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function smoothly and effectively during this period. As have members | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
of the Cabinet. We intend doing so in order to fulfil all the | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
commitments we were elected on. Questions to the Prime Minister I | :00:11. | :00:21. | |
know the whole house will join me in sending the profound | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
I know the whole house will join with me incentive condolencds to the | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
family and friends of those killed in the in Orlando on Sunday. This | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
attack, along with the callous murder of a French policeman on | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
Monday, is a stark remind of the challenge we face to defeat the | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
poisonous ideology of Daesh both online and on our streets. H believe | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
that together with our friends, our allies and our common values, we | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
will prevail. This morning H had meetings with ministerial colleagues | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
and added just two duties in this House, I shall have further such | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
meetings later today. Thank you Mr Speaker. I share the Prime | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
Minister's sentiments in thd Sabet is expressed to the victims, | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
families and friends of those in Orlando. The Australian pardnt | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
company of a United Kingdom company who see Europe as a major m`rket | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
expansion have put on hold their plans to build a factory in the | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
enterprise zone on the South Lowestoft industrial estate. | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
Lowestoft has enormous potential as a centre for serving the European | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
maritime market but does thd Prime Minister share my concern that this | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
opportunity would unnecessarily be placed at risk if the UK be`ts the | :01:34. | :01:43. | |
EU? -- leaves. I share his concern. I well remember visiting his | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
constituency and seeing what a thriving business location Lowestoft | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
is. He is right that many companies come to Britain and invest hn | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
Britain for many reasons but one of the most important is access to the | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
single market of 500 million customers. Next week we havd the | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
opportunity to put our placd in that single market beyond doubt `nd I | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
hope that we wake up on Jund 24 knowing that businesses are going to | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
invest more in our country, create more jobs in our country, sde more | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
growth in our country, becatse that will help the families of otr | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
country and the unemployment figures today, another welcome fall in | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
unemployment, we could see continued progress. Lets see our country | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
moving forward. I concur and join with the Prime Minister in his | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
remarks about the terrible deaths in Orlando. On Monday I joined a vigil | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
of thousands of LGBT people in Soho in London to mourn the deaths of the | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
49 and also I want to say, we say thank you to all those all over this | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
country who attended vigils on Monday night to show their concern | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
and their horror about it. Puite simply, we defeat such atrocities | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
through our love and our solidarity and we need to send that message | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
out. Three years ago, there was a cross-party agreement for the | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
lamentation of section 40 of the Crime and Courts Bill and to proceed | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
with Leveson to once prosecttors were concluded. The Prime Mhnister | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
will be aware that today thdre is a lobby of Parliament by the victims | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
of phone hacking. The Prime Minister said a few years ago that wd all did | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
too much cosying up to Rupert Murdoch. Some of his Tory Brexit | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
colleagues are certainly cosying up to Rupert Murdoch at the molent but | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
will the Prime Minister givd a commitment today that he will meet | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
the victims of press intrushon and assure them that he will kedp his | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
promise on this? Let me agahn echo what he said about the Orlando | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
bombings. In terms of the Ldveson issue, we said that we'd make a | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
decision about a second stage of this inquiry once the criminal | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
investigations and prosecuthons were out of the weighted top thex are | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
still continuing and so that is the situation. -- out of the wax. I have | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
met with victims of press intrusion and I'm happy to do so again. I | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
think people can accuse me of many things but cosying up to Rupert | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
Murdoch is not one of them. My question was, will he meet the | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
victims of phone hacking? I hope you will because they deserve it | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
anti-bra missed that he would meet them. A major thunder of thd Leave | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
campaign said, and I quote, "If it were up to me, I'd privatisd the | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
National Health Service". The honourable member for Uxbridge said, | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
"If people have to pay for NHS services they will value thdm all". | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
Both he and the honourable lember for Surrey Heath are members of a | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
government that has put the NHS into record deficit. These peopld are now | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
masquerading as the saviours of the NHS. Wolves in sheep's clothing Did | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
the honourable member for Totnes get it right when she rejected the | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
duplicity of this argument hn the Leave campaign and decided to join | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
the Remain campaign? I was delighted with what my right honourable.. My | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
honourable friend, the Membdr for Totnes, said about changing her | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
mind, which is a brave thing for politicians to do, and saying that | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
she thought that the NHS wotld be safer if we remain inside a reformed | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
EU. I believe that very profoundly, because the key to a strong NHS is a | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
strong economy and I think there can't be any doubt that nind out of | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
ten economists, the governor of the Bank of England, the IMF, the OECD, | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
all of these other organisations, saying our economy will be stronger | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
and it is a strong economy that delivers a strong NHS. Last week, | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
the Prime Minister gave a wdlcome commitment to the closing of the | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
loophole in the posting of workers directive. We will hold him to that | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
but we are concerned about the exploitation of migrant workers and | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
the undercutting of wages in this country as a result of that. On that | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
issue, will the Prime Minister today commit to the outlawing of the | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
practice of agencies that only advertise abroad for jobs that are | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
in reality jobs in this country First of all, he and I absolutely | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
agree about the evils of Modern Slavery Bill that is why thhs | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
government passed the Modern Slavery Bill with all-party support. We ve | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
doubled the fines that can be put on companies for exploiting labour in | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
this way and we have strengthened the gang masters licensing `uthority | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
and they have commenced and carried out a number of prosecutions, | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
including in the eastern and, where I was yesterday, and so we continue | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
to take action on every levdl to make sure people are paid their | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
wages they should be paid and that protections are there on thd minimum | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
wage and now on a national living wage. -- including in the E`st of | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
England. I think all of those are vital and we will continue with | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
those measures. I think people are entitled to a fair day's pax for a | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
fair day's what. My question was about outlawing the practicd of | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
advertising by agencies onlx in other countries. Tens of thousands | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
of EU and other people who have migrated to Britain work in our | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
public services and do a fantastic job. Many people in Britain are also | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
concerned about immigration and their local communities. Surely what | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
communities need is practic`l solutions like the migrant hmpact | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
fund set up by Gordon Brown when he was Prime Minister to deal with the | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
extra pressure on housing, schools and hospitals. Will the Prile | :07:24. | :07:24. | |
Minister now concede that it was a mistake to | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
abolish that fund and will he work with us to reinstate it as ` matter | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
of urgency, to give support to those communities that are facing problems | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
on school places and doctors' surgeries? He is absolutely right. | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
In answer to the question about employment agencies that only | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
advertise for overseas workdrs, we are looking at Battersea if we can | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
ban that practice because wd don't believe that is right. Of course, | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
the answer to so many of thdse questions is actually to make sure | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
we are training, educating `nd employing British people and getting | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
member qualifications they need to take on the jobs that are economy is | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
creating an today's unemploxment figures are another reminder that. | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
In terms of funds to help communities impacted by migration, | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
we have a pledge in our manhfesto, which we are looking forward to | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
bringing forward, with a controlled migration fun to make sure we put | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
money into communities wherd there are pressures because, of course, | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
there are some pressures and we do need to address them and I'l happy | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
that we will be able to work on a cross-party basis to do that it cos | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
I've said many times, there are good ways of controlling migration and | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
one of them is the rules we are bringing in so people don't get | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
instant access to our welfare system, but there are bad w`ys of | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
controlling immigration. Le`ving the single market and wrecking our | :08:46. | :08:46. | |
economy is certainly one of them. Today, a flotilla of boats hs due to | :08:47. | :08:57. | |
come along the Thames compl`ining fishing quotas are not going to the | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
UK domestic fleet. My have not seen them yet, but presumably thdy are on | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
their way. The Prime Ministdr will be aware that reforms made three | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
years ago put the power back into the hands of member states `nd it is | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
the UK Government that has given nearly two thirds of the English and | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
Welsh fishing quotas to just three companies, excluding small fishing | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
communities along the coasts. Can the Prime Minister stop blaling | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
Brussels on this and tell otr fishing communities what action he | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
will take to allow them to continue their work and go further ott in | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
collect Kingfish? First of `ll, can I thank him for the reforms we | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
carried through in the last Parliament and the honourable member | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
was crucial in delivering those changes. What we have seen hn the | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
last five years is an incre`se in the value of the UK fishing industry | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
of something like 20%. We export every year about one billion pounds | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
worth of fish to the EU and there is no country in the world that has a | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
trade agreement with the EU that doesn't involve tariffs, taxes on | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
the sale of its fish. There is no way we would get a better ddal on | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
the outside than the deal wd get on the outside. So working with fishing | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
communities, working with fhshermen and keeping the market open and make | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
sure we manage our fish stocks locally and appropriately is part of | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
our plan. His government sthll handed quotas over to three very | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
large companies at the expense of small communities around Brhtain, I | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
hope he reflects on that. Mr Speaker, with eight days to go | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
before the referendum, the Labour position is, we will be vothng to | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
remain because it is the best way to protect families, protect jobs and | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
protect public services. We would oppose any posed Brexit austerity | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
budget, just as we have opposed any austerity budget put forward by this | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
government. Will the Prime Linister take this opportunity to condemn the | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
opportunism of 57 of his colleagues, who are pro-Leave, these ard members | :11:15. | :11:23. | |
who backed the bedroom tax, backed cutting disability benefits and | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
cutting care for the elderlx, who suddenly have now had a conversion | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
to the anti-austerity movemdnt. Does he have any message for thel, does | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
he have any message for thel at all? What I would say to the right | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
honourable gentleman, there are very few times when he and I are on the | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
same side of an argument. This must say to people watching at home, when | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
you have the leader of the Labour Party and almost all of the Labour | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
Party, Conservative Governmdnt, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens, the | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
Ulster Unionists and the Scottish National Party old saying, we have | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
huge disagreements, but on this vital issue, the best option for | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
Britain is to vote to remain in a reformed European union, re`lly says | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
something. This is a huge choice for our country, choices have | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
consequences. If we wake up on June the 24th and we have remaindd in, | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
the economy can move forward. If we vote out, experts warn as wd have a | :12:24. | :12:31. | |
small economy, lesser wages and less tax receipts. That is why wd would | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
have to do have measures to address a huge hole in our public fhnances. | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
Nobody wants to have an emergency budget, nobody wants to havd cuts in | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
public services. Nobody wants to have tax increases. But there is | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
only one thing worse than not addressing a crisis in your public | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
finances through a budget, `nd that is ignoring it. If you ignore a | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
crisis, you see your economx go into a tailspin, confidence is rdduced in | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
the country. We can avoid all of this I voting Remain next wdek. | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
Having recently undertaken ` real I'll tour of my constituencx, and | :13:13. | :13:28. | |
Sam told -- sampled some of the nicest ales in the north, c`n I ask | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
the Prime Minister to join le in nodding to the virtues and lassive | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
benefits to the economies from small and medium-size breweries from up | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
and the country? Happy to agree with my honourable friend, having spent | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
last weekend in Kent and yesterday in Bury St Edmunds, I agree a large | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
quantity of real ale is one of the best ways to get through thhs | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
gruelling referendum campaign. The British beer industry is in good | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
health because of the duty cuts from the Chancellor, because of the | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
microbe Ruhe tax regime. We have a lot of craft beer coming through and | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
the brewers I am talking to and going to see, they want the single | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
market open and they want to remain in. On Orlando and the deaths in | :14:21. | :14:29. | |
France, we aren't these benches join with the condolences expressed by | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition. We are now only a | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
week away from the biggest puestion the UK has faced in a long time and | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
that is the continuing membdrship of the European Union. Exports, goods | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
and services from the Scotthsh economy are massive important. | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
Hundreds and thousands of jobs depend on them. Meanwhile, public | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
services, including the NHS are supported by many hard-workhng | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
people buy elsewhere in the European Union. Does the Prime Minister | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
agree, if we want to protect jobs, public services, we must vote to | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
remain in the European Union gesture Mark I do believe the most hmportant | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
arguments is about the future of our economy. It seems obvious you can | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
listen to the experts or make a common-sense argument. Todax we have | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
access to a market of 500 mhllion people. For an economy like | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
Scotland, such a big exporthng economy, there is no way we would | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
get a better deal with the single market on the outside than we get on | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
the inside. If we left we would seek our economy suffer, jobs suffer | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
livelihood suffer. It is pl`in common sense. I agree with him, for | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
jobs and livelihoods, we should remain in. There is a consepuence | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
the public finances, if our economy is doing less well, public finances | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
would be doing less well and that would have consequences for | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
Scotland. Make a raise that with the Prime Minister? We have learned from | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
a Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer and a former Labotr | :16:07. | :16:08. | |
Chancellor of the Exchequer, there would be likely to be 30 billion | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
pounds in cuts to public services or tax rises, where there to bd a | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
Brexit vote. What impact wotld that have on public services in Scotland? | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
Please, can we learn now before we vote? What impact would it have on | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
the budget in Scotland that pays for the NHS in Scotland, schools in | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
Scotland, local government `nd key public services. Is it not `nother | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
reason why we must vote to remain in the European Union? What I would say | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
to the right honourable gentleman, these figures are not based on what | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
the Chancellor of the Exchepuer is saying, they are based on what the | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
Institute for Fiscal Studies is saying. They are talking about at 20 | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
to 40 billion hole in our ptblic finances if regs it went ahdad. | :17:03. | :17:10. | |
These are organisations quoted in this House against the government | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
because they are respected for their independence. Decisions to cut | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
public spending in the UK btdget do have an impact on Scotland. And to | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
anyone who says, these warnhngs of course, they could be wrong, they | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
could be inaccurate, this is an uncomfortable point to make to the | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
right honourable gentleman, of course there were warnings `bout the | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
oil price before the Scottish referendum. It turned out to be | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
worse than the experts warndd. Thank you Mr Speaker. Since the tdrrorist | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
attacks in Paris and Brussels, many of my constituents are worrhed that | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
remaining in the EU increasds the risk of terrorism. Fear is | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
exacerbated by the disgraceful comments of people like Nigdl | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
Farage. Does my right honourable friend agree, security servhces are | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
helped by the EU and not hindered? I would say directly to my honourable | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
friend, I have done this job for six years, working with the Homd | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
Secretary, I have seen how closely our intelligence and security | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
services work with other services around the world. Of course we keep | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
ourselves safe by investing in anti-terrorism policing and keep | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
ourselves safe by working whth the Americans and the partnershhp. I am | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
in no doubt increasing extent of intelligence exchange that takes | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
place through the EU is of direct benefit. It is not just you need a | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
border, you need information and intelligence to police the border | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
properly. We are seeing an dnormous amount of exchange about crhminal | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
records, passenger name records Outside the EU we can try and | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
negotiate our way back into these agreements, but right now wd are in | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
them and we are driving thel. Knowsley is expected to recdive ?10 | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
million in EU funding over the next three years. EU funding has helped | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
attract his Mrs to the borotgh like QVC which created 2500 jobs. Isn't | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
it the case of this important funding from the EU could bd lost if | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
we vote to leave the Europe`n Union? The honourable gentleman makes an | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
important point. Which is, hf you look at these independent, dconomic | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
reports, they said there is no financial saving from leaving the | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
EU. The Institute for Fiscal Studies said, we can include leaving the EU | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
would not leave more money to spend on the NHS. Rather it would leave us | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
spending less on public services or taxing more or borrowing more. I | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
would argue there is a big dividend from remaining inside the ET and we | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
will start to feel it next Friday as companies could see Britain have | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
made a decision and job cre`tors and international investors would know | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
Britain meant business and they would be investing in our country, | :20:09. | :20:18. | |
but there is no interest in leaving. The number of working households has | :20:19. | :20:28. | |
declined since 2010, will hd focus on more jobs and a growing dconomy? | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
The most important thing we can do for parents in our country hs to | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
help them get a job, earn a living and provide for their familx. In our | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
life chances strategy, meastring worthlessness and school attainment | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
are important in helping to ensure we continue to help lift chhldren | :20:47. | :21:00. | |
out of poverty. Mr Speaker, two German men run businesses in | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
Scotland, but they cannot vote next week. They leave for France on | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
Sunday and are considering leaving permanently if we exit the DU. Will | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
the Prime Minister join my call for them and others in a similar | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
situation to stay, as they `re highly valued? There are many people | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
who come to this country, work hard and make a contribution and help to | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
build communities. It is important to get the numbers into the spec. 5% | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
of the population are EU nationals, Italians, Germans, Polish and the | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
rest of it. Only five peopld in the street will be EU nationals. Look at | :21:43. | :21:52. | |
our NHS, 50,000 EU nationals, care homes, 60,000 EU nationals helping | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
to look after elderly relathves with dementia and other conditions as | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
they come to the end of thehr life. We do need to make sure people who | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
come here are working and m`king a contribution, but we should | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
celebrate the contribution they make. Given the government's recent | :22:07. | :22:16. | |
enthusiasm for making forec`sts and predictions, can the Prime Linister | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
please tell the House, in which year will we meet our manifesto | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
commitment to reduce immigr`tion to the tens of thousands? At the last | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
year for which EU migration was in Allen 's, the number of EU nationals | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
and British nationals leaving our shores to work in Europe and the | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
number of EU nationals coming to live and work here, the last year | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
that was in balance was 2008. I would say to my honourable friend, | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
yes, we need to do more to control migration from outside the DU, and | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
we are doing that with the closure of bogus colleges and other | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
measures. We are doing more inside the EU, not least saying people who | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
come here, if they don't get a job after six months, they have to | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
leave. If they were, they h`ve to contribute for four years bdfore | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
they get full access to the welfare system. Those are big changds and | :23:14. | :23:15. | |
sensible ways of controlling immigration. A nonsense of `lways | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
pulling out of the single m`rket, damaging jobs and damaging the | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
economy and having to explahn to our constituents why we have self impose | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
a recession on our economy. Many from my constituency of Swansea are | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
struggling to make ends meet. The World Trade Organisation sax if we | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
leave the EU, we could face a major tariffs on trade. We would have to | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
re-negotiate over 160 trade agreements. Does the Prime Linister | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
agree with me, leaving the DU would hit hard-working families the most, | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
raising the cost of living `nd it is to take a risk to take? The | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
honourable lady is right. It is always the poorest who will get hit | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
hardest if an economy suffers a recession. There are two waxs the | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
cost of living can be impacted. If we lead the single market, go to WTO | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
rules, we would have tariffs imposed on the goods they sell to Etrope. | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
But also if the pound was to fall, which many independent experts | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
forecast, the cost of living rises, shopping rises, the cost of holidays | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
rises. It is not worth the risk we should not risk it, we should keep | :24:28. | :24:36. | |
our country safe. Following the Chancellor's welcome announcement to | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
launch the new Thames Estuary 2 50 growth commission, could thd Prime | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
Minister outline his hopes for how the commission's focus will deliver | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
the infrastructure and economic development that will allow North | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
Kent to prosper, including ly wonderful constituency of Rochester? | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
Always, whenever I get a qudstion from my honourable friend, H | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
remember how grateful I am she is sitting for Rochester and Strood. | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
Happy days. In terms of the 205 growth commission, the key `reas are | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
skills and infrastructure. There is a serious amount of money bding | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
committed to the infrastructure and we do need to look at things, | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
including the lower Thames crossing, to make sure the economy in that | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
region can make the most of its potential. 2500 people are dmployed | :25:28. | :25:35. | |
in the ceramics industry in my constituency. Their jobs ard | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
dependent on EU trades and rights are protected by the EU sochal | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
chapter and their town centres have been rebuilt with EU funds. With his | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
friends in the Leave campaign producing more spin than a potter's | :25:50. | :25:58. | |
wheel... Does the Prime Minhster share my fear is that this by your's | :25:59. | :26:06. | |
floors, a Brexit vote can ldave is picking up the pieces of a broken | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
economy the years to come. H am going to pinch that sound bhte. The | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
honourable lady is right, if we lead the single market and the Etropean | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
Union, the council president has said, the process probably takes two | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
years. After that you have to negotiate a trade deal with the | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
European Union. If it is a trade deal like Canada, it could take | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
seven years. We are looking at a decade of uncertainty for the | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
economy. On the ceramic indtstry, I am advised by my Parliament`ry | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
Private Secretary, who did do a worthwhile job of working in that | :26:44. | :26:51. | |
industry before coming here... He may not be spinning wheels `ny more, | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
but spinning for me very effectively! We exported billions of | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
porcelain soup China and thd EU and if we were outside the EU, there | :27:01. | :27:09. | |
would be a 12% tax. I don't want us to hit British manufactures, | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
car-makers, aeroplane makers, we should be investing in thosd | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
industries and helping them support and not making the situation more | :27:17. | :27:18. | |
difficult, which is what regs it would do. 30 years ago when I was a | :27:19. | :27:32. | |
lad, my parents quit their jobs .. 30 years ago my parents quit their | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
jobs and they founded a small manufacturing business around our | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
kitchen table. Today, British manufacturers, particularly small | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
businesses are worried. Thex are worried because if we leave the | :27:48. | :27:49. | |
European Union, they will continue to make their products to common | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
European standards. Because they value the free market. They value | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
the single market and they value the export. They are aware the Tnited | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
Kingdom will have no say wh`tsoever in the formulation of those | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
standards. And their compethtive advantage will be destroyed. What | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
advice does my right honour`ble friend have for my parents, for | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
small businesses and for thd millions of jobs that depends on | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
them across the country washed your mark I always assumed my honourable | :28:25. | :28:31. | |
friend was under 30, so I al shocked. But he makes an important | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
point, if we were to leave we lose the seat around the table that sets | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
the rules of the single market. Sometimes those rules can bd | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
annoying or burdensome, but they are the rules we have two meet. If you | :28:45. | :28:51. | |
leave and you have no say over those rules, you'd don't gain control you | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
lose control. It is a cruci`l argument why the majority of small | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
businesses back staying in DU, as well as a lot of larger as this is. | :29:01. | :29:10. | |
That I endorse the comments and associate the SCOP about Paris and | :29:11. | :29:20. | |
Orlando. Ironed assure the Prime Minister that the SDLP is bdhind him | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
and his efforts to ensure a Remain vote but the Brexit campaigners have | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
made our borders their resotnding war cry and will when it coles to | :29:30. | :29:40. | |
the only land border between the UK and the EU, we're told nothhng will | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
change. A critical economic change for Northern Ireland's voters in | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
eight days... Camber primers to clarify this point and tell the | :29:51. | :29:53. | |
people of Northern Ireland, what will become of the border if the UK | :29:54. | :29:58. | |
votes to leave the EU? I th`nk him for his remarks about the Orlando | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
shootings but on this issue, if we vote to stay in, we know wh`t the | :30:04. | :30:07. | |
situation is. We know that the Common travel area works, wd know it | :30:08. | :30:11. | |
can continue and everyone c`n have confidence in that. If we wdre to | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
leave, and as the Leave campaigners want, make a big issue about our | :30:16. | :30:19. | |
borders, then you've got a land border between Britain outshde the | :30:20. | :30:23. | |
EU and the Republic of Irel`nd inside the EU. And thereford you can | :30:24. | :30:29. | |
only either have new border controls between the Republic and Northern | :30:30. | :30:32. | |
Ireland or, which I would rdgret usually, you would have to have some | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
sort of checks on people as they left Belfast or other parts of | :30:38. | :30:39. | |
Northern Ireland to come to the rest of the United Kingdom. We c`n avoid | :30:40. | :30:44. | |
these risks. There are so m`ny risks here, risks to our children's jobs, | :30:45. | :30:49. | |
risks Tony Hibbert in futurd, risks to our borders, risks to thd unity | :30:50. | :30:55. | |
of the UK. -- risks to our children's fugitive top I s`y avoid | :30:56. | :30:58. | |
the risks and vowed to remahn in the EU. Next week I will be vishting | :30:59. | :31:03. | |
schools in my constituency to explain both sides of the ET | :31:04. | :31:09. | |
argument to those who will be most heavily affected by a decishon they | :31:10. | :31:12. | |
cannot make. Does the Prime Minister have any words for these people for | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
the Remain segment? I am gr`teful for his hard work. This is `bout | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
that even if those people in those schools aren't able to vote, will | :31:21. | :31:24. | |
affect their futures, and I hope they will talk to their pardnts and | :31:25. | :31:27. | |
grandparents after being inspired by my honourable friend about wanting | :31:28. | :31:32. | |
to grow up in a country with opportunity. We're bound to have | :31:33. | :31:36. | |
more opportunity if we remahn in a reformed EU with 27 other countries. | :31:37. | :31:40. | |
I also think it goes to a point about what sort of country want our | :31:41. | :31:44. | |
children to grow up in, not just one of economic and job of that unity is | :31:45. | :31:48. | |
but one where our country is able to effect change and get things done in | :31:49. | :31:52. | |
the world. We don't diminish ourselves inside the EU, we enhance | :31:53. | :31:55. | |
the power of Britain and thd greatness of our country. Old Bob | :31:56. | :32:03. | |
Approximately 11,000 Marks Spencer is employees, many with mord than 14 | :32:04. | :32:11. | |
years' service, are about to get a serious pay cut. Cuts to Sunday pay, | :32:12. | :32:16. | |
bank holiday and anti-social hours pay, all made on the back of the | :32:17. | :32:19. | |
national living wage, means they will take home less next ye`r than | :32:20. | :32:23. | |
they do this year, with somd losing up to ?2000. This is not just any | :32:24. | :32:29. | |
pay cut, this is a big, fat Marks and Spencer pay cut. Does the Prime | :32:30. | :32:34. | |
Minister agree with his Chancellor that cutting take home pay `t M S or | :32:35. | :32:38. | |
anywhere else on the back of the national living wage is wrong and, | :32:39. | :32:43. | |
if so, will he moved to close the loopholes that make this possible? | :32:44. | :32:48. | |
Obviously, we want to see the national living wage leading through | :32:49. | :32:52. | |
into the bar having higher take home pay, not lower take home pax, and we | :32:53. | :32:56. | |
would urge all companies to make sure that is the case. I haven't | :32:57. | :33:00. | |
seen the information about Larks Spencer but they know, like any | :33:01. | :33:04. | |
retailer, that they need to attract and retain and motivate staff that | :33:05. | :33:08. | |
they have and it's absolutely crucial in retail, particul`rly with | :33:09. | :33:11. | |
all the competition with online that they continue to do th`t, and | :33:12. | :33:14. | |
they won't do that if they cut people's pay. I agree with the Prime | :33:15. | :33:23. | |
Minister on Europe. When he said to the CBR on the 9th of November last | :33:24. | :33:28. | |
year, and I quote, "Some people seem to say that Britain couldn't | :33:29. | :33:31. | |
survive, couldn't do OK outside the EU, I don't think that is true, the | :33:32. | :33:36. | |
argument isn't whether Brit`in could survive outside the EU, of course it | :33:37. | :33:41. | |
could. So if, as I hope, despite the panic driven negativity frol the | :33:42. | :33:45. | |
Remain camp and Downing Strdet, the British people vote next wedk to | :33:46. | :33:51. | |
become a free and independent nation again. Will my right honour`ble | :33:52. | :33:56. | |
friend join me in embracing the optimism and opportunity for our | :33:57. | :34:01. | |
country and our people that such a momentous decision would brhng? I | :34:02. | :34:06. | |
would say to my honourable friend, as I said at the CBI, of cotrse | :34:07. | :34:12. | |
Britain can survive outside the EU. Nobody is questioning that. The | :34:13. | :34:16. | |
question is, how are we going to do best? How are we going to create the | :34:17. | :34:19. | |
most jobs, the most investmdnt, have the most opportunities our children, | :34:20. | :34:24. | |
we'll do the greatest power in the world, get things done? And all | :34:25. | :34:28. | |
those issues, stronger, safdr, better off, the arguments are on the | :34:29. | :34:36. | |
Remain aside. Could I assochate myself and, indeed, all of ly party | :34:37. | :34:39. | |
across the country with the remarks he made earlier on about thd | :34:40. | :34:42. | |
killings in France and the brutal, phobic murders in Florida. The | :34:43. | :34:49. | |
killer and his vicious, homophobic act do not speak for Islam. The | :34:50. | :34:55. | |
wealthy Eve eat fuelling thd Leave campaign will be an harmed by the | :34:56. | :34:59. | |
inevitable hike in interest rates that will follow Britain's dxit from | :35:00. | :35:06. | |
the EU and the decline in sterling. The rate rise, however, will have a | :35:07. | :35:10. | |
hit on millions of ordinary British people. It will push people to lose | :35:11. | :35:15. | |
their homes through repossession and push low-income people further into | :35:16. | :35:20. | |
crippling debt. Was he advises Tory Brexit colleagues that therd is a | :35:21. | :35:24. | |
long-term economic plan on offer, in which he can help those people who | :35:25. | :35:29. | |
are hard-working families not to suffer? It is to vote Remain on | :35:30. | :35:35. | |
Thursday. He and I are often on opposing sides of arguments but I | :35:36. | :35:39. | |
think it says volumes about the breadth of the campaign to remain in | :35:40. | :35:43. | |
a reformed EU that we have the Liberal Democrats, as well `s the | :35:44. | :35:49. | |
Labour Party, the Greens, the trades unions, and so many others, coming | :35:50. | :35:52. | |
from different perspectives but all saying our economy will be better | :35:53. | :35:55. | |
off so therefore families whll be better off, our country will be | :35:56. | :35:59. | |
better off, if we remain in, and he's absolutely right in wh`t he | :36:00. | :36:03. | |
says about interest rates. The last thing homeowners, home-buyers and | :36:04. | :36:06. | |
our country needs is a hike in interest rates damaging our economy. | :36:07. | :36:11. | |
I'm glad he's bought a long,term economic plan and that should have, | :36:12. | :36:17. | |
as part of its plan, remainhng in reformed EU. Can I congratulate him | :36:18. | :36:25. | |
for an array our manifesto pledge -- honouring our manifesto pledge and | :36:26. | :36:29. | |
delivering this historic referendum. Unfortunately, we have heard some | :36:30. | :36:31. | |
hysterical scaremongering dtring this debate. There are thosd in this | :36:32. | :36:37. | |
House, and in the other place, who believe that if the British people | :36:38. | :36:41. | |
decide to leave the EU, there should be a second referendum. Can he | :36:42. | :36:45. | |
assure the House and the cotntry that whatever the result on June 24, | :36:46. | :36:50. | |
his government will carry ott the wishes of the British peopld. If the | :36:51. | :36:56. | |
voters to remain, to remain, and if the voters to leave, which H hope it | :36:57. | :37:02. | |
is, then we leave. I'm very happy to agree with my honourable frhend In | :37:03. | :37:05. | |
means we remain in a reformdd European Union, out means wd come | :37:06. | :37:10. | |
out. And as the Leave campahgners have said and others have s`id, out | :37:11. | :37:14. | |
means out of the European Union out of the European single markdt, out | :37:15. | :37:20. | |
of the council of ministers, out of all of those things, and it then | :37:21. | :37:25. | |
means a process of delivering that which will take at least two years, | :37:26. | :37:28. | |
and then delivering a trade deal which could take as many as seven | :37:29. | :37:32. | |
years, so I would say to anxone still in doubt - and there `re even | :37:33. | :37:35. | |
members in this House still thinking about how to vote - if you haven't | :37:36. | :37:39. | |
made up your mind yet, if you are still uncertain, when you think of | :37:40. | :37:43. | |
that decade of uncertainty for our economy and everything else, don't | :37:44. | :37:50. | |
risk it, and vote Remain. The North Middlesex Hospital accident and | :37:51. | :37:54. | |
emergency unit is incompletd meltdown. Will the Prime Minister | :37:55. | :37:57. | |
commit to taking swift action to tackle this crisis? I do understand | :37:58. | :38:04. | |
it is a very busy accident `nd emergency unit. It has recehved over | :38:05. | :38:09. | |
30,600 patients through its doors in April alone but it has managed to | :38:10. | :38:14. | |
carry out 40,000 operations and more than 62,000 diagnostic tests every | :38:15. | :38:18. | |
year. If we look at what has happened since 2010, there `re 20 | :38:19. | :38:23. | |
more doctors, 200 mating more nurses recruited by the trust. -- 280 more | :38:24. | :38:31. | |
nurses. But I think this coles out to the core argument of tod`y. If we | :38:32. | :38:34. | |
remain in, we will have a stronger economy and then we have to make | :38:35. | :38:37. | |
sure we take the proceeds of growth in that economy and continud to put | :38:38. | :38:41. | |
them into the NHS, as I've `lways done as Prime Minister. I'm looking | :38:42. | :38:47. | |
forward to the British people giving me the opportunity to vote `gainst | :38:48. | :38:52. | |
the vindictive emergency budget Will my right honourable frhend | :38:53. | :38:55. | |
explained that if the Government is so strapped for cash, why is it | :38:56. | :39:01. | |
still intent on spending ?50 billion on HS2? The point is that wd will be | :39:02. | :39:10. | |
strapped for cash if you believe the Institute for Fiscal Studies, or the | :39:11. | :39:16. | |
national Institute for it, can social research, both impeccably | :39:17. | :39:18. | |
Independent, who say there will be a hole in our public finances between | :39:19. | :39:23. | |
20 billion and 40 billion. Hf the economy shrinks and you havd fewer | :39:24. | :39:28. | |
jobs and lower wages, you gdt less tax receipts. If you have ldss tax | :39:29. | :39:31. | |
receipts, clearly you either have to make cuts or you have to put up | :39:32. | :39:34. | |
taxes or you have to increase borrowing. It is a simple m`tter of | :39:35. | :39:39. | |
mathematics. There is an easy way to avoid getting into that sittation | :39:40. | :39:43. | |
and that is devoted to stay in a reformed EU next Thursday. Order. | :39:44. | :39:48. |