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:01:29. > :01:33.Hello and welcome to BBC Parliament live coverage of the House of

:01:34. > :01:36.Commons. At half past three David Cameron will make a statement to MPs

:01:37. > :01:40.on the deal reached with European Union leaders on reforming the terms

:01:41. > :01:46.of the UK's membership of the EU. That agreement pave the way for the

:01:47. > :01:49.out referendum on the 23rd of June. Mr Cameron announced the date on

:01:50. > :01:59.Saturday when he returned from Brussels. The Prime Minister will

:02:00. > :02:08.make the case for the EU UK to Burbank. Such is the justice

:02:09. > :02:11.secretary and the work and pensions Secretary. The Prime Minister

:02:12. > :02:16.statement on the EU will be repeated and debated in the House of Lords as

:02:17. > :02:19.well. Member to join me for a round-up of the days debate about

:02:20. > :02:23.the EU in both houses of parliament at 11 o'clock this evening. We start

:02:24. > :02:45.this question to the home Secretary May.

:02:46. > :02:55.Order! Order! Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home

:02:56. > :02:59.Department. Question one Mr Speaker. Thank you, the investigator and

:03:00. > :03:03.Powers bill has been in close consultation with the industry. The

:03:04. > :03:07.cost of the public for implement the provisions will continue to be

:03:08. > :03:14.refined as we hope more detailed vote come. They can meet the costs

:03:15. > :03:17.themselves. Full cost recovery will reply to operational cost including

:03:18. > :03:23.those associated with new obligations under the bill. Thank

:03:24. > :03:25.you Mr Speaker, the science and technology committee warned that the

:03:26. > :03:35.bill of risk undermining the start we performing tech sector. Will the

:03:36. > :03:40.Secretary of State and sure as that the UK businesses will not be placed

:03:41. > :03:47.at a commercial disadvantage to overseas competitors? I can assure

:03:48. > :03:51.the gentleman that. As I said and my answer to his initial question, we

:03:52. > :03:58.will be ensuring that the full cost recovery replies to operational cost

:03:59. > :04:02.for any companies who have, except for notices issued to them. What is

:04:03. > :04:04.clear is that that is what we have done as the government in the past,

:04:05. > :04:11.that is the privileged governments have done and we will continue its.

:04:12. > :04:15.Was the home secretary look carefully at the recommendations of

:04:16. > :04:20.the joint committee in regards to but recognition of the Internet. We

:04:21. > :04:23.were clear that greater clarity is needed on deafness in order to be

:04:24. > :04:27.able to allow the private sector to fully cost there for proposals. I

:04:28. > :04:32.think the right honourable gentleman, those honourable members

:04:33. > :04:37.and any other place to set on that committee and who did an excellent

:04:38. > :04:42.job in producing their reports, a very well thought through and

:04:43. > :04:51.careful report. We will look very carefully at the issue. We are

:04:52. > :04:57.looking awfully on all committees. We will bring forward a revised bill

:04:58. > :05:02.proposals in due course. On the specific issue of private

:05:03. > :05:06.businesses, could be home secretary outlines what recent discussions she

:05:07. > :05:12.or her ministers have had with the devolved ministrations about that

:05:13. > :05:16.particular aspect? Discussions with devolved ministrations have been

:05:17. > :05:20.going on throughout the preparation of the initial draft bill, and

:05:21. > :05:23.indeed have continued and will continue. Also, but will also

:05:24. > :05:28.continue its discussions between ministers and officials and the

:05:29. > :05:33.companies and private room at private businesses themselves.

:05:34. > :05:38.Question number two Mr Speaker. With the mission was a speaker I will

:05:39. > :05:42.answer questions two and ten on the order paper together. The minimum

:05:43. > :05:46.income threshold of ?18,600 for sponsoring a partner under the

:05:47. > :05:51.family immigration roles, and so is that couples wishing to establish

:05:52. > :05:54.the family life in the UK do not place burdens on the taxpayer and

:05:55. > :06:01.hub motor integration. It is being considered by the courts and upheld

:06:02. > :06:05.by the court of appeals. The Low the welfare of immigrants has said that

:06:06. > :06:13.these rules discriminately affecting women. 25% get less than 18,600

:06:14. > :06:17.compared to 75% of men. This gives young people it is evident as well.

:06:18. > :06:23.What actual the home Secretary take to reduce these on sale rules? I

:06:24. > :06:27.would say that the threshold was set as advice of the migration advisory

:06:28. > :06:32.committee to look very carefully on the levels of income and terms of

:06:33. > :06:41.not being a bargain on the taxpayer. The gross median and Scotland in

:06:42. > :06:43.2014 racks at 21,725 higher than the threshold. This of legal challenge

:06:44. > :06:52.has been raised by the course of Appeal. The threshold was upheld.

:06:53. > :06:56.Thinking you Mr Speaker, the Secretary of State will see a story

:06:57. > :07:01.reported by the BBC this morning where she fled the area and gave

:07:02. > :07:04.birth to her son in the UK. Her husband a Syrian national is unable

:07:05. > :07:09.to join the meeting because they cannot afford the fees of these. Can

:07:10. > :07:13.Secretary of State tell us with his British nationals should go to enter

:07:14. > :07:18.her family life. Her husband home country of Syria? There are various

:07:19. > :07:23.different routes that could be available. We have the family

:07:24. > :07:26.reunion and route that can apply and circumstances. I'm not familiar with

:07:27. > :07:32.all the us is that he highlights. Equally, the government is in

:07:33. > :07:36.respect for uncertainties for the protection of the children. This is

:07:37. > :07:39.considered by the court and upheld. That gave the point made so

:07:40. > :07:44.eloquently by my Honorable friend about not being a burden on the

:07:45. > :07:48.taxpayer. To what extent do we take into account, charges made by other

:07:49. > :07:55.countries, two British nationals hoping to emigrate to those

:07:56. > :07:58.countries? I say, my honourable friend makes a point on different

:07:59. > :08:02.immigration systems and different parts of the world. Obviously we

:08:03. > :08:05.have taken advice on the migration advisory committee looking at cost

:08:06. > :08:10.and look at those pardons to see that someone does not place a burden

:08:11. > :08:18.on the UK taxpayer. But his odyssey for other countries to assess what

:08:19. > :08:22.is appropriate and their own system. The financial threshold family visas

:08:23. > :08:26.is causing particular distress to one of my constituents who cannot

:08:27. > :08:31.work the hours required because she is a carer for her vulnerable child.

:08:32. > :08:36.This means she is living without her husband and the Taliban without his

:08:37. > :08:40.father. Does the Minister acknowledged that he is at risk of

:08:41. > :08:48.creating a generation of children whose only contact with one of their

:08:49. > :08:53.parents will be via Skype? Now, I don't except the point the Honorable

:08:54. > :08:57.Lady makes. These issues of the welfare of the child are absolutely

:08:58. > :09:01.part of the consideration that the takes, this was a matter that was

:09:02. > :09:07.considered by the courts of the pale. And firmly upheld. I would say

:09:08. > :09:12.to the Honorable lady that when this issue of the -- all being said in

:09:13. > :09:15.November 2011, the migration advisory committee gave a lower

:09:16. > :09:20.threshold of 18,600 but equally advise the national could have been

:09:21. > :09:23.set at 25,000 700. The Government reflected in those circumstances and

:09:24. > :09:29.set it to level as it has done. That little has been upheld by the court.

:09:30. > :09:33.The Minister has mentioned the court of appeal but the matter is not

:09:34. > :09:36.entirely set from a legal point of view because this week the Supreme

:09:37. > :09:40.Court will hold the cases of two but is nationals who cannot meet these

:09:41. > :09:45.tough financial rules to allow their not EU spouses to come and live with

:09:46. > :09:51.them. The Honorable member for Hampstead and Coburn has mentioned

:09:52. > :09:54.that according to the children's Commissioner for England there are

:09:55. > :10:00.15,000 British children growing up via Skype. How can the Minister

:10:01. > :10:05.justified the stress and anxiety caused by these children -- to these

:10:06. > :10:10.children for the other flexible and unjust rule. I don't accept the

:10:11. > :10:15.characterisation that the honourable lady has proven to. I does recognise

:10:16. > :10:22.the number that she has proffered. I do say, that it is about good

:10:23. > :10:26.immigration, it is in relation to language in terms of mapping a

:10:27. > :10:29.bargain to the taxpayer but equally promoting integration. We believe

:10:30. > :10:36.the policy is ineffective in doing that. ... Last year the conservative

:10:37. > :10:43.call on the government to change these rules. Melting, the

:10:44. > :10:51.significant contribution made by millions of Brooke Britons living

:10:52. > :10:57.as the Minister of Rome as the opposition, will he at least listen

:10:58. > :11:02.to his own party and get rid of these rules was to scrimmage against

:11:03. > :11:06.hard-working families? I say again to the honourable lady that we do

:11:07. > :11:10.not believe that the rules are discriminatory, and the way that she

:11:11. > :11:13.is a just and characterises, the system is in place to ensure a good

:11:14. > :11:17.integration and is absurd that people are not a burden on the

:11:18. > :11:21.taxpayer. I thought that was something she would recognise as

:11:22. > :11:25.being a positive aspect of the policy to make sure that people can

:11:26. > :11:29.contribute and settle. The rules have been set, and upheld by the

:11:30. > :11:36.court and look at the two of underline those key things. With

:11:37. > :11:43.permission I will answer questions three and 16 on the order paper

:11:44. > :11:51.together. Border force carries out 100% of the tax. They deliver an

:11:52. > :11:59.effective and intelligent responses for a range of security threats.

:12:00. > :12:03.They used equipment and a range of search techniques. I think the home

:12:04. > :12:07.secretary for that answer but last of the birth of eminent fives were

:12:08. > :12:11.found in a container in my constituency, that came just three

:12:12. > :12:17.weeks after 20 immigrants were found of wear. Given that my local border

:12:18. > :12:21.forces are facing cuts, how can the secretary reassure me that these

:12:22. > :12:25.cuts are not damaging the safety and security? The approach that we are

:12:26. > :12:29.taking to these matters comes across in a number of ways. First of all,

:12:30. > :12:33.in relation to water forth, we are looking to edge does this

:12:34. > :12:37.technology, but also to an Benedike Howedes make sure they can operate

:12:38. > :12:42.successfully. It will be a much more intelligent lead approach. We can

:12:43. > :12:46.target what they need to be in accordance with the intelligence,

:12:47. > :12:51.and also this government has enhanced our ability to deal with

:12:52. > :12:56.organised crime. This is an issue that the national crime agency set

:12:57. > :13:01.up by the last Coalition government is taking very seriously and is

:13:02. > :13:09.acting on. Thank you, I have ten electronic passports case and my

:13:10. > :13:13.efficiency at the airport of my department is unable to tell me how

:13:14. > :13:17.many people travelled through. And how often they malfunction and how

:13:18. > :13:24.many were Texans they are. Does the home Secretary agree with me that

:13:25. > :13:29.the warning -- as identified by the office, this is one of them and it

:13:30. > :13:33.should be looked into? What I say is that I think that the increased

:13:34. > :13:39.number of each day for checking passports that we have is a good

:13:40. > :13:48.move. It's and hat security at our border. Thank you Mr Speaker, I have

:13:49. > :13:53.been trying to figure out how many people arrive at UK airports without

:13:54. > :13:56.valid travel documents. I'm very surprised that nobody seems to be

:13:57. > :14:00.able to give me an answer to this. Within minutes be able to give me an

:14:01. > :14:05.answer and if not hesitate to ask them to find out this important

:14:06. > :14:10.matter? I can tell my honourable friend that 18,000 individuals were

:14:11. > :14:13.refused at entry at the border in 2014 equity those who were

:14:14. > :14:16.travelling on an valid documentation. When somebody comes

:14:17. > :14:22.the UK border they are subjected to a range of tax we have offices at

:14:23. > :14:28.the border who trained and are able to detect forged documents and steps

:14:29. > :14:33.are being taken to intercept those individuals who don't have the

:14:34. > :14:39.correct documents of of a bit over at the border. And I congratulate

:14:40. > :14:42.the home Secretary are the words as he sat on the value of EU membership

:14:43. > :14:47.in terms of protecting the safety and security of this country. Can I

:14:48. > :14:52.ask her, even though that is the case and I agree with her could we

:14:53. > :14:57.have more specific focus on the quieter port, the quieter airports

:14:58. > :15:01.were the smuggling gangs know it is quieter? I indicated in my response

:15:02. > :15:06.earlier to one of his honourable friend, that the way border forces

:15:07. > :15:09.of prejudice as in a much intelligent lead basis, so that they

:15:10. > :15:13.can be flexible in relation to the staff that employed in different

:15:14. > :15:21.ports, professing recognising, that we don't eat as a focus on one or 24

:15:22. > :15:30.22 focus on a range of ports. -- focus on one or two ports. We need

:15:31. > :15:34.to rely on strong EU coordinated approach to security including at

:15:35. > :15:37.our borders and our ports. The Secretary of State and I know road

:15:38. > :15:42.that we rely on EU criminal justice and security measures. And those

:15:43. > :15:47.circumstances, I assume that the home office carried out a risk

:15:48. > :15:52.assessment on the impact of UK withdraw and the EU on security at

:15:53. > :15:57.ports. Recommended of the public who have not yet decided how to vote in

:15:58. > :16:02.the referendum access the conclusions? I have dissected say to

:16:03. > :16:08.the honourable gentleman, I'm not sure that his parliamentary language

:16:09. > :16:11.for me to repeat Mr Speaker. He can rest assured that argument there

:16:12. > :16:15.relations of these matters will be fully set out for people over the

:16:16. > :16:19.coming months. One of the arguments I put, he will have no because he

:16:20. > :16:25.was involved in this and a different capacity before he came into this

:16:26. > :16:28.chamber. It was around issues like the operation of various sizes and

:16:29. > :16:31.home affairs meshes is what we set out very clearly as the government

:16:32. > :16:39.by without the benefit was in being part of those measures. Tony Smith

:16:40. > :16:46.the interim head of the UK border for from 20 1213 said that a vote to

:16:47. > :16:52.leave the EU would pose a lot of issues for the border force who is

:16:53. > :16:56.already under huge pressure. In particular he highlighted the fact

:16:57. > :17:01.that the border for staff would have to carry out more attacks on EU

:17:02. > :17:05.citizens. Can the Secretary of State confirm that the border for school

:17:06. > :17:12.and the fact to face more cuts year on year for the foreseeable future?

:17:13. > :17:16.I'm happy to say that anybody who comes to the UK border, anybody

:17:17. > :17:21.receives a stringent checks at the UK border, we are doing that now on

:17:22. > :17:25.a much more intelligent lead basis, in terms of looking at individuals

:17:26. > :17:28.who may be of concern, and yes he is right that we have interactions with

:17:29. > :17:33.other member states and the European Union to the use of things like a

:17:34. > :17:37.system to identify people who are of concern who are coming across the

:17:38. > :17:42.border. Border forth and other operations are not about people, the

:17:43. > :17:45.about goods and bridges are good and illegal goods being brought into the

:17:46. > :17:49.UK. That is where the intelligence led approach can be helpful in

:17:50. > :17:58.identifying when the areas of concern and action being taken

:17:59. > :18:02.appropriate of properly. But commission on what action questions

:18:03. > :18:10.four and 14 on the order paper. Crime commissioners, sorry for and

:18:11. > :18:13.13. Crime commissioners are providing a comfortable position and

:18:14. > :18:18.making a real difference to policing locally. There has been a reduction

:18:19. > :18:38.in crime and more than a quarter sensor and seduction. -- production.

:18:39. > :18:44.There is already good process of scrutiny that is available through

:18:45. > :18:54.the piece and crime panels, for looking at any potential crime that

:18:55. > :19:02.police may have. That process it is enshrined and is being taken. What I

:19:03. > :19:07.do is when any area is looking at the potential for roles, for such as

:19:08. > :19:10.we have in the greater Manchester area in relation to peace and crime

:19:11. > :19:17.commissioner with the productive mayor of that area. There is full

:19:18. > :19:24.consideration of all the aspects of the issue to ensure that going ahead

:19:25. > :19:28.they can give it to do so properly without conflict of interest as

:19:29. > :19:35.ensuring that the best services delivered. Thank you Mr Speaker, my

:19:36. > :19:37.local police force received a positive inspection report from the

:19:38. > :19:43.home inspector. With my right honourable friend join me and please

:19:44. > :19:48.do the work of the constable at the conservative police and crime

:19:49. > :19:52.commissioner and their efforts to fight crime and specifically the

:19:53. > :19:59.chief constables national work on the prevent programme. I'm very

:20:00. > :20:04.happy to exit and congratulations I'm sure everybody across his house

:20:05. > :20:07.to the excellent work that is being done by the chief constable and the

:20:08. > :20:11.peace and crime commissioner. They have done an job and the crime

:20:12. > :20:15.commissioner will be stepping down. But I would like to thank them for

:20:16. > :20:20.the work that he has done over his first term at peace and crime

:20:21. > :20:24.commissioner. The main problem that the South Yorkshire police and crime

:20:25. > :20:35.commissioner faces is the shortfall in his budget was Roosevelt and too

:20:36. > :20:39.much 250 police jobs being lost. It makes rational planning difficult.

:20:40. > :20:43.With the home Secretary agreed that the PCs can do the job better if

:20:44. > :20:47.they had the budget set at the remainder of the Parliament of what

:20:48. > :20:58.will they do about it? The pitcher he has had out is not the one that I

:20:59. > :21:01.recognise. We have protected, police budgets, across the period of the

:21:02. > :21:05.Comprehensive Spending Review. I would have thought that he would

:21:06. > :21:16.have welcome that given that his front this one of the cut by 10%. A

:21:17. > :21:23.recent reports by the British retail consultant found that these crimes

:21:24. > :21:29.have gone up by 25%. What action was the home Secretary take to and a

:21:30. > :21:32.vote for commissioners to take act against any level of violence

:21:33. > :21:40.against retail staff. What action can be take to reduce this? First of

:21:41. > :21:50.all, I think we are all concerned about Violet Maxine taken place. It

:21:51. > :21:53.is a matter of real concern. The operational response to such crimes

:21:54. > :21:57.being committed and the business of such crimes as a matter for the

:21:58. > :22:02.chief Constable of the particular for the area to look into. I know

:22:03. > :22:08.there are a number of retail chain to ever working very closely. To try

:22:09. > :22:13.to ensure that they are able to provide added support and security

:22:14. > :22:16.for the staff. Although I have had my differences that time with the

:22:17. > :22:20.pleasing crime commissioner and the concert, when my right honourable

:22:21. > :22:23.friend agree with me that his record along with the biggest Achilles, and

:22:24. > :22:31.reducing crime is exemplary and is an example to all? I would again

:22:32. > :22:34.congratulate and walk him see what that is being done in the concert

:22:35. > :22:37.and relation to the reduction of crime by the chief Constable and the

:22:38. > :22:40.pleasing crime commissioner. It is not the only area where we have been

:22:41. > :22:49.able to see crime solving but I think that the following McNish or

:22:50. > :22:58.has been significant. -- Lancashire. Can I ask if she has any statement

:22:59. > :23:02.from the North have a sure crime commissioner from his panel? It is

:23:03. > :23:10.expected that the full transfer funding from the urban areas to more

:23:11. > :23:13.rural areas and that the city will benefit. As developing government

:23:14. > :23:19.policy or is it just letting the cat of the bag? I would have tossed the

:23:20. > :23:30.ombudsman would be aware, we have Derek Lilley said that the proposed

:23:31. > :23:34.changes that we were... We're trying to develop a formula that is

:23:35. > :23:48.affected of the needs. I also sent to the ombudsman he looks across the

:23:49. > :23:56.at police forces across the area he will see that the funding formula

:23:57. > :24:05.needs to change. Question five Mr Speaker. Mr Mike Penning, we ask

:24:06. > :24:18.permission to answer questions on the order paper. Pleasing crime

:24:19. > :24:24.commissioners will have a duty to collaborate on the Bill before this

:24:25. > :24:32.house becomes a law. Hampshire fire service and handsets of the services

:24:33. > :24:38.share a building resulting and financial sufficiency. Will he

:24:39. > :24:43.congratulated me and taking a lead and collaborative working. I was

:24:44. > :24:46.there recently and saw for myself deeply working is being done between

:24:47. > :24:53.the emergency services. The collaboration with the chief and the

:24:54. > :25:01.chief Constable as of the PCC to, they are doing excellent work. The

:25:02. > :25:03.map of my Honorable friend agree that it is important that the new

:25:04. > :25:07.generation of pleasing crime commissioners who have been elected,

:25:08. > :25:12.or will be elected in a couple months' time get behind this

:25:13. > :25:18.important reform. Will he join me in welcoming the commitment of the

:25:19. > :25:30.excellent PCC candidates and his strong desire to implement these

:25:31. > :25:33.subtler forms? We need to make sure that we spending taxpayer money

:25:34. > :25:45.efficiently and well and collaboration and that is the best

:25:46. > :25:55.way for that. She is really a shy or tiring so. The fire and rescue

:25:56. > :25:58.services collaborating very well all over the country, particularly with

:25:59. > :26:03.the ambulance trusts. Will you tell us why he sees necessary under the

:26:04. > :26:08.new bill, that the police and crime commissioners would actually take

:26:09. > :26:15.control of the fire services, surely the two organizations are so

:26:16. > :26:21.different in so many ways. You can have the collaboration without the

:26:22. > :26:28.PCC running our fire services. I think is of the matter, someone who

:26:29. > :26:33.is duly able to run that like a PCC should be on any committee. I'm sure

:26:34. > :26:37.we would want an efficient emergency service, before I service working

:26:38. > :26:47.closely with the police is the way we would like to do that.

:26:48. > :26:51.Collaboration with the services will be the communication network. How

:26:52. > :27:01.much will they cause, and though one day be in place? -- and when will

:27:02. > :27:04.they be in place. There are bits out there and the moment, it will be

:27:05. > :27:09.confidential at the moment. What we do know is that the air racism that

:27:10. > :27:17.we have had needs replacing, it is very expensive and this will be

:27:18. > :27:22.cheaper. The pleasing crime commissioner will put forward a

:27:23. > :27:25.business case to take over the governments of Hampshire for fire

:27:26. > :27:30.rescue services. My honourable friend pointed out what they already

:27:31. > :27:34.doing, we already have a trading arm which pays for the governments of

:27:35. > :27:37.the fire and rescue Authority. What this is the police and fire

:27:38. > :27:44.commission approved for that would allow him to run the service? If the

:27:45. > :27:49.local community wants to have a more efficient service which could be the

:27:50. > :27:53.case, and accept that they are particularly good. When I was in

:27:54. > :27:57.Hampshire there were people asking me for more collaboration, more work

:27:58. > :28:02.to be done to particularly from the front lines which is the most

:28:03. > :28:06.important the plaintiff. Given the cuts and funding to the police

:28:07. > :28:13.service, and the fire and rescue services already budgeted for by

:28:14. > :28:16.this government, can the Minister guarantee that placing fire and left

:28:17. > :28:25.the services under PCC control will not lead to further cut in the

:28:26. > :28:27.numbers of front line firefighters? This is bigger, thank goodness the

:28:28. > :28:31.chances of not listen to labor front bench to relive the funding for the

:28:32. > :28:37.please worked until 2020 because office they of a 10% cut. What we

:28:38. > :28:42.must make sure, what we must make sure is that we have an efficient

:28:43. > :28:56.service and that will be going for. Thank you Mr Speaker. Tackling crime

:28:57. > :29:02.is a priority for government. Show that knife crime is 14% lower than

:29:03. > :29:05.it was in June 2010, we recognise that there is more to do and new

:29:06. > :29:10.actions to tackle knife crime will be set out in the modern crime

:29:11. > :29:19.prevention strategy. I think my honourable friend for the first bite

:29:20. > :29:25.the. -- knife what action is her department taken to Brook -- tackle

:29:26. > :29:29.knife crime. Can I think my honourable friend for his question,

:29:30. > :29:37.and congratulate him on the new arrival, new baby who I believe was

:29:38. > :29:41.very involved in the delivery. I am also aware of the concerns about

:29:42. > :29:43.knife crimes and Essex, and I recently met with my right

:29:44. > :29:47.honourable friend and I have been more than happy to meet with him to

:29:48. > :29:51.discuss precisely this issue. The taking if they just steps, and early

:29:52. > :29:55.this month be supported 30 police forces, including Essex. They

:29:56. > :30:00.undertook coordinated action against knife crime. Thank you Mr Speaker.

:30:01. > :30:09.Knife crime, bike other crime is best dealt with preemptively. In

:30:10. > :30:14.Sussex crime has gone up 8%, and yet today the government inspector said

:30:15. > :30:18.that routinely front-line, neighbourhood, and local police and

:30:19. > :30:22.being taken away. Kenny Minister please be looked at the thousand

:30:23. > :30:28.front-line police officers and staff that are being taken away and for

:30:29. > :30:35.the impact neighbourhood policing? Mr Speaker, can I start when it's a

:30:36. > :30:37.-- comes to Sussex. Congratulating the police commissioner. At that

:30:38. > :30:51.hair, and we discussed to take she's I think he should remember the boat

:30:52. > :30:55.that he made in this house to cut police resources by 10%, something

:30:56. > :31:07.that decided the House disagreed with. Thank you Mr Speaker. Recently

:31:08. > :31:14.and Darby a young man lost his life. Lester, knife years rose across the

:31:15. > :31:18.UK. Can I ask my right honourable friend what steps the department are

:31:19. > :31:22.taking to tackle the scourge of individuals from carrying knives? My

:31:23. > :31:26.honourable friend is right. We do need to educate and show them people

:31:27. > :31:29.that caring matters is not school, it's not something that they should

:31:30. > :31:34.be doing. It's a big that they should understand is dangerous and

:31:35. > :31:37.can result in loss of life. That is why in the last parliament we

:31:38. > :31:42.legislated so that if someone is caught with a knife twice they have

:31:43. > :31:46.a mandatory prison sentence, and we are doing more work. I would be more

:31:47. > :31:54.than happy to work with her and discuss the specific issues and

:31:55. > :31:59.Darby which I do know have... Have the Minister considered amnesty to

:32:00. > :32:04.invite people to hand in weapons, whether it be knives or other

:32:05. > :32:09.weapons, it was very successful in the West Midlands. Mr Speaker, that

:32:10. > :32:15.is a matter for chief constables to determine. I said that we worked

:32:16. > :32:25.with 13 forces including within that work, world knife amnesties.

:32:26. > :32:30.Question number seven. Discussions with

:32:31. > :32:37.to ensure that the public are aware and protected from fraud. It is the

:32:38. > :32:44.mission to counter the wicked work of fraudsters. While I actually

:32:45. > :32:50.understand the difficulties and effectively policing the Internet,

:32:51. > :32:55.financial scams judging by my own parliamentary accounts, seem to be

:32:56. > :32:59.out of control. The most older people are being targeted. When my

:33:00. > :33:04.right honourable friend have another look at this issues and see if there

:33:05. > :33:08.is a way that we can bring these criminals to account? It's because

:33:09. > :33:13.we have taken a fresh look at this. Just as my honourable friend

:33:14. > :33:18.recommends that we have launched the joint task force, we are continuing

:33:19. > :33:21.to support the supply of the streetwise campaign which makes

:33:22. > :33:27.people more aware and guarded about fraud, but we have invested 90

:33:28. > :33:33.million, and one point billion and two security over the next years. We

:33:34. > :33:41.take this seriously. In the cyber age, I am a cyber minister up to the

:33:42. > :33:46.minute, up to the mark, and up to the job. LAUGHTER We would expect no

:33:47. > :33:54.less of the right honourable gentleman. Can I ask the cyber

:33:55. > :33:57.minister, as it seems to be -- since he is up to the mark, about the

:33:58. > :34:08.activities of a website which was discovered recently

:34:09. > :34:11.selling the stolen bank details of 100,000 British citizens? Since he

:34:12. > :34:16.is an up to the minute cyber minister, how is it possible for

:34:17. > :34:22.this website to carry on for six months before it was closed down?

:34:23. > :34:27.How much of the 1.9 billion that he is targeting on cyber crime will be

:34:28. > :34:33.used to proactively close downsides of this kind? The honourable

:34:34. > :34:36.gentleman knows because his committee has drawn attention to did

:34:37. > :34:41.in the past, that it is critically important that the government works

:34:42. > :34:45.with all other agencies including banks and private sector

:34:46. > :34:52.organizations, any task force has permission to do that. It is summed

:34:53. > :34:56.up by this. They have publicly signed up to commit their full

:34:57. > :35:01.support to work in partnership to protect the public from being

:35:02. > :35:08.victims of fraud, scams, and maximise opportunities to prevent

:35:09. > :35:11.fraudster from operating in the way that he recommended. Mr Speaker, the

:35:12. > :35:16.cyber minister will know that you are more likely to be marked online

:35:17. > :35:24.than in the street. -- mocked. Will the home secretary confirmed that

:35:25. > :35:33.after fighters of her government saying cut crime,. The tooth will be

:35:34. > :35:38.told that far from falling, crying is changing. Our country now faces

:35:39. > :35:43.crime doubling when this government continues to cut the number of

:35:44. > :35:46.police officer. The honourable gentleman will be disappointed to

:35:47. > :35:55.know that I am going to say that he is right. I remind him that we are

:35:56. > :35:58.the government that made the decision to publish the statistics,

:35:59. > :36:03.and to designate cyber crime and the way that we have. Until we

:36:04. > :36:06.appreciate the scale of the problem we won't develop the solutions

:36:07. > :36:12.necessary to deal with that. I would also say to him, as he will know,

:36:13. > :36:15.that we are using some of that extra resources to set up the national

:36:16. > :36:30.cyber centre to co-ordinate work in this area. Thank you Mr Speaker. The

:36:31. > :36:36.government has provided funding. It is interesting work that is going

:36:37. > :36:41.forward. Naturally, we will help encourage PC sees in the country to

:36:42. > :36:47.reduce crime, support victims, and closely engorged Democrats engage.

:36:48. > :36:52.The American comedian Eddie Cantor said that those currently on the

:36:53. > :36:56.most wanted list have been the most wanted as children, they would no

:36:57. > :37:00.longer be on the most wanted list. In that context, with the Minister

:37:01. > :37:04.welcomed the work that his department is doing with the early

:37:05. > :37:08.intervention foundation in creating police leaders academies on early

:37:09. > :37:12.intervention. Will he ensure that funding is available so that every

:37:13. > :37:23.police Commissioner a elected this year can attend courses this year.

:37:24. > :37:26.Can I praise the work of the early intervention foundation and the work

:37:27. > :37:30.that they're doing is important. Other agencies do important work,

:37:31. > :37:38.but we know about if we can catch them young to me compared to them

:37:39. > :37:42.from becoming criminals. Following the government's troubled families

:37:43. > :37:47.programme, it can be any doubt that early intervention works. It

:37:48. > :37:52.produces petty crime, encourages school attendance, gets people into

:37:53. > :37:56.jobs. What became clear and why this is welcome with the Minister is

:37:57. > :38:00.saying, without the active participation of the police, those

:38:01. > :38:06.programmes are so ineffectual. I hope that we will ensure that every

:38:07. > :38:14.chief constable in Commissioner will regard this in hype a wordy. I am

:38:15. > :38:17.sure that everyone has heard with my right honourable friend has said.

:38:18. > :38:23.That is why we put the money into the foundation, that is why we are

:38:24. > :38:26.doing the review at the moment into the police early intervention

:38:27. > :38:36.academy so that we can prove -- improve the outcomes. Humberside

:38:37. > :38:43.police is 500 fewer officers than five years ago, and of course across

:38:44. > :38:47.North Lincolnshire... Isn't it the case that the reality for the police

:38:48. > :38:52.on the ground is that early intervention is not a priority and

:38:53. > :38:59.it is being pushed onto ill resourced local authorities. Mr

:39:00. > :39:04.Speaker, I am sure that... Every single time we hear from the Labour

:39:05. > :39:08.Party they want more money and yet their front bench want to cut the

:39:09. > :39:20.funding to the police force. That is what the reality is, not what is

:39:21. > :39:33.actually going on. Number 11 Mr Speaker. Bear with me Mr Speaker. Mr

:39:34. > :39:39.Speaker, as I wrote earlier there are four police forces currently

:39:40. > :39:49.using track my crime. There are more coming on force, and 22 forces will

:39:50. > :39:53.have it available to them. I think the Minister for that answer. How

:39:54. > :39:56.successful has tracked my crime bend and supporting victims of crime and

:39:57. > :40:00.keeping them up to date and supporting them in the process of

:40:01. > :40:07.these matters being back investigated? When I broke this

:40:08. > :40:19.earlier, the tooth -- wrote. Victims have the confidence to

:40:20. > :40:27.actually believe in their justice system. Track my Crime will help

:40:28. > :40:40.that. The evidence gathering stage of the review has been done.

:40:41. > :40:47.18,000 police officers have been cut in the last five years. Is it really

:40:48. > :40:53.sensible to waste scarce police resources and enforcing a ban on

:40:54. > :41:01.poppers and criminalizing users other relatively harmless substance.

:41:02. > :41:06.I hope that the honourable gentleman will welcome the psychoactive

:41:07. > :41:09.substances act, because that blanket ban on the effect of these

:41:10. > :41:13.substances that we do not know what they do to young people and that

:41:14. > :41:18.they caused deaths is incredibly important. When it comes to poppers

:41:19. > :41:21.we have a commitment to reviewing the benefits of poppers against the

:41:22. > :41:28.harms to see whether they should be included. Question number 14 Mr

:41:29. > :41:38.Speaker. Thank you Mr Speaker. The modern slavery act, it is too early

:41:39. > :41:44.to make it effective -- make effectiveness of this act. Some

:41:45. > :41:49.businesses are already published a statement setting out what steps

:41:50. > :41:57.they've taken to prevent moderates lately in they're gloating surprise

:41:58. > :42:01.James. Am grateful for that reply. He writes that the role that the

:42:02. > :42:05.private sector can play in the fight against slavery should not be

:42:06. > :42:10.underestimated. What assessment has she made so far of the effectiveness

:42:11. > :42:16.of the transparency and supply chain's provision in the act for

:42:17. > :42:21.companies of turnovers with ?36 million or more. He is right. It is

:42:22. > :42:24.not about law enforcement and government taking action, it is

:42:25. > :42:29.about working with the private sector and with businesses. I am

:42:30. > :42:33.pleased that although the first set of declarations and relation to

:42:34. > :42:37.supply chains is only from the 31st of March, we have seen a number of

:42:38. > :42:42.companies going forward and making this declaration. I will in a month

:42:43. > :42:46.or so hold an event with companies to share good practice so that we

:42:47. > :42:50.can make sure that we are getting the best event, ending consumers can

:42:51. > :42:55.make their decision. Despite some of the good measures in the act, the

:42:56. > :42:59.fact is that child trafficking is still taking place across the

:43:00. > :43:07.European Union. It is taken within the scandal that is the migration

:43:08. > :43:11.crisis. What work is the home Secretary doing with her colleagues

:43:12. > :43:16.across the European Union to make sure that this issue is adequately

:43:17. > :43:20.tackled across all 28 Member States? First of all, I am encouraging other

:43:21. > :43:23.member state to take the steps that we are taking in terms of

:43:24. > :43:29.interesting new legislation adjective at the modern slavery act.

:43:30. > :43:29.Secondly, we are working with organised immigration crime --

:43:30. > :43:47.immigration crime. Quack I think that this is of enormous

:43:48. > :43:52.benefit because he is an expert in this area. Further to the question,

:43:53. > :43:57.could my right honourable friend set out in more detail the importance of

:43:58. > :44:01.the transparency and supply chains in the modern slavery act, and

:44:02. > :44:10.perhaps how it will be monitored in the future? Not to too much detail,

:44:11. > :44:13.given the time. I think that it has to import and fax. It makes

:44:14. > :44:17.companies think about the issues of the supply chains and whether there

:44:18. > :44:22.is slavery. Secondly, there are declarations as to what or no action

:44:23. > :44:29.they have taken, will be available to consumers, and they can make sure

:44:30. > :44:32.-- make choices. We are looking at a number of options for ensuring that

:44:33. > :44:40.that information is publicly available in one place. May I make

:44:41. > :44:45.the right honourable lady aware about doing excellent work in my

:44:46. > :44:49.constituency. I am shocked to hear the extent of modern slavery in this

:44:50. > :44:54.country. Does she think that people are sufficiently aware and what can

:44:55. > :44:59.she do to highlight that? Can I say to the honourable gentlemen we are

:45:00. > :45:03.are aware of the work of this organisation does. He is right. Most

:45:04. > :45:07.people in this country are shocked to know that shaped An slavery takes

:45:08. > :45:15.place, and would be more shocked to see the degree and extent of it. It

:45:16. > :45:17.is up to everyone in this house to make sure that everyone knows that

:45:18. > :45:38.they do. The government is and challenge Daesh's mitigation. I

:45:39. > :45:44.think the Minister for that response. Daesh is committing

:45:45. > :45:48.atrocities against others who do not agree with them with their way of

:45:49. > :45:52.life. What is the government doing to communicate those viscosities

:45:53. > :46:00.across the UK to prevent the spread of extreme it -- extremism across

:46:01. > :46:11.the UK. We have to challenge those extreme opinions. The UK's

:46:12. > :46:19.government highlights hyperbole is of Daesh. We work with those that I

:46:20. > :46:28.described a minute ago, 130 based community projects were delivered in

:46:29. > :46:32.2015, reaching 20 5000 people. That's 20 5000. I am glad that in

:46:33. > :46:36.this most solemn of matter and the honourable gentleman has been able

:46:37. > :46:44.to provide us with the political florist. Question number one served.

:46:45. > :46:57.Last week I was in Washington I think ministerial. A set that is

:46:58. > :47:01.really. 2014, Daesh directed, inspired, or enabled attacks in

:47:02. > :47:05.other countries worldwide. In 2015 there are almost 60 attacks, as well

:47:06. > :47:09.as well is to budget the tax tear it up by Daesh branches, including

:47:10. > :47:16.those in Libya and Egypt. This is a fight that cannot be won by five --

:47:17. > :47:27.fighting in isolation. We should be more open and sharing intelligence,

:47:28. > :47:30.and our expertise. We must organise our own efforts effectively to

:47:31. > :47:35.support vulnerable state and improve their ability to respond to the

:47:36. > :47:39.threat from terrorism. We made commitments to strengthen

:47:40. > :47:45.information sharing, enhanced efforts and discourage social media.

:47:46. > :47:49.This is the child's of our generation, and one that we will win

:47:50. > :47:53.by working together. Thank you Mr Speaker. I think my right honourable

:47:54. > :48:00.friend for her answer. But she acted with me that the creation of this

:48:01. > :48:03.was the step in the right direction, and this will change radically the

:48:04. > :48:09.future and take on more responsibilities? I agree with my

:48:10. > :48:12.honourable friend. It was important to create that directly elected

:48:13. > :48:15.individual, accountable to the public a little cruising. The call

:48:16. > :48:20.from police and crime commission is because you want to see that role of

:48:21. > :48:23.all. My right honourable friend are already in discussions about how

:48:24. > :48:29.this will might revolve and as to the criminal justice system stop

:48:30. > :48:35.can recommend the home Secretary on her announcement this began, and on

:48:36. > :48:41.her decision to put the national interest before self-interest.

:48:42. > :48:45.Unlike others. When she began at some secretary she took a

:48:46. > :48:50.Eurosceptic stance, opting out of dozens of EU measures. She has since

:48:51. > :48:55.opted back into many, most recently on the sharing of fingerprinting and

:48:56. > :49:00.DNA. Is it fair to say that the realities of office has shown her

:49:01. > :49:04.the value of EU cooperation in tackling crime and terrorism, and

:49:05. > :49:10.changed her mind on print's membership of the EU? I have always

:49:11. > :49:14.been very clear about the value of cooperation when it is in the

:49:15. > :49:18.British national interest. That is what of the 35 measures that we have

:49:19. > :49:25.decided to propose it this house should opt back into, and relation

:49:26. > :49:28.to critical 36, it was precisely because we believed it was of a

:49:29. > :49:35.national interest. I think I will take that as a yes Mr Speaker.

:49:36. > :49:40.Yesterday the Prime Minister was explicitly clear that our membership

:49:41. > :49:44.in the EU helps Britain fight terrorism. But, within minutes he

:49:45. > :49:51.was directly contradicted by one of his own cabinet members who claims

:49:52. > :49:57.that the each -- UK's EU membership made a terrorist attack are likely.

:49:58. > :50:02.Coming from an array senior members of the Cabinet, it is downright

:50:03. > :50:07.irresponsible. Will the home Secretary take this opportunity to

:50:08. > :50:14.reaffirm Government policy on this crucial issue and condemn this

:50:15. > :50:23.baseless scaremongering. Hear, hear! The government's issue is clear. I

:50:24. > :50:27.am clear that there are more areas in which cooperation with other

:50:28. > :50:31.Member States in the European Union is in our benefit in terms of the

:50:32. > :50:35.national security of this country and dealing with criminal matters.

:50:36. > :50:39.As I indicated earlier, and response to questions, we do take security at

:50:40. > :50:46.our borders seriously and that is why we have the checks that we do.

:50:47. > :50:52.The government has agreed to work when -- work and create new

:50:53. > :50:55.initiatives. Can the Minister confirm in the initiative will begin

:50:56. > :50:59.and which organizations the government will work with to help

:51:00. > :51:04.identify those children? Can I thank my honourable friend for her

:51:05. > :51:11.question. We are working with the NHC are in relation to development

:51:12. > :51:22.of a new initiative. Discussions are ongoing with the, we have had round

:51:23. > :51:27.table discussions. You will come back when our consideration has

:51:28. > :51:31.concluded. Thank you Mr Speaker. Following on in the vein of

:51:32. > :51:34.trafficking, I would like to ask the question of a constituent of I Blake

:51:35. > :51:38.cannot name because of her vulnerability. She was human traffic

:51:39. > :51:43.from Nigeria to the UK, held in domestic slavery in London, and

:51:44. > :51:46.escaped over ten years ago to my constituency. She now has a family

:51:47. > :51:52.and a husband. Her children were born in Scotland, but you cannot get

:51:53. > :51:55.help. Her the home office has not been helpful. Can the Minister meet

:51:56. > :52:01.with me and see what can be done to help his family settled in Scotland?

:52:02. > :52:05.Can I say to the honourable lady that she raises what appeared to be

:52:06. > :52:09.a serious individual case. If I may, Mr Speaker, if I can speak to the

:52:10. > :52:16.honourable lady after the station and obtained some more details we

:52:17. > :52:20.will respond. Thank you Mr Speaker. I met with a number of police

:52:21. > :52:28.officers and my constituency who have witnessed extreme trauma. The

:52:29. > :52:32.arrangements for their sick pay and their medical discharge and pension

:52:33. > :52:36.seem to be strikingly different to that of those who have suffered

:52:37. > :52:38.physical injury in the courts of their duty. Does my right honourable

:52:39. > :52:45.friend agree with the Vatican and the government's pursuit of parity

:52:46. > :52:50.between mental and physical illness, police forces should be ensuring

:52:51. > :52:55.that all injury or illness that is attributable to service is supported

:52:56. > :52:58.in the same way. I agree with my right honourable friend. Police

:52:59. > :53:02.officers are entitled to exactly the same sick leave and pay arrangements

:53:03. > :53:11.suffer a mental or a physical on this. Request is subject to same

:53:12. > :53:14.task, and is is possibility of chief constables that they provide for

:53:15. > :53:19.that in their local policies. I am also pleased to say that in October

:53:20. > :53:23.2014, the government allocated ?8 million to the blue light services

:53:24. > :53:27.programme to support the mental and physical well-being of emergency

:53:28. > :53:31.services personnel. The government have always justified their cuts to

:53:32. > :53:38.policing on the basis that crime has not gone up. Since 2010, we have

:53:39. > :53:45.lost more officers than any other force. Crime in Manchester is going

:53:46. > :53:49.up and going up faster than other metropolitan areas. As crime

:53:50. > :53:51.continues to rise, with the government reasonably be considered

:53:52. > :53:56.the production to the number of front line police officers? Lets go

:53:57. > :54:00.of this again. We as a government have not produced a number of police

:54:01. > :54:03.officers on the front line. And front line times, the percentage

:54:04. > :54:09.have gone up. One party that wanted to cut the police budget was the

:54:10. > :54:16.Labour Party. That was a people we do not to. Thank you Mr Speaker.

:54:17. > :54:22.What steps the secretary of state taking to see what we are doing to

:54:23. > :54:26.better protect the public. We are taking a number of steps as a piece

:54:27. > :54:30.of work that is being undertaken to ensure that we look at where

:54:31. > :54:36.capabilities should best light in terms of police reform. I just

:54:37. > :54:40.others this year and relation to this matter. I am happy to say that

:54:41. > :54:45.I have been able to have discussion on precisely this matter with an

:54:46. > :54:55.honourable friend who if he becomes mayor of London will continue this.

:54:56. > :55:01.The chief Rob Wainwright has ordered up to 5000 ices fighters in the EU.

:55:02. > :55:07.How does the home Secretary Phil that being in the EU makes us safer?

:55:08. > :55:11.The honourable gentleman will be aware that what is important for the

:55:12. > :55:15.United Kingdom and being in the European Union is that we are able

:55:16. > :55:20.to continue with the border controls that we have. Unlike those country

:55:21. > :55:29.and sang and, we will never be an changing, and read will maintain our

:55:30. > :55:34.security checks. Hear, hear! Mr Speaker! The Prime Minister has

:55:35. > :55:39.claimed that he has delivered on his promise that if an EU job seeker has

:55:40. > :55:44.not found work within six months they will be required to leave. A

:55:45. > :55:53.promise that he made to JCB workers on the 20th of November 20 14. In

:55:54. > :55:58.reply to my worker -- a written question, number 17574 in December

:55:59. > :56:01.of last year, the integration committee admitted that Aidan EU

:56:02. > :56:06.migrants and keep the status of the job seeker for longer than six

:56:07. > :56:09.months. Can the home secretary clarified who is right? The Prime

:56:10. > :56:15.Minister or the immigration minister? I think that we can safely

:56:16. > :56:19.say that the Prime Minister is right. In a few moments time he will

:56:20. > :56:28.be able to hew precisely how the Prime Minister has set up out. Mr

:56:29. > :56:32.Speaker, I was proud to be able to joint housing for women last week to

:56:33. > :56:40.celebrate the first anniversary of their operating the women's refuge.

:56:41. > :56:43.They support 38 women and children and 2015. Unfortunately, not all

:56:44. > :56:50.refugees are in the same position. 30 have closed over the last year.

:56:51. > :56:54.42% of crisis and is not having money beyond next month. Can the

:56:55. > :56:59.home Secretary do everything she can to ensure that no woman is forced to

:57:00. > :57:06.return home to a violent partner and possibly her death? The honourable

:57:07. > :57:11.lady, I remember the days when she and I both served on the Council for

:57:12. > :57:14.the London Borough of Merton. She continues to take in this issue

:57:15. > :57:17.domestic violence and support for the victims and survivors of

:57:18. > :57:21.domestic violence. Of course, the government has put extra money into

:57:22. > :57:25.refugees. We have been able to do that and we have also been ensuring

:57:26. > :57:28.that we support money for various domestic violence services. This is

:57:29. > :57:36.a terrible time -- crime and we need to deal with that. What assessment

:57:37. > :57:43.has been made about a number of connections made by police forces

:57:44. > :57:49.for child abuse images date is basis to be launched? My honourable friend

:57:50. > :57:53.raise and important issues. Child abuse image database. Something that

:57:54. > :57:59.this government into dues and is leading the world in terms of

:58:00. > :58:04.tackling indecent images of children online. We now have all 43 forces

:58:05. > :58:16.connected to the image database. We are starting to see real results in

:58:17. > :58:23.protecting children. Where police, fire and rescue services,. Will the

:58:24. > :58:29.Minister did a guarantee that whatever happened that there that --

:58:30. > :58:37.that they would allow the services provided to be privatised? The whole

:58:38. > :58:40.reason for enabling police and crime commission is to bring together

:58:41. > :58:45.policing and fire and rescue services is to be able to offer

:58:46. > :58:47.enhanced services. In looking at a decision to be on a local level, a

:58:48. > :59:01.business it -- case will Mr Speaker, the commission I would

:59:02. > :59:05.like to make a statement on the agreements reached in Brussels last

:59:06. > :59:09.week. First let me say a word about the migration crisis which was also

:59:10. > :59:13.discussed at the European Council. We agreed that we needed to press

:59:14. > :59:18.ahead with strengthening the use borders to ensure that not the

:59:19. > :59:24.charges are returned promptly and back the new mission that has

:59:25. > :59:29.brought the criminal gangs to put them in peoples slides and the risk.

:59:30. > :59:33.Britain. But the Constitution and all of these areas. Turning to

:59:34. > :59:36.Britain's place in Europe. I have spent the last nine months ending

:59:37. > :59:41.out the four areas are ready for form and beating with all other 27

:59:42. > :59:44.EU heads of state and government to reach an agreed with that delivers

:59:45. > :59:50.concrete reforms and all four areas. Let me take each in turn. First, but

:59:51. > :59:54.as jobs and businesses depend on being able to trade with Europe on a

:59:55. > :00:00.level praying field. The one new protection for our economy to

:00:01. > :00:03.safeguard the proud and promote our financial services industry to

:00:04. > :00:06.protect British taxpayers from because the problems in the euro

:00:07. > :00:10.zone and to ensure that we have a full say over the rules of a single

:00:11. > :00:15.market while remaining outside the euro zone. We got all those things.

:00:16. > :00:18.We have not is probably the fact of the towns and our right to keep it

:00:19. > :00:23.but we have ensured that we cannot discriminate against. Responsibility

:00:24. > :00:26.for supervising the financial stability of the UK, will always

:00:27. > :00:44.remain in the hands of the Bank of England. We

:00:45. > :00:48.have not be made to bail out countries in the euro zone, they

:00:49. > :00:50.made sure that the euro zone cannot act as a block to undermine the

:00:51. > :00:53.integrity of these free-trade single market. We guarantee that produced

:00:54. > :00:55.this is one of faith and he does commission for being outside the

:00:56. > :00:57.euro zone. For example, our financial service firms, our number

:00:58. > :01:00.one service export, employing over a million people can ever be forced to

:01:01. > :01:02.relocate inside the euro zone if they want to undertake complex

:01:03. > :01:05.trades and Europe, just because they're based in the UK. These with

:01:06. > :01:07.taxes and not to set out in a legally binding agreements, off 28

:01:08. > :01:10.member states will also clear that these reviews will be changed, to

:01:11. > :01:15.incorporate the protections of the UK as the economy that is inside the

:01:16. > :01:26.EU, but outside the euro zone. We also agree that a to enable 9 euros

:01:27. > :01:28.on countries to raise issues of concern, and we won the battle to

:01:29. > :01:31.ensure that this could be triggered by one country alone. Of course the

:01:32. > :01:34.distance would be available if he were to leave the EU. We wanted

:01:35. > :01:37.commitments to make Europe more competitive, creating jobs, and

:01:38. > :01:42.making British families more financially secure. Again, we got

:01:43. > :01:46.them. Europe will complete the single market and key areas that

:01:47. > :01:52.will help Britain. And services making it easier for thousands of UK

:01:53. > :01:59.service bays companies like IT firms to trade in Europe. In the capital

:02:00. > :02:07.so UK startups can access more for their business and an energy. We

:02:08. > :02:10.have secured commitments to complete trade and investment agreements with

:02:11. > :02:15.the fastest-growing and most dynamic economies around the world.

:02:16. > :02:19.Including the USA, Japan, China as well as our Commonwealth allies,

:02:20. > :02:24.India, New Zealand and Australia. These deals could add billions of

:02:25. > :02:29.pounds and thousands of jobs. Of course, they build on the deals we

:02:30. > :02:33.already have with the three countries around the world for which

:02:34. > :02:35.Britain has been accredited to the negotiating muscle that comes from

:02:36. > :02:41.being part of the world largest trading bloc. This is bigger, of

:02:42. > :02:45.course country after country has said that they could find trade

:02:46. > :02:50.deals with Britain, but they have also said that their priority would

:02:51. > :02:54.be trade deals with the EU. By their nature, these EU deals would be

:02:55. > :02:59.bigger and better, a deal with Britain would not even be possible

:03:00. > :03:02.until we have settled our position outside of the EU. This is bigger,

:03:03. > :03:07.for those members who care about finding new trade deals outside of

:03:08. > :03:49.the EU, we would be looking at years and years of delay.

:03:50. > :03:53.Last but by no means least on competitiveness, one of the biggest

:03:54. > :03:55.frustrations for Britain's business is red tape and bureaucracy. There

:03:56. > :03:58.will be partners to cut the total burden of EU regulation on business.

:03:59. > :04:00.This build on the progress that we have already made, with the

:04:01. > :04:03.commission already cutting the number of initiatives by 80%. In the

:04:04. > :04:06.that the cost of EU red tape will be going down, not up. Of course if we

:04:07. > :04:08.were to leave the EU, but ultimately achieve a deal, with access to the

:04:09. > :04:11.single market like Norway. Who would be subject to all of the EU

:04:12. > :04:14.regulation when selling in the euro. But with no say over the world. As

:04:15. > :04:17.the former Europe spokesman for the no reason conservative party, if you

:04:18. > :04:20.want to run Europe you must be an euro. If you want to be run by

:04:21. > :04:22.Europe, feel free to join nor Ray. Third, we want to reduce the very

:04:23. > :04:25.high level of migration within the unique -- EQ by preventing our role

:04:26. > :04:28.for system to act as a magnet for people to come to our country. After

:04:29. > :04:30.the hard work of the home Secretary we have secured new powers against

:04:31. > :04:34.criminals of the country and power to stop them from coming here in the

:04:35. > :04:36.first is empowered to do for them if they already here. We agreed a

:04:37. > :04:39.longer reentry bands for fraudsters and people who collude and then into

:04:40. > :04:42.the ridiculous situation for EU nationals can avoid British

:04:43. > :04:47.immigration rules when bringing their feminism outside the EU.

:04:48. > :04:51.Disagreement broke new ground with the European Council agreed to

:04:52. > :04:56.reverse positions from the European Court of Justice. We also secured a

:04:57. > :05:00.breakthrough agreement for Britain to reduce the unnatural drawl that I

:05:01. > :05:05.benefit system exerts across Europe. Therefore he made sure that EU

:05:06. > :05:09.migrants cannot claim the new employment benefit or universal

:05:10. > :05:13.credit. Those coming that have not found work within six months cannot

:05:14. > :05:17.be required to leave. At this counsel we agree that EU migrants

:05:18. > :05:22.working in Britain can be prevented from sending Child benefit home at

:05:23. > :05:26.UK rates. This would apply first some new claimants and then to

:05:27. > :05:32.existing claimants on the start of 2020. We also establish a new break

:05:33. > :05:36.so that EU migrants would have to wait for years until they have full

:05:37. > :05:43.access to our benefit. Mr Speaker, people for the it was impossible to

:05:44. > :05:49.achieve real change in our area. Yet, that is what we have done, we

:05:50. > :05:55.have got the benefit. What is activated, once activated, the

:05:56. > :06:01.emergency brake will be in place for seven years. If it began to lecture

:06:02. > :06:07.it will still be operating in 2024. There will be people who won't be

:06:08. > :06:16.getting 40 benefits until 2028. Bass full benefits. People should not be

:06:17. > :06:21.able to come there and get access to our benefit to them straightaway. No

:06:22. > :06:26.were something for nothing. I'm sure the discussion about welfare and

:06:27. > :06:31.immigration, will be intense, let me make this point. No country outside

:06:32. > :06:36.of the EU has agreed full access to the single market without accepting

:06:37. > :06:41.paying into the EU, and accepting free movement. In addition, our new

:06:42. > :06:46.safeguard lives if we vote the leave the EU. We might end up with free

:06:47. > :06:52.movement, but without these new protections. The fourth area, where

:06:53. > :06:57.we wanted to make significant changes was to protect our country

:06:58. > :07:01.from further European political integration, and to increased powers

:07:02. > :07:05.for our national parliament. Ever since we joined, Europe has been on

:07:06. > :07:10.the path to something ever closer union. It means a political union.

:07:11. > :07:16.We have never liked it or wanted it. And now, principal be permanently

:07:17. > :07:20.and legally excluded from it. The text that is, the treaties will be

:07:21. > :07:25.changed to make clear, and I quote, the Treaty represents for an ever

:07:26. > :07:30.closer union do not apply to the United Kingdom. This is bigger, as a

:07:31. > :07:35.result of this negotiation, perfect in every part of a European Union

:07:36. > :07:38.superstate. The council also agreed that ever closer union which has

:07:39. > :07:43.been referred to, and previous estimates from the European Court of

:07:44. > :07:47.Justice, does not offer a legal basis, for extending the scope of

:07:48. > :07:52.any provisions of the charges, or any you secretary the translation.

:07:53. > :07:56.People used to talk about a multispeed Europe, now we have a

:07:57. > :07:59.clear agreement that not only are different countries able to travel

:08:00. > :08:04.at different speeds, but they are ultimately able to head to different

:08:05. > :08:09.destinations as well. I would argue that that is a fundamental change in

:08:10. > :08:12.the wait is over additional work. We also strengthen the role of this

:08:13. > :08:18.house and on national parliament, we already passed a referendum act, to

:08:19. > :08:20.make sure that no powers can be handed to Brussels without this

:08:21. > :08:23.house and on national parliament, we already passed a referendum act, to

:08:24. > :08:25.make sure that no powers can be handed to Brussels with updates with

:08:26. > :08:28.the consent of the British the position we don't want, we can get

:08:29. > :08:32.together with other parliaments and block it with a red card. And we

:08:33. > :08:36.have a new mechanism to enforce the principle that as far as possible,

:08:37. > :08:43.powers to sit here and Westminster, not to Brussels. The European Union

:08:44. > :08:46.has to go through the powers of the exercise and work-out which are no

:08:47. > :08:53.longer needed and should be returned to Michigan State. In recent years

:08:54. > :08:55.we have also seen attempt to bypass are off out on Justice and home

:08:56. > :09:07.affairs by bringing forward legislation. The agreements and Les

:09:08. > :09:13.Bleus Council ensures that this can never happen again. The reforms that

:09:14. > :09:16.we have secured will be legally binding in international law and

:09:17. > :09:22.will be deposited as a Treaty at the UN. They cannot be unpacked that the

:09:23. > :09:27.agreement of the prison every other EU countries. As I have said, I'll

:09:28. > :09:30.28 member states that the treaty will be changed to incorporate

:09:31. > :09:34.advertisers for the UK as an economy outside the euro zone, and our

:09:35. > :09:39.permanent exclusion from ever closer union. Mr Speaker, our special

:09:40. > :09:45.status means that Britain can have the both best of both worlds. Who

:09:46. > :09:48.will be in the path of Europe that work for us, and so it's a affect

:09:49. > :09:53.us, in the driving seat of the worlds biggest single market, and

:09:54. > :10:32.with the ability to take action to keep our people safe. We will be

:10:33. > :10:37.out of the parts of Europe that do not work for us. Out of the euro, as

:10:38. > :10:39.of the euro zone bailouts come out of the passport periods no border

:10:40. > :10:42.area and permanently and legally protected from ever being part of a

:10:43. > :10:45.ever closer union. Of course there is still more to do, I am the first

:10:46. > :10:47.to say, that there is though many ways and was organisation needs to

:10:48. > :10:49.improve. The task of reforming Europe does not and with plastics

:10:50. > :10:52.agreement. With the special status that the settlement gives the I do

:10:53. > :10:54.believe that the time has come to fulfilling the other final

:10:55. > :10:57.commitment that this government made and that is to hold a referendum. Mr

:10:58. > :10:59.Speaker, this Speaker, I am today commended the process set out from

:11:00. > :11:02.our act and to propose that the British people decide our future and

:11:03. > :11:04.Europe to an in and out referendum on Thursday the 23rd of June. The

:11:05. > :11:07.Foreign Secretary is late and both houses and the government is

:11:08. > :11:09.negotiating it. This is built into the duty to publish information, set

:11:10. > :11:11.out in section six of the European Union referendum and that the

:11:12. > :11:13.Cabinet agreed on Saturday, the government of Zimbabwe to recommend

:11:14. > :11:19.that person remains in a reformed European Union. This is a vital

:11:20. > :11:24.decision for the future of our country, I agree that we should also

:11:25. > :11:28.be clear that it is a final decision. An idea has been put

:11:29. > :11:32.forward that in the country votes to leave. We can have a second

:11:33. > :11:38.renegotiation and perhaps another referendum. I want to vote on the

:11:39. > :11:40.irony that some people who want to vote to leave, apparently want to

:11:41. > :12:05.use a leave to remain. Such an approach, also ignores more profound

:12:06. > :12:09.point about democracy, diplomacy and the galaxy. This is a straight

:12:10. > :12:14.Democratic position. Staying in or leaving and no government can ignore

:12:15. > :12:22.that. Having a second renegotiation followed by a second referendum is

:12:23. > :12:25.not on the ballot paper. And for a promise are to ignore the expressed

:12:26. > :12:31.will of the British people to leave the EU, we are not just from but it

:12:32. > :12:35.would be undemocratic. On the diplomacy, the idea that the other

:12:36. > :12:39.European countries will be ready to start a second negotiation is for

:12:40. > :12:44.the birds. Many are under pressure for what they have already agreed.

:12:45. > :12:48.Then there is a legality and I want to start off as point for the house

:12:49. > :12:52.carefully because it is important. If the British people told to leave,

:12:53. > :12:57.there is only one way to bring that about. That is to trigger article 50

:12:58. > :13:01.of the treaties and begin the process of exit. The British people

:13:02. > :13:05.would rightly expect that that should start straightaway. That may

:13:06. > :13:10.be absolutely clear about how this works. As triggers a two your time

:13:11. > :13:15.period to negotiate the residence for an exit. At the end of the

:13:16. > :13:20.stairs, is no group what is in place, then exit is automatic and

:13:21. > :13:28.left everybody in the other states agrees to a delay. We should be

:13:29. > :13:31.clear that this process is not a invitation to rejoin, it is a

:13:32. > :13:36.process for leaving. I have known a number of couples who have began

:13:37. > :13:39.divorce proceedings, but I do not know an event begun divorce

:13:40. > :13:54.proceedings and order to renew their marriage vows. LAUGHTER that may

:13:55. > :14:01.explain, I want to explain what happens when section 50. We should

:14:02. > :14:07.also be clear... We should also be clear, what would happen if that

:14:08. > :14:10.deal to leave was not done within two years. Our current access to the

:14:11. > :14:14.single market would cease immediately, after two your throat.

:14:15. > :14:18.The current trade agreements with the difficulties across the world

:14:19. > :14:23.would lapse. This cannot be described as anything other than

:14:24. > :14:27.risk, uncertainty and a lead in the dark that could hurt working people

:14:28. > :14:32.and our country for years to come. This is not some theoretical

:14:33. > :14:44.question, this is a real decision about peoples lives.

:14:45. > :14:49.When it comes the people stops, it is simply not enough to say it will

:14:50. > :14:51.be all right on the night that will work it out. I believe that

:14:52. > :14:54.intermixed the company to properly face up to the economic consequences

:14:55. > :14:56.of a choice to leave. Mr Speaker, I believe that Britain will be

:14:57. > :14:58.stronger, safer and better off by remaining in a reformed European

:14:59. > :15:01.Union. Stronger, because we can play a leading role in one of the worlds

:15:02. > :15:04.largest organizations from within. Helping to make sure the big

:15:05. > :15:08.decisions on trade and security that determine our future. Safer, because

:15:09. > :15:12.the can work with our European partners to fight cross-border crime

:15:13. > :15:16.and terrorism. And better off because businesses will have full

:15:17. > :15:24.access to the free-trade single market, bringing jobs, investment

:15:25. > :15:26.and lower prices. Mr Speaker, there will be much debate about

:15:27. > :15:29.sovereignty and rightly so, to me, what matters most is the pattern to

:15:30. > :15:34.get things done for our people and our country. Leaving the EU may

:15:35. > :15:38.briefly make us feel more sovereign, but would actually give us more

:15:39. > :15:43.power or influence and a greater ability to get things done? If we

:15:44. > :15:47.leave, but we have the power to stop opposite is being discriminated

:15:48. > :15:51.against? No! But we have the power to insist that Europeans countries

:15:52. > :15:55.share with us their bold information so that we know what there is that

:15:56. > :15:59.criminals are doing? No! We have more influence over the decisions

:16:00. > :16:03.that affect the prosperity and security epistemic? Know we won't!

:16:04. > :16:07.We are a great country! Whatever it was the make, we will still be

:16:08. > :16:13.great! I believe the choice, is between being and even greater brain

:16:14. > :16:17.inside how to reform the EU, or a great leap into the unknown! The

:16:18. > :16:20.Times is facing the West and how to reform the EU, or a great leap into

:16:21. > :16:23.the unknown! The Times is facing the West today Vladimir Putin aggression

:16:24. > :16:28.and eases the most extremism to the south, this is in no time to divide

:16:29. > :16:32.the web. When faced with challenges, and to our way of life, our values

:16:33. > :16:38.and freedoms, this is it time for strength in numbers. Mr Speaker, let

:16:39. > :16:45.me end by saying, I am not standing for reelection. I have no other

:16:46. > :16:50.agenda I have no other agenda than what is best for our country. I am

:16:51. > :16:53.standing here telling you what I think. My responsibility as prime

:16:54. > :16:58.minister is to speak plainly about what I believe is right for our

:16:59. > :17:01.country. That that is what I will do every day for the next four months.

:17:02. > :17:12.I commend the statements of the house! Thinking is bigger. I would

:17:13. > :17:15.like to think the promise of four advanced notice of the statement.

:17:16. > :17:27.And I visited him in a long time to write it because I receded a but

:17:28. > :17:32.it's as afternoon. -- I received it at 3pm this afternoon. The people of

:17:33. > :17:35.Britain face in-store price on the 23rd of June on whether to remain

:17:36. > :17:40.part of the European Union went to leave. We welcome the fact that it

:17:41. > :17:52.is now the hands of the people on this issue. We are wanting to stay

:17:53. > :17:54.and because he believed that the European Union has brought

:17:55. > :17:57.investment jobs and protection for work of consumers and the

:17:58. > :18:04.environment. We are convinced that a vote to remain as of the best

:18:05. > :18:08.interest of the people. And the 21st-century Mr Speaker, as a

:18:09. > :18:12.country and a consummate and as the human race. We faced with

:18:13. > :18:17.challenging issues. How to tackle climate change, how to address the

:18:18. > :18:22.power of global corporations, how to ensure that they pay state taxes.

:18:23. > :18:28.How to tackle cyber crime and terrorism, I would trade fairly and

:18:29. > :18:31.protect jobs and pay in an era of globalisation. How we address the

:18:32. > :18:38.causes of the huge refugee movement across the world. How would add that

:18:39. > :18:44.to a world where people of all countries, move more frequently to

:18:45. > :18:47.live, work and retire. All of these issues are serious, pressing and

:18:48. > :18:52.self-evidently can only be solved by international cooperation. The

:18:53. > :18:58.European Union will be a vital part of how we as a country meet those

:18:59. > :19:02.challenges. Therefore Mr Speaker. That is more than disappointing that

:19:03. > :19:08.the prime Minister Steele has failed to address a single one of those

:19:09. > :19:16.issues. Last week, like him, I was in Brussels, meeting with heads of

:19:17. > :19:17.governments and leaders of European Union Socialist party. One of them

:19:18. > :19:57.said to me, what they said, if the party opposite of what

:19:58. > :20:01.had to think for a moment about what's going on. One person said to

:20:02. > :20:07.me, I follows quite profound, he said we are discussing the future of

:20:08. > :20:12.a continent. And one English Tory has reduced it to the issue of

:20:13. > :20:16.taking away benefits from workers and children. The reality Mr

:20:17. > :20:20.Speaker, is that this entire negotiation has not been about the

:20:21. > :20:26.challenges facing our confidence, neither has it been about the issues

:20:27. > :20:31.facing the people of Britain it is a theatrical sideshow about trying to

:20:32. > :20:36.appease or failing to appease the half of the Prime Minister is all

:20:37. > :20:41.the conservative party. That is not to say that there has not been

:20:42. > :20:46.somewhat worthwhile changes. The Redcar assist him, to strengthen the

:20:47. > :20:53.house of national parliament is something we and these mentors have

:20:54. > :20:59.long back, the labor and elastin last in Iraq's election. It was not

:21:00. > :21:03.of the conservative man manifesto but we welcome this. We also welcome

:21:04. > :21:09.the symbolic amendment on ever closer union. Britain's

:21:10. > :21:15.long-standing position not to join has been such an accepted. We see

:21:16. > :21:22.the influence of Tory party funders, on a Prime Minister vessel status,

:21:23. > :21:26.not for Britain but the city of London. It is the same essence of

:21:27. > :21:34.that caused his the Chancellor to rush to Europe with an army of

:21:35. > :21:39.lawyers to oppose any regulation of the grotesque level of bankers

:21:40. > :21:46.bonuses. It is necessary to protect the rights of 9 euros on states, but

:21:47. > :21:52.not to undermine EU wide efforts to regulate the financial sector,

:21:53. > :21:59.including the border. Liberals stand for a different approach. That's a

:22:00. > :22:06.labor. That is why members of the European Parliament is a opposing

:22:07. > :22:11.the transatlantic trade negotiations was trying to undermine national

:22:12. > :22:18.sovereignty, push the privatsation of public services, drive down

:22:19. > :22:22.standards for workers and consumers, Mr Speaker, human rights should be

:22:23. > :22:26.but part of that treaty. I believe it should be happy feature of all

:22:27. > :22:33.trade treaties. Then, there is the so-called emergency brake. We

:22:34. > :22:37.support the principle of Peart Constitution. However, does the

:22:38. > :22:41.evidence not back-up the claim that an overt benefits are significant

:22:42. > :22:46.draw for workers who come to Britain from the European Union. The changes

:22:47. > :22:50.he promised is secured do nothing to address the real challenges of low

:22:51. > :22:54.pay and prevent undercutting of local rates rates and and is derived

:22:55. > :22:59.pay agreements, they won't put a penny in the pockets of workers and

:23:00. > :23:04.Britain nor will they stop the grotesque exploitation of many

:23:05. > :23:08.migrant workers, or reduce migration to Britain. Will the promised to

:23:09. > :23:13.tell us what discussions he has had to get European roles and place to

:23:14. > :23:17.protect the going rates and to stop agencies bragging and cheap labor,

:23:18. > :23:19.to undercut workers and Britain, while the exploit to undercut

:23:20. > :23:24.workers and Britain, while exploiting the martyr for his? The

:23:25. > :23:27.Dees the two of the EU leaders about outlawing the so-called Buddhist

:23:28. > :23:30.derogation from the edge workers directive for which threatens to

:23:31. > :23:35.undermine one of the key achievements of the last Labour

:23:36. > :23:41.government by allowing them to use them agency staff to undercut other

:23:42. > :23:47.workers? These would have been positive and worthwhile discussions

:23:48. > :23:52.to tackle low-paid, reduce benefit cost and protect workers. We must on

:23:53. > :23:55.all of the speaker, be clear that Britain has benefited from

:23:56. > :24:01.migration. From EU workers coming into wrecking our industry to our

:24:02. > :24:04.other public services to fill gaps. The thousands of doctors and nurses

:24:05. > :24:11.who work in our national health service is saving lives every day.

:24:12. > :24:13.The European Union has delivered protection from workers, it would

:24:14. > :24:18.labor that made sure that Britain's EU membership if work is right to

:24:19. > :24:21.make minimum paid leave and protection on working time is ripe

:24:22. > :24:25.for agency workers, paid maternity and paternity leave, equal pay,

:24:26. > :24:30.anti-discrimination laws, and protection for the work force with

:24:31. > :24:33.companies changed ownership. It was labor working partnership with the

:24:34. > :24:36.parties and unions across Europe that makes of the vehicle promise of

:24:37. > :24:43.the vehicle promise of attempt to diminish workers rights was kept off

:24:44. > :24:47.the agenda of these EU negotiations. Labor has supported, move to reduce

:24:48. > :24:53.child benefits and nonresident children as a reasonable amendment,

:24:54. > :24:56.however we also welcome protection for 20 and so that families have the

:24:57. > :25:03.ability of income. The prominence it still includes consignments. But it

:25:04. > :25:06.a closet and irrelevant to the choice facing the British people.

:25:07. > :25:08.Not one to go I facing the British people. Not one fickle element that

:25:09. > :25:12.is a significant impact on the Kevin Kisner and stay in. We welcome

:25:13. > :25:19.the fact the theatrical sideshow is over. We want to make a real case

:25:20. > :25:28.that will be put by my friend the Member for who really are camping.

:25:29. > :25:34.Labor believes the EU is a model framework for European trade and

:25:35. > :25:38.cooperation in the 21st century. Not only what the EU delivered today but

:25:39. > :25:42.as a framework through which we can achieve much more in the future. To

:25:43. > :25:46.deliver these progressive reforms that I have referred to, when he to

:25:47. > :25:50.work with our partners and Europe to achieve them. Therefore, we must

:25:51. > :25:55.ensure that remain a member. That is the case are going to be making for

:25:56. > :26:00.a Europe that is socially cohesive, a Europe that share the benefit of

:26:01. > :26:04.wealth and prosperity amongst all of its citizens. But as the case we are

:26:05. > :26:07.making as Labour Party, as a trade union movement in this country and

:26:08. > :26:14.we look forward to that public debate. By Magomed have the opposite

:26:15. > :26:18.spin for his contribution. He and I disagree on a lot of things about

:26:19. > :26:22.economic policy about social policy about welfare policy, and did you

:26:23. > :26:25.even disagree on the approach we should take within and Europe as a

:26:26. > :26:29.gas as demonstrated in his the spots, but we do both agree about

:26:30. > :26:34.one thing, which says that Britain should be in there fighting for a

:26:35. > :26:37.good deal for our country. I were a little for the ombudsman because he

:26:38. > :26:42.will be accused of fossils of things. Some of the verism of the

:26:43. > :26:45.unfair. If the Texas courts will be accused of being a member of the

:26:46. > :26:51.establishment. That'll be the most unfair attack of all. What he said

:26:52. > :26:56.about the deal, than they make two points about why I think he should

:26:57. > :27:00.welcome the deal, the first is that implements, as far as I can see him

:27:01. > :27:04.as every pledged on Europe and the Labour manifesto, I'm looking at the

:27:05. > :27:07.former leader. They pledged to complete the former leader. They

:27:08. > :27:11.pledged to complete physical market, they pledged for budget discipline.

:27:12. > :27:16.They said that we will ensure that EU rules protect the interest of 9

:27:17. > :27:20.euros members. He went on and said that people coming to Britain from

:27:21. > :27:23.the EU to look for work, are expected to contribute to our

:27:24. > :27:30.economy and to our society so that we will secure is to immigration and

:27:31. > :27:42.Social Security reform. It also says and I quote," we would work to

:27:43. > :27:48.strengthen,... I'm just reminding my new friend what they said that the

:27:49. > :27:51.election. They said this "We will work just as the influence of

:27:52. > :27:54.national parliaments over Europe in the session by our group for Redcar

:27:55. > :28:01.mechanism for never states." Excellent. Where I think the right

:28:02. > :28:05.of him was unfair is that he's said that this deal was really all about

:28:06. > :28:10.Britain, and not about anyone else. I would point out the Slovakian

:28:11. > :28:13.Prime Minister said good, the myth about every quote didn't have

:28:14. > :28:17.followed. The Hungarian prime minister said that the UK managed to

:28:18. > :28:22.put an end to the practice of creeping power withdraw from

:28:23. > :28:28.national member states. The former president of the commission said

:28:29. > :28:31.that the real consequence of the summit is missionary important.

:28:32. > :28:38.Brussels has an shot a multispeed Europe. This is beneficial to your.

:28:39. > :28:41.Where I disagreed with the ombudsman is I think that these trade deals

:28:42. > :28:47.are good for Britain and is to redo them we the better. I think he's

:28:48. > :28:53.wrong about financial services. That was well received -- and outside of

:28:54. > :28:56.the southern city of London and five. Crucially, what the single

:28:57. > :29:01.market means is that with one establishment and Britain, you can

:29:02. > :29:10.trade throughout the European Union. Booze it and do the job going for

:29:11. > :29:15.Labor government than the care we have all had our difficulties with

:29:16. > :29:18.your. We have all went to the debug the damn. But if I want to get

:29:19. > :29:24.powers in turn, we have all found that because of I love for this

:29:25. > :29:29.house, we found this process trying but at the end of the day we always

:29:30. > :29:38.know when it comes to our economy and prosperity we're

:29:39. > :29:47.will be Prime Minister agree that if he refers to the continental press

:29:48. > :29:52.he will see that he has demonstrated the influence of a British prime

:29:53. > :29:58.minister. He has actually -- it will be difficult for the fellow Prime

:29:59. > :30:01.Minister is to sell to their own political establishment. Does he

:30:02. > :30:05.agree with me that future generations will benefit from some

:30:06. > :30:13.of those concessions, particularly those on and marching the single

:30:14. > :30:17.market, guaranteeing our excess, deregulating, and regular eating

:30:18. > :30:22.trade deals. Is he agree that it is not the politics of fear to point

:30:23. > :30:30.out that those who advocate a no vote don't seem to know what a no

:30:31. > :30:36.vote means? If they continually imply that somehow all of the

:30:37. > :30:40.benefits that flow from Europe in terms of jobs, investment,

:30:41. > :30:44.insecurity, will somehow continue to come here when they have swept away

:30:45. > :30:50.the obligations that previous British governments have always

:30:51. > :30:54.accepted? I am grateful for my right honourable friend says. In terms of

:30:55. > :30:58.what... It has been interesting on what some of the four newspapers

:30:59. > :31:02.have set. I will get you one example. Spanish paper has said that

:31:03. > :31:08.British execs in reality beaches new heights yesterday. No other country

:31:09. > :31:11.to its more acceptance in Europe. I am proud of that fact. We do have a

:31:12. > :31:14.different status in Europe, and that has become more special with the

:31:15. > :31:18.changes that we have made. I think that the point that my friend makes

:31:19. > :31:22.is absolutely right. They recognise that there are disadvantages for

:31:23. > :31:25.being in the European Union, I make no bones about that. I can that be

:31:26. > :31:29.but his people in the eye and say this is what it is going to be like

:31:30. > :31:32.if we state them. It was going to be better because of the deal that we

:31:33. > :31:35.have done. The people that are advising us to leave have to spell

:31:36. > :31:41.out what the consequences of leaving are, and I think that the absolute

:31:42. > :31:45.lodestar is that no country has been able to get full access to the

:31:46. > :31:49.single market without accepting either paying into the EU are

:31:50. > :31:53.accepting free movement. If you don't want to accept those two

:31:54. > :31:57.things, I think you have to start accepting that you are not going to

:31:58. > :32:00.get as good of trade and business position as we have today. People

:32:01. > :32:06.that want to be going to start making up their mind. Do you want a

:32:07. > :32:10.Norway deal? A Switzerland deal, a candidate deal? I don't care which

:32:11. > :32:18.deal you like, but we had to tell people because they deserve an

:32:19. > :32:21.answer. May I begin by thinking the Prime Minister for advanced side of

:32:22. > :32:25.the statement. The referendum choice before the electorate is a huge one

:32:26. > :32:30.which will define our relationship with the rest of Europe, and indeed

:32:31. > :32:36.the nations of the United Kingdom. Scotland is a European nation, and

:32:37. > :32:40.the SNP is a European party. We will campaign positively to remain in the

:32:41. > :32:44.EU, hopefully the Prime Minister can confirm today that he will reject

:32:45. > :32:51.the tactics of project fear and make a positive case for remaining part

:32:52. > :32:54.of a reforming European Union. It is hugely important to be a part of the

:32:55. > :33:00.largest market in the world, and to be able to influence its rules and

:33:01. > :33:09.laws. In rolling matters that the -- it matters that we can co-operate

:33:10. > :33:12.for rights. We should also forget the lessons of European history, and

:33:13. > :33:17.not turn our backs on European neighbours who need help at this

:33:18. > :33:26.time to deal with a huge challenge including migration. Mr Speaker.

:33:27. > :33:31.Public opinion in Scotland, a majority, supports membership of the

:33:32. > :33:37.European Union. Every single Scottish MP -- MP supports

:33:38. > :33:46.. Does the Prime Minister have any idea what the consequences would be

:33:47. > :33:52.of Scotland being taken out of the EU against the wish of the Scottish

:33:53. > :33:57.electorate? I want Scotland and the rest of the UK to remain within the

:33:58. > :34:02.European Union. However, if we are forced out of the EU, I am certain

:34:03. > :34:06.about public in Scotland will to read -- demand a referendum on

:34:07. > :34:13.Scottish independence and we will protect our place in Europe. First

:34:14. > :34:18.of all, I can confirm that I will make a positive case. A case based

:34:19. > :34:22.around there and being stronger, safer, and better off. This is a

:34:23. > :34:26.choice. I think that it is very important that we set out the toys,

:34:27. > :34:30.and the alternative, to the British people. This is the most important

:34:31. > :34:33.decision that people are going to make on a political issue

:34:34. > :34:36.potentially and their lifetimes. I don't want anyone to take a step

:34:37. > :34:39.into the dark without properly thinking through what the

:34:40. > :34:43.consequences are. One thing I actually agree with the honourable

:34:44. > :34:47.gentleman about, is that although Brussels and the institutions can be

:34:48. > :34:50.frustrating, we should never forget what brought this institution into

:34:51. > :34:55.being and the first place. Even at the most frustrating time of talks,

:34:56. > :34:59.you look around the table and think of how these countries fought and

:35:00. > :35:03.killed each other for so long. The dialogue that they take together is

:35:04. > :35:12.positive. In terms of the boat in Scotland, this is one UK boat. Hear,

:35:13. > :35:17.hear! -- vote. My right honourable friend has just spoken about

:35:18. > :35:22.national parliaments, democracy, and our sovereignty. In the Bloomberg

:35:23. > :35:26.speech, he made it clear that he regarded our national parliament as

:35:27. > :35:30.being the root of our democracy. Yesterday, he referred to the

:35:31. > :35:38.Aleutian of sovereignty. -- illusion of sovereignty. Will he explain and

:35:39. > :35:42.repudiate that statement and reference to the question before us

:35:43. > :35:47.in relation to our parliament and democracy in the making of our laws,

:35:48. > :35:51.which at this moment in time under the European committees act, are

:35:52. > :35:57.made by a majority vote of other countries, are introduced by it an

:35:58. > :36:02.unelected commission, and are enforced by a court of justice. This

:36:03. > :36:08.is not excepted the only way of out of that is to lead the European

:36:09. > :36:11.Union? First of all, I have huge respect for my European --

:36:12. > :36:16.honourable friend who has campaigned for many years. One thing that he

:36:17. > :36:19.will welcome is that we are allowing the British people a choice to stay

:36:20. > :36:24.in or lead the European Union. Let me confirm that yes, this parliament

:36:25. > :36:28.is sovereign. We chose to join the the European Union and we can choose

:36:29. > :36:33.to be. But me explain exactly what I meant by saying that it would be the

:36:34. > :36:38.illusion of sovereignty. Let me take one issue. We now have safeguards so

:36:39. > :36:43.that British banks, businesses, cannot be discriminated against if

:36:44. > :36:45.we state in the European Union. They can't be discriminated against

:36:46. > :36:49.because we are not in the euro. Where are we to lead, obviously we

:36:50. > :36:52.would not have that protection. They could discriminate against us, and

:36:53. > :37:04.frankly I think they would discriminate against us. Therefore,

:37:05. > :37:06.and that way, we might feel more sovereign, but it would be an

:37:07. > :37:09.illusion of sovereignty because he would not have the power to protect

:37:10. > :37:11.the businesses that protect jobs of my ability and our country. Despite

:37:12. > :37:17.assurances, it is worth saying that this referendum is about the future

:37:18. > :37:20.of our country not the future of a divided conservative party. With the

:37:21. > :37:25.Prime Minister agree with me that it is also not just about Britain's

:37:26. > :37:30.place in the European Union, but also print's place in the world.

:37:31. > :37:35.President Obama has been crystal clear that if Britain were to be the

:37:36. > :37:40.European Union, it would weaken not strengthen the special relationship.

:37:41. > :37:44.The Indians, Chinese, I'm mystified that we are even risking exit from

:37:45. > :37:48.the European Union. We agree with me that if rain in the teacher wants to

:37:49. > :37:53.stand tall in New Delhi, Beijing, Washington, and other mobile

:37:54. > :37:59.cobbles, Britain must continue to stand tall in our own European

:38:00. > :38:05.neighbourhood. I think that she he is right. We should make this

:38:06. > :38:08.decision ourselves as a sovereign nation in a sovereign people. I

:38:09. > :38:13.think that it is worth listening to our friends and listening to what

:38:14. > :38:17.they think is best for our country. I have to say all of the leaders and

:38:18. > :38:24.politicians I have backed around the world. I can't think of any of our

:38:25. > :38:28.friends, Australia, New Zealand, America, Canada. That one is to be

:38:29. > :38:31.the EU. The only person I think that might want us to leave is Vladimir

:38:32. > :38:37.Putin, and I don't think that that is someone who has asked for what

:38:38. > :38:40.the right honourable friend and colleague said about this

:38:41. > :38:43.referendum. I will make a cheeky point that we are implementing the

:38:44. > :39:01.2010 Lib Dem manifesto by holding it. Hear, hear! LAUGHTER Can I ask

:39:02. > :39:05.my right honourable friend, the Prime Minister, to explain to the

:39:06. > :39:15.House into the country exactly what way this deal returns sovereignty

:39:16. > :39:20.over any field of lawmaking to the Houses of Parliament? This deal

:39:21. > :39:27.brings back some welfare powers, immigration powers, bailout powers,

:39:28. > :39:32.but more than that, because it cards us forever out of ever closer union

:39:33. > :39:35.it means that the ratchet of the European Court taking power away

:39:36. > :39:39.from this country cannot happen in future. To those who worry, and

:39:40. > :39:44.people do worry, that if somehow if we vote to remain and, the

:39:45. > :39:47.consequence could be more action and Brussels to try and change the

:39:48. > :39:51.agreements that we have. We have a lot in this house of commons. No

:39:52. > :39:57.power can be passed from Britain to Brussels without a referendum. We

:39:58. > :40:01.have a better deal, and a special status, we have a chance to make

:40:02. > :40:05.sure that we build on what we have to protect our people. We can

:40:06. > :40:15.enhance our prosperity, and that is the we make. Mr Speaker, let me

:40:16. > :40:22.think the Prime Minister for quoting and implementing parts of the plane

:40:23. > :40:27.15 Lib Dem manifesto. I wanted to go to the big picture question, which

:40:28. > :40:30.is about how we influence things in our national interest. I want to

:40:31. > :40:34.draw the Prime Minister of the powerful and that his statement,

:40:35. > :40:38.which is this question of course by being a member of the European Union

:40:39. > :40:43.we don't always get our own way, but as he said to the right honourable

:40:44. > :40:47.member on all of the major issues, whether it is trade or climate

:40:48. > :40:51.change, or terrorism and security, he can tell us because he has been

:40:52. > :40:56.the Prime Minister what does he believe. We have more influence in

:40:57. > :41:00.the European Union or outside? Mr Speaker, surely the answer is more

:41:01. > :41:04.influence inside the European Union, at outside. That is why I

:41:05. > :41:09.passionately believe must remain in the European Union. I am grateful to

:41:10. > :41:13.the right honourable gentleman for what he says. I can't promise to

:41:14. > :41:16.implement any part of the bigger manifesto, but I am glad to have

:41:17. > :41:21.been an assistant there. I actually agree with him. The big picture is

:41:22. > :41:24.this, when it comes to getting things done in the world that can

:41:25. > :41:28.help keep people safe in our country, a bigger, better deal on

:41:29. > :41:31.climate change, do we get more because we are in the EU? Gas.

:41:32. > :41:37.Making sure that we have sanctions against Iran that work and getting a

:41:38. > :41:41.ban on their nuclear programme, to be deducted the EU and other new

:41:42. > :41:45.bodies? Yes absolutely. Making sure that we stand up to Russian

:41:46. > :41:47.aggression in Ukraine. We have been the linchpin between the European

:41:48. > :41:51.Union and the United States of America in making those ancient

:41:52. > :41:55.town. If we had been outside the European Union, we would have been

:41:56. > :41:57.waiting at the end of the fund to make out with the decisions were

:41:58. > :42:06.going to be. Instead, we were making them and them. That is how we get

:42:07. > :42:12.things done for our people. Mr Speaker, according to the website,

:42:13. > :42:18.there is a letter and peering into mile's times which has been bitten

:42:19. > :42:23.by a Chris Hopkins on behalf of organizations across the UK wishing

:42:24. > :42:27.for us to remain. Chris Hopkins is apparently a civil servant, could be

:42:28. > :42:31.Prime Minister tell us who that is, which department does he work for,

:42:32. > :42:37.and what authority does he have as a civil servant to campaign for the

:42:38. > :42:40.remaining? I can answer very simply. He is a civil servant working and

:42:41. > :42:48.number ten, and his authority comes from me. He is doing an excellent

:42:49. > :42:51.job. This is not a free-for-all. The government has a clear view. The

:42:52. > :42:54.government's view is that we should remain an informed European Union.

:42:55. > :43:00.The civil service is able to support the government and not roll. Of

:43:01. > :43:04.course, members of Parliament, members -- common members are middle

:43:05. > :43:08.to make their own decision. The Cabinet is holding back. We have a

:43:09. > :43:10.full throated view that we should put Ford in front of the British

:43:11. > :43:22.people so that they I am tempted to think -- ask the

:43:23. > :43:32.Prime Minister if bonds have more fun. -- blonds. If does he remember

:43:33. > :43:36.what the government did in 2014 about the European arrest warrant,

:43:37. > :43:39.and the conclusions that the European arrest warrant acts as a

:43:40. > :43:44.deterrent for offenders commit to this country. Katie pointed out to

:43:45. > :43:49.his pension secretary, and can he ask the home Secretary to bring the

:43:50. > :43:51.working pension secretary on all the other reasons why Britain is safer

:43:52. > :43:58.and more secure in the European Union. The European arrest warrant

:43:59. > :44:02.is a good case in point. I think that all of us who do have this

:44:03. > :44:05.concern about sovereignty have are concerned about the arrest warrant,

:44:06. > :44:14.but look at what has happened in practice. In 2005, terrorists tried

:44:15. > :44:18.to bomb our city for a second time. One of them escaped and was arrested

:44:19. > :44:21.and returned to Britain within weeks under the European arrest warrant.

:44:22. > :44:25.Before that, it could have taken years. I think that we can all see

:44:26. > :44:30.that the practical application of these changes definitely keeps us

:44:31. > :44:33.more safe. When it comes to this question of fighting terrorism a

:44:34. > :44:36.cross-border crime, obviously people are going to have different

:44:37. > :44:41.opinions. I would urge people, listen to the head of the former

:44:42. > :44:46.director of MIT. Listen to the head of euro poll. These are people who

:44:47. > :44:52.know what they speak of and are very clear. These measures help us to

:44:53. > :44:55.stay safe. Thank you Mr Speaker. Having spent the best part of recess

:44:56. > :45:08.and the Arctic circle with the Royal Marines, I am extremely conscious of

:45:09. > :45:11.the need to ensure that everyone of our serving military personnel will

:45:12. > :45:15.be able to cast their vote to leave or to remain in the forthcoming EU

:45:16. > :45:18.referendum which the Prime Minister has worked so hard to get onto the

:45:19. > :45:22.statue books for us. Can the Prime Minister please confirm that every

:45:23. > :45:25.serving member of our armed forces wherever they are in the world, will

:45:26. > :45:30.be entitled to vote and can they guarantee that they will receive

:45:31. > :45:35.their ballot papers in good time, and confirm hubby will ensure that

:45:36. > :45:40.everyone will be counted? My honourable friend clearly had a more

:45:41. > :45:44.entertaining recess that I did, but I am rather jealous. There were

:45:45. > :45:47.moments that I wish I was in the Arctic Circle, I can tell you. I

:45:48. > :45:56.believe that the arrangements are absolutely the same. As for a

:45:57. > :45:58.general election. We have for months until the referendum, there is

:45:59. > :46:04.plenty of time to put in place the arrangements that she seeks. I pay

:46:05. > :46:07.credits to be Prime Minister for delivering a reference to the

:46:08. > :46:12.British people. I will remember the time that he came to the -- this

:46:13. > :46:19.house and argue to -- but the referendum. He will know that we are

:46:20. > :46:22.extremely disappointed in these benches that we don't have as a

:46:23. > :46:28.result of this deal control over our sovereignty over our borders, or our

:46:29. > :46:31.finances. He had said to in his statement, and I quote, that is

:46:32. > :46:35.simply not enough for those in the meat side to say that it will be all

:46:36. > :46:40.right and that we will work it out. He wants a definite facts. On the of

:46:41. > :46:46.migrants coming to Britain in the United Kingdom, when will they first

:46:47. > :46:56.begin to be eligible for some of the darker benefits for quick. What we

:46:57. > :47:00.have is a phased approach so that over four years they get access to

:47:01. > :47:04.benefits. No access to benefits to start with, and full access only

:47:05. > :47:08.after four years. That is a huge advance. If I compare that to a lack

:47:09. > :47:11.of certainty that we are being offered for people who want to

:47:12. > :47:16.leave, who can't tell us whether they favour a model like Norway or

:47:17. > :47:22.Switzerland, where if they want a trade deal like Canada, or if

:47:23. > :47:25.someone to reclaim a purely WTO position. We need to know the answer

:47:26. > :47:29.to that, because frankly it is only one me know that that people can

:47:30. > :47:38.make a proper judgement about the security of staying in any dangers

:47:39. > :47:41.of getting out. Last week's decision requires it to be changed to be

:47:42. > :47:47.irreversible and legally binding. When will the ratification procedure

:47:48. > :47:51.began? I am afraid that my right honourable friend is not right. It

:47:52. > :47:54.is already legally binding and universal because this is the

:47:55. > :47:58.decision of 28 governments to reach a legally binding decision that is

:47:59. > :48:04.deposited as a legal document at the UN. This can only be reversed if all

:48:05. > :48:08.28 members, including the UK, were to come to a different decision. The

:48:09. > :48:13.document sets out very clearly that into specific areas, the changes

:48:14. > :48:16.that we need to the treaty on closer union and safeguards for businesses

:48:17. > :48:23.and countries outside the euro zone, will be put into the treaty as well.

:48:24. > :48:30.The mayor of London has been touted of the leader of the lease campaigns

:48:31. > :48:35.said yesterday that the burden will be able to negotiate a large number

:48:36. > :48:43.of shady deals at great speed because we used to run the against

:48:44. > :48:47.Empire and the world. Will he invite the Mayor to wake up to the 21st

:48:48. > :48:52.century in which the European economy is six times longer than

:48:53. > :48:57.endure -- took seven years to get Canada to get a trade deal, and with

:48:58. > :49:02.so much uncertainty in the world's economy it would be deeply disrupted

:49:03. > :49:08.to increase the risk for British exporters, British manufacturers,

:49:09. > :49:11.and British shops? Let me say, where I share the frustration of many of

:49:12. > :49:15.those who are questioning whether B should stay in a separate Britain

:49:16. > :49:20.does need trade deals to be signed rapidly. We do find it frustrating

:49:21. > :49:24.that Europe is not moving faster. The Korean free trade agreement has

:49:25. > :49:28.been excellent, and about to push ahead with Japan, Canada, and

:49:29. > :49:31.America, and China. Because of this document all of the single more

:49:32. > :49:41.likely. Where I think that the right honourable lady has a good point is

:49:42. > :49:43.this. You can't sign trade deals with other countries until you have

:49:44. > :49:45.determined the nature of your relationship with the EU from the

:49:46. > :49:48.outside. That would take at least two years, and then you have to

:49:49. > :49:54.think how long does it take to sign trade deals? The Canada deal is in

:49:55. > :49:58.its seventh year, and it is still not put in place. I worry that this

:49:59. > :50:02.is a recipe for uncertainty and risk. Business is literally would

:50:03. > :50:05.not know what the arrangements were for year after year, and British

:50:06. > :50:13.business and jobs, and our country would suffer as a result. I have

:50:14. > :50:18.pamphlets calling for us to address our role in by a referendum on art

:50:19. > :50:23.EU membership may have escaped the Prime minister's attention. He will

:50:24. > :50:29.understand why I am absolutely delighted that he is now provided us

:50:30. > :50:35.an opportunity to resolve this question for a generation. Does he

:50:36. > :50:38.agree with me that if the country votes to remain we must positively

:50:39. > :50:45.commit to the institutions of the European Union? To best ensure its

:50:46. > :50:50.success and to move on from the growth -- grudging tone that has

:50:51. > :50:54.dominated our discourse. Equally, the establishment that he leads must

:50:55. > :50:58.positively engaged with a potential decision to lead -- leave and

:50:59. > :51:05.undertake reasonable contingency planning now. Let me make a couple

:51:06. > :51:09.of points to my honourable friend. First of all, one of the things of

:51:10. > :51:13.this renegotiation does is that it does address some of the principal

:51:14. > :51:17.grudges, that I think that this country has rightly had. Too much of

:51:18. > :51:21.a single currency club, political union, too much in terms of

:51:22. > :51:24.migration and a lack of respect for welfare system. Not enough

:51:25. > :51:28.competitiveness and removing bureaucracy. Having dealt with some

:51:29. > :51:32.of these grudges, it may, yes, P possible make sure that we get more

:51:33. > :51:38.things done that says -- sued us. I also agree that something with them

:51:39. > :51:42.-- agree with the Mayor of London said that we have high-quality

:51:43. > :51:46.British officials at every part of this organizations that we can help

:51:47. > :51:51.to drive the agenda. He is right. This should settle this issue for

:51:52. > :51:54.generation. He is also right that we will be publishing the alternatives

:51:55. > :51:59.to membership so that people can see what they are, and also people can

:52:00. > :52:05.see that there are plans that can be made. The Prime Minister has said

:52:06. > :52:11.that there has been great to perform grant in the renegotiation, why then

:52:12. > :52:13.did the French president say the European Union has not granted the

:52:14. > :52:19.United Kingdom any special dispositions from its rules in a

:52:20. > :52:22.deal struck? He went on to say that the Prime Minister said that the

:52:23. > :52:26.city of London when I have special status compared to Europe other

:52:27. > :52:29.stock exchanges? Why is this is a difference between what the French

:52:30. > :52:33.president is saying and what the Prime Minister is an? What I would

:52:34. > :52:38.say is that the French Foreign Minister said that the agreement

:52:39. > :52:43.with the British is a recognition that there is a differentiated

:52:44. > :52:48.Europe. I have Artie quantity so backend, Hungarian prime ministers,

:52:49. > :52:53.and the former tying commissioner. Also, Fran ois Hollande said this,

:52:54. > :52:55.we have recognised British position not in singing, not in the former

:52:56. > :52:57.tying commissioner. Also, Fran ois Hollande said this, we have

:52:58. > :53:03.recognised British position not in singing, not in a euro zone. She

:53:04. > :53:07.does not -- but it has Britain has a special status in Europe. While the

:53:08. > :53:16.referendum decision is a matter for the British people, as

:53:17. > :53:20.does the Prime Minister recognised concern from the White House,

:53:21. > :53:27.Pentagon, State Department, and international players that have

:53:28. > :53:33.already Bedminster macro mentioned. That's ready to stand together in an

:53:34. > :53:39.unsafe world? I my honourable friend Nixon point. I don't think

:53:40. > :53:47.I think that it is based on the fact that they believe that Britain will

:53:48. > :53:51.be a stronger partner, more able to get things done, more able to bend

:53:52. > :53:54.at the will of other countries that are in America's directions when it

:53:55. > :53:59.comes to solving great prices. If you ask yourself how do we need is

:54:00. > :54:04.to reduce pirate attacks off Somalia, how would go to try to fix

:54:05. > :54:08.the problems of Libya's border. Yes, we can act unilaterally, and there

:54:09. > :54:15.are valuable partnerships and Nato, but these EU producers are worth a

:54:16. > :54:19.lot to. The views that the pound has slipped to its lowest level in seven

:54:20. > :54:22.years on the news that the honourable member has joined the

:54:23. > :54:26.league campaign, are the just getting a glimpse of the major

:54:27. > :54:33.economic upheaval that could follow if we leave the European Union? Is

:54:34. > :54:36.it's not a timely reminder that the long-term best interest of our

:54:37. > :54:41.country should come ahead of party politicking or personal ambition?

:54:42. > :54:44.What I would say to the right honourable gentleman is that I think

:54:45. > :54:48.that it is important that we looked at in detail the full economic

:54:49. > :54:53.impact of our staying in the EU were choosing to leave the EU. We will be

:54:54. > :54:57.setting out that approach in the weeks and months to come so that

:54:58. > :55:04.people can see what the dangers are, but the risks are, and also at the

:55:05. > :55:12.cases. Don't be, and agriculture, fishing, and energy policies do

:55:13. > :55:18.damage to domestic producers and the... What can we do about these

:55:19. > :55:26.unfairness is if we stay in the European Union? We have made a lot

:55:27. > :55:30.of progress in recent years. We have made big reforms to the common

:55:31. > :55:34.fisheries policy is. I would suggest, I know that he studies

:55:35. > :55:40.these things very closely, of course why we have a deficit with the EU on

:55:41. > :55:44.goods, we have a substantial surplus when it comes to services. We have

:55:45. > :55:48.to think about the future, and how we safeguard those services as well

:55:49. > :55:55.as making sure that opposition and the single market is open. Opening

:55:56. > :55:59.up the EU market in areas like energy and digital services could

:56:00. > :56:04.create hundreds of thousands of jobs in the future. The Prime Minister

:56:05. > :56:09.agree that remaining a part of the EU will give the UK a strong voice

:56:10. > :56:12.in making sure that the completion of that single market happens, and

:56:13. > :56:16.that the best deal for British businesses and jobs? I think that

:56:17. > :56:22.the honourable me lady makes an important part -- point. The

:56:23. > :56:33.declaration on I think that this is an important

:56:34. > :56:37.point. If we work there, not only with the EU continue to exist and

:56:38. > :56:40.have a big impact on our lives, it would probably head and a very

:56:41. > :56:44.different and more protectionist direction. That would actually

:56:45. > :56:49.affect us. And in many ways quite badly. Thank you Mr Speaker. My

:56:50. > :56:55.right honourable friend will know that have been deluged with advice.

:56:56. > :56:59.On the subject of an ever closer union, can he give us a concrete

:57:00. > :57:02.example of a single easy case that will provide a different outcome if

:57:03. > :57:07.the measures that he agreed last week had been agreed at the time?

:57:08. > :57:10.The ever closer union has been mentioned in a series of judgement

:57:11. > :57:15.by the European Court of Justice. There are two things that we have

:57:16. > :57:18.agreed that I think we'll have an impact. Obviously, the most

:57:19. > :57:23.eye-catching is the fact, and I quote from paragraph one on page

:57:24. > :57:26.ten, is that the substance of these agreements will be incorporated in

:57:27. > :57:29.the treaties and the time of his next position. It will make clear

:57:30. > :57:33.that the references to ever closer union do not apply to the United

:57:34. > :57:36.Kingdom. That is a call-back for us, but in many ways it is as

:57:37. > :57:40.significant and something that many other countries do not want is the

:57:41. > :57:44.next paragraph that says the references in the treaty and the

:57:45. > :57:49.preambles are creating an ever closer union, do not offer a legal

:57:50. > :57:53.basis for extending the scope of any provision of the treaties or other

:57:54. > :57:58.EU secondary legislation. This redefinition of ever closer union I

:57:59. > :58:01.think is really quite a fundamental change to the way that this

:58:02. > :58:05.organisation has worked. One way to think of it is that there have been

:58:06. > :58:09.two threats to our sovereignty, one from treaty change passing powers

:58:10. > :58:13.for Britain to Brussels, that can't happen now because of our block. The

:58:14. > :58:17.second one is using terms like the ever closer union to make sure that

:58:18. > :58:21.the EU grows its powers. It can't be done now that we have the strength.

:58:22. > :58:28.One of the reason why this deal took whatever it was this because not

:58:29. > :58:30.everybody likes us. It is not meaningless words, it is worth that

:58:31. > :58:36.mean something and matter, and make a difference.

:58:37. > :58:42.The Prime Minister was elected the 37% of the ball. Which means that

:58:43. > :58:46.even a half these people are to vote in, then this referendum can only be

:58:47. > :58:52.one of the faces of people have voted Labour mass and D,... There

:58:53. > :58:57.isn't a reasonable position that these people will be more interested

:58:58. > :59:01.in the of the case of the case for Europe, then the factual arguments

:59:02. > :59:05.of Conservative Party, entertaining though they are. What is the promise

:59:06. > :59:08.of going to put forth that forth that case, that part of the promise

:59:09. > :59:11.of going to put forth that case, that positive case for Europe? --

:59:12. > :59:16.one Prime Minister. I do not want to upset him because I'm hoping is

:59:17. > :59:20.going to be supportive. I will say in the speech that I have made

:59:21. > :59:25.today, I have sent out a positive case. It is the case of someone who

:59:26. > :59:29.is Euro sceptical in the genuine sense, I am sceptical about all

:59:30. > :59:36.organisations. All engagement. We should always question whether

:59:37. > :59:40.organisations work for us and be doubtful about these things. That is

:59:41. > :59:45.what is being sceptical means. I come at this from someone who had

:59:46. > :59:48.their doubts about Brussels and the EU, but I have a clear eyed about

:59:49. > :59:54.what is best for Britain. If others want to argue this from a more

:59:55. > :59:58.positive stance about the nature of the EU, fine. Go for it. It is up to

:59:59. > :00:04.everyone to make their own case. I will make my case in a clear

:00:05. > :00:14.determination of what is in Britain's interest. I think I did

:00:15. > :00:19.that today. Can he tell the House, and his estimations, by how much the

:00:20. > :00:23.welfare changes will reduce immigration for the EU in the coming

:00:24. > :00:28.years could tell anybody looks at this, and nose at the moment you can

:00:29. > :00:31.come from the EU and get up to ?10,000 in and work welfare

:00:32. > :00:36.benefits, and the pressure, knows that that is a big incentive to come

:00:37. > :00:40.to Britain. Many people said we would never be able to get changes

:00:41. > :00:45.to in work benefits, and we have got those changes. If we pass this

:00:46. > :00:51.legislation, were they going to see in 2017 a seven-year period, up to

:00:52. > :00:55.2024 will be restricting these welfare claims. That plus all the

:00:56. > :00:58.changes that the Home Secretary has disappeared, and many cases

:00:59. > :01:02.reversing the CJ judgement. They actually restored to our country

:01:03. > :01:11.powers over welfare, powers over immigration Baek a real difference.

:01:12. > :01:15.Best I can. We also support for the reform and will campaign

:01:16. > :01:19.accordingly. If you're to live, what would happen to mention such as

:01:20. > :01:25.convergent funding which is provided by the amounts of money for poor

:01:26. > :01:29.areas? I think the short answer is if we were to leave the EU, and we

:01:30. > :01:33.would not be able to get those funds, which I made a big difference

:01:34. > :01:40.in parts of Wales, and parts of England. In other parts of our

:01:41. > :01:44.country. I also think, I'm someone who was a kid EU but it out and we

:01:45. > :01:47.achieved that historic decision to cut it, but they wish to befriend

:01:48. > :01:53.that some of the work that the has done, in poor countries and other

:01:54. > :01:57.parts of the EU, is actually have economies to grow. They are

:01:58. > :02:00.customers of ours, and so what is Bulgaria, Romania, or Greece or

:02:01. > :02:09.whatever, the economic development is in our interests. -- the economic

:02:10. > :02:14.development. In January, academic bill to try and protect our children

:02:15. > :02:21.from portable... I pulled the bill this month after discussions, their

:02:22. > :02:24.official public this is that piece of legislation. Thousands of

:02:25. > :02:28.directors saw rescued out from Brussels, every gear, that this

:02:29. > :02:32.government has to comply with. Therefore I will be built. We cannot

:02:33. > :02:34.even protect our own children on something as fundamental as this

:02:35. > :02:41.because we do not have the control without the permission of Brussels.

:02:42. > :02:46.I'll look carefully at the case. I know the state can be frustrated,

:02:47. > :02:52.and every of foam filled miniature and mattresses, we've taken steps

:02:53. > :02:56.over and above what other countries are doing, which has kept our own

:02:57. > :02:59.people safer. The other thing I would say is there are a lot of

:03:00. > :03:04.different figures going around about this. And she looks in the library,

:03:05. > :03:11.borrow from being the topic this, it is much more like 15% of loans that

:03:12. > :03:17.come to us from this direction. -- loss. And I commend the parameter

:03:18. > :03:20.his statement and congratulate him on the success of persuading his EU

:03:21. > :03:29.counterpart is signed up for renegotiation. Will he accept gold

:03:30. > :03:33.renegotiations may have been successful, it is not central to how

:03:34. > :03:37.most people make up their minds? When we belong to a European single

:03:38. > :03:43.market, that is where a digg account figure to this country, is a better

:03:44. > :03:46.in or out? What wear basic facing huge insecurities and badges, I

:03:47. > :03:52.would bet off alongside our friends or outside on our own? And we face

:03:53. > :03:57.huge challenges like climate change and the refugee crisis, I would go

:03:58. > :04:00.working with others or isolated on their own? Will he join with me in

:04:01. > :04:10.our shared ambition for a Britannic Europe and for the pond ambition

:04:11. > :04:13.behind him was what -- blonde. . Renegotiation was aimed at dealing

:04:14. > :04:18.with some of the legitimate businesses that we have had in the

:04:19. > :04:22.UK for many years about the way it was the EU work. We thought it was

:04:23. > :04:27.too much of a single currency club, too much political giving, kind is

:04:28. > :04:31.about competitiveness and not enough production in terms of welfare and

:04:32. > :04:34.immigration. I believe this renegotiation and agreement goes

:04:35. > :04:39.long way to lose dealing with each of those problems. Now the time for

:04:40. > :04:43.the even bigger argument about the future of our country and what sort

:04:44. > :04:48.of country we want to live in poor heart cells, children, and grilled

:04:49. > :04:51.children. Of the points that he makes the printer being shown and

:04:52. > :04:56.wealth, getting things done, I'll try to our membership with Nato

:04:57. > :05:00.matters, our relationship with the UN, and our relationship with the EU

:05:01. > :05:09.gives a force of power to get things done. These fences are rightly proud

:05:10. > :05:17.of our record in the job in unemployment, the... -- these pages.

:05:18. > :05:23.Production in our deficit. During his many meetings, did he find

:05:24. > :05:28.anybody, even a single person, am I suggest we will get better terms on

:05:29. > :05:36.our exit to achieve even better outside the cure Community? --

:05:37. > :05:40.European Community. I think there is goodwill towards Britain, because of

:05:41. > :05:44.the contribution we make to the EU. There is understanding other

:05:45. > :05:49.problems or difficulties that we have had. Therefore, with a huge of

:05:50. > :05:56.the pharmacy and travel and meetings, it has been possible to

:05:57. > :06:01.get a good agreement. I do not believe if we were to take over the

:06:02. > :06:10.table of an eye for a second one, I don't think it is morally feasible.

:06:11. > :06:16., work on the equalization is possible, which discriminated

:06:17. > :06:19.unfairly the British citizens. -- spouse rules. Can ask him to

:06:20. > :06:23.recommend the work of the Minister for John? I would manage to get on

:06:24. > :06:32.the job, he has done six. He still retained his sanity. Almost. On the

:06:33. > :06:38.other big issue, the migration crisis, the British head of your

:06:39. > :06:42.poll said today that there were 5000 GIs were now within the European

:06:43. > :06:47.Union area. Many have come from the external border of the EU. Whether

:06:48. > :06:53.this amount has been given to Greece and Italy in particular is tried

:06:54. > :07:03.until -- tried to do with protecting the border? Identifies remarks about

:07:04. > :07:06.the Europe minister. His eyes were set for a minute there. But he has

:07:07. > :07:13.been done the job for six years as the nation was well. The point about

:07:14. > :07:17.spousal visas as important, for many years, we are given a dismayed to be

:07:18. > :07:21.sorted out and for many years to EU stood back, if you want the

:07:22. > :07:27.collectibles, change her own rules and here we have managed to do that.

:07:28. > :07:32.In terms of the help that were given to Italy and Greece, the discussions

:07:33. > :07:36.and Brussels were very intense because the numbers really do have

:07:37. > :07:43.to be reduced radically and that is why I strongly support and Britain

:07:44. > :07:46.will contribute to the maritime operation the last song Nato support

:07:47. > :07:51.as well as EU support. To try and bring together Greece and Turkey

:07:52. > :07:55.with a comma information picture, common intelligence what is

:07:56. > :07:59.happening. These, banks operating in the area. Without that, there will

:08:00. > :08:05.not be the right chance of getting the situation under control. For

:08:06. > :08:12.decades, British ministers who had involvement with Europe at, to

:08:13. > :08:19.exaggerate to affluence we bring and conceal our inability to achieve

:08:20. > :08:21.British interests. Is that why it took freedom of information request

:08:22. > :08:28.to established over the last two decades, Britain has voted against

:08:29. > :08:34.72 measures in the European Council? And has been defeated 72 times, and

:08:35. > :08:43.the patient of the accelerating? It would make the mistake to take the

:08:44. > :08:48.risk of remaining in the EU, how many defeats that the Prime Minister

:08:49. > :08:57.is suspect in the next two decades? The frustrations and challenges of

:08:58. > :09:05.being a member of his organisation, there are challenges. The research

:09:06. > :09:10.that I have seen his deep analysis of whether a country that its

:09:11. > :09:15.position, and shows that Britain does in 90% of cases, which even I

:09:16. > :09:19.think operates the Germans. I did for myself what we were hard we can

:09:20. > :09:27.get things done. -- I have seen for myself. If we are outside the single

:09:28. > :09:30.market, the same countries, without us, will write the rules. We will

:09:31. > :09:35.then have to comply with them, when we show that the government would

:09:36. > :09:37.have no say over what they are. That to me is the illusions of

:09:38. > :09:45.sovereignty rather than real sovereignty. I'll accept the

:09:46. > :09:51.symbolism of removing the phrase ever closer union. I do think the

:09:52. > :09:59.Prime Minister opposes House to give at least one two examples of where

:10:00. > :10:03.the sole legal basis for a decision. I am happy to read to her, but it

:10:04. > :10:14.has been used in a series of cases before us. That's happy to write to

:10:15. > :10:20.her. On the question of Article 50, cannot first one out that it did not

:10:21. > :10:25.exist in the treatise until the Lisbon Treaty which my friend used

:10:26. > :10:29.to oppose and not he agrees with. Can I point out there are many ways

:10:30. > :10:35.of leading the European gigging, that might article 50. Date that the

:10:36. > :10:39.power to bind himself and to the Article 50 from work, can he give it

:10:40. > :10:43.some thought rather than committed himself to a policy that he does not

:10:44. > :10:50.support? The point I would make to him is that like it or like it not,

:10:51. > :10:53.I don't particularly like it, but the Treaty of the European and you

:10:54. > :10:58.can set style of the way that you leave. It is called article 50. --

:10:59. > :11:03.European Union. I think it should read it. I find it odd that if you

:11:04. > :11:08.want to leave, leave. If you want to stay, stay. But the idea of going to

:11:09. > :11:10.leave the try and half day, I don't think the British public will

:11:11. > :11:14.understand it, I don't think our European partners would understand,

:11:15. > :11:21.I'm at a loss to understand it. I thought we wanted a referendum to

:11:22. > :11:28.make a choice. Posted by Minister think that President Clinton would

:11:29. > :11:33.drop the secret... -- President Putin, would he rather see Bridget

:11:34. > :11:40.Breakaway for the EU and to seek your potentially break apart? I

:11:41. > :11:45.think it is true that tournament presented like to see disunity in

:11:46. > :11:50.the West. -- Vladimir Putin. Whether it is about actions of Sarah

:11:51. > :11:58.Corporation conduct another issue. There's no in my mind -- doubt in my

:11:59. > :12:03.mind, that the allies that there is between the Baltic states, Poland,

:12:04. > :12:07.who see it first-hand the problems being created by Putin, and

:12:08. > :12:11.countries like Britain is always in my view should stand up to

:12:12. > :12:16.aggression. But that a life together with the French and Germans, and has

:12:17. > :12:19.made your's stronger and if we were not there, I don't think you can

:12:20. > :12:25.guarantee that would be the case. I do not believe that is an

:12:26. > :12:31.overstepping of the position. In October, Lord Rove said nothing is

:12:32. > :12:36.going to happen and become how to cure in the first five years

:12:37. > :12:40.probably. There will be no change. I hope my friend finds that ritual

:12:41. > :12:43.from the head of the campaign to stay in. What he agree that it is

:12:44. > :12:46.inevitable after the Vote Leave, there will be a period of informal

:12:47. > :12:51.discussions before the formal process is driven? I have to say I

:12:52. > :12:56.have great respect for my Honorable friend who is leading a campaign

:12:57. > :13:00.with great vim and vigour and passion. But surely if you want

:13:01. > :13:06.Britain to leave the EU, you want things to change, rather than not

:13:07. > :13:09.change. The truth is that section, article 50 is the only way to leave

:13:10. > :13:15.and what it says is that if you spend two years negotiating your

:13:16. > :13:21.status outside of the EU, and that they cannot be agreed, at the end of

:13:22. > :13:26.the figures, you leave. That is all of the 27 members agree to extend.

:13:27. > :13:28.That's unless. If you do not have a deal, he don't know what your

:13:29. > :13:33.relationship is with a single market, with a 50 days countries

:13:34. > :13:39.covered by the Trader Joe's, or very much. My argument is that do not

:13:40. > :13:42.take that risk. Stay in a before European Union. But the delayed

:13:43. > :13:51.campaign will have to do is explain what it is that you want was to

:13:52. > :13:55.left. -- the lead campaign. Cannot they be Prime Minister for his

:13:56. > :14:04.detailed statement. Does he accept that with Arlen and -- Ireland

:14:05. > :14:07.connected, to a UK exit of the European you can would have

:14:08. > :14:15.replications for Ireland, North or South. There may be some initial

:14:16. > :14:21.financial savings for the UK, but huge losses are likely to follow. We

:14:22. > :14:26.see them impact today are sterling. Yeah, we know that the financial

:14:27. > :14:31.impact would be negative and slow. Mr Speaker, with recent polls

:14:32. > :14:35.suggesting that 75% of people in Northern Ireland want to stay in the

:14:36. > :14:39.EU, as the Prime Minister agree with me that a UK exit from the EU will

:14:40. > :14:42.have detrimental impact on Northern Ireland's economy and is one peace

:14:43. > :15:01.process? In terms of Northern Ireland,

:15:02. > :15:05.everybody and other islands have a vote, every vote counted. I would

:15:06. > :15:08.urge people to exercise their democratic right. I look forward to

:15:09. > :15:13.going to another island as part of the campaign to talk directly to

:15:14. > :15:18.people why I believe we should stay. And I listened that some people

:15:19. > :15:23.believe that our European neighbours want to do is down at every turn, is

:15:24. > :15:28.a credible to suppose that the selfsame people, if we were to

:15:29. > :15:32.leave, could believe that our phone partners, would follow themselves to

:15:33. > :15:36.give us free access to the single market among which is the vital

:15:37. > :15:45.foundation for our business and industry to trek across the world?

:15:46. > :15:49.-- trade across. I feel that very deeply, because having time to build

:15:50. > :15:52.up the good will for a special status for breaded, within the EU

:15:53. > :16:04.which we have achieved, I do not believe that will would be dead...

:16:05. > :16:10.-- be there. The option of that risk is to stay in the reform EU rather

:16:11. > :16:18.than to take the leap in the dark. Have the Prime Minister Alize the

:16:19. > :16:21.grave consequences for the UK -- outlined the grave, but perhaps

:16:22. > :16:25.reflect on the wisdom of the leadership decisions that led us to

:16:26. > :16:31.be facing those consequences in a few months' time. Besides I want to

:16:32. > :16:34.leave hapless sovereignty and control at the heart of the

:16:35. > :16:41.arguments. That's the size. Does he agree with me that it a position

:16:42. > :16:46.where we are a decision-maker at the timetable, will be moving from

:16:47. > :16:49.position of being a rule-making to a protected and that is not

:16:50. > :16:55.sovereignty, it is not controlled, and it is not the best future for

:16:56. > :17:00.the United Kingdom? I do not agree with what the gentleman said at the

:17:01. > :17:05.first part. I think it is time for a referendum. I think we had too many

:17:06. > :17:09.traders passing through this house, where there was no referendum.

:17:10. > :17:14.Whether it was more strict under the Conservatives or Lisbon, under

:17:15. > :17:17.labor. I think that sack People's faith and our democracy and our

:17:18. > :17:22.accountability. I remember the moment when Tony Blair stood here

:17:23. > :17:26.and said let that of the joint and all the rest and without a

:17:27. > :17:29.referendum is coming. Then it was taken away. It is right to have this

:17:30. > :17:32.referendum and we should not be frightened of asking the people

:17:33. > :17:37.interested the people, but I agree with him that if you want to have to

:17:38. > :17:40.question how it would have greater control, greater influence, it is by

:17:41. > :17:46.being in there helping to make the rules, rather than outside simply

:17:47. > :17:50.taking the rules. Can congratulate the Prime Minister for securing a

:17:51. > :17:55.written the special status that he talked about earlier? Does he agree

:17:56. > :18:00.with me, with the debate so far is that those who want leave your are

:18:01. > :18:04.completely unable to agree on an alternative arrangement for breaded

:18:05. > :18:13.and the EU, that we get the same sort of economic benefits that his

:18:14. > :18:18.negotiation skills? What today's discussions have revealed not only

:18:19. > :18:23.that there is no agreement about what Britain by a future looks like

:18:24. > :18:28.outside of the EU, but there is an agreement about whether we really

:18:29. > :18:31.should leave, some that people wanted to both league in over a

:18:32. > :18:35.different bill. That's not an agreement about how we should leave.

:18:36. > :18:39.What the Article 50, or some other process that can be followed.

:18:40. > :18:41.Unclear, the only way I leave. What the Article 50, or some other

:18:42. > :18:44.process that can be follow. Unclear, the only way of event is to article

:18:45. > :18:50.50. There is no second renegotiation, second referendum,

:18:51. > :18:57.the torch is in or mean. -- the choice is in or out. Can the Prime

:18:58. > :19:01.Minister tell us beyond the areas which are specifically addressed in

:19:02. > :19:07.the deal agreed last week, and which ways his government plans have been

:19:08. > :19:12.constrained by European legislation? There's no doubt that we do face

:19:13. > :19:16.concerns because the way the single market works is a common set of rows

:19:17. > :19:21.that has to be agreed. As it's been said, was and I was cannot wait.

:19:22. > :19:29.That's a common set up rules. There are occasions where we lose a vote,

:19:30. > :19:32.and we are concerned by EU regulation and legislation. The

:19:33. > :19:38.question that they would be to put in a very hard-headed politics and

:19:39. > :19:43.if you are outside, does that give you the full control that you seek?

:19:44. > :19:45.Does not produce up to trade with Europe and accepted rules, don't

:19:46. > :19:52.think I've done is remove yourself from the conversation and take away

:19:53. > :19:57.your vote. Common sense that this will set up the issue of her

:19:58. > :20:00.generation. I am blessed with five grandchildren. I believe it is in

:20:01. > :20:05.their blessed interest that I should be voted to remain within the EU.

:20:06. > :20:11.That's part of. There is another generation that is some concern.

:20:12. > :20:15.Thousands of people are paid UK taxes, an excellent insurance over

:20:16. > :20:19.the years. They are now living in other parts of Europe. My right

:20:20. > :20:23.honourable friend knows that I represent the interests of the

:20:24. > :20:31.people. They're very frightened, and can he tell them what will happen if

:20:32. > :20:34.we leave the European Union? I am grateful that he has decided to

:20:35. > :20:38.support the case for remaining in the EU. I think he raises an

:20:39. > :20:42.important point. We often look at free Will Win in terms of people's

:20:43. > :20:46.decisions to come here. We do also need to think about the many British

:20:47. > :20:50.people would have chosen to work, live, retire and other parts of the

:20:51. > :20:54.EU. The short answer to this question is that I can tell the

:20:55. > :20:58.window be like if the state. But I cannot be absolutely certain if we

:20:59. > :21:02.leave. It would depend on a complex and difficult glaciation cannot be

:21:03. > :21:05.there be a lot of uncertainty. I would urge other people or the right

:21:06. > :21:10.to vote to make that exercise that right and we should think about

:21:11. > :21:13.people in Gibraltar, who are all applicable in this referendum.

:21:14. > :21:24.That's able to vote. To speak plainly about what he

:21:25. > :21:30.believes is right for our country. As it develops the argument, when

:21:31. > :21:35.the bear and mind that nine American people voted Labour and general

:21:36. > :21:38.election? And the sympathies and values don't actually live with his

:21:39. > :21:46.party and a need to develop a conversation with them as well. I

:21:47. > :21:52.take on his point. This is not a party political issue. This is not

:21:53. > :21:55.something for all people, all voters to get involved in. They might vote

:21:56. > :21:59.conservative and a general election, but decide to vote in, or out, and

:22:00. > :22:06.dinner with labor a liberal Democrat. -- ditto. This should be

:22:07. > :22:09.added to the -- giant democratic society and accountability. We are

:22:10. > :22:16.asking question about something, this is a new sovereign decision by

:22:17. > :22:20.the British people. That huge sovereign decision. I would say to

:22:21. > :22:25.Labour voters to decide what you think that government, that rule, or

:22:26. > :22:27.that law. Think about the future of your country, and think about the

:22:28. > :22:36.big picture and then make the choice. I am always nice. The Prime

:22:37. > :22:39.Minister said that crime should be at the forefront of our thoughts

:22:40. > :22:43.when we are putting in the referendum. And the Prime Minister

:22:44. > :22:51.tell us how many crimes were committed in the UK by EU nationals

:22:52. > :22:55.in the given for free movement of people came into effect, and how

:22:56. > :23:00.many were committed by the EU nationals last year, and how many of

:23:01. > :23:03.the EU nationals were imbued in the UK prison system before free but

:23:04. > :23:09.when of people came into operation and how many there are now? I'm sure

:23:10. > :23:12.he has that information. Debbie has not got it, perhaps he can write to

:23:13. > :23:17.me with the information. That's if he doesn't have it. I do not have

:23:18. > :23:21.all the figures, but I can say because of a very harboured by the

:23:22. > :23:27.Home Secretary, will be able to Barbara, and so, too better. That

:23:28. > :23:32.hardware. We are solving problems that the EasyJet has put another

:23:33. > :23:37.way. As for prisoners, the prisoner transfer agreement that was

:23:38. > :23:41.negotiated will mean that we can get for prisoners out of our prisons and

:23:42. > :23:50.into the jails. Outside of the EU, they'll be far more difficult to

:23:51. > :23:55.achieve. -- that will be. I don't remember who was selected the

:23:56. > :24:08.European Parliament in 1979. -- I think I was the only member. Without

:24:09. > :24:15.a lot more sense than itself. We were on opposite sides. I was in

:24:16. > :24:20.favour of a gift membership, his father was in favour of membership.

:24:21. > :24:25.-- against membership. I changed my mind. At the two gears in the

:24:26. > :24:35.European Parliament, I saw the benefits. -- after two years. We're

:24:36. > :24:42.talking about Senate. -- Senate. Were talking about restructuring the

:24:43. > :24:47.social effect. And people work in the auto industry. I think

:24:48. > :24:53.anonymously from working with people and other nationalities, the hope is

:24:54. > :25:00.to emphasise again and again the importance of internationalism. I

:25:01. > :25:19.think it for her honesty. -- bank. I remember campaigning... Head be

:25:20. > :25:25.sitting here and we would have been able to hear from him and for the

:25:26. > :25:34.Maryland. That she would be. -- Mayor of London. Why does the Prime

:25:35. > :25:41.Minister Bank on so much? -- the bank on? So much about these

:25:42. > :25:48.European migration, after the polls have a wonderful record of, care and

:25:49. > :25:54.offer benefits. As a much more worried that Mickens, born an

:25:55. > :25:57.integer from North Africa and the Middle East that the diamonds have

:25:58. > :26:01.any idea what proportion of these people were exercise their right to

:26:02. > :26:05.come here and once they get the German passports? If we remain in,

:26:06. > :26:14.the as useful as a Macedonian strain to stop them. -- strain to stop. I

:26:15. > :26:20.promised to go on for the next four months, and to go on considerably

:26:21. > :26:24.less. I think he makes a good point. We have the advantage of being

:26:25. > :26:30.outside second, so that foreign nationals, to other countries don't

:26:31. > :26:33.have the automatic access to the UK. But he stopped coming in. As what

:26:34. > :26:38.would you European citizens who we think are ever of the country. The

:26:39. > :26:44.factual answer to this question is if you look at refugees and others

:26:45. > :26:49.who have arrived in Germany, after ten years, only around 242% have

:26:50. > :27:00.German citizenship. The evidence to date is there is no huge risk of

:27:01. > :27:04.early to the table. -- 2.2 oppression. The more likely to have

:27:05. > :27:07.are involved to try and stop the flow question the flow of migrants

:27:08. > :27:13.in the first place and would have ingrained now. With this is the lead

:27:14. > :27:18.operation between Greece and Italy is partly because of the UK

:27:19. > :27:21.intervention into this debate. Taken by the French, with the times,

:27:22. > :27:28.because around the table would get things done. Thus the Prime Minister

:27:29. > :27:32.agreed with me that the claim that staying with the European you can

:27:33. > :27:35.would make an attack on our shores more likely, is deeply irresponsible

:27:36. > :32:54.and factually wrong? The Prime Minister has said in a

:32:55. > :32:59.statement that we are to make a final decision. So the one sentence

:33:00. > :33:05.of the statement I agree with a final decision to be made in June as

:33:06. > :33:09.to whether we stay with the valve body on whether we leave and make

:33:10. > :33:17.our own pot -- pass. As a government's policy basically always

:33:18. > :33:22.keep a fair punishment the force? -- finding something worse. Obviously,

:33:23. > :33:26.my friend and I have a profound disagreement about this issue. I

:33:27. > :33:30.respect his views because he has held them in good faith for many

:33:31. > :33:36.years. And until my view is that we need to form for years. I'm sure we

:33:37. > :33:41.can respect each other and the months of debate ahead. Don't think

:33:42. > :33:45.I would say by doing to take issue with my Honorable friend is about

:33:46. > :33:49.manifesto delivered. On a run through whole thing but we said we

:33:50. > :33:54.will legislate for a referendum and we delivered. Which I will protect

:33:55. > :33:58.our economy from the eurozone, and wanted to pursue power for was from

:33:59. > :34:02.Brussels cover in the sediment. One problem is to work together to block

:34:03. > :34:06.unwanted legislation covering the settlement. The one and two ever

:34:07. > :34:10.closer union. We'll will ensure that defence policies national security

:34:11. > :34:15.remains firmly under British national control. We assisted the EU

:34:16. > :34:18.migrants want to claim tax credits must live it here and contribute it

:34:19. > :34:23.for four years covered in the settlement. Time and time again, we

:34:24. > :34:27.also noticed manifesto and I'm proud of them in. I'm proud of the team to

:34:28. > :34:31.put together and implement the good. I say let's have this vigorous

:34:32. > :34:32.argument, let's not pretend that we have not delivered the manifesto

:34:33. > :35:04.that was in front of. The bosses of those companies aren't

:35:05. > :35:07.saying that very publicly, I would invite the Prime Minister during

:35:08. > :35:12.this election campaign to encourage them to talk to those people whose

:35:13. > :35:16.jobs depend on that investment, to say what would happen if we left

:35:17. > :35:25.Europe, because they tell me they would leave Britain. My message to

:35:26. > :35:30.businesses is if you have a view, make sure you tell people and talk

:35:31. > :35:39.to customers, and your suppliers. Above all, talk to your employees,

:35:40. > :35:43.and your staff. This issue is so important, the business voice, large

:35:44. > :35:47.and small, is very much in favour of Britain staying. Many of them have

:35:48. > :35:52.said generous things about this renegotiation because they recognise

:35:53. > :35:54.the dangers, particularly in the area of safeguarding ourselves

:35:55. > :35:58.against distillation, because we aren't in the Euro, given that I

:35:59. > :36:02.hope business and enterprise will speak clearly in the next few

:36:03. > :36:11.months. Much of the protection of the Euro outs in this is set out.

:36:12. > :36:16.But this requires nothing, as far as I can tell, nothing more than the

:36:17. > :36:21.discussion to be held about the UK's concerns. Not even European Council.

:36:22. > :36:28.It leaves Eurozone members free to enforce its will bike UMT. So, can

:36:29. > :36:33.the Prime Minister explain what beyond the discussion, which can be

:36:34. > :36:37.ignored, has been achieved by the safeguard mechanism -- QMV. I can

:36:38. > :36:42.answer that, is an important question. There are two things, it

:36:43. > :36:47.is a set of principles set out on section A on economic governance,

:36:48. > :36:50.these principles of non-discrimination, no cost, no

:36:51. > :36:53.disadvantage, and crucially in paragraph four, a real concern to

:36:54. > :36:58.the Bank of England, I know it will be a concern to his committee, is

:36:59. > :37:02.making clear that the financial stability of member states whose

:37:03. > :37:06.currency is not the Euro is matter for their own authorities and

:37:07. > :37:10.budgetary responsibilities. These principles are very important. What

:37:11. > :37:14.I think is exciting is that not only have these been setup for the first

:37:15. > :37:18.time, not only has Europe accepted for the first time that there are

:37:19. > :37:22.other currencies in the EU but these changes will be incorporated into

:37:23. > :37:28.the treaties. The mechanism, if you like, is over and above new way of

:37:29. > :37:31.making sure issues are raised, should we want to, at the level of

:37:32. > :37:35.the European Council, a protection we don't have today, but I think

:37:36. > :37:39.making the treaty, making the principle is part of the treaty,

:37:40. > :37:45.already an international legally binding decision, is hugely

:37:46. > :37:48.important and people on behalf of financial services and the Bank of

:37:49. > :37:53.England and others, they will recognise this is important progress

:37:54. > :37:57.for Britain. There is still plenty that divides myself and the Prime

:37:58. > :38:01.Minister politically, but on this, in the national interest, I think

:38:02. > :38:07.he's right to be campaigning for Britain to remain in the European

:38:08. > :38:11.Union. I want to put a quote to him, leaving would cause at least some

:38:12. > :38:15.business uncertainty, while embroiling the government for

:38:16. > :38:19.several years in a fiddly process of negotiating new arrangements. So

:38:20. > :38:25.diverging energy from the real problems of this country, that was

:38:26. > :38:31.on February the 7th. The Mayor of London was right to seven days ago,

:38:32. > :38:36.wasn't he? What I would say to the honourable gentleman and everyone is

:38:37. > :38:39.that we have really got to examine what these alternatives are, and how

:38:40. > :38:44.much uncertainty there would be, how long these processes would take. I

:38:45. > :38:47.think therein lies the importance of this decision, for businesses,

:38:48. > :38:53.families, people's prospects as well up and down the country. Does the

:38:54. > :38:57.promised a group of me that one of the key benefits of his agreement is

:38:58. > :39:01.to give legal clarity about Britain's special status within the

:39:02. > :39:03.EU? You would be aware of the uncertainties that have been for

:39:04. > :39:09.those advising the government about the law in the past, does he also

:39:10. > :39:14.agree that it is wrong to say that it is not legally binding, it is.

:39:15. > :39:22.And it is irreversible, unless we choose otherwise. There is a long

:39:23. > :39:26.opinion by Professor Sir Alan Dashwood, the leading EU

:39:27. > :39:33.constitutional lawyer in this country, it can be read on the

:39:34. > :39:35.Henderson Chambers website. I'm grateful for what my right

:39:36. > :39:40.honourable friend says given that he was a senior law officer in the

:39:41. > :39:44.government. I listen carefully to what the member for Beaconsfield has

:39:45. > :39:50.said, they could not have been more clear on this point, I've read the

:39:51. > :39:54.judgment by Lord Dashwood and the government 's own legal advice. They

:39:55. > :39:58.say it is legally binding and reversible. People who question it

:39:59. > :40:06.should look at the Danish protocol, that's been working well for 23

:40:07. > :40:13.years. Does the Prime Minister share my concerns and worries that after

:40:14. > :40:18.70 years of peace and prosperity, any nation begins to take it rather

:40:19. > :40:24.for granted, and take the institutions that created that peace

:40:25. > :40:31.and prosperity? I was born on the August weekend in London at the

:40:32. > :40:38.height of the Battle of Britain. My generation, and many people in this

:40:39. > :40:41.country with longer memories, note that peace and prosperity aren't

:40:42. > :40:46.guaranteed, unless you work together across Europe to maintain them day

:40:47. > :40:50.after day, month after month, year after year. I agree with the

:40:51. > :40:53.honourable gentleman, it is worth remembering why this came about in

:40:54. > :40:57.the first place. The appalling bloodshed on our continent. For

:40:58. > :41:04.people of my generation, very much postwar children, we should remember

:41:05. > :41:10.that and look afresh at the institutions of the EU, and try to

:41:11. > :41:13.make sure that this organisation works for this century, rather than

:41:14. > :41:17.the last century. That's part of what the agreement is about. I

:41:18. > :41:23.remember the meeting we once had at the Cloth Hall in Ypres, you cannot

:41:24. > :41:25.sit in that building without thinking of the slaughter that

:41:26. > :41:31.European countries have engaged in in the past. May I to salute my

:41:32. > :41:35.right honourable friend for honouring his commitment to the

:41:36. > :41:39.British people, to offer them a referendum? And extraordinary

:41:40. > :41:44.stamina over the last week or so, where we've been to join the recess.

:41:45. > :41:50.For me, this is not the fundamental reform we were promised. We've

:41:51. > :41:54.learned a lot about security in the last few weeks, would he not agree

:41:55. > :41:59.with me that the security of Europe is dependent on Nato, not the EU? It

:42:00. > :42:04.is Nato that is protecting us from further incursion by President

:42:05. > :42:10.Putin, and we do Nato no good by suggesting that somehow the EU has

:42:11. > :42:14.some competence in this area? I have huge respect for my right honourable

:42:15. > :42:21.friend, he served brilliantly in the last garment helping to strengthen

:42:22. > :42:26.defences, perhaps ten or 15 years ago, -- government. Whether it is

:42:27. > :42:31.our partnership with America, not the EU, considering defence and

:42:32. > :42:35.security in the run today, the way we fight terrorism yes it depends on

:42:36. > :42:42.our relationships and what we do through the EU. I see it daily

:42:43. > :42:46.through the exchange of information. The agreement we reached at this

:42:47. > :42:51.council, to make sure that there is a strong Nato mission, to try and

:42:52. > :42:55.help the situation between Greece and Turkey, it is a Nato mission

:42:56. > :42:59.backing up his point, but where was some of the conversation going on

:43:00. > :43:02.about it? Where were the Germans, British and French sitting together

:43:03. > :43:07.and working out what assets we could supply? How to get real power into

:43:08. > :43:12.it? It was done around the EU Council table. The fact is we need

:43:13. > :43:17.both to keep safe in the modern world, fight terrorism, criminality,

:43:18. > :43:22.stand up to evil around the world and use all organisations, not just

:43:23. > :43:26.some of them. The Prime Minister has played fast and loose with our

:43:27. > :43:33.cultural, social and economic future in Europe for a consider is -- for a

:43:34. > :43:37.series of concessions. Will the Prime Minister now guarantee that

:43:38. > :43:41.his government's case for remaining in the EU will stop appeasing them,

:43:42. > :43:49.and will instead focus on the many positives of the EU. Can he commit

:43:50. > :43:52.to ensuring that the public has sufficient information to make a

:43:53. > :43:57.positive and informed choice? We have certainly been whiting a

:43:58. > :44:04.positive campaign, and in that there is a series of documents, some were

:44:05. > :44:08.mandated by the other place, when they had a referendum bill, we have

:44:09. > :44:12.two set out rights and obligations of things you get out of, and

:44:13. > :44:18.obligations you have in the EU. We will be talking about the economic

:44:19. > :44:21.case. All of those issues, I would say to those interested in some

:44:22. > :44:26.cultural or educational arguments, come forward to. We need from voices

:44:27. > :44:29.from universities, they have a lot to say on this issue, they get a lot

:44:30. > :44:35.out of Europe. Cultural organisations should be speaking out

:44:36. > :44:40.as well. Nick Herbert. Anti-Mr Speaker, would my right honourable

:44:41. > :44:44.friend agree with me that when this country in our national interest

:44:45. > :44:48.makes an international agreement of any kind, it may involve a loss of

:44:49. > :44:55.sovereignty, that may be the case through any trade deal, through Nato

:44:56. > :44:59.rules, and on the single most important issue that this House of

:45:00. > :45:04.Commons could take, which is whether or not to engage in military action.

:45:05. > :45:09.We are treaty bound by Nato to go to the defence under article five of a

:45:10. > :45:13.country, a fellow member, under armed attack. That obliges us, in

:45:14. > :45:17.that sense, we've lost sovereignty. That is because we believe it is in

:45:18. > :45:23.the interests of the country to enter that agreement and has made us

:45:24. > :45:26.safer. If the claim of sovereignty and the loss of sovereignty were the

:45:27. > :45:29.trump card, would it not in fact be the case that all of those

:45:30. > :45:34.international agreements would need to be torn up? I think my right

:45:35. > :45:38.honourable friend makes an important point, if you're only determination

:45:39. > :45:43.was never to seek technical sovereignty committee would never

:45:44. > :45:50.join any organisations or do a trade ill, or be a member of the IMF World

:45:51. > :45:56.Bank -- trade deal. The question is what maximises power, influence and

:45:57. > :45:59.ability to get things done. As the Transport Secretary put brilliantly

:46:00. > :46:04.in the cabinet meeting, I would love to live in Utopia, but I expect the

:46:05. > :46:09.EU is that as well. You don't abolish the EU by leaving it, you

:46:10. > :46:13.simply cut yourself off from something, and therefore, possibly

:46:14. > :46:17.make yourself less powerful rather than more powerful. May I gently

:46:18. > :46:24.remind the house that people who wish to take part in the exchanges

:46:25. > :46:28.should have been here at the start, and remain throughout. People who

:46:29. > :46:32.have gone in and out of the chamber and may have come back in again

:46:33. > :46:36.should not then be standing. That's pretty much in breach of traditions

:46:37. > :46:41.of the house. We must be clear on that. Mr Ronnie Campbell. The main

:46:42. > :46:52.policy for me was a close political union. If this could be voted to

:46:53. > :47:00.upstate -- stay in the union on the 23rd, could we put it to a treaty,

:47:01. > :47:04.be written into a treaty? It is already an agreement and will

:47:05. > :47:10.shortly be deposited at the UN as an international law decision, and

:47:11. > :47:14.therefore it would already be, by then, legally binding and

:47:15. > :47:18.irreversible. When it comes to getting out of an ever closer union

:47:19. > :47:22.and redefining a closer union, I think it is so important it has to

:47:23. > :47:25.go into the treaties. The agreement here is when those treaties change

:47:26. > :47:31.they will be written into those treaties. If you like, there's a

:47:32. > :47:36.double lock on this. A vital point. John Baron? I suspect this is

:47:37. > :47:40.tinkering, it is not fundamental change, the red card is not a veto,

:47:41. > :47:49.it won't stop a majority of the EU in forcing unwanted taxes. Should

:47:50. > :47:54.the Prime Minister accept the possibility that the red card can be

:47:55. > :48:01.turned against us? It could not stop, or it would stop, rather, UK

:48:02. > :48:07.sponsored initiatives being blocked by the majority of the EU,

:48:08. > :48:12.initiatives that could be in our best interests, like access and

:48:13. > :48:16.further enhancement of the single market? Look, I don't overstate the

:48:17. > :48:21.red card, what it is is a new mechanism not to delay but properly

:48:22. > :48:26.block new initiatives available for National Polmont, should they want

:48:27. > :48:31.to avail themselves of it. For me, it's another thing that makes this

:48:32. > :48:37.organisation more democratically applicable to national Polmont is.

:48:38. > :48:43.On some occasions it may work against, I suppose it is

:48:44. > :48:45.accountability. The point is this organisation will be more democratic

:48:46. > :48:50.because of my decision rather than less.

:48:51. > :48:59.Mr Speaker, since the Prime Minister seems to be getting none from his

:49:00. > :49:06.own side, can I commend him from coming right to cancel a Michael

:49:07. > :49:09.version of freedom of movement. Can he assure the House that there'll be

:49:10. > :49:16.no application for the hundreds of thousands of UK citizens living in

:49:17. > :49:19.the EU for this deal? Of course if we stay in the European Union

:49:20. > :49:24.British people will continue to be able to live and work abroad as they

:49:25. > :49:27.do now. It is not for me to set up will happen to them in different

:49:28. > :49:32.circumstances. I think the league campaign will try and address that

:49:33. > :49:40.point. You will know with certainty what they get. In his statement the

:49:41. > :49:44.Prime Minister observed that leaving the EU might briefly make us feel

:49:45. > :49:48.more sovereign, does he not accept that the issue of parliamentary

:49:49. > :49:55.sovereignty will be the centre of that central one for parliamentary

:49:56. > :49:59.debate. So long as we're subject to the European Union we will not be

:50:00. > :50:04.truly sovereign and erode very little change last week in that

:50:05. > :50:08.respect. I think would change the last weekend in that respect is that

:50:09. > :50:14.because we're getting out of ever closing union we now know that we

:50:15. > :50:17.cannot be forced into folder public again good union against our will.

:50:18. > :50:22.On this issue of sovereignty I will repeat again, if you leave the EU

:50:23. > :50:26.you might feel more sovereign because you could pass this law or

:50:27. > :50:29.pass that law, but on the other hand if you still want to set into Europe

:50:30. > :50:33.you have to meet all the rules under which you have say. That is a

:50:34. > :50:42.diminution of sovereignty rather than increase of sovereignty. On the

:50:43. > :50:45.issue of sovereignty, has been reported in several news media

:50:46. > :50:48.organizations that the Prime Minister intends to unveil a British

:50:49. > :50:53.sovereignty bill in the next few days. Will he confirm that that is

:50:54. > :50:56.the case and if so will he tell us what provision he is going to make

:50:57. > :51:00.in that bill to recognise the principle of unlimited sovereignty

:51:01. > :51:08.in parliament and the distinctively English principal which has no

:51:09. > :51:18.counterpart to Scott a scattered -- constitutional law? We will build a

:51:19. > :51:22.2011 when we set out that our limited sovereign. Just as they can

:51:23. > :51:27.join the year they can join the -- Olevia. That is the good for the

:51:28. > :51:31.whole of the United Kingdom. We do have a sovereign parliament. I do

:51:32. > :51:38.think there are ways we can add to that. As other countries have done,

:51:39. > :51:43.I look for to bringing proposals forward in the coming day. On Friday

:51:44. > :51:53.two and a half thousand people packed the QE Center to see the goal

:51:54. > :52:01.launch national cross party leaf campaign, many speakers were there,

:52:02. > :52:06.including a renowned economic commentator, a senior trade

:52:07. > :52:12.unionist, and very respected Labour in Pete, the co-chairman of

:52:13. > :52:23.conservatives for Britain, for conservative MPs, and the leader of

:52:24. > :52:27.respect. In 2014, Bruce Davidson our excellent conservative leader in

:52:28. > :52:34.Scotland, linked arms with George Galloway in the national interest.

:52:35. > :52:37.Does the Prime Minister agree that Ruth Davidson was right and does he

:52:38. > :52:42.agree that sometimes you have to work with people you do not like?

:52:43. > :52:48.Everyone will have to make the choice about what platform they

:52:49. > :52:53.appear on and who they appear on those platforms with. I think the

:52:54. > :52:59.disadvantage of appearing on any platform with either Nigel The

:53:00. > :53:06.Mirage or George Galloway is what I consider who their friends are. ,

:53:07. > :53:15.this is going to be something everyone will have to think

:53:16. > :53:21.carefully about when they to appear. There has been a lot of talk about

:53:22. > :53:23.the City of London and big multilateral companies working here

:53:24. > :53:31.and investing in this country. The beating heart of our economy and the

:53:32. > :53:35.small and medium enterprise sector. As India's exports to EU countries.

:53:36. > :53:41.As the Prime Minister agree that it would be madness to slam the door in

:53:42. > :53:47.their face. I think the overwhelming majority of SNAs... There are many

:53:48. > :53:52.companies that are not exporters but are involved in the supply chain

:53:53. > :53:57.with companies that do export. This is a point that the business

:53:58. > :54:07.services organizations, banks accountants and lawyers make. I

:54:08. > :54:13.would like to also think my right noble friend the Prime Minister, and

:54:14. > :54:19.all routable members of this house who voted for us to have a

:54:20. > :54:25.referendum on our EU membership. Can you promise to say whether the remit

:54:26. > :54:28.he has reached alters the Lisbon Treaty at all? Obviously it does,

:54:29. > :54:37.would we change these treaties this'll be of the founding documents

:54:38. > :54:41.of the EU. In time the treaty changes will sit alongside the other

:54:42. > :54:45.treaties that have been produced in the past. Like him, I regret the

:54:46. > :54:52.fact that so many treaties were passed with so many Democratic

:54:53. > :55:01.accountability -- so little. A distant dream for many of us who

:55:02. > :55:08.used to argue this never got it. The Prime Minister has stated that

:55:09. > :55:17.people who vote to leave the EU do not love their country. I represent

:55:18. > :55:21.many veterans of the armed services who is cannot be questioned. What he

:55:22. > :55:27.Prime Minister apologise to the people? I absolutely did not say

:55:28. > :55:35.that. I said that I love my country and I think our country will be

:55:36. > :55:37.greater and more powerful but we remain a organizations through which

:55:38. > :55:41.we can project our power and influence and do great things in the

:55:42. > :55:46.world. I did not question the patriotism of anyone in our country.

:55:47. > :55:51.We're going to have to make a choice. I think part of Britain's

:55:52. > :55:58.greatness is not just the right we have this country, but we are not in

:55:59. > :56:03.doubt looking country. I'm very proud that we help during refugees,

:56:04. > :56:09.and help stabilise countries from which so many problems come. We do

:56:10. > :56:14.this because we are strong, but also because we are members of Nato, we

:56:15. > :56:20.are a permanent seat of the UN, and part of the EU. We should be proud

:56:21. > :56:30.of the world that we play in the world. -- role. If these

:56:31. > :56:33.negotiations did not succeed, and he would have no hesitation even

:56:34. > :56:38.recommending that we leave the European Union. Can he have in the

:56:39. > :56:43.library papers which cover contingency plans which would take

:56:44. > :56:46.place in that eventuality. What he confirm that in that circumstance

:56:47. > :56:51.exactly the same leap in the dark what have to be made by him as he is

:56:52. > :56:58.now vilified? What I would say to my Honorable friend and I have great

:56:59. > :57:05.respect for him because he is held his views for many years, and I

:57:06. > :57:08.would hope he will respect my views. In terms of the documentation we're

:57:09. > :57:11.going to be publishing something about the alternatives to

:57:12. > :57:15.demonstrate what we believe they are you demonstrate that we are thinking

:57:16. > :57:20.about what would need to happen with that eventuality to come about. In

:57:21. > :57:24.terms of what we achieved, I'm very happy to write to him with a list of

:57:25. > :57:29.things that we said in our manifesto. We achieve in this new

:57:30. > :57:32.renegotiation. Consequent to say that I'm going to take a different

:57:33. > :57:36.path from you, I'm going to make my own decision. Somehow we have not

:57:37. > :57:47.delivered the overt whelming On at the Prime Minister can tell

:57:48. > :57:53.the House whether he thinks rural communities and present would be

:57:54. > :57:56.better our worst thing in the EU. I represent rural communities, 400

:57:57. > :58:02.square miles of beautiful West Oxfordshire. There'll be a range of

:58:03. > :58:08.views in my constituency by no one I talked to many of those responsible

:58:09. > :58:10.for producing food and for looking after our local environment, that

:58:11. > :58:18.they see strong advantages of fermenting. -- of remaining. Though

:58:19. > :58:22.the parameters are agreed and negotiated a special status till,

:58:23. > :58:31.the actual demonstrations of sovereignty at his best? -- special

:58:32. > :58:34.status till. Safer and more economic prosperous and a manifest itself in

:58:35. > :58:38.many aspects of the deal, but also the way in which we behave as a

:58:39. > :58:46.nation state within the European Union and the future. What I would

:58:47. > :58:51.say is I think it demonstrates that while this organisation is imperfect

:58:52. > :58:56.and sometimes campy and flexible, they did show flexibility. One

:58:57. > :59:01.country came along with a manifest in place renegotiate its position

:59:02. > :59:05.with a set of changes and by large we have achieved them. I think that

:59:06. > :59:08.a sign that this organisation can be flexible IP that is incredibly

:59:09. > :59:11.important. If he did not achieve any of this, I would really have deep

:59:12. > :59:17.questions about whether the stay in an organisation like this. But they

:59:18. > :59:24.demonstrate it looks ability. -- demonstrated flexibility. I'm proud

:59:25. > :59:30.of Northern Ireland in his place in the world as a global trader. And I

:59:31. > :59:33.know we benefit a great deal from the EU at the moment. With a mind

:59:34. > :59:38.that promised or made it clear what the benefits are to us on our

:59:39. > :59:43.borders, our farmers, are fishermen, and all the people there that really

:59:44. > :59:50.relied on international trade? I look forward to coming there to make

:59:51. > :59:55.a point. -- those point. We look at the sad that they have been given in

:59:56. > :00:02.terms of final grants, -- Arlen that they have. If you look at what we

:00:03. > :00:07.have reformed heredity, agricultural policies, more to be done. I think

:00:08. > :00:09.money goes into another I lived through those programmes and I'm

:00:10. > :00:18.happy to come and talk about all those things in the province.

:00:19. > :00:23.Will actually be changed to incorporate our changes and perhaps

:00:24. > :00:29.to allow greater integration of the eurozone, required for the

:00:30. > :00:35.referendum in the UK or not? That require a future referendum. The

:00:36. > :00:41.eurozone members were to bring forward treaty changes to change the

:00:42. > :00:44.nature of the eurozone, but without effecting any weight competences

:00:45. > :00:49.here in Britain. Then I suspect we'll be up to get our changes on

:00:50. > :00:54.ever closer union, on the governments surrounding the

:00:55. > :00:59.eurozone, and to the treaty. Whether it require never referendum depends

:01:00. > :01:03.on whether it goes to Brussels. If the answer is yes, you have to have

:01:04. > :01:09.a referendum. If the answer is no, you don't. And as statement, the

:01:10. > :01:16.Prime Minister said responsibility for supervising the stability of the

:01:17. > :01:22.UK will always remain in the hands of the Bank of England. -- in his

:01:23. > :01:26.statement. But we already share that responsibility. With the European

:01:27. > :01:32.banking authorities and we already signed up to the single will book

:01:33. > :01:37.about RT. Out of the Prime Minister statement compatible with the view

:01:38. > :01:41.of Mr, the head of the European banking authority, who says that the

:01:42. > :01:47.institution must be the dominant player in Santa Cruz, particularly

:01:48. > :01:54.in Britain wishes to keep the town and state within a single European

:01:55. > :01:58.financial regulation. The assets of this question requires something

:01:59. > :02:05.like 35 hours of negotiation. -- the answer to this question. Of course

:02:06. > :02:10.you have the backing union arrangement. And for the kill zone

:02:11. > :02:14.countries, they need to have their banks properly scrutinised and

:02:15. > :02:18.regulated at a guilty level. We have our own currency, our on banking

:02:19. > :02:22.supervision arrangement. It is hard to supervise a complex and larger

:02:23. > :02:24.economy like Britain, with one of the largest financial centres

:02:25. > :02:29.anywhere and well, it is not just banks that are systemically

:02:30. > :02:32.important, it is also other financial institutions. Central

:02:33. > :02:35.counterparties, and why this is important is because at the end of

:02:36. > :02:39.the day, we need to make sure that whatever is the eurozone does, we

:02:40. > :02:45.are protected in terms of the Bank of England playing the role of being

:02:46. > :02:48.to intervene to resolve and to supervise those important

:02:49. > :02:52.institution. That's what paragraph four is it about. Although that

:02:53. > :03:01.sounds very technical, it is fantastically important because it

:03:02. > :03:05.Britain -- it Britain, it would have to and a zero best organisation

:03:06. > :03:09.where the eurozone is a large currency, and we can have variables,

:03:10. > :03:12.there would be a case for saying long-term, this is a single currency

:03:13. > :03:18.only organisation independently. This was crucial to get that

:03:19. > :03:21.settled, technical, but at and fundamentally important what we can

:03:22. > :03:28.get fair treatment inside this organisation. The answer is yes, we

:03:29. > :03:33.can. And it's great exercise of democracy, it is not what we say of

:03:34. > :03:35.the house, but what are constituents decide. My constituency but many

:03:36. > :03:41.will be interested in the things that affect them. The economic

:03:42. > :03:44.production of the jobs of the Bar-B-Q can bring in a single trade,

:03:45. > :03:49.so they don't want the euro, they don't want the euro superstate and

:03:50. > :03:54.something for nothing and welfare. The diamonds are confirmed to my

:03:55. > :04:02.constituents in a bubble the country that what he is negotiated. -- can

:04:03. > :04:06.Minister confirm. I don't know if I make it too one with a cold, but I

:04:07. > :04:10.hope to make it to many parts of our country to make the point. --

:04:11. > :04:14.Wimbledon. We have not solved all the problems, but we have

:04:15. > :04:19.fundamentally addressed the major that Britain had. Too much original

:04:20. > :04:23.currency club, too much regulation, too much of a politically

:04:24. > :04:27.convenient, and not national determination of free moment abuse

:04:28. > :04:29.and welfare. I think those four pinnacles of the heart of the

:04:30. > :04:40.problems we've had with this organisation. -- principles.

:04:41. > :04:46.The diamonds are going to welcome the support that he has received to

:04:47. > :04:49.date on the surprise element surviving area of the Deputy First

:04:50. > :04:57.Minister of Northern Ireland? -- if the Minister. Or is he going to

:04:58. > :05:02.encourage the people of the stay in tune with his Secretary of State for

:05:03. > :05:05.Northern Ireland, who has indicated their strong click in tune with the

:05:06. > :05:09.people of Northern Ireland that they should leave, and if he is not going

:05:10. > :05:13.to support the Secretary of State, will he didn't be following the

:05:14. > :05:18.advice of the Deputy First Minister that the Secretary of State said the

:05:19. > :05:24.bond. Will he not support the Secretary of State? The secondary

:05:25. > :05:30.state of an excellent job. She is exercising her decision for Britain

:05:31. > :05:34.to leave the queue. That's Secretary of State. I think the key thing is

:05:35. > :05:37.that an aromatic and other Alice up their mind, based on the evidence. I

:05:38. > :05:44.look forward to forward to coming to try and help persuade them to remain

:05:45. > :05:50.in a reformed EU. The Prime Minister accept that the thousands of Sun

:05:51. > :05:54.Microsystems, the hundreds of thousands of mothers, and methods

:05:55. > :05:58.across the UK to work in the financial services will be glad that

:05:59. > :06:01.he at least argues that jobs in as the Leader of the Opposition appears

:06:02. > :06:08.to the best some? And we recognise that the covenant package is an

:06:09. > :06:09.important one for strategic British interests, and therefore the

:06:10. > :06:14.pragmatic investors businesslike thing is not to walk away from a

:06:15. > :06:25.market, but to stay in it, and make it work better? We should recognise,

:06:26. > :06:29.something like an making jobs in finance, I think, so making jobs in

:06:30. > :06:34.mid-December become. The key point is because we are in the single

:06:35. > :06:37.market, we have the right to passport to have a bag or financial

:06:38. > :06:41.services company here Britain back and trade throughout the EU. The

:06:42. > :06:46.dissent of market and you lose that right. But within have to happen is

:06:47. > :06:51.companies based in the UK would have to move at least some of the jobs to

:06:52. > :07:00.admit European country. That is why HSBC said they would lose 8000 jobs.

:07:01. > :07:03.This is real jobs. -- 1000 jobs. Need to explain this, it is

:07:04. > :07:07.compensated, but there is no doubt in my mind that living the single

:07:08. > :07:14.market financial services would mean less jobs Britain. It was the

:07:15. > :07:18.assistant ahead of time as still used the word evolved in connection

:07:19. > :07:34.-- devolved in connection. Clever I personally will be voting

:07:35. > :07:38.to stay in the EU, and I will have the Prime Minister to give it to

:07:39. > :07:43.others. The diamonds are assets in a good deal, why the struggling to

:07:44. > :07:46.convince somebody in his own party? -- the Minister. Some people are

:07:47. > :07:55.long-standing feuds about wanting to leave the EU. The point I was making

:07:56. > :07:59.about starting the worst percentage, no doubt that but for some people

:08:00. > :08:02.seem to be suggesting. I just about money, but some how did you start

:08:03. > :08:06.the process of leaving, you'll get offered a better that the state. I

:08:07. > :08:09.think that is not the case. You could think about it like this,

:08:10. > :08:16.you're not just divorcing one person, you are divorcing 27,

:08:17. > :08:24.potentially unhappy partners. I give to no one in my belief, that I can

:08:25. > :08:29.bring people back, I have seen Buffalo wedding Set plays. -- I'd

:08:30. > :08:38.kill to know. Resulting in another word. -- multiple weddings. May I

:08:39. > :08:44.join other members in congratulating the Prime Minister for this work in

:08:45. > :08:50.Brussels last week. I do agree that this reform does produce a

:08:51. > :08:56.phenomenal chains and British accumulations -- phenomenal chains

:08:57. > :09:00.and British, EU lesson. It does a lot of young people would jet at the

:09:01. > :09:06.possibility of entering into a new turmoil within the economy. -- young

:09:07. > :09:11.people with the dread. We agreed that it is vital to Britain 's

:09:12. > :09:20.economy that will remain inside the European Union? -- we were made.

:09:21. > :09:22.They have a strong question this campaign would have been through

:09:23. > :09:32.difficult times. The time of uncertainty, why had extra risk? --

:09:33. > :09:35.in a time of uncertainty. And Britain's strategic interest to be

:09:36. > :09:39.pretty intimately engaged in the doings of a continent that has a

:09:40. > :09:42.gram 20th-century history, and whose alchemy have cost millions of

:09:43. > :09:48.Britons to lose their lives. That the best way of staying pretty

:09:49. > :09:53.engaged is to remain a member of the European Union. I agree with that.

:09:54. > :09:57.If we leave the EU, and do not cease to exist, but was seized element

:09:58. > :10:06.contains that an impact on our lives. And on our world. It is best

:10:07. > :10:09.to try to offer from within. Sure questions are not required. Were

:10:10. > :10:19.having answers, but we need short answer. Can we ensure that the

:10:20. > :10:24.information in the campaign is actually correct? As he was a go at

:10:25. > :10:33.letter and the telegraph and the male appeared in criticising the

:10:34. > :10:37.Prime Minister. -- a week ago. The Prime Minister, no one ever heard of

:10:38. > :10:42.that person. Can we please ask that information before by both sides is

:10:43. > :10:47.fair, accurate, Achterberg sold the public can decide on further

:10:48. > :10:56.evidence? Dass and correct. We're producing a number of documents them

:10:57. > :11:00.as -- information is accurate. Can ask the premises to read at a rate

:11:01. > :11:04.was at the heart of this matter, if the UK left the EU, who was almost

:11:05. > :11:07.having to continue to implement the vast majority of the EU roles and

:11:08. > :11:10.write what is at the heart of this matter, if the UK left the EU, who

:11:11. > :11:12.was almost having to continue to implement the vast majority of the

:11:13. > :11:15.EU roles in relation everyone to access the same terms of the single

:11:16. > :11:18.market. The only difference would be doing a lot of good essay about

:11:19. > :11:23.terms sappy love I had a lot of conversations within a original

:11:24. > :11:30.about this. If you do, you implement the directives but have no say over

:11:31. > :11:35.how they are put in place. For the first time in my lifetime, people

:11:36. > :11:49.and words are what I have a jingle and say on this. That's a legitimate

:11:50. > :11:54.say on this. In 2010 manifesto, we said we would bring and eight UK

:11:55. > :11:57.sovereignty bill to assert sovereignty of our country and make

:11:58. > :12:01.sure it was this Parliament that take. We agree that sovereignty is

:12:02. > :12:08.something that can be asserted by this house and not something for us

:12:09. > :12:13.to argue about? Would introduce, the sovereignty clause in the 2011

:12:14. > :12:19.referendum. -- we did introduce. When looking to add to it in the

:12:20. > :12:25.proposals. That's what I look into. Many mike assiduous work and the

:12:26. > :12:32.Lutton, cannot buckle with the said today. That's many of my

:12:33. > :12:37.constituents. Accessed the largest single market, given that, and

:12:38. > :12:40.offered appointments are a plus and a parliament opportunity to campaign

:12:41. > :12:45.in my constituency on this issue? Cannot also given that there are

:12:46. > :12:49.those that would love to get their hands on Britain's services, and the

:12:50. > :12:52.Maryland and has given of his day job to think about is that Shaw,

:12:53. > :12:57.connect the Prime Minister and very clear message that London is

:12:58. > :13:05.stronger in Europe? -- the Mayor of London. I would be delighted to come

:13:06. > :13:15.to his constituency. I think he is right, when it comes to the Mac DK's

:13:16. > :13:27.membership is of strategic importance to the financial and

:13:28. > :13:31.related services. -- UK's. These organisations covering finance,

:13:32. > :13:33.insurance, manufacturing, engineering, they are all negative

:13:34. > :13:43.views clear enough that we should listen to them. -- they are all

:13:44. > :13:47.making their views. Investment in the country has gone up to the West

:13:48. > :13:52.Midlands is gone. But he agree with me that full access to the single

:13:53. > :13:56.market, which focuses on jobs and growth, is critical to the security

:13:57. > :14:02.a jobs and people in my constituency and across the West Midlands? We

:14:03. > :14:06.have seen an industrial renaissance of the West Midlands with more

:14:07. > :14:10.people in part of the crowd and the automotive sector. The centres are

:14:11. > :14:15.part of complex supply chains right across Europe. He'll be huge

:14:16. > :14:21.dislocation if we were to leave. -- and it would be a huge. Access to

:14:22. > :14:25.labor, protection of workers rights, protection of human rights in some

:14:26. > :14:31.of the benefits to our membership of the EU. Beneficial to work and

:14:32. > :14:40.businesses. It must perturb arm and said that his Justice Secretary, and

:14:41. > :14:42.employment Minister, how will he assure that those positive reasons

:14:43. > :14:48.for remaining are the forefront of campaign? Grabbed a wooden issue

:14:49. > :14:56.that has caused the and differences with parties right across his house.

:14:57. > :15:00.-- we are are dealing with issues. With CC, is 23 people sitting around

:15:01. > :15:04.the Cabinet table, convinced that we should be better off within the EU,

:15:05. > :15:09.and said that attacking a different view. I doubt that we should be

:15:10. > :15:14.concerned. This is a referendum, the people's choice, not the

:15:15. > :15:21.politician's towards. Does he agree that now is the time? We are no

:15:22. > :15:27.longer an imperial power? Able to demand what we want to get of living

:15:28. > :15:33.fragile and volatile world and all senses of those terms. It is not a

:15:34. > :15:37.membership above the EU, together with the United Nations, with essay

:15:38. > :15:43.on the security council, our membership of Nato, I do platform

:15:44. > :15:49.for us to promote Britain here and abroad and that is why we should be

:15:50. > :15:53.staying? Membership of these organisations helps us to get things

:15:54. > :15:59.done for our people, country, and also made progress on the issues we

:16:00. > :16:03.care about. -- make progress. I think the prominence it deserves

:16:04. > :16:10.credit for the deal. -- Prime Minister. The campaign the honour

:16:11. > :16:17.was a state where they would look like. I think it is, not him --

:16:18. > :16:23.incumbent on him to tell us what a lead balloon flight. Any say that

:16:24. > :16:26.can be saved what will it believes will look like and what state will

:16:27. > :16:29.look like and what stable of my? We will do is have a government setting

:16:30. > :16:36.out what we believe the often bizarre. There is the Swiss model

:16:37. > :16:40.that took nine years to negotiate. There's a Norwegian model, the WT of

:16:41. > :16:47.option we could face tariffs every time you try to sell the EU. The

:16:48. > :16:51.Canada free trade deal, did get. But there it not cover all services, so

:16:52. > :16:54.you could be disadvantaged. We need to need to go to detail in the

:16:55. > :17:01.cities these input accurate, information and place so that people

:17:02. > :17:05.can see what is on offer. Other comments and agree that critical to

:17:06. > :17:10.the success of his campaign is going to be his ability to convince people

:17:11. > :17:15.that by giving us some sovereignty in prison, we have gained

:17:16. > :17:18.sovereignty interrupt the game authority in general, and can he

:17:19. > :17:26.convince the country that he'll be able to do that? This will be the

:17:27. > :17:29.challenge of the comment once. -- coming months. I have no self is

:17:30. > :17:36.interested that. I will tell as see it. What I have learned of the six

:17:37. > :17:40.years of things Prime Minister, this organisation is imperfect and can

:17:41. > :17:45.sometimes be frustrating. But we are better off in. I believe that and

:17:46. > :17:50.I'll take that message the country. -- across the country. People in

:17:51. > :17:54.Scotland are entitled to hear the case for remaining in the EU. But he

:17:55. > :17:57.made the decision on of the parent of the arguments full. The

:17:58. > :18:02.pharmacist will today about the importance of taking express will of

:18:03. > :18:06.the people. That's the prominence there. Would take full account of

:18:07. > :18:09.the view of the bread -- status people and ensure that we both

:18:10. > :18:17.remain, we are not removed from the EU? I don't think I shall afford to

:18:18. > :18:25.that in this message to campaigning in Scotland. I enjoy doing that on

:18:26. > :18:28.the referendum. -- enjoy. I look forward to making this argument

:18:29. > :18:36.again, that would have been altogether. As we are better off. It

:18:37. > :18:45.is able in united kingdom decision. -- it is one. The opposite of always

:18:46. > :18:52.had the domination for the time. If he came back as ever abjured, -- and

:18:53. > :18:55.perhaps a cure, the biggest questions I have a my constituents

:18:56. > :19:02.are what are the positive and wish you would the deal -- voted on. It

:19:03. > :19:05.houses has a cicada, the military and also make the point that

:19:06. > :19:12.sovereignty cannot be more sovereign than 46 million people don't have

:19:13. > :19:18.their say. That which is not talk about the potential benefits of free

:19:19. > :19:26.trade, but there are some very simple practical benefits. -- not

:19:27. > :19:29.only talk about. Because open skies, prices are going on holidays and

:19:30. > :19:35.taking a flight anywhere a girl will come down something like 40%. And

:19:36. > :19:38.when you travel, you'll be able to access to digital content on

:19:39. > :19:45.Arafat's fast they can watch whatever you want. Wherever you are

:19:46. > :19:54.God. -- so you can watch whatever. That's wherever you are. Many of my

:19:55. > :19:59.constituents are somewhat too for their hugely concerned about the

:20:00. > :20:02.future the cat. Can the prominence it say what they believe the UK

:20:03. > :20:06.still in the street by the brunt brighter future if we were managing

:20:07. > :20:13.your abortive relief? -- UK steel industry.

:20:14. > :20:21.The point I would make is however difficult it is, they would have a

:20:22. > :20:25.better chance of dealing with Chinese overcapacity and dumping and

:20:26. > :20:32.all of it if we work as the biggest market in the world, to 500 million

:20:33. > :20:35.people. We can get some things done, the fifth-largest economy, but it is

:20:36. > :20:43.part of a 500 Megan, I think we can get more action. -- 500 million. A

:20:44. > :20:47.number of unemployed, somatic constituents has fallen by 80%. Will

:20:48. > :20:59.the Prime Minister agree with me to leave the EU now the so much

:21:00. > :21:03.uncertainty would risk a reversal? I think there is a simple point here,

:21:04. > :21:06.which is we live in uncertain times, we make good progress on the

:21:07. > :21:11.economy, and we should try to take the risk of weight from the economic

:21:12. > :21:20.performance, and clearly tended our status with the risk. -- changing

:21:21. > :21:23.our status. We have been enriched by freedom moment with corporations,

:21:24. > :21:28.and will remain relevant in global because of that seed we have in the

:21:29. > :21:32.European Union. All of which -- because of the seed. With that in

:21:33. > :21:36.mind, will the prominence or for some punch into a positive fight to

:21:37. > :21:39.remain incurable because when a front iPhone it it it was this

:21:40. > :21:42.conservative Prime Minister who listed to the Scottish national

:21:43. > :21:50.party who say Britain from his cell phone? -- say Britain from itself.

:21:51. > :21:55.There is for the part of his campaign and it will be positive.

:21:56. > :21:59.But I make no apologies that and making a positive campaign about

:22:00. > :22:02.jobs, and about business, and competitiveness, let's also examined

:22:03. > :22:10.the alternative. There's nothing wrong with doing that. As a member

:22:11. > :22:16.of the Neto, I has sent Nato operations around the world. That

:22:17. > :22:22.has. Does he agree with me that it's actually the 28 member nations of

:22:23. > :22:26.Nato, including non-EQ countries, like Norway, Turkey, Iceland, the

:22:27. > :22:33.United States and Canada, that is delivering our international

:22:34. > :22:39.security, but not an EU army? We don't want a EU army, and this

:22:40. > :22:42.document could really says that clearly said that our national

:22:43. > :22:48.security is a reserved matter for nation states. I think when you look

:22:49. > :22:52.in detail for what both Nato and the EU is done off the coast of Somalia,

:22:53. > :22:56.what is happening in the Mediterranean, what is Nato and the

:22:57. > :22:59.ease, the EU and the south, you need to be about these organisations.

:23:00. > :23:13.That should be involved of these. The Cantonment membership of the EU

:23:14. > :23:24.has been a force for good for trade, jobs, investments and international

:23:25. > :23:27.cooperation. -- the UK. The promoter prosperity and kept up at the

:23:28. > :23:33.ravages of two world wars. With a common set agreed that those who are

:23:34. > :23:35.campaigning so aggressively, to reject his negotiations, took a

:23:36. > :23:40.prison blues in the modern world are not only on the wrong side of the

:23:41. > :23:48.big argument on history as well? -- to cut Britain loose and the modern.

:23:49. > :23:54.I think there is a showcase for saying when we try to cut ourselves

:23:55. > :23:58.off, it ended in disaster and the need to re-engage at the end of

:23:59. > :24:02.that. We should always work to get our engagements fright wigs this

:24:03. > :24:09.deal is all about. -- engagement right which this deal. I'm standing

:24:10. > :24:16.at the side of the Prime Minister of this one. The promise as a hosted by

:24:17. > :24:20.me and my people and Morgan. In my constituency, we have the port which

:24:21. > :24:25.is 10% of our GDP going through it. Both from Northern Ireland. Also we

:24:26. > :24:29.have the ESP power stations, two nuclear stations. Which is the

:24:30. > :24:33.French government's sponsor. I want to see jobs lost in my constituency,

:24:34. > :24:36.especially as it has the lowest unemployment rate at this moment in

:24:37. > :24:44.time seen in generations. Would my friend agree with me on that

:24:45. > :24:47.synopsis? I agree that in the end, this is about jobs and livelihoods

:24:48. > :24:50.and I think that he stands up very well for his constituents. I

:24:51. > :24:56.remember visiting where we were looking at the Lake Road and I

:24:57. > :25:03.haven't ever everything into one fabric. I just hope it survives. --

:25:04. > :25:09.hammered into the bridge. Following his indication, that a series of

:25:10. > :25:14.documents would be published in relation to the foreign proposals,

:25:15. > :25:18.and on the 3rd of February, the Prime Minister referred to the

:25:19. > :25:25.impact of the free movement of people within Ireland and the

:25:26. > :25:30.removal of that street moment. If in the event of an exit, can the Prime

:25:31. > :25:36.Minister confirm Windows documents will be made available, so that we

:25:37. > :25:41.will be able to have a full and robust discussion, as people who

:25:42. > :25:47.want to remain within the European Union? I did the days of Windows

:25:48. > :25:55.will be published, but I will try to make sure -- it does not have the

:25:56. > :25:58.dates. Within the border another island, and the issue of the

:25:59. > :26:05.movement of people that can be triggered by that. -- Northern

:26:06. > :26:09.Ireland. One word that seems to come up around the report of the summit

:26:10. > :26:13.was contagion, as of other say following his lead with be a bad

:26:14. > :26:16.thing. But he agree that contagion could be a good thing and something

:26:17. > :26:23.that we should encourage? The 1-size-fits-all Europe is now a

:26:24. > :26:30.thing of the past. And we have now set a league which has several

:26:31. > :26:34.forms. -- Stanley. You're one of her work if we tried to make everybody

:26:35. > :26:42.1-size-fits-all as a country like Britain raises concerns and I'm glad

:26:43. > :26:50.to have been. -- to happen. Among the UK citizens living in the

:26:51. > :26:53.European Union, approximately 30,000 of them are claiming benefits in

:26:54. > :27:01.those European countries. How the Prime Minister package affect them?

:27:02. > :27:05.But we have negotiated is a welfare mechanism that the European

:27:06. > :27:09.Commission have said applies to present. So now we're able to pull

:27:10. > :27:12.this emergency brake and restrict benefits for seven years. It is up

:27:13. > :27:17.by other countries to determine whether they qualify and whether

:27:18. > :27:20.they are able to do that, but I'm in no doubt applies right-of-way in the

:27:21. > :27:28.UK, which is what I was determined to secure. The Prime Minister will

:27:29. > :27:34.be aware that we have partners and militarize outside of the EU. That

:27:35. > :27:37.heavily represented -- representations... As to whether

:27:38. > :27:42.they see better inside the EU or outside the. I all the conversations

:27:43. > :27:45.I've had, from our partners, our neighbours, countries that look to

:27:46. > :27:50.us as friends around the world, and I've been quite surprised by how

:27:51. > :27:54.unanimous and passionate to have been. Any sense that for instance,

:27:55. > :27:57.some of the countries of the Commonwealth might want Britain to

:27:58. > :28:02.step back from Europe and form some sort of new relationship with them,

:28:03. > :28:05.I would totally disabuse people of that idea. The Prime Minister of New

:28:06. > :28:11.Zealand, Canada, Australia, they cannot be more clear, the president

:28:12. > :28:16.of America about to give Britain should stay in a reformed European

:28:17. > :28:27.Union. In that way, they should looking out for them to sign

:28:28. > :28:33.Europe will continue to boost our commitments to watch military in

:28:34. > :28:39.case we have seen the last years. Last year and last summer there were

:28:40. > :28:43.attempts made to link those cases to membership of the European Union.

:28:44. > :28:48.Can the Prime Minister give us an assurance that the both of what

:28:49. > :28:54.happens this will be based solely on humanitarian necessity and as to how

:28:55. > :28:59.it will impact? Of course will do what is right. But I think it is

:29:00. > :29:04.important to address in the context of our membership this issue of

:29:05. > :29:09.migration. I make a number of points. One is that obviously

:29:10. > :29:13.outside Schengen and so that people coming to the EU don't have

:29:14. > :29:17.automatic right to come to Britain. Second I make the point that we are

:29:18. > :29:21.doing a very responsible thing in taking refugees direct from the

:29:22. > :29:25.region. Third we are working with our European partners to secure the

:29:26. > :29:30.external border. At the end of the day whether we are in the EU or out

:29:31. > :29:34.of the EU, we are affected by this problem in Europe. So we should be

:29:35. > :29:36.working with our partners to make sure that they can better control

:29:37. > :29:43.and stop in some cases the flow of and stop in some cases the flow of

:29:44. > :29:46.people to Europe. Some argue that we will be able to forge a better deals

:29:47. > :29:51.across the world by leaving the European Union. In the three years I

:29:52. > :29:55.have been a trade and what, I have not yet met a single representation

:29:56. > :29:59.that believed our trade investment would be better if we left the EU.

:30:00. > :30:04.Does my right honourable friend. LAUGHTER. Does my right honourable

:30:05. > :30:07.friend agree with me that the referendum is not about whether we

:30:08. > :30:13.should do business with your for the rest of the world, but that we

:30:14. > :30:19.should get the treat free trade agreement and always prioritise the

:30:20. > :30:24.EU. We are expanding our trade inside easy Asia. We have doubled

:30:25. > :30:28.our trade with China. I am very shocked that he used that countries

:30:29. > :30:32.have not said that they want to get out of a trade deal with us. They

:30:33. > :30:44.are saying to state within the EU and that the EU will be bigger and

:30:45. > :30:49.better. The Prime Minister maximises the case. I am trying to confirm

:30:50. > :30:53.rumours that he has been exploiting the situation to his own self

:30:54. > :30:56.interests. He has opened a private book on his successor. Can the Prime

:30:57. > :31:01.Minister confirm this can he give up the claim of where the money is

:31:02. > :31:08.flowing and will he guaranteed to extend the syndicate to the rest of

:31:09. > :31:12.us. LAUGHTER. My father was an gambler and I remember sitting on a

:31:13. > :31:16.Saturday watching him betting on race after race. While I enjoyed all

:31:17. > :31:21.that pulled, I have always tried to stay away from it myself. So I am

:31:22. > :31:24.not writing a book. All I know is that I will do the right thing for

:31:25. > :31:33.this country and the right thing for this country is to read -- remained

:31:34. > :31:38.in the reformed EU. Agreement. The mood is that today they could cut

:31:39. > :31:43.Britain's credit rating. This and let the UK manages to negotiate new

:31:44. > :31:48.trade arrangement with the EU, that deserves at least some of the trade

:31:49. > :31:53.benefits, the exports will suffer and go on to uncertainty in negative

:31:54. > :31:58.investment. Is that a fear or warning from the world. There are

:31:59. > :32:03.important economic consequences that we do need to so people can see all

:32:04. > :32:08.the potential downsides and what they are. This is what I think it's

:32:09. > :32:12.a leap in the dark. How long it would take to put trade deals in

:32:13. > :32:16.place and how damaging that could be. It would be irresponsible to put

:32:17. > :32:29.in front of the British people with the consequences of the changes are.

:32:30. > :32:39.Hear, hear!. Mr Speaker that disbursements of car payments.

:32:40. > :32:42.Convergence of less in the EU pervaded the UK which is actually

:32:43. > :32:51.based on the payments that the farmers received. That would make it

:32:52. > :32:54.much easier for farmers. I'll look carefully at what the Honorable

:32:55. > :32:59.general is that. My memory of the camp deal and the finance deal are

:33:00. > :33:02.the consequences whether we gave a huge amount of leeway to the

:33:03. > :33:08.devolved administrations to determine the right way to spend the

:33:09. > :33:12.money and actually farmers benefit from the way this is done. But I

:33:13. > :33:21.will look very carefully at the point he makes. Speaking I think the

:33:22. > :33:24.Prime Minister for all his for all his work on behalf of our country

:33:25. > :33:29.over the last months and years. Exports to China to Germany from the

:33:30. > :33:33.UK as shown in significant increases. Does not this showed that

:33:34. > :33:39.the opportunities for trade outside the EU are not what some would a

:33:40. > :33:44.constraint by membership of the EU. You don't is that your trade with

:33:45. > :33:53.China by doing listed with the EU. He's absolutely right. Last year

:33:54. > :33:56.every single colleague on this side of the House stood successfully

:33:57. > :34:02.under the leadership of my right honourable friend the one niche and

:34:03. > :34:05.conservative team. Would my right honourable friend agree with me that

:34:06. > :34:10.what ever that use of members on this side of the House, and for that

:34:11. > :34:16.matter I fully support the Prime Minister, what about the abuse and

:34:17. > :34:20.the outcome of the European union referendum, we must unify once again

:34:21. > :34:25.as a party to ensure that you ever our path into the 2020 election does

:34:26. > :34:30.not allow accidentally Jeremy Quarterman and his Labour

:34:31. > :34:34.colleagues. I agree this is always going to be a difficult process went

:34:35. > :34:36.in the Labour Party as well as in the Conservative Party there are

:34:37. > :34:41.people on both sides of the debate. I think this is such a big question

:34:42. > :34:44.and questions that will be answered ultimately by people rather than

:34:45. > :34:47.politicians. We should all be big enough to have an honest but open

:34:48. > :34:58.and polite disagreement and then come back together afterwards. I

:34:59. > :35:02.take the Prime Minister back to an election commitment in 2014 when he

:35:03. > :35:05.and I along with thousands of conservative activists campaigned on

:35:06. > :35:11.a promise to restore control of our borders. The Prime Minister says in

:35:12. > :35:14.that year I will go to Brussels and I will not take no for an answer.

:35:15. > :35:18.When it comes to free movement I will get what Britain needs. What

:35:19. > :35:22.changed last week was like what changed last week is that we are

:35:23. > :35:29.reforming to make sure that we can keep our fraudsters criminals and

:35:30. > :35:33.those peddling sham marriages, make sure we can apply British rules to

:35:34. > :35:38.foreign nationals to European citizens as well. The secretary

:35:39. > :35:44.negotiated incredibly hard knowing this was the one moment we had the

:35:45. > :35:48.ability to make these changes and reversed European court judgements

:35:49. > :35:56.in order that we do reform free movement. This is that what we have

:35:57. > :36:00.done. I thank my Honorable friend for the referendum first of all. He

:36:01. > :36:04.and I fundamentally disagree as he notes. My concerns for immigration

:36:05. > :36:14.which he said he would contain, we have a net migration of about 1000

:36:15. > :36:20.40,000 at the moment. Every year that is the size of a small city in

:36:21. > :36:25.this country. Surely that is unsustainable and what his position

:36:26. > :36:29.is and will not prevent that from happening. Where I agree with my

:36:30. > :36:33.Honorable friend is that we have to do more to control immigration. We

:36:34. > :36:37.look at the net migration in the UK, it is made up of half and half

:36:38. > :36:42.roughly. Half outside the EU which shows us what we need to do to shut

:36:43. > :36:46.down the bogus colleges to make sure that people are coming unfairly.

:36:47. > :36:50.Would end the EU the most we can do is to withdraw the artificial draw

:36:51. > :36:55.of additional welfare payments. The fact that people can get ?10,000 in

:36:56. > :37:00.the first year they come, surely that is an important determination.

:37:01. > :37:03.I am convinced of the convex measures we can get immigration down

:37:04. > :37:08.and do it while we're waiting is member the European Union. During

:37:09. > :37:11.the general election it was reported that the Prime Minister had

:37:12. > :37:16.expressed some concern about the coverage of the BBC in the election

:37:17. > :37:20.and his impartiality. What assurances can the Prime Minister

:37:21. > :37:27.give me so I can relate that to my constituents that BBC won't abuse

:37:28. > :37:32.its position against? LAUGHTER Politicians complaining about the

:37:33. > :37:34.BBC is a pretty common activity. I remember the former First Minister

:37:35. > :37:41.of Scotland getting quite heated about this issue. Every media

:37:42. > :37:46.organisation is under obligation. Sorry let me restate that. That is

:37:47. > :37:53.not true the newspapers. Every regulated television business is

:37:54. > :38:01.under duty of impartiality. But I'm sure that they will carry that out.

:38:02. > :38:05.I think the Prime Minister and all colleagues and all 103 backbenchers

:38:06. > :38:13.who took part in this important exchange. Before we proceed, I will

:38:14. > :38:21.of course take points of order. Thank you Mr Speaker. I made the

:38:22. > :38:26.office is aware of my attentions. Mr Speaker last week after much delay

:38:27. > :38:29.the long waited reports on the mental health task force was

:38:30. > :38:32.published. On the same government day -- day the government made a

:38:33. > :38:36.series of announcements to the media in response to the report. This is a

:38:37. > :38:40.courtesy that is still yet to be afforded to this house. Mr Speaker

:38:41. > :38:46.this is a vital moment for mental health in England. This is highly

:38:47. > :38:49.regrettable that this report was published during recess preventing

:38:50. > :38:53.members from all sides of this house from scrutinising its findings and

:38:54. > :38:58.questioning the government on the response to it. Can you advise the

:38:59. > :39:02.Mr Speaker or whether you had given any indication from ministers on

:39:03. > :39:05.whether they plan to make a statement on the mental health task

:39:06. > :39:12.force and allow the opportunity to question the government on

:39:13. > :39:17.announcements that they have made? Thanks to Lady for her order and

:39:18. > :39:20.given me a chance to respond to it. Now I have not received an

:39:21. > :39:25.indication that the Minister plans to make a statement on the matter.

:39:26. > :39:31.What I would say provisionally, on the basis of having learned of this

:39:32. > :39:36.matter, only this morning. Significant announcements of changes

:39:37. > :39:42.in policy should be made first to the House. That means save in cases

:39:43. > :39:47.of emergency to the House, while it is sitting. Of course Honorable

:39:48. > :39:53.members and others can and do access to reports, whether or not the rep

:39:54. > :40:00.house is sitting and can pursue their content in debate and in

:40:01. > :40:03.questions. In this case I will cause further inquiries to be made on the

:40:04. > :40:13.content and timing of this particular announcement. Point of

:40:14. > :40:19.order Mr Alberto Costa. Begu Mr Speaker. When referring to

:40:20. > :40:26.parliamentary sovereignty and its affect across the United Kingdom,

:40:27. > :40:32.specifically Mr Speaker I seek your guidance on how the parliamentary

:40:33. > :40:36.sovereignty should applies equally in Scotland as it doesn't in

:40:37. > :40:45.England. This is not within in the 1953 McCormick case of course. Order

:40:46. > :40:51.I say today's of the Honorable gentleman. I am trying to be kind to

:40:52. > :40:56.the Honorable gentleman who is a new member. If the Honorable gentleman

:40:57. > :40:59.wants to raise points of order to argue about the proprieties of

:41:00. > :41:08.parliamentary procedure, perhaps he would learn that in Leader of the

:41:09. > :41:13.Opposition, he should not call him by name. People have really got to

:41:14. > :41:18.be careful of their own sound ground if they start playing the procedural

:41:19. > :41:22.card. Secondly I said very kindly to the honourable gentleman and, whose

:41:23. > :41:32.intellect and eloquence are of course evident to all, LAUGHTER.

:41:33. > :41:39.This does not seem to need to be a matter of a point of appointed

:41:40. > :41:49.order. This is an argument between opposing lawyers. We'll leave it

:41:50. > :41:55.there for now. OK if there are no further points of order, perhaps we

:41:56. > :42:03.can first best proceed with our later business. The court will now

:42:04. > :42:15.read the orders of the The Northern Ireland storm and agreements

:42:16. > :42:21.reading. I call to move the second reading of the bill. The second

:42:22. > :42:25.Terry of state of Northern Ireland. Thank you Mr Speaker. I would like

:42:26. > :42:32.to move that the bill now be read in second time. This gives key elements

:42:33. > :42:39.of the 2015 and the Stormont House Agreement of 20 15. This is an

:42:40. > :42:43.review of implementation of those agreements which taken together have

:42:44. > :42:46.the potential to secure a more peaceful, stable, and prosperous

:42:47. > :42:50.future for Northern Ireland. Before returning to the detail of the

:42:51. > :42:54.causes, I will remind the House of some background to their content. As

:42:55. > :42:58.the House will recall, followed December ten weeks of intensive

:42:59. > :43:04.talks the government along with the Northern Ireland's executive parties

:43:05. > :43:10.and the Irish reach the storm and house agreement on December 23 of

:43:11. > :43:13.2014. That address many of the most mythic and challenges facing

:43:14. > :43:18.Northern Ireland. Some of those such as not standing agreements over

:43:19. > :43:21.flags parading in the past. These were damaging to political

:43:22. > :43:29.relationships within the default is that the tubes. Of these particular

:43:30. > :43:33.what the state of the executives finance and jeopardising the

:43:34. > :43:38.effectiveness and even the continues dependability of the devolution

:43:39. > :43:42.itself. That agreement included proposals to give the executive and

:43:43. > :43:46.workable and sustainable budget, to set a path to which it dissolving

:43:47. > :43:52.contingent issues around lack symbols and parading, to establish

:43:53. > :43:55.new bodies to tackle the legacy of Northern Ireland's past, and to

:43:56. > :44:00.deliver reforms that things will work better. All of this was

:44:01. > :44:04.underpinned by a financial package giving the executives around to

:44:05. > :44:13.billions in actual spending. The Stormont House Agreement was and

:44:14. > :44:15.remains a good deal for Northern Ireland. By last summer it was clear

:44:16. > :44:22.that implementation had stalled. This is largely due to disagreements

:44:23. > :44:26.within the executive team. They also withdrew their support for the

:44:27. > :44:31.welfare reform package. As the stand is off continued this happened in

:44:32. > :44:37.effect in preventing decisions of other elements of the agreement.

:44:38. > :44:42.Sadly the sense of crisis was intensified by to brutal murders in

:44:43. > :44:47.Belfast -- one in May and one in August. This is what again raised

:44:48. > :44:51.the spectre of the malign influence of the paramilitary activity on the

:44:52. > :44:55.streets of Northern Ireland. As we entered last autumn, the political

:44:56. > :45:01.situation was looking increasingly perilous. We face a real prospect

:45:02. > :45:08.that reservations might treble trigger early elections and easily

:45:09. > :45:12.lead to the collapse of the devolved institutions. That would have been a

:45:13. > :45:16.very major setback. After all that has been achieved on the successive

:45:17. > :45:20.governments during the past 20 years. It was an outcome that the

:45:21. > :45:27.government was strenuously and decisively acting to try and avoid.

:45:28. > :45:31.Firstly in a speech in Cambridge on the 5th of September, I make clear

:45:32. > :45:35.that we could not let the financial imparts continued indefinitely. If

:45:36. > :45:39.there was not a resolution to the dispute, we would be left with no

:45:40. > :45:43.option but to legislate for Greece -- welfare reform in Westminster.

:45:44. > :45:47.Secondly on following discussions with my right honourable friend the

:45:48. > :45:50.Prime Minister, it was decided that the time was right to have a second

:45:51. > :45:55.round of cross party talks which began at storm in how on the 8th of

:45:56. > :46:01.December. Once again these included the five largest part of the

:46:02. > :46:05.Northern Ireland Assembly. In accordance with the long established

:46:06. > :46:12.three standard approach to Northern Ireland affairs. The objectives we

:46:13. > :46:15.set ourselves were twofold. To secure the full implementation of

:46:16. > :46:22.the Stormont House Agreement and also to work with paramilitary --

:46:23. > :46:26.paramilitary activity. These concluded on the 17th of November

:46:27. > :46:31.with a document entitled the fresh start Stormont agreement and

:46:32. > :46:37.implementation plan. This was agreed between the UK Government the Irish

:46:38. > :46:41.government and the national is in the executives. In the governments

:46:42. > :46:45.view that agreement goes a long way to satisfy the objectives that the

:46:46. > :46:50.participants of the talks that themselves. It gives the executive a

:46:51. > :46:55.stable and sustainable budget, including wealth over form. It am

:46:56. > :47:00.blocked progress on other crucial elements of the Stormont House

:47:01. > :47:06.Agreement. And on parent military activity, the agreement strongly

:47:07. > :47:09.prefers for the long and places fresh obligations on Northern

:47:10. > :47:14.Ireland's political representatives to work together with determination

:47:15. > :47:17.to reach society and filled urgently -- paramilitary activity. That

:47:18. > :47:20.agreement by the previous one was underpinned by financial package

:47:21. > :47:27.from the UK Government this time worth up to half alien pounds. I can

:47:28. > :47:31.inform the House of progress on his limitation of the agreement has been

:47:32. > :47:36.good. The day after it was reached on the 18th of November, the

:47:37. > :47:42.assembly passed the latest live -- legislative consent motion for the

:47:43. > :47:48.-- Westminster to go ahead. The subsequent Northern Ireland welfare

:47:49. > :47:51.reform act was given on the 25th of November and the related woods has

:47:52. > :47:55.on the 20th of December. The government is now working on the

:47:56. > :47:58.secondary legislation to deliver the new welfare system in Northern

:47:59. > :48:04.Ireland. We hope to be in a position to begin bringing this forward

:48:05. > :48:08.shortly with a view to completing its passage through both houses as

:48:09. > :48:12.soon as we are able to. On the 21st of December, the UK and Irish

:48:13. > :48:17.governments along with the Northern Ireland Executive established a

:48:18. > :48:21.joint agency task force to reinforce efforts to tackle cross

:48:22. > :48:26.jurisdictional organised crime. The executive has established a 3-person

:48:27. > :48:33.panel to make recommendations for a ranging strategy to expand

:48:34. > :48:37.paramilitary groups. The appointments for the new commission

:48:38. > :48:40.is underway. A bill of the government departments from 12 to

:48:41. > :48:45.not have completed its consideration in the assembly and a further bill

:48:46. > :48:48.to reduce the number of MLA in their prestigious seat from six to five is

:48:49. > :48:54.set for a final stage of consideration in the assembly

:48:55. > :48:58.tomorrow. The bill before the House today represents further significant

:48:59. > :49:01.progress doing with elements of the fresh start agreement which require

:49:02. > :49:08.UK Government legislation. Clauses one through five are to be agreed

:49:09. > :49:13.between the UK and Irish governments and will establish the independent

:49:14. > :49:17.report commissioned. The bill sets out the commissions primary

:49:18. > :49:20.objective to promote progress toward ending paramilitary activity

:49:21. > :49:24.collected with Northern Ireland. It will report on progress towards that

:49:25. > :49:27.objective and on the implementation of relevant measures by the UK

:49:28. > :49:33.Government, the Irish government, and the executive, which we were

:49:34. > :49:39.greeted in the fresh start agreement. The bill makes provision

:49:40. > :49:44.for key aspects including the duties to which it will be subject and the

:49:45. > :49:48.legal privileges to be conferred on it as an international body. These

:49:49. > :49:52.are intended to make sure that the commission is able to engage with a

:49:53. > :49:57.range of sources of information in performing its important functions,

:49:58. > :50:02.but avoids doing anything that might put safety and national security at

:50:03. > :50:05.risk. I appreciate the honourable members looking at the text of the

:50:06. > :50:09.treaty. It is not possible to provide that today because it is not

:50:10. > :50:14.yet agreed between the UK and Irish governments. But of course we will

:50:15. > :50:25.pay for -- plays a copy in the House library as soon as possible in June.

:50:26. > :50:28.The remaining Clause talks about allocation after 14 days after the

:50:29. > :50:34.assembly meets following an election. The purpose of this

:50:35. > :50:39.agreement and change will allow parties more time to agree on a

:50:40. > :50:44.cross party but basis prior to the allocation of ministerial positions.

:50:45. > :50:52.It is hoped that this will encourage all parties approach to a programme

:50:53. > :50:56.for Government. Clause seven will talk about the fresh start agreement

:50:57. > :51:00.and giving unequivocal support to the rule of law and to work

:51:01. > :51:07.collectively to achieve a society free of paramilitary for. Clause

:51:08. > :51:11.eight introduces a similar undertaking by all members of the

:51:12. > :51:19.assembly -- assembly. Clause nine talks about the commitment of it

:51:20. > :51:24.can't relent, with assembly consent to increase fiscal transparency in

:51:25. > :51:35.executive budgets. That's helping the executive to deliver affordable

:51:36. > :51:44.and sustainable budgets. If I may take a back to talk on a new pledge

:51:45. > :51:49.introduced for all MLS that they can not participate in any procedures

:51:50. > :51:52.and do anything with the assembly unless they have taken this new

:51:53. > :52:00.pledge. However when they have taken the new pledge, what do they do to

:52:01. > :52:08.be faithful to honour and who actually decides? Not shooting of

:52:09. > :52:11.any sanctions for the actions of MLA is an matter for the assembly rather

:52:12. > :52:17.than for the legislation here today and for this chamber. I am grateful

:52:18. > :52:22.to the Honorable Lady for her intervention. Going back to Clause

:52:23. > :52:27.nine, it provides that the Northern Ireland Executive Finance Minister

:52:28. > :52:37.will have a duty to specify... Thank you this doesn't deputy speaker I'm

:52:38. > :52:43.very sorry to... In response by the Secretary of State. Clause eight

:52:44. > :52:51.Ashley goes on to say that standing orders should provide the procedure,

:52:52. > :52:54.given the ever taken, that there will be standing orders passed by

:52:55. > :53:02.the assembly about sanctions for those MLS who do not honour so it

:53:03. > :53:06.must be this legislation. I did not mean my answer to sound flippant or

:53:07. > :53:12.not serious at all but it remains the case that the bill does not

:53:13. > :53:15.provide for sanctions nor does the fresh start agreement. In terms of

:53:16. > :53:20.internal matters of discipline within the assembly, that really is

:53:21. > :53:26.an matter for the assembly is held to determine. What I can provide is

:53:27. > :53:30.further clarification for this, obviously an individual who refuses

:53:31. > :53:35.to give the undertaking will be able to participate in assembly

:53:36. > :53:43.proceedings or received any of the privileges. I returned to Clause

:53:44. > :53:46.nine. It provides that the Northern Ireland Finance Minister will have a

:53:47. > :53:52.duty to specify to the assembly the amount of government funding

:53:53. > :53:56.available. The Minister will then need to show when delivering aid

:53:57. > :54:01.draft a budget the amount of government funding required by that

:54:02. > :54:13.draft budget does not exceed the amount specified. She agreed that

:54:14. > :54:17.the provisions that were outlined to the extent here. Should members not

:54:18. > :54:24.take their oath here and they receive privileges and benefits here

:54:25. > :54:29.and are not excluded, maybe we should be learning something from

:54:30. > :54:34.the situation in Northern Ireland. I am very much aware of his concerns

:54:35. > :54:38.and his parties about such matters and of course the issues relating to

:54:39. > :54:41.the privileges and expenses are house business and he and his

:54:42. > :54:46.colleagues are welcome to praise them at any time for the House to

:54:47. > :54:54.consider those matters. Of course we are looking at short money on those

:54:55. > :54:57.matters as well. Just to take another step back in relation to the

:54:58. > :55:03.cross borders task force, I understand the meeting was held in

:55:04. > :55:10.December 2050 to establish that. Can you clarify for us today how often

:55:11. > :55:15.that passport will meet or is scheduled to meet? I think we need

:55:16. > :55:20.to distinguish between the ministerial meeting which was a one

:55:21. > :55:24.off from the agency task force which will meet regularly. I don't know

:55:25. > :55:28.that it has scheduled a timetable of meetings as yet. I'm sure once it