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access for aid getting into the country but also that making sure

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that aid, particularly fuel, that it can also get around the country to

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communities in need. I know the whole house will wish to

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join me and paid tribute to Michael Meacher. He died suddenly last week

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and we send our condolences to his family and friends. Michael

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dedicated his life to public service, diligently representing his

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constituents for a staggering 45 years. He was a passionate advocate

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of the causes he believed in, including the environment, and he

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was able to put these into practice as a minister between 97-2003. This

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house and our politics are poorer place without him and I know

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colleagues from all sides of this chamber will remember him with

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affection and miss him greatly. Mr Speaker, this morning I had meetings

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with ministerial colleagues and others, and in addition to my duties

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in this house to have further meetings today. Can I associate

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myself with the sympathies expressed by the Prime Minister. Will my right

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honourable friend join me in celebrating that one in ten of the

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world's tractors are built in Basildon? Yanuyanutawa not an Airbus

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Basildon. And it is attracting Basildon. And it is attracting

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investment from well renowned organisations such as the Royal

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Opera house. All of this is leading to job creation and opportunity.

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Will he therefore do all he can to ensure that Britain remains a great

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place to do business and prosper in the? -- prosper in. Basildon has a

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special place in my heart. I didn't know all those statistics, but it

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now has an even more special place. I can to him that the long-term use

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claimants is down by 24% of the last year. He spoke about what a great

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place Britain is to do business. We are now six in the rankings in the

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world for the best place to setup and to run a business. I know the

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Leader of the Opposition, not least because his new spokesman is

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apparently a great admirer of the Soviet Union, will be pleased to

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start the day with tractor statistics.

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Thank you, Mr Speaker. Can I start by associating myself with the

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remarks the Prime Minister made about Michael Meacher? On behalf of

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the Labour Party, his constituents and the much wider community, our

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condolences to his family. I spoke to them last night and asked how

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they would like Michael to be remembered. They thought about it

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and sent me a very nice message, which if I may, I will read out.

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Quite brief but very poignant. They said, when I was young one of the

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things he frequently said to me was that people went into politics

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because their principles and they wanted to change things to make

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things better, but in order to get into power they would often

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compromise on their principles and that this could happen again and

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again until, if they eventually did get into power, they would have

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become so compromise that they would do nothing with it. Michael was a

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decent, hard-working, passionate and profound man. He represented he his

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constituency with diligence for 45 years. He was a brilliant

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environment minister, as the Prime Minister pointed out. He was totally

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committed to parliamentary democracy and this Parliament, holding

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government or governments to account and he was a lifelong campaigner

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against injustice and poverty. We've remember Michael for all those

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things, we express our condolences and express are some these to his

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family at this very difficult time. His will be a hard act to follow,

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but we will do our best. Mr Speaker, following the events on

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Monday evening, and the belated acceptance from the Prime Minister

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of the result there, can he now guaranteed to The House and wider

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country that nobody will be worse off next year as a result of cuts to

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working tax credits? What I can guarantee is we remain

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committed to the vision of a higher pay, low tax, lower welfare

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economy. We believe the way to make sure that everyone is better off is

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to keep growing our economy, keep inflation low, keep cutting peoples

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taxes and introduce the national living wage. As for changes, the

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Chancellor will set them out in the Autumn Statement. I thank the Prime

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Minister for that, but the question I was asking was quite simply this.

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Will he confirm, right now, that tax credit cuts will not make anyone

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worse off in April next year? What we want is for people to be

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better off because we are cutting their taxes and increasing their

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paid, that he is going to have to be a little patient, because although

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these changes passed the House of Commons five times, with ever

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enlarging majorities, we will set out our new proposals in the Autumn

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Statement and you will be able to study them.

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Jeremy Corbyn. Mr Speaker, this is the time when we

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asked questions of the Prime Minister on behalf of the people of

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this country. Thank you. Mr Speaker, if I may continue.

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People are very worried about what is going to happen to them next

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April. So what exactly does the Prime Minister mean, is considering

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it, there is an Autumn Statement coming up? We thought he was

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committed to not cutting tax credits. Is he going to cut tax

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credits or not, are people going to be worse for next in April next

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year? You must know the answer. First of all we set out in our

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election manifesto that we would find ?12 billion of savings on

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welfare. Order, there is too much noise in the chamber. Order! A bit

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of calm. The questions must be heard, and the answers must be

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heard. The Prime Minister. Thank you Mr Speaker. It is an

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important point because every penny we don't save on welfare is savings

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we have to find in the education budget or in the policing budgets,

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or in the health budget. The second point I would make is the cause of

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what has happened on the other place, of course we should have a

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debate about how to reform welfare and how to reduce the cost of

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welfare. I am happy to have that debate, but of course it is

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difficult to have that debate with the honourable gentleman, because he

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has opposed everything all welfare change that was made. He doesn't

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support the welfare cap. He doesn't support the cap on housing benefit.

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He doesn't think that any change to welfare is worthwhile. I have to

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say, if we want a strong economy and we want growth, we want to get rid

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of our deficit, we want to secure our country, we need to reform

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welfare. What we are talking about our tax

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credits for people in work. The credits for people in work. The

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Prime Minister knows that, he understands that. He has lost the

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support of many people in this country that are actually quite

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synthetic to his political project. Some of the papers who supported him

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have come against on this. He did commit to ?12 billion worth of cuts

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in the welfare budget repeatedly refused to say if tax credits would

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be part of this. In fact he said they want. Can he now give us the

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answer we are trying to get today? Answer the question.

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The answer will be set out in the Autumn Statement when we set out our

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proposals. I have to say to him, it has come to quite a strange set of

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events when you have the House of Commons voting for something five

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times, when there is absolutely no rebellion among conservative members

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of parliament, or indeed amongst Conservative peers and the Labour

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Party is left offending and depending on unelected peers in the

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House of Lords. We British politics a new alliance. The unelected and

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the unelectable. SHOUTING. Mr Speaker, it is very

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interesting the Prime Minister still refuses to answer the fundamental

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question. This is not a constitutional crisis, this is a

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crisis for 3 million families in this country, for 3 million families

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in this country who are very worried about what is going to happen next

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April. Just before the last election, the former Chief Whip, now

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Justice Secretary, said in answer to a question on the BBC world at one,

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are you going to cut tax credits? The answer was, we are not going to

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cut them. Why did he say that? What I said in the election is that

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the basic level of child tax credits would stay the same. At ?2700 per

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child it stays exactly the same. The point is this, if we want to get our

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deficit down, if we want to secure our, me, if we want to keep on with

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secure growth, we need to make savings on welfare. Even with his

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deficit denying, borrow forever plan, presumably he has to make some

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savings in public spending? If you don't save any money on welfare, you

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end up cutting the NHS, you end up cutting even more deeply police

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budgets. Those are the troops. One is he going to stop deficit denial,

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get off the fence and tell us what he would do?

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Mr Speaker... A moment ago, the answer is a need to be heard, the

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questions need to be heard. The man is going to ask his question and it

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will be heard. If it takes longer, so be it.

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Thank you Mr Speaker. I've five times asked the Prime Minister today

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whether or not people will be worse off if they receive working tax

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credits next April? He still hasn't been able to answer me or indeed

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many others. Can I put him a question I was sent... CHEERING

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Mr Speaker, it might be very amusing to members said, but...

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I was sent this question by Karen: Why is the Prime Minister punishing

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working families? I work full time and earn their living wage within

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the public sector. The tax credit cuts will push me and my family into

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hardship. Can he give a cast-iron guarantee to Karen and all the other

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families who are very worried what is going to happen next April to

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therein come, how they are going to make ends meet, could give them the

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answer today, I hope you will. I ask him, for the sixth time, please give

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us an answer to a very straightforward, very simple

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question. What I would say to Karen is this,

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if she is on the living wage, working in the public sector, next

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year in April she will benefit from being able to earn ?11,000 before

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she pays any income tax at all. It was around ?6,000 when I became

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Prime Minister forced up if she has children, she will benefit from 30

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hours of childcare every week. That is something that has happened under

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this government. But above all, she will benefit because we have a

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growing economy, because we have zero inflation, because we have two

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million more people in work, because we will train 3 million apprentices

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in this Parliament, and that is the fact. The reason the Labour Party

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lost the last election is they were completely un-trusted on the

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deficit, on debt and on a stable economy. And since then the deficit

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deniers have taken over the Labour Party. That is what happened. When

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you look at their plans, borrowing for ever, printing money, hiking up

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taxes, it is working people like Karen that will pay the price.

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Mr Speaker, in my constituency, unemployment has fallen by 30% since

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2010. And this Government has delivered the M6 Link Road after 60

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years. It will treat even more jobs in my area when it's completed. Does

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the Prime Minister agree with me that the Conservatives are insuring

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Morecambe is back open for business? I remember visiting his

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constituency and looking at the very important roadworks that were being

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put in place which will up the port, help when we bring in the new

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nuclear power station and the other steps he wants to see, I can tell

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him the long-term youth claimant count in his constituency has fallen

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by 30% in the last year, Young people now able to work, to benefit

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from our growing economy. Angus Robertson. We associate ourselves

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with the condolences expressed by the and the Leader of the Opposition

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about Michael. Last week I asked the Prime Minister Erdogan tragic

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circumstances of Mike O'Sullivan, from north London, a disabled man

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who took his life after an assessment by the Department for

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Work and Pensions. We know 60 investigations had taken place into

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suicide wallowing the cancellation of benefits, but the findings have

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not been published. The Prime not been published. The Prime

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Minister said to me last week that he would look very carefully at the

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specific question about publication. Will he confirm when these findings

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will be published? I will write to him about this but my memory from

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looking into this afterward is there are very good reasons why we can't

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publish the specific report he talks about because it has personal and

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medical data in it which would not be appropriate for publication. If I

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got that wrong, I will write to him but that's my clear memory of

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looking into his question after last week. Tim Salter from Stourbridge in

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the West Midlands was 53 when he took his life. The coroner ruled a

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major factor in his death was greatly reduced living almost

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destitute. His sister said if of honourable people who will be

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affected the worst. The DWP need to publish these reviews. The Prime

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Minister says he is concerned about the views of the families involved.

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The families say the findings should be published. Really publish them? 3

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million families will have their child tax credit is cancelled. We

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knew the answer to these questions. Let me correct on its last point.

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Under the proposals we put forward, those people on the lowest levels of

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pay where protected because of a national living wage and those

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people on the lowest incomes where protected because we were protecting

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the basic award of a child tax credit in 2007 and ?80. The other

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part of the question is a bit I've already answered but I'll send them

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a letter if I got it wrong, they were too many personal and medical

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details for that to be published. I think they is an important

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consideration that in deciding whether to publish something. I'd

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like to ask the Prime Minister about Ruby, one of my youngest

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constituents, just one-month-old. Why should she faced the prospect of

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spending their entire working life paying off the debt would have been

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built up by this generation? I think Ruby is right, when we became the

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Government, one in ?4 spent by the Government was borrowed money. We

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had one of the biggest budget deficit anywhere in the world and

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it's always easy for people to say put off the difficult decisions,

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don't make any spending reductions, but what they are doing is burdening

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future generations with debt. What I would say to the Labour front bench,

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that is not generosity, that is actually selfishness. I think the

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lady must have misheard but Mrs Sharon Hodgson. We know about the

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broken promise about tax credits but for the final nail in the coffin of

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compassionate Conservative there's be hammered home everywhere to scrap

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universal infant free school meals in the spending review, taking hot

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meals out of the mouths of innocent name with infant children? Will he

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guarantee now not to scrap universal infant pre-school meals slowly does

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not go down in history as David the Denis Thatcher? I'm immensely proud

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it was part of the Government would introduce this policy 13 years of a

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Labour Government and did they ever do that? -- dinner snatcher. Do you

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remember the infant free school meals, Labour Party? I'm proud of

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what we have done and we will be keeping it.

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CHEERING Thank you. Mr Speaker, my right

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honourable friend has demonstrated considerable leadership in ensuring

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Britain is the second-largest donor of aid in Syria. There is another

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crisis going on which the world is largely forgetting. In Yemen is an

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ongoing war, 1.4 million people forced to flee their homes, 3

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million face starvation, half a million children are at risk from

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malnutrition and the president of the International Red Cross has said

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in Yemen, after five months, we're in the same position as we are in

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Syria after five years. Please can we do more? He's absolutely right to

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raise this and we have been involved in trying to help the situation

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right from the start, as in Syria, a major contributor in terms of

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humanitarian aid. We've made it clear all parties should engage

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without conditions and in good faith in peace talks to allow Yemen to

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move towards a sustainable peace and that needs to be a piece based on

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the fact that all people in Yemen needs proper representation by their

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Government. There are similarities with Syria, which is having a

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Government on behalf of one part of the country, never a sustainable

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solution. How dare anyone in this House earning ?74,000 a year tell

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families their combined income of ?25,000 is too much and they need to

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give something back to balance the economy? Did the Prime Minister

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accused the listener 's manifesto because he knew he wouldn't be

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elected? -- refused to put this in his manifesto. When I became Prime

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Minister, nine out of ten families were getting tax credits, including

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MPs. That's how crazy the system we inherited was. We would use that

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during the last Parliament, opposed of course by Labour and the SNP, 26

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out of ten families. Our proposals would take that down to five out of

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ten families but these are not proposals on their own but

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accompanied by a national living wage, for first time. By allowing

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people to air and ?11,000 before paying tax, for the first time,

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those sorts of measures will help the thought of family she talks

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about. The Prime Minister spoke about conference about the plight of

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young people in the care system. Can he answer what the garment will do

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to improve the chances of these young disadvantaged children and

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give them opportunities as they move forward in their lives? The most

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important thing we can do is to speed up the adoption system so more

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children get adopted. What we have seen since I've been Prime Minister

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is an increase in adoptions but, because of one or two judgments, it

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slipped backwards a bit and need to work very hard to make sure more

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children get adopted. For those who can't be adopted, we need to make

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sure our residential care homes are doing the best possible job they can

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and that's why today I can announce I've asked the former chief

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executive of Barnardos, an excellent public servant, who I worked with at

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the Home Office, to conduct an independent review of children's

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residential care reporting to the Education Secretary at myself so we

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can take every step to give these children the best start in life.

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Redundant steelworkers such as those in Wrexham pay national insurance

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contributions and played by the rules. Why then is this Government

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limiting mortgage interest support for them in the future and making

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them pay twice, once through national insurance and once through

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paying back a loan? Isn't that type of action and irresponsible

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Government like his should not be pursuing and isn't it an example of

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compassionate conservatism dying? He refers to a temporary recession

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measure on mortgage payments which was continued for five years but he

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does give me the opportunity to say, as I promised I would last night, to

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update the House on what we're doing to help the steel industry which is

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important to his constituency and, on energy costs, we will refund the

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full amount of the policy costs they full amount of the policy costs they

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face as soon as we get the state aided judgment from Brussels. I can

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confirm that payment will be made immediately and throughout this

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Parliament, far more generous than what has been proposed by the party

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opposite. Graham Evans. I have had hundreds of e-mails from

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constituents regarding the Northern Powerhouse and I have just chose

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one. John e-mailed me to say, not to listen to lead of the opposition

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with his strategy of higher spending, higher borrowing, more

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debt, but instead to stick to the long-term economic higher wages,

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lower welfare, low tax society for that does the Prime Minister agree

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with John? I do agree. He has demonstrated more sense in his

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Melbourne leader the opposition did in his six questions. Not only have

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we seen an economy growing, 2 million more people in work,

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inflation that is low, living standards are rising, but actually,

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680,000 fewer work less household and 480,000 fewer children in

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workless households. If you want to measure the real difference is the

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growth in the economy is making, think of those children and

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households and the dignity of work. Last weekend was the first

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anniversary of the death from cervical cancer of the girl aged 23.

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In June 2013, she was concerned to ask for an early smear test was

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refused because she was under 25. As has been highlighted, her family

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have now written an open letter to the Prime Minister. Can I ask him

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not to offer here a reflex repeat of the rationale for current screening

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age policy, but to reflect on the questions raised about how this

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translates into refusing smear tests to young women like this and to

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consider the age related level since it was increased in 2004? He raises

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an absolutely tragic case and our thoughts go to her family and

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friends. He raises an important case because the UK National screening

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committee set the age of 25 and my understanding is the reason for that

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is not a resource is based decision, but because of the potential adverse

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medical consequences of carrying out screening routinely below that age

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that there would be a number potentially false positives because

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of actually anatomical changes were to go on at that age full that

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reason, not of resources decision. It is worth looking at. Those people

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who fear they have a family history and ask for a test, I will write to

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him on that specific issue. Yesterday the EU said we can no

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longer have filters on the Internet to protect our children from

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indecent images. I want to know what the Prime Minister is going to do to

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make sure our children remain protected. I think it's absolutely

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vitally important we enable parents to have that protection for their

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children from this material on the Internet. Like her, when I read my

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daily main was morning, I spotted over my cornflakes because they work

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so hard to put in place these filters but I can reassure her

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because we actually secured an opt out yesterday so we can keep our

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family friendly filters to protect children and I can tell our House we

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will legislate to put our agreement with Internet companies on this

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issue into the law of the land so our children will be protected. Tim

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Farron. Mr Speaker, can I associate myself with the Prime Minister 's

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early remarks about the late Michael Meacher, a decent man, a good MP,

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and an extremely effective Environment Secretary. Yesterday I

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visited the refugee camps on Lesbos and there I met families that were

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inspirational, and desperate run alongside at a charity workers I

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found there. I am ashamed we will not offer at home to a single one of

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those averaging families. My ask the Prime Minister this question? Will

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not offer at home to a single one of those averaging families. My ask the

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Prime Minister this question? With the aggrieved with the save the

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children plea that we take as a country 3000 vulnerable and

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accompanied children some as young as six? Let me again welcome him to

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his place for them it's good to see such a high turnout of his MPs.

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LAUGHTER . Let me answer him directly. We

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have taken a decision as a country to take 20,000 refugees and we think

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it is better to take them from the camps instead of taking them from

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inside Europe. I repeat again today that we believe we will achieve 1000

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refugees brought to Britain and housed and clothes and fed before

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Christmas, specifically on his question, though, about 3000

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children and the proposal made by save the children, I have looked at

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this very carefully and there are other experts to point to the real

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danger of separating children from their broader families and that's

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why to date we have not taken that decision. As he begins his

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negotiations on our reformed relationship with the European

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Union, in earnest, will my right honourable friend confirmed to our

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partners and the British people that no option is off the table, all

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British options will be considered, including the option of a

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relationship such as that of Norway if it's negotiable and within our

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interests? I can certainly confirm to my honourable friend that no

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options are off the table and, as I have been clear, if we don't get

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what we need in our green negotiation, I will absolutely rule

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nothing out but important, as we have this debate as a nation, we are

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very clear about the facts and figures and the alternatives,

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because some people are arguing for Britain to leave the EU, not all

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people, and have pointed to the position of Norway saying it's a

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good outcome. I would guide very strongly against that, Norway

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actually pays as much per head to the EU as we do and take twice as

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many per head migrants as we do in this country, but they have no seat

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at the table, no ability to negotiate. I'm not arguing all those

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who want to leave the EU say they want to follow the Norwegian pass,

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but some do, and I think it's important in this debate we are

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absolutely clear about the consequences of these different

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actions. Willa Prime Minister congratulate my 17-year-old

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constituent on her 3800 named in addition to get the exam board for

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the first time to accept women composers on the syllabus. Will he

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tell us is he a feminist? If feminism means that we should treat

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people equally, then, yes, absolutely. And I'm proud of the

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fact I have got sitting around the Cabinet table, a third of women on

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something we promised and something we delivered. Can I congratulate

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her, above all, for her achievement in terms of this eve petition. It

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sounds thoroughly worthwhile and her constituent and have done a good

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job. Andrew Turner. The NHS England knows that the Isle of Wight's

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clinical commissioning group is a significant outlier in relation to

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its allocation targets. Can my right honourable friend confirm that

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progress is being made to identify the factors affecting the island?

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Really benefit from amendments to the new CCG formula? What I can say

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to my honourable friend is its right that assistance on allocations are

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made independent of Government and not by Government and so that is how

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the formula is reached. I can also tell him is an independent review of

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the funding formula underway and we expect to see its recommendations

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later this year but these things should be done in a fair and

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transparent way. The Prime Minister will remember meeting my

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constituents, Neal Shepherd and Sharon Wood, nine years ago this

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week. Neil took their children on holiday to Corfu and the children

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tragically died of carbon monoxide poisoning. The family's dearest wish

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is no other family suffers this heartbreaking tragedy they have

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endured. Tomorrow in the EU Parliament there will be a vote on a

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recommendation that the commissioner brings forward legislation to

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improve carbon monoxide safety and fire safety for tourism premises in

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the EU. Can I ask the Prime Minister that is MPs supported and if that

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motion falls, will he instigate legislation nationally in this

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country? First of all, I do remember the meeting we had and the great

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bravery of the parents after their terrible loss. Wanting to go on and

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campaign to make sure others did not use children in the way they had. I

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will look carefully at what you said about the European Parliament as for

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legislation in this country, we have strict regulation on particular

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things about fire resistant materials but I will look carefully

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at that too. Question 14, closed questions. Prime Minister,... We

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said at a long-term plan for the Midlands making its future engine

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for growth for the whole of the UK and across Government we are working

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with business leaders and local authorities to progress this

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ambition. I thank him for his answer. The Northern Powerhouse will

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help millions but it's the West Midlands which is the only region in

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the UK which has a trade balance surplus with China and its Greater

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Birmingham which is the fastest rate of private-sector job creation in

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the UK since 2010. So will the Prime Minister now ensure, in the national

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interest, but the West Midlands secures the best devolution deal

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possible? I think we have huge potential here to secure massive

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devolution to the West Midlands first ball I would say to everyone

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concerned they will be left out by the Northern Powerhouse, I think the

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West Midlands is in a perfect place to benefit both from the success and

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growth of London and of course a rebalancing of our economy towards

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the North of England. In terms of the West Midlands, we look forward

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to the West Midlands combined authority coming forward with its

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plans and what I would say to these areas contemplating devolution and

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devolution deals, the more you can put on the table, the builder you

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can be with your vision, the bolder response you would get Government.

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Can I tell a the Chancellor the strong support of the parties,

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businesses across the West Midlands, for a properly funded and

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significant devolution deal to strengthen the economy, boost

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productivity and get the brown site redeveloped to tackle congestion so

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we can transform the West Midlands with more jobs, better skills, quick

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transport links and new homes? I'm glad to hear from the honourable

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gentleman what an opportunity there is in the West Midlands to work

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across party to get the very best deal across all these authorities

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because, as I said, the more we can get the local authorities to come

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together and work together, and put their ambition and vision on the

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table, the better response they will get from the Government. Simon

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Burns. Does my right honourable friend

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agree with me that bullying in the workplace is reprehensible? Can he

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tell me whether the Government is planning any review of the

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legislation with a view to extending it to this chamber? Given that my

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right honourable friend has been called for a primaries as questions

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at 12:38pm, I would have thought any hint of bullying was clearly

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overemphasise in every conceivable way. He suffers no disadvantage and

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that's a good thing but bullying in the workplace is a problem and we do

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need to make sure it is stamped out and dealt with and that should apply

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in Parliament as elsewhere. Urgent question.

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The Leader of the House, Chris Grayling. Mr

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