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access for aid getting into the country but also that making sure | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
that aid, particularly fuel, that it can also get around the country to | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
communities in need. I know the whole house will wish to | :00:00. | :00:25. | |
join me and paid tribute to Michael Meacher. He died suddenly last week | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
and we send our condolences to his family and friends. Michael | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
dedicated his life to public service, diligently representing his | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
constituents for a staggering 45 years. He was a passionate advocate | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
of the causes he believed in, including the environment, and he | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
was able to put these into practice as a minister between 97-2003. This | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
house and our politics are poorer place without him and I know | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
colleagues from all sides of this chamber will remember him with | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
affection and miss him greatly. Mr Speaker, this morning I had meetings | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
with ministerial colleagues and others, and in addition to my duties | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
in this house to have further meetings today. Can I associate | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
myself with the sympathies expressed by the Prime Minister. Will my right | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
honourable friend join me in celebrating that one in ten of the | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
world's tractors are built in Basildon? Yanuyanutawa not an Airbus | :01:21. | :01:32. | |
Basildon. And it is attracting Basildon. And it is attracting | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
investment from well renowned organisations such as the Royal | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
Opera house. All of this is leading to job creation and opportunity. | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
Will he therefore do all he can to ensure that Britain remains a great | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
place to do business and prosper in the? -- prosper in. Basildon has a | :01:52. | :02:01. | |
special place in my heart. I didn't know all those statistics, but it | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
now has an even more special place. I can to him that the long-term use | :02:05. | :02:13. | |
claimants is down by 24% of the last year. He spoke about what a great | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
place Britain is to do business. We are now six in the rankings in the | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
world for the best place to setup and to run a business. I know the | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
Leader of the Opposition, not least because his new spokesman is | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
apparently a great admirer of the Soviet Union, will be pleased to | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
start the day with tractor statistics. | :02:32. | :02:40. | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker. Can I start by associating myself with the | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
remarks the Prime Minister made about Michael Meacher? On behalf of | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
the Labour Party, his constituents and the much wider community, our | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
condolences to his family. I spoke to them last night and asked how | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
they would like Michael to be remembered. They thought about it | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
and sent me a very nice message, which if I may, I will read out. | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
Quite brief but very poignant. They said, when I was young one of the | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
things he frequently said to me was that people went into politics | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
because their principles and they wanted to change things to make | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
things better, but in order to get into power they would often | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
compromise on their principles and that this could happen again and | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
again until, if they eventually did get into power, they would have | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
become so compromise that they would do nothing with it. Michael was a | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
decent, hard-working, passionate and profound man. He represented he his | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
constituency with diligence for 45 years. He was a brilliant | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
environment minister, as the Prime Minister pointed out. He was totally | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
committed to parliamentary democracy and this Parliament, holding | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
government or governments to account and he was a lifelong campaigner | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
against injustice and poverty. We've remember Michael for all those | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
things, we express our condolences and express are some these to his | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
family at this very difficult time. His will be a hard act to follow, | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
but we will do our best. Mr Speaker, following the events on | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
Monday evening, and the belated acceptance from the Prime Minister | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
of the result there, can he now guaranteed to The House and wider | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
country that nobody will be worse off next year as a result of cuts to | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
working tax credits? What I can guarantee is we remain | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
committed to the vision of a higher pay, low tax, lower welfare | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
economy. We believe the way to make sure that everyone is better off is | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
to keep growing our economy, keep inflation low, keep cutting peoples | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
taxes and introduce the national living wage. As for changes, the | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
Chancellor will set them out in the Autumn Statement. I thank the Prime | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
Minister for that, but the question I was asking was quite simply this. | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
Will he confirm, right now, that tax credit cuts will not make anyone | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
worse off in April next year? What we want is for people to be | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
better off because we are cutting their taxes and increasing their | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
paid, that he is going to have to be a little patient, because although | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
these changes passed the House of Commons five times, with ever | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
enlarging majorities, we will set out our new proposals in the Autumn | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
Statement and you will be able to study them. | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
Jeremy Corbyn. Mr Speaker, this is the time when we | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
asked questions of the Prime Minister on behalf of the people of | :05:43. | :05:43. | |
this country. Thank you. Mr Speaker, if I may continue. | :05:44. | :06:11. | |
People are very worried about what is going to happen to them next | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
April. So what exactly does the Prime Minister mean, is considering | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
it, there is an Autumn Statement coming up? We thought he was | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
committed to not cutting tax credits. Is he going to cut tax | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
credits or not, are people going to be worse for next in April next | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
year? You must know the answer. First of all we set out in our | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
election manifesto that we would find ?12 billion of savings on | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
welfare. Order, there is too much noise in the chamber. Order! A bit | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
of calm. The questions must be heard, and the answers must be | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
heard. The Prime Minister. Thank you Mr Speaker. It is an | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
important point because every penny we don't save on welfare is savings | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
we have to find in the education budget or in the policing budgets, | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
or in the health budget. The second point I would make is the cause of | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
what has happened on the other place, of course we should have a | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
debate about how to reform welfare and how to reduce the cost of | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
welfare. I am happy to have that debate, but of course it is | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
difficult to have that debate with the honourable gentleman, because he | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
has opposed everything all welfare change that was made. He doesn't | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
support the welfare cap. He doesn't support the cap on housing benefit. | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
He doesn't think that any change to welfare is worthwhile. I have to | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
say, if we want a strong economy and we want growth, we want to get rid | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
of our deficit, we want to secure our country, we need to reform | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
welfare. What we are talking about our tax | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
credits for people in work. The credits for people in work. The | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
Prime Minister knows that, he understands that. He has lost the | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
support of many people in this country that are actually quite | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
synthetic to his political project. Some of the papers who supported him | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
have come against on this. He did commit to ?12 billion worth of cuts | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
in the welfare budget repeatedly refused to say if tax credits would | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
be part of this. In fact he said they want. Can he now give us the | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
answer we are trying to get today? Answer the question. | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
The answer will be set out in the Autumn Statement when we set out our | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
proposals. I have to say to him, it has come to quite a strange set of | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
events when you have the House of Commons voting for something five | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
times, when there is absolutely no rebellion among conservative members | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
of parliament, or indeed amongst Conservative peers and the Labour | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
Party is left offending and depending on unelected peers in the | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
House of Lords. We British politics a new alliance. The unelected and | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
the unelectable. SHOUTING. Mr Speaker, it is very | :08:57. | :09:14. | |
interesting the Prime Minister still refuses to answer the fundamental | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
question. This is not a constitutional crisis, this is a | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
crisis for 3 million families in this country, for 3 million families | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
in this country who are very worried about what is going to happen next | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
April. Just before the last election, the former Chief Whip, now | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
Justice Secretary, said in answer to a question on the BBC world at one, | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
are you going to cut tax credits? The answer was, we are not going to | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
cut them. Why did he say that? What I said in the election is that | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
the basic level of child tax credits would stay the same. At ?2700 per | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
child it stays exactly the same. The point is this, if we want to get our | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
deficit down, if we want to secure our, me, if we want to keep on with | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
secure growth, we need to make savings on welfare. Even with his | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
deficit denying, borrow forever plan, presumably he has to make some | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
savings in public spending? If you don't save any money on welfare, you | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
end up cutting the NHS, you end up cutting even more deeply police | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
budgets. Those are the troops. One is he going to stop deficit denial, | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
get off the fence and tell us what he would do? | :10:37. | :10:48. | |
Mr Speaker... A moment ago, the answer is a need to be heard, the | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
questions need to be heard. The man is going to ask his question and it | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
will be heard. If it takes longer, so be it. | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
Thank you Mr Speaker. I've five times asked the Prime Minister today | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
whether or not people will be worse off if they receive working tax | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
credits next April? He still hasn't been able to answer me or indeed | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
many others. Can I put him a question I was sent... CHEERING | :11:18. | :11:27. | |
Mr Speaker, it might be very amusing to members said, but... | :11:28. | :11:43. | |
I was sent this question by Karen: Why is the Prime Minister punishing | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
working families? I work full time and earn their living wage within | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
the public sector. The tax credit cuts will push me and my family into | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
hardship. Can he give a cast-iron guarantee to Karen and all the other | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
families who are very worried what is going to happen next April to | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
therein come, how they are going to make ends meet, could give them the | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
answer today, I hope you will. I ask him, for the sixth time, please give | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
us an answer to a very straightforward, very simple | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
question. What I would say to Karen is this, | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
if she is on the living wage, working in the public sector, next | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
year in April she will benefit from being able to earn ?11,000 before | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
she pays any income tax at all. It was around ?6,000 when I became | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
Prime Minister forced up if she has children, she will benefit from 30 | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
hours of childcare every week. That is something that has happened under | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
this government. But above all, she will benefit because we have a | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
growing economy, because we have zero inflation, because we have two | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
million more people in work, because we will train 3 million apprentices | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
in this Parliament, and that is the fact. The reason the Labour Party | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
lost the last election is they were completely un-trusted on the | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
deficit, on debt and on a stable economy. And since then the deficit | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
deniers have taken over the Labour Party. That is what happened. When | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
you look at their plans, borrowing for ever, printing money, hiking up | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
taxes, it is working people like Karen that will pay the price. | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
Mr Speaker, in my constituency, unemployment has fallen by 30% since | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
2010. And this Government has delivered the M6 Link Road after 60 | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
years. It will treat even more jobs in my area when it's completed. Does | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
the Prime Minister agree with me that the Conservatives are insuring | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
Morecambe is back open for business? I remember visiting his | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
constituency and looking at the very important roadworks that were being | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
put in place which will up the port, help when we bring in the new | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
nuclear power station and the other steps he wants to see, I can tell | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
him the long-term youth claimant count in his constituency has fallen | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
by 30% in the last year, Young people now able to work, to benefit | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
from our growing economy. Angus Robertson. We associate ourselves | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
with the condolences expressed by the and the Leader of the Opposition | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
about Michael. Last week I asked the Prime Minister Erdogan tragic | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
circumstances of Mike O'Sullivan, from north London, a disabled man | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
who took his life after an assessment by the Department for | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
Work and Pensions. We know 60 investigations had taken place into | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
suicide wallowing the cancellation of benefits, but the findings have | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
not been published. The Prime not been published. The Prime | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
Minister said to me last week that he would look very carefully at the | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
specific question about publication. Will he confirm when these findings | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
will be published? I will write to him about this but my memory from | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
looking into this afterward is there are very good reasons why we can't | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
publish the specific report he talks about because it has personal and | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
medical data in it which would not be appropriate for publication. If I | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
got that wrong, I will write to him but that's my clear memory of | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
looking into his question after last week. Tim Salter from Stourbridge in | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
the West Midlands was 53 when he took his life. The coroner ruled a | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
major factor in his death was greatly reduced living almost | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
destitute. His sister said if of honourable people who will be | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
affected the worst. The DWP need to publish these reviews. The Prime | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
Minister says he is concerned about the views of the families involved. | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
The families say the findings should be published. Really publish them? 3 | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
million families will have their child tax credit is cancelled. We | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
knew the answer to these questions. Let me correct on its last point. | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
Under the proposals we put forward, those people on the lowest levels of | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
pay where protected because of a national living wage and those | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
people on the lowest incomes where protected because we were protecting | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
the basic award of a child tax credit in 2007 and ?80. The other | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
part of the question is a bit I've already answered but I'll send them | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
a letter if I got it wrong, they were too many personal and medical | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
details for that to be published. I think they is an important | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
consideration that in deciding whether to publish something. I'd | :16:42. | :16:50. | |
like to ask the Prime Minister about Ruby, one of my youngest | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
constituents, just one-month-old. Why should she faced the prospect of | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
spending their entire working life paying off the debt would have been | :17:00. | :17:07. | |
built up by this generation? I think Ruby is right, when we became the | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
Government, one in ?4 spent by the Government was borrowed money. We | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
had one of the biggest budget deficit anywhere in the world and | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
it's always easy for people to say put off the difficult decisions, | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
don't make any spending reductions, but what they are doing is burdening | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
future generations with debt. What I would say to the Labour front bench, | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
that is not generosity, that is actually selfishness. I think the | :17:34. | :17:49. | |
lady must have misheard but Mrs Sharon Hodgson. We know about the | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
broken promise about tax credits but for the final nail in the coffin of | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
compassionate Conservative there's be hammered home everywhere to scrap | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
universal infant free school meals in the spending review, taking hot | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
meals out of the mouths of innocent name with infant children? Will he | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
guarantee now not to scrap universal infant pre-school meals slowly does | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
not go down in history as David the Denis Thatcher? I'm immensely proud | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
it was part of the Government would introduce this policy 13 years of a | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
Labour Government and did they ever do that? -- dinner snatcher. Do you | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
remember the infant free school meals, Labour Party? I'm proud of | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
what we have done and we will be keeping it. | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
CHEERING Thank you. Mr Speaker, my right | :18:48. | :18:56. | |
honourable friend has demonstrated considerable leadership in ensuring | :18:57. | :18:58. | |
Britain is the second-largest donor of aid in Syria. There is another | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
crisis going on which the world is largely forgetting. In Yemen is an | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
ongoing war, 1.4 million people forced to flee their homes, 3 | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
million face starvation, half a million children are at risk from | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
malnutrition and the president of the International Red Cross has said | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
in Yemen, after five months, we're in the same position as we are in | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
Syria after five years. Please can we do more? He's absolutely right to | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
raise this and we have been involved in trying to help the situation | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
right from the start, as in Syria, a major contributor in terms of | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
humanitarian aid. We've made it clear all parties should engage | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
without conditions and in good faith in peace talks to allow Yemen to | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
move towards a sustainable peace and that needs to be a piece based on | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
the fact that all people in Yemen needs proper representation by their | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
Government. There are similarities with Syria, which is having a | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
Government on behalf of one part of the country, never a sustainable | :20:00. | :20:08. | |
solution. How dare anyone in this House earning ?74,000 a year tell | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
families their combined income of ?25,000 is too much and they need to | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
give something back to balance the economy? Did the Prime Minister | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
accused the listener 's manifesto because he knew he wouldn't be | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
elected? -- refused to put this in his manifesto. When I became Prime | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
Minister, nine out of ten families were getting tax credits, including | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
MPs. That's how crazy the system we inherited was. We would use that | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
during the last Parliament, opposed of course by Labour and the SNP, 26 | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
out of ten families. Our proposals would take that down to five out of | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
ten families but these are not proposals on their own but | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
accompanied by a national living wage, for first time. By allowing | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
people to air and ?11,000 before paying tax, for the first time, | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
those sorts of measures will help the thought of family she talks | :21:05. | :21:14. | |
about. The Prime Minister spoke about conference about the plight of | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
young people in the care system. Can he answer what the garment will do | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
to improve the chances of these young disadvantaged children and | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
give them opportunities as they move forward in their lives? The most | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
important thing we can do is to speed up the adoption system so more | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
children get adopted. What we have seen since I've been Prime Minister | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
is an increase in adoptions but, because of one or two judgments, it | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
slipped backwards a bit and need to work very hard to make sure more | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
children get adopted. For those who can't be adopted, we need to make | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
sure our residential care homes are doing the best possible job they can | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
and that's why today I can announce I've asked the former chief | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
executive of Barnardos, an excellent public servant, who I worked with at | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
the Home Office, to conduct an independent review of children's | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
residential care reporting to the Education Secretary at myself so we | :22:11. | :22:12. | |
can take every step to give these children the best start in life. | :22:13. | :22:22. | |
Redundant steelworkers such as those in Wrexham pay national insurance | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
contributions and played by the rules. Why then is this Government | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
limiting mortgage interest support for them in the future and making | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
them pay twice, once through national insurance and once through | :22:38. | :22:46. | |
paying back a loan? Isn't that type of action and irresponsible | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
Government like his should not be pursuing and isn't it an example of | :22:50. | :22:57. | |
compassionate conservatism dying? He refers to a temporary recession | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
measure on mortgage payments which was continued for five years but he | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
does give me the opportunity to say, as I promised I would last night, to | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
update the House on what we're doing to help the steel industry which is | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
important to his constituency and, on energy costs, we will refund the | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
full amount of the policy costs they full amount of the policy costs they | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
face as soon as we get the state aided judgment from Brussels. I can | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
confirm that payment will be made immediately and throughout this | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
Parliament, far more generous than what has been proposed by the party | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
opposite. Graham Evans. I have had hundreds of e-mails from | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
constituents regarding the Northern Powerhouse and I have just chose | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
one. John e-mailed me to say, not to listen to lead of the opposition | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
with his strategy of higher spending, higher borrowing, more | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
debt, but instead to stick to the long-term economic higher wages, | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
lower welfare, low tax society for that does the Prime Minister agree | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
with John? I do agree. He has demonstrated more sense in his | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
Melbourne leader the opposition did in his six questions. Not only have | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
we seen an economy growing, 2 million more people in work, | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
inflation that is low, living standards are rising, but actually, | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
680,000 fewer work less household and 480,000 fewer children in | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
workless households. If you want to measure the real difference is the | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
growth in the economy is making, think of those children and | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
households and the dignity of work. Last weekend was the first | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
anniversary of the death from cervical cancer of the girl aged 23. | :24:58. | :25:05. | |
In June 2013, she was concerned to ask for an early smear test was | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
refused because she was under 25. As has been highlighted, her family | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
have now written an open letter to the Prime Minister. Can I ask him | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
not to offer here a reflex repeat of the rationale for current screening | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
age policy, but to reflect on the questions raised about how this | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
translates into refusing smear tests to young women like this and to | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
consider the age related level since it was increased in 2004? He raises | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
an absolutely tragic case and our thoughts go to her family and | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
friends. He raises an important case because the UK National screening | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
committee set the age of 25 and my understanding is the reason for that | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
is not a resource is based decision, but because of the potential adverse | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
medical consequences of carrying out screening routinely below that age | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
that there would be a number potentially false positives because | :26:03. | :26:04. | |
of actually anatomical changes were to go on at that age full that | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
reason, not of resources decision. It is worth looking at. Those people | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
who fear they have a family history and ask for a test, I will write to | :26:16. | :26:24. | |
him on that specific issue. Yesterday the EU said we can no | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
longer have filters on the Internet to protect our children from | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
indecent images. I want to know what the Prime Minister is going to do to | :26:33. | :26:40. | |
make sure our children remain protected. I think it's absolutely | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
vitally important we enable parents to have that protection for their | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
children from this material on the Internet. Like her, when I read my | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
daily main was morning, I spotted over my cornflakes because they work | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
so hard to put in place these filters but I can reassure her | :26:56. | :27:03. | |
because we actually secured an opt out yesterday so we can keep our | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
family friendly filters to protect children and I can tell our House we | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
will legislate to put our agreement with Internet companies on this | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
issue into the law of the land so our children will be protected. Tim | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
Farron. Mr Speaker, can I associate myself with the Prime Minister 's | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
early remarks about the late Michael Meacher, a decent man, a good MP, | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
and an extremely effective Environment Secretary. Yesterday I | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
visited the refugee camps on Lesbos and there I met families that were | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
inspirational, and desperate run alongside at a charity workers I | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
found there. I am ashamed we will not offer at home to a single one of | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
those averaging families. My ask the Prime Minister this question? Will | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
not offer at home to a single one of those averaging families. My ask the | :27:53. | :27:54. | |
Prime Minister this question? With the aggrieved with the save the | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
children plea that we take as a country 3000 vulnerable and | :27:58. | :27:59. | |
accompanied children some as young as six? Let me again welcome him to | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
his place for them it's good to see such a high turnout of his MPs. | :28:06. | :28:12. | |
LAUGHTER . Let me answer him directly. We | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
have taken a decision as a country to take 20,000 refugees and we think | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
it is better to take them from the camps instead of taking them from | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
inside Europe. I repeat again today that we believe we will achieve 1000 | :28:27. | :28:33. | |
refugees brought to Britain and housed and clothes and fed before | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
Christmas, specifically on his question, though, about 3000 | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
children and the proposal made by save the children, I have looked at | :28:41. | :28:43. | |
this very carefully and there are other experts to point to the real | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
danger of separating children from their broader families and that's | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
why to date we have not taken that decision. As he begins his | :28:52. | :29:02. | |
negotiations on our reformed relationship with the European | :29:03. | :29:06. | |
Union, in earnest, will my right honourable friend confirmed to our | :29:07. | :29:11. | |
partners and the British people that no option is off the table, all | :29:12. | :29:18. | |
British options will be considered, including the option of a | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
relationship such as that of Norway if it's negotiable and within our | :29:24. | :29:27. | |
interests? I can certainly confirm to my honourable friend that no | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
options are off the table and, as I have been clear, if we don't get | :29:33. | :29:35. | |
what we need in our green negotiation, I will absolutely rule | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
nothing out but important, as we have this debate as a nation, we are | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
very clear about the facts and figures and the alternatives, | :29:45. | :29:47. | |
because some people are arguing for Britain to leave the EU, not all | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
people, and have pointed to the position of Norway saying it's a | :29:53. | :29:56. | |
good outcome. I would guide very strongly against that, Norway | :29:57. | :30:00. | |
actually pays as much per head to the EU as we do and take twice as | :30:01. | :30:06. | |
many per head migrants as we do in this country, but they have no seat | :30:07. | :30:12. | |
at the table, no ability to negotiate. I'm not arguing all those | :30:13. | :30:15. | |
who want to leave the EU say they want to follow the Norwegian pass, | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
but some do, and I think it's important in this debate we are | :30:21. | :30:22. | |
absolutely clear about the consequences of these different | :30:23. | :30:29. | |
actions. Willa Prime Minister congratulate my 17-year-old | :30:30. | :30:38. | |
constituent on her 3800 named in addition to get the exam board for | :30:39. | :30:43. | |
the first time to accept women composers on the syllabus. Will he | :30:44. | :30:48. | |
tell us is he a feminist? If feminism means that we should treat | :30:49. | :30:51. | |
people equally, then, yes, absolutely. And I'm proud of the | :30:52. | :30:56. | |
fact I have got sitting around the Cabinet table, a third of women on | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
something we promised and something we delivered. Can I congratulate | :31:02. | :31:11. | |
her, above all, for her achievement in terms of this eve petition. It | :31:12. | :31:15. | |
sounds thoroughly worthwhile and her constituent and have done a good | :31:16. | :31:26. | |
job. Andrew Turner. The NHS England knows that the Isle of Wight's | :31:27. | :31:32. | |
clinical commissioning group is a significant outlier in relation to | :31:33. | :31:37. | |
its allocation targets. Can my right honourable friend confirm that | :31:38. | :31:42. | |
progress is being made to identify the factors affecting the island? | :31:43. | :31:49. | |
Really benefit from amendments to the new CCG formula? What I can say | :31:50. | :31:58. | |
to my honourable friend is its right that assistance on allocations are | :31:59. | :32:00. | |
made independent of Government and not by Government and so that is how | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
the formula is reached. I can also tell him is an independent review of | :32:06. | :32:08. | |
the funding formula underway and we expect to see its recommendations | :32:09. | :32:12. | |
later this year but these things should be done in a fair and | :32:13. | :32:17. | |
transparent way. The Prime Minister will remember meeting my | :32:18. | :32:23. | |
constituents, Neal Shepherd and Sharon Wood, nine years ago this | :32:24. | :32:30. | |
week. Neil took their children on holiday to Corfu and the children | :32:31. | :32:33. | |
tragically died of carbon monoxide poisoning. The family's dearest wish | :32:34. | :32:38. | |
is no other family suffers this heartbreaking tragedy they have | :32:39. | :32:41. | |
endured. Tomorrow in the EU Parliament there will be a vote on a | :32:42. | :32:47. | |
recommendation that the commissioner brings forward legislation to | :32:48. | :32:50. | |
improve carbon monoxide safety and fire safety for tourism premises in | :32:51. | :32:57. | |
the EU. Can I ask the Prime Minister that is MPs supported and if that | :32:58. | :33:02. | |
motion falls, will he instigate legislation nationally in this | :33:03. | :33:06. | |
country? First of all, I do remember the meeting we had and the great | :33:07. | :33:10. | |
bravery of the parents after their terrible loss. Wanting to go on and | :33:11. | :33:14. | |
campaign to make sure others did not use children in the way they had. I | :33:15. | :33:18. | |
will look carefully at what you said about the European Parliament as for | :33:19. | :33:21. | |
legislation in this country, we have strict regulation on particular | :33:22. | :33:26. | |
things about fire resistant materials but I will look carefully | :33:27. | :33:30. | |
at that too. Question 14, closed questions. Prime Minister,... We | :33:31. | :33:39. | |
said at a long-term plan for the Midlands making its future engine | :33:40. | :33:43. | |
for growth for the whole of the UK and across Government we are working | :33:44. | :33:46. | |
with business leaders and local authorities to progress this | :33:47. | :33:51. | |
ambition. I thank him for his answer. The Northern Powerhouse will | :33:52. | :33:57. | |
help millions but it's the West Midlands which is the only region in | :33:58. | :34:01. | |
the UK which has a trade balance surplus with China and its Greater | :34:02. | :34:07. | |
Birmingham which is the fastest rate of private-sector job creation in | :34:08. | :34:12. | |
the UK since 2010. So will the Prime Minister now ensure, in the national | :34:13. | :34:18. | |
interest, but the West Midlands secures the best devolution deal | :34:19. | :34:23. | |
possible? I think we have huge potential here to secure massive | :34:24. | :34:26. | |
devolution to the West Midlands first ball I would say to everyone | :34:27. | :34:31. | |
concerned they will be left out by the Northern Powerhouse, I think the | :34:32. | :34:34. | |
West Midlands is in a perfect place to benefit both from the success and | :34:35. | :34:39. | |
growth of London and of course a rebalancing of our economy towards | :34:40. | :34:42. | |
the North of England. In terms of the West Midlands, we look forward | :34:43. | :34:47. | |
to the West Midlands combined authority coming forward with its | :34:48. | :34:52. | |
plans and what I would say to these areas contemplating devolution and | :34:53. | :34:55. | |
devolution deals, the more you can put on the table, the builder you | :34:56. | :34:59. | |
can be with your vision, the bolder response you would get Government. | :35:00. | :35:04. | |
Can I tell a the Chancellor the strong support of the parties, | :35:05. | :35:10. | |
businesses across the West Midlands, for a properly funded and | :35:11. | :35:12. | |
significant devolution deal to strengthen the economy, boost | :35:13. | :35:18. | |
productivity and get the brown site redeveloped to tackle congestion so | :35:19. | :35:20. | |
we can transform the West Midlands with more jobs, better skills, quick | :35:21. | :35:26. | |
transport links and new homes? I'm glad to hear from the honourable | :35:27. | :35:29. | |
gentleman what an opportunity there is in the West Midlands to work | :35:30. | :35:33. | |
across party to get the very best deal across all these authorities | :35:34. | :35:37. | |
because, as I said, the more we can get the local authorities to come | :35:38. | :35:41. | |
together and work together, and put their ambition and vision on the | :35:42. | :35:45. | |
table, the better response they will get from the Government. Simon | :35:46. | :35:46. | |
Burns. Does my right honourable friend | :35:47. | :35:59. | |
agree with me that bullying in the workplace is reprehensible? Can he | :36:00. | :36:03. | |
tell me whether the Government is planning any review of the | :36:04. | :36:08. | |
legislation with a view to extending it to this chamber? Given that my | :36:09. | :36:16. | |
right honourable friend has been called for a primaries as questions | :36:17. | :36:21. | |
at 12:38pm, I would have thought any hint of bullying was clearly | :36:22. | :36:24. | |
overemphasise in every conceivable way. He suffers no disadvantage and | :36:25. | :36:29. | |
that's a good thing but bullying in the workplace is a problem and we do | :36:30. | :36:33. | |
need to make sure it is stamped out and dealt with and that should apply | :36:34. | :36:38. | |
in Parliament as elsewhere. Urgent question. | :36:39. | :37:02. | |
The Leader of the House, Chris Grayling. Mr | :37:03. | :37:03. |