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We work of all our partners to ensure a and the protection of the | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
people is taking place. Questions to the Prime Minister. | :00:08. | :00:32. | |
Mr Speaker, last year the campaign group Fighting Cuts at the hospital | :00:33. | :00:44. | |
were due to deliver a strong petition to Downing Street, but they | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
were turned away at the gates and told, today is not a good day. | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
Comeback after Thursday. How can the Prime Minister justify this | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
disgraceful dismissal of the people of Corb Lund? -- Copeland. The | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
petition was indeed delivered and accepted by Downing Street yesterday | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
so I suggest to the honourable lady she considers what she said in her | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
question, but I am aware of the issues raised around West Cumberland | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
Hospital, and I am aware of those because the very good Conservative | :01:19. | :01:28. | |
candidate in Copeland, Trudy Harrison, has indeed raise those | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
issues with me, and made very clear she wants to see no downgrading of | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
services at West Cumberland Hospital, she has made that clear to | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
me and the health ministers. Thank you, Mr Speaker. I have constituents | :01:40. | :01:48. | |
concerned about the new funding formula. Can I be assured that when | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
deciding on funding for our schools we will look at costs such as the | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
apprenticeship levy and things like that to ensure they have the money | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
they need to educate our children? I thank my honourable friend for | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
raising this. The question of schools funding and the system we | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
have is important. I think the current system is unfair, not | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
transparent and out of date and that has been the general view for some | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
time now. The problem is it cannot support the aspiration of all our | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
children to get a great education and we do indeed want to see | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
children being able to get the education they deserve that ensures | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
they can go as far as their talent and hard work take them. The Labour | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
Government did nothing to address the funding system and we are | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
looking at that funding system. It is... It is a consultation and I am | :02:41. | :02:50. | |
sure the comments my honourable friend has raised will be noted by | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
the Secretary of State for Education. Thank you, Mr Speaker. | :02:54. | :03:04. | |
When hospitals are struggling to provide essential care, why is the | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
Prime Minister's Government cutting the number of beds in our National | :03:11. | :03:19. | |
Health Service? Thanks to the medical advances, the use of | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
technology, the quality of care, what we see in hospital stays is | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
actually the average length of time for staying in hospital has | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
virtually halved since the year 2000. Let's actually look at | :03:35. | :03:44. | |
Labour's record on this issue. In the last six years of the last | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
Labour Government, 25,000 hospital beds were cut, but we don't even | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
need to go as far back as that. Let's just look at what was Labour's | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
policy before the last election. Because before the last election, | :04:03. | :04:14. | |
the Right Honourable member, a former Shadow Health Secretary, | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
said, what I would cut our hospital beds. Labour policy to cut hospital | :04:20. | :04:28. | |
beds. Mr Speaker, back in 2010 there was the highest ever level of | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
satisfaction with the health service delivered by a Labour Government. | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
The BMA tells us, Mr Speaker, that is doctors, that 15,000 beds have | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
been cut in the last six years, the equivalent of 24 hospitals, and as a | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
result we have longer waiting times in A, record charges and more | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
people on waiting lists. The Prime Minister claims the NHS is getting | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
the money it needs, so why is it one in six of A units in England are | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
set for closure or downgrading? I will tell the honourable gentleman | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
what is happening and what has been happening since 2010 in A 1500 | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
more emergency care doctors, which includes more Andrew Neil | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
consultants, 2400 more paramedics, -- more emergency consultants. What | :05:34. | :05:42. | |
the NHS... He speaks about what the NHS needs and what it needs is more | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
doctors and we are giving it more doctors. What it needs is more | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
funding and we are giving it more funding. What it does not need is a | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
bankrupt economy, which is exactly what Labour would give it. Mr | :05:56. | :06:06. | |
Speaker, I asked the Prime Minister by one in six A units are | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
currently set for closure or downgrading. She did not answer. One | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
of the problems, and she well knows this, is that ?4.6 billion cut the | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
social care which has a knock-on effect, and her friend, the Tory | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
chair of the Local Government Association, Lord Porter, has said, | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
and I quote, "Extra council tax income will not bring in anywhere | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
near enough money to alleviate the growing pressure on social care. Two | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
weeks ago -- social care." Two weeks ago we found out about the | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
sweetheart deal with Tory Surrey. When will the other 151 social | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
department in England get the same as the Surrey deal? The right | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
honourable gentleman refers to the questions he asks me about Surrey | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
County Council two weeks ago. Those claims were utterly destroyed the | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
same afternoon. So rather than asking the same question, he should | :07:11. | :07:26. | |
stand up and apologise. Mr Speaker, far from apologising it is the Prime | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
Minister who ought to be reading her correspondence and answering the | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
letter from 62 council leaders representing social services | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
authorities who want to know if they are going to get the same deal as | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
Surrey, as they are grappling with a crisis that has left over 1 million | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
people not getting the social care they need. Mr Speaker, we opposed | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
the Tory cuts in the NHS which involved scrapping of nurses' | :07:55. | :08:05. | |
bursaries because we believed it would dissuade people from entering | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
training. We were told it would create an extra 10,000 training | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
places in this Parliament. Has this target be met? There are 10,000 more | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
training places available for nurses in the NHS, but the right honourable | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
gentleman talks about the amount of money being spent on the NHS. It is | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
this Conservative Government that is putting the extra funding into the | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
NHS, and I remind the right honourable gentleman, I remind the | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
right honourable gentleman that we are spending ?1.3 billion more on | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
the NHS this year than Labour planned to do if they had won the | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
election. Mr Speaker, my questions were about the social services | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
funding to pay for social care. No answer. My questions were about the | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
number of nurse training places being brought in. No answer. In | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
reality, 10,000 fewer places have been filled because there are fewer | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
applications. There is a problem in building up for the future. In | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
addition, the Royal College of Midwives estimate is shortage of | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
3500 midwives in England, and the Royal College of Nursing warned the | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
nursing workforce is in crisis. If fewer nurses graduate in 2020 it | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
will exacerbate what is already an unsustainable situation. Will the | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
Prime Minister at least commit herself to reinstating the nurses' | :09:37. | :09:45. | |
bursary? He asked me a question about nurses' training places which | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
I answered. I have to say to him, if he doesn't like the answer he gets, | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
he cannot just carry on asking the same question. If I have answered it | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
previously. He is talking about all these issues in relation to what is | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
happening in the NHS. Let's just look at what is happening in the | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
NHS. We have 1800 more midwives in the NHS since 2010. We have more | :10:11. | :10:20. | |
people being seen in A since 2010. We have more operations every week | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
in the NHS. Our NHS staff are working hard, providing a quality of | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
care for patients up and down the country. What they do not need is a | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
Labour Party policy that leads to a bankrupt economy, because Labour's | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
policy, you spend money on everything which means you bankrupt | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
the economy, and have no money to spend on anything. That does not | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
help doctors and nurses, it does not help patients, it does not help the | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
NHS and it does not help ordinary working families up and down this | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
country. Mr Speaker, yes, let's look at the National Health Service. | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
Let's thank all those that work so hard in our National Health Service, | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
but recognise the pressures they are under. Today the married to | :11:05. | :11:12. | |
re-foundation trust finds nurses are so overstretched they cannot provide | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
the high care needed for patients at the very end of their lives -- the | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
Marie Curie Foundation. It prevents patients from having the dignity of | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
dying at home. There is a nursing shortage and something should be | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
done about it such as reinstating the nurses' bursary. Mr Speaker, her | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
Government has put the NHS and social care in the state of | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
emergency. Nine out of ten NHS trusts are unsafe. 18,000 patients | :11:42. | :11:51. | |
per week are waiting. Mr Speaker, I repeat the figure. 18,000 patients a | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
week are waiting on trolleys in hospital corridors. 1.2 million of | :11:57. | :12:05. | |
them very dependent... Mr Speaker, it seems to me that some members do | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
not want to be concerned about the fact there are 1.2 million elderly | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
people not getting the care that they need. The legacy of her | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
Government will be blighting our NHS for decades. There are hospitals, | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
fewer A departments, fewer nurses and fewer people getting the care | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
they need. We need a Government that puts the NHS first, and will invest | :12:30. | :12:38. | |
in our NHS. First of all I have to say to the right honourable | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
gentleman that he should consider correcting the record, because 54% | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
of hospital trusts are considered good or outstanding. Quite different | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
from the figure he has shown. Secondly, I will take no lessons on | :12:56. | :13:07. | |
the NHS from the party... Oh, the deputy leader of the Labour Party | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
says we should take lessons on the NHS. I will not take any lessons | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
from the party that presided over met staff's hospital, and what | :13:15. | :13:24. | |
happened at that hospital. -- Midstaff. They say we should learn | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
lessons. I tell you who should learn lessons. The Labour Party, who still | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
fail to recognise that if you are going to fund the NHS, and we are | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
putting more money in - there are more doctors, more operations, more | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
hospitals. If you're going to fund the NHS you need a strong economy. | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
Now we know that Labour have a different sort of phrase for their | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
approach to these things. Remember they used to speak about boom and | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
bust. Now it is borrow and bankrupt. We must get through backbenchers' | :13:53. | :14:12. | |
questions and the answers to them. Brendan Cox will meet with the | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
Duchess of Cornwall to launch plans to bring communities together over | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
the weekend of the 17th and 18th of June to mark the first anniversary | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
of our colleague's death. It is for more than 10 million people across | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
the country to come together as communities and neighbours for | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
events such as student parties and picnics and bake off. Will the Prime | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
Minister join me and agree that such event is a moment of national | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
reflection but also celebration in our communities and it will be a | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
fitting tribute to Jo? And as she herself said it will remind us that | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
we have far more common with ourselves than things that divide | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
us. I am happy to agree with him that what is becoming known as the | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
great get-together is a fitting and important tribute to our late | :15:07. | :15:14. | |
colleague Jo Cox and I would like to commend her husband Brendan and I am | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
sure everybody would like to do so, for the work he has done. It is | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
important we remember there is more that brings us together than divides | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
us. This opportunity at this point of national reflection and | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
celebration of the strength of our communities is important as we face | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
the future together. We stand at momentous times for this country and | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
it is important we remember that being united makes us strong, we | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
should recognise the things that unite us as a country and as the | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
people, the bonds that we shared together, and this is a very fitting | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
tribute to our late colleague. In recent days the Prime Minister has | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
said that it is a key personal commitment to transform the way that | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
domestic violence is tackled. It is hugely welcome that she has called | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
for ideas about how the treatment of victims can be improved and more | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
convictions secured against abusers. Combating violence against women and | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
preventing domestic violence is the aim of the Istanbul convention which | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
the UK has yet to ratify. Does she agree with members across this house | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
that the convention should be ratified as a priority? He has | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
raised a particularly important subject. It is one that I take | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
particularly seriously. I worked very hard on it as Home Secretary | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
and I continue to do so as Prime Minister. Over 400,000 victims of | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
sexual violence in the last year. We signed up to the Istanbul convention | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
and are committed to ratifying it and that is why we supported the | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
members bill in principal at second reading and that committee stage. | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
The measures we have in place in many ways go further than the | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
convention but I am very clear that we need to maintain this momentum | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
and that is why I am setting up a ministerial working group to look at | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
the legislation and how we can provide good support for victims and | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
to look at the possibility of a domestic violence act in the future. | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
This Friday the Commons will consider a bill on the Istanbul | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
convention and government ministers have been working very hard with my | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
colleague who has cross-party support for her bell. Given the | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
importance of this issue and the Prime Minister's personal commitment | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
she has outlined again today will she encourage members to support the | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
bill and discourage any attempts to use Parliamentary tactics to stop | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
it? I am very happy to join him in that. The minister for vulnerability | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
has had a number of constructive discussions with the member for | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
Banff and Buchan and tabled mutually agreed amendments which the | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
government will be voting for this Friday and I hope that all born | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
Friday will be supporting those measures. It is an important bill | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
which the government has been supporting and I hope it will they | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
support across all parts of this house. Residents in the village of | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
highly in my constituency are concerned by the 4000 homes proposed | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
under the Greater Manchester spatial framework more than doubling the | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
size of that village. What assurances can she give to my | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
constituents that the green belt is safe with this government? I am | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
happy to give that commitment. The government is very clear that the | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
green belt must be protected. Very clear that boundary should only be | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
altered when local authorities have fully examined all other reasonable | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
options and if they go down that route they should compensate by | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
improving the quality or accessibility of the remaining green | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
belt land so that can be enjoyed. I know the particular issue he has | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
raised and I believe the framework led to quite a number of responses. | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
There was a lot of interest in the consultation. I am sure all those | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
views will be taken into account. Last week the all-party group for | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
children of alcoholics launched a manifesto for change. 2.5 million | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
children are growing up in the home of a problem drinker. I did as well. | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
These children are twice as likely to have problems at school, three | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
times as likely to commit suicide, four times more likely to become an | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
alcoholic yet 138 local authorities have no plan to support these | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
children. All the Prime Minister work with the all-party group to | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
establish the first ever government strategy to tackle both hidden | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
problem that blight the lives of millions? She has raised an | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
important issue and I know she recently spoke very movingly about | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
her experience and I am sure members recognise the devastating impact | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
that addiction can have on individuals and their families. This | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
is an important issue for her to raise. It is unacceptable that | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
children bear the brunt of their parents' condition. It is important | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
than the government is committed to working with MPs and health | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
professionals and those affected to reduce the harm of addiction and | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
give people the support they need and we will be looking carefully at | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
the proposal she has raised. Question nine. It is absolutely | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
appalling when people tried to make a business out of dragging our brave | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
troops through the courts. In the case of Northern Ireland 90% of | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
deaths were caused by terrorists and it is essential the justice system | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
reflects this. It would be wrong to treat terrorists more favourably | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
than soldiers or police officers and that is why as part of her work to | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
bring forward the Stormont House bill we will make sure that | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
investigate of bodies are fair, balanced and proportionate soul | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
veterans are not unfairly treated or disproportionately investigated. It | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
does not go as far as I and others would like. There is no prospect of | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
new credible evidence coming forward against our veterans of the troubles | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
up to 40 years after the event and yet people are starting to use the | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
same techniques in Northern Ireland against them as were used against | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
veterans of Iraq. Surely the answer has to be a statute of limitations | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
preventing the prosecution of veterans to do with matters that | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
concerned prior to the date of the Belfast Agreement. As he knows this | :21:58. | :22:05. | |
is an issue that we are looking at as part of the Stormont House | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
agreement. We are ensuring that the investigative bodies responsible for | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
looking at depths during the troubles will operate in a fair | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
balanced and proportionate manner. We want cases to be considered in | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
chronological order. We are going to be consulting fully on these | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
proposals because we want to make sure we get this right. The new | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
local housing allowance cap for social tenants when introduced in | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
2019 will hit people on low income in my constituency really hard. In | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
Maidenhead the allowance will often exceed the average rent but in | :22:48. | :22:57. | |
Merthyr Tydfil not so. This will mean that tenants including many | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
older be bought will be expected to find almost ?500 a year towards the | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
rent. Will she acts to introduce clear guidance to at the very least | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
exempt older people from these cuts and ensure that the local housing | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
allowances in line with local rents? Yes. I believe local authorities are | :23:17. | :23:24. | |
in a position, they have a fun they can exercise discretion in relation | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
to this matter. There will be incidences across the country and | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
there were some steps taken to ensure that particularly vulnerable | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
people were not affected as you suggest. The lack of large-scale | :23:37. | :23:44. | |
vaccine manufacturing has been described for our country as a | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
national security issue. Which will take many years to build up. Will | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
she look into what more the government can do to address this | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
highly critical health and defence concerned? She is right to raise | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
this in the context she has. The government takes it very seriously. | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
Being able to ensure we can scale up vaccine production in the event of a | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
pandemic is very important to national security. The precise | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
details are confidential but I can assure her we have provisions in | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
place to make sure that urgently needed vaccines are available in the | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
UK at short notice including in the event of pandemic. As a contingency | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
we are funding a ?10 million competition to establish a world | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
leading centre on vaccine manufacturing but it is only part of | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
the picture because we have one of the most successful vaccination | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
programmes in the world backed up by ?300 million. Last night Bristol | :24:48. | :24:56. | |
council said its budget very difficult decisions very difficult | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
because of the abject failure of the previous murmur to get a grip on the | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
finances. It has taken a Labour mayor to face up to the challenge | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
but government cuts are making his job almost impossible and it is | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
doing more with less. We did our bit, will the Prime Minister meet | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
with the mayor of Bristol to discuss the funding deal that the people of | :25:22. | :25:30. | |
Bristol deserve? I understand the Communities Secretary has had such a | :25:31. | :25:32. | |
meeting to discuss the issues she raised. 17 years ago my constituent | :25:33. | :25:46. | |
received a phone call that no parent should ever have to take. The collar | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
told them that their daughter Kirsty, who was backpacking in | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
Thailand, had been brutally murdered. The tie as warranties are | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
due to close the investigation into her murder but as yet her case | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
remains unsolved, her killer remains free and her parents have not | :26:06. | :26:14. | |
justice or closure. Can I ask her to push the Thai authorities to use DNA | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
techniques to bring the killer to justice, to endeavour to provide | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
more support to families who have lost loved ones abroad and finally | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
to ensure that Kirsty's personal effects are at last returned home to | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
her parents from Thailand? I am sure the whole house would offer | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
condolences to the family and recognising the trauma they have | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
been through as a result of the killing of their daughter. It is | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
obviously not for the British government to interfere with police | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
investigations that take place in another country but I understand the | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
Foreign Office has been providing support and our embassy in Bangkok | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
will continue to raise these issues as it has been with the Thai | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
government and I am sure the Foreign Office will keep him updated. In the | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
Lancaster house speech she said of a future trade agreement with the EU | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
that no deal for Britain is better than a bad deal for Britain. In the | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
spirit of consistency will that appeal to any future trade goals she | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
Asians with the US? By Mike President Trump has said that | :27:25. | :27:31. | |
America comes first -- negotations. We will be ensuring when we | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
negotiate trade deals they will be good deals for the UK. In the same | :27:37. | :27:45. | |
sex marriage act we took the power subject to consultation to give | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
humanists in England and Wales the opportunity to celebrate marriages | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
as they do in Scotland. We have had the consultation with 90% approval | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
and there has been referenced in the Law Commission which has concluded. | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
And she gave her attention to laying there is order and giving humanists | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
same rights in England as they enjoy in Scotland? This is an issue he has | :28:09. | :28:16. | |
been following closely over recent years. He recognises this is an | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
important area of law and complex and we want to make sure the | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
proposals are considered properly which is why the Ministry of Justice | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
is examining the differences in treatment that exist within marriage | :28:29. | :28:36. | |
law so that the differences can be minimised and I am sure he will | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
agree it is right and fair to approach it that way. My | :28:41. | :28:50. | |
constituent's chances of survival from buying the Attic cancer were no | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
better than his mother's who died 40 years earlier. A disease soon to | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
become the fourth biggest cancer killer in the UK -- pancreatic. Will | :29:02. | :29:09. | |
she championed a significant increase in spending on pancreatic | :29:10. | :29:12. | |
cancer researcher, which lags behind that of other cancers? He has raised | :29:13. | :29:21. | |
a very important point which obviously is of particular relevance | :29:22. | :29:24. | |
in the case of the constituent referred to. It is the case that | :29:25. | :29:30. | |
pancreatic cancer is one that is very difficult to deal with and to | :29:31. | :29:34. | |
treat and there has been a lot of attention over the years on certain | :29:35. | :29:40. | |
cancers, like breast cancer, bowel cancer, prostate cancer, but I am | :29:41. | :29:43. | |
sure it is important the appropriate attention is given to cancers which | :29:44. | :29:47. | |
are more difficult to deal with like pancreatic. In February 2008 the | :29:48. | :29:57. | |
brother of one of my constituents was unlawfully killed in the | :29:58. | :30:04. | |
Ukraine. His Ukrainian wife is clearly implicated in his death. | :30:05. | :30:10. | |
Earlier this year a coroner in Devon ruled that he was tricked into | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
standing on a carriageway before being run down by a car with stolen | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
license plates and death was immediate. Every time an | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
investigating officer makes progress with this case and the Ukraine they | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
are replaced. This has happened ten times and the case has stalled. And | :30:29. | :30:34. | |
I implore her to raise this case with the Ukrainian Prime Minister so | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
we can get justice and closure for Barry's mother, brother and the | :30:40. | :30:47. | |
family? I am sure that the whole house will join me in offering | :30:48. | :30:51. | |
condolences to the family following his death in 2008. I understand he | :30:52. | :30:56. | |
has discussed this case with the Foreign Secretary. It is not for the | :30:57. | :31:02. | |
British government to interfere in the legal processes of another | :31:03. | :31:06. | |
country but the Foreign Office has been regularly raising this case | :31:07. | :31:10. | |
with the Ukrainian authorities and will continue to do so and I | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
understand UK police have assisted the investigation on a number of | :31:15. | :31:17. | |
occasions and all information from the UK coroner will be passed on and | :31:18. | :31:21. | |
I am sure the Foreign Office will keep him updated. Tens of thousands | :31:22. | :31:28. | |
of disabled people on the portability scheme have had their | :31:29. | :31:33. | |
cars removed by this government. In November a minister said they were | :31:34. | :31:38. | |
looking at payments to keep their car pending appeal. Next week my | :31:39. | :31:46. | |
constituents will lose her car. Can the Prime Minister of the house on | :31:47. | :31:50. | |
the progress of this review to help Margaret and thousands like her? He | :31:51. | :31:56. | |
raises an issue about the way these assessments are made and the | :31:57. | :31:59. | |
implications of decisions being taken. He referred to a review in | :32:00. | :32:07. | |
relation to payments and the moat ability elements of that and I will | :32:08. | :32:16. | |
write to him with further details. It was a gear this week sends a | :32:17. | :32:23. | |
hospital was closed due to fire safety concerns. There are no | :32:24. | :32:28. | |
community gets locally within St Ives, Penzance or Saints just or | :32:29. | :32:33. | |
rural areas in between. Campaigners agree that there is valued Community | :32:34. | :32:37. | |
Hospital needs to be opened a urgent priority. Will she apply some | :32:38. | :32:45. | |
pressure to NHS property services and Cornwall NHS managers to get the | :32:46. | :32:49. | |
building work done and open these community beds? This is obviously a | :32:50. | :32:57. | |
concern for his constituents and he is right to raise it. He will | :32:58. | :33:00. | |
recognise the first priority must be to ensure patients are being treated | :33:01. | :33:06. | |
in a safe environment and I understand the local CCG and the NHS | :33:07. | :33:11. | |
have been working to ensure that community hospitals are fit to | :33:12. | :33:16. | |
deliver that expectation in Cornwall. A review has been | :33:17. | :33:18. | |
undertaken into the repairs needed to bring the Community Hospital up | :33:19. | :33:24. | |
to a safe standard and the CCG will be looking at the entrance at | :33:25. | :33:28. | |
facilities and needs once the local plan has been agreed and then Health | :33:29. | :33:31. | |
Secretary has heard his representations. The government | :33:32. | :33:39. | |
business rate hike could devastate the local economy in migrating | :33:40. | :33:42. | |
constituency. Brighton Pier is facing a 17% increase, the world end | :33:43. | :33:53. | |
pub, a hotel a 400% increase. Does she recognise Brighton will be | :33:54. | :33:56. | |
disproportionately affected and will she set up a discretionary fund to | :33:57. | :34:01. | |
support small businesses and agreed to a full review of the whole | :34:02. | :34:08. | |
system? Business rates are based on the rental values of properties and | :34:09. | :34:12. | |
the rental values of properties change over time going up and down | :34:13. | :34:16. | |
and it is right that rates changed to recognise that. That is the | :34:17. | :34:22. | |
principal of furnace that underpins the business rates system. We want | :34:23. | :34:25. | |
to support businesses and recognise that for some business rates will go | :34:26. | :34:29. | |
up when these revaluations take place which is why we have put | :34:30. | :34:33. | |
significant funding in place for transitional relief but I recognise | :34:34. | :34:38. | |
there has been particular concern there will be some small businesses | :34:39. | :34:42. | |
that are particularly adversely affected by the result of this | :34:43. | :34:46. | |
evaluation and that is why I have asked the Chancellor and the | :34:47. | :34:49. | |
Communities Secretary to make sure there is appropriate relief for | :34:50. | :34:59. | |
those cases hardest-hit. She gave a sympathetic answer to the honourable | :35:00. | :35:09. | |
friend for the new Forest. Can I put it to her that for many of us there | :35:10. | :35:13. | |
is something profoundly wrong with a criminal justice system which can | :35:14. | :35:18. | |
pursue veterans will risk their lives for this country, 40 years on | :35:19. | :35:24. | |
after any possibility of new evidence, while at the same time is | :35:25. | :35:28. | |
capable of paying out ?1 million to a terror suspect. In relation to | :35:29. | :35:37. | |
this issue in Northern Ireland, we are... The issue with the legacy | :35:38. | :35:40. | |
bodies was part of the Stormont House agreement and we are working | :35:41. | :35:50. | |
to deliver on that agreement. As I said, the overwhelming majority of | :35:51. | :35:56. | |
our armed forces serving in Northern Ireland served with great | :35:57. | :36:00. | |
distinction and we owe them a huge debt of gratitude. The situation at | :36:01. | :36:04. | |
the moment is there a case is being pursued against officers who served | :36:05. | :36:08. | |
in Northern Ireland. We want to see developing a legacy body, a | :36:09. | :36:16. | |
proportionate fair and balanced approach. We recognise the majority | :36:17. | :36:25. | |
of individuals were the result... Were at the result of the hands of | :36:26. | :36:32. | |
terrorists. The Prime Minister pledged to end the burning injustice | :36:33. | :36:36. | |
of so few working-class boys going to university. Can she tell me how | :36:37. | :36:43. | |
cutting every single secondary school in Rochdale, Trafford and | :36:44. | :36:45. | |
Manchester through the new schools funding formula is going to do | :36:46. | :36:48. | |
anything other than make that injustice even worse? We want to | :36:49. | :36:54. | |
ensure through the education system that we have a good school place for | :36:55. | :36:58. | |
every child. And the Conservatives in government we have seen 1.8 | :36:59. | :37:04. | |
million more children in good or outstanding schools. We are looking | :37:05. | :37:08. | |
at the funding formula for schools. We are listening to the comments | :37:09. | :37:13. | |
made. Everybody across this house will recognise that for some time it | :37:14. | :37:18. | |
has been said the existing funding formula is not transparent and is | :37:19. | :37:28. | |
fair. But I can assure that our education policy is about ensuring | :37:29. | :37:32. | |
every child has the opportunity to go as far as their talents and | :37:33. | :37:41. | |
hard-working Ed Balls them to do. -- enables. You saw what a cut run | :37:42. | :37:48. | |
means for a town and club like Sutton. With Wimbledon out of the | :37:49. | :37:54. | |
picture wonder if she will join me in teen graduating Sutton for such a | :37:55. | :37:59. | |
spirited performance on Monday and in wishing Lincoln well to keep the | :38:00. | :38:04. | |
non-league spirit alive in the next round. He must be heard. Finally | :38:05. | :38:15. | |
come gradually to and thanking arsenal for their generosity and | :38:16. | :38:21. | |
allowing Sutton to keep a little bit of an extra slice of the FA Cup pie. | :38:22. | :38:36. | |
Any reference to pie. I am happy to congratulate Sutton on the extremely | :38:37. | :38:43. | |
good run that they had in the FA Cup. It is important and makes a | :38:44. | :38:50. | |
huge difference to local areas when their football club is able to | :38:51. | :38:54. | |
progress to that extent and is able to be up there with the big boys and | :38:55. | :38:58. | |
do as well as they did and I am happy to congratulate Lincoln city | :38:59. | :39:04. | |
on the success may have shown and we wish them well for the future. | :39:05. | :39:13. | |
Finally, Michelle Thomson. The green investment bank is currently being | :39:14. | :39:19. | |
sold. Some reports suggest that the contract could soon be concluded. | :39:20. | :39:25. | |
This despite the U:K.'s dated focus on research and development and the | :39:26. | :39:29. | |
fact that no realistic guarantees have yet been given as to the | :39:30. | :39:33. | |
continuation of the proper headquarters and board based in | :39:34. | :39:36. | |
Edinburgh. Will she commits to looking again as to why a sale at | :39:37. | :39:42. | |
this time is not in the best interest of Edinburgh or the green | :39:43. | :39:53. | |
agenda or the UK taxpayer? Before I respond I also am apologies. I am | :39:54. | :39:57. | |
sorry to the member for Stroud and mixing him up with the member for | :39:58. | :40:03. | |
Lincoln. I was obviously getting carried away with the football | :40:04. | :40:16. | |
fever. In relation to the green investment bank, I will write to her | :40:17. | :40:19. | |
with response to the questions she has raised. The Prime Minister has | :40:20. | :40:27. | |
applied a very straight bat. We will leave it there. | :40:28. | :40:30. |