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enabling work to happen legally, not only are we helping those countries | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
like Jordan and Lebanon, we are supporting the refugees currently | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
there. Questions to the Prime Minister. | :00:07. | :00:24. | |
In addition to my duties in this house holed I shall have further | :00:25. | :00:35. | |
meetings today. Jon. Mr Speaker, is that it, is that the best the Prime | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
Minister can do? Nothing for British pensioners? Nothing for British | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
workers and as the Office for Budget Responsibility and the Treasury have | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
confirmed, his long-term economic plan is reliant on over 1 million | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
new migrants entering this country before 2020! Has the Prime Minister | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
got the bottle to confirm this inconvenient truth? I'll tell you | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
what we are doing for pensioners, a triple lock on pensions. Never again | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
be 75p rise that they got from the Labour Party with prices and wages | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
at two and half percent. What we are doing from people who work hard in | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
Britain is create 2.3 million more jobs since I became Prime Minister. | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
Of course I believe we will succeed more as a country if we get a good | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
deal in Europe and stay in a reformed Europe. It will be good for | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
jobs, for investment, for growth and that is what I'm fighting for. | :01:38. | :01:46. | |
Marcus Fish. People in my constituency, Yeovil, are rightly | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
proud of their contribution to the defence of this country, whether | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
through the skill and redness of the fleet arm at your fill all the local | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
high-tech industry making and maintaining helicopters and | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
equipment for ships and aircraft and those who serve on them. In the | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
current circumstances of increasing security challenges and | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
responsibilities and a worrying lack of commitment to defence in many | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
European countries, I welcome the leadership, the government has shown | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
in committing to spend 2% of GDP on defence and I ask whether my right | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
honourable friend will meet with me to discuss ideas that I have two | :02:23. | :02:31. | |
build on local capability. My friend friend is absolutely right that your | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
fill makes a huge contribution to the defence of our country, not | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
least through Augusta Western, a big dish business. We are committed to | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
spending ?178 billion on defence equipment over the next decade, | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
something we can only do because we have a strong economy. We are | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
committed to that 2% and will make sure the money is well spent and | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
making sure we have the right equipment for our brave Armed | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
Forces. Jeremy Corbyn. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Tomorrow, Mr Speaker, is | :03:03. | :03:11. | |
world comes a day. Cancer is a disease that almost every family in | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
this country has been affected by. Two and a half million people in | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
this country have cancer. There are members on both sides of this House | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
who have or have received treatment. 1000 people every day diagnosed with | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
cancer and go through a trauma as soon as they are diagnosed. Accent | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
in the last year there's been a 36% increase in the number of people | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
waiting more than six weeks for vital diagnostic tests. Could the | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
Prime Minister two something to bring that down? First I agree with | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
the right honourable gentleman that the fight against cancer is one of | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
the great fights of our time, one we are determined to win. When we look | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
at the way we treated in this country we are putting an extra ?19 | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
billion into the NHS and specifically while he is right, | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
everyone in this House and every family will know somebody affected | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
by cancer, we are treating more patientss. The figures. Compared | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
with 2010, over 645,000 more patients with suspected | :04:18. | :04:28. | |
cancers have been seen, an increase of 71% and almost 40,000 more | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
patients have been treated. An increase of 17%. We have more | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
doctors, nurses, more cancer specialists but the fight against it | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
is something we need to continue with. Jeremy Corbyn. Mr Speaker, | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
early diagnosis is essential when dealing with cancer. I think we all | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
know that from personal experience. The government 's independent task | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
force into cancer reported last year, and I quote, we currently have | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
a serious shortage of radiologists in England. We need more of them so | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
could the Prime Minister explain why we are cutting by 5% the number of | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
training places available for therapeutic radiographers? We need | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
more radiologists and we are getting them because we are putting more | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
into the NHS. Where he is right is that waiting times, a moment ago the | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
right honourable lady was shouting about waiting times, there are three | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
key targets on them. First that people should be seen by a | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
specialist within two weeks of an urgent GP referral, and we're meant | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
to be on 93% of occasions, we are currently on 94.7, we need to make | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
sure that the first treatment comes within 31 days of diagnosis, that's | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
very important, there's a 96% standard and we meeting that by | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
97.7%. Yet I accept that when it comes to the first treatment within | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
62 days the standard is 85% and we are at 82.5 so we must improve. With | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
training, we are increasing training places in the NHS, we discussed | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
nurses last week where we are opening up nurse training by making | :06:00. | :06:07. | |
sure that we train an extra 10,000 nurses but the crucial point is that | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
the money is there in the NHS because we've got a strong economy. | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
?19 billion of money which would never be there if we followed his | :06:16. | :06:23. | |
crazy economic plans! Jeremy Corbyn. Mr Speaker, my question was on | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
therapeutic radiographers. The Prime Minister did not answer on that. | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
Without an improvement in the numbers available there will be a | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
problem with treatment, that must be obvious to everyone. The cancer task | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
force also asks, and I could, for a radical upgrade in prevention and | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
public health. Programmes like stopping smoking and anti-obesity | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
absolutely essential to stop the spread of cancer and indeed to help | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
people live better lives so they don't develop cancer at all. Yet if | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
we cut, as he proposes, ?200 million from the Public health budget, | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
surely that is going to lead to an increase in cancer, with all the | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
trauma that goes with it, and indeed the greater cost for the rest of the | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
community. Could he explain why he is making this cut? First of all, | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
but to diagnostic radiographers, there are 1800 more diagnostic | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
radiographers than when I became Prime Minister in 2010. As for the | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
interests... That is a 15% increase. The reason that there is an increase | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
is that we said that we would put more money into the NHS, a real | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
terms increase, something we were told by the then Shadow Health | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
Secretary was then irresponsible. We ignored Labour and would put money | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
into the health service. As a result, there's been a 15% increase | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
in diagnostic radiographers. When it comes to the rest of the Cancer | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
plan, the money is being invested, there is a key difference, though, | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
between England and Wales and something he can help with, is that | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
there is a Labour government in Wales. Whereas we have a Cancer | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
Drugs Fund, they don't have one in Wales. So he needs to sort that out | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
with that Labour Administration. As for public health, under this | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
government, real advances have been made on public health, including | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
smoking rules in the backs of cars, including plain paper packaging, and | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
ring fencing public health budgets. All done and the Conservatives, not | :08:30. | :08:38. | |
done under Labour. Jeremy Corbyn. Mr Speaker, the Prime Minister is | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
responsible for the health service in England. Wales is a devolved | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
matter. He must be aware... SHOUTING | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
And he must know that cancer surviving rates are improving better | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
in Wales than in any other part of the UK. But my question was... My | :08:54. | :09:12. | |
question, Mr Speaker, was about the cuts in public health budgets and | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
the effect that has on cancer care. Could the Prime Minister tell us | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
when was the last time that the NHS targets are starting cancer | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
treatment was met with in the 62 days required? As I have said, of | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
the three big targets we are meeting the specialist within two weeks | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
target and meeting the first treatment within 31 days of | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
diagnosis treatment and we are currently falling short of the 62 | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
days target, something I actually said in the answer to question two | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
but he has not got around to it until question five. The cogs need | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
to turn a little faster! He can't wash his hands of the situation in | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
Wales, Labour run Wales. And what have they done in Wales? They have | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
cut the NHS in Wales! Now it is emerging, what Labour's great plan | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
is, cut the NHS in Wales and raise income tax on hard-working people in | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
Scotland. That's right. What will they do to radiographers in | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
Scotland, raise their taxes. What will they do to nurses in Scotland | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
or dentists? Raise their taxes. We now know the Labour plan, higher | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
taxes for more welfare, they have learned nothing in the last decade! | :10:32. | :10:39. | |
Mr Speaker, the last time the two months target was mad was 19 months | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
ago. The Prime Minister must be aware of that. -- the last time it | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
was mad. I am pleased that he is taking action to make sure that | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
doesn't continue all get worse. Another issue that affects cancer | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
patient Dexter is the recently division and -- deleted provisions | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
in the Welfare Reform Bill that would have taken money from the | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
group. Martin, who contacted me this week, says, yes, it is funny the | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
many members opposite, it isn't funny for Martin. Martin has a close | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
friend who has breast cancer, and I quote, is obviously too unwell to | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
work, and cuts will put her into hardship at a time when she is most | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
vulnerable. There are 3200 people with cancer hit by this cut to the | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
essay. Will the Prime Minister now confirm that when that matter | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
returns to the House of Commons, he would ensure that the Lord's's | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
position is app out and people like her don't suffer the cut that he | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
wanted to make in the first place? -- the position is upheld. Let me | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
tell you the situation. Though two sorts of support allowance, the | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
work-related activity group who are able to train for work and the | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
support group will go on getting employment and support allowance | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
indefinitely. That's the situation. We have said that in future the | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
work-related activity group should be paid at the same rate as | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
jobseeker's allowance but that is for future claimants, not for | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
existing claimants. They will continue to be paid at the same | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
rate. Of course if someone has cancer and cannot work they should | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
be in the support group. We've had this issue looked at again and again | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
and again. If they cannot work they go on getting the welfare payments | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
they need. That is what a compassionate conservative | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
government does. But I have to come back to him because he cannot wash | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
is hands of the situation in Wales. Hip operations in England take 75 | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
days waiting times on average, in Wales, its 197 days. Diagnosis of | :12:52. | :13:00. | |
pneumonia takes two weeks longer, treatment of cataracts, Ernie Els, | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
heart operations take two months longer than in England. Labour are | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
running Wales. He is responsible for Labour. The phone and tell them to | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
stop cutting our NHS! Keen Jeremy Corbyn. Mr Speaker it is interesting | :13:15. | :13:22. | |
that the Prime Minister did not answer the question iPod. Which is | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
whether or not he will proceed with the cut in the essay to 3200 people | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
with cancer at present. -- in the support allowance. I hope he thinks | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
seriously about this and doesn't proceed with this proposal. He'll | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
find that MacMillan Cancer Support, rethink Meltham illness, Parkinson's | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
UK are all united in opposing this cut because of the affected will | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
have on people with a range of serious conditions. The Prime | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
Minister used to say that those with the broadest shoulders should bear a | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
greater load. Can it be right that cancer patients and those with | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
disabilities on ?102 a week really are those with the broadest | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
shoulders who should bear this cut? Please, Prime Minister, think again, | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
and don't try to reverse the decision of the House of Lords on | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
this important matter. The people with the broadest shoulders are the | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
highest earners in this country and they are paying a higher share of | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
tax and the ever did under labour. That money is paying for the NHS and | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
the welfare assistant. I am the question very directly. If you are | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
an existing claimant unemployment and support allowance welfare not | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
changing. But in future those people who are able to work, we should help | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
them to get back to work, that is what a compassionate country does | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
when it is quite clear what the Labour policy is, cut the NHS in | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
Wales and raise taxes in Scotland to pay for more welfare. That's not the | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
approach this David Warburton. My right honourable | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
friend will know the West Country is becoming ever more the envy and the | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
engine room of the rest of the country, with dozens of companies | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
moving from the dark recesses of London to the bright sunlight of the | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
West. Will he keep supporting what they are now calling Somerset's | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
Silicon Gorge by maintaining investment in our roads, rail and | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
digital infrastructure? I am certainly keen to support Silicon | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
Gorge. For a moment, I thought he said Silicon George! It is essential | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
that we have a balanced economy, and that means a strong economy in the | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
west of our country as well as in the South and the north. We are | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
investing in the transport infrastructure, not least the vital | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
roads to the West Country, and improving rail links as well, as I | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
saw for myself yesterday in Chippenham. We also need to Mitch | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
with this broadband roll-out is effective across the country, and | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
that has to be a big focus getting to the last 10% of homes in so many | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
rural areas. It is crucial to make sure they are not left out. Angus | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
Robertson. The timing of the forthcoming European Union | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
referendum is extremely important. Today, the first ministers of | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have jointly called for a commitment | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
by the UK Government not to hold the EU referendum in June, which would | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
clash with elections to the devolved legislatures. Will the Prime | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
Minister give that commitment today? Firstly, there is no agreement, so | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
no date has yet been fixed for the referendum. We discuss this a lot in | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
the House of Commons, and we legislate to make sure we wouldn't | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
hold the referendum at the same time as Scottish or Welsh elections. The | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
former First Minister of Scotland, who is not in his place today, said | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
it would be wrong to hold the referendum within six weeks of those | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
elections, and I can guarantee that will not happen. The first ministers | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have written today, saying | :17:11. | :17:12. | |
that they believe holding a referendum in June "Risks confusing | :17:13. | :17:20. | |
issues when clarity is required, and call upon the Prime Minister to | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
defer the EU referendum at least until later in the year". Why will | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
the Prime Minister not respect the electorate and the governments of | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and give that commitment today? I do | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
respect the former First Minister of Scotland, who said that six weeks | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
was necessary. I also respect the electrodes of England, Scotland, | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
Wales and Northern Ireland on the basis that I think people are | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
perfectly capable of making up their minds in a local election or a | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
Scottish Parliamentary election or a Welsh assembly election, and then, | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
some weeks afterwards, making up their mind on the vital question of | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
the European Union. No date has been fixed. There must be a six-week gap, | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
but I think he is looking for things to complain about. This House has | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
voted for a referendum. It would be odd if having voted for a | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
referendum, we then spent ages not having one. The Prime Minister will | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
be alarmed to hear that a shop in Gillingham selling illicit tobacco | :18:27. | :18:34. | |
was making ?25,000. Order. Excessive chuntering from a sedentary position | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
from a number of Scottish National Party members who wanted a hearing | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
for their leader. The honourable gentleman is entitled to be heard. I | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
appeal to the honourable gentleman to start his question again. The | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
Prime Minister will be alarmed to hear that a shopping Gillingham | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
selling illicit tobacco was making ?25,000 a week, destroying the local | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
economy, damaging people's health and nationally, this trade is | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
cutting the economy 2 billion a year. Will the government to look at | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
increasing the statutory maximum penalty for this offence to bring it | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
in line with the supply of class A drugs? -- Kas C drugs? I will look | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
at the issue my honourable friend races. HMRC, working closely with | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
the Border Force, has been effective in reducing this tax gap of people | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
selling illegal tobacco, and have closed off 1.3 billion of tax gaps | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
since 2000. They have sanctions to deal with illicit sales, including | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
seizure, penalties and criminal situations. They prosecuted almost | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
800 different people in the last two years, so I think the powers are | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
there, but I will see if more is needed. My constituent works for the | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
DWP and tells me that the government is correct when they deny that staff | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
have targets set for sanctioning benefits. They are not called | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
targets, they are called aspirations. With the roll-out of in | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
work benefits sanctions, how many of his own low-paid DWP colleagues | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
should my constituent aspire to sanction this year? Sanctions in a | :20:09. | :20:17. | |
benefit system are important. We want a benefit system that is their | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
for people who can't find a job and need support, but it shouldn't be a | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
lifestyle choice. If people can work, they should work. That is why | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
we have a sanction system, and I believe it is fairly applied. May I | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
share my right honourable friend's this appointment about, despite all | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
his hard work -- his disappointment that the European Union is forcing | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
him to abandon our manifesto pledge to change the benefit system for | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
migrants. Will my right honourable friend confirm that sadly, the only | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
way in which we will be able to regain control over our own borders | :21:00. | :21:08. | |
is by leaving the European Union? My right honourable friend and I do not | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
agree on this. We said in our manifesto that anyone coming to | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
Britain from the EU searching for work should not get unemployment | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
benefit, and we fulfilled that promise. We said if within six | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
months, they don't have a job, they should go home. We fulfilled that. | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
We said that people should not be able to come here and send the | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
discharge benefit back to their families, and we have secured that | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
they will only get child benefit at a local rate. And we said, no more | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
something for nothing. The idea that you could come here, claim | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
immediately from our in work benefits system without paying in | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
was not right. I said we would secure a four-year gap, and we have. | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
People said it would be impossible, but that is what we put in place. It | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
is a negotiation, but these are good proposals that I think we'll have | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
the backing of the British people, because they mean no more something | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
for nothing, and that is a vital value for Britain. Over 2500 people | :22:02. | :22:10. | |
are employed by the ceramics industry in Stoke-on-Trent. These | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
and thousands of Jewish manufacturing jobs are at risk if -- | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
British menu factory jobs are at risk if China is granted market | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
economy status. The Prime Minister is happy to sell off the family | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
silver, but he guarantee that he will not sell off the family | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
crockery? We want to support industry in the potteries, and that | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
is why we are helping manufacturing with tax credits. We are helping | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
with apprentice schemes. We are helping with a range of measures, | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
which are important for her constituency. The issue with market | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
economy status is a separate issue. Even if they get that status, they | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
can't dump steel products or other things into European markets. We | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
should make sure we are driving open markets for us to sell to China. | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
They are the ones with massive growth in the middle-class ticking | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
place, and there are many great products made in Stoke that should | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
be sold in China. So, the Isle of Wight Council can balance the books | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
this year, but fear they will be unable to do so next year. Would my | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
right honourable friend confirm the government's willingness to work | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
with them over coming months to help them access existing sources of | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
finance, or find new ways to address the island's unique circumstances? | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
We are happy to work with authorities on the Isle of Wight. | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
When it comes to spending power, their spending power is increasing | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
slightly in the next year. With this settlement for local government, | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
because overall, it is a relatively flat cash settlement over the | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
five-year period, we are allowing councils to use their reserves and | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
sell unwanted property and use that money directly to provide services | :24:21. | :24:30. | |
to bridge the next five years. I believe this is a fair settlement. | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
Stella Creasy. The Prime Minister has told us today that more money is | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
going into the NHS. My local hospital trust is spending ?1.5 | :24:40. | :24:48. | |
million a week on interest payments alone for its PFI deal. Wait for it. | :24:49. | :25:04. | |
The Prime Minister eventually saw sense about the need to deal with | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
the damage that high-cost credit was doing to individuals. When will he | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
deal with these legal loan sharks of the public sector? Sometimes, it | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
takes a long time to unwind the damage done by a Labour government. | :25:23. | :25:31. | |
She is right. One of the first things we did was to launch a review | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
of Labour's PFI and begin an initiative to get better value for | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
money for all of the projects. In her health economy, we are saying | :25:42. | :25:50. | |
more GPs in the NHS, and in terms of the NHS Waltham Forest clinical | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
commissioning group, next year, they are getting a cash increase of 3.7%. | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
That is money provided because we are putting more money into the NHS. | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
A lone parent in my constituency has described her experience of the | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
child maintenance group is appalling, with the lack of | :26:10. | :26:11. | |
communication being passed from pillar to post, a failure to act on | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
evidence and not progressing with enforcement. Will the Prime Minister | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
range for the Secretary of State to meet with my constituents to discuss | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
the issues around the enforcement of child maintenance, when nonresident | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
parents are gaming the system and depriving children of the support | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
they are entitled to? I am happy to help arrange that meeting. I know my | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
honourable friend speaks, as many of us find in our own constituency | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
surgeries, particularly about the behaviour of the nonresident parent | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
and how they give everyone the runaround and don't fulfil their | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
duties by helping to pay for the children they are responsible for. | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
We introduce to a new statutory child maintenance service for | :26:56. | :26:57. | |
parents who are unable to make a family -based arrangement. It should | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
involve simpler calculations and faster enforcement action but I will | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
make sure she has the meeting she needs. Tom Elliott. I wonder if the | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
Prime Minister could comment on recent events in Northern Ireland | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
regarding the investigations into steak knife, and will he ensure that | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
there are equal investigations into the likes of the Enniskillen bomb | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
and other major atrocities by terrorist organisations? I will look | :27:27. | :27:34. | |
at what he says. We have to make sure we look at all of these things | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
in a fair way to stop perhaps I could write to him about the issue. | :27:39. | :27:46. | |
Julian Knight. They cheered billion pounds a year is currently spent on | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
pensions tax relief -- ?38 billion a year, with records of that going to | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
higher rate taxpayers who need it the least. Would the Prime Minister | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
agree that it would be a huge boost to social justice in this country if | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
pensions tax relief was reformed to a single flat rate which would | :28:02. | :28:04. | |
benefit millions of hard-working Britons? I know my honourable friend | :28:05. | :28:11. | |
speaks on this issue with expertise because of the career he had before | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
coming to this House. He brings a knowledge about the sector. He is | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
right that there are great cost is related to pensions tax relief. That | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
is why the Chancellor published a consultation last summer to see | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
whether the system should be reformed. But taxes are a matter for | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
the Chancellor and his Budget. I welcome the government's | :28:34. | :28:35. | |
announcement of further support for child refugees last week as far as | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
it goes. A nine-year-old girl in my constituency has recently asked me | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
what we are doing to help refugee children. Of course, a child | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
refugees mostly needs a home. When are we going to offer a home to 3000 | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
unaccompanied refugee children in Europe? Let me say what we have done | :28:53. | :29:00. | |
so far. She knows about the 20,000 relocation scheme, where we got 1000 | :29:01. | :29:03. | |
people in by Christmas, including many vulnerable children. Fewer | :29:04. | :29:08. | |
people are aware of the fact that in the last year, through our normal | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
asylum processes, we took something like 2500 unaccompanied children | :29:14. | :29:16. | |
last year. If you look at Kent social services and the pressure | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
they are under, they have something like a thousand children that they | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
are looking after. Another point that people do not recognise is | :29:25. | :29:34. | |
If they claim asylum, if they have direct family in Britain they can | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
come to Britain. We think that is the right approach. Taking some | :29:40. | :29:45. | |
people from the region but being cautious because even if it is an | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
orphaned child they may have broader family and it's better to keep them | :29:50. | :29:56. | |
with them. Given the security threats faced by this country, whose | :29:57. | :30:02. | |
policies are most dangerous, those in Scotland who want to scrap the | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
nuclear deterrent or those opposite who want to keep Trident submarines | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
without nuclear missiles. It's hard to choose from the wrong or the | :30:12. | :30:18. | |
bizarre? You can take your pick. Labour's latest plan is to use | :30:19. | :30:22. | |
Trident submarines to transport military personnel around the world. | :30:23. | :30:31. | |
It's the most expensive Uber service anyone has ever thought of. What | :30:32. | :30:32. | |
will they think of next? I think the honourable gentleman is | :30:33. | :35:56. | |
wrong, we should take the issues separately. We will support action | :35:57. | :36:03. | |
in the European Union and it can be done in spite of the status of a | :36:04. | :36:08. | |
country, and we have put those burdens on America before today so | :36:09. | :36:11. | |
it is not right to connect those issues in the way he does. Mental | :36:12. | :36:22. | |
health issues take many forms. Those suffering eating disorders are often | :36:23. | :36:26. | |
overlooked and yet they cause intolerable suffering. Does the | :36:27. | :36:33. | |
Prime Minister agree that the devolution in Manchester is a great | :36:34. | :36:39. | |
opportunity to secure better mental health provisions, particularly for | :36:40. | :36:42. | |
young adults? My honourable friend is right, I don't see any reason why | :36:43. | :36:51. | |
this landmark deal should disadvantage mental health and if | :36:52. | :36:54. | |
anything lead to greater priority being given to mental health as | :36:55. | :36:59. | |
people see the connections between mental health and holding back | :37:00. | :37:03. | |
opportunities for many people. We are investing more in terms of | :37:04. | :37:07. | |
children's mental health and eating disorders where we tragically see a | :37:08. | :37:16. | |
real growth. The money is there. Statement, the Prime Minister. With | :37:17. | :37:24. | |
permission I would like to make a statement on progress with our | :37:25. | :37:28. | |
renegotiation. The House has now had the chance to study the document is | :37:29. | :37:32. | |
published by the European Council yesterday. I believe this is an | :37:33. | :37:38. | |
important milestone in the process of reform, renegotiation and | :37:39. | :37:39. | |
referendum | :37:40. | :37:40. |