:00:00. > :00:00.future are enormous and I look forward to being able to promote UK
:00:00. > :00:10.PLC in the world. ! THE SPEAKER: Order, business
:00:11. > :00:14.question, Mr Paul Flynn. Will the Leader of the House give us
:00:15. > :00:20.the business for next week? The Leader of the House, Mr Chris
:00:21. > :00:23.Grayling. Mr Speaker, the business for next week on mopped 18th July
:00:24. > :00:27.we'll have a debate on the motion relating to the UK's nuclear
:00:28. > :00:31.deterrent. On Tuesday 19th July will be the second reading of the higher
:00:32. > :00:38.education and research bill. On Wednesday, 20th July there will be
:00:39. > :00:41.an Opposition Day on a motion to be announced on Thursday, 21st July,
:00:42. > :00:45.there will be a debate on a motion relating to a ban on manufacture,
:00:46. > :00:51.sale and possession and use of snares. Following that, I'm sure
:00:52. > :00:55.everybody will be delighted to hear, a general debate on matters to be
:00:56. > :01:00.raised before a forthcoming adjournment. Then we will begin the
:01:01. > :01:03.summer recess, turning on Monday, 5th September, when were visional
:01:04. > :01:06.business includes, on the Monday of that week, the remaining stage of
:01:07. > :01:11.the Finance Bill. That will be the first day.
:01:12. > :01:16.When can we have a debate on re-Sid vichl. This is a problem that hasn't
:01:17. > :01:23.been reduced by any Government in the past 43 years -- recidivism. And
:01:24. > :01:28.the cycle of repeated offending goes on and on. It is now affecting
:01:29. > :01:35.politics. Yesterday's Prime Minister committed political suicide by
:01:36. > :01:40.giving in to his party and ordering a referendum that guaranteed the
:01:41. > :01:46.destruction of his Premiership. Are we seeing the same thing repeated
:01:47. > :01:50.today? The MP for Uxbridge might have made a perfectly adequate
:01:51. > :02:00.Minister for the import of second-hand water Cannon. But he's
:02:01. > :02:03.now the Foreign Secretary. Eespecially for his services to
:02:04. > :02:08.europhobia. The member has been sacked twice from previous jobs for
:02:09. > :02:13.not telling the truth. He's insulted the President of the United States.
:02:14. > :02:20.He's attacked people from all parts of the world from Liverpool, from
:02:21. > :02:27.pappia new Guinea. I mean does these qualities mean that he's going to be
:02:28. > :02:34.see prepare in the area where the qualities of diplomacy and
:02:35. > :02:37.truthfulness are in demand. The member for North So Somerset is
:02:38. > :02:40.returning to the Government -- for North Somerset is returning to the
:02:41. > :02:52.Government without any explanation of why he was disgraced and sacked
:02:53. > :02:57.from his previous appointment. Sir Philip Moyers, in the year he was
:02:58. > :03:00.sacked was the independent advisor on ministerial conduct, said the
:03:01. > :03:03.member should have been investigated for what happened at the Ministry of
:03:04. > :03:11.Defence. The Prime Minister refused to refer the case to the advisor,
:03:12. > :03:16.and Sir Philip resigned. What the member had was absolution
:03:17. > :03:22.by resignation. And I believe that means, and it is a matter of concern
:03:23. > :03:28.to the Leader of the House because it is his responsibility, that that
:03:29. > :03:33.return of the member for North Somerset to the Cabinet is a degrow
:03:34. > :03:38.gauges of the probity of this House and the advances made in previous
:03:39. > :03:41.government. We are seeing a Government being created, not for
:03:42. > :03:52.the best interests of the country but in order to deal with the
:03:53. > :03:56.perpetual internal war in the Conservative Party between
:03:57. > :04:00.Europhiles and europhobes. Chilcot has given its verdict and it
:04:01. > :04:06.is a thunderous verdict of guilty, not just to one man, but to this
:04:07. > :04:12.House, to the past Government, to the Opposition. And to three select
:04:13. > :04:19.committees of this House. We are guilty and we are judged to be
:04:20. > :04:24.guilty of commanding our valiant troops into a vain, avoidable war.
:04:25. > :04:28.The leader is uniquely qualified and responsible for answering the
:04:29. > :04:31.charge. My honourable friend, the member for Islington North has
:04:32. > :04:41.apologised on behalf of the Labour Party. 179 of our gallant British
:04:42. > :04:49.soldiers died. Their loved ones have a wound of grief that will never
:04:50. > :04:57.heal. 3,000 were maimed in body and mind. Uncounted Iraqis were killed.
:04:58. > :05:08.And made homeless or exiled. The cycle of terrorism continues to this
:05:09. > :05:11.day. All because of of an act of folly, incompetence, vanity in this
:05:12. > :05:16.House. Will the Leader of the House take his responsibility for this,
:05:17. > :05:20.because it is his job to do it and to arrange a formal apology,
:05:21. > :05:25.preferably face-to-face with the relatives of the bereaved and the
:05:26. > :05:38.surviving jemplted this is the least a grateful nation can do to those we
:05:39. > :05:45.have grievously wronged. Snril come back to that point in a moment, I
:05:46. > :05:52.should start by congratulating, we both still here, he is in his third
:05:53. > :05:59.week in a job. He has not acquired a new job. He may have a new job to
:06:00. > :06:03.shadow. A third job. If the Labour Party front bench was a football
:06:04. > :06:06.team, it would have Paul Flynn in goal, defence and attack, lots of
:06:07. > :06:13.people on left wing, nobody willing to play on the right and endless own
:06:14. > :06:16.goals. Hear, hear. He talks, Mr, speaker, about the
:06:17. > :06:21.Foreign Secretary. I'm not going to take any lessons at all from a party
:06:22. > :06:24.that has the honourable member honourable member for Islington
:06:25. > :06:28.South and Finsbury at its Shadow Foreign Secretary. Absolutely. What
:06:29. > :06:33.we have in those benches Mr Speaker is oar party that is not fit to be
:06:34. > :06:36.in Opposition, let alone to be fit in as an alternative Government to
:06:37. > :06:40.this country. We have heard over the months from people who hold senior
:06:41. > :06:44.positions on those benches, views that undermine our Armed Forces, our
:06:45. > :06:49.defences and are wholly unaligned with the national interests of this
:06:50. > :06:53.country. Now, he made reference to matters reprieted to propriety. I
:06:54. > :06:57.remind him, he has raised this at business questions before, from the
:06:58. > :07:00.backbench, if he has complaints by any member of the House there are
:07:01. > :07:04.channels to pursue them. He has not done so. He talks about internal
:07:05. > :07:07.war. Mr Speaker, this week of all weeks, for a Labour politician to
:07:08. > :07:11.talk about internal war in a political party, they have been
:07:12. > :07:15.trying again and again and again to get rid of their leader, they just
:07:16. > :07:19.can't do it. He is on the ballot paper. He will probably be winning
:07:20. > :07:25.again and they will be resigning all year. A complete shambles, a
:07:26. > :07:29.complete disgrace to the party politically, I can take no lessons
:07:30. > :07:32.from them about internal wars. He mentioned Chilcot and he tells me it
:07:33. > :07:38.is my responsible to answer the charges. Can I simply remind him
:07:39. > :07:42.that it was a Labour Prime Minister who stood in this House and
:07:43. > :07:46.explained to this House why we should support him and his decision
:07:47. > :07:49.to go to war in Iraq. It was a Labour Prime Minister. It is for the
:07:50. > :07:53.Labour Party to explain itself, not for us as the op significant at the
:07:54. > :07:59.time. Hear, hear. -- Opposition at the time.
:08:00. > :08:03.Thank you, Mr Speaker, last weekend I attended, together with a group of
:08:04. > :08:08.members from across the House, a rally for the national council for
:08:09. > :08:14.resistance in Iran. Unfortunately we have to go to Paris to meet those
:08:15. > :08:19.good people and the very brave leader. Why can we not have a
:08:20. > :08:24.position where with we can issue an invitation to the leader of the
:08:25. > :08:27.resistance to come to this country, so we can help free Iran from the
:08:28. > :08:31.shackles of the mullahs? Well, Mr Speaker my honourable
:08:32. > :08:34.friend makes a point about which I know he believes passionatedly. I'm
:08:35. > :08:38.sure the new Foreign Secretary will have heard his comments, and will
:08:39. > :08:43.want it give careful thought to the issue he raises. Can I also just say
:08:44. > :08:48.to him, as the deputy chair, we have the chair of the backbench committee
:08:49. > :08:51.here, can I thank him for returning the tradition of a prerecess
:08:52. > :08:56.adjournment debate. It is something this House values and I'm glad they
:08:57. > :09:00.have done it. Can I thank the Leader of the House
:09:01. > :09:04.for announcing next week's business. The night and the morning of the
:09:05. > :09:07.long silver spoons a fwhags gripped to the TV, what would Grayling yet,
:09:08. > :09:12.with a the question that perplexed the nation? The man that designed
:09:13. > :09:15.and fashioned the new Prime Minister's leadership coronation
:09:16. > :09:20.would surely get a top jo, but he is back here with us this morning, Mr
:09:21. > :09:24.Speaker and a nation can only breathe a collective sigh of relief.
:09:25. > :09:27.Mr Speaker, we thought the new Prime Minister didn't have a sense of
:09:28. > :09:31.humour. She has only gone and proven that one totally wrong by ape
:09:32. > :09:33.pointing the right honourable member for Uxbridge as the Foreign
:09:34. > :09:37.Secretary, you could almost have heard the gulfs of laughter from
:09:38. > :09:43.Parliament and ambassadors last night as the news got around that
:09:44. > :09:47.Boris was in charge of the UK's foreign poll sane indeed MI6.
:09:48. > :09:50.Perhaps the Leader can tell us a little bit about how this new
:09:51. > :09:54.restructured Government is going to work? When will we see the new
:09:55. > :09:58.departmental questions and how is this going to come together? Isn't
:09:59. > :10:02.it ironic that the first motion this new Prime Minister will put to this
:10:03. > :10:06.House is for a new generation of weapons of mass destruction on
:10:07. > :10:11.Monday, and that will be opposed by myself and my honourable friends
:10:12. > :10:15.rows salutely and we hope the Labour Party will join Usmanov. When this
:10:16. > :10:19.country is facing the disaster of Brexit and further austerity, in
:10:20. > :10:22.what world is it right to spend billions and billions on new nuclear
:10:23. > :10:39.weapons and rearmament? At what point Mr Speaker, do they
:10:40. > :10:45.fail to meet their obligations as the official opposition is clearly
:10:46. > :10:49.set out, can we have a debate about what is expected from positions and
:10:50. > :10:53.maybe the lead of the house will support a rearrangement of the
:10:54. > :10:58.furniture so this government and he can experience some real opposition?
:10:59. > :11:03.Mr Speaker, I am slyly surprised that he talks about the role of
:11:04. > :11:08.leader of the house of not being a top job. Because of course, he is
:11:09. > :11:14.the SNP equivalent. So I take it he is a junior member of his front
:11:15. > :11:18.bench team. On the issue of department or questions, the
:11:19. > :11:20.government is in the middle of restructuring and we will make
:11:21. > :11:26.further information available shortly. Household authorities will
:11:27. > :11:32.set out a schedule for questions in this house, it will be in place for
:11:33. > :11:36.the start of the sitting in session of September. Next week is a fairly
:11:37. > :11:40.routine collection of questions, I don't think there will be any need
:11:41. > :11:44.of change there. He and his party have been very clear about their
:11:45. > :11:48.view on this. I am delighted to say that I am sure a large number of
:11:49. > :11:53.members on the Labour benches will be supporting us on Monday and I am
:11:54. > :11:57.grateful for that support. The thing that puzzles me, the Scottish
:11:58. > :12:02.National party reposed to Trident. But are they arguing that their
:12:03. > :12:19.facility should be transferred south of the border? Are they suggesting
:12:20. > :12:24.that? The facilities in Scotland, should they be transferred south of
:12:25. > :12:30.the border, are they suggesting that or not? I suspect a lot of people
:12:31. > :12:32.who work in the nuclear sector in Scotland who support those
:12:33. > :12:39.submarines who will be deeply distressed if their jobs disappear.
:12:40. > :12:44.Mr Speaker, on the question of the Labour front bench, that is an issue
:12:45. > :12:48.we can agree on. It is an extraordinary situation, we have
:12:49. > :12:53.multitasking and people who resigned from the Labour front bench 26 years
:12:54. > :12:59.ago making a comeback as he has done. Over the next few weeks, will
:13:00. > :13:05.they be able to get it back together again or will it continue month
:13:06. > :13:09.after month? Thank you Mr Speaker, one of the reasons many people voted
:13:10. > :13:14.for Brexit was they believed it would give this country and our
:13:15. > :13:19.communities more opportunity to change their own futures. But we
:13:20. > :13:23.have a debate on regional strategy for transport infrastructure to sit
:13:24. > :13:27.alongside other provisions such as health and education? So that any
:13:28. > :13:33.additional housing can be sustainable? She has made a similar
:13:34. > :13:38.point before and she feels strongly about the devolution of powers to
:13:39. > :13:40.the regions. I am sure there will be more opportunity for that to take
:13:41. > :13:45.place and there will be more powers heading for Scotland as well I
:13:46. > :13:49.expect, as well as for Wales and Northern Ireland. She makes an
:13:50. > :13:53.important point, the Secretary of State will be here on Monday and it
:13:54. > :13:59.is something she may want to bring to the floor of the house in the
:14:00. > :14:04.debate. Can I thank the honourable member for Harrow East for filling
:14:05. > :14:10.in for me in the last two weeks. Two weeks ago I visited the song, which
:14:11. > :14:15.seemed like the Sea of tranquillity compare to this place. We of course
:14:16. > :14:22.had the opening of the A-1 in Gateshead, which brought immense
:14:23. > :14:30.calm to the town centre at Gateshead and removing traffic, we are
:14:31. > :14:36.grateful for that. Could the leader of the house please confirm that we
:14:37. > :14:39.will have Thursday the 8th of September for backbench business? If
:14:40. > :14:44.we are going to put any business on that day, we need to consider that
:14:45. > :14:48.do it next Tuesday and without that confirmation, we won't be able to do
:14:49. > :14:55.so. I welcome him back to his place, we have missed him in the last of
:14:56. > :15:00.weeks. I am delighted by the opening of that road. Tenures ago, I was
:15:01. > :15:04.Shadow Transport Secretary and I visited sites around the country,
:15:05. > :15:10.areas with industrial development. But the Central transport projects
:15:11. > :15:14.were not happening. Everywhere I go, they are being built and developed.
:15:15. > :15:19.The A-1 is one of them and it will bring bonuses to the north-east. A
:15:20. > :15:25.sign that we care about those areas that are important to this country
:15:26. > :15:29.and the north-east. That date in September, I will look at that, we
:15:30. > :15:33.have only planned business up to the first day back but I will give
:15:34. > :15:41.careful thought to whether we can accommodate him on that matter. Can
:15:42. > :15:49.the leader of the house Fach for whoever will be the minister
:15:50. > :15:54.responsible, unlikely to be me, about the status of the green belt?
:15:55. > :15:59.My constituency faces a planning application to build 500 houses on
:16:00. > :16:04.the green belt in that village. My constituency faces similar proposals
:16:05. > :16:07.on the green belt, the whole point of having the green belt is it
:16:08. > :16:11.should be immune from house-building. My constituents
:16:12. > :16:15.don't trust Bradford Council to look after their interests. They look to
:16:16. > :16:20.the government to make sure they are protected, can we have a statement
:16:21. > :16:24.on the protection of the green belt? I am sorry he is so pessimistic
:16:25. > :16:29.about his prospects for the reshuffle. We would all value his
:16:30. > :16:34.contributions if he appeared at this dispatch box. What I would say is
:16:35. > :16:38.that Monday is the opportunity for those questions and for his
:16:39. > :16:48.constituents. He is a powerful advocate for Yorkshire. Has the
:16:49. > :16:53.leader had a request to provide government time for the fantastic
:16:54. > :16:57.contribution the leisure industry makes to the UK economy. Such a
:16:58. > :17:03.debate would allow government ministers to set out how UK
:17:04. > :17:05.manufacturers will fulfil demand for major new infrastructure. A
:17:06. > :17:12.transcontinental network is it wise to allow our new Foreign Secretary
:17:13. > :17:15.to travel cheaply and with low environmental impact and in the
:17:16. > :17:22.style he is accustomed to around the world? It is an interesting idea but
:17:23. > :17:28.I think we will be investing in infrastructure more used for cars,
:17:29. > :17:34.trains and buses. The outgoing Chancellor was a quick proponent,
:17:35. > :17:38.great proponent of the Northern Powerhouse, that initiative is vital
:17:39. > :17:42.to constituency such as my own, can we have an early debate on how new
:17:43. > :17:47.ministers will develop the northern powerhouse concept? I have to say
:17:48. > :17:52.the new Chancellor will be taking questions on Tuesday. What I say to
:17:53. > :17:55.my honourable friend is that there isn't a question of change of focus
:17:56. > :17:59.on the development we have for the northern part of the country and
:18:00. > :18:04.encouraging new growth and investment. That will remain a new
:18:05. > :18:10.priority for the government and we will see the progress we have made
:18:11. > :18:14.continue. I have a private constituent currently detained, she
:18:15. > :18:17.suffers ill health and doesn't feel her health concerns are being
:18:18. > :18:21.addressed and there is evidence to corroborate this. A recent report
:18:22. > :18:25.from the National Audit Office is 35% of recommendation from the Chief
:18:26. > :18:30.Inspector of prisons are yet to be implemented. Can be currently do the
:18:31. > :18:34.house urged an urgent debate for this to be addressed? I don't know
:18:35. > :18:38.about the individual constituency case and I am sure she will raise
:18:39. > :18:42.that with the new Home Secretary. There are lessons to be learned from
:18:43. > :18:49.the inspections to be carried out in places like Yale 's Wood. We need to
:18:50. > :18:52.detain people decently but we was those who have a serious question
:18:53. > :19:01.over their right to be in the country and that is right and
:19:02. > :19:10.proper. Last night, GHA coaches in the constituency of Wrexham which
:19:11. > :19:14.has two depot in my constituency went into Administration with the
:19:15. > :19:19.possible loss of three or 400 jobs. I would be grateful if the leader of
:19:20. > :19:24.the house could encourage the new secretary of state to liaise with
:19:25. > :19:29.the Minister for transport to see what support can be given to those
:19:30. > :19:33.who may be facing redundancy at this time? I am sorry to hear what must
:19:34. > :19:38.be difficult and distressing news for her constituents and those in
:19:39. > :19:42.the next constituency in Wrexham. All our good wishes go out to those
:19:43. > :19:47.affected. One always hopes that when a business is put into
:19:48. > :19:51.Administration that it can be saved. The Department for Work and Pensions
:19:52. > :19:54.the business departments and the Welsh office will do everything they
:19:55. > :20:03.can to provide appropriate support where they are able to do so. Life
:20:04. > :20:09.in Iraq, imagine if your phone rings and the question is are you a
:20:10. > :20:15.Christian and is the second one, are you in the police, yes you are. This
:20:16. > :20:19.is what happened to a man and his family, he was a policeman in
:20:20. > :20:23.northern Baghdad and they fled the next day. No one is safe from this
:20:24. > :20:29.in a row, murdering the Christian faith in Iraq is a reality for many.
:20:30. > :20:33.Would the leader of the house agreed to a statement on this matter as
:20:34. > :20:38.soon as possible? Can I start by saying that I have every sympathy
:20:39. > :20:41.with the issue that the honourable gentleman raises. The tragedy is
:20:42. > :20:46.that parts of the Middle East used to be beacons of stability with
:20:47. > :20:52.religions living side by side. They had done so for hundreds of years,
:20:53. > :20:55.some of the persecution of the Christian faith by extremists is
:20:56. > :20:59.absolutely unacceptable and the tragedy. I know that his comments
:21:00. > :21:03.will have been listened to by the new Foreign Secretary. It is
:21:04. > :21:09.something that as a government we will continue to encourage an end to
:21:10. > :21:12.this persecution. We face extraordinary difficult security
:21:13. > :21:22.situation is there and we will do our best. As the government prepares
:21:23. > :21:27.to negotiate Brexit which will quite rightly secure the future of EU
:21:28. > :21:33.nationals in the UK and UK citizens living abroad. Does the leader of
:21:34. > :21:38.the house agreed that it is an opportunity to settle the issues of
:21:39. > :21:43.foreign nationals working in universe did who have been
:21:44. > :21:48.disconnected in the conditions for many years. -- University. Can we
:21:49. > :21:52.have a statement from the government that this will be dealt with in
:21:53. > :22:01.Brexit negotiations. It would be satisfying on the EU -- by leaving
:22:02. > :22:06.the EU that we have not been able to address while being within the EU.
:22:07. > :22:11.He has raised this issue with me before in business questions. The
:22:12. > :22:18.Foreign Office continues to make representations on this with the
:22:19. > :22:25.Italian government. It should remain unacceptable for discrimination of
:22:26. > :22:32.this kind to take place. Last week this house debated claims made by
:22:33. > :22:34.the vote leave campaign that an extra ?350 million would be
:22:35. > :22:38.available for the NHS if we left the EU. The problem with that debate is
:22:39. > :22:42.that none of the honourable members who made that claim attended the
:22:43. > :22:46.house to answer for their claims. Can we have that debate again please
:22:47. > :22:52.but can those members associated with that claim actually attend and
:22:53. > :22:56.answer for their actions? Mr Speaker, it is the job of the
:22:57. > :22:59.government to respond in this house. People who stand at this dispatch
:23:00. > :23:08.box speaker for this government, they don't speak for either side of
:23:09. > :23:11.the referendum debate. The growing concerns in childhood obesity, can
:23:12. > :23:17.we have a statement on what the government is going to do to tackle
:23:18. > :23:22.the problem and if it will include a childhood obesity strategy? It is
:23:23. > :23:27.taking place on the Department of Health to find such a strategy. I
:23:28. > :23:31.also hope the decision we took to introduce a sugar tax in the budget
:23:32. > :23:36.will help improve the situation with childhood obesity. I am delighted
:23:37. > :23:40.the leader of the house is still here but we know that soon one of
:23:41. > :23:45.the great offices of state will undoubtedly be his. In the meantime,
:23:46. > :23:49.can we congratulate through him, the Prime Minister on her choices and
:23:50. > :23:54.the quality of her sackings and dismissals from government over the
:23:55. > :24:01.last 24 hours. We can agree that on a cross-party basis. The new
:24:02. > :24:08.secretaries of state, honourable members for Alton price, shall be is
:24:09. > :24:13.serious politicians have their own departments of State or will they be
:24:14. > :24:20.answering to the new Foreign Secretary? Mr Speaker, I can simply
:24:21. > :24:23.say to the honourable gentleman that of course, these new secretaries of
:24:24. > :24:28.state will be accountable to this house in the usual way. In the head
:24:29. > :24:32.of Department, and the department that will take us out of the
:24:33. > :24:36.European Union, that has been clearly and expressly designed by
:24:37. > :24:39.the new Prime Minister to be a separate department. That Secretary
:24:40. > :24:47.of State will be accountable in the normal way. Mr Speaker, will the
:24:48. > :24:50.government be making a statement on the implications of select
:24:51. > :24:51.committees in this house of any changes in the organisational
:24:52. > :25:01.structure of government? This is also something we will have
:25:02. > :25:06.to address probably during the September fortnight. As new
:25:07. > :25:08.Government departments are established or reshaped or renamed,
:25:09. > :25:12.so the Select Committee structure will have to change and that is
:25:13. > :25:15.something we will address, I think over the course of the next few
:25:16. > :25:19.days, in preparation for us to be able to either rename or appoint new
:25:20. > :25:27.members to those Select Committees once rereturn over the summer
:25:28. > :25:31.recess. Thank you, Mr speaker, I for one am extremely pleased to see the
:25:32. > :25:38.Leader of the House in his position, because in April I advised him that
:25:39. > :25:41.a primary school in in my constituency with their powerteam
:25:42. > :25:44.had won second place in the Jaguar Formula One race, demonstrating the
:25:45. > :25:48.great capabilities of stem teaching in race. Well, I bring the looed of
:25:49. > :25:55.the House good news. They won the national Championship. So, could we
:25:56. > :25:59.have a statement from the Leader of the House of his support and
:26:00. > :26:03.congratulations to the primary school's power team for their great
:26:04. > :26:09.success in demonstrating the importance of stem teaching across
:26:10. > :26:17.the UK, and before I sit down, can I just on behalf of myself, the First
:26:18. > :26:20.Minister of Wales, my Assembly Member Carwyn Jones and the leader
:26:21. > :26:24.of our local authority, the Armed Forces champion, say that in our
:26:25. > :26:29.view, the Labour Party strongly supports our Armed Forces.
:26:30. > :26:32.Well, first of all Mr Speaker on that last point I agree with her.
:26:33. > :26:37.I'm grateful for what she says. There are those within the Labour
:26:38. > :26:42.Party who don't, she knows that, or who have misgivings about the way
:26:43. > :26:49.our Armed Forces work, many sit on the frerge r front bench but across
:26:50. > :26:52.the ranks of the backbenches there are as many committed to our Armed
:26:53. > :26:57.Forces. Can I say I'm able to respond on the
:26:58. > :27:00.latest success. I remember her asking the question, and me saying
:27:01. > :27:05.what a great achievement it was, to win a national prize is excel in.
:27:06. > :27:08.They must be enormously proud. I'm sure everyone on all sides of the
:27:09. > :27:11.House wish to send their congratulations to the school. She
:27:12. > :27:17.has every reason to be proud of her young constituents.
:27:18. > :27:20.Mr Speaker, death toll from recent protests in Indian-held Kashmir
:27:21. > :27:24.continues to grow with hundreds injured in the violence, mostly
:27:25. > :27:27.young people. Many face losing their sight after being blippeded by
:27:28. > :27:30.shotgun pellets, given the widespread concern about the
:27:31. > :27:34.situation of Kashmir in the UK, can we have an urgent debate on the
:27:35. > :27:37.current violence? Well, Mr Speaker, of course, the reports we have had
:27:38. > :27:40.in this country of the disturbances there of the injuries and of the
:27:41. > :27:46.deaths are very worrying and concerning. And, to so many of the
:27:47. > :27:50.Kashmiri community in this country, they will be a malter of very grave
:27:51. > :27:55.concerning indeed. Of course, the Government will continue, as it
:27:56. > :27:58.always does, to provide support, encouragement and pressure on
:27:59. > :28:02.governments where they have this kind of disturbance taking place,
:28:03. > :28:06.this kind of ongoing trouble we'll continue to do everything we can to
:28:07. > :28:11.facilitate peace in what is a troubled part of the Asian
:28:12. > :28:13.subcontinent. Mr Speaker, earlier when the Leader
:28:14. > :28:18.of the House was talking about Chilcot he said the issue of why we
:28:19. > :28:21.went it war in Iraq is for the Labour Party to explain, not us, but
:28:22. > :28:25.this is not entirely true because the Government of which he is a part
:28:26. > :28:27.is refusing to release could havep dense advice, Whitehall officials
:28:28. > :28:32.gave to Gordon Brown about the remit of the inquiry and this advice made
:28:33. > :28:37.it impossible for Sir John Chilcot to rule on whether the 2003 war was
:28:38. > :28:40.illegal. The Government's refusal flies in the face aven information
:28:41. > :28:44.tribunal ruling, ordering the materials released and it means that
:28:45. > :28:47.the public can't see what options were considered, when deciding on
:28:48. > :28:52.the nature and scope of the inquiry when it was established in 2009. Can
:28:53. > :28:56.we have a statement about the reasons for the refusals to release
:28:57. > :29:00.this advice. Here, here. Well, the one thing I would say, we can see it
:29:01. > :29:03.sitting there, the one thing that cannot be said about the Chilcot
:29:04. > :29:09.Inquiry is it was not ex-White Housive. What we have seen emerge
:29:10. > :29:12.over the past couple of weeks, is a really detailed piece of work about
:29:13. > :29:15.what happened, lessons learned, mistakes that were made and I think
:29:16. > :29:19.we should be grateful to Sir John for the work he has done. I don't
:29:20. > :29:27.think there is any shortage of evidence about what took place.
:29:28. > :29:32.Thank you, Mr Speaker. Could we have a debate on four-lane running of
:29:33. > :29:34.motorways without a hard shoulders following the excellent report of
:29:35. > :29:38.the Transport Select Committee a few weeks ago. I've recently had some of
:29:39. > :29:42.this motorway, I welcome the investment put in my constituency
:29:43. > :29:46.and I agree with the safety concerns they have, especially as we are
:29:47. > :29:50.about to have at least 20 miles more in Staffordshire in the coming
:29:51. > :29:54.years. Well, Mr Speaker, of course, I
:29:55. > :29:57.absolutely understand the point my honourable friend is making,
:29:58. > :29:59.four-lane running can make a real difference on our motorways
:30:00. > :30:03.particularly given the fact that cars are so much more reliable today
:30:04. > :30:06.than they were a generation ago but I am aware of the concerns raised by
:30:07. > :30:09.the committee. The Government will respond to that report in due
:30:10. > :30:13.course, and of course will always want to put safety right at the
:30:14. > :30:20.forefront of its consideration. Mr Speaker, may we have a debate on
:30:21. > :30:24.Islamic extremism in UK prisons after the recent report This
:30:25. > :30:28.worrying report says the national offender management service doesn't
:30:29. > :30:33.have a coherent strategy to deal with this threat. Well, Mr Speaker,
:30:34. > :30:37.I'll certainly make sure that the new Justice Secretary is aware of
:30:38. > :30:42.the concerns he has raised. It is an issue that I tracked closely myself
:30:43. > :30:45.when I was Justice Secretary. I looked very hard, talked to people
:30:46. > :30:49.in the frontline, made some significance changes, I believe to
:30:50. > :30:51.the way we handled Islamic extremists in our prisons but
:30:52. > :30:55.clearly this is something we need to keep a continual watch over to make
:30:56. > :30:59.sure that all lessons are learned, that the recommendations in that
:31:00. > :31:02.report are studied very carefully, and lessoned learned from it as well
:31:03. > :31:08.and I'm sure the Justice Department will do that.
:31:09. > :31:12.Thank you Mr Speaker, both Corby and Kingscliff in my constituency are
:31:13. > :31:16.suffering at the moment as a result of Post Office branch closures, can
:31:17. > :31:19.we have a debate next week on the importance of getting alternative
:31:20. > :31:24.arrangements in place before branches are closed and would the
:31:25. > :31:27.Leader of the House join me in calling on the Post Office Limited
:31:28. > :31:31.in sorting out this mess as a matter of priority. My honourable friend
:31:32. > :31:35.makes an important point and I join him in expressing the hope that the
:31:36. > :31:40.Post Office will be very careful and proactive in the way it approaches
:31:41. > :31:43.closures in looking for places with alternative provision can be made,
:31:44. > :31:47.particularly from an older generation who want to depend on
:31:48. > :31:50.local Post Offices. I'm sure the leadership of the Post Office will
:31:51. > :31:54.have heard his comments today and will want it take note.
:31:55. > :31:57.-- to take note. Mr Speaker, the Government has recently closed a
:31:58. > :31:59.consultation on reforms of the Civil Service compensation scheme which
:32:00. > :32:03.has seen significant reforms, claimed by the Government to be fair
:32:04. > :32:07.and affordable in the long-term. Well we know what the Government's
:32:08. > :32:11.track record on pensions is like but can we have a debate on this, given
:32:12. > :32:13.I have a constituent, Libby can I who transferred within the Civil
:32:14. > :32:18.Service from Northern Ireland with Scotland with 11 years' service and
:32:19. > :32:22.was told she could not transfer, losing ?25,000. Can I also ask the
:32:23. > :32:27.minister of the Cabinet Office, whoever that will be, to carry out
:32:28. > :32:32.an impact assessment and publish its findings and also respond to the
:32:33. > :32:36.letter I sent to him some weeks ago? Well, Mr Speaker, I clearly don't
:32:37. > :32:41.know the detail of the case concerned, if she has written to the
:32:42. > :32:46.Cabinet Office I will ask for that to be chased up. On pensions, I
:32:47. > :32:50.reminder it is us who reeled the state pension attorneyings and
:32:51. > :32:54.created the triple lock guarantee, doing more for our pensions than
:32:55. > :32:58.previous Governments for a very long time.
:32:59. > :33:03.Mr Speaker, on Monday frshgts Despatch Box, the BWP secretary said
:33:04. > :33:07.there is a a very real systemic risk with defined benefit schemes and we
:33:08. > :33:12.need to look at this. I think he is right. 5,000 of the 6,000 defined
:33:13. > :33:17.benefit schemes in the UK are in deficit. The pensions regulator has
:33:18. > :33:20.raised concerns of additional risks to these schemes following the vote
:33:21. > :33:25.to leave the UK. We are talking about real risk to pension fund
:33:26. > :33:30.members, can we have a debate on Government time on this crucial
:33:31. > :33:33.issue? Well there is no doubt that defined benefit schemes face
:33:34. > :33:36.enormous pressures because, most fundamentally to the change of life
:33:37. > :33:41.span that has taken place over the last few decades. It is a good thing
:33:42. > :33:44.we are living longer t makes it much more difficult to fund a pension
:33:45. > :33:47.fund through what is vast and long period of retirement than previously
:33:48. > :33:50.would have been the ka.s he makes an important point. Something I know
:33:51. > :33:53.the Department of work and pensions monitors carefully and he will no
:33:54. > :33:57.doubt take advantage of the opportunities in this House early in
:33:58. > :34:00.oral questions or on the floor of the House from the aGeoff Hoonment
:34:01. > :34:05.debate to raise this issue directly with ministers.
:34:06. > :34:10.Ful Public health England have recently reported a dramatic rise
:34:11. > :34:15.incidents of sexually tramsmitted diseases in the UK since 2012. These
:34:16. > :34:18.figures should set alarm bells ringing about the availability of
:34:19. > :34:20.sexual whaelt services and the strong link between poor sexual
:34:21. > :34:24.health and higher levels of deprivation. Can we have an urgent
:34:25. > :34:28.debate in Government time on the provision of sexual health services
:34:29. > :34:33.and investment in prevention to begin to address this growing health
:34:34. > :34:37.crisis? One of the reasons that we devolved be responsibility for
:34:38. > :34:42.public health to local authorities is that it provides the opportunity
:34:43. > :34:44.for them to put in place tailored decisions, tailored approaches to
:34:45. > :34:50.suit the needs of their local communities. I think, actually, wise
:34:51. > :34:55.and smart councils can address very well now, precisely the kind of
:34:56. > :34:57.problem she's talking about. Mr Speaker, yesterday during the
:34:58. > :35:03.adjournment debate, the honourable member for Dundee West made an
:35:04. > :35:09.excellent case for a deal for the Tee cities area, and the minister
:35:10. > :35:15.was positive in response for that. Stirling also has an application for
:35:16. > :35:20.a city deal. Can the Government make a decision on that, and the time
:35:21. > :35:23.scales, given the recent Brexit decision? I think city deals are a
:35:24. > :35:27.positive thing and the Secretary of State will be here on Monday for
:35:28. > :35:29.Select Committee for Communities and Local Government questions. He has
:35:30. > :35:33.been very heavily involved in the process of city deals. Of course, it
:35:34. > :35:36.is worth just remembering that, of course, if Scotland were independent
:35:37. > :35:48.from the United Kingdom, there would be no city deals.
:35:49. > :35:50.Mr Brennan. Does the news as well as sacking the Justice Minister,
:35:51. > :35:56.Chancellor, and the kaedgecation secretary. Would this be a good
:35:57. > :36:05.opportunity on a debate on teaching geography and classics. It I would a
:36:06. > :36:13.lout Leader of the House to allow the difference about fas lane and
:36:14. > :36:18.the appointment of the Foreign Secretary must be the most
:36:19. > :36:22.spectacular since Caliugula appointed a horse.
:36:23. > :36:27.Well I'm still that the Scottish National Party would struggle around
:36:28. > :36:31.the communities adjoining the basin of fas lain lane to convince them
:36:32. > :36:35.that it is a jolly good idea to lose that facility somewhere else. It
:36:36. > :36:40.makes no sense at all. In terms of the learning of classics one thing I
:36:41. > :36:44.will remind him, one thing I will remind him, there are more than 1
:36:45. > :36:48.million children being educated in good and excellent schools more than
:36:49. > :36:53.there were in 2010, something I'm very proud of.
:36:54. > :36:56.Mr Speaker, we now have a Prime Minister, who as Home Secretary led
:36:57. > :37:00.the charge on scrapping the human rights act. People will be
:37:01. > :37:03.concerned, now, given her promotion, that this assault on human rights
:37:04. > :37:07.will continue, and possibility although a faster rate. Can we have
:37:08. > :37:16.a debate on the matter which would be a chance for the new Cabinet to
:37:17. > :37:19.clearly spell out their intention s? Clearly the honourable lady didn't
:37:20. > :37:22.listen to her speech when she launched our campaign when she said
:37:23. > :37:30.she was not currently planning to pursue that option.
:37:31. > :37:33.Thank you, Mr Speaker, can we have a debate regarding the powers of
:37:34. > :37:36.Trading Standards officers, in particular to deal with unscrupulous
:37:37. > :37:40.builders? I have had a number of cases now where people have been
:37:41. > :37:45.ripped off. Well, Mr speaker, I know that this
:37:46. > :37:48.is a matter of concern that has happened on one or two occasions in
:37:49. > :37:51.my constituency. Certainly I believe trading standards officers have the
:37:52. > :37:54.powers to intervene but if he has specific ideas about where those
:37:55. > :37:58.powers could and would be strengthened, if he wants to right
:37:59. > :38:02.to me, I'll pass those to the appropriate minister.
:38:03. > :38:09.Was the honourable lady present at the start? No.
:38:10. > :38:13.In that case, I'm afraid the honourable lady's words of wisdom,
:38:14. > :38:16.which I don't doubt will be just that, will have to be put into
:38:17. > :38:21.storage and used on another occasion, to which occasion we all
:38:22. > :38:31.look forward with bated breath and beads of sweat upon our foreheads in
:38:32. > :38:35.eager anticipation. Mr Speaker, at Westbourne House it is a hostel run
:38:36. > :38:39.by Humber Care in my constituency and deals with people of a variety
:38:40. > :38:42.of issues. When it was set up the Chief Executive decided not to
:38:43. > :38:47.consult with the local community and since then, despite effort - and he
:38:48. > :38:51.also didn't tell me about what was happening - since then, despite the
:38:52. > :38:54.good efforts of the police and frontline staff in the hostel there
:38:55. > :38:56.have been ongoing problems with antisocial behaviour. I wonder
:38:57. > :39:01.whether it would be possible to have a debate about the responsibilities
:39:02. > :39:04.of people who hold office, Chief Executives of charities and
:39:05. > :39:07.organisations, for when they take decisions which cause real problems
:39:08. > :39:13.in local communities, because it seems very difficult to actually get
:39:14. > :39:17.any action taken in cases like this? Well, Mr Speaker, the honourable
:39:18. > :39:20.lady makes her point in a customary forthright way. I know this will be
:39:21. > :39:24.a matter of great concern to her constituents. It is, of course,
:39:25. > :39:27.essential that when fass I willities of this kind are established they
:39:28. > :39:30.are established in the right place. I think all of us over the years
:39:31. > :39:34.have discovered occasions when that has not happened. -- when facilities
:39:35. > :39:39.like this are established. I will say to her, this is something that
:39:40. > :39:43.will have to be dealt with by by the local authorities. I understand the
:39:44. > :39:51.point she is making and she has made it very well. Mr Speaker n recent
:39:52. > :40:06.weeks, Clydebank group has brought to my attention that request for
:40:07. > :40:09.workplace to HMRC for those suffering from msyotheliomiia
:40:10. > :40:15.condition, such as my constituents has reached over a year. Could we
:40:16. > :40:19.seek a early conqueueing to workplace history question for those
:40:20. > :40:23.suffering from life-threatening conditions and bring to the floor of
:40:24. > :40:26.the house. I understand Howedes separately difficult it is for
:40:27. > :40:30.people suffering from this horrible condition. What I would say it him
:40:31. > :40:34.the new Chancellor will be here on Tuesday and I would encourage him to
:40:35. > :40:42.come here and make that point, it is a very important one.
:40:43. > :40:49.Can I draw his attention to early day motion 310 on civil servants
:40:50. > :40:56.compensation scheme and government oppose all is to drastically cut
:40:57. > :41:02.them, can we have a debate on government time on this issue as it
:41:03. > :41:05.is affecting civil servant's morale. This is one of the difficult
:41:06. > :41:09.challenges we have faced as a government in the last six years.
:41:10. > :41:14.The fact is that the compensation schemes, ever since we took office
:41:15. > :41:17.in 2010, they have been out of kilter with what would happen in the
:41:18. > :41:22.private sector. There comes a point where we have a duty to the taxpayer
:41:23. > :41:25.as well to have a system that is balanced and consistent with what
:41:26. > :41:31.people would face in other employment. I am sure the whole
:41:32. > :41:34.house agrees that the UK Government should support the families of
:41:35. > :41:39.service personnel who have died while serving. A group of UK
:41:40. > :41:42.military widows are prevented from receiving pensions if they were
:41:43. > :41:49.married before April last year. How can we close this illogical and
:41:50. > :41:53.deeply unjust loophole? I know this is a point she has raised before and
:41:54. > :41:57.other members as well, I understand the point she makes. I will make
:41:58. > :42:10.sure the Defence Secretary is aware of the concern she has raised this
:42:11. > :42:17.morning and ask him to write to her. Mr Speaker, can we have a debate on
:42:18. > :42:25.Cabinet appointments? It strikes me that despite insulting Boris, he has
:42:26. > :42:28.tabled no written questions to the Foreign Office, no oral questions to
:42:29. > :42:33.the Foreign Office and has only bothered to turn up for four SCO
:42:34. > :42:39.statements, should we move to a situation where parliament approves
:42:40. > :42:44.Cabinet appointments as we do in Holyrood than at the discretion of
:42:45. > :42:53.the Prime Minister? There must be quite afraid of his appointment by
:42:54. > :42:58.how much they are going on about it. Last week I asked a question to the
:42:59. > :43:02.leader of the house about the House of Lords and I got the worst answer
:43:03. > :43:06.I have received in this place to date. I can tell the honourable
:43:07. > :43:16.member that is it quite an achievement, I did government
:43:17. > :43:22.position was saying that we should have brought forward private members
:43:23. > :43:30.bills. His government has refused to implement the recommendations,
:43:31. > :43:36.therefore I will try again. Will the leader of the house and say whether
:43:37. > :43:41.it is acceptable to have 26 members of the Church of England in the
:43:42. > :43:46.House of Lords and be able to vote on issues that affect Scotland? I
:43:47. > :43:52.will give the same answer again. It is not time to start reforming the
:43:53. > :43:56.House of Lords, why have we had no private members bills, they talk
:43:57. > :44:06.about the issues but they simply don't pursue them. Point of order,
:44:07. > :44:07.Paula Sheriff. As a matter of record, in