Summary
Alicia McCarthy reports as MPs warn energy costs are putting companies out of business. Also, university leaders are questioned about social mobility and Parliament's first "bionic Lord" demands a better deal for amputees from the NHS.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Order. Order. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, I'm Alicia McCarthy and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4, |
| 0:11.8 | the Thursday the 1st of May, where there are calls for the government to do more to cut |
| 0:16.1 | manufacturers' energy bills. The Tories reckon it's time for a new approach. |
| 0:20.5 | This government is willfully |
| 0:21.9 | destroying British industry in oil and gas, in ceramics, in chemicals and in metals when they |
| 0:27.0 | know it won't make a difference to global emissions. Also on this programme is poor public transport |
| 0:33.3 | limiting workers' opportunities. I know of people who take two and a half hours every single day just to get to their work from remote villages. |
| 0:41.0 | And following the Supreme Court ruling on sex and gender, |
| 0:44.8 | a peer calls for some respectful debate. |
| 0:47.7 | I speak today primarily as a lawyer, |
| 0:50.2 | but also as the parent of a trans child |
| 0:52.2 | in the belief that these matters should and can be discussed in a non-partisan way. |
| 0:58.3 | But first, the government has been urged to bring energy prices for UK manufacturers in line with those of other countries in Europe. |
| 1:05.8 | The call came from the Labour Chair of the Business and Trade Committee, Liam Byrne, |
| 1:10.3 | during a debate on the impact of high Business and Trade Committee, Liam Byrne, during a debate |
| 1:11.0 | on the impact of high electricity and gas costs on some industries. The issue had been raised |
| 1:16.9 | by another Labour MP, Gareth Snell, following the announcement that a firm in his Staffordshire |
| 1:21.7 | constituency, Moorcroft pottery, was going out of business after 100 years. He argued government schemes designed to help |
| 1:29.9 | business didn't apply to the ceramic sector. We are constantly promised by the last government as well as |
| 1:36.1 | this one, jam tomorrow. Well, jam is no good if you're dead. And the ceramic sector in Stoke-on-Trent |
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