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the interest of nurses who lay want to open more liberally on a Sunday | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
to take full advantage. These are good ideas, and I hope she light | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
consider supporting it. Questions to the Prime Minister. | :00:09. | :00:19. | |
I know the House has been s`ddened by the death of Harry Harper, after | :00:20. | :00:29. | |
a great career, an adviser to David Blunkett, he was returned to this | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
place last May, succeeding David Blunkett himself. He was in this | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
place a short time and becale a popular MP, recognised for his | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
commitment to his constituents and his beliefs. He continued to carry | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
out his work, as an MP, throughout his treatment, we offer his wife and | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
their five children our condolences. This morning I had meetings with | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
ministerial colleagues and hn additional to Mike Judy 's hn this | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
House, I will have further comments to make -- in addition to mx duties | :01:00. | :01:08. | |
in this House. I would like to agree about the sad loss for the lember of | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
Sheffield and Hillsborough, he came to this House with an excellent | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
record in local government `nd will be sadly missed. The whole House | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
send our condolences to his family at this sad time. Housing is the | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
number one issue in my constituency, queries on a workable local plan, | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
looking after our green spaces and strongly offering the Conservative | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
value of the right to buy, would the Prime Minister agree that the help | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
to buy items, with one being taken out every 30 seconds, is thd right | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
way to promote savings and dncourage homeownership? -- ISAs. I agree | :01:49. | :02:02. | |
that is why these help to bty ISAs, where we matched the money they put | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
in, it can ready help, and so what we have seen under this govdrnment, | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
is 40,000 people exercise their right to buy their council House, | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
now we're extending that to all housing association tenants and we | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
have seen 130,000 people wotld help to buy, getting the first flat or | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
the first House, and there hs more to do, mostly building housds, but | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
helping people with their ddposits is vital. Jeremy Corbyn. Th`nk you, | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
Mr Speaker. I joined the Prhme Minister and the member for | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
Eastleigh in paying tribute to Harry Harper, the Honourable membdr for | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
Sheffield and Hillsborough, a former miner who passed away last week | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
just a short time ago Harry used his glass question here to ask the Prime | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
Minister questions about thd Sheffield Masters and the steel | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
industry -- his last question. I hope the primers to reflects on his | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
-- hope the Prime Minister reflects on his diligence regarding that part | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
of his committee. I said to his wife, how would they like to | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
remember Harry? She said, wd have admired the bravery and carriage he | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
showed in his life, which w`s formed in June the miners strike and which | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
carried him forward for the rest of his life -- which was formed jeering | :03:31. | :03:39. | |
the miners strike. People whll remember him as a decent man, and we | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
are very sad at his passing. Mr Speaker, also following the member | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
for Eastleigh, I have a question on housing. I have an e-mail from | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
Rosie, cheese in her 20s. -, she is in her 20s. CHEERING | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
LAUGHTER Unfortunately, the Rosie who has | :04:02. | :04:19. | |
written to me does not have the same good housing that the Chief Whip of | :04:20. | :04:28. | |
our party does. But aspirathon springs eternal. The Rosie who has | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
written to me, cheese in 20s and she says, " -- she is in her 20s and she | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
says, "I worked very hard at my job and I'm still having to livd at home | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
with my parents, the lack of housing options are forcing her to consider | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
moving, she says. She asks the Prime Minister, what action it he is going | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
to take to help young peopld and families suffering from on realistic | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
healths prizes and uncapped rents to get somewhere safe and secure to | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
live? -- House prices. When you get a letter from the Chief Whip, that | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
normally spells trouble, I should say. What I would say to Rosie, we | :05:15. | :05:23. | |
want to do everything we can to help young people get on the housing | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
ladder, that is why we have these help to save ISAs and I hopd she is | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
looking at that, we are cutting taxes and she will be able to earn | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
?11,000 before she starts p`ying any taxes. If Rosie is a tenant in a | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
housing association home, she can buy that home because we ard | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
introducing and extending the right to buy, and with help to bite she | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
will have the opportunity to register for help to buy whhch gives | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
people the chance to have a small deposit, but still a chance of | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
owning their own home. If she wants to be a homeowner, shared ownership | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
can make a real difference `nd in some parts of the country you will | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
need a deposit of just a few thousand pounds to begin thd process | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
of becoming a homeowner, but Ira lies that building more houses, we | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
have got to deliver for Roshe - but building more buildings. I'l very | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
pleased that the Prime Minister would like to help deliver decent | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
housing, Rosie lives and works in London, as the Prime Ministdr knows, | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
London is very expensive. Hd talks about people getting on the housing | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
ladder, but the reality is, home ownership has fallen under his | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
government by 200,000 and it rose by a million and the last Labotr | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
government, and his record hs one of actually some years of failtre on | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
housing. He said that counchl homes sold on the right to buy wotld be | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
replaced like the like, can be primers to tell us how that policy | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
is panning out? -- Gandhi Prime Minister. -- can the Prime Linister. | :06:58. | :07:07. | |
What happened under Labour, one council home was built for dvery | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
hundred and seven seat council homes they sold. That is the record - | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
170. We have said we will m`ke sure that two homes are built for every | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
council home in London, that is so, that is because the member for | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
Richmond insisted on that in an amendment to the housing bill. These | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
take some years to build, btt the money that they will be built, the | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
money comes back to the Tre`sury. The Prime Minister should bd aware | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
that just one home has been built for every eight that have bden sold | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
under his government. Peopld are increasingly finding it verx devil | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
called find anywhere to livd. The Chancellor's crude cuts in housing | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
benefit for those in supported housing, they are putting at risk | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
hundreds of thousands of elderly people, people with mental health | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
condition, war veterans and women fleeing domestic violence unit | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
support. Can the Prime Minister tell the House what estimate housing | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
dividers have made in terms of the impact of this policy on supported | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
housing? We are going to increase housing supply in the social sector | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
by an ?8 billion housing budget gym this parliament which will build | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
400,000 affordable homes. When it comes to our reforms of housing | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
benefit, yes, we have cut housing benefit, because it was out of | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
control when we came to govdrnment. There were families in London who | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
were getting ?100,000 of hotsing benefit per family. Think how many | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
people, think how many Rosid's were going to work, working hard, just to | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
provide that housing benefit for one family. We support supported housing | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
schemes and we will look very carefully to make sure they can work | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
well in the future, but I m`ke no apology for the fact that in this | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
parliament we are cutting social rents, so for Rosie, for ex`mple, | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
living in social housing, going out to work but she will have lower rent | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
under this government. I'm pleased the Prime Minister got onto the | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
question of supported housing. Housing providers estimate that | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
nearly half of all supported housing schemes will close, one in four | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
providers are set to close `ll of their provision, this is a very | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
serious crisis. I assume thd Prime Minister is not content to people | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
with mental health conditions with nowhere to live, so can he `ssure | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
the House that the warm words he has given on supported housing will be | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
matched by action and he will stop this cut which will destroy this | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
supported housing sector? Wd will continue to support the supported | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
housing sector and the report that he quotes from, it was an opinion | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
poll with an extremely leadhng question, if he actually looks at | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
what it was he was looking `t. The changes that we are making, reducing | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
social rents by 1%, every ydar for four years, that is good news for | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
people who go out to work and work hard and like to pay less rdnt. That | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
goes with the lower taxes they will be paying and the more childcare | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
they will be getting, and the other change we are making which does not | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
come into force until 2018, is to make sure that we are not p`ying | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
housing benefit to social tdnants way above what we would pay to | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
private sector tenants. The simple point is this, and this is where I | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
think Labour had got to focts, every penny you spend on housing subsidy | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
is money you can't spend on building houses -- have got to focus. Let's | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
take this right back to Roshe in the beginning, it she would likd a | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
country where we build homes that she would like a country whdre she | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
can buy a home, she would lhke a country with a strong econoly so you | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
can afford to buy a home, all of those things we are deliverhng, but | :11:03. | :11:10. | |
you will not deliver these hf you go on subsidising housing, and the | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
welfare benefit, one day Labour has got to realise that the welfare | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
benefit has got to be brought under control. -- the welfare system. | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
Shelter estimates that the leasures in the housing bill will lose | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
180,000 affordable homes ovdr the next four years. The Prime Linister | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
is overseeing a very damaging housing crisis, it is prising out | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
people from buying, it is not providing enough social housing | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
therefore many people are forced to rely on the private rented sector. | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
The benches behind him recently voted against an amendment but | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
forward by my honourable frhend or homes to be fit for human | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
habitation. -- for. Labour hnvested ?22 billion in government, hn | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
bringing social homes at two decent homes standard, and there are now 11 | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
million people in this country who are private renters. Does the Prime | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
Minister know how many of those homes do not meet the decent homes | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
standard? To listen to Labotr, when in the last five years, we built for | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
council houses than they buhlt in 13 years. -- we built more. Whdre was | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
he? Where was he when that was going on? 13 years and I hope this record | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
on housing. What we are doing is an ?8 billion housing budget, that will | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
provide 400,000 new affordable homes and a target to build a million | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
homes during this Parliament, getting housing benefit down so we | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
can spend money on housing `nd having a strong economy that can | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
support the housing we need. Mr Speaker, I was asking through you, | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
the Prime Minister, how manx of the 11 million renters are living in | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
homes that are not going to make the decent homes standard and therefore | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
are substandard? 1000 of those in the private rented sector do not | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
meet that standard and shells found six out of ten renters have issues | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
like damp, mould, leaking roofs and Windows, it is simply not good | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
enough -- shelter found. Millions are struggling to get the homes they | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
deserve, more families slipping into temporary accommodation, | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
homelessness rising, too few homes being built, social housing under | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
pressure, families forced into low standard, overpriced rented sector, | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
young people unable to move out of the family home and start their own | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
lives, when is the Prime Minister going to realise that there is a | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
housing crisis in Britain, `nd his government needs to address it now, | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
so that we do not continue with this dreadful situation in this country. | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
Homelessness is less than h`lf the peak today than it was under the | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
last Labour government. There is a simple point here. You can only | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
invest in new houses, you c`n only restore existing houses, yot can any | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
build new houses and support people into those houses if you have a | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
strong economy. We inherited mass unemployment, and economy that | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
completely collapsed, a banking crisis and now we've got zero | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
inflation, wages growing, unemployment at 5%, and economy | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
growing and people able, for the first time, to look to their future | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
and see they can buy and own a house in our country. | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
Mr speak your Nadia was a 19-year-old when Daesh came to her | :14:52. | :15:05. | |
village. They tortured her, raped and made her laid. Nadia's story is | :15:06. | :15:14. | |
the same as thousands of Yazidi women except thousands are still | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
held in captivity and Nadia escaped. In fact, Nadia is in the public | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
gallery today. Will the Minhster join me in accepting acknowledging | :15:24. | :15:31. | |
Nadia's bravery and resilience and the qualities that allowed her to | :15:32. | :15:42. | |
triumph over Daesh? Will he support Yazidi women? Let me thank ly friend | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
for raising this issue and welcome Nadia, who is here with us today. | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
Her and their Yazidi communhty have suffered appallingly at this | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
murderous, brutal, fascist organisation in Syria and Iraq. We | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
must do everything we can to defeat Daesh and its ideology. We `re | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
playing a leading role in this global coalition. In terms of Iraq, | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
where so many Yazidis suffered, Daesh have lost 40% of the territory | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
controlled. As I said at thd time in the debate about Syria, this will | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
take a long time. Building tp Iraqi security forces, working with Syrian | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
opposition forces, building the capacity of governments in both | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
countries to drive this org`nisation out of the Middle East. Howdver long | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
it takes, we must stick at ht. Angus Robertson. We on these benches join | :16:38. | :16:49. | |
in the condolences in relathon to Harry and pass on our condolences at | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
this sad time to his family for supper by Minister made a vow and | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
his party signed an agreement that there would be no detriment to | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
Scotland with new devolution arrangements. Why is the UK Treasury | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
proposing plans that may be detrimental towards Scotland to the | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
tune of ?3 billion? First of all, we accept this myth principles of no | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
detriment. No detriment to Scotland at the time when this transfer is | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
made. -- the Smith principlds. And then no detriment of Scottish | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
taxpayers, but also to the rest of the United Kingdom taxpayers, who we | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
have to bear in mind as we take into account this very important | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
negotiation. I have had good negotiations with the First | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
Minister, negotiations are tnderway. I want us to successfully complete | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
this very important piece of devolution in a fair and re`sonable | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
way and these negotiations should continue. Let me remind the Right | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
Honourable gentleman, if we had had full fiscal devolution, with oil | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
revenues having collapsed bx 94 , then the right honourable Gdntleman | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
and his party would be weeks away from a financial calamity for | :18:01. | :18:09. | |
Scotland. Thank you. In the context of referendums, whether in Scotland | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
or across the UK on EU membdrship, don't voters have a right to know | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
that what is promised by thd UK Government can be trusted and will | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
be delivered in full. Will the Prime Minister told the Treasury Time is | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
running out on delivering of their fiscal framework and they mtst do a | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
deal that is fair both to the people of Scotland, and fair to thd rest of | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
the United Kingdom. I can tdll him everything that has been colmitted | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
to by this government will be delivered. We committed to this huge | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
act of devolution to Scotland and we delivered it. We committed to the | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
Scotland Bill and are well on the way to delivering it. All the things | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
we said we would, including those vital Smith principles. There is an | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
ongoing negotiations to reach a fair settlement and I would say to the | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
Scottish First Minister and Finance Minister, they have to recognise | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
there must be fairness across the rest of the United Kingdom `s well. | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
But with goodwill, I can tell you Mr Speaker, no one is more keen on an | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
agreement on me. I want the Scottish National party here and in Holyrood | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
to have to start making dechsions, which taxes are you going to raise, | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
what are you going to do with benefits? I want to get rid of, | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
frankly, this grievance agenda and let you get on with the govdrning | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
agenda and then we can see what you are made of. | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
The skills shortage in engineering in Wildschut is particularlx a | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
problem. It is threatening `nd undermining all the work we have | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
done in job creation and also supporting businesses. It is quite | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
simply a ticking time bomb. Mr Speaker, may I ask the Primd | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
Minister, what more can he do to remove the stigma, misunderstanding | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
and all the problems associ`ted around Stem subjects and careers? I | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
think my honourable friend hs right to raise this. There are spdcial | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
circumstances in Wiltshire because you have the enormous success of | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
Dyson, hiring engineers and skilled mathematicians and scientists from | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
every university in the country and long may that continue. What we will | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
do is help by training 3 million apprentices in this parliamdnt will | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
stop we are giving special help teachers of Stem subjects and them | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
into teaching. I think therd was a lot business and industry c`n do to | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
help us in this, by going into schools and talking about what these | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
modern engineering careers `re all about. How much the film and people | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
can get from these careers, to encourage people to change the | :20:40. | :20:41. | |
culture when it comes to pursuing these careers. Mr Speaker, xoung | :20:42. | :20:50. | |
people are afraid of losing their homes. Women denied the pensions | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
they were expecting an incrdasingly the needy left exposed without the | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
social care they need to live a decent life. When will the Prime | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
Minister address the scandals? What we are doing for pensioners is | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
putting in place the triple lock so every pensioner knows there can | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
never be another shameful 74p increase in the pension that we saw | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
under Labour. They know that every year it will either be wages, prices | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
or 2.5%. That is why the pension is so much higher than when I became | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
Prime Minister. Of course wd need to make sure there is a fair sdttlement | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
for local government as well. We will be hearing more about that | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
later today. But this ability of local councils to raise special | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
council tax for social care will help in an area where there is great | :21:40. | :21:40. | |
pressure. Nigel Adams. The Spitfire was a crucial dlement | :21:41. | :21:52. | |
in us winning the Battle of Britain 75 years ago. And keeping otr | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
country free from tyranny. However, there are some who fear that our | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
independent, nuclear deterrdnt could be as obsolete as a Spitfird. Good | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
my right honourable friend the Prime Minister assure the House and the | :22:12. | :22:19. | |
country this is not the casd? It takes quite a talent in the Shadow | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
Defence Secretary to insult Spitfire pilots and sub Mariner 's all in one | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
go. Another week, another ltdicrous Labour position on defence. The last | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
word should go to our right honourable member in Bridgend who | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
tweeted, oh dear, oh dear, oh my God. Need to go to rest in ` | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
darkened room. I'm sure she will find the rest of her party will be | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
there with her! At today's's select committde the | :22:47. | :23:08. | |
Business Secretary confirmed the Government won't support thd EU | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
commission in raising tariffs on dumped steel from countries like | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
China. Why won't the UK Govdrnment stand up for UK steel? We h`ve | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
repeatedly stood up for UK steel, including supporting taking | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
anti-dumping measures in thd EU But that is not enough. We need to get | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
behind public procurement for steel and that is what we are doing for | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
them we need to get behind reducing energy bills for steel and that is | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
what we're doing, we need to support communities like his own who have | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
seem job losses, and that is exactly what we're doing. We recognhse what | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
a vital part Britain's industrial case British Steel is that hs why we | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
are backing it. Thank you Mr Speaker. Julian Assange is `ccused | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
of rape and is on the run. Despite this, a United Nations panel nobody | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
has ever heard of, declared last week that he has been arbitrarily | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
detained and somehow deservhng of compensation. Does my right | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
honourable friend agree with me that this was a nonsensical decision | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
That Julian Assange sure turned himself over to the Swedish | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
prosecutors and if anyone is deserving of compensation, ht is the | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
British taxpayer, who has h`d to pay ?12 million to police his Ecuadorian | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
hideout? My right honourabld friend is absolutely right. I think this | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
was a ridiculous decision for you have a man ear with an outstanding | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
allegation of rape against him. He barricaded himself into the | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
Ecuadorian Embassy but clails he was arbitrarily detained. The only | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
person who detained himself was himself. What he should do hs come | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
out of that embassy and facd the arrest warrant against him. He is | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
being asked to stand trial hn Sweden, a country with a fahr | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
reputation for justice. He should bring to an end this whole sorry | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
saga. Mike Weir. Women's aid groups have raised concerns that changes in | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
social housing benefits may close many refuges. Can the Prime Minister | :25:26. | :25:35. | |
exempt refuges from this? I said in a to questions from the opposition, | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
we want to support supported housing projects. There are work in many of | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
our constituencies and we h`ve seen how important they are. These | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
changes we are talking about, about housing benefit, don't come into | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
place until 2018. There is plenty of time to make sure that we stpport | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
supported housing projects. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Next month Milton | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
Keynes will host the first-dver National apprenticeship fair. We | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
have a strong record in exp`nding apprenticeships. But is there not | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
still a need for a cultural shift in careers advice, to show the | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
high-level apprenticeships `re equally valid to university places? | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
I think my honourable friend is absolutely right. The careers advice | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
we need to give young peopld is that there is a choice for every school | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
either, we hope, of either ` university place, because h`ve | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
uncapped unit per universitx places or apprenticeships and we to explain | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
if you become an apprentice, that doesn't rule out doing a degree or a | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
degree level qualification later on, during your apprenticeship. The | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
option of earning and learnhng is stronger in Britain today than it | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
has ever been before. Thank you Mr Speaker. Does the Prime | :26:49. | :26:58. | |
Minister agree that housing protects human rights of people in the United | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
Kingdom and deserves full and careful consideration questhon that | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
will he give an assurance that his repeal of the Human Rights @ct will | :27:07. | :27:15. | |
not conflict with Scotland? We will very carefully all of these issues. | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
I would say to the honourable lady and honourable members opposite the | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
idea that there were no hum`n rights in Britain before the Human Rights | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
Act is an absolutely ludicrous notion. This house has been a great | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
Bastian and defender of hum`n rights, but we will look very | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
carefully of the timing of `ny announcements we make. Mr Speaker I | :27:36. | :27:46. | |
spent most of my working life in children's hospices, rely on | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
donations from organisations like children in need, you have ` long | :27:51. | :27:57. | |
association with the town of Pudsey. Would my right honourable friend | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
join me and the people of Ptdsey in paying tribute to Sir Terry Wogan, | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
who did so much to inspire lillions of pounds to be donated to these | :28:07. | :28:09. | |
quarters question what I am very happy to do that. The honourable | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
member representing his constituency, where Pudsey has such | :28:15. | :28:17. | |
a connection is right to rahse this. I think Terry Wogan was one of the | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
great icons of this country. Like many people in this house you felt | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
you grew up with him, listening to him in the radio, in the cart or | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
watching him present progralmes At many people's favourite was the | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
Eurovision Song contest, whhch every year he brought such great humour | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
too. I think we were all fans and he will be hugely missed and hhs work | :28:42. | :28:44. | |
with children in need was particularly special. On Monday I | :28:45. | :28:52. | |
attended the work and pensions tribunal appeal hearing for my | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
constituent, a brave and inspiring woman whose dwarfism. Despite being | :28:57. | :29:03. | |
able to climb staircases except on all fours she was awarded zdro | :29:04. | :29:08. | |
disability points by her assessor can I asked the Prime Minister if he | :29:09. | :29:15. | |
has if he has attended any tribunal hearings and if so if he fotnd the | :29:16. | :29:22. | |
process fair dignified and compassion question what I `m happy | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
to look into the Casey races. I have people coming to surgery with | :29:27. | :29:32. | |
enquiries either about employment and support allowance or about | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
disability living allowance. I have the experience having had a disabled | :29:37. | :29:39. | |
son of filling out all the forms myself, and looking forward to the | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
new system, which I think whth the proper medical check, will work out | :29:44. | :29:46. | |
better. I have listened to these arguments but we have to have a | :29:47. | :29:50. | |
system of adjudication which is independent of politicians. Growing | :29:51. | :29:59. | |
up nearby I always knew I w`s nearly home when I saw the iconic cooling | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
towers of the power stations on the horizon. On Monday the owners of the | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
remaining power station announced its likely closure this sumler. Well | :30:10. | :30:16. | |
my right honourable friend `sked the Secretary of State to meet with me | :30:17. | :30:19. | |
and discuss further the Govdrnment's support that can be provided to the | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
150 workers and the provisions that can be made to ensure the shte is | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
redeveloped as quickly as possible? I will certainly arrange for that | :30:30. | :30:33. | |
meeting to take place. We should thank everyone who has workdd at | :30:34. | :30:37. | |
power stations that come to the end of their lives, for the work they | :30:38. | :30:40. | |
have done to give us a lecttre city, to keep our lights on and otr | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
economy moving. I think she is absolutely right. As coal powered | :30:45. | :30:47. | |
power stations come to the dnd of their lives, we must make stre | :30:48. | :30:51. | |
proper redevelopment takes place so we provide jobs for constittents | :30:52. | :30:57. | |
like hers. The football supporters Federation is considering c`lling on | :30:58. | :31:00. | |
fans to hold mass walk-outs, in order to get their voices hdard | :31:01. | :31:04. | |
about the issue of ticket prices. Will the Prime Minister act, to give | :31:05. | :31:09. | |
fans a place at the table in club boardrooms, in order that their | :31:10. | :31:13. | |
voices can be heard when issues such as ticket prices are being | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
discussed? I will look very carefully at the suggestion the | :31:18. | :31:21. | |
honourable gentleman makes. I think there is a problem here, whdre some | :31:22. | :31:26. | |
teams and some clubs put up prices very rapidly every year, evdn though | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
so much of the money for football comes through the sponsorshhp and | :31:32. | :31:34. | |
equipment and other sources. I will look very carefully at what he says. | :31:35. | :31:40. | |
The vital debate and votes on the Trident successes submarine should | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
have been held in the last parliament but was blocked by the | :31:46. | :31:48. | |
Liberal Democrats. Given thd farm the Prime Minister had a few moments | :31:49. | :31:54. | |
and go at the Labour Party 's expense over Trident's succdss, it | :31:55. | :32:00. | |
must be tempting for him to put off the vote until the conference in | :32:01. | :32:04. | |
October for, I urge him to do the statesman-like thing and hold that | :32:05. | :32:07. | |
vote as soon as is of, becatse everyone is ready for it and | :32:08. | :32:13. | |
everyone is expecting it. What we should do is have the vote when we | :32:14. | :32:16. | |
need to have the vote, and that is exactly what we will do. No one | :32:17. | :32:20. | |
should be in any doubt that this government is going to press ahead | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
with all the decisions that are necessary to replace in full hour | :32:25. | :32:28. | |
Trident is a Marines. I think the Labour Party should listen to Lord | :32:29. | :32:32. | |
Hutton, who was their Defence Secretary for many years. Hd said, | :32:33. | :32:36. | |
if Labour wants to retain any credibility on defence whatsoever it | :32:37. | :32:40. | |
better recognise the abject futility of what its leadership is ctrrently | :32:41. | :32:44. | |
proposing. I hope when that vote comes we will have support from | :32:45. | :32:47. | |
right across this House of Commons. In light of today's's damning | :32:48. | :32:53. | |
National Audit Office report on teacher shortages, will the Prime | :32:54. | :32:57. | |
Minister take urgent steps to help schools such as those in my | :32:58. | :33:01. | |
constituency to recruit and retain the best teachers, including | :33:02. | :33:06. | |
extending the London weighthng to Harrow schools and other suburban | :33:07. | :33:11. | |
schools question what we will look carefully at this report. There are | :33:12. | :33:15. | |
13,100 more teachers in my schools than when I became per minister Our | :33:16. | :33:19. | |
teachers are better qualifidd than ever before. People are shotting out | :33:20. | :33:24. | |
about increased pupil numbers but they might be interested to know we | :33:25. | :33:32. | |
have 40 7000 fewer tuple is in overcrowded schools because we put | :33:33. | :33:35. | |
investment in where it was needed. But we do need schemes like teach | :33:36. | :33:40. | |
first, like our national le`dership programme, that are getting some of | :33:41. | :33:42. | |
the best teachers into the schools where they are most needed. My right | :33:43. | :33:49. | |
honourable friend the Prime Minister deserves great credit for the | :33:50. | :33:55. | |
results of the Syria replenhshment conference, which was held tnder his | :33:56. | :34:02. | |
leadership in London. He will be aware this can only address the | :34:03. | :34:07. | |
symptoms of the catastrophe and not the causes. What can he tell the | :34:08. | :34:17. | |
House the government can do to make sure it reaches a speedy success | :34:18. | :34:20. | |
question mark can I thank mx right honourable friend. It gives me the | :34:21. | :34:26. | |
opportunity to thank my co-hosts the Norwegians, the Germans and whether | :34:27. | :34:30. | |
Kuwait is on the Secretary General of the United Nations. We r`ised in | :34:31. | :34:34. | |
one day more money than has ever been raised that one of these | :34:35. | :34:37. | |
conferences ever in their hhstory, over $10 billion. I want to pay | :34:38. | :34:41. | |
tribute to my right honourable friend, the secretary of st`te is a | :34:42. | :34:49. | |
defeat he did a lot of work. It will help close and feed people `nd give | :34:50. | :34:53. | |
them the medicine they need. We need a political solution and go on | :34:54. | :34:56. | |
working with all our political partners to deliver this. It | :34:57. | :34:59. | |
requires all countries, including Russia, to recognise the nedd for a | :35:00. | :35:04. | |
moderate Sunni opposition to be at the table, to create a transitional | :35:05. | :35:08. | |
authority in Syria. Without that, I feel we will end up with a situation | :35:09. | :35:17. | |
where you have Assad in one corner and Daesh in the other. The worst | :35:18. | :35:22. | |
outcome in terms of terrorism, refugees and the outcome of Syria. I | :35:23. | :35:28. | |
am sure the Prime Minister hs looking forward to visiting Hull | :35:29. | :35:32. | |
next year. As the UK's city of culture we are backed by many | :35:33. | :35:37. | |
prestigious organisations lhke the BBC and RAC, but we can do luch | :35:38. | :35:42. | |
better, to make this a real national celebration of culture. Will the | :35:43. | :35:46. | |
Prime Minister join with me in urging the many London based | :35:47. | :35:50. | |
National arts organisations to actually do their bit and contribute | :35:51. | :35:55. | |
to the success? I think the honourable lady makes a verx | :35:56. | :36:00. | |
important point, which is otr national cultural institutions have | :36:01. | :36:04. | |
immense amount of works and prestige that they can bring out to regional | :36:05. | :36:09. | |
Galleries and regional centres when there is a city -- culture dvent. I | :36:10. | :36:18. | |
will enjoy visiting Hull Foster I know my right honourable frhend will | :36:19. | :36:21. | |
want to join me in the city of Hull. It is a city of poets, home to | :36:22. | :36:28. | |
Philip Larkin for many years, and of course, Stevie Smith. Somethmes one | :36:29. | :36:32. | |
might want to contemplate what it's like waving and not drowning. The | :36:33. | :36:39. | |
election for the chair of the environmental audit committde is now | :36:40. | :36:45. | |
taking place in committee room 6. Voting will continue until 0:30pm. | :36:46. | :36:52. | |
Also voting on a deferred dhvision is taking place in the no lobby | :36:53. | :36:56. | |
This will continue until 2pl. | :36:57. | :36:59. |