sajid javid and philip hammond., from the local government ‘s department, sent out some information which misled mps a little bit, into believing that the rate rises were not going to be as big as they were going to be, and philip hammond now coming under pressure to ease some of those rate rises, offset some of the costs. this could be a rerun of the poll tax, the poll tax affected individual families and so on, and it is quite interesting, if you read the story, there is a suggestion that both sides, philip hammond and sajid javid had briefed reporters, there is a line about friends of sajid javid, which always sounds like the minister talking off the record. saying he has been the fall guy in this, he has been made to appearas guy in this, he has been made to appear as if he has imposed these rate rises and so on. this effect, i would think, the tory heartland, most of the people who are going to pay the high rates will be tory party supporters? are they not likely to defect to ukip? they will not defected to lab

some of the details, sajid javid, the community secretary has been on holiday in dubai.tesfim 5.25; are very cross i seems to up up on this arrangement; this is at the this is where their - and this is where their voters and supporters of small businesses and big businesses i to - this going on and keeg on running it is the papers day - day, this is in the papers day after day, this is damaging, someone has to step in and sort it out or are they waiting for the budget? i think there could be possibly something in the budget on this. there is an interesting line, sajid javid has been accused by his backbenchers of dodgy figures. he wrote to mps at the end of last week, conservative mps and has been accused of doctoring those figures between five and 7% to make it look like areas have rates that are over all falling, one that is not the case. speaking of dodgy figures, the daily mirror have got a story, the lasse kjus dame joan daily mirror have got a story, the lasse kjus damejoan to talk about, because there is criticism of the lords are still leaching. they have evidence

sajid javid told the re—evaluation.hose concerns. businesses coming off rate relief can be faced with an alarming cliff edge. independent retailers and some high—value areas are struggling. i have always listen to businesses and this situation is no exception. it is clear to me that more needs to be done to level the playing field and make the system fairer. iam make the system fairer. i am working closely with my right honourable friend the chancellor to determine how best to provide further support to businesses facing the steepest increases. we expect to be in the steepest increases. we expect to beina the steepest increases. we expect to be in a position to make an announcement at the time of the budget in two weeks. this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story is... nasa says it has found four earth—sized exoplanets. actually, seven! they're located about 39 light years away from the sun. let's look at the language services. bbc world service reports that the personal assistant of french presid

the communities secretary sajid javid has told the commons there will be more support announced in thech are facing steep business rates rises in england and wales. mrjavid said more needed to be done to make the system fairer. it is clear to me that more needs to be done to level the playing field and to make the system fairer. i'm working closely with my right honourable friend the chancellor to determine how best to provide further support to businesses facing the steepest increases. we expect to be in a position to make an announcement at the time of the budget in just two week's time. we will chat more about this with tom bateman, our political correspondence, in westminster. this caught a few of us out but it comes after a lot of pressure. we can deduce there has been something of a change of heart. it was only a few days ago the government was talking about the fact that there was transitional funds available for those being affected by the rise in business rates but the more importantly, as far as many ministers were concerned, was that most businesses would face either a reduc

the local government secretary sajid javid said he understood how it felt to face higher business ratet in next month's budget. growing up above the family shop, i saw the impact that an increase in rates can have on small businesses. a rise in the cost lowered the mood of the whole family. even as a child, i knew that it was not good when i found a stack of bright red final reminders hidden away at the back of a drawer. my dad was never shy about sharing what he thought of out—of—town retail parks and how they took customers away from his shop

children from the town led by the communities and local government secretary sajid javid walked overat christmas 2015, leaving residents with a ten mile detour. quite a nice day in tadcaster. let's see what the weather is doing for the rest of us. i like the look of surprise in ben‘s voice. if he watched the forecast he wouldn't have known that it was going to be glorious there! but it's not going to be like that everywhere. further west and south, this is what you have got on your plate. along the channel coasts, lots of white caps for the next few hours. some of these winds, will be looking at 60 mile an hour gusts coming along to english coastal counties, then pushing further north during the course of the night. an area of low pressure with some hill snow working its way north. we have seen cold air tucking into cornwall. there it is, writ large across the british isles. there will be some ice across the southern half of britain. further north through saturday, strong winds and hill snow. for northern ireland and hill snow. for northern ireland and scotland, dry and sunny for the

the chancellor, the prime minister and the other ministers involved, including sajid javid, have someing more, nothing less. because as i said, they weren't involved in this deal. so let them answer the question that i've asked today, when we re question that i've asked today, when were surrey council part of this business rates retention pilot? when did they sign up to it? we've been signed up to it for over 12 months andi signed up to it for over 12 months and i don't recall surrey being involved in it. if you're not happy with their response, how did they get you off their back? the fact of the matter is they need not only to get me off their back but others in the country who are asking for an equal, fairfunded the country who are asking for an equal, fair funded formula that supports delivery, in particular with adult social care. we've had £90 million in adult social care being taken off us in the last five yea rs. being taken off us in the last five years. we've got round about 54% reduction in staff and yet the increasing needs to deliver adult social care has gone up by 52%.

the local government secretary sajid javid said he understood how it felt to face higher business ratebusinesses in next month's budget. now, growing up above the family shop, i saw myself the impact he promised more support for businesses in next month's budget. now, growing up above the family shop, i saw myself the impact —— and calls to limit investigations into claims against british veterans who served in northern ireland. mps say cases should only proceed if new evidence is uncovered. it is wrong that our veterans are sitting at home, wondering if perhaps a third orfourth investigation is now going to take place into their case simply because some hot, fast—thinking, make—a—quick—buck human rights lawyer in belfast thinks it is a good idea to reopen this case. a fortnight ago, the labour leader jeremy corbyn sprang a surprise on theresa may at prime minister's questions. he read out leaked text messages which — he said — indicated the government had offered surrey county council a special deal to fund social care. his remarks were widely reported and the department for local gov

we have then had the communities secretary sajid javid fiddling around with the precept, the amount of can raise for itself to look after social care, instead of having three years of 2% uplift, we 110w having three years of 2% uplift, we now have two years of 3% uplift. it seems to be politicians are in denial and we really have to simply get back to saying, let's fund the nhs properly. when the nhs was funded on about the european average, eight or 9% of the gdp, it was doing very well and waiting times came down. since 2010, when the coalition government cut public expenditure because it was trying to control the economy after the banking crisis, it had three options, it could cut expenditure, it could erase taxes —— raise taxes or borrow more money and it had a go at all of those. fundamentally the damage was caused in 2010 and we have to get back to some sensible funding levels. how would you answer the claim from some quarters that there is a political intention to see the nhs be degraded so it is unfit for purpose and then you strengthen the argument for privatisation? that is t

the local government secretary sajid javid said he understood how it felt to face higher business ratesinesses in next month's budget. now, growing up above the family shop, i saw myself the impact and increase can have. and calls to limit investigations into claims against british veterans who served in northern ireland. mps say cases should only proceed if new evidence is uncovered. it is wrong that our veterans are sitting at home, wondering if perhaps a third orfourth investigation is now going to take place into their case simply because some hot, fast—thinking, make—a—quick—buck human rights lawyer in belfast thinks it's a good idea to reopen this case. a fortnight ago, the labour leader jeremy corbyn sprang a surprise on theresa may at prime minister's questions. he read out leaked text messages which he said indicated the government had offered surrey county council a special deal to fund social care. his remarks were widely reported and the department for local government spent that day rejecting the assertions. at the latest session of pmqs, mr corbyn returned to the same ter

the communities secretary, sajid javid, has told the commons there will be more support announced in come under strong pressure from its own mps to soften the impact for businesses which are set to lose out under the business rate revaluation. mrjavid said more needed to be done to make the system fairer. it is clear that more needs to be done to level the playing field and to make the system fairer. i'm working closely with my honourable friend the chancellor to determine how best to provide further support to businesses facing the steepest increases. we expect to be in a position to make an announcement at the time of the budget in just two week's time. more help is to be given to support two million people affected by famine in south sudan, and neighbouring somalia. the government has promised another £200 million to provide basic supplies and care for those at risk. south sudan became a country six years ago — a civil war has been raging since 2013. our diplomatic correspondent james landale reports. in parts of war—torn south sudan, people are now dying of starvation. and famine

the secretary of state for communities and local government, sajid javid, announced a number of measures complicated house—building mix. but how to fix what the government today calls a broken housing market? well, its white paper suggests the answers lie in getting the right homes built in the right places, meaning every council must come up with a long—term plan, speeding up house—building by giving councils new powers to put pressure on developers, and diversifying the market to get small independent builders back in and stop them being squeezed by the big players. forfar for far too forfar too long we for far too long we have not been building enough houses. but labour dismissed the package of measures with this rhetorical response. dismissed the package of measures with this rhetorical responsem this it? mr speaker when the housing minister himself admits the government record on housing as people and embarrassing, we had hoped for better. in fact we needed better. it seems the only thing politicians can agree on is the scale of the building required. the government target in all th

let‘s talk now to the communities secretary sajid javid, who joins us from our westminster studio.rom where we were in 2010 when new homes were about 110,000. the reality is that the market is broken. it is the biggest barrier to social progress in britain today. young people are dreaming of owning their own home or renting a decent home and they are dreaming because the average house price in england now is more than eight times persons earnings. what the white paper sets out today is that it fully recognising the problem and saying that we should work together and have bowled third of changes that will help fix it. do you understand the scepticism of people who are watching you and listening to you this morning, given that you have had five years in coalition to try and crack this. it has been a priority for an awfully long time. we have had scheme after scheme and here we are again with another announcement about building 1 million homes by 2020 when there isa 1 million homes by 2020 when there is a track record of not achieving anything like it. bello actually, i do understand

the communities secretary sajid javid will be making a statement, and we will bring it to you shortlyesident trump returns to the white house with the fate of one of his signature policy still unclear. he wants to temporarily close america‘s borders to all refugees and travellers from seven predominantly muslim countries but his order has been blocked by the courts. earlier, he told members of the military that controlling access to america was the key to its security. we need strong programmes so that people that love us and want to love our country and will end up loving our country are allowed in. not people that want to destroy us and destroy our country. the appeals court is due to hear arguments for and against the ban before making its judgement. in motions filed by the two sides, the department ofjustice said: but the states of washington and minnesota, which brought the case, argue: when we first created the constitution, one of the things we said was there would be no religious tests for office and this goes even further and directs a religious test for entry and thatjust go

got a government response, an official one from the communities and local government secretary, sajid javids quite long, but the key lines, i think, are that, while the final settlement has yet to be approved, the government is not proposing extra funding to surrey county council thatis funding to surrey county council that is not otherwise provided or offered to other councils generally. there is no, quote, memorandum of understanding between the government and surrey county council. so that isa and surrey county council. so that is a flat denial, really, there is any kind of financial sweetener that was an offer to surrey county council to abandon that potentially embarrassing referendum on funding social care in surrey. more on that as it comes in. four members of a child sex grooming gang from rochdale face immigration —— deportation to pakistan afterjudges rejected their appeals against a move to strip them of british citizenship. judith mauritz has been following the story. she's in sa lfo rd. following the story. she's in salford. tell us more. you will remember the trial in 2012. it