Summer recess. Members returned to the house of commons on september 1. We took a look back at the major events in British Parliament the spring, including the lead up to the Scottish Independence referendum. Hanges to the house of lords the malaysian airliner that was shot down in ukraine. Alicia mccarthy hosts the program. Hello and welcome to westminster in review, a look back at all the big events in Parliament Since easter. Coming up, the government gets a stamp of disapproval as tens of thousands of people are forced to wait weeks. This is a sorry shamble. The government will do everything he can while maintaining the security to make sure people get their passports in time. Sexual abuse of patients, children, and the vulnerable is revealed. A callous, opportunistic, wicked predator. The rights and wrongs of assisted dying. And after the european elections, we ask what now . First, they might still have been munching the final fragments of their easter eggs. Everything was far from sweetness thetwo business ministers were forced to defend the weatherization of royal mail. Shares went up by more than one third. The National Audit office criticized the handling of the selloff, accusing the Business Department of rushing. A committee of mps insisted the selloff had been a success. These shares were undervalued when they were floated. This was a successful flotation. We expected it to go to a premium on the first day. You would have been critical if it had been wrongly priced and people lost a great deal of money, including the people who worked for the company. The approach seemed to do everything to ensure that it was sold. Money for the taxpayers was a secondary interest. No. The strong advice that we received was if we had attempted to push the price beyond the upper end of the range, there was a possibility that the large number of the people would have walked away from the transaction. You were motivated by a fear of failure. I understand that. I am happy with that viewpoint, but at least the general public by all accounts, they lost between 1. 1 billion and 1. 2 billion pounds. If what you say about supporting your argument you were wrong. No apologies, no regrets. Absolutely no apology and the recognition that hindsight is a wonderful thing about price. Given the circumstances at the time and the fax that we had, the correct decisions were made. The issue appeared on Prime Ministers questions the next day. There are conditions by the postal workers. Can he explain why postal workers were told they could not sell their shares for three years . But hedge funds were told they could cash in on day one . Who runs these hedge funds . They have been very coy on who runs these hedge funds. None other than the chancellors lead man. It is one rule if you deliver the chancellors best man speech and it is another if you go to a chancellors post. He cannot talk about the deficit because it is falling. He cannot talk about the economy because it is growing. He cannot talk about jobs because there are 1. 5 million more people in work. It is the governments confidence over the spending of royal mail was being questioned, its experience in the air was questioned by travelers. It was estimated by some that over 500,000 applications for passports were stuck in the system. They claimed the normal application process had reached six weeks in some cases. The home secretary said the majority of applications were being dealt with in time. That was no consolation for people waiting for the new passports. The government will do everything it can to make sure he will get their passport in time. There is no big bang single solution. We will take a series of measures so we will take a series of measures to address the pitch points and sourcing measures. This is a sorry shamble. A secretary who cannot even bring herself to say the word. Government incompetence means people are at risk of missing their holidays, or honeymoons, their businesses. Every mp has been inundated and the secretary does not seem to know what is going on. Ministers i know receive weekly updates about the flow of applications and the turnaround. It is beyond belief and not credible that ministers were not aware of this trouble. Yesterday, the opposition claimed that tens of thousands of people were having their holidays canceled because of passport delays. Meanwhile, the association of travel agents have seen no increase in cancellations because of past four delays. Who should we believe . Will the home secretary apologized to my constituents, who are foster parents, applied for a pass port, and weeks later, they had a phone call from the office saying that the passport was on its way and they book their holiday. Six weeks after that, they still had not gotten a passport. So the foster child was not able to go on holiday with his parents. Will she apologize to them . At this time, they should be assisting their constituents and not cheap, smug, selfsatisfied the conservative. One other government response Ability Service repeatedly over the last few months, the planned introduction of a new benefit him a universal credit. The controversial scheme, which rolls six benefits into a single payment, was meant to cover one Million People by last april. But the program has been reset amid continuing problems. It is now being rolled out to another 92 centers and more changes are being made. We believe that everybody will be on by 2017. I think it is the first time we have not heard the secretary of state say that this project is on time and on budget. But we still hear complacency. At this rate, it will take 1052 years before universal credit is fully rolled out. So what do we have . Universal credit delays. Personal independence payments delays. His incompetence is not only wasting tens of hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayer money, but it is causing untold pain and hardships for some of the most Vulnerable People in our country. This government has entered into the biggest welfare reform program. Youre getting more people into work. Record numbers in work. More young people into work. More young people who have been longterm unemployed back to work. 42,000 people have been cap, 6000 have moved into work. Universal job match for 6. 9 Million People registered. The work program these are all records of success and welfare. Smith defending his universal credit program. Of course, when it comes to government competence, this man is concerned with one thing, the performance of the economy. Chancellor George Osborne has been keen to don a hard hat and go around the country. To show business is bouncing back. It is a point he has been hammering home in the comments too. Let me be clear. We said we would get the deficit down. The deficit has come down. We said we would recover and the recovery is taking place. A Million People would lose their jobs and 1. 5 million jobs have been created. He has broken them on the deficit. They are falling year on year on year on year. Does this chancellor really think his economic plan is working . Let him answer this one simple question. At the next election, after five years of this chancellor, will the working people be better off than they were in 2010 . Yes or no . Of course written will be better off because we will not have the mess of an economy on the brink of collapse. George osborne in a characteristically robust exchange. Down the corridor, many of the big issues of the day came up. There was also a small, quiet revolution. Take a look at this. I move that this bill be read for the third time. That this bill the not read a third time, millions treated in contempt. I beg to move that this bill do now, at last, pass. As many of opinions as our content and not content. The contents have it. That might not appear to be anything extraordinarily, but it masked the passing of a latest attempt to pass a bill that allows peers who retire or be thrown out for attendance and not breaking the law. This time, it went right to the wire of the parliamentary session before clearing its final hurdle in the ceremony the next day. House of lords reform act. The lords reform bill just squeezing through on the last day of the session. The program for the next parliamentary year and a list of the new bills introduced in the state opening of parliament a couple of weeks later. Mps and peers took a break. That did not mean that politics was on hold. Campaigning was in full swing in the northern elections and european elections. Results, when they came, were dubbed by some eurosceptic earthquakes. Labor came in second while the conservatives dropped behind. Across europe, the number of mps from eurosceptic parties doubled. The success was not a surprise to many people here, but how was it seemed to the rest of europe . It was kind of a shock that not only were they successful in the United Kingdom, but there were so many other critical antieuropean parties being very successful in france, especially. And then in hungary and also germany. For the first time, you had a party that was not antieu, but antieuro. What has been the reaction to the decision of the David Cameron that he wants to negotiate britains position with the eu . In general, it has been quite critical. It seemed like the United Kingdom wants special treatment. They already have a special rebate when it comes to the budget. They have not opened their borders. They do not cooperate in other areas. Why do they now want to renegotiate european policies . Do you think it is a suggestion that Angela Merkel is open to . Would she be willing to get into renegotiation with David Cameron . I think that is now a very critical question. Angela merkel has a very Good Relationship with David Cameron. That was proven last year when she invited David Cameron with his wife and children to the official summer residence of the german government. That was a gesture from merkel personally to say i want a Good Relationship with the british government. After that, you had the arguments about the future european head of commission, jeanclaude juncker. Not only in germany, but especially in germany, it was seen as a provocation. It has made it much more difficult for David Cameron to renegotiate and get a better deal for the United Kingdom in europe. Is britain as isolated as it appears . Surely other countries are skeptical about the eu project. There are a lot of European Countries that are skeptical of the european union. The germans are also highly critical. The question is, how do you do it . Do you do it in a friendly way and try to find consensus or do you do it, especially from germany and such, in a very controversial and provocative way . This is what the british Prime Minister has done. By that, he has caused a lot of criticism. With the european elections over, it is time for parliament to reconvene. With all of the pop of the traditional ceremony, the queen came to open the procession. It was a rather gray morning in london. The ceremony can be traced back to the 14th century. This year, there was a modern touch. The queen traveled in the new Diamond Jubilee coach. Once again, the duchess of cornwall us underlying that one day, it will pass to the next generation. A quick last of the trumpets and the queen moves through the royal gallery to the house of lords. The queen and the duke of edinburgh take their places on the throne. And the bit people always remember, the slamming of the door in his face, a symbol of independence of mps. Black rod knocks three times and is finally let in. As usual, there is a very audible heckle from dennis skinner. Demands the honorable house attends her majesty immediately in the house of peers. Coalitions last stand. And the walk from the comments to the lords with rival politicians engaging in polite conversations. Mps slowly funnel into the lords and the queen finally reveals the secrets of her speech. Among the bills, changes to pensions and child care payments and legislation and infrastructure. My government will implement major reforms to the electricity market and reduce the use of carrier bags to protect the environment. The new session of parliament was dominated by events not of this governments making. Widespread horror of the celebrity dj. Major reports from two of them announcing the findings. Apologized for what has gone on in the Health Service and said the whole entry would share a deep sense of revulsion at what the reports revealed. As a nation, at that time, we held him in our affection as a somewhat national treasure. Todays reports have, in reality, he was a sickening and prolific sexual abuser who repeatedly spited the trust of the nation. One of his teenage victims believed she was pregnant as a result of his abuse. He had jewelry made from glass eyes from bodies taken in the mortuary. Other details are too horrific to reveal in this house. He was a horrific predator who abused many people, including young people. On such a day, i want to apologize on behalf of the government and the nhs to all of the victims who were abused in nhsrun institutions. We let them down badly. However long ago it may have been, many are still reliving the pain they went through. How a celebrity dj and predatory sex offender came to have access to vulnerable patients across the nhs and the keys to its highest security hospital surely ranks as one of the worst failures of Patient Protection our country has ever seen. There will be incidents where we do not have evidence of the abuse. The complainant was unconscious at the time. Does my right honorable friend agreed that no proof is not the same as it did not happen and that his welcome words of apology should apply to all of those who think they may have been abused . There are several people culpable in this affair who are still enjoying substantial nhs pension. Why dont we consider docking their pensions as a consequence for their behavior and a clear warning to others . I do not rule that out at all. If someone has behaved in a way where there is a way to have legal redress such that things like pensions can be docked, and i think they should face the full consequences of that. And with historical child abuse back in the news, an independent inquiry and how public bullies dealt with allegations of abuse. He also said there would be a second inquiry and how the office handled information given to it in the 1980s following the allegations that they were not acted upon. Material submitted in parliament. The investigation found that 114 potential he relevant files were not available. The home office and the investigators destroyed missing or not found. Investigator made it clear he found no evidence to suggest the files had been removed or destroyed inappropriately. Investigator was satisfied that the home office passed all credible information from mr. Dickens and elsewhere to the police so they could be investigated. She then moved onto to the calls for a wider inquiry into historic allegations of abuse. I can tell the house that the government will establish an independent Inquiry Panel of experts to consider whether public bodies and other nonstate institutions have taken seriously their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse. The panel will be chaired by an appropriately senior and experienced figure. It will begin its work as soon as possible after the appointment of the chairman. Her first choice was a lady butler sloth. She sit down after criticism she was too much of an establishment figure. Her late brother was attorney general in the 1980s. The secretary is right to announce that she has changed her position and response. But i wanted to press her on the details. We need three things. Justice for the victims, the truth about what happened and how the home office and others responded, and stronger Child Protection and reforms for the future. Any allegations of a child who has been abused must be thoroughly investigated by the police, even if it took lazy decades ago. The senior exwhip said that the office routinely helped mps with scandals, including those involving small boys and they did it to exert control over those individuals and prevent profits to the government. Just one example of how personal and political interests can conspire to prevent just this from happening. This inquiry will consider not just the police and social services, but will also look at what happened in the heart of power. Those systems will be overturned, whether it makes life uncomfortable for political parties, parliament. Much of the discussion we have had today has been about abominable cases. Is the lady confident that it would be treated in a much better manner today . I would hope that if a similar bundle of documents was handed to the home office today, it would ensure that those documents went to the police and that they were properly investigated. In the case of the materials that came in, it was material that should have been handed to the police and was handed to the police. We will be looking to make sure that is what took place. Obviously, i would also expect that appropriate records will be kept today if such material was handed to the home office and the home office would make sure that the police were taking those matters on board appropriately. Theresa may, now a culture of fear and intimidation. Boys and girls separating in class. People told of white prostitutes. Some of the inspections in birmingham. The investigation into 21 schools was launched after a letter announced that muslim extremists were plotting to take over state schools. Six schools, including some that were rated good or outstanding, were put into special measures. Another 12 all made improvements. The secretary summary of the trojan horse investigation was uncompromising. Teachers reported an organized campaign to target schools with a culture of fear and intimidation. There had been nationalized and forced out of their jobs. 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