:00:00. > :00:00.Government business are properly regarded and subject to freedom of
:00:00. > :01:03.information requests as normal despite the rumours he has heard.
:01:04. > :01:08.I would like to associate myself with the Prime Minister is important
:01:09. > :01:11.comments on the Hillsborough tragedy along with members on all sides of
:01:12. > :01:16.the house and pay tribute to the victims, their families, and the
:01:17. > :01:26.resilience of the campaigners who continue to strive for the pursuit
:01:27. > :01:35.of justice. In my constituency of easterly service the GPs provide is
:01:36. > :01:40.crucial to people's daily lives, so does the Prime Minister agree with
:01:41. > :01:47.me that recent key announcements of ?2.4 billion of funding for GPs is
:01:48. > :01:51.only possible because there was strong, Conservative majority
:01:52. > :01:56.government. My honourable friend is absolutely right. We made a choice
:01:57. > :02:01.to put ?12 billion into the NHS in the last Parliament, 19 billion into
:02:02. > :02:05.the NHS in this Parliament, and we need to see strengthening primary
:02:06. > :02:10.care. Our vision is GPs coming together and having in their
:02:11. > :02:12.surgeries, physiotherapists, mental health practitioners, other clinics
:02:13. > :02:17.so people can get the health care they need and we take the pressure
:02:18. > :02:22.off hospitals. That will only happen if we have a government that keeps
:02:23. > :02:28.investigating -- investing in our NHS. Thank you, Mr Speaker.
:02:29. > :02:32.Yesterday, after 27 years, the 96 people who tragically lost their
:02:33. > :02:36.lives at Hillsborough and their families finally received the
:02:37. > :02:39.justice they were entitled to. I welcome the fact that the Prime
:02:40. > :02:43.Minister has apologised for the actions of previous governments and
:02:44. > :02:46.I join him in paying tribute to all of those families who campaigned
:02:47. > :02:50.with such dignity, steadfastness and determination to get to the truth of
:02:51. > :02:55.what happened to their loved ones on that dreadful afternoon. I also paid
:02:56. > :03:02.a very warm tribute to my friends, the members for Liverpool Walton,
:03:03. > :03:05.Holton, Garston and Halewood, who have relentlessly campaigned with
:03:06. > :03:11.great difficulty over many years. I hope the whole house today will be
:03:12. > :03:14.united in demanding that all those involved in the lies, smears and
:03:15. > :03:21.cover-ups that have so bedevilled the whole enquiry will now be held
:03:22. > :03:28.to account. Last week, the Prime Minister told the house that he was
:03:29. > :03:33.going to put rocket boosters on his forced canonisation proposals. This
:03:34. > :03:38.weekend, in the light of widespread unease, it seems the Weald are
:03:39. > :03:43.falling off the rocket boosters, and the government is considering a
:03:44. > :03:52.U-turn -- the wheels are falling. Can the Prime Minister 's confirm
:03:53. > :03:56.whether the U-turn is being prepared for not? First of all let me join
:03:57. > :04:00.the Right Honourable gentleman in praising those who campaigned so
:04:01. > :04:03.hard and so long to get justice for the victims of Hillsborough. This
:04:04. > :04:07.whole process took far too long but I think it is right, and I pay
:04:08. > :04:13.tribute to the honourable member that we had that Jones report and
:04:14. > :04:15.responded to it, and I also want to mention the former Attorney General
:04:16. > :04:20.who took the case to the High Court for the government himself to argue
:04:21. > :04:26.for that vital second inquest. Turning to the issue of academies, I
:04:27. > :04:31.have yet to see a rocket booster with a wheel on it, but rocket
:04:32. > :04:36.science isn't really my science, and maybe it's not his. I repeat again,
:04:37. > :04:42.academies are raising standards in our schools. I want a system where
:04:43. > :04:50.it is heads and teachers running schools, not bureaucrats. There
:04:51. > :05:02.wasn't much of an answer there, so can the Prime Minister tell us
:05:03. > :05:05.whether... If the members opposite would be patient enough, they might
:05:06. > :05:10.hear the question I'm putting to the Prime Minister, which is another
:05:11. > :05:14.very simple one. Could he tell us whether he will bring forward
:05:15. > :05:20.legislation to force, against the wishes of good and outstanding
:05:21. > :05:25.schools, to become academies in the upcoming Queen 's speech? Yes or no?
:05:26. > :05:31.Obviously I cannot pre-empt what is in the Queens speech, but on this
:05:32. > :05:33.one example I can help him out. We are going to have academies for all,
:05:34. > :05:48.and it will be in the Queens speech. Well, Mr Speaker, we look forward to
:05:49. > :05:53.that, but there is still time for the U-turn that I'm sure is at the
:05:54. > :05:58.back of the Prime Minister's mine. It has been reported that the
:05:59. > :06:03.government is considering allowing good local authorities to form
:06:04. > :06:05.multi-academy trusts. Ironically, this would give local authorities
:06:06. > :06:11.more responsibility for running schools than they have now. Although
:06:12. > :06:15.the Prime Minister's previously suggested that local authorities are
:06:16. > :06:19.holding schools back. So why is this costly reorganisation of school is
:06:20. > :06:24.necessary for schools that are already good or outstanding? Why is
:06:25. > :06:28.he forcing it on them? As I said last week, and I like repeats on
:06:29. > :06:33.television and I am happy to have them in the house as well,
:06:34. > :06:37.outstanding schools have nothing to fear from becoming academies and
:06:38. > :06:41.indeed have a lot to gain. Just because a school is outstanding or
:06:42. > :06:47.good doesn't mean it can't have further improvement, not least,
:06:48. > :06:51.because we want to see outstanding schools helping other schools in
:06:52. > :06:57.their area, often by being part of an Academy trust. He raises the
:06:58. > :07:02.issue about local authorities. To question so far, third question,
:07:03. > :07:08.third clear answer coming. Simmer down. Perhaps if you can deal with
:07:09. > :07:13.the anti-Semites in your own party, we might be prepared to deal with
:07:14. > :07:20.you a little bit more. Maybe we will come answer that. Of course there
:07:21. > :07:26.are lots of ways schools can become academies. They can convert and
:07:27. > :07:29.become academies, they can work with an outside organisation or work with
:07:30. > :07:33.other schools in the area all look at working with the local authority.
:07:34. > :07:38.Those schools that want to go on looking at local authority services
:07:39. > :07:41.are free to do so. Academies are great, academies for all our good
:07:42. > :07:46.policy, but what we are seeing from the Labour Party, I sense, is in
:07:47. > :07:55.favour of maybe he can save does he favour
:07:56. > :07:59.academies or not? Mr Speaker, the Prime Minister will be aware that
:08:00. > :08:04.sometimes repeats on television get more views than the first time
:08:05. > :08:09.round. The chief executive of the largest academy chain in London, the
:08:10. > :08:14.Harris Academy, has warned that a far more fundamental thing that the
:08:15. > :08:16.Prime Minister should worry about, whether school should become
:08:17. > :08:22.academies or not, is actually teacher shortages. The academies, Mr
:08:23. > :08:29.Speaker, don't want this, teachers don't want it, parents don't want
:08:30. > :08:34.it, Conservative councils and MPs don't want it. Who actually does
:08:35. > :08:39.want this top-down reorganisation he is imposing on the education system?
:08:40. > :08:45.Question number four, answer number four. Let's start with Michael
:08:46. > :08:52.Wilshaw, the chief inspector of schools. Somebody quite worthwhile
:08:53. > :08:57.listening to. Academies Asian -- academies in schools can lead to
:08:58. > :09:02.improvement and it is right to give more power to the front line. The
:09:03. > :09:08.OECD, they have been in the news today. The OECD say that they view
:09:09. > :09:11.the trend towards academies as a promising development in the UK
:09:12. > :09:15.which used to have a rather prescriptive education system. So
:09:16. > :09:19.they have supported it. What about endless Academy trusts who support
:09:20. > :09:23.it? He asked another question, very keen for complete at answers. If you
:09:24. > :09:39.shout, you won't hear the answers. He asked about teacher shortages.
:09:40. > :09:42.The fact is, there are more school places and more teachers under this
:09:43. > :09:46.government than there were under Labour. Why? Because we got a
:09:47. > :09:53.successful economy and we are putting it into our schools and our
:09:54. > :09:57.children's future. Mr Speaker, there are of course still record numbers
:09:58. > :10:03.of children in oversized classes and super-sized classes that is getting
:10:04. > :10:07.worse. And he feel he is looking for support for his academies proposal,
:10:08. > :10:11.he might care to phone up his friends, the leaders of Hampshire,
:10:12. > :10:15.West Sussex and his own Oxfordshire County Council, who are deeply
:10:16. > :10:19.concerned and opposed to it. He might care to listen to Council
:10:20. > :10:24.Carter, the Conservative chair of the county council 's network, who
:10:25. > :10:28.said the change will lead to a poorer education system --
:10:29. > :10:32.Councillor Carter. So why is he pushing it through with so much
:10:33. > :10:36.opposition and so much concern and such a waste of money when we should
:10:37. > :10:42.be investing in teachers and schools, not top-down
:10:43. > :10:44.reorganisation? I'm glad he is quoting Conservative council
:10:45. > :10:47.leaders, and because they keep the council tax than provide good
:10:48. > :10:54.services I hope we will see more of them in days' time. -- council tax
:10:55. > :11:03.down and provide. On teacher supply, just to be clear, 13,000 more
:11:04. > :11:07.teachers than 2010, to give a wholly accurate answer to his fourth
:11:08. > :11:12.question. Again he asked about who else would support academies. Let me
:11:13. > :11:16.quote Helena Mills of the burnt Mill Academy trust. She said she used to
:11:17. > :11:22.be very sceptical and resistant to academy status. But during the
:11:23. > :11:24.process of developing the academy I have been increasingly convinced
:11:25. > :11:31.that this is the way forward. That is what more and more people are
:11:32. > :11:36.seeing. That is why 1.3 million more children in good and outstanding
:11:37. > :11:39.schools. That is why almost nine out of ten converter academies are good
:11:40. > :11:44.or outstanding schools. We are very clear on this side of the house, we
:11:45. > :11:47.back aspiration and opportunity. We back investment in our schools. We
:11:48. > :11:51.want every child to get the best. It is Labour who want to hold back
:11:52. > :11:55.opportunity and have one size fits all. Mr Speaker, there seems to be a
:11:56. > :12:11.pattern developing here. The pattern is quite simply this. He
:12:12. > :12:14.has a Health Secretary that is imposing a contract on junior
:12:15. > :12:20.doctors against the wishes of patients and the public and the rest
:12:21. > :12:25.of the medical profession. He has an Education Secretary imposing yet
:12:26. > :12:31.another Tory top-down reorganisation that nobody wants. When will his
:12:32. > :12:35.government show some respect and listen to the public, parents and
:12:36. > :12:39.patients, and indeed, professionals who have given their lives to public
:12:40. > :12:46.service in education and health and change his ways? Listen to them and
:12:47. > :12:52.trust other people to run other services rather than imposing things
:12:53. > :12:54.from above. I tell him the pattern that is developing. We can see 1.9
:12:55. > :13:00.million more people being treated in the health service. We
:13:01. > :13:04.can see 1.3 million more children in good or outstanding schools. That is
:13:05. > :13:07.the battlements developing, a strong economy investing in public
:13:08. > :13:14.services. -- pattern developing. The other pattern I'm seeing is that I
:13:15. > :13:17.am on my fifth Labour leader standing at this box, and if he
:13:18. > :13:26.carries on like this I will soon be on my sixth.
:13:27. > :13:29.Mr Speaker, the Government package to help potential buyers of the Tata
:13:30. > :13:37.Steel site in Port Talbot is substantial, befitting the trend is
:13:38. > :13:42.bipartisan measures the government has taken to save this industry for
:13:43. > :13:46.top it stands in stark contrast with the distasteful, disrespect for
:13:47. > :13:51.contacts web of contrast of a Labour spokesman who said that it had been
:13:52. > :13:54.good for Labour. Could I ask if there is any indication that the
:13:55. > :13:58.package could help expedite the sale of the site, which could provide
:13:59. > :14:06.long-term viable future for well steal the we all hope for? I want to
:14:07. > :14:09.thank him for welcoming me yesterday and before come into his
:14:10. > :14:13.constituency yesterday, I visited Port Talbot and I met with the
:14:14. > :14:17.management and the trade unions. I had a very constructive discussion
:14:18. > :14:20.and I did actually meet the Conservative leader, Andrew RT
:14:21. > :14:25.Davies, who does an excellent job in the Welsh Assembly. If you want to
:14:26. > :14:31.be Speaker, you better stop interrupting everybody. It's not
:14:32. > :14:36.going to get you any votes! A little tip for you there. There is a
:14:37. > :14:43.serious point, which is that the areas where we could help are in
:14:44. > :14:45.power, procurement, on the issue of pensions. There is a very
:14:46. > :14:50.constructive conversation going on but I say again from this dispatch
:14:51. > :14:54.box, while I want to do everything I can to secure the future not only
:14:55. > :14:57.for Port Talbot but also for Scunthorpe and steel-making in
:14:58. > :15:01.Britain, we are coping with a massive oversupply, a collapse in
:15:02. > :15:05.prices from China, so we must do all we can. There is no guarantee of
:15:06. > :15:11.success but if we work hard, get a proper sales process and get behind
:15:12. > :15:16.it on a bipartisan basis, we can see success here. Following the
:15:17. > :15:19.Hillsborough inquiry, we join in all of the comments that have been said
:15:20. > :15:23.thus far in relation to the families and paying tribute all of the
:15:24. > :15:26.campaigners for justice. Mr Speaker, last night the Government was
:15:27. > :15:29.defeated for the second time in the House of Lords on the issue of
:15:30. > :15:34.refugee children being given refuge in the UK. There are many members of
:15:35. > :15:38.that house, as there are many members of this House, in all
:15:39. > :15:45.parties, including the primers to's wild side, who would wish us to do
:15:46. > :15:48.much much more in helping provide refuge for unaccompanied children in
:15:49. > :15:52.Europe at the present time. Will the Prime Minister please reconsider his
:15:53. > :15:59.opposition and stop walking on by on the other side? I don't think anyone
:16:00. > :16:02.could accuse this country of walking on by in terms of this refugee
:16:03. > :16:07.crisis. Let's be very clear about what we've done. First of all,
:16:08. > :16:10.taking 20,000 refugees from outside of Europe, which I think has
:16:11. > :16:14.all-party support. Second of all, last week announcing a further 3000
:16:15. > :16:19.principally unaccompanied children and children at risk from outside
:16:20. > :16:22.Europe that we will be taking. Third of all, in our normal refugee
:16:23. > :16:28.procedures, last year we took over 3000 unaccompanied children. But
:16:29. > :16:32.where I disagree, respectively, with their Lordship's house, is those
:16:33. > :16:38.people who are in European countries are in safe European countries. To
:16:39. > :16:44.compare somehow children or adults who are in France or Germany or
:16:45. > :16:48.Italy or Spain or Portugal or Greece... To compare that with
:16:49. > :16:51.children stuck in Nazi Germany I think is deeply wrong and we'll
:16:52. > :16:57.continue with our approach, which includes, by the way, being the
:16:58. > :17:04.second largest donor of any country anywhere in the world into those
:17:05. > :17:15.refugee camps. Just as in the 1930s, thereafter thousands... There's no
:17:16. > :17:17.comparison, Mr Speaker. Apparently, there's no comparison between
:17:18. > :17:22.thousands of children needing refuge in the 1930s and thousands of
:17:23. > :17:30.children it in Europe at the present time. Order, order! Order! I'm not
:17:31. > :17:34.interested in somebody yelling out their opinion of the honourable
:17:35. > :17:37.gentleman's question. This is the home of free speech. The honourable
:17:38. > :17:45.gentleman and every other member will be heard, however long this
:17:46. > :17:51.session takes. It's very clear. Mr Angus Robertson. Europol estimates
:17:52. > :17:57.that 10,000 unaccompanied children in Europe have disappeared. This is
:17:58. > :18:03.an existential question about the safety of vulnerable children. The
:18:04. > :18:07.Prime Minister thinks it is not the responsibility of the latest kingdom
:18:08. > :18:15.to help unaccompanied children in Europe, so I ask him, who has the
:18:16. > :18:20.moral responsibility to feed them, to clothe them, to educate them and
:18:21. > :18:26.give them refuge if not us and everybody in Europe? Let me answer
:18:27. > :18:30.that very directly. First of all, any unaccompanied child who has
:18:31. > :18:33.direct family in Britain and claiming asylum, under the Dublin
:18:34. > :18:38.regulations, can come to Britain, and quite right, too. But he asked
:18:39. > :18:43.the question, who was was once both refugees? The person responsible is
:18:44. > :18:48.the country in which they are in. -- who is responsible for refugees. You
:18:49. > :18:52.have to ask yourself, do we do better by taking a child from
:18:53. > :18:56.refugee camp or taking a child from the Lebanon or taking a child from
:18:57. > :19:01.Jordan than we do taking a child from France or Italy or Germany?
:19:02. > :19:04.And, as I said, to compare this to the 1930s is frankly to insult those
:19:05. > :19:14.countries who are our neighbours and partners. Thank you, Mr Speaker. ATP
:19:15. > :19:20.industries group based in Kalak would one of Europe's largest
:19:21. > :19:27.independent manufacturers of vehicle electronics and were last week
:19:28. > :19:32.awarded the Queens award for innovation. They export goods across
:19:33. > :19:37.the globe, with the international trade increasing by 50 this out last
:19:38. > :19:40.year. Will my right honourable friend join me in congratulating ATP
:19:41. > :19:46.and will he set out what the government is doing to support
:19:47. > :19:50.exporters to reach new markets? I certainly join her in congratulating
:19:51. > :19:54.ATP. It's very difficult to win at Queen's on for export so they do
:19:55. > :19:57.deserve praise. What we need to see in our country is... We currently
:19:58. > :20:01.have one in five SMEs that exports. If we could make that one in four,
:20:02. > :20:07.we could wipe out our trade deficit. We are courage and that through the
:20:08. > :20:10.work of UKTI. We are also encouraging it by encouraging
:20:11. > :20:13.reassuring, by getting the supply and components industries, for
:20:14. > :20:22.instance, for the automotive industries, to come back on shore
:20:23. > :20:26.and invest in Britain. In my constituency, family have lived and
:20:27. > :20:29.raise their family in a small village for many years. Despite full
:20:30. > :20:33.cooperation, they face an uphill and fruitless battle the Home Office,
:20:34. > :20:37.have had their driving licences revoked and are being forced out of
:20:38. > :20:42.a community they have served and invested in by a technicality around
:20:43. > :20:45.their business, the local shop. Will the Prime Minister look into this
:20:46. > :20:50.grossly unfair situation and work with me to achieve justice for this
:20:51. > :20:55.family? I'll certainly have a look at the KC mentions if he lets me
:20:56. > :21:00.know the names and the nature of the issues, and I'll make sure the Home
:21:01. > :21:03.Office look at it urgently. As the primers to will know from getting
:21:04. > :21:07.stuck in traffic on his way into Bath just before the general
:21:08. > :21:12.election last year, my constituency is plagued by high air-pollution and
:21:13. > :21:16.congestion. Given this government's commitment to invest billions of
:21:17. > :21:20.pounds in a Church, something that the previous Labour government
:21:21. > :21:22.failed to do in 13 years, will Prime Minister look at committing to look
:21:23. > :21:27.of the construction of the long overdue and much-needed missing
:21:28. > :21:31.A36-40 six Link Rd to the east of my constituency? I'll certainly have a
:21:32. > :21:34.look at what he says stop the makes an important point because some
:21:35. > :21:38.people think that if you care about air quality, there is no room for
:21:39. > :21:41.any road building but, of course, stationary traffic is much polluting
:21:42. > :21:45.than moving traffic and we have to make sure the arteries that serve
:21:46. > :21:48.all our constituencies are open, so I'll carefully at what he said but
:21:49. > :21:53.at the same time, we should recognise that air quality is
:21:54. > :21:56.improving, nitrogen oxides are down 17% over the last four years and we
:21:57. > :22:02.want to do more by introducing the clean air programme. With the UK
:22:03. > :22:07.facing our most momentous decision for a generation in eight weeks,
:22:08. > :22:10.does the Prime Minister think it makes more sense for us to listen to
:22:11. > :22:15.all of our closest friends and allies around the world or to a
:22:16. > :22:22.combination of French fascists, Nigel Farage and Vladimir Putin?
:22:23. > :22:26.Well, I'm glad he takes the English pronunciation of Farage, rather than
:22:27. > :22:31.the rather poncey foreign sounding one that he seems to prefer. I think
:22:32. > :22:34.that's a thoroughly good thing. Obviously, I think we should listen
:22:35. > :22:39.to our friends and our allies and as I look around the world, it's hard
:22:40. > :22:44.to find the leader of a country that wishes us well that wants us to do
:22:45. > :22:50.anything other than stay inside a reformed European Union. Mr Speaker,
:22:51. > :22:53.the new ISAs that were announced in this budget are very welcome. They
:22:54. > :22:57.will help people save for homes and retirement. Does my right Oracle
:22:58. > :23:02.friend will have seen in this morning's City AM, as much of a
:23:03. > :23:07.third of the gains a pension could make over a lifetime could be
:23:08. > :23:12.stripped. Can he tell me what this covenant is doing to make sure that
:23:13. > :23:15.firms investing people's hard earned savings reveal all the fees they
:23:16. > :23:19.will be paying so that people can choose what is best for them? He has
:23:20. > :23:24.fought a long campaign about this and quite rightly so. One of the
:23:25. > :23:29.things that saps people's enthusiasm for investing and savings products
:23:30. > :23:32.is the sense that they don't understand the fees and charges and
:23:33. > :23:35.don't know how much they are going to get out of them. What we've done
:23:36. > :23:42.is since last April, trustees have defined -- of defined contribution
:23:43. > :23:45.schemes... The FCA argument bids to making regulations with us during
:23:46. > :23:50.this Parliament requiring the publication of more costs and
:23:51. > :23:57.charges. -- the FCA are committed. I'm sure he will put us all the way
:23:58. > :23:59.to make sure it happens. The Prime Minister and his government did next
:24:00. > :24:07.to nothing to say the Scottish steel industry. It was left to the
:24:08. > :24:12.Scottish Government. Now the UK Government is breaking the promises
:24:13. > :24:16.made by both Tories and Labour to protect the Scottish shipbuilding
:24:17. > :24:23.industry. Why does the Prime Minister think that Scottish jobs
:24:24. > :24:26.are so expendable? Frankly, the Scottish Government and the UK
:24:27. > :24:30.Government should work together and one of the things we should work
:24:31. > :24:35.together on his procurement. And it is worth asking how much Scottish
:24:36. > :24:41.steel was in the Forth Road Bridge? Zero, none, absolutely nothing. Yes,
:24:42. > :24:46.what a contrast with the warships that we're building. Of course, we
:24:47. > :24:49.wouldn't be building them if we happen independent Scotland. So
:24:50. > :25:01.we've backed the steel industry with actions as well as words. Order! The
:25:02. > :25:06.House is excitable but it must simmer down. We must hear the
:25:07. > :25:11.honourable lady. Hatred and ignorance lie at the heart of
:25:12. > :25:15.anti-Semitism. And when those in public life express such views, they
:25:16. > :25:20.denigrate not only themselves but also the institutions to which they
:25:21. > :25:25.belong. Will my right honourable friend please reassure this House of
:25:26. > :25:31.his commitment to fighting this vicious form of prejudice? I think
:25:32. > :25:34.it is very simple. Anti-Semitism is effectively racism and we should
:25:35. > :25:38.call it out and fight it wherever we see it. And the fact that, Frankie,
:25:39. > :25:44.we've got a Labour MP with the Labour whip, who made remarks about
:25:45. > :25:47.the transportation of people from Israel to America, and talked about
:25:48. > :25:50.a solution, and is still in receipt of the Labour whip, is quite
:25:51. > :25:55.extraordinary. Let me tell you what the Shadow Chancellor said about
:25:56. > :25:59.these people. "Out, Out, out. If people express these views, they are
:26:00. > :26:02.out. People might be able to reform their views on the rest of it. On
:26:03. > :26:09.this, I can't see it, I'm not having it. People might say, I change my
:26:10. > :26:12.views and will do something with a different organisation". I'm
:26:13. > :26:16.friendly, there will be too many hours in the day before that happens
:26:17. > :26:19.the MP in question. One of my constituents was killed at the age
:26:20. > :26:26.of 25 by an 18-year-old driving a hire car without a licence. He was
:26:27. > :26:29.driving at 80 mph in a 30 mph zone. The 18-year-old was convicted of
:26:30. > :26:33.causing death by dangerous driving and received a sentence after six
:26:34. > :26:40.years, of which probably serve three. Two weeks ago, myself along
:26:41. > :26:42.with Joseph's family, delivered a 20,000 signature petition calling
:26:43. > :26:46.for tougher sentences for causing death by dangerous driving. Does the
:26:47. > :26:50.Prime Minister agree with me that sentences for these crimes are too
:26:51. > :26:56.lenient, and when can we expect to get a response to our petition and
:26:57. > :27:00.get justice for Joseph? Well, I have every simply with the family in
:27:01. > :27:05.question. I had an almost identical case in my constituency, where a
:27:06. > :27:10.young girl was killed I a dangerous driver. The maximum sentence is 14
:27:11. > :27:13.years, so the courts do have the ability to sentence more but I know
:27:14. > :27:18.what this means to the families. I'm making sure that the Minister for
:27:19. > :27:20.roads is looking again at these issues in terms of dangerous driving
:27:21. > :27:29.and I'll make sure the case she mentioned this taken into account.
:27:30. > :27:33.-- is taken. As the birthplace of the industrial revolution, Dudley is
:27:34. > :27:40.proud of its heritage but we need economic stability to deliver a
:27:41. > :27:43.prosperous future. Will the Prime Minister helped to launch the new
:27:44. > :27:50.enterprise zone in Brierley Hill, to look at how we can attract more
:27:51. > :27:55.investment, create new jobs and develop a highly skilled workforce
:27:56. > :27:58.our community needs? I will look very carefully, whether I'm able to
:27:59. > :28:02.do that, because we support the industrial regeneration of the Black
:28:03. > :28:07.Country. The truth is, enterprise zones have been a success. They
:28:08. > :28:10.created nearly 25,000 jobs, attracted over 630 companies and
:28:11. > :28:14.secured 2.4 billion of private sector investment. A lot of the
:28:15. > :28:18.delivery of enterprise zones is going to involve a lot of hard work
:28:19. > :28:23.by local authorities and I pay tribute to them and I wish him well
:28:24. > :28:28.in the Black Country. Given the strategic and economic importance of
:28:29. > :28:32.the M62 corridor to the northern powerhouse, can the Prime Minister
:28:33. > :28:35.give me and the people of Bradford his commitment to the
:28:36. > :28:39.electrification of the cold of a line, and lent his support for the
:28:40. > :28:45.great city of Bradford to be a fundamental part of the proposed
:28:46. > :28:47.northern powerhouse? We have made commitments knowledge
:28:48. > :28:52.of occasion in terms of North- South lines and East - Westlands stockpile
:28:53. > :29:02.look carefully at proposal she makes. Nuclear matters in Cumbria.
:29:03. > :29:05.We have a nuclear Gazzi at Sellafield. Defence work at Barrow
:29:06. > :29:10.and the prospect of serious investment in a new nuclear land at
:29:11. > :29:14.Moorside. Given the apparent opposition to nuclear from the party
:29:15. > :29:17.is opposite, can the Prime Minister confirm that the long-term decisions
:29:18. > :29:22.for both nuclear power and defence will be made in a timely manner? He
:29:23. > :29:28.is absolutely right that Cumbria does depend, to a large extent, on
:29:29. > :29:32.jobs from the industries that he mentions. Obviously, an Sellafield,
:29:33. > :29:39.we continue to invest in reprocessing and in the procedures
:29:40. > :29:40.that. We are also looking at redeveloping our commercial nuclear
:29:41. > :29:45.industries, starting with the vital decision that Hinkley Point, which
:29:46. > :29:48.could have very great benefits for other areas that want to see nuclear
:29:49. > :29:52.power stations. And, of course, Barrow is home to the development of
:29:53. > :29:55.our nuclear submarines and we will be holding a vote in this House to
:29:56. > :30:02.make sure we renew our Trident in full. The Prime Minister has just
:30:03. > :30:08.suggested that child refugees alone in Europe are safe. There are
:30:09. > :30:11.children's homes fall in Italy and Greece and over 1000 children will
:30:12. > :30:16.sleep rough in Greece alone tonight. How are they safe? 10,000 children
:30:17. > :30:20.have disappeared in Europe. How are they safe? The agencies say that
:30:21. > :30:27.children are committing survival sex. They are being abused, subject
:30:28. > :30:32.to prostitution and rape. It is not insulting other European countries
:30:33. > :30:37.to offer to help. They want us to help. So will he reconsider his
:30:38. > :30:42.position on the amendment before it comes back to the vote and stopped
:30:43. > :30:52.with his attitude to loan child refugees, putting this House and
:30:53. > :30:55.this country to shame? If we are helping other European countries,
:30:56. > :30:59.and we're helping other European countries, not least with the ?10
:31:00. > :31:04.million we was announced. But the crucial point is this. How do we in
:31:05. > :31:08.Britain best help child refugees? We think we help them by taking them
:31:09. > :31:12.from the refugee camps. Taken from Lebanon, from Jordan, when they to
:31:13. > :31:21.this country. That's what we're doing and we have a proud record. --
:31:22. > :31:26.bringing them to this country. Several small businesses I've met
:31:27. > :31:31.within Tadcaster last week are being treated appallingly by insurance
:31:32. > :31:35.companies. Four months after the floods Maclean's have not been
:31:36. > :31:41.settled and renewal premiums art being hiked to astronomical levels.
:31:42. > :31:46.-- claims have not been settled. The Government has introduced the flood
:31:47. > :31:49.scheme to help homeowners after flooding the stock does my right
:31:50. > :31:54.honourable friend agree with me that the same protection should be given
:31:55. > :31:58.to small business owners, to? First of all, I absolutely recognise the
:31:59. > :32:01.problem that he lays out. My constituency was badly flooded and
:32:02. > :32:05.some insurance company is paid out very quickly, others were not so
:32:06. > :32:09.fast. I understand when will look at what happened during the winter,
:32:10. > :32:13.we've got 82% of claims that have been paid out but what I would say
:32:14. > :32:16.to him and other colleagues is, where you have specific examples,
:32:17. > :32:20.the Secretary of State for farming, food and rural affairs will be very
:32:21. > :32:25.interested to see them so we can get on top of the insurance industry. On
:32:26. > :32:28.the issue of whether we need a flood restyle approached of small
:32:29. > :32:31.businesses, we will looks as if they're about to make sure the small
:32:32. > :32:37.businesses can get the insurance they need. Three years ago, whilst
:32:38. > :32:41.on holiday in France, my mother fell seriously ill. Thanks to the French
:32:42. > :32:44.health service, she received excellent treatment, was diagnosed
:32:45. > :32:49.with cancer, unfortunately, but she is doing well today, thanks to our
:32:50. > :32:53.NHS is well. Millions of Brits every year travel to other EU countries
:32:54. > :32:56.and benefit, like my mum, from the revered health insurance card. What
:32:57. > :33:01.would happen to that card should we vote to leave on the 23rd of June?
:33:02. > :33:04.First of all, our behalf of the whole house, can I wish Motherwell
:33:05. > :33:09.in her treatment and the treatment she is getting from the NHS? She
:33:10. > :33:12.raises an important point, which is, this is one of the important
:33:13. > :33:16.benefits we have now. Many of us would have used it ourselves or for
:33:17. > :33:19.our own children and we think we can make the system even better as we
:33:20. > :33:23.are. It is for those who want to leave the EU to explain, if we were
:33:24. > :33:27.to leave, would we still be able to access this and other such systems,
:33:28. > :33:33.which are very handy for people going on holidays? Whatever the
:33:34. > :33:38.outcome of the EU referendum, does the Prime Minister agree that one
:33:39. > :33:42.thing that will never diminish is the mutual affection and admiration
:33:43. > :33:52.between Britain and our great ally France? In that connection, will he
:33:53. > :34:00.paid tribute to the people who fought and won the Normandy
:34:01. > :34:05.campaign, such as the late Captain Paul Cash, who was killed fighting
:34:06. > :34:08.in Normandy at the age of 26, having won the military cross. He was the
:34:09. > :34:19.father of the honourable member, my friend the honourable member for
:34:20. > :34:24.stone, and Sergeant Peter Carne, who, at 93, is at Westminster today,
:34:25. > :34:29.who built the bridge is that May the break-out from the Normandy
:34:30. > :34:35.beachhead and who will be receiving a French award in a typically
:34:36. > :34:39.cordial gesture French allies. I join him in paying tribute all those
:34:40. > :34:45.who served, particularly those who fell in that heroic campaign. One of
:34:46. > :34:50.the proudest things I've been able to do as Prime Minister was to go to
:34:51. > :34:54.the 70th anniversary and go to that vigil, where our gliders came in to
:34:55. > :34:58.prepare for those landings and to go to Gold Beach and see the incredible
:34:59. > :35:01.work that was done, so we should remember what they did and we should
:35:02. > :35:08.remember what it was that they gave their lives for, which was to
:35:09. > :35:12.achieve peace on our continent. My constituent Debra has HIV that she
:35:13. > :35:17.contracted via a partner who received a contaminated blood
:35:18. > :35:21.transfusion. My constituent Neil has hepatitis, again from the controller
:35:22. > :35:25.tainted transfusion. He now needs a second liver transplant. Neither of
:35:26. > :35:29.them can hold down a full-time job because of the catastrophic effects
:35:30. > :35:32.of their health on the conditions so they absolutely rely on the support
:35:33. > :35:36.from the state that the Government is applied to slash in half. I asked
:35:37. > :35:39.the Prime Minister, why is the Government so willing to attack
:35:40. > :35:45.people whose only this take was to be unlucky? First of all, what we
:35:46. > :35:49.said before the election was that we'd set aside ?25 million to help
:35:50. > :35:55.those who were infected with HIV because of contaminated blood. We
:35:56. > :35:58.raise that to 100 million and we are currently consulting with all the
:35:59. > :36:01.groups about how best to use that money. We are going to be doing more
:36:02. > :36:04.than we said at a lecture on time and it is very necessary because
:36:05. > :36:19.these people have suffered through no fault of their own.
:36:20. > :36:23.Order. Secretary of State for the Home Department.