:00:00. > :00:00.institutions? This act is good for Britain and
:00:00. > :00:22.trade unions, it is good for future working relations.
:00:23. > :00:29.This morning, I had meetings with ministers and colleagues and I will
:00:30. > :00:34.have further meetings today. Even fantastically corrupt Nigeria
:00:35. > :00:36.is asking Britain to clean up its act and introduce beneficial
:00:37. > :00:41.ownership registers in the overseas territories. We'll be Prime Minister
:00:42. > :00:50.achieve this tomorrow at the anti-corruption Summit? -- will be
:00:51. > :00:54.Prime Minister? I want to check the microphone is on before speaking. I
:00:55. > :01:00.thank him for his question. The answer is yes. We have asked three
:01:01. > :01:05.things of the overseas territories and Crown dependencies - automatic
:01:06. > :01:08.exchange of tax information, a common reporting standard for
:01:09. > :01:11.multinational companies, and for central beneficial ownership
:01:12. > :01:15.registry so that UK enforcement can know who owns companies based there.
:01:16. > :01:18.They have delivered on the first two, and they will be following and
:01:19. > :01:28.delivering on the third. That is what he asked for and what he is
:01:29. > :01:31.getting. Mr Speaker, in my constituency there is unprecedented
:01:32. > :01:35.housing growth. Does the Prime Minister agree that we must build
:01:36. > :01:40.sufficient starter homes so that the dream of home ownership becomes
:01:41. > :01:46.something that everybody really can aspire to? I want to thank my
:01:47. > :01:50.constituency neighbour and honourable friend for raising that
:01:51. > :01:54.question. The fact is, we are building more houses right across
:01:55. > :01:58.England. We are building more affordable homes, and the
:01:59. > :02:02.legislation going through this House and the other place will make sure
:02:03. > :02:07.we deliver our pledge of 200,000 starter homes. Those are the ones we
:02:08. > :02:11.want to see, affordable for people to buy. I hope that even at this
:02:12. > :02:21.late stage, the Labour Party in the House of Lords. Blocking this bill.
:02:22. > :02:28.Jeremy Corbyn. -- the Labour Party in the house of lords will stop
:02:29. > :02:33.blocking this bill. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Since we
:02:34. > :02:38.often celebrate great national event in this House, would be Prime
:02:39. > :02:44.Minister join me in wishing Sir David Attenborough a very happy 90th
:02:45. > :02:47.birthday and thank him for the way he has presented nature programmes
:02:48. > :02:52.on television and awakened the ideas of so many people to the fragility
:02:53. > :03:00.of our ecosystem and educated a whole generation? Mr Speaker, on
:03:01. > :03:07.this side of the House, we are fully aware... I haven't asked the
:03:08. > :03:12.question yet, it's OK! We are fully aware that the European Union has
:03:13. > :03:17.strength the rights of workers in many ways. In March, while the Prime
:03:18. > :03:22.Minister was trying to undermine workers' writes with his trade union
:03:23. > :03:27.Bill, the European Commission put forward proposals to close loopholes
:03:28. > :03:31.in the posting of workers directive which would stop employers
:03:32. > :03:37.exploiting foreign workers and undercutting national rates of pay.
:03:38. > :03:41.We'll be Prime Minister confirm that his Government will protect workers
:03:42. > :03:46.and will back these reforms to stop this undercutting and grotesque
:03:47. > :03:52.exploitation of workers across this continent? First, I join the right
:03:53. > :03:56.Honourable gentleman in wishing a very happy birthday to David
:03:57. > :04:00.Attenborough. Many of us in this House feel that we grew up with him
:04:01. > :04:04.as our teacher about the natural world and the environment. He is
:04:05. > :04:11.remarkable. I am proud to say that the Royals survey ship, the Arctic
:04:12. > :04:22.ship, will be named after David Attenborough. There was strong
:04:23. > :04:25.support for Boaty McBoatface, and I think the submarine, or the life
:04:26. > :04:31.raft, on the boat will be named that. On the workers directive, we
:04:32. > :04:35.are looking closely, working with our partners. We see some merit in
:04:36. > :04:38.what is being proposed. I can say that the yellow card procedure has
:04:39. > :04:44.been invoked by national parliaments, demonstrating the
:04:45. > :04:47.importance of these safeguards, much of which we reacted -- achieved in
:04:48. > :04:53.my re-negotiation does not the best thing we can do for workers' writes
:04:54. > :04:57.in this country is celebrate the national living wage introduced by
:04:58. > :05:01.this Government. The national minimum wage was a Labour
:05:02. > :05:04.introduction. The living wage proposed by the Chancellor is a
:05:05. > :05:12.corruption of the very idea of it. It is not, in reality, a proper
:05:13. > :05:17.living wage. But, Mr Speaker, my question was about the posting of
:05:18. > :05:20.workers directive which would prevent the grotesque exploitation
:05:21. > :05:25.by unscrupulous employers of workers being moved from one nation to
:05:26. > :05:31.another in order to undercut the wages of the second nation. We'll be
:05:32. > :05:34.Prime Minister be absolutely clear? Will be British Government support
:05:35. > :05:40.this very important reform to stop this exploitation? As I said, we are
:05:41. > :05:44.working with the Dutch presidency. We think there is merit in a lot of
:05:45. > :05:48.the proposals, but we want to make sure we get the details right. Let
:05:49. > :05:55.me pull them up on something - he has described the national living
:05:56. > :06:01.wage as a corruption. It is ?7.20 per hour, a ?20 per week pay writers
:06:02. > :06:05.of the poorest in our country. I really think he ought to get up and
:06:06. > :06:12.say he supports the national living wage and thanks the Government for
:06:13. > :06:17.introducing it. I support a wage rise, obviously does not the point I
:06:18. > :06:27.am making is that it is not a living wage. It is not a living wage as is
:06:28. > :06:31.generally understood. Mr Speaker, saying yes seems to be one of the
:06:32. > :06:36.hardest word for the Prime Minister. For radar time, could he say whether
:06:37. > :06:41.he does or does not support the posting of workers directive? He
:06:42. > :06:44.might be aware that Patrick Minford, a former economic adviser to
:06:45. > :06:49.Margaret Thatcher, has said that the European Union has a negative effect
:06:50. > :06:56.on the City of London, and he would want the shackles European
:06:57. > :07:01.regulation removed. Does the Prime Minister believed that membership
:07:02. > :07:05.hurts the City of London, or does he believe that European Union
:07:06. > :07:13.regulation of the finance sector in Britain and British- administered
:07:14. > :07:18.tax havens would help the sort of bad practice exposed by the Panama
:07:19. > :07:24.papers or underlined by my friend in his earlier question today? This is
:07:25. > :07:28.an area where we basically agree about the European Union, so I will
:07:29. > :07:33.try to identify a question and answer as positively as I can. On
:07:34. > :07:39.Patrick Minford, I completely disagree with the Economist Patrick
:07:40. > :07:42.Minford. He wants to see manufacturing industry in our
:07:43. > :07:47.country obliterate it, and I think it would be disastrous to follow his
:07:48. > :07:52.advice. In terms of the City of London, we need the right regulation
:07:53. > :07:56.for the City of London to continue its massive rate of job creation and
:07:57. > :08:00.wealth creation in our country, but we also need to remain members of
:08:01. > :08:04.the single market because it is absolutely vital for this important
:08:05. > :08:09.sector of our economy. I hope that on that, as on the national living
:08:10. > :08:17.wage, we can find some agreement. The question I also put the Prime
:08:18. > :08:26.Minister, which perhaps he wasn't listening to, was what he was going
:08:27. > :08:32.to do... What I asked was what he's going to do about the UK-
:08:33. > :08:36.administered tax havens which receive large sums of money from
:08:37. > :08:43.dodgy sources which should and must be closed down, as should any tax
:08:44. > :08:46.evasion in the City of London. We need a British Government that is
:08:47. > :08:51.prepared to chase down this level of corruption. This Government has done
:08:52. > :08:57.more than any previous Government to deal with this issue, making sure
:08:58. > :09:02.that our overseas territories and Crown dependencies are not tax
:09:03. > :09:05.behave -- tax havens but behave in a responsible way. We are now taking
:09:06. > :09:10.part in the automatic exchange of tax information, which didn't happen
:09:11. > :09:12.before. We have signed up to a common reporting standard for
:09:13. > :09:17.multinational companies, which didn't happen before. And there will
:09:18. > :09:22.be central registry so we can find out who owns the companies. All of
:09:23. > :09:26.these things are real progress. Of course, we would like to go further
:09:27. > :09:29.in her public registry is beneficial ownership, as we are introducing in
:09:30. > :09:34.this country, not because of the Labour Government but because of a
:09:35. > :09:39.decision by a Conservative Prime Minister, but where I would urge him
:09:40. > :09:44.to be fair is that many of the Crown dependencies have gone much further
:09:45. > :09:48.than many developed countries. Indeed, you actually get more
:09:49. > :09:50.information now out of some of our Crown dependencies and overseas
:09:51. > :09:54.territories than you would out of the United States in terms of
:09:55. > :09:59.Delaware. Let's be fair on these, for which we have a responsibility,
:10:00. > :10:05.we are making them improve their record and he should acknowledge it.
:10:06. > :10:09.Mr Speaker, a month ago, the Prime Minister informed the House that he
:10:10. > :10:13.welcomed the European Union proposals on country by country
:10:14. > :10:19.taxed transparency reporting. We agreed with that. Yet, on the 26th
:10:20. > :10:24.of April, Conservative MEPs voted against these proposals. Did they
:10:25. > :10:32.not received the memo of what? People expect that people pay their
:10:33. > :10:35.tax in this country. Tomorrow, the European Parliament will be voting
:10:36. > :10:40.again on country by country reporting. Can he assure the House
:10:41. > :10:43.that Conservative members of the European Parliament will support
:10:44. > :10:48.these measures as he told us they would a month ago? The important
:10:49. > :10:53.thing is that we support these measures. The Government supports
:10:54. > :10:57.these measures. Indeed, these measures have only come forward
:10:58. > :11:02.because it has been a Conservative Government in the United Kingdom
:11:03. > :11:05.proposing them. The only area of disagreement, I would suspect,
:11:06. > :11:11.between himself and myself is, I don't think we should set a minimum
:11:12. > :11:15.tax rate for these countries. This has always been a position of Labour
:11:16. > :11:18.Government and previous Conservative governments, that while we want to
:11:19. > :11:29.make sure that these territories behave properly, we don't actually
:11:30. > :11:31.make them set a minimum tax rate. That is the difference between us.
:11:32. > :11:34.If he wants to swap voting records of Labour and Tory MEPs, let's have
:11:35. > :11:47.a whole session, because I have plenty of material in here. That was
:11:48. > :11:58.a very long answer... When he could have quite simply said whether or
:11:59. > :12:06.not he supports these proposals, and if his Conservative MEPs will vote
:12:07. > :12:11.for them. Mr Speaker, the Prime Minister will be very well aware of
:12:12. > :12:15.the concern across the whole country about the question of unaccompanied
:12:16. > :12:20.child refugees across Europe. They are in a desperate plight and a
:12:21. > :12:24.dangerous situation. Everyone's heart reaches out to them, but we
:12:25. > :12:28.have to do more than that and be practical in our help for them. I
:12:29. > :12:34.got a letter this week from a voluntary worker with child refugees
:12:35. > :12:39.called Hannah. She wrote about these children, some of whom have family
:12:40. > :12:42.members in this country. Can the Prime Minister confirm that in
:12:43. > :12:48.respect of the response to Lord dubs amendment, there will be no delay
:12:49. > :12:50.whatsoever in accepting 3000 unaccompanied child refugees into
:12:51. > :12:55.this country to give them the support they need and allow them to
:12:56. > :13:03.enjoy the childhood they and all our children deserve? All I can say is
:13:04. > :13:07.that we will follow his amendment. That is now the law the land. The
:13:08. > :13:10.amendment says we have to consult very carefully with local
:13:11. > :13:15.authorities to make sure that as we take these children in we are able
:13:16. > :13:19.to house them, clothe them and feed them, make sure the properly looked
:13:20. > :13:24.after. So we need to look at the capacity of our care system. If you
:13:25. > :13:27.look at some councils, particularly in Kent and southern England, they
:13:28. > :13:33.are already struggling because of the number unaccompanied children
:13:34. > :13:37.who come in. Two figures, last year, 3000 unaccompanied children arrived
:13:38. > :13:42.and claimed asylum in the UK even before the scheme that is being
:13:43. > :13:46.introduced. Second, under Dublin, children with a connection to the UK
:13:47. > :13:51.can already claim asylum in France or Italy then come to the UK. We
:13:52. > :13:55.have accepted 30 such transfers since February. What I can say is,
:13:56. > :13:59.there will be no delay, we will get on with it as fast as we can, but in
:14:00. > :14:06.order to follow the law we have to talk to local authorities first.
:14:07. > :14:11.During President Obama's recent visit, was the Prime Minister able
:14:12. > :14:14.to talk to him about the Chinese dumping of steel and the robust
:14:15. > :14:26.action he has taken in the United States to address it, including
:14:27. > :14:28.increasing tariffs to 288%? Will he increased the tariffs and tell the
:14:29. > :14:34.Chinese to go to the back of the line? I did discuss this with
:14:35. > :14:38.President Obama and both the European Union and the US have taken
:14:39. > :14:44.action against Chinese dumping. The excess steel capacity in China is 25
:14:45. > :14:50.times higher than the UK's entire production. The anti-dumping tariffs
:14:51. > :14:54.we have produced in the EU have been very effective and in some areas
:14:55. > :15:00.have reduced Chinese exports to as much as 98%. EU action does work and
:15:01. > :15:08.if we were outside the EU, we might be subject to those tariffs
:15:09. > :15:13.ourselves. The Prime Minister's government was elected with 37% of
:15:14. > :15:18.the vote, so I am sure he would acknowledge the success of Nicola
:15:19. > :15:27.Sturgeon and the SNP in being returned victoriously for a third
:15:28. > :15:30.time with 46%, the highest of any political party in national
:15:31. > :15:37.elections anywhere currently in Western Europe. Mr Speaker, on the
:15:38. > :15:42.anti-corruption Summit, has the Prime Minister read the appeals from
:15:43. > :15:47.Nigerian campaigners who say, our efforts are sadly undermined if
:15:48. > :15:52.countries such as your own are welcoming our corrupt to hide their
:15:53. > :15:56.ill gotten gains in your luxury homes, department stores, car
:15:57. > :16:00.dealerships and private schools and anywhere else that will accept their
:16:01. > :16:11.cash with no questions asked? The role of London's property as vessels
:16:12. > :16:15.to hide this money, what is the Prime Minister going to do about
:16:16. > :16:22.this? I am delighted to congratulate Nicola Sturgeon on her victory, as I
:16:23. > :16:33.want to congratulate Ruth Davidson on Harris. We have something in
:16:34. > :16:38.common, the SNP have gone from a majority to a minority, while the
:16:39. > :16:45.Conservatives have gone from coalition to a majority. Next week
:16:46. > :16:50.he can get on with asking me how we are getting on with ordering some
:16:51. > :16:53.more pandas for Edinburgh zoo. The question he asks about the
:16:54. > :16:59.corruption Summit is right. The whole point about holding this
:17:00. > :17:02.summit is to say that the action is necessary by developed countries as
:17:03. > :17:08.well as developing countries. One of the steps we are making is that
:17:09. > :17:11.foreign companies have to declare with the beneficial owner is to make
:17:12. > :17:16.sure that plundered money from African countries cannot be hidden
:17:17. > :17:21.in London. It would be helpful if he could confirm that that list would
:17:22. > :17:24.be publicly available and not just accessible to the police. Seeing as
:17:25. > :17:28.the Prime Minister is prepared to lecture other countries on
:17:29. > :17:33.corruption, could he explain why seven police forces in the UK have
:17:34. > :17:38.launched criminal investigations into Conservative MPs for potential
:17:39. > :17:44.electoral fraud? Mr Speaker, it is very serious, so how is it that a
:17:45. > :17:47.Conservative crime and policing commissioner can serve in such a
:17:48. > :17:52.role when being under police investigation? First of all, let's
:17:53. > :17:59.be clear about this anti-corruption Summit. Nobody is lecturing anybody.
:18:00. > :18:02.One of the reasons this issue does not get addressed is because
:18:03. > :18:08.countries and politicians are too worried about addressing it, knowing
:18:09. > :18:12.that no country is perfect, nor is any politician. It is right for
:18:13. > :18:17.Britain to take this lead, not least because we meet our contribution on
:18:18. > :18:24.aid, but we are entitled to raise this issue. As for the electoral
:18:25. > :18:29.commission, the whole point is it is independent and when it comes to
:18:30. > :18:33.operation on decisions by a police force they are independent as well.
:18:34. > :18:38.That is the hallmark of a non-corrupt country. I know my right
:18:39. > :18:44.honourable friend will want to join with me in congratulating Katie born
:18:45. > :18:50.who was re-elected as the Police and Crime Commissioner, topping the poll
:18:51. > :18:56.in Crawley, significantly for her work in helping victims. In that
:18:57. > :19:02.respect, will the Prime Minister introduce a British bill of rights
:19:03. > :19:06.as soon as possible? I am happy to make that commitment and let me join
:19:07. > :19:13.him in congratulating all the candidates who were successful. In a
:19:14. > :19:17.minute. What we saw in the Police and Crime Commissioner elections was
:19:18. > :19:23.a very large increase in turnout, sometimes as much as 25% point
:19:24. > :19:29.increase in turnout. This new role in our country is bedding in well. I
:19:30. > :19:34.am happy to congratulate Carwyn Jones, Arlene Foster, who will be
:19:35. > :19:39.First Minister of Northern Ireland. I spoke to her and the Deputy First
:19:40. > :19:43.Minister yesterday. I also congratulate Sadiq Khan who won a
:19:44. > :19:50.victory in London and we look forward to working with him for the
:19:51. > :19:53.benefit of Londoners. When Hall was left out of the government's plans
:19:54. > :19:56.for rail electrification for the North, whole business got together
:19:57. > :20:04.and produce a privately financed scheme to do the work for the City
:20:05. > :20:08.of Culture, 2017. It has been with the Department for Transport for two
:20:09. > :20:12.years. Does the Prime Minister think their attitude shows incompetence or
:20:13. > :20:19.indifference to the scheme that has been put forward with private money?
:20:20. > :20:24.The honourable lady is being unfair on the department, not least because
:20:25. > :20:30.passengers will benefit from 500 brand-new carriages and the removal
:20:31. > :20:34.of outdated trains. ?1.4 million of investment is going into the station
:20:35. > :20:39.to be delivered before it becomes the UK City of Culture. The
:20:40. > :20:43.Department for Transport is considering the case to complete
:20:44. > :20:48.electrification between Selby and how. We make these investments
:20:49. > :20:53.because we are investing in our infrastructure and have a strong
:20:54. > :21:01.economy. I recently visited Silent Night, will the Prime Minister join
:21:02. > :21:06.me in congratulating them on the success of this scheme which has
:21:07. > :21:13.allowed them to award all of their 1000 employees with a ?250 thank you
:21:14. > :21:19.bonus? I am happy to join my honourable friend in congratulating
:21:20. > :21:24.them. I remember visiting them in 2014. They employed 800 people.
:21:25. > :21:29.They're now employ 1100 people and that is a good example of a business
:21:30. > :21:33.expanding under this government. They are big backers of
:21:34. > :21:39.apprenticeships and our target is 3 million apprenticeships under this
:21:40. > :21:43.Parliament. Already in 2016, at least 46 women have been murdered in
:21:44. > :21:50.the UK. This number would be much higher if not for specialist
:21:51. > :21:52.refuges. I am standing to bake the Prime Minister to exempt refuge
:21:53. > :22:00.accommodation from the changes to housing benefit. This will certainly
:22:01. > :22:04.close services. I do not want to hear a stock answer about the 40
:22:05. > :22:09.million over the next few years. He knows that that will not stop
:22:10. > :22:16.refuges setting. Will he choose to save lives? Please. The honourable
:22:17. > :22:19.lady raises an important point and that is why we delayed the
:22:20. > :22:23.introduction of this change so we could look at all of the possible
:22:24. > :22:32.consequences and make sure we get it right so that we can help vulnerable
:22:33. > :22:37.people. HIV infection rates in the UK are on the rise. My right
:22:38. > :22:45.honourable friend will be aware that NHS England have refused to fund
:22:46. > :22:49.pre-exposure prophylactic treatment. Will my right honourable friend meet
:22:50. > :22:54.with me and leading aids charities so that we can review this
:22:55. > :22:58.unacceptable decision? My understanding is that NHS England
:22:59. > :23:01.are considering their commissioning responsibility. I want them to reach
:23:02. > :23:08.a decision on this quickly this month if possible. There is a rising
:23:09. > :23:11.rate of infection that these treatments can help and make a
:23:12. > :23:18.difference too. We are planning trial sites. They are already under
:23:19. > :23:22.way and we are investing ?2 million to support this. I will make sure he
:23:23. > :23:30.gets the meetings he needs to make progress with this. In my first year
:23:31. > :23:34.as an MP every person in my constituency advice surgery has been
:23:35. > :23:37.an anxious council tenant, usually mother, father and two children
:23:38. > :23:42.living in a one-bedroom flat and they are often in tears. They cannot
:23:43. > :23:46.afford to rent in the private market and they cannot afford to buy their
:23:47. > :23:51.council flat and they cannot afford a starter home. With the Prime
:23:52. > :23:56.Minister explain that I can read to them from Hansard White in his view
:23:57. > :24:01.the Housing Bill will not make their intolerable situation worse I see
:24:02. > :24:05.Mark what I would say is there are a series of things that will help
:24:06. > :24:09.them. First of all, making sure the right to buy is therefore a housing
:24:10. > :24:14.association tenants as well as council tenants with the full
:24:15. > :24:18.discount makes a difference. Because you have got help to buy, which
:24:19. > :24:23.means people need a smaller amount of equity to buy their house, that
:24:24. > :24:28.helps as well. Starter homes will make a difference because they will
:24:29. > :24:35.be more affordable. Added to that, shared accommodation homes means
:24:36. > :24:39.that where you previously needed a deposit of ?30,000, you may be able
:24:40. > :24:44.to buy a house for just a few thousand pounds deposit. All of
:24:45. > :24:48.those things make a difference and for those in estate that need
:24:49. > :24:52.regeneration we are backing the regeneration that never happened
:24:53. > :24:57.under a Labour government. I am proud this government has delivered
:24:58. > :25:01.a record low unemployment levels in my constituency of 6%. This
:25:02. > :25:08.government delivered the Cardiff city deal, and investment into
:25:09. > :25:15.infrastructure. Does the Prime Minister share my eagerness to see
:25:16. > :25:21.electrification of the city and Valley lines delivered in Wales? My
:25:22. > :25:26.honourable friend is right to raise these issues because the money is
:25:27. > :25:31.there and now, frankly, with a new Welsh government in place we need
:25:32. > :25:36.the action, particularly on the M4. We have given the Welsh government
:25:37. > :25:40.500 million increased borrowing powers, the delay in upgrading the
:25:41. > :25:49.motorway is damaging business in South Wales and it is high time the
:25:50. > :25:54.Welsh government got on with it. Mr Speaker, a report claims it is money
:25:55. > :26:05.rather than religious fervour that attracts recruitment to Isis, while
:26:06. > :26:10.the Syrian army pays less money and Isis can pay more money due to its
:26:11. > :26:13.funding and sophistication. Does the Prime Minister need much more needs
:26:14. > :26:23.to be done to offer alternative economic avenues for Syrians and to
:26:24. > :26:26.undermine the brains behind Isis? I agree with what he says about
:26:27. > :26:33.development and aid and that is why we have a serious aid budget. Right
:26:34. > :26:37.now in Syria it is difficult to get aid and benefit through. If we truly
:26:38. > :26:43.see this as them recruiting people because they are paying them, we
:26:44. > :26:46.would miss the point. The cancer of Islamist extremist violence is
:26:47. > :26:50.damaging our world and our country and not just in Syria and we have to
:26:51. > :26:58.understand the nature of that extremism if we are to defeat it. A
:26:59. > :27:03.business park in my constituency will create 300,000 new jobs. Will
:27:04. > :27:14.the Prime Minister join me in congratulating its first new talent,
:27:15. > :27:20.Fat Face? I think the claimant count in his constituency has fallen by a
:27:21. > :27:23.staggering 52% since 2010, and we need to keep on with this by making
:27:24. > :27:28.sure we are expanding the training and the apprentice that make sure
:27:29. > :27:37.that young people get the jobs. The Prime Minister said that the UK was
:27:38. > :27:41.becoming a surveillance state and he promised to sweep the whole edifice
:27:42. > :27:47.away. That he has made a U-turn and his investigative Powers Bill
:27:48. > :27:54.proposes to retain a record of everybody in the UK. Why is he
:27:55. > :27:58.championing ineffective mass surveillance in government? I
:27:59. > :28:02.disagree with the honourable gentleman and I hope he will follow
:28:03. > :28:07.and listen to the debates that take place on this vital bill. The fact
:28:08. > :28:12.is if you want to make sure that we can keep our country safe, just as
:28:13. > :28:16.we have been able to see the Communications data when two people
:28:17. > :28:20.talk to each other on a mobile phone or a fixed phone, so if that
:28:21. > :28:25.conversation is taking place on an Internet site, is he happy for plots
:28:26. > :28:38.to be hatched, terrorism to be planned,
:28:39. > :28:42.murderers to be arranged, because people are using an Internet site
:28:43. > :28:44.rather than a telephone? My answer is no. We have to modernise our
:28:45. > :28:47.capabilities to keep our country safe and that is what this bill is
:28:48. > :28:51.about. My right honourable friend said in 2015 that access to the
:28:52. > :28:56.Internet should not be a luxury, but right. The press release said that
:28:57. > :29:01.every home and business would have access to fast broadband by the hand
:29:02. > :29:06.this Parliament. With my right honourable friend say today that
:29:07. > :29:11.this commitment will be honoured? My right honourable friend will have to
:29:12. > :29:15.wait for the Queen's speech when we set out how we are going to make
:29:16. > :29:20.this access available to our citizens. Will the Prime Minister
:29:21. > :29:25.give me a personal commitment to work with the Scottish Government to
:29:26. > :29:30.blood delivery of funding for the Tay area, Dundee and the surrounding
:29:31. > :29:36.area? I am very happy to give that commitment. I think city deals are
:29:37. > :29:42.working. They are working in Scotland and I was proud to be there
:29:43. > :29:51.for the Aberdeen city deal. City deals can only work if we are all
:29:52. > :29:54.part of one happy United Kingdom. Respected journalist Laura
:29:55. > :29:59.Kuenssberg has been subjected to an online hate campaign which appears
:30:00. > :30:03.to be a sexist witchhunt to silence her. Increasingly this is a tool
:30:04. > :30:08.used against people in public life by those who take an opposing view.
:30:09. > :30:11.Will my right honourable friend condemned this kind of harassment
:30:12. > :30:16.and will he work with media and social media platforms to reserve
:30:17. > :30:22.the right to speak freely without intimidation or hate? We must be
:30:23. > :30:27.able to speak freely and we must have a robust and lively democracy,
:30:28. > :30:32.but some of the things people say on twitter, knowing that they are in
:30:33. > :30:34.some way anonymous, are frankly appalling and people should be
:30:35. > :30:41.ashamed of the sort of sexist bullying that often takes place.
:30:42. > :30:49.Last week London elected the new Mayor... With an overwhelming
:30:50. > :30:55.mandate to tackle London's housing crisis, a crisis many of us fear the
:30:56. > :30:58.Housing Bill will make worse. Last April the Prime Minister launched a
:30:59. > :31:02.manifesto promising to replace council houses with affordable homes
:31:03. > :31:06.in the same area. Why is he proposing an amendment to the
:31:07. > :31:11.Housing Bill this afternoon which implements last year's manifesto
:31:12. > :31:15.commitments? Let me again congratulate Sadiq Khan for his
:31:16. > :31:21.victory and we look forward to working with him on issues that
:31:22. > :31:25.matter to Londoners. I would put the question back to the honourable
:31:26. > :31:30.lady. Our Housing Bill means that every high-value properties sold
:31:31. > :31:35.will mean two new affordable homes in London. Why is it the Labour
:31:36. > :31:39.Party and the other plays are opposing what will mean more houses,
:31:40. > :31:45.more affordable housing and more home ownership? They talk a good
:31:46. > :31:55.game, but at the end of the day they are the enemies of aspiration.
:31:56. > :31:58.During military operations in Afghanistan, British forces were
:31:59. > :32:06.reliant on local interpreters who constantly put themselvess in harm's
:32:07. > :32:11.way. I saw with my own eyes how brave these interpreters work. Does
:32:12. > :32:15.he agree it is a stain on our honoured that we have abandoned a
:32:16. > :32:18.large number of them to be threatened by the Taliban. Some have
:32:19. > :32:23.been murdered and others have had to flee in fear of their lives. We owe
:32:24. > :32:28.them a huge debt of gratitude and honour and we must provide safety
:32:29. > :32:33.and sanctuary for them here. We debated and discussed around the
:32:34. > :32:36.National Security Council table in the Coalition Government and
:32:37. > :32:40.announced in the House of commons a scheme to make sure that those
:32:41. > :32:43.people who had helped our forces in terms of translation and other
:32:44. > :32:49.services were given the opportunity of coming here. We set up one scheme
:32:50. > :32:54.to encourage that and another generous scheme to try and encourage
:32:55. > :32:58.those who wanted to stay, or who had not been translated for a long
:32:59. > :33:03.period, to stay in Afghanistan and help rebuild that country. It is
:33:04. > :33:08.important to have both schemes in place, rather than to say that
:33:09. > :33:12.everyone can come to the UK. Let's back Afghans to rebuild their own
:33:13. > :33:16.country. The Prime Minister has confirmed to me that should we leave
:33:17. > :33:23.the EU, then the European funding for the very poorest parts of Wales
:33:24. > :33:27.will cease. Will he confirm that in such a case the UK Government would
:33:28. > :33:32.make up such a difference? The point I would make to the honourable
:33:33. > :33:36.gentleman, as I would to anyone asking what would happen if we were
:33:37. > :33:41.to leave, is I do not think we could give a guarantee. I want to go on
:33:42. > :33:46.making sure that poor regions and part of our country are properly
:33:47. > :33:52.supported. If, as I think it is the case, that we would find our economy
:33:53. > :33:56.hit by leaving and our tax receipts, that will impact the amount of
:33:57. > :34:03.funding we can put into agriculture, research and poor are part of our
:34:04. > :34:09.country. The right option is boat to remain in. Can I support the Prime
:34:10. > :34:15.Minister in his comments about Nigeria and Afghanistan? I want to
:34:16. > :34:19.ask him if he will stop pouring hundreds of millions of pounds of
:34:20. > :34:23.taxpayers' money into those countries until they have cleaned up
:34:24. > :34:34.their act. Can he tell us where he has the European Union in his leak
:34:35. > :34:37.of corruption? I thank my honourable friend for his help and support and
:34:38. > :34:46.his tips on diplomacy as well. They are useful. Countries like Nigeria
:34:47. > :34:51.and Afghanistan, their leaders are battling hard against very corrupt
:34:52. > :34:53.systems and countries. In both cases they have made remarkable steps
:34:54. > :34:59.forward and I am keen to welcome them to the anti-corruption
:35:00. > :35:04.conference in London. But I do not think it would be right to withdraw
:35:05. > :35:07.the aid that we give because the problems in those countries come
:35:08. > :35:12.back and haunt us here, whether it is problems of migration or
:35:13. > :35:17.terrorism and all the rest of it. We are a country involved in a
:35:18. > :35:27.dangerous, global world and I our aid budget, 0.7%, alongside our
:35:28. > :35:32.defence budget, 2%, a way of keeping us safe in a dangerous world as well
:35:33. > :35:36.as fulfilling our moral responsibilities. The noise makes it
:35:37. > :35:45.necessary to outdo the Barclays Premier League matches in terms of
:35:46. > :35:52.injury time. It is a pleasure to recall Jill Furniss. 22 years ago we
:35:53. > :36:02.saw in the country's biggest sporting disaster. It is true we
:36:03. > :36:10.will not have the truth. Will the Prime Minister initiate an enquiry?
:36:11. > :36:15.The Home Secretary has met with that group and is considering the point
:36:16. > :36:21.is that they have put forward and they will come to their conclusions
:36:22. > :36:25.in the right time. Business leaders in Cornwall and up and down the
:36:26. > :36:30.country are awaiting news on airport expansion in the South East.
:36:31. > :36:34.Following this morning's announcement by Heathrow airport
:36:35. > :36:38.that they are accepting all the recommendations, and can the Prime
:36:39. > :36:44.Minister update the House and does he agree that the third runway at
:36:45. > :36:51.Heathrow offers the best for prosperity for our country? With my
:36:52. > :36:54.many unforced errors in the last 24 hours, can I apologise to the
:36:55. > :36:59.honourable lady because I should have welcomed her to the House of
:37:00. > :37:03.commons and congratulated her on her by-election victory. She has already
:37:04. > :37:09.lost no time in speaking up for her constituents in a very powerful way.
:37:10. > :37:13.As we announced earlier this year, there are issues of air quality that
:37:14. > :37:17.need to be resolved. We are on our way to working out how to resolve
:37:18. > :37:23.them and when we do we welcome back to the House and announce happens
:37:24. > :37:28.next. My constituent's mother was killed in 1981 and at the time it
:37:29. > :37:32.was covered up as a suicide pact. But 18 years later it was discovered
:37:33. > :37:36.she was murdered by her father and his mistress. No one can imagine
:37:37. > :37:42.that the pain and suffering that her and her family have had to endure.
:37:43. > :37:46.But they now have had to relive this pain because ITV are dramatising
:37:47. > :37:51.their whole ordeal completely against their wishes, using not only
:37:52. > :37:56.their real names, but also her own. I have raised this with ITV and
:37:57. > :37:59.Ofcom and no rules have been broken, but does the Prime Minister not
:38:00. > :38:05.agree that victims' voices should have a far greater role? Will he
:38:06. > :38:09.meet with me and my constituent to discuss what more could have been
:38:10. > :38:14.done in this situation and how we can strengthen the regulation in
:38:15. > :38:19.future to protect victims? I was not aware of the case the honourable
:38:20. > :38:23.lady rightly raises. I remember my time working in the TV industry when
:38:24. > :38:27.there are times when these decisions are made that can cause a huge
:38:28. > :38:31.amount of hurt and upset to families. I will discuss this case
:38:32. > :38:39.to the culture Secretary and bring it to his attention and see if there
:38:40. > :38:54.is anything else that can be done. Yesterday the local lord prior... I
:38:55. > :39:00.am happy to look at this issue closely. It is necessary to
:39:01. > :39:05.differentiate between smoking and e-cigarette because they have very
:39:06. > :39:09.different health effects. That is what is being achieved, but I will
:39:10. > :39:21.look carefully into this. Mr Tim Farron. Order! Order! However
:39:22. > :39:35.irritating the honourable gentleman... May be to government
:39:36. > :39:42.backbenchers, he has a right to be heard and he will be heard. Mr Tim
:39:43. > :39:52.Farron. I am grateful to you Mr Speaker. I heard the Prime Minister
:39:53. > :39:55.on two occasions this afternoon congratulate the new Mayor of
:39:56. > :40:02.London, Sadiq Khan, and I would like to repeat that myself. He did not
:40:03. > :40:09.apologise for the disgraceful racist campaign the Party chose to run in
:40:10. > :40:14.that campaign. Will he apologise for deliberately dividing communities in
:40:15. > :40:18.order to win cheap votes? It is a great way to end the session,
:40:19. > :40:19.getting a lesson in clean campaigning from the Liberal
:40:20. > :40:30.Democrats!