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Order, questions to the Prime Minister. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:22 | |
CHEERING. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:24 | |
Karen Lumley. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:26 | |
Number one, Mr Speaker. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:27 | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:28 | |
This morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues | 0:00:28 | 0:00:31 | |
and others, and in addition to my duties in this House, | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
I will have further such meetings later today. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:36 | |
Caroline Lumley. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:37 | |
CHEERING. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:40 | |
Will my right honourable friend confirm that | 0:00:40 | 0:00:42 | |
while he is Prime Minister of this country, condemning terrorist | 0:00:42 | 0:00:44 | |
attacks will not be a bar to holding high office? | 0:00:44 | 0:00:49 | |
What I would say to my right honourable friend is that condemning | 0:00:49 | 0:00:52 | |
terrorist attacks is an essdntial component of aspiring to high office | 0:00:52 | 0:00:56 | |
in this country and that should be the case whether you are | 0:00:56 | 0:00:58 | |
a Shadow Minister or a Minister of the Crown. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:02 | |
It is worth recalling what it is that the member | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
for Wolverhampton South East said, he said this: "Terrorists | 0:01:05 | 0:01:07 | |
are entirely responsible for their own actions, | 0:01:07 | 0:01:10 | |
no-one forces anyone to kill innocent people in Paris, | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
blow up the London Undergrotnd, behead innocent aid | 0:01:13 | 0:01:15 | |
workers in Syria". | 0:01:15 | 0:01:17 | |
He was absolutely right to say that, and it speaks volumes that he cannot | 0:01:17 | 0:01:21 | |
sit in the Shadow Cabinet with the Leader of the Opposition. | 0:01:21 | 0:01:24 | |
CHEERING. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:32 | |
Jeremy Corbyn. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
CHEERING. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:37 | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:38 | |
I would like to thank the firefighters, mountain rescue | 0:01:38 | 0:01:41 | |
services, police, armed services, engineers, | 0:01:41 | 0:01:42 | |
workers at the Environment @gency, local government workers, | 0:01:42 | 0:01:45 | |
and all the volunteers for all the work they did in keeping | 0:01:45 | 0:01:47 | |
safe thousands of people from the floods that have | 0:01:47 | 0:01:50 | |
affected this country. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:51 | |
In January 2014, following the devastating floods at that time, | 0:01:51 | 0:01:53 | |
now two years ago, the Prime Minister said, | 0:01:53 | 0:01:57 | |
and I quote: "There are alw`ys lessons to be learned | 0:01:57 | 0:01:59 | |
and I will make sure they are learned." | 0:01:59 | 0:02:04 | |
Were they? | 0:02:04 | 0:02:06 | |
Prime Minister. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:08 | |
Well, first of all, let me join the Leader of the Opposition | 0:02:08 | 0:02:11 | |
in thanking the emergency sdrvices, the police, the fire servicd. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:13 | |
Also, the search and rescue teams who went from around the cotntry | 0:02:13 | 0:02:16 | |
to areas that were flooded. | 0:02:16 | 0:02:18 | |
Can I thank the military for all the work that they did? | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
And as he says, what we saw was communities coming together | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
and volunteers carrying out extraordinary work. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
Let me deal directly with this issue of lessons learned. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:31 | |
Having seen my own constitudncy very badly flooded in 2007 and h`ving had | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
floods while being Prime Minister, I think a number of lessons | 0:02:34 | 0:02:36 | |
have been learned. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:38 | |
This time, the military camd in far faster than ever before. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:40 | |
The Bellwin scheme was funddd at 100%, not 85%, and more loney | 0:02:40 | 0:02:44 | |
was got to communities more quickly. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
So, a lot of lessons have been learned. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:49 | |
Are there more to learn? | 0:02:49 | 0:02:51 | |
I am sure there are, there always are, which is why | 0:02:51 | 0:02:53 | |
I will review everything that has been done. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:56 | |
Let us be clear, as we do that, we will make money availabld | 0:02:56 | 0:03:00 | |
because we have a strong economy to build flood resilience | 0:03:00 | 0:03:02 | |
in our country. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:03 | |
CHEERING. | 0:03:03 | 0:03:05 | |
Jeremy Corbyn. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:08 | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:10 | |
In 2011, a ?190 million flood defence project on the River Aire | 0:03:10 | 0:03:14 | |
in Leeds was cancelled on cost grounds by the Government. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:20 | |
1,000 homes and businesses hn Leeds were flooded in recent weeks. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:24 | |
The Government is still onlx committed to a scaled-down version | 0:03:24 | 0:03:27 | |
of the project, worth a fraction of its total cost, | 0:03:27 | 0:03:29 | |
when the Prime Minister clahmed that money was no object when ht came | 0:03:29 | 0:03:32 | |
to flood relief. | 0:03:33 | 0:03:37 | |
When he meets the Leeds MPs and Judith Blake, | 0:03:37 | 0:03:39 | |
the leader of Leeds Council, in the near future, or his Secretary | 0:03:39 | 0:03:42 | |
of State does, will he guar`ntee that the full scheme will go ahead | 0:03:42 | 0:03:45 | |
to protect Leeds from future flooding? | 0:03:45 | 0:03:48 | |
Well, first of all, let me lake one point before answering | 0:03:48 | 0:03:52 | |
in detail his points. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:53 | |
It is worth putting on record before we get on to flood defence | 0:03:53 | 0:03:56 | |
investment - and I will covdr it in full - that this was the wettest | 0:03:56 | 0:04:00 | |
December for over 100 years, and actually in Leeds | 0:04:00 | 0:04:04 | |
and in Yorkshire, it was thd wettest December ever on record. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:07 | |
That is why rivers in Yorkshire including the Aire in Leeds, | 0:04:07 | 0:04:09 | |
was a metre higher than it has ever been in its history. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:17 | |
Now, in terms of flood defences no flood defence schemes have been | 0:04:17 | 0:04:19 | |
cancelled since 2010. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:23 | |
The investment in flood defdnces was ?1.5 billion in the last | 0:04:23 | 0:04:29 | |
Labour Government, ?1.7 billion in the Government I led | 0:04:29 | 0:04:31 | |
as a Coalition Government, and will be over ?2 billion in this | 0:04:31 | 0:04:34 | |
Parliament. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:35 | |
It has gone up and up and up. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:38 | |
And it has gone up because we run an economy where we are abld | 0:04:38 | 0:04:42 | |
to invest in the things that our country needs. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:44 | |
And one more point - let us not forget this. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:46 | |
We inherited the Darling plan for our economy. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:50 | |
That was a plan for a 50% ctt in capital spending, | 0:04:50 | 0:04:53 | |
and Defra was not a protected department. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:58 | |
Well, we protected that flood spending and we increased it - | 0:04:58 | 0:05:01 | |
something Labour would not have done. | 0:05:01 | 0:05:02 | |
CHEERING. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
Jeremy Corbyn. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:07 | |
Mr Speaker, of course the rainfall was excessive, | 0:05:07 | 0:05:11 | |
of course the river levels were high, but the Prime Minister | 0:05:11 | 0:05:16 | |
has still not answered the puestion on the Leeds flood protection scheme | 0:05:16 | 0:05:19 | |
- I will give him an opporttnity to do so in a moment. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:24 | |
In 2014, Cumbria County Council applied for funding for new schemes | 0:05:24 | 0:05:27 | |
in Keswick and Kendal - both were turned down and both areas | 0:05:27 | 0:05:29 | |
have been flooded again in the last few weeks. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:32 | |
Does the Prime Minister belheve that turning down those schemes | 0:05:32 | 0:05:34 | |
was also a mistake? | 0:05:34 | 0:05:39 | |
We are spending more on flood defence schemes and are stacking up | 0:05:41 | 0:05:45 | |
a whole series of schemes that we will spend more on. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:48 | |
But let me make this point to him. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:55 | |
If he is going to spend ?10 billion on re-nationalising our railways, | 0:05:55 | 0:05:58 | |
where is he going to find the money for flood defences? | 0:05:58 | 0:06:01 | |
The idea... | 0:06:01 | 0:06:02 | |
The idea that this individu`l would be faster in responding | 0:06:02 | 0:06:05 | |
to floods when it takes him three days to carry out a reshuffle | 0:06:05 | 0:06:08 | |
is frankly laughable. | 0:06:08 | 0:06:11 | |
Mr Speaker, since I walked into the Chamber this morning, | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
his Shadow Foreign Minister resigned, his Shadow Defencd | 0:06:14 | 0:06:20 | |
Minister resigned - he could not run anything! | 0:06:20 | 0:06:22 | |
Jeremy Corbyn. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:25 | |
Mr Speaker, it is very strange that when I have asked a question | 0:06:25 | 0:06:28 | |
about Leeds flood defence, then on Cumbria flood defence, | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
the Prime Minister still seems unable to answer. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:36 | |
Can he now tell us if there is going to be funding | 0:06:36 | 0:06:38 | |
for those schemes? | 0:06:38 | 0:06:42 | |
In October, Professor Colin Mellors, the head of the Yorkshire Rdgional | 0:06:42 | 0:06:44 | |
Flood and Coastal Committee, warned the Government about funding | 0:06:44 | 0:06:48 | |
cuts leading to flood defences in Yorkshire being "formallx | 0:06:48 | 0:06:52 | |
discontinued" in the future. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:54 | |
Would that also be a mistakd? | 0:06:54 | 0:06:57 | |
Can the Prime Minister now tell us - is he going to reverse the cuts | 0:06:57 | 0:07:02 | |
in the defences that have t`ken place to make sure that those cities | 0:07:02 | 0:07:05 | |
and areas are protected in the next round of floods | 0:07:05 | 0:07:07 | |
which will no doubt come? | 0:07:07 | 0:07:08 | |
Prime Minister. | 0:07:08 | 0:07:09 | |
As I have told him, we have increased and continue to increase | 0:07:09 | 0:07:12 | |
the spending on flood defences. | 0:07:12 | 0:07:14 | |
We are spending more in this Parliament, and for the first time | 0:07:14 | 0:07:16 | |
it is a six-year spending perspective, which is ?2.3 billion | 0:07:16 | 0:07:19 | |
extra on flood defences - money that would not be avahlable | 0:07:19 | 0:07:22 | |
if we trashed the economy in the way that he proposes. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:25 | |
Now, of course, after every incident of flooding, | 0:07:25 | 0:07:29 | |
you go back and look at what you have spent | 0:07:29 | 0:07:32 | |
and what you have built, you look at what you are pl`nning | 0:07:32 | 0:07:36 | |
to spend and what you are planning to build, and you see what lore | 0:07:36 | 0:07:39 | |
can be done. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:41 | |
But the head of the Environlent Agency was absolutely clear | 0:07:41 | 0:07:44 | |
that he had the money necessary to take the action | 0:07:44 | 0:07:46 | |
that was necessary, but we can only do that with a strong econoly, | 0:07:46 | 0:07:50 | |
an economy that is growing, where more people are in work | 0:07:50 | 0:07:52 | |
and more people are paying taxes. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
We have got the strength to solve this problem of floods, | 0:07:55 | 0:07:57 | |
and we will do it in a proper way. | 0:07:57 | 0:08:00 | |
CHEERING. | 0:08:00 | 0:08:03 | |
Jeremy Corbyn. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:04 | |
Mr Speaker, the Prime Minister has not answered on Leeds, | 0:08:04 | 0:08:07 | |
he has not answered on Cumbria, and he has not answered | 0:08:07 | 0:08:10 | |
on the warning from Professor Mellors. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:14 | |
Like him, last week I met pdople in York who had been | 0:08:14 | 0:08:17 | |
affected by flooding. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:22 | |
I met a young couple, Chris and Victoria, whose home had | 0:08:22 | 0:08:24 | |
been flooded over Christmas... | 0:08:24 | 0:08:25 | |
It was not very funny for them. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:28 | |
HECKLING. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:36 | |
This young couple lost many of their possessions, | 0:08:36 | 0:08:39 | |
including photos and childrdn s toys and school work, | 0:08:39 | 0:08:45 | |
including photos and childrdn's toys and school work, | 0:08:45 | 0:08:47 | |
and they have the foul stench of floodwater in their homes, | 0:08:47 | 0:08:50 | |
as have many families all over this country. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:53 | |
They are asking all of us wholly legitimate questions: Why w`s it | 0:08:53 | 0:08:56 | |
that the insufficient pump capacity at the Foss barrier - | 0:08:56 | 0:09:00 | |
again, which we were alerted to in 2013 by a Government report - | 0:09:00 | 0:09:05 | |
was not dealt with or the pumps upgraded? | 0:09:05 | 0:09:08 | |
That meant that people in York were flooded and their possdssions | 0:09:08 | 0:09:11 | |
and homes severely damaged. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:12 | |
Those people want answers from all of us, and in parthcular, | 0:09:12 | 0:09:15 | |
from the Prime Minister. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:16 | |
Prime Minister. | 0:09:16 | 0:09:19 | |
I have the greatest sympathx with anyone who has been flooded | 0:09:19 | 0:09:22 | |
and we have to do what it t`kes to get people and communitids back | 0:09:22 | 0:09:25 | |
on their feet. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:28 | |
That is why we have put record sums in more quickly to help comlunities | 0:09:28 | 0:09:31 | |
in Cumbria, in Lancashire and now in Yorkshire. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:33 | |
We will continue to do that. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:35 | |
Specifically on the question of the Foss pumps, | 0:09:35 | 0:09:37 | |
that was about to be tenderdd for extra investment, | 0:09:37 | 0:09:41 | |
and that investment will now go ahead, because the money is there. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:47 | |
What I say to him is, we are putting in the money | 0:09:47 | 0:09:50 | |
and doing so more quickly, the military got involved more | 0:09:50 | 0:09:52 | |
quickly and to that couple who got flooded - | 0:09:52 | 0:09:54 | |
we are also doing something that previous governments have t`lked | 0:09:54 | 0:09:57 | |
about but never achieved, which is to have an insurance scheme | 0:09:57 | 0:10:00 | |
so that every single household in our country can get insured | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
Flood Re. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:04 | |
Now, that has not been done before. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:05 | |
So, have lessons been learndd? | 0:10:05 | 0:10:07 | |
Yes, they have. | 0:10:07 | 0:10:08 | |
Are there more lessons to ldarn | 0:10:08 | 0:10:09 | |
There always are, but frankly, we do not need a lecture from Malta | 0:10:09 | 0:10:12 | |
from the honourable gentlem`n. | 0:10:12 | 0:10:13 | |
CHEERING. | 0:10:13 | 0:10:15 | |
Jeremy Corbyn. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:19 | |
Mr Speaker, the reality is that flood defence scheme after flood | 0:10:19 | 0:10:24 | |
defence scheme has been cancelled, postponed or cut, many more homes | 0:10:24 | 0:10:28 | |
have been flooded and too m`ny lessons have been ignored. | 0:10:28 | 0:10:31 | |
Why cannot the Prime Ministdr support our calls for | 0:10:31 | 0:10:35 | |
a co-ordinated, cross-party approach to flooding that | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
looks at everything... | 0:10:38 | 0:10:40 | |
That looks at everything, including upland management, | 0:10:40 | 0:10:43 | |
to making people's homes more flood resilient, | 0:10:43 | 0:10:46 | |
and more properly funded protection schemes? | 0:10:46 | 0:10:52 | |
Does the Prime Minister at least agree with this - | 0:10:52 | 0:10:58 | |
that the fire and rescue service, which has done such a great job over | 0:10:58 | 0:11:01 | |
the past few weeks in all p`rts of this country, should now be given | 0:11:01 | 0:11:04 | |
a statutory duty to deal with floods, to help us through any | 0:11:04 | 0:11:07 | |
crisis that might occur in the future? | 0:11:07 | 0:11:10 | |
Well, I think, Mr Speaker, the best I can say is that | 0:11:11 | 0:11:14 | |
when he has worked out how to co-ordinate his own partx, | 0:11:14 | 0:11:16 | |
perhaps he could come and have a word with me. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:20 | |
On the issue of a statutory duty, everybody knows what they h`ve to do | 0:11:20 | 0:11:23 | |
when floods take place. | 0:11:23 | 0:11:24 | |
That is why there was such a magnificent response | 0:11:24 | 0:11:26 | |
from the emergency services, from the fire services | 0:11:26 | 0:11:28 | |
and the emergency rescue services. | 0:11:28 | 0:11:30 | |
They have our backing to do the vital work. | 0:11:30 | 0:11:32 | |
And, yes, we will go on investing in flood defences. | 0:11:32 | 0:11:35 | |
We will increase the money we are spending on flood defences, | 0:11:35 | 0:11:37 | |
because we have got a strong economy and a strong country that c`n back | 0:11:37 | 0:11:41 | |
the action that is needed. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:43 | |
CHEERING. | 0:11:43 | 0:11:47 | |
Nadhim Zahawi. | 0:11:47 | 0:11:50 | |
Mr Speaker, 2016 sees us mark the 400th anniversary | 0:11:50 | 0:11:56 | |
of William Shakespeare's passing away. | 0:11:56 | 0:11:58 | |
Does my right honourable frhend agree with me that our country | 0:11:58 | 0:12:01 | |
should unite to commemorate his works? | 0:12:01 | 0:12:04 | |
There are special events at the RSC - the Shakespeare Birthplacd Trust | 0:12:04 | 0:12:12 | |
is renovating the site of hhs home, New Place, and King Edward's School | 0:12:12 | 0:12:15 | |
is opening his original classroom. | 0:12:15 | 0:12:16 | |
May I invite my right honourable friend, the whole House | 0:12:16 | 0:12:18 | |
and the world, to come and celebrate the greatest-living bard? | 0:12:18 | 0:12:24 | |
My apologies for almost interrupting his soliloquy , | 0:12:24 | 0:12:26 | |
I am very sorry about that. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:28 | |
I think it is a very good moment - the 400th anniversary of thd death | 0:12:28 | 0:12:31 | |
of Shakespeare - for us to celebrate everything he has given | 0:12:31 | 0:12:34 | |
to our language and to our culture and, indeed, to the world. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:37 | |
I think it is going to be a fantastic moment for people | 0:12:37 | 0:12:40 | |
to visit Britain and come to see Stratford and all the other places | 0:12:40 | 0:12:43 | |
that have such a great association with Shakespeard. | 0:12:43 | 0:12:45 | |
I find that Shakespeare provides language for every moment. | 0:12:45 | 0:12:49 | |
Let us consider what we are thinking about at the moment. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:51 | |
There was a moment when it looked like this reshuffle could go | 0:12:51 | 0:12:54 | |
into its Twelfth Night. | 0:12:54 | 0:12:55 | |
LAUGHTER. | 0:12:55 | 0:12:57 | |
Yes. | 0:12:57 | 0:13:00 | |
It was a revenge reshuffle, so it was going to be | 0:13:00 | 0:13:02 | |
As You Like It. | 0:13:02 | 0:13:04 | |
I think, though, we can conclude that it has turned into somdthing | 0:13:04 | 0:13:07 | |
of a comedy of errors - perhaps Much Ado About | 0:13:07 | 0:13:09 | |
Nothing. | 0:13:09 | 0:13:12 | |
LAUGHTER. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:14 | |
There will be those who worry that Love's Labour's | 0:13:14 | 0:13:16 | |
Lost. | 0:13:16 | 0:13:19 | |
CHEERING. | 0:13:19 | 0:13:20 | |
Angus Robertson. | 0:13:20 | 0:13:21 | |
LOUD CHATTER. | 0:13:21 | 0:13:26 | |
MPs: More! | 0:13:26 | 0:13:36 | |
Thank you. | 0:13:41 | 0:13:42 | |
Thank you very much ... | 0:13:42 | 0:13:43 | |
Thank you very much for the warm welcome. | 0:13:43 | 0:13:45 | |
LAUGHTER. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:46 | |
Mr Speaker, the health service is devolved, | 0:13:46 | 0:13:48 | |
but junior doctors in Scotland are not planning | 0:13:48 | 0:13:49 | |
to strike next week. | 0:13:50 | 0:13:51 | |
Why does the Prime Minister think that the Scottish Government have | 0:13:51 | 0:13:53 | |
good relations with junior doctors and his government do not? | 0:13:53 | 0:13:55 | |
Prime Minister. | 0:13:56 | 0:13:57 | |
And now for the Scottish pl`y. | 0:13:57 | 0:13:59 | |
I think he raises an important question. | 0:13:59 | 0:14:02 | |
We have taken a different approach to the government in Scotland. | 0:14:02 | 0:14:06 | |
We have increased spending on the NHS by more than | 0:14:06 | 0:14:08 | |
the government in Scotland, which I think is the right `pproach. | 0:14:08 | 0:14:11 | |
But we are determined to de`l with this issue of having | 0:14:11 | 0:14:14 | |
a genuine seven-day NHS. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:17 | |
Everybody knows - doctors know it, patients know it, the managdment | 0:14:17 | 0:14:20 | |
of the NHS know it, the BMA knows it - | 0:14:20 | 0:14:22 | |
that there is a problem with the NHS at the weekend and one of the ways | 0:14:22 | 0:14:26 | |
to correct that is making stre that we have new contracts, | 0:14:26 | 0:14:29 | |
including with junior doctors, to make sure not | 0:14:29 | 0:14:31 | |
that they work longer hours... | 0:14:31 | 0:14:33 | |
In fact, under our plans, many will work many fewer hours | 0:14:33 | 0:14:37 | |
It is not to reduce doctors' pay. | 0:14:37 | 0:14:41 | |
No-one who works legal hours will see a cut in their pay. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:44 | |
Indeed, 75% of doctors will see a pay rise. | 0:14:44 | 0:14:46 | |
We think that this is a good deal for a good advance in the NHS. | 0:14:46 | 0:14:50 | |
And I am sure that Scotland will be looking at it too. | 0:14:50 | 0:14:53 | |
Angus Robertson. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:58 | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker. | 0:14:58 | 0:15:00 | |
The Scottish Government havd been investing record levels of funding | 0:15:00 | 0:15:02 | |
in the NHS in Scotland and `lso works very hard to have the best | 0:15:02 | 0:15:06 | |
possible relations with doctors nurses and all NHS staff. | 0:15:06 | 0:15:10 | |
Will the English Health Secretary speak to his Scottish colle`gue | 0:15:10 | 0:15:13 | |
Shona Robison, to learn how to resolve the situation in England | 0:15:13 | 0:15:15 | |
and stave off strike action that no-one wants to see, | 0:15:15 | 0:15:18 | |
least of all junior doctors? | 0:15:18 | 0:15:19 | |
Prime Minister. | 0:15:19 | 0:15:20 | |
There should always be good relations and good discussions | 0:15:20 | 0:15:23 | |
between the Health Secretarx in the United Kingdom Government | 0:15:23 | 0:15:25 | |
and Health Ministers in the devolved administrathons | 0:15:25 | 0:15:31 | |
Obviously, one thing that wd think is important: When we make | 0:15:31 | 0:15:34 | |
a decision to increase fundhng in the NHS, as we have done - | 0:15:34 | 0:15:37 | |
?19 billion more in this Parliament - it has consequences for W`les | 0:15:37 | 0:15:40 | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland under the Barnett formula. | 0:15:40 | 0:15:42 | |
And, of course, I find it vdry depressing that the Welsh h`ve | 0:15:42 | 0:15:45 | |
decided, under Labour, to spend less than we are planning | 0:15:45 | 0:15:47 | |
to spend, and that Scotland has done the same thing. | 0:15:47 | 0:15:55 | |
Chris Green. | 0:15:55 | 0:15:57 | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker. | 0:15:57 | 0:15:58 | |
CHEERING. | 0:15:58 | 0:16:03 | |
The local economy in my constituency of Bolton West continues | 0:16:03 | 0:16:07 | |
to strengthen, with great btsinesses such as Eventura and LLabor`te both | 0:16:07 | 0:16:10 | |
relocating to and growing in Westhoughton. | 0:16:10 | 0:16:15 | |
We are also seeing Heritage Trade Frames investing ?1 million | 0:16:15 | 0:16:21 | |
in equipping a new factory in Lostock, and Trojan Utilhties | 0:16:21 | 0:16:25 | |
winning new contracts and rdcruiting more staff in Horwich. | 0:16:25 | 0:16:28 | |
Will the Prime Minister agrde with me that the Northern Powerhouse | 0:16:28 | 0:16:31 | |
is not just about our great northern cities, it is also | 0:16:31 | 0:16:35 | |
about our great northern towns? | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
CHEERING. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:40 | |
Prime Minister. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:41 | |
My honourable friend is absolutely right. | 0:16:41 | 0:16:45 | |
It is instructive that Opposition Members do not | 0:16:45 | 0:16:47 | |
want to hear good news about the businesses, | 0:16:47 | 0:16:49 | |
jobs and investment that are happening in our economx. | 0:16:49 | 0:16:51 | |
But I think sometimes it can sound as if the plan | 0:16:51 | 0:16:54 | |
for a Northern Powerhouse is all about the cities | 0:16:54 | 0:16:56 | |
of the north of England. | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
Our view is that by linking up the cities, you also help the towns | 0:16:59 | 0:17:02 | |
in the north-west and across our country. | 0:17:02 | 0:17:04 | |
You also help the rural are`s because you are rebalancing our | 0:17:04 | 0:17:07 | |
economy and increasing opportunity in the north of our country. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:12 | |
Anna Turley. | 0:17:20 | 0:17:22 | |
In 2014, in response to the flooding of the Thames Valley, | 0:17:36 | 0:17:39 | |
the Prime Minister said that money would be no object. | 0:17:39 | 0:17:41 | |
In the light of his cuts to the flood defences, | 0:17:41 | 0:17:44 | |
his cut of a fire and rescud service, his cuts to | 0:17:44 | 0:17:46 | |
the Environment Agency, can he say the same to the people | 0:17:46 | 0:17:49 | |
of Leeds, Rochdale, York, Whitby and Teesside? | 0:17:49 | 0:17:51 | |
Or is it one rule for his constituents and another | 0:17:51 | 0:17:53 | |
for ours in the North? | 0:17:53 | 0:17:55 | |
She is completely wrong about the funding figures, | 0:17:55 | 0:17:57 | |
as I have explained in great detail. | 0:17:57 | 0:17:59 | |
1.5 billion to 1.7 billion to 2 billion. | 0:17:59 | 0:18:02 | |
But the point is what we've put in place under this governmdnt | 0:18:02 | 0:18:05 | |
is not funding of 85% of what a council spends | 0:18:05 | 0:18:07 | |
but funding of 100%. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:09 | |
So what I said absolutely stands good. | 0:18:09 | 0:18:11 | |
The PM has always been a st`unch supporter of the Welsh TV channel | 0:18:11 | 0:18:14 | |
S4C set up under the Thatcher government. | 0:18:14 | 0:18:16 | |
Could he use this opportunity to reinforce his support | 0:18:16 | 0:18:19 | |
for the channel and the comlitment we made to safeguarding its funding? | 0:18:19 | 0:18:21 | |
I am very happy to do that. | 0:18:21 | 0:18:23 | |
S4C is a very important part of our broadcasting structure, | 0:18:23 | 0:18:26 | |
it is very popular and well liked in Wales. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:28 | |
I want to make sure we meet both the wording and the spirit | 0:18:28 | 0:18:31 | |
of our manifesto promise to make sure this continues to be | 0:18:31 | 0:18:34 | |
a very strong channel. | 0:18:34 | 0:18:36 | |
With home ownership down to its lowest level in a generation, | 0:18:36 | 0:18:40 | |
down every year since he became Prime Minister, why did Torx MPs | 0:18:40 | 0:18:43 | |
vote against Labour's amendlent to the housing bill last night | 0:18:43 | 0:18:45 | |
which would have perfected the publicly funded discount | 0:18:45 | 0:18:48 | |
for new starter homes for future buyers? | 0:18:48 | 0:18:50 | |
Isn't that better value for money for first-time buyers | 0:18:50 | 0:18:54 | |
and for the taxpayer? Yes or no? | 0:18:54 | 0:19:03 | |
Well, the proposal for starter homes | 0:19:04 | 0:19:05 | |
is a Conservative Party proposal put into our manifesto and opposed | 0:19:05 | 0:19:09 | |
throughout by the Labour Party. | 0:19:09 | 0:19:11 | |
This is only happening because we won a majority and put | 0:19:11 | 0:19:13 | |
the housing bill through this House of Commons. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:15 | |
We are taking every step we can to help more people get | 0:19:15 | 0:19:18 | |
on the housing ladder. | 0:19:18 | 0:19:19 | |
So, in London, where he represents, we are seeing Help to Buy now | 0:19:19 | 0:19:22 | |
funding 40% of the home people want to buy rather than 20%. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:25 | |
We are going to see 200,000 starter homes built during this Parliament. | 0:19:25 | 0:19:28 | |
Because we are managing our economy properly, interest rates ard low. | 0:19:28 | 0:19:31 | |
So it is easier for people to get a mortgage and with our | 0:19:31 | 0:19:34 | |
Help to Save scheme, there is now every opportunhty | 0:19:34 | 0:19:37 | |
for people to put aside mondy to help them with the deposht. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:41 | |
We are absolutely on the side of the home owner but above all | 0:19:41 | 0:19:45 | |
those people who want to get on the housing ladder. | 0:19:45 | 0:19:48 | |
We are helping with jobs, helping with the tax cuts, | 0:19:48 | 0:19:51 | |
helping with Help to Buy, helping with Help to Save, | 0:19:51 | 0:19:54 | |
and crucially, helping by building more homes. | 0:19:54 | 0:19:57 | |
On Boxing Day, the village of Croston in my constituency | 0:19:57 | 0:20:01 | |
suffered the worst floods in living memory. | 0:20:01 | 0:20:08 | |
With damage to schools, homes and businesses. | 0:20:08 | 0:20:11 | |
Will my right honourable frhend join with me in praising the efforts | 0:20:11 | 0:20:14 | |
of everybody in Croston who pulled together to protect their community | 0:20:14 | 0:20:16 | |
and will he ask his honourable friend, the member for Penrhth | 0:20:16 | 0:20:19 | |
and The Border to review the decision by the Environlent | 0:20:19 | 0:20:22 | |
Agency to switch off the pumps at Croston? | 0:20:22 | 0:20:30 | |
First of all, let me pay trhbute to her constituents who worked | 0:20:30 | 0:20:33 | |
around the clock to help each other in what were appalling floods | 0:20:33 | 0:20:36 | |
with this incredibly high level of rainfall. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:38 | |
Let me join with her in thanking the emergency services again | 0:20:38 | 0:20:42 | |
for all the work they did. | 0:20:42 | 0:20:44 | |
After floods like this, there are always questions | 0:20:44 | 0:20:46 | |
about which pumps were used, which flood gates were open, | 0:20:46 | 0:20:49 | |
what decisions were made by the experts on the ground | 0:20:49 | 0:20:51 | |
and it is very important, having seen many communities flooded | 0:20:51 | 0:20:54 | |
in my own constituency, it is very important to hold | 0:20:54 | 0:20:57 | |
meetings with community after community to go through those | 0:20:57 | 0:20:59 | |
decisions and work out what lessons can be learnt and work | 0:20:59 | 0:21:02 | |
out whether the right decisions were made. | 0:21:02 | 0:21:05 | |
I absolutely pledge that that should be done. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:07 | |
We have announced ?40 million for the work across Lancashhre | 0:21:07 | 0:21:09 | |
and Cumbria for helping people out and we will make sure the flood | 0:21:09 | 0:21:12 | |
alleviation money, the scheles that we set up after 2013, | 0:21:12 | 0:21:16 | |
that the money is paid out as quickly as it can be. | 0:21:16 | 0:21:21 | |
In light of last month's Paris climate agreement | 0:21:21 | 0:21:29 | |
at which all countries agreed to progressively | 0:21:29 | 0:21:32 | |
increase their ambition and to keep global warning | 0:21:32 | 0:21:35 | |
well below two degrees, | 0:21:35 | 0:21:37 | |
does the Prime Minister agrde that we must now urgently bdgin | 0:21:37 | 0:21:40 | |
the process of strengthening the EU's 2030 greenhouse gas | 0:21:40 | 0:21:44 | |
reduction targets to 50% below 990 levels at the very least, | 0:21:44 | 0:21:48 | |
a position he argued for at the European Council? | 0:21:48 | 0:21:52 | |
Let me join her in once agahn recognising that Paris | 0:21:52 | 0:21:58 | |
was a big step forward. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:00 | |
Previous agreements, like at Kyoto, didn't include action | 0:22:00 | 0:22:03 | |
by China or action by America. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:06 | |
And now you've got all the big countries, all the big emitters | 0:22:06 | 0:22:09 | |
as part of the deal. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:10 | |
We did argue that the EU should go further. | 0:22:10 | 0:22:13 | |
We achieved, I think, a very aggressive package for the EU | 0:22:13 | 0:22:16 | |
but that was the best we cotld do in the circumstances. | 0:22:16 | 0:22:19 | |
I think the EU agreement helped to bring about the general `greement | 0:22:19 | 0:22:23 | |
and no-one should be in any doubt that Britain is playing | 0:22:23 | 0:22:25 | |
a very major role. | 0:22:25 | 0:22:26 | |
Let me give you one statisthc because I know there is gre`t | 0:22:26 | 0:22:29 | |
interest in this House about solar panels. | 0:22:29 | 0:22:32 | |
I asked a question the other day, what percentage of solar panels had | 0:22:32 | 0:22:35 | |
been installed in Britain since we took office in 2010 | 0:22:35 | 0:22:39 | |
expecting the answer might be 50% or 60%, | 0:22:39 | 0:22:42 | |
the answer is 98%. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:44 | |
Yesterday it was announced that the Foxhill housing zone | 0:22:44 | 0:22:50 | |
in Bath received ?313,000 of government funding to help | 0:22:50 | 0:22:53 | |
kick-start work to build thousands of new homes in the city. | 0:22:53 | 0:22:57 | |
Would the Prime Minister agree with me that this funding | 0:22:57 | 0:23:00 | |
will help to reverse the lack of house-building under the party | 0:23:00 | 0:23:03 | |
opposite and enable struggling families to get | 0:23:03 | 0:23:05 | |
onto the property ladder? | 0:23:05 | 0:23:08 | |
I'm delighted to hear about the development | 0:23:08 | 0:23:11 | |
in his constituency. | 0:23:11 | 0:23:13 | |
The fact is we've built 700,000 houses since this government came | 0:23:13 | 0:23:15 | |
to office in 2010. | 0:23:15 | 0:23:17 | |
There is a lot more that nedds to be done. | 0:23:17 | 0:23:20 | |
Sometimes, it is specific bhts of transport infrastructure, | 0:23:20 | 0:23:22 | |
or specific planning permissions or disagreements between district | 0:23:22 | 0:23:25 | |
councils and county councils that need to be sorted out. | 0:23:25 | 0:23:28 | |
But we shouldn't forget the fact that the developers | 0:23:28 | 0:23:30 | |
and house-builders will onlx go ahead with house-building | 0:23:30 | 0:23:33 | |
if they believe it is a benhgn economic environment with a strong | 0:23:33 | 0:23:36 | |
and growing economy and stable interest rates and all | 0:23:36 | 0:23:39 | |
the things that we need. | 0:23:39 | 0:23:41 | |
That is the key to the success in housing. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:43 | |
The Prime Minister promised to cut the number of government spdcial | 0:23:43 | 0:23:48 | |
advisers and the Chancellor wants to limit pay increases to ptblic | 0:23:48 | 0:23:52 | |
sector employees to 1% so how does he possibly square that with now | 0:23:52 | 0:23:56 | |
having 26 more special advisers than in 2010 and a 42% pay hncrease | 0:23:56 | 0:23:59 | |
for the Chancellor's own personal image consultant? | 0:23:59 | 0:24:05 | |
There are fewer special advhsers under this government | 0:24:05 | 0:24:10 | |
than there was under the last government. | 0:24:10 | 0:24:14 | |
Will my right honourable frhend agree with me that it is more | 0:24:14 | 0:24:21 | |
than a matter of regret that the new Shadow Defence Secretary has seen | 0:24:21 | 0:24:25 | |
fit to take a donation from the immoral, thieving | 0:24:25 | 0:24:30 | |
and ambulance-chasing lawyers Leigh Day, together | 0:24:30 | 0:24:35 | |
with Public Interest Lawyers specialise in hounding our brave | 0:24:35 | 0:24:43 | |
service personnel in Iraq with spurious claims? | 0:24:43 | 0:24:46 | |
Is it time that we removed the latter from the pernicious | 0:24:46 | 0:24:51 | |
clutches of the Human Rights Act and honoured our manifesto | 0:24:51 | 0:24:53 | |
commitment for a British bill of rights? | 0:24:53 | 0:24:57 | |
Taking his questions in turn, yes, we should honour our commitlent | 0:24:57 | 0:25:01 | |
for a British bill of rights and I look forward to | 0:25:01 | 0:25:05 | |
making progress on that. | 0:25:05 | 0:25:07 | |
I do think that this organisation, Leigh Day, does have some qtestions | 0:25:07 | 0:25:10 | |
to answer, not least because they were deeply involved | 0:25:10 | 0:25:13 | |
in the Al-Sweady inquiry where a whole lot of claims, | 0:25:13 | 0:25:16 | |
completely fell apart and there was, it seems, evidence that could have | 0:25:16 | 0:25:22 | |
shown that those claims were falsd. | 0:25:22 | 0:25:24 | |
And I do think it is instructive that we have lost a Shadow Secretary | 0:25:24 | 0:25:28 | |
of State for Defence who believed in strong defence, | 0:25:28 | 0:25:32 | |
who believed in our nuclear deterrent, and instead, | 0:25:32 | 0:25:35 | |
we've got someone, apparently, who takes funds from Leigh Day. | 0:25:35 | 0:25:38 | |
I think that leaves us with serious questions to answer. | 0:25:38 | 0:25:41 | |
Frankly, it goes to a bigger truth, which is one day, this reshtffle, | 0:25:41 | 0:25:45 | |
I suppose, will be over, and we will be left | 0:25:45 | 0:25:48 | |
with a collection of politicians | 0:25:48 | 0:25:52 | |
who have signed up to unilateral nuclear disarmament, | 0:25:52 | 0:25:56 | |
who have signed up to wrackhng up taxes, debt and spending | 0:25:56 | 0:25:59 | |
and one of the left-wing programmes in living memory. | 0:25:59 | 0:26:02 | |
This is a collective act they would have taken part hn. | 0:26:02 | 0:26:06 | |
We shouldn't be asking is the Leader of the Opposition happy | 0:26:06 | 0:26:08 | |
to have the member of Leeds Central. We know he is not. | 0:26:08 | 0:26:11 | |
The question is, what on earth is the member for Leeds Central | 0:26:11 | 0:26:14 | |
and others doing in this Labour Party government? | 0:26:14 | 0:26:18 | |
The Prime Minister may be aware that there is also a Shakespeare | 0:26:18 | 0:26:25 | |
connection to Knowsley where Midsummer Night Dream, | 0:26:25 | 0:26:30 | |
for example, was written, amongst other plays. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:34 | |
I wonder whether he will lend his support to the proposal | 0:26:34 | 0:26:37 | |
for a Shakespeare of the North, which will complete the tri`ngle | 0:26:37 | 0:26:41 | |
of the Globe Theatre, Stratford upon Avon and Knowsley | 0:26:41 | 0:26:45 | |
as a celebration of the work of Shakespeare? | 0:26:45 | 0:26:47 | |
I think this sounds like an excellent proposal. | 0:26:47 | 0:26:51 | |
We shouldn't try and constr`in Shakespeare to Stratford. | 0:26:51 | 0:26:54 | |
We should be making sure thhs is a national, indeed international | 0:26:54 | 0:26:57 | |
celebration so I will look carefully at the proposal he makes. | 0:26:57 | 0:27:01 | |
In Derbyshire, the County Council have announced plans to cut four | 0:27:01 | 0:27:07 | |
care homes, including Hillcrest in my constituencx. | 0:27:07 | 0:27:10 | |
As well as axing sheltered housing wardens from March. | 0:27:10 | 0:27:14 | |
This is clearly an attack on the elderly and vulnerable | 0:27:14 | 0:27:18 | |
in Derbyshire by an authority with a proven track record | 0:27:18 | 0:27:21 | |
of wasting taxpayers' money. | 0:27:21 | 0:27:24 | |
Will my right honourable frhend look at this dismal situation to ensure | 0:27:24 | 0:27:27 | |
all Derbyshire residents have access to good levels of care? | 0:27:27 | 0:27:31 | |
I am very happy to look at the problem and the issud | 0:27:31 | 0:27:34 | |
that my honourable friend r`ises. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:37 | |
Obviously, this is the Labour-controlled council | 0:27:37 | 0:27:41 | |
taking these decisions. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:42 | |
What I would urge them to do is look at the proposal that we madd | 0:27:42 | 0:27:46 | |
in the spending review, look at the fact that counchls | 0:27:46 | 0:27:48 | |
are now able to use a surch`rge on the council tax to fund | 0:27:48 | 0:27:52 | |
additional social care and then recognise that their job, | 0:27:52 | 0:27:55 | |
instead of playing politics, should be serving local people. | 0:27:55 | 0:27:58 | |
Last year, the IMF warned income inequality is the most defining | 0:27:58 | 0:28:05 | |
challenge of our time, is gdtting worse, and slows economic growth. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:08 | |
By last night, FTSE 100 chidf executives will have been p`id | 0:28:08 | 0:28:11 | |
more for five days' work than the average UK worker will be | 0:28:11 | 0:28:15 | |
paid for the whole of 2016, getting a pay rise of nearlx 50 | 0:28:15 | 0:28:21 | |
last year while the average worker had a pay rise of less than 2%. | 0:28:21 | 0:28:26 | |
So, will the Prime Minister support the High Pay Centre's | 0:28:26 | 0:28:30 | |
recommendations for organis`tions to publish data on the ratio | 0:28:30 | 0:28:34 | |
of the top pay to average p`y? | 0:28:34 | 0:28:37 | |
Well, I'm a great supporter of transparency in these thhngs | 0:28:37 | 0:28:41 | |
as we've proved in the government. | 0:28:41 | 0:28:44 | |
But, let's be clear, since I have become Prime Mhnister, | 0:28:44 | 0:28:46 | |
income inequality has actually fallen whereas it went up under | 0:28:46 | 0:28:50 | |
Labour. | 0:28:50 | 0:28:52 | |
One of the biggest things we are doing to help with income | 0:28:52 | 0:28:55 | |
inequality is for the first time ever to bring in | 0:28:55 | 0:28:58 | |
a national living wage. | 0:28:58 | 0:29:00 | |
This is the year that we ard going to see people paying no tax | 0:29:00 | 0:29:03 | |
until people have earned ?10,00 . | 0:29:03 | 0:29:06 | |
This is the year we are going to see a national living wage at ?7.20 | 0:29:06 | 0:29:09 | |
Those are big advances in hdlping the low paid in our country. | 0:29:09 | 0:29:12 | |
I would like to pay tribute, as well, to the countless ntmbers | 0:29:12 | 0:29:18 | |
of people and organisations who have helped out during the recent floods. | 0:29:18 | 0:29:22 | |
Yesterday, I spoke with the chairman of the new insurance scheme Flood Re | 0:29:22 | 0:29:26 | |
and I know that people who have been hammered by the floods will welcome | 0:29:26 | 0:29:30 | |
the fact that their premiums will be quashed and that they won't meet eye | 0:29:30 | 0:29:35 | |
watering excesses but he told me that it won't cover any houses | 0:29:35 | 0:29:40 | |
built after 2009 and it won't cover businesses eithdr. | 0:29:40 | 0:29:45 | |
Will the Prime Minister look again at the scheme to ensure | 0:29:45 | 0:29:50 | |
that it is properly comprehdnsive? | 0:29:50 | 0:29:53 | |
We are looking very carefully at this scheme, particularlx | 0:29:53 | 0:29:58 | |
on the issue of the businesses. | 0:29:58 | 0:30:00 | |
What we have heard so far is a number of anecdotal stories | 0:30:00 | 0:30:03 | |
about small businesses saying it will be very difficult | 0:30:03 | 0:30:05 | |
to get insurance. | 0:30:05 | 0:30:07 | |
Meanwhile, the insurance colpanies are telling us they won't ttrn down | 0:30:07 | 0:30:10 | |
any small businesses. | 0:30:10 | 0:30:12 | |
So, we need to get to the bottom of this before we get the fhnal | 0:30:12 | 0:30:16 | |
introduction of Flood Re in April this year. | 0:30:16 | 0:30:18 | |
It was good to welcome the Prime Minister and his | 0:30:18 | 0:30:23 | |
Excellency the President of China to Manchester Airport | 0:30:23 | 0:30:25 | |
in my constituency recently to talk about investment. | 0:30:25 | 0:30:29 | |
But what is in the North's hnterests and what is in that nation's | 0:30:29 | 0:30:32 | |
interests is extra runway capacity in the South East. | 0:30:32 | 0:30:35 | |
Why does the Prime Minister continue to procrastinate? | 0:30:35 | 0:30:38 | |
First of all, can I thank hhm and everyone in Greater Manchester | 0:30:38 | 0:30:43 | |
who helped to welcome President Xi at the excellent lunch that was held | 0:30:43 | 0:30:48 | |
in Manchester and then the very good visit to Manchester Airport. | 0:30:48 | 0:30:51 | |
The point I would make, in response to his question, | 0:30:51 | 0:30:54 | |
is that the Environmental Atdit Committee of this House and indeed | 0:30:54 | 0:30:57 | |
the author of the original report, Howard Davies, have both sahd | 0:30:57 | 0:31:01 | |
that the problems of air qu`lity do raise new questions | 0:31:01 | 0:31:06 | |
that the government has to `nswer. | 0:31:06 | 0:31:08 | |
I'm in favour of answering those questions and then | 0:31:08 | 0:31:11 | |
making a decision. | 0:31:11 | 0:31:13 | |
Two years ago, I think tomorrow the House lost a superb | 0:31:13 | 0:31:18 | |
parliamentarian and much-loved colleague in all parts of the House, | 0:31:18 | 0:31:22 | |
the honourable gentleman's predecessor, Paul Goggins. | 0:31:22 | 0:31:25 | |
We remember him with affection and respect. | 0:31:25 | 0:31:29 | |
And we also remember and thhnk fondly of his widow Wyn | 0:31:29 | 0:31:33 | |
and their children, Matthew, Theresa and Dominic | 0:31:33 | 0:31:38 | |
who are all wonderful human beings | 0:31:38 | 0:31:40 | |
and we wish them well for the future. | 0:31:40 | 0:31:44 | |
Philip Davies. | 0:31:44 | 0:31:45 | |
As the Prime Minister knows, my constituency was decimatdd | 0:31:45 | 0:31:50 | |
by the recent floods. | 0:31:50 | 0:31:52 | |
It was reported in the Bradford Telegraph earlier this week | 0:31:52 | 0:31:55 | |
that the Bradford district would not receive any of the extra funding | 0:31:55 | 0:31:58 | |
the Prime Minister announced for Yorkshire for flood defdnces. | 0:31:58 | 0:32:01 | |
Will he take this opportunity to confirm that isn't the c`se, | 0:32:01 | 0:32:03 | |
that whatever money is necessary to protect my constituency | 0:32:03 | 0:32:08 | |
from future flooding will bd spent? | 0:32:08 | 0:32:10 | |
And if he is struggling to find the money, perhaps he could use | 0:32:10 | 0:32:14 | |
money from the overseas aid budget because I am sure he believds | 0:32:14 | 0:32:16 | |
that victims are flooding in Shipley should not be discriminated | 0:32:16 | 0:32:19 | |
against in terms of victims of flooding in other parts | 0:32:19 | 0:32:22 | |
of the world. | 0:32:22 | 0:32:23 | |
Let me say to my honourable friend, we will do what it takes to make | 0:32:23 | 0:32:27 | |
sure that families and commtnities and businesses can | 0:32:27 | 0:32:30 | |
get back on their feet. | 0:32:30 | 0:32:32 | |
That is why we have invested record sums more quickly into | 0:32:32 | 0:32:34 | |
the areas that have been affected. | 0:32:34 | 0:32:36 | |
We have learnt the lessons of previous floods where soletimes | 0:32:36 | 0:32:39 | |
the schemes have been too bureaucratic, too much time | 0:32:39 | 0:32:41 | |
has been taken. | 0:32:41 | 0:32:43 | |
So, whether it is building new bridges, whether it is repairing | 0:32:43 | 0:32:45 | |
roads, whether it is building the flood defences, | 0:32:45 | 0:32:48 | |
whether it is examining where the water went this thme | 0:32:48 | 0:32:51 | |
and what more can be done, we will make sure that work | 0:32:51 | 0:32:53 | |
is carried out in Bradford, as in everywhere else. | 0:32:53 | 0:32:56 | |
Is the Prime Minister aware of the valuable work | 0:32:56 | 0:33:01 | |
of the National Wildlife Crhme Unit in not just enforcing the l`w | 0:33:01 | 0:33:05 | |
but in promoting | 0:33:05 | 0:33:07 | |
animal welfare and part of the international | 0:33:07 | 0:33:10 | |
effort against the trade in endangered species? | 0:33:10 | 0:33:12 | |
Is he further aware that thd funding for it expires in just a cotple | 0:33:12 | 0:33:16 | |
of months' time and Defra and the Home Office have yet to make | 0:33:16 | 0:33:19 | |
a decision to continue it? | 0:33:19 | 0:33:21 | |
Can I ask him to prevail upon his right honourable friends | 0:33:21 | 0:33:24 | |
to ensure this extremely important and valuable work is continted? | 0:33:24 | 0:33:27 | |
My understanding is that we have kept the funding for | 0:33:27 | 0:33:32 | |
this organisation. | 0:33:32 | 0:33:33 | |
It does important work both domestically and in | 0:33:33 | 0:33:36 | |
terms of overseas. | 0:33:36 | 0:33:38 | |
I will look very carefully at what he suggests. | 0:33:38 | 0:33:40 | |
I think there is a decision still to be made about the future | 0:33:40 | 0:33:43 | |
but up until now, we have b`cked this organisation fully. | 0:33:43 | 0:33:45 | |
My right honourable friend knows that the legacy of thalidomhde | 0:33:45 | 0:33:51 | |
still hangs over over 500 pdople in our country today. | 0:33:51 | 0:33:55 | |
In the last Parliament, Mr Speaker, the Prime Minister signalled a very | 0:33:55 | 0:34:00 | |
strong support to get a fair and just solution to their problems. | 0:34:00 | 0:34:04 | |
Can I ask my right honourable friend in this Parliament to renew that | 0:34:04 | 0:34:08 | |
pledge and to work with the all-party group to ensure | 0:34:08 | 0:34:11 | |
a just outcome? | 0:34:11 | 0:34:13 | |
I'm very happy to make that clear. | 0:34:13 | 0:34:15 | |
In the last Parliament, I mdt with some of my own constittents | 0:34:15 | 0:34:18 | |
who have been affected by thalidomide and they had a number | 0:34:18 | 0:34:21 | |
of things they wanted parliamentarians to do. | 0:34:21 | 0:34:23 | |
I think a lot of people got behind their campaign and I'm happy | 0:34:23 | 0:34:27 | |
to continue to work with thdm in this Parliament. | 0:34:27 | 0:34:30 |