 Yn nhw'n ffrubem i tro, fel y gallwn nov yn gyntaf dda i chi, ddim am bwysigaf yn unw i'ch cwp. A hynny'n glwp o'r ddweud am ddigonwyd, mwy'n gwaith ar y dŵr sgol a'u gweithio ar y stoi maen nhw diolch ar y dŵr. Mae gennyn nhw'n grannu dŵr cael? Mae gennyn nhw'n rŵn i ddwy i ddefnyddio'r bobl? Mae gennyn nhw'n grannu i rŵn! Mae gennyn nhw'n grannu i rŵn i dŵr, mae genny'n grannu! Llywةeth, mae'r gwrth oed rhaid i here. Mae'r gwrth oed i here? Yeah. It was actually wanting to champion and stand up for people that I knew, in my local area, and I also had a real drive to get into that place where all the decisions were made, and do something important, how about you? Yeah I did Northern Powerhouse, I spent 2 minutes... You are Northern Powerhouse? That stops like you. Don't, no seriously, you could sit on the tele for a while, Dekkwch hwnnw. Dy sugais i ffyrwch add aer coloured. You can put your head down and think, let's see if I got something to contribute. He'll say one can to get involved or not. I'm surprised I actually thought, That I would get kicked out with this accent and no background and it was almost an exercise in failure. So far he and turned up in the house together, But it was amazing to see you convince Because we've been on the parliamentary assessment board I've never been to Cambridge, I've just went to somehow a hotel on the outskirts of Cambridge and spent a weekend away from the kids. It was brilliant and I managed to get to the big house, I would make a flat. It's great though to be fair because you do form teams of camaraderie, don't you? We're all the same, isn't it? Women to Win though, wasn't that a big part of our gym? That's where I first met. All of you probably. Women to Win is great. I see WO. I see WO, they are also a big part of our gym. I'm sort of the old timer here. I remember thinking when there were only 17 Conservative women MPs thinking, honestly Harriet, if you're not prepared to do it you really only have yourself to blame. I want to see in my lifetime, now we're up to what, 87 female Conservative MPs? I want to see 50-50 Parliament in my lifetime and that is the change I want to see. Are you the first woman to chair the Treasury Select Committee? No, I'm the second. Baroness Nicky Morgan did it. We're able to, for example, before I did politics I was in financial services, we're doing a really interesting inquiry at the moment on what we're calling sexism in the city. We still have to do that. That's the great thing about coming with loads of experience. Many of us have already had loads of experience before we came into Parliament. I'm not saying we're older but we have come with at least 10, 15, 20 years worth of experience in the city or working in lots and lots of other places which I think has helped all of us. You were in business, I was in business. I think almost all of us. What's the thing you've done with your business experience apart from? I have used it a lot. If I think about what I'm really proud of, in terms of what I've focused on and what I've delivered, it is definitely around the violence against women and girls. That's the key thing. I think a lot of us have worked on issues such as the menopause and I know that Mims has been brilliant on that but I really was the one to recognise that we needed to do more there. There was a whole series of reforms that I was involved in across the whole court system and I think, lastly, what we've seen is we've seen spiking now being recognised as a serious crime. That's the difference. We talk about issues that affect us. I've been spiked, we've been championing things that affected us and changed the law. You first spoke about menopause in the Chamber and actually our male colleagues, you're the first MP. Our male colleagues love that because it gives what they can talk about and do in constituency surgeries and locally the ability to jump on that on a national scale. I think, Harriet, you mentioned the change in women coming to Parliament, the difference it makes in being able to talk about those more difficult subjects and important subjects. It's such a huge fan of what Theo's done in terms of talking about birth trauma. As you're saying, using our personal experiences, I'm a new mum, I had a baby since I got elected. I never expected to be giving such a personal speech in Parliament talking about having a really difficult child birth. I'm now doing this national inquiry looking at how to improve maternal services across the UK. I've been working very closely with Cherylyn on her work on baby loss. I think us talking about our personal experiences, which is also the experience that all these children are having, is really important because nobody else is talking about it. I think that's a sum up and talk about that. It must take a lot of brave issues really. I think as a lot of people have seen that, actually birth since Tidd's in the Chamber during my speech. And also very close to my daughter who has watched this as well when she's older. But it's amazing to see what the new Health Secretary, Vicki, has already done. So she's just brought in in response to our campaign this new check-up with your GP at six to eight weeks. Now the mum's health will be checked for physical and mental health, not just the baby. To me, that's amazing. There's a bad bench to make that change. Just as a result of doing my campaign and talking about my own personal experiences. That's the importance of being here, right? Who else can bring that experience so much to life? Same as you. You've changed it all the way, haven't you? Well, yeah. I mean, so last year you said it can be quite cathartic. So once here we have the baby loss debate in Parliament and it is quite cathartical. Which is a TG. The first time I did that, well, yeah, the first time I did it. And you think, oh, I'm in this glaze. I'm being very professional. I'll just have to relay my story and then it gets you in the throat and you can't stop it. And actually then you see how brilliant colleagues are across the house. It doesn't have to be such a horrible toxic place. Actually everybody's really, really nice to you and things like that happen. But campaigning on something like baby loss is not only so important to people of the country, but today I was at the school gates and one of the mums came up to me and she put her hand on my arm and she said, pregnancy loss certificate, is that down to you? And I said, yes, she went and she just... Oh, no, I'm just so sure. And so that for me is full circle. It's something I wanted to achieve and then somebody right there in my community is just genuinely going to make such a difference to them and that's it. That's made it all work. Yeah, it really does. Obviously we talk a lot about all this sort of downsize and the abuse and all that kind of thing which... It happens. It does, it does happen. I've got to remember things like that and it's just it. The things that make it worthwhile, but I also think probably all of us would still say you definitely do this job, right? That's the greatest job in the world. It's the greatest job in the world. Not only being able, I mean you didn't expect this experience, but you experienced something that a lot of other people weren't before you were there and your voice was there. It's interesting what you were saying about baby loss, because when I was a backbencher one of my things that I raised was the microplastics and the microbeads. Wash on cat. Soil. I talked about things, because it's my background, you know, food farming, growing gardening, that I don't know, because obviously you've been there before, Harriet, but things like soil, you know... People thought it was nuts. They did laugh. I laugh and know. It's all on the agenda and actually we got a huge following. We came in this game, didn't we? Rachel, Amun and I, so they probably saw me and thought it was slightly bonkers. It drives me nuts when people say, oh I'm not interested in politics. We don't want to see politics. It's true. Everything in your life is politics. Jobs. Jobs, growth, apprentices, travel, infrastructure. Are you gay words, Jackson? Well, of course I am the only degree of principal. You know, just how brilliant is that for women, right? It's a lot of women need to earn at the same time as they're learning. Particularly if they've got families, particularly if they're looking to get on in a career, particularly if they're looking to shift careers. So being able to have many, many more options, and now we've got 70% of pretty much any occupation in this country, you can access fine apprenticeship. So that along with childcare, which I think have been two big things, which obviously we're still rolling out challenges, which obviously we're still rolling out childcare, but that'll be the free childcare. Well, the taxpayer funded childcare from nine months up to five years. This is... Well, how many people do we know whose careers have been sort of taken off track by families? How many people do we know, whether it's just those that they've chosen the childcare or maybe they've become a single parent? You've got to make a choice between being there for your kids or working. Actually what you're doing now and what the government is doing is giving that freedom. Yeah, you don't need to make that choice. There's 2.4 million new women in work in 2010. What I'm just saying is that it's the fastest growing part of the labour market, women over 50. So whether it's getting childcare right or making sure that part of your career is the most fulfilling and positive experience. So we're doing it all the way through and that stems from the childcare changes that we made in 2010. And today, just today, ahead of International Women's Day, we had our first round table in number 10 on menopause, talking about intersectionality and the impact in different cultures, why we need to support women to stay in work because unfortunately one in six women between 40 and 60 then get to this amazing career, maybe through the apprenticeship and then feel they've got to step back and we've got to change that. So I think all of us here can say and point to something that is a conservative led policy that we've directly had some impact on. That's amazing at any age or career stage. And I don't think people see that when it comes to the Conservatives. Well, it's how it's pointed also. People don't even see this as politics. And yeah, every single one of these from baby loss to birth trauma to maternity. We're really kind of refocusing the police and some of the violence against women and girls in general. There's just that to-do list of things that have been done. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But to the point that we've said, but like he's kind of making sure that that rises up in a gender that is in an industry that's perhaps more male dominated. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you've got to kind of move it around a bit. There was a huge culture change needed in the police, actually. We've had to do that. We really get them to understand it. And they are good, lots of them are good, but there's still so much to do. Someone's been kind of had the awful experience of rape. And that pivot to look at the offender and investigate the offender. Don't investigate the individual illusion phone. That kind of makes a big difference. It makes a huge difference. You've done some stuff in STEM as well. Oh, yeah, quality nursery. No, no, but first what you need to do. Well, girls in STEM is like massive, right? Because that's a lot of control. So I've been on science and sex select committee since 2019. I remember trying to explain how the COVID virus latched onto the human body with the reverse Christmas tree. I'm looking at various people cross party, actually. I'm kind of going mental. But we need to do this. And actually these things connect. So shall I say Hysiwt Bottoms, Northern Engineers, who are my better communities, et cetera. But they can't lead to that. You're like a brave cop defaulting. Hey, listen, I was the pilot there. But the point is they are astonished and actually proud of my cousin's girls going to apprenticeships, degree apprenticeships, laying pipes, in a software engineering out. They love the fact that there's actually an accessible route that's perhaps slightly different. And they love the fact that it's like the 21st century version of night school, which is you don't have to go to university to get into practical STEM and build up Northern Powerhouse. Because some of the radio of the day, they said who's housed you, what you live in. And I said I want to live in Fred Dibnos. No, no, no, seriously, you said Belgium lay them all sorts. You mean you know it will work and it'll be fine. No, no, no, because I want to evolve it. But the point is we're proud of our industrial history and we've been excluding 50% of the workforce and not anymore with the different reforms that we've made here. Well, in farming, in Plontyn College, and I told Rebecca that, the intake this year for farmers is winning. Really? Yes, there is. I do have to mention it's why I need to learn college as well. It's all done. It's all done. It's all done. For the house magazine, which is our internalising, because they're having a bit of a rural focus. And actually, there's still a lot to do, in fact, for women in farming. We've got lots of people working in it now, far, far more, and they're rising up through the ranks because lots of them run organisations like Minette Batters, who is president at the end. We've got a woman now who is president of the CLA. She's got an amazing scientist woman and with a financial background as well, Dame Emilia Force, who heads up Q Gardens, which is our Q scientific powerhouse. So they're in there, but actually, still only 12% of women actually work in farming and agriculture, but that's rising. My point is that we've got such opportunities there, and women are genuinely really interested in the starting, with the science roots, but the wider roots need to come in any way to a president. There's a lot to do with all the things like ecology, soil science, land management. Lots of people have an old passion for you about farming in the back. And then so many of our students in the back area. We have a sort of more of a 20th-century view of the kind of jobs. But even in finance, it's the Conservatives, and since we've been here, have changed the whole system of how we pay for environmental goods in the environment. So we're paying people to do good things, clean the water, to hold the soil, to have healthy food. Actually, women are really interested in that. We do tend to be the ones that bring up the children. We do understand about the people. What are the things that we're proud of in terms of what we've done for the economy and for women and for families? I would point to the childcare office. It's going to save families £6,500 a year working families. So I think that's a really important thing. I think it's in at what age? Well, it will be from nine months to five years old. Also, we're rolling out in April for two-year-olds and then in September, under two-year-olds, and then we'll go up to 30 hours. It's such a huge cost to the people. We're thinking about going back to work, back to your point earlier. Is it even worth me going back to work? So that will really pivot those decisions. Yeah, and I think you actually speak to lots of people. They're like, wow, is this really going to happen? All the discussion is can you deliver it? Will you deliver it? Yes, it is. Yes, we will deliver it. That shows how much people want it. We've got national living wage on top of that. We've got the local housing allowance that's going up by what we've three been in. I'm sure we're all proud of things that we've done from changing the spiking law to that amount. It's about £800 a year per family. They're going to be better off because their rent support in social housing or private rented will be there for them. Of course, we've been spending about £3,000 a year on the most vulnerable people supporting them and then there's been the household support fund. So we've really focused all our energies in a really tough time on the most vulnerable. Don't you think that UC gets a bit overlooked? Sorry, Harriet. I was just going to say about inflation for how inflation is. Yes, that's just scourge for our economy and particularly a scourge, I think, for women. And it's good news that we've got it down to 11.1 where it went after Putin invaded Ukraine down to 4% and that 2% back in our sites again. So getting inflation under control and taking a series of decisions that didn't make inflation worse has been so important for our economy. It's very true. I'm sorry. We can wrap that up. Oh, you've got to start. Particularly as a mum with kids at primary school, school standards. Talk to me a bit about where we are with reading and how much... My daughter will come home from school and I'm looking at what she's doing at nine years old. We never did anything like that. So the standards in schools, that's really been the focus since 2010 and making sure that... because our kids are going on to compete in a very different world than we all went into. A highly digitised world, a highly globalised world. And we always test what we're doing internationally. Your daughter, she's nine. The nine-year-olds in our country are fourth in the world for reading. That's in their own language. Some people say it's because of English. It's in their own language. Our 15-year-olds are now 11th in the world for maths. And when you just think about the progress that's been made in school standards... We were 27th for something like that. We were 27th under the last government. Yeah, we were 27th. It's very good stuff. We're at university, aren't we? University and the apprentices. All kinds of... As agricultural... Universities now. 60% of the people there are now girls. And apprenticeships are going into UCAS. Is that right? The apprenticeships are now in UCAS. So anyone... And this is another thing actually going back to the cost of living. And if you're worried about debt and taking on debt, you can now get to the same place in life via an apprenticeship. You can see it on UCAS. You can skip the student debt. Now, you might want to do the full-time one, but you've got the options. None of that existed before 2012 without this concern. So there's a lot. There's a lot going on. Well, sure. So the other thing that I think women don't see, because you've done really awful in this together, but they don't actually see the camaraderie of it. You know, so don't disturb women. So how do you... I mean, you know, when we all walked in in 2019, we looked at all these Augustan senior figures, and... Let's go to the senior. Thank you. You knew us all already. I knew you. I knew you. I knew you. I like what... Like if we put ourselves back in the shoes for people that might want to come and join us, what would we say, do you reckon? Like, they're all right? I think they're all right. I'd like to say this, but a good example is somebody defected from the SNP who's joined us, and she's a woman. And we all got these WhatsApp groups that we had on. Two different ones. And actually, some of them are quite fun, but they're also very helpful. And it's overwhelming what she says about the camaraderie. Yes, she does. She talks about this group of women. I've actually quite touched by that. Most of them are all optimistic, positive. Happy, right? Happy. Happy, right? Happy. Happy. Happy. Happy to everyone here, is that everyone has been campaigning as an MP on something that they really care about personally or affects their constituency. And for me, the example is always the fact that we never had a women's health strategy before the Conservative government. I can't believe that. She'd never the case under any previous government. And literally every single person here has picked a different issue on women that you've been championing. And it's because of us all doing those campaigns that the government has brought in. I think that's a really important point after the making is that actually, women can make that difference and be the change. And all of our personal experiences is what we can bring to the Chamber and be that sort of unique voice of Parliament. Well, I think that's a brilliant place to head. Thank you so much. Thank you, Angela, thank all of you. I mean, I know that all of us have championed different issues and we could probably talk for hours to talk about Annie I. I'm a grandmother of two. A little girl. So all of this gives me so much hope and optimism for the future. So thank you all for coming for a cup of tea.