commission to act and to act quickly. why is it that despite overwhelming evidence that has been in the public domain for more than six months has the ehrc failed to intervene on the bbc and has been placated by a bbc—funded internal review, which has clearly not tackled the problem. as a publicly funded institution, the bbc has to be both transparent and accountable, and that the existence of this secret gender pay gap within the corporation shows that it has been anything but. perhaps that woul

accountability act, a shocking idea, that that tissue that bad employees should be fired. throughout public oversight of our committees or in my own golden fleece awards that we demand accountability of the personnel of the federal government and common sense in the application of our policies. howard recalls the u.s. open golf championship back in 2011 out at bethesda, maryland, when county officials shut down a children's lemonade stand near the course because it didn't have a vendor's license, mr. speaker. so this mindless box checking approach is not limited just to the beltway's federal mandarins. so enters president trump, our new president. last year i wrote then-president-elect trump asking him to create a regulatory relief task force tie dress the overly burdensome regulations from our federal agencies that in my view has hurt over the past decade our economic growth, our job growth, our productivity and hence our wage growth. in february of 2017, president trump ordered federal agencies to create a regulatory reform task force tie dent fi rules within their agency that needed he imnation or modification. i r

the committee decided this morning we will invite the director—general of the bbc to account for the actions of the bbc on gender pay since the publicationgly agree with the chair of the select committee, i welcome his committee scrutiny of this. i would say this. the bbc resisted the transparency measures and now we are starting to see why. happy new year to you, mr speaker, and may start by offering my congratulations the outgoing secretary of state on her new role. and to the new secretary of state. who unlike carrie gracie, has not turned and £40,000 pay rise this week. he treated yesterday about how humbly he was. something i know he has become well—known for recent yea rs. know he has become well—known for recent years. but i know for how much this commotion will be important to his fragile self—esteem. now mr speaker, we still live in a society where confident men who believe in their own self—worth tend to rise to the top or stay in their positions despite failure after failure. while talented women are more reasonably undervalued orforced talented women are more reasonably undervalued or forced out. talented women are more reaso

public, then i think we have the ability to really press for people to be held accountable. once the memo is released, i think there's going to be calls for a special counsel, from all these committee think it is going to be hard for sessions not to do that. >> back up a bit. we talk about memos all the time because we follow this day-to-day. this is the memo written by nunez and the house intel committee, that lays out the process, how it may or may not be used by high level doj or obama administration officials to surveil the trump campaign. what are the motivations? what do we know? this is a classified document. your husband has seen it. a lot of people say there could be some big bombshell things in there. until the public sees it, we can't judge it. should this memo be declassified and be shared with the public? >> the doj is saying no don't release it. there is some stuff in there that the american public can't see. >> the reason why we mention andy mccabe is again forget which memo came from where, the important take away is whether or not your government and the people at the department of justice and fbi used political bias for which we have been submitted to, the preside