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The Prime Minister is visiting Poland and Romania, and I have been | 0:00:32 | 0:00:35 | |
asked to reply. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:36 | |
This morning, I had meetings with ministerial | 0:00:36 | 0:00:37 | |
colleagues and others. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:38 | |
In addition to my duties in the House, I shall have further | 0:00:38 | 0:00:41 | |
such meetings later today. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:45 | |
The Chancellor will know that, as Christmas draws closer, | 0:00:45 | 0:00:49 | |
people who are having difficulty in making ends meet will not | 0:00:49 | 0:00:53 | |
experience much good will in the season of good | 0:00:53 | 0:00:56 | |
will if they fall into the clutches of loan sharks as they try to buy | 0:00:56 | 0:00:59 | |
presents for their families, so why is he choosing | 0:00:59 | 0:01:04 | |
now to cut the budget of the Birmingham-based England | 0:01:04 | 0:01:07 | |
Illegal Money-Lending Team by a third, although it has helped | 0:01:07 | 0:01:12 | |
24,000 loan shark victims to get ?63 million of illegal | 0:01:12 | 0:01:14 | |
debts written off? | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
Will he have a word with his friend the Business Secretary, | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
who seems to be refusing to answer questions from the Daily Mirror | 0:01:19 | 0:01:22 | |
on the subject? | 0:01:22 | 0:01:28 | |
Of course we take very seriously the issue of illegal | 0:01:28 | 0:01:31 | |
loan sharks and, indeed, that of excessive interest | 0:01:31 | 0:01:35 | |
charges on payday lending, which is why it was Conservatives | 0:01:35 | 0:01:42 | |
who introduced the first-ever cap on payday lending. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:52 | |
As for the | 0:01:52 | 0:01:53 | |
Gentleman s specific question about funding for illegal money | 0:01:53 | 0:01:55 | |
laundering and loan shark teams, we are considering the imposition | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
of a levy on the industry to meet the requirements | 0:01:58 | 0:02:00 | |
that he has identified. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:09 | |
Following last week s vote, can my right hon. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:11 | |
friend give us an update on action against the genocidal jihadists | 0:02:11 | 0:02:14 | |
who not only attack Christians, Yazidis and Muslims, | 0:02:14 | 0:02:16 | |
but pillage their churches, shrines and mosques? | 0:02:16 | 0:02:17 | |
I welcome the announcement of ?30 million to protect cultural | 0:02:17 | 0:02:22 | |
heritage, but can we also ratify the Hague Convention sooner | 0:02:22 | 0:02:25 | |
rather than later? | 0:02:25 | 0:02:29 | |
I thank my hon. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:30 | |
Friend for raising this important issue. | 0:02:30 | 0:02:32 | |
Let me briefly update the House on the military action that has | 0:02:32 | 0:02:35 | |
taken place since we met last week. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:36 | |
We have 16 aircraft conducting strikes, as well as | 0:02:36 | 0:02:38 | |
our Reaper drones. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:39 | |
The Royal Air Force has flown 11 missions and conducted four strikes, | 0:02:39 | 0:02:42 | |
principally against the oilfields, and we are also supporting | 0:02:42 | 0:02:44 | |
Iraqi security forces. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:46 | |
My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary will be | 0:02:46 | 0:02:48 | |
in New York next week for talks | 0:02:48 | 0:02:50 | |
on trying to bring an end to the horrendous conflict in Syria. | 0:02:50 | 0:02:53 | |
As for the damage that is being done to the cultural artefacts | 0:02:53 | 0:02:56 | |
in the area, we are providing ?30 million as part | 0:02:56 | 0:02:58 | |
of the cultural fund. | 0:02:58 | 0:03:00 | |
I have discussed that with the director of the British | 0:03:00 | 0:03:02 | |
Museum. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:07 | |
And as for the Hague Convention, that process is now moving apace. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:10 | |
I call Angela Eagle. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:19 | |
ALL: Hurray! | 0:03:19 | 0:03:21 | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:29 | |
It is nice to be given such a warm welcome. | 0:03:29 | 0:03:35 | |
Our hearts go out to all those who are suffering the consequences | 0:03:35 | 0:03:39 | |
of the severe flooding in the north-west this week. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:45 | |
Given that thousands of families are affected, | 0:03:45 | 0:03:47 | |
the priority must be for the Government to give immediate | 0:03:47 | 0:03:49 | |
help to all of them. | 0:03:50 | 0:03:52 | |
Yet one year on from the 2013-14 floods, it emerged that only 15% | 0:03:52 | 0:03:55 | |
of those affected had received payments from the Government s | 0:03:55 | 0:03:57 | |
repair and renew scheme. | 0:03:57 | 0:04:01 | |
Does the Chancellor agree that that cannot possibly be allowed | 0:04:01 | 0:04:03 | |
to happen again? | 0:04:03 | 0:04:07 | |
These people need urgent help now, so will he today give the House | 0:04:07 | 0:04:10 | |
a guarantee that people will receive the help they need, and quickly? | 0:04:10 | 0:04:20 | |
First, let me welcome the hon. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:22 | |
Lady to her place and the warm support she has on the other side. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:28 | |
I join her in expressing the sympathy of the whole House | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
to those who have been affected by these terrible floods. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:35 | |
A record rainfall has hit Cumbria and Lancashire. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:40 | |
The update is that we have just one severe flood warning still in place, | 0:04:40 | 0:04:44 | |
power has been restored to 168,000 homes and the west coast main line | 0:04:44 | 0:04:48 | |
is open, but we have to be there for the long term | 0:04:48 | 0:04:50 | |
for these families. | 0:04:51 | 0:04:53 | |
We continue to support the immediate rescue efforts, | 0:04:53 | 0:04:55 | |
and the military have deployed. | 0:04:55 | 0:05:00 | |
On recovery and the question the hon. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:03 | |
Lady asks, I can today announce a ?50 million fund for families | 0:05:03 | 0:05:06 | |
and businesses affected in the area. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:08 | |
That will be administered by the local authorities to avoid | 0:05:08 | 0:05:10 | |
some of the administrative problems to which she alluded | 0:05:10 | 0:05:13 | |
in her question. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:16 | |
When it comes to rebuilding the infrastructure of Cumbria, | 0:05:16 | 0:05:18 | |
Lancashire and other areas affected, we are assessing now the damage | 0:05:18 | 0:05:21 | |
to the flood defences and to the roads. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:23 | |
Funds will be made available. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:27 | |
One of the benefits of having a strong and resilient economy | 0:05:27 | 0:05:29 | |
is that we can help people in need. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:33 | |
I thank the Chancellor for that answer but, | 0:05:33 | 0:05:35 | |
from listening to him, you would not think that he has cut | 0:05:35 | 0:05:38 | |
flood defence spending by ?115 million this year. | 0:05:38 | 0:05:45 | |
After visiting the floods in the Somerset levels in 2014, | 0:05:45 | 0:05:51 | |
the Prime Minister told this House that money is no object in this | 0:05:51 | 0:05:54 | |
relief effort and that whatever money was needed would be spent. | 0:05:54 | 0:05:59 | |
I welcome the announcement that the Chancellor has just made, | 0:05:59 | 0:06:02 | |
but will he confirm that the same will apply this time? | 0:06:02 | 0:06:10 | |
Absolutely. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:11 | |
The money will be made available to those affected and to | 0:06:11 | 0:06:13 | |
the communities who have seen their infrastructure damaged. | 0:06:13 | 0:06:15 | |
Up to ?5,000 will be made available to individual families | 0:06:15 | 0:06:18 | |
to repair their homes and protect them against future flooding, | 0:06:18 | 0:06:22 | |
and we will provide money to businesses that have | 0:06:22 | 0:06:24 | |
seen their businesses ruined. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:34 | |
There have been heartbreaking stories ` we have all seen them | 0:06:35 | 0:06:38 | |
on television ` about businesses that have been affected. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:40 | |
That money is available. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:41 | |
Because we have a strong and resilient economy, | 0:06:41 | 0:06:43 | |
we are increasing the money we spend on our flood defences. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:46 | |
It is just not the case that that has been reduced. | 0:06:46 | 0:06:48 | |
The last Labour Government spent ?1.5 billion on flood defences, | 0:06:48 | 0:06:52 | |
and we will be spending ?2 billion on flood defences and increasing | 0:06:52 | 0:06:54 | |
maintenance spending. | 0:06:54 | 0:06:59 | |
It is something we can do and we can help these communities precisely | 0:06:59 | 0:07:03 | |
because we took the difficult decisions to fix our economy | 0:07:03 | 0:07:05 | |
and public finances. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:09 | |
I thank the Chancellor for that, and we will hold him to account | 0:07:09 | 0:07:12 | |
on the promises he has made today. | 0:07:12 | 0:07:18 | |
However, I note that the Government s own figures show | 0:07:18 | 0:07:20 | |
that their planned capital investment in flood defence | 0:07:20 | 0:07:22 | |
will only protect one in eight of those households at risk. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:27 | |
I see that the Prime Minister cannot be with us to answer questions today | 0:07:27 | 0:07:30 | |
because he is visiting Poland and Romania on the latest leg | 0:07:30 | 0:07:35 | |
of his seemingly endless European renegotiation tour. He has been | 0:07:35 | 0:07:45 | |
jetting all over the place. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:47 | |
No wonder we had to buy him his own aeroplane. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:54 | |
So can the Chancellor tell us, how is it all going? | 0:07:54 | 0:08:02 | |
The good news is we have a party leader who is respected abroad. | 0:08:02 | 0:08:12 | |
The Prime Minister is in central and eastern Europe because we are | 0:08:26 | 0:08:29 | |
fighting for a better deal for Britain, something that never | 0:08:29 | 0:08:31 | |
would have happened if there had been a Labour Government. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:38 | |
I have to tell the Chancellor that many of his own backbenchers | 0:08:38 | 0:08:40 | |
are pretty unimpressed with how it is going so far. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:47 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:09:00 | 0:09:02 | |
The hon. Member for North East Somerset has | 0:09:02 | 0:09:03 | |
described the Prime Minister s | 0:09:03 | 0:09:04 | |
renegotiation efforts as pretty thin gruel , the hon. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:06 | |
Member for Harwich and North Essex has called them lame and | 0:09:06 | 0:09:09 | |
trivial , and yesterday the hon. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:11 | |
Member for Richmond Park told the Press Gallery they were not | 0:09:11 | 0:09:13 | |
all that impressive . | 0:09:13 | 0:09:19 | |
The Chancellor is well known for cultivating his backbenchers, | 0:09:19 | 0:09:24 | |
and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, so may I ask him | 0:09:24 | 0:09:29 | |
the question his own side want answering: given that the Prime | 0:09:29 | 0:09:37 | |
Minister has pre-resigned, does he really aspire to be | 0:09:37 | 0:09:39 | |
Britain s first post-EU Prime Minister? | 0:09:39 | 0:09:49 | |
I am not sure I would be quoting the views of backbenchers | 0:09:49 | 0:09:52 | |
if I was speaking for the Labour party at the moment. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:55 | |
Most opposition parties are trying to get momentum, | 0:09:55 | 0:10:00 | |
they are trying to get rid of it. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:04 | |
We are fighting for a good deal for Britain in Europe, | 0:10:07 | 0:10:10 | |
we are fighting to make the European economy more competitive | 0:10:10 | 0:10:13 | |
for everyone and we are fighting to make sure that Britain, | 0:10:13 | 0:10:17 | |
as a country that is not in the euro, gets a fair | 0:10:17 | 0:10:20 | |
deal from the eurozone. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:22 | |
That is what we are fighting for, but in the end this is something | 0:10:22 | 0:10:26 | |
that we will put to the people of Britain in a referendum. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:29 | |
The only reason that referendum is happening | 0:10:29 | 0:10:31 | |
at all is that the Conservative party won the general election. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:37 | |
Instead of obsessing about issues in the Labour party, | 0:10:37 | 0:10:43 | |
the Chancellor should be condemning the appalling activities | 0:10:43 | 0:10:47 | |
in Conservative Future and attacking the Tory bullying scandal. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:51 | |
I notice he did not answer the question about his own | 0:10:51 | 0:10:54 | |
prime ministerial activities. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:59 | |
I am not sure, but he might be worried about somebody a few places | 0:10:59 | 0:11:02 | |
down from him on the Treasury Bench. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:04 | |
She knows who she is. | 0:11:04 | 0:11:10 | |
She knows who she is. | 0:11:29 | 0:11:35 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:11:43 | 0:11:44 | |
If the Chancellor will not listen to the doubts of his own | 0:11:44 | 0:11:47 | |
backbenchers, perhaps he will listen to someone who has written in. | 0:11:47 | 0:11:50 | |
I have got here a letter. | 0:11:50 | 0:11:56 | |
It is from Donald of Brussels. | 0:12:07 | 0:12:11 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:12:20 | 0:12:21 | |
He writes: Uncertainty about the future of the UK | 0:12:21 | 0:12:23 | |
in the European Union is a destabilising factor. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:25 | |
He s right, isn t he? | 0:12:25 | 0:12:29 | |
Since the Conservative party announced its policy | 0:12:29 | 0:12:31 | |
on a referendum, we in this country have received the lion s share | 0:12:31 | 0:12:34 | |
of investment into Europe. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:37 | |
That is because we have built a strong economy, we stand up | 0:12:37 | 0:12:42 | |
for Britain s interests abroad and we have made this a competitive | 0:12:42 | 0:12:44 | |
place to grow and build a business. | 0:12:45 | 0:12:49 | |
While we are quoting missives, let me tell the House that someone | 0:12:49 | 0:12:51 | |
called Tony has been writing today. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:53 | |
He happens to be the most successful Labour leader in history, | 0:12:53 | 0:12:56 | |
and he describes the current Labour party as a complete tragedy. | 0:12:56 | 0:13:03 | |
May I suggest that the hon. Lady asks some serious questions, | 0:13:03 | 0:13:05 | |
about the health service, the economy, social care? | 0:13:05 | 0:13:12 | |
She can ask any of these questions. She has got one more question. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:16 | |
Let s hear it. | 0:13:16 | 0:13:20 | |
I prefer this quote from Tony: Just mouth the words five more Tory | 0:13:20 | 0:13:27 | |
years , and you feel your senses and reason repulsed | 0:13:27 | 0:13:29 | |
by what they have done to our country. We all know | 0:13:29 | 0:13:32 | |
that the Chancellor is so preoccupied with his own leadership | 0:13:32 | 0:13:42 | |
ambitions that he forgot about the day job, and that is why | 0:13:46 | 0:13:50 | |
he ended up trying to slash working families tax credits in the Budget. | 0:13:50 | 0:13:56 | |
Is it not about time that he focused on the national interest rather | 0:13:56 | 0:13:59 | |
than his own interest? | 0:13:59 | 0:14:07 | |
Three million UK jobs are linked to trade with the EU. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:10 | |
Half our exports go there. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:19 | |
That is what they are putting at risk by flirting with Brexit, | 0:14:19 | 0:14:22 | |
and that is why we on this side of the House know that Britain | 0:14:22 | 0:14:25 | |
is better off in. | 0:14:25 | 0:14:29 | |
I thought that the Labour party voted for the referendum when it | 0:14:29 | 0:14:32 | |
came before the House of Commons. | 0:14:32 | 0:14:34 | |
We are fighting for a better deal for Britain in Europe. | 0:14:34 | 0:14:36 | |
The truth is that this week we have shown that we have an economic plan | 0:14:36 | 0:14:40 | |
that is delivering for Britain. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:41 | |
Whether it is well-funded flood defences, putting money | 0:14:41 | 0:14:44 | |
into our national health service, backing teachers in our schools | 0:14:44 | 0:14:49 | |
or introducing a national living wage, we are delivering security | 0:14:49 | 0:14:53 | |
for the working people of Britain. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:55 | |
Their economic and national security would be put at risk if the Labour | 0:14:55 | 0:14:59 | |
party ever got back into office. | 0:14:59 | 0:15:03 | |
I recently visited the apprentice workshop of David Wilson Homes | 0:15:06 | 0:15:13 | |
and saw at first hand the work the construction industry | 0:15:13 | 0:15:17 | |
is doing to support apprenticeships in Hampshire. | 0:15:17 | 0:15:22 | |
What more can schools do to promote apprenticeships as a valuable | 0:15:22 | 0:15:25 | |
alternative to post-16 academic study? | 0:15:25 | 0:15:30 | |
My hon. Friend raises an important point. | 0:15:30 | 0:15:31 | |
Schools have a legal duty to provide pupils with information on the full | 0:15:31 | 0:15:35 | |
range of training and education available. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:38 | |
Schools in her constituency can tell their pupils about the increase | 0:15:38 | 0:15:46 | |
in the number of apprenticeship places - three million | 0:15:46 | 0:15:48 | |
in this Parliament - we are funding. | 0:15:48 | 0:15:50 | |
That is a huge commitment to young people in this country | 0:15:50 | 0:15:53 | |
and a big commitment to the construction industry. | 0:15:53 | 0:15:55 | |
We want homes to be built. | 0:15:55 | 0:15:57 | |
One of the challenges is getting skilled people into that industry, | 0:15:57 | 0:16:00 | |
and no doubt that was raised by the business she spoke | 0:16:00 | 0:16:02 | |
to, but the 3 million apprentices will help. | 0:16:02 | 0:16:08 | |
Occasionally, highly toxic and dangerous materials | 0:16:08 | 0:16:13 | |
are transported around the country. | 0:16:13 | 0:16:15 | |
Are not the public right to expect the highest safety standards | 0:16:15 | 0:16:18 | |
and full co-operation between the responsible | 0:16:18 | 0:16:21 | |
public agencies? | 0:16:21 | 0:16:26 | |
Absolutely. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:29 | |
That co-operation is expected. | 0:16:29 | 0:16:31 | |
Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman is talking | 0:16:31 | 0:16:35 | |
about the transportation of nuclear | 0:16:35 | 0:16:36 | |
materials from the Faslane base on the Clyde. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:38 | |
I have met the local teams and seen how they transport | 0:16:38 | 0:16:42 | |
the nuclear materials. | 0:16:42 | 0:16:44 | |
If he has something else he wants to ask me about, go ahead. | 0:16:44 | 0:16:47 | |
There are growing reports in the north of Scotland about plans | 0:16:47 | 0:16:53 | |
to transport on public roads dangerous nuclear material, | 0:16:53 | 0:16:57 | |
potentially including nuclear weapons-grade uranium, | 0:16:57 | 0:17:00 | |
from the Dounreay nuclear facility to Wick airport. | 0:17:00 | 0:17:05 | |
It is believed that from there it will be flown to the United States. | 0:17:05 | 0:17:08 | |
What will that nuclear material be used for, | 0:17:08 | 0:17:11 | |
and has the Chancellor or any of his colleagues spoken | 0:17:11 | 0:17:14 | |
with a single Minister in the Scottish Government about this? | 0:17:14 | 0:17:21 | |
The transportation of nuclear materials across this country has | 0:17:21 | 0:17:25 | |
happened over many decades. | 0:17:25 | 0:17:28 | |
There are established procedures for that, and the Royal Marines | 0:17:28 | 0:17:32 | |
and the police service in Scotland provide the security. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:35 | |
If the right hon. Gentleman has specific concerns | 0:17:35 | 0:17:40 | |
about the plans for that transportation, he can | 0:17:40 | 0:17:44 | |
raise them with us. | 0:17:44 | 0:17:45 | |
As I say, arrangements are in place to ensure | 0:17:45 | 0:17:48 | |
that we protect the public. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:51 | |
The Chancellor will know that the Prime Minister said | 0:17:53 | 0:17:55 | |
in his recent conference speech that we have to get away | 0:17:55 | 0:17:58 | |
from the lock em up or let em out mentality in respect | 0:17:58 | 0:18:02 | |
of prison reform. | 0:18:02 | 0:18:03 | |
That has to be right because the prison system | 0:18:03 | 0:18:05 | |
is costing our constituents a fortune. | 0:18:05 | 0:18:07 | |
Does the Chancellor agree that the time for rehabilitation | 0:18:07 | 0:18:10 | |
that works is now, and that we should not be afraid | 0:18:10 | 0:18:12 | |
to look at other jurisdictions to find examples and new ideas | 0:18:12 | 0:18:16 | |
to tackle this ongoing state failure? | 0:18:16 | 0:18:20 | |
My hon. friend is right to raise | 0:18:20 | 0:18:22 | |
prison reform. | 0:18:22 | 0:18:25 | |
People who commit crimes should go to prison, | 0:18:25 | 0:18:26 | |
but prisons should be suitable places to rehabilitate prisoners. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:30 | |
Some of our Victorian prisons are not suitable, | 0:18:30 | 0:18:34 | |
which is why we will close them, knock them down, build desperately | 0:18:34 | 0:18:38 | |
needed housing in our cities, and build modern prisons | 0:18:38 | 0:18:43 | |
on the outskirts of our cities. | 0:18:43 | 0:18:47 | |
I am incredibly proud that a Conservative Government are taking | 0:18:47 | 0:18:50 | |
on this progressive social reform. | 0:18:50 | 0:18:54 | |
They are a great British institution and earn billions for our economy, | 0:18:56 | 0:19:01 | |
so I am sure the Chancellor will share my concern that two curry | 0:19:01 | 0:19:04 | |
houses a week are closing due to Government policies and the fact | 0:19:04 | 0:19:08 | |
that the proposed specialist colleges have failed. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:11 | |
As a fan himself, will he review the situation? | 0:19:11 | 0:19:16 | |
He once likened the elements of a strong economy to those | 0:19:16 | 0:19:20 | |
of a good curry, so will he take action to head off | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
the coming curry crisis? | 0:19:22 | 0:19:27 | |
We all enjoy a great British curry, but we want the curry chefs to be | 0:19:28 | 0:19:35 | |
trained in Britain so that we can provide jobs for people | 0:19:35 | 0:19:39 | |
here in this country. | 0:19:39 | 0:19:40 | |
That is what our immigration controls provide. | 0:19:40 | 0:19:44 | |
My right hon. friend is well aware, | 0:19:45 | 0:19:49 | |
from my repeated representations | 0:19:49 | 0:19:50 | |
to him and his colleagues, of the need for a southern relief | 0:19:50 | 0:19:53 | |
road and eastern bypass for Lincoln, which have been delayed | 0:19:53 | 0:19:56 | |
by bureaucracy for nearly 100 years. | 0:19:56 | 0:19:57 | |
He and his Government colleagues are well acquainted with the need | 0:19:57 | 0:20:00 | |
to drive growth and local economic wellbeing by utilising appropriate | 0:20:00 | 0:20:04 | |
infrastructure improvements to fuel the midlands engine. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:07 | |
What would he say to my constituents, should he visit | 0:20:07 | 0:20:10 | |
the beautiful city of Lincoln, other than to tell them that any | 0:20:10 | 0:20:13 | |
new road is eventually better than no road? | 0:20:13 | 0:20:15 | |
new road is eventually better than no road? | 0:20:15 | 0:20:17 | |
I congratulate my hon. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:20 | |
I congratulate my hon. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:20 | |
Friend on securing ?50 million of extra funding for Lincoln | 0:20:20 | 0:20:23 | |
and ensuring that a bypass will go ahead. | 0:20:23 | 0:20:26 | |
I have spoken to him. | 0:20:27 | 0:20:28 | |
I know he has concerns that the bypass will not be big | 0:20:28 | 0:20:31 | |
enough and that it should be a dual-lane bypass. | 0:20:31 | 0:20:34 | |
Let us continue to have those conversations. | 0:20:34 | 0:20:37 | |
We both need to ensure that local authorities agree | 0:20:37 | 0:20:41 | |
with his assessment, and I am happy to help him | 0:20:41 | 0:20:43 | |
with that task. | 0:20:43 | 0:20:46 | |
Since the Chancellor s Budget in July, I have asked time and again | 0:20:49 | 0:20:53 | |
how he intends to make women prove, in order to qualify for tax credits, | 0:20:53 | 0:20:57 | |
that they had their third child as a result of rape. | 0:20:57 | 0:21:00 | |
Will he now admit that his abhorrent, vile policy is completely | 0:21:00 | 0:21:05 | |
unworkable, and will he drop the rape clause? | 0:21:05 | 0:21:10 | |
It is perfectly reasonable to have a welfare system | 0:21:10 | 0:21:13 | |
that is fair not just for those who need it but for those | 0:21:13 | 0:21:16 | |
who pay for it. | 0:21:16 | 0:21:20 | |
We have identified the specific cases that the hon. Lady | 0:21:20 | 0:21:22 | |
refers to in her question, in which women have been victims | 0:21:22 | 0:21:26 | |
of domestic abuse, or, indeed, rape, and that is why we are consulting | 0:21:26 | 0:21:29 | |
and discussing changes to protect vulnerable women. | 0:21:29 | 0:21:33 | |
More than 4,000 apprenticeships have been created in my constituency | 0:21:36 | 0:21:39 | |
since 2010, and I recently met representatives of In-Comm Training | 0:21:39 | 0:21:44 | |
and a group of small local businesses to discuss | 0:21:44 | 0:21:46 | |
skills and apprenticeships. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:48 | |
What are the Government doing to help small businesses to help | 0:21:48 | 0:21:53 | |
people into training and employment, thereby securing the economy | 0:21:53 | 0:21:55 | |
of the midlands engine for future generations? | 0:21:55 | 0:22:02 | |
The great news is that jobs are being created in the midlands | 0:22:02 | 0:22:07 | |
engine, including in my hon. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:08 | |
Friend s constituency, and we are investing | 0:22:08 | 0:22:09 | |
in infrastructure there as well. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:11 | |
We are also investing in the skills of the next generation | 0:22:11 | 0:22:13 | |
through the apprenticeships she mentions, and we are backing | 0:22:13 | 0:22:16 | |
small businesses by cutting the corporation tax they pay | 0:22:16 | 0:22:21 | |
and by increasing employment allowance so that they can take | 0:22:21 | 0:22:24 | |
on more people without paying the jobs tax. | 0:22:24 | 0:22:26 | |
Medecins sans Frontieres reports that despite giving GPS co-ordinates | 0:22:26 | 0:22:36 | |
several of its hospitals have been bombed by coalition and, | 0:22:37 | 0:22:40 | |
in particular, Assad forces in Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan, | 0:22:40 | 0:22:42 | |
killing medics as well as patients. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:47 | |
With so many forces involved in airstrikes, will the Chancellor | 0:22:47 | 0:22:52 | |
explain how the Government propose to avoid this happening in future? | 0:22:52 | 0:22:57 | |
The hon.Lady mentions the tragic bombing of the hospital. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:04 | |
A review is going on to ensure that the coalition has accurate | 0:23:04 | 0:23:09 | |
information for its strikes. | 0:23:09 | 0:23:11 | |
When it comes to Yemen, we are working with the Saudi | 0:23:11 | 0:23:15 | |
Government to make sure that they can review this | 0:23:15 | 0:23:18 | |
information and that it is accurate. | 0:23:18 | 0:23:24 | |
I am afraid we have no control over the Syrian Government and Assad, | 0:23:24 | 0:23:27 | |
which is one of the reasons we would like to see Assad go. | 0:23:27 | 0:23:30 | |
The regeneration of Dunsbury Hill Farm in my constituency will create | 0:23:30 | 0:23:33 | |
up to 3,500 new jobs, which is good news for an area | 0:23:33 | 0:23:37 | |
where unemployment has halved since 2010. | 0:23:37 | 0:23:41 | |
Will the Chancellor commit to continuing investment | 0:23:41 | 0:23:43 | |
in the Solent regional economy, an area that much prefers his big | 0:23:43 | 0:23:47 | |
Red Book to any other type? | 0:23:47 | 0:23:51 | |
I am delighted to hear about the regeneration | 0:23:53 | 0:23:55 | |
of Dunsbury Hill Farm. | 0:23:55 | 0:23:57 | |
It is part of the good news in my hon. Friend s | 0:23:57 | 0:24:00 | |
area, where, thanks to local businesses | 0:24:00 | 0:24:03 | |
and to his work as a new MP in attracting infrastructure | 0:24:03 | 0:24:06 | |
and investment into his constituency, the claimant count | 0:24:06 | 0:24:08 | |
is down by 25% in the past year alone. | 0:24:08 | 0:24:13 | |
I am glad he likes the Red Book of the Government and does not have | 0:24:13 | 0:24:17 | |
so much time for the little red book brandished by Opposition Members. | 0:24:17 | 0:24:21 | |
During the autumn statement, the Chancellor casually removed | 0:24:25 | 0:24:27 | |
vital bursary support from student nurses. | 0:24:27 | 0:24:30 | |
I have since spoken to a number of nurses and some of the 4,000 | 0:24:30 | 0:24:33 | |
nursing students at my local university, all of whom say | 0:24:33 | 0:24:36 | |
that they would not have been able to study nursing without vital | 0:24:36 | 0:24:39 | |
bursary support from the Scottish Government. | 0:24:39 | 0:24:40 | |
What will he say to the aspiring nurses across the rest of the UK | 0:24:40 | 0:24:44 | |
who may be prevented from pursuing their dreams | 0:24:44 | 0:24:46 | |
of becoming a nurse? | 0:24:46 | 0:24:48 | |
Currently, two thirds of people in England who apply for nurse | 0:24:49 | 0:24:55 | |
training courses are turned down. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:57 | |
That cannot be right, as it means hospitals increasingly | 0:24:57 | 0:25:00 | |
rely on agency staff or overseas nurses. | 0:25:00 | 0:25:03 | |
We are reforming the education of nurses so that those who apply | 0:25:03 | 0:25:07 | |
for nursing places are much more likely to get them. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:10 | |
Carlisle and Cumbria have experienced a traumatic few days, | 0:25:14 | 0:25:18 | |
with the devastating floods. | 0:25:18 | 0:25:20 | |
It was good that the Prime Minister saw at first hand the tremendous | 0:25:20 | 0:25:23 | |
work of the emergency services, the issues relating to the flood | 0:25:23 | 0:25:26 | |
defences and of course the direct impact of those floods | 0:25:26 | 0:25:29 | |
on local families. | 0:25:29 | 0:25:32 | |
As part of the recovery, Cumbria Community Foundation, | 0:25:32 | 0:25:35 | |
a highly respected, county-wide charitable organisation, | 0:25:35 | 0:25:38 | |
has launched a flood appeal. | 0:25:38 | 0:25:41 | |
I wrote to the Prime Minister asking for the Government s | 0:25:41 | 0:25:43 | |
support for the appeal, as it would help many affected | 0:25:43 | 0:25:45 | |
people right across the county. | 0:25:45 | 0:25:48 | |
Would the Chancellor be able to offer such support | 0:25:48 | 0:25:50 | |
from the Government towards this much-needed fund? | 0:25:50 | 0:25:54 | |
First, everyone here would pay tribute to the people of Carlisle, | 0:25:56 | 0:25:59 | |
the extraordinary resilience they have shown and the acts | 0:25:59 | 0:26:02 | |
of friendship that neighbours have shown to those affected | 0:26:02 | 0:26:05 | |
by the terrible floods. | 0:26:05 | 0:26:07 | |
Before the Prime Minister left for central Europe this morning, | 0:26:07 | 0:26:11 | |
he asked me to make sure we would be able to help on the | 0:26:11 | 0:26:16 | |
specific point my hon. Friend raises, | 0:26:16 | 0:26:17 | |
and did raise with the Prime Minister, | 0:26:17 | 0:26:19 | |
and I can say that we will support the work the Cumbria Community | 0:26:19 | 0:26:22 | |
Foundation does and we will match, by up to ?1 million, | 0:26:22 | 0:26:26 | |
the money it is raising for its local flood appeal. | 0:26:26 | 0:26:29 | |
When the Chancellor tripled student tuition fees, | 0:26:31 | 0:26:34 | |
he set the repayment threshold at ?21,000. | 0:26:34 | 0:26:37 | |
He has now frozen the threshold, and the Institute for Fiscal Studies | 0:26:37 | 0:26:41 | |
tells us that many students will bear many extra thousands | 0:26:41 | 0:26:44 | |
of pounds in repayments. | 0:26:45 | 0:26:47 | |
Given that he has broken his promise, will he send students | 0:26:47 | 0:26:51 | |
an apology or just the bill? | 0:26:51 | 0:26:55 | |
There seems to be collective amnesia among Labour Members: | 0:26:55 | 0:26:58 | |
they introduced tuition fees and the payment | 0:26:58 | 0:27:08 | |
threshold was ?15,000. | 0:27:10 | 0:27:13 | |
We have increased it to ?21,000, which enables us to fund the lifting | 0:27:13 | 0:27:16 | |
of the cap and more people who are qualified | 0:27:16 | 0:27:21 | |
go to university. | 0:27:21 | 0:27:22 | |
I would have thought, and I would have hoped, | 0:27:22 | 0:27:25 | |
that on this day the hon. Gentleman welcomed the big | 0:27:25 | 0:27:27 | |
investment we are making | 0:27:27 | 0:27:28 | |
in Cambridge, not least with the renovation of the famous | 0:27:28 | 0:27:30 | |
Cavendish laboratory. | 0:27:30 | 0:27:33 | |
The Bexhill-Hastings link road will finally open this month, | 0:27:34 | 0:27:36 | |
delivering a business park, new homes for a new labour market | 0:27:36 | 0:27:40 | |
and a countryside park. | 0:27:40 | 0:27:42 | |
The road has been talked about for decades but it has been | 0:27:42 | 0:27:45 | |
commissioned and built in the past five. | 0:27:45 | 0:27:47 | |
Will the Chancellor join me in welcoming new business | 0:27:47 | 0:27:49 | |
to relocate to Bexhill and Hastings, and to expand? | 0:27:49 | 0:27:55 | |
I would certainly encourage businesses to relocate to | 0:27:55 | 0:27:57 | |
my hon. Friend s area. | 0:27:57 | 0:27:58 | |
He is right about the link road: for decades people called for it, | 0:27:58 | 0:28:04 | |
and although for all those years there was a Conservative MP | 0:28:04 | 0:28:06 | |
for Bexhill, there was a Labour MP for Hastings for many of those years | 0:28:06 | 0:28:11 | |
and nothing happened. | 0:28:11 | 0:28:12 | |
Now that we have Conservative MPs in both Bexhill and Hastings, | 0:28:12 | 0:28:15 | |
we are getting the investment the local area needs. | 0:28:15 | 0:28:19 | |
On 7 September, the Prime Minister told me that he could not remove | 0:28:23 | 0:28:27 | |
refugees from the migration target because of the requirements | 0:28:27 | 0:28:30 | |
of the Office for National Statistics, but I wrote to the ONS | 0:28:30 | 0:28:34 | |
and it told me that in fact this would be possible. | 0:28:34 | 0:28:41 | |
Can the Chancellor therefore demonstrate that Britain | 0:28:41 | 0:28:43 | |
will do its bit and remove refugees from the migration target? | 0:28:43 | 0:28:53 | |
Order. | 0:28:53 | 0:28:56 | |
Order. Let us hear the Chancellor. | 0:28:56 | 0:29:01 | |
Let me say something surprising: we talk to each other in this | 0:29:01 | 0:29:04 | |
Government! | 0:29:04 | 0:29:07 | |
The Cabinet actually gets round the table and has meetings. | 0:29:07 | 0:29:09 | |
We discuss things, we agree, and then we move forward. | 0:29:09 | 0:29:12 | |
The Labour party should try it. | 0:29:12 | 0:29:17 | |
The Office for National Statistics is independent, but Britain | 0:29:17 | 0:29:21 | |
is doing its bit by taking 20,000 refugees from the Syrian | 0:29:21 | 0:29:25 | |
refugee camps. | 0:29:25 | 0:29:27 | |
We have always provided a home for genuine asylum seekers. | 0:29:27 | 0:29:35 | |
Under current toy regulations, small children can be engulfed | 0:29:35 | 0:29:40 | |
in flames by 3cm in one second. | 0:29:40 | 0:29:49 | |
Will the Chancellor encourage my right hon. | 0:29:50 | 0:29:52 | |
Friend the Prime Minister to intervene to see | 0:29:52 | 0:29:54 | |
whether the Business Secretary can introduce a statutory instrument | 0:29:54 | 0:29:56 | |
to improve the flammability of children s play | 0:29:56 | 0:29:57 | |
and dress-up costumes? | 0:29:57 | 0:29:58 | |
My hon. Friend is right to raise that case. | 0:29:58 | 0:30:01 | |
We all saw the tragedy that befell the family | 0:30:01 | 0:30:03 | |
of the Strictly Come Dancing presenter and the campaign | 0:30:03 | 0:30:11 | |
that her family have undertaken to change the regulations. | 0:30:11 | 0:30:15 | |
It is true that we do not have the same flame-retardant | 0:30:15 | 0:30:17 | |
regulations for children s fancy dress costumes. | 0:30:17 | 0:30:21 | |
That seems wrong. | 0:30:21 | 0:30:23 | |
I know that my right hon. Friend the Business Secretary | 0:30:23 | 0:30:25 | |
is looking at the matter and will ensure that that changes. | 0:30:25 | 0:30:28 | |
Will the Chancellor take this opportunity to correct the bizarre | 0:30:28 | 0:30:31 | |
claim made yesterday by Donald Trump about parts of London being no-go | 0:30:31 | 0:30:36 | |
areas for the Metropolitan police? | 0:30:36 | 0:30:38 | |
Will he point out to Mr Trump that relationships between the Muslim | 0:30:38 | 0:30:43 | |
communities of London and the police are in fact excellent? | 0:30:43 | 0:30:47 | |
The right hon. Gentleman speaks for everyone | 0:30:47 | 0:30:50 | |
in this House. | 0:30:50 | 0:30:59 | |
The Metropolitan police do a brilliant job, and they have | 0:30:59 | 0:31:02 | |
fantastic relations with British Muslims. | 0:31:02 | 0:31:03 | |
British Muslims have made a massive contribution to our country. | 0:31:03 | 0:31:05 | |
Donald Trump s comments fly in the face of the founding | 0:31:05 | 0:31:08 | |
principles of the United States, which have proved such | 0:31:08 | 0:31:10 | |
an inspiration to so many people over the past 200 years. | 0:31:10 | 0:31:14 | |
The best way to defeat such nonsense is to engage in robust, | 0:31:14 | 0:31:18 | |
democratic debate and make it very clear that his views | 0:31:18 | 0:31:22 | |
are not welcome. | 0:31:22 | 0:31:24 | |
Cornwall Hospice Care, which has one hospice on the border | 0:31:27 | 0:31:37 | |
Will the Chancellor work with me and my other colleagues in Cornwall | 0:31:52 | 0:31:55 | |
to see what more money can be put into our hospices, | 0:31:55 | 0:31:57 | |
and Cornwall Hospice Care? | 0:31:57 | 0:31:58 | |
I know that my hon. | 0:31:58 | 0:31:59 | |
I know that my hon. Friend is a strong champion | 0:31:59 | 0:32:02 | |
of his community and of the hospice he mentions. | 0:32:02 | 0:32:06 | |
We have taken steps to help the hospice movement, | 0:32:06 | 0:32:08 | |
not least by removing the VAT it paid in the previous Parliament. | 0:32:08 | 0:32:12 | |
We want to get the right balance. | 0:32:12 | 0:32:14 | |
It is good that our hospices are funded in part by local | 0:32:14 | 0:32:17 | |
charities and supported so strongly by the local community, | 0:32:17 | 0:32:19 | |
but they also need the backing of the NHS. | 0:32:19 | 0:32:24 | |
Of course, as we have a strong economy, we are now putting that | 0:32:24 | 0:32:27 | |
money into the NHS so that it can help the hospice movement. | 0:32:27 | 0:32:33 | |
If business rates are localised without equalisation, | 0:32:33 | 0:32:39 | |
my own authority of Gateshead will lose ?9.4 million a year on top | 0:32:39 | 0:32:44 | |
of the proposed severe cuts to the revenue support grant. | 0:32:44 | 0:32:48 | |
The seven north-east local enterprise partnership authorities | 0:32:48 | 0:32:55 | |
will lose ?186 million a year and the combined 12 authorities | 0:32:55 | 0:32:58 | |
in the north-east ?223 million a year. | 0:32:58 | 0:33:04 | |
Meanwhile, the City of London will gain ?222 million | 0:33:04 | 0:33:06 | |
and Westminster ?440 million. | 0:33:06 | 0:33:07 | |
How does that help the Chancellor s vision of the northern powerhouse? | 0:33:07 | 0:33:10 | |
The top-up and tariff system will apply as we devolve | 0:33:13 | 0:33:17 | |
business rates to reflect the discrepancies the hon. | 0:33:17 | 0:33:20 | |
Gentleman identifies. | 0:33:20 | 0:33:22 | |
I would have thought that the Labour party supported the devolution | 0:33:22 | 0:33:25 | |
of business rates. | 0:33:25 | 0:33:26 | |
It is a massive opportunity for local areas to grow and to see | 0:33:26 | 0:33:29 | |
the benefits of that growth. | 0:33:29 | 0:33:31 | |
When it comes to the northern powerhouse, we have the fantastic | 0:33:31 | 0:33:34 | |
announcement today of the new train franchises, which mean more than ?1 | 0:33:34 | 0:33:38 | |
billion going into new trains, faster journeys, and better | 0:33:38 | 0:33:42 | |
journey experiences for people in the north of England. | 0:33:42 | 0:33:44 | |
He should get behind it. | 0:33:44 | 0:33:48 | |
An important report was published today showing that the TV debates | 0:33:48 | 0:33:53 | |
at the general election were a great success, engaging people who are not | 0:33:53 | 0:33:56 | |
normally interested in politics, particularly young people. | 0:33:56 | 0:34:01 | |
Will the acting Prime Minister - I know he might have a personal | 0:34:01 | 0:34:05 | |
interest in this matter - encourage TV debates | 0:34:05 | 0:34:10 | |
at the next general election? | 0:34:10 | 0:34:14 | |
The TV debates are decided in discussions between the political | 0:34:16 | 0:34:19 | |
parties and the broadcasters. | 0:34:19 | 0:34:23 | |
I think that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister | 0:34:23 | 0:34:25 | |
did exceptionally well in them last time. | 0:34:25 | 0:34:29 | |
I understand that the Home Secretary has banned 84 hate preachers | 0:34:31 | 0:34:35 | |
from entering the UK. | 0:34:35 | 0:34:37 | |
Will the Government lead by example and consider making | 0:34:37 | 0:34:40 | |
Mr Donald Trump the 85th? | 0:34:40 | 0:34:45 | |
I think that the best way to confront the views of someone | 0:34:45 | 0:34:48 | |
like Donald Trump is to engage in a robust, democratic argument | 0:34:48 | 0:34:53 | |
about why he is profoundly wrong about the contribution | 0:34:53 | 0:34:57 | |
of American Muslims, and indeed British Muslims. | 0:34:57 | 0:35:00 | |
That is the best way to deal with Donald Trump and his views, | 0:35:00 | 0:35:03 | |
rather than trying to ban presidential candidates. | 0:35:03 | 0:35:09 |