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today but copperhead civilly -- on Prensa three. It is now time for

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prime ministers questions. I know the whole house will want to

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join me in wishing Wales lock this evening.

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Chloe Smith. Mr Speaker, I am a Conservative because I believe it is

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not where you are coming from, it is where you are going to. Does my

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right honourable friend agree? Does my right honourable friend agree

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that the opportunities to succeed no matter what your background is what

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we want for Britain? I absolutely agree, making sure all citizens have

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life chances to make the most of their talents should be the driving

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mission for the rest of this Parliament. Yesterday we were

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talking about boosting national citizens service, which I think will

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play a key role in giving young people the confidence and life

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skills to make the most of the talents they have. I think today it

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would be appropriate if we pause for a moment to think of those people

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who lost their lives in the bombings in Baghdad in recent days. The

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people that have suffered and their families, the end of Ramadan, it

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must be a terrible experience for them and we should send our

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sympathies and solidarity. I join the Prime Minister in wishing Wales

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well. I'll be cheering for them along with everybody else. That's

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quiet, isn't it? There is life after all! 30 years ago, Mr Speaker, the

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Shire Brooke colliery employed thousands of workers in skilled,

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well played, unionised jobs, digging coal. Today, thousands of people

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work on the same site. The vast majority are an zero hours

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contracts, no union representation, the minimum wage is not even paid.

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Doesn't it sum up Britain? Let me join the honourable gentleman in

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giving my thoughts to those killed in these terrible terrorist attacks.

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On the issue of what has happened in our coalfield communities, to see

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new jobs and new investment come, we have made sure that there is not

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only a minimum wage, but now a national Living Wage. Yes, he talks

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about one colliery. I recently visited the site of the Grimethorpe

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colliery, there is a business there, Asos, employing 5000 people. We are

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never going to succeed as a country if we try to hold onto jobs in

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industries that have become uncompetitive. We have to hold onto

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jobs of the future. The problem is, if you are on a zero hours

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contracts, the minimum wage does not add up to a living wage. He must

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understand that. Can I take him to the Lindsey oil refinery? In 2009,

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hundreds of oil workers worked out on strike because agency workers

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from Italy and Portugal were brought in on lower wages to do the same

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job. Just down the road in Boston, low pay is endemic. The average

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hourly wage across the whole country is ?13.33. An East Midlands, ?12. In

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Boston, it is ?9. Isn't it time the government intervened to step up for

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those communities that feel they have been left behind in modern

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Britain? We have intervened with a national Living Wage, we have

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intervened with more fines against companies that don't pay the minimum

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wage. We have intervened, for the first time, something that Labour

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never did, naming and shaming companies involved. Those

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interventions help and can make a difference. The real intervention

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that you need is an economy that is growing and encouraging investment.

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What we want are the industry the future. Record numbers are aware,

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and the British economy has been one of the strongest in the G7. Mr

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Speaker, this Government promised it would rebalance our economy. It

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promised a Northern Powerhouse. Yet half of 1% of infrastructure

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investment is going to the north-east. London is getting 44

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times more than that. Does he not think it is time to have a real

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rebalancing of our economy and invest in those areas that are

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losing out so badly? I think he is talking down the performance of

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parts of our economy that are doing well. If you look at the

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fastest-growing part of our economy, it has been the north-west, not the

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south-east. If you want to see where exports are growing faster, it is

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the north-east and not London. There is a huge amount of work to do to

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make sure we feel that North-South divide. For the first time, we have

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a Government with a proper strategy, investing in infrastructure,

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training and skills that will make a difference. For years, regional

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policy was just trying to distribute a few government jobs outside

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London. Now we have a strategy about skills, training and about growth

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and delivery. The idea of this redistribution is a very

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interesting. The investment in London is more than the total of

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every other English region combined. Does he not think these issues

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should be addressed? In March, the government investment was cut in

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order to meet its fiscal rules. How does the Prime Minister think the

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economy can be rebalanced when investment is cut and what little

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investment remains reinforces the regional imbalances in this country?

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Well, first of all, again, he is talking down the North in the

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questions he asks. The unemployment rate in the north-west is lower than

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the unemployment rate London. I think, actually, his figures are

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wrong. In terms of investment, yes, of course, we need to have the

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Government investment. We got it in HS2, in the railways, the biggest

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investment programme since Victorian times, the biggest investment in our

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roads since the 1970s. You can only invest if you have a strong and

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growing economy. We know what Labour's recipe is, more borrowing,

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more spending, more debt, trashing the economy, which is what they did

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when in office and that is when investment collapses. The Chancellor

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finally did this week what the Shadow Chancellor asked him to do in

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the Autumn Statement and what I asked the Prime Minister to do last

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week, abandoned a key part of the fiscal rule. We now know the deficit

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was supposed to vanish by 2015, and it will not even be gone by 2020.

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Isn't it time to admit that austerity is a failure and the way

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forward is to invest in infrastructure, invest in growth and

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invest in jobs? What he says is not the case. The rules we set out

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always have flexibility in case growth didn't turn out the way...

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Well, the point I would make to him, I would take his advice more

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seriously if I could think of a single spending reduction that he

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had supported at any time in the last six years. The fact is, this

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Government and the last one, the Coalition Government, had to take

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difficult decisions to get our deficit under control. It's gone

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from 11% of GDP that we inherited, the biggest in the entire world,

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almost, to under 3% this year, because of difficult decisions. If

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he can tell me one of those decisions he has supported, I would

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be interested to hear it. Mr Speaker, concerns about the fiscal

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rule investment are obviously spreading on his own ventures. The

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Work and Pensions Secretary and Business Secretary have seen the

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light. They agree with my honourable friend the Shadow Chancellor in

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backing the massive investment programme we have been advocating.

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Isn't it time that he thanked the honourable member for Hayes and

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Harlington for the education where he has been doing in this house?

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Will he confirm that the Chancellor's fiscal rule is dead and

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invest in the north-east, in Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, all of

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those places that feel, with good reason, that they have been left

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behind and the investment is going to the wrong places, and they are

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ending up with few jobs on lower wages, and insecure employment to

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boot? If the investment was going in the wrong places, we would not see

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2.5 million more people in work and we would not see a fall in

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unemployment, and a rise in employment in every single region in

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our country. The only area where I think the Right Honourable Gentleman

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has made a massive contribution is in recent weeks he has come up with

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the biggest job creation scheme I'd ever seen in my life, almost

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everyone on the benches behind him has had an opportunity to serve on

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the front bench! Rather like the old job creation schemes, it has been a

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bit of a revolving door. They get a job, sometimes for only a few hours,

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and then they go back to the backbenches. But it is a job

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creation scheme, nonetheless, and we should thank him for that!

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On a day when significant questions have been levelled at the collective

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decision-making of politicians, military leaders and intelligence

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services, many of our constituents will be seeking reassurance that the

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lives of their loved ones were not given in vain. That the mistakes

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made will never happen again. Can I ask the Prime Minister, will he

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ensure that the lessons learned will be fully examined and acted upon, so

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that there can never be a repeat of the tragic mistakes made over a

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decade ago? Well, I am grateful to my honourable friend for his

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question. I can certainly give that assurance. We will have plenty of

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time this afternoon to discuss the Chilcot Report and Sir John Chilcot

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is on his feet at the moment, explaining what he has found. I

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think the most important thing we can do is to really learn the

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lessons for the future. The lessons that he lays out, quite clearly. We

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will want to spend a lot of time, I'm sure, talking about the

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decisions on going to war and the rest of it. The most important thing

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for all of us is to make sure we find out how to make sure government

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works better, legal advice is considered better, those things are

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the best legacy we can sit from this whole thing. Angus Robertson. Today

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is hugely important for Muslims at home and abroad at the end of

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Ramadan. I am sure we wish them all Eid Mubarak. Our thoughts today are

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with those who have died in Iraq, and the families of those in Iraq

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who have lost loved ones. The Chilcot Report confirms that in

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2002, Tony Blair wrote to President Bush, saying, I will be with you

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whatever. Does the Prime Minister understand why the families of the

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dead and the injured a UK service personnel, the hundreds of thousands

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of Iraqis, feel they were deceived about the reasons for going to war

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in Iraq? First of all, let me join the Right Honourable Gentleman in

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wishing Muslims in this country and all over the world Eid Mubarak at

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the end of Ramadan. In terms of the report, we will discuss it in detail

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later, and I don't want to pre-empt all of the things I will say in my

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statement. Clearly, we need to learn the lessons of the report, we need

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to study it carefully. It is millions of words, thousands of

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pages. I think we should save our remarks for when we debated in the

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house after the statement. The Chilcot Report catalogues the

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failures in planning for post-conflict Iraq and then

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concludes that, and I quote, the UK did not achieve its objectives. That

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lack of planning has also been evident in relation to Afghanistan,

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Libya, Syria and, most recently, with no plan whatsoever, for Brexit.

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When will the UK Government actually start learning from the mistakes of

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the past, so we are not condemned to repeat them in future? First of all,

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he is right that what Sir John Chilcot says about the failure to

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plan is very, very clear. I can read from his statement, that is

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something he has given. He says when the invasion began, UK policy rested

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on an assumption that there would be a well executed, US lead and UN

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authorised operation in a relatively benign environment. He told the

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inquiry that the difficulties have been known in advance, Mr Blair.

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What I would say to the Right Honourable Gentleman in terms of

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planning is what I put in place, following what happened in Iraq, a

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National Security Council, a properly staffed and national

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Security Secretariat, all of those things, including listening to

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expert advice on a National Security Council, all of those things are

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designed to avoid the problems that the government have in the case of

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Iraq. The only point I would make is that, actually, there is no set of

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arrangements and plans that can provide perfection in any of these

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cases. Military intervention, we can argue whether it is ever justified,

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I believe it is. Military intervention is always difficult.

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Planning for the aftermath, that is always difficult. I don't think in

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this house we should be naive in any way that there is a perfect set of

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plans or a perfect set of arrangements that can solve these

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problems in perpetuity. There aren't. Would my right honourable

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friend join me in congratulating Southend Council, once again under

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the control of the Conservative Party, for swiftly acting to sort

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out the mess left by the previous, hopeless administration? And would

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he agree with me that Southend-on-Sea, being the

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alternative City of Culture next year, will produce a considerable

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boost to the local economy? Let me pay tribute to my honourable friend

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for his long-standing efforts to promote Southend and all it has to

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offer. While Hull is the official City of Culture next year, I am sure

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that Southend will benefit from the tireless campaign he has run. I join

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him in encouraging people to go and see this excellent seaside town for

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themselves. Is the Prime Minister aware that two

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miles north of Shire Brooke, already mentioned today, is a town called

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Bolsover and at the same time they were seeing the notices on the bus

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saying ?350 million for the NHS. At that time, they decided this

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government, with the help of the local people, to close the hospital

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Bolsover. We need the beds. I'm sure he understands that. When the

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hospital is closed, it is gone forever. I want him here to date to

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use a little bit of that money, not very much, to save the Bolsover

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hospital, save the beds, save the jobs and the press might have a

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headline saying, "The Prime Minister, dodgy Dave, assists the

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beast to save the Bolsover hospital". What a sensation! I will

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look very carefully. I don't have the information about the exact

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situation at the Bolsover hospital. I'll look at it very carefully and

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write to him. What I would say is that we are putting ?90 billion

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extra into the NHS in this Parliament. As for what was on the

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side buses and all the rest of it, my argument has always been, and

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will always be, but it is a strong economy you required to fund the

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NHS. -- ?19 billion. Last week I held my first apprenticeship is fair

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in my constituency. Does my right honourable friend agree with me that

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apprenticeships are an absolutely vital part of economic develop and

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in our proud northern towns and cities? She is absolutely right and

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that's why we've set the target for 3 million apprentices in this

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Parliament. I think it is achievable, just as we achieved the

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2 million apprentices trained in the last Parliament, and I wish her well

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with what I hope is the first of many apprenticeship fares in her

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constituency. Mr Speaker, before I ask my question, can I thank the

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Prime Minister for the support he gave my campaign about getting an

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inquiry into a certain drug which is given to pregnant women, resulting

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in thousands of babies being born with deformities. I thank him for

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supporting the campaign. Our universities, the global success

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stories, outward looking, open for business with the world, and

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attracting the brightest and the best students and researchers to

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reduce ground-breaking research on cancer to climate change. In the

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last year, the... I need a single sentence question. Forgive me but

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there are a lot of other colleagues who want to take part. The

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University has received ?836 million last year. What assurances can the

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Prime Minister give us that in light of the fact that we are now out of

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the EU, that money will be saved? First of all, let me thank the

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honourable lady for her thanks because she has raised this case

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many times and I can tell the Medicines and health care Products

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Regulatory Agency has been gathering evidence for a review by expert

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working groups on medicines and they have met on three occasions so I

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think we're making progress. The point she makes about universities -

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until Britain leads the EU we get the full amount of funding under the

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programmes as you would expect. All contracts under that have to be

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fulfilled, but it will be for a future government, as it negotiates

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the exit from the EU, to make sure that we domestic league continue to

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fund our universities in a way that makes sure they continue to lead the

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world. As my right honourable friend will know, the potential closure of

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the BHS store in Torquay town centre with the loss of over 100 jobs as

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again raised the need for urgent regeneration of town centres. Would

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he outline what support will be made available by the government to

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ensure plans can be taken forward? It is worth making the point that it

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is a very sad moment for those BHS staff who have worked so long for

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that business. For them, it was simply a high-street brand, it was a

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job, it was a way of life, it was a means of preparing for their

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retirement and their pensions and we must do all we can to help them and

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find them new work and there are many vacancies in the retail sector,

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and we must make sure we help them to get those jobs. What we've done

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in terms of high street is around ?18 million has gone to towns

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through them of initiatives and we should keep those up because keeping

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our town centres vibrant is so vital that this sits alongside the biggest

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ever cut in interest rates in England, worth some ?6.7 billion in

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the next five years and I think we need to say to those on our high

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streets to make the most of that business rate cut. One of my

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constituents who I've been working with for some time has had her

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mobility cart removed after falling victim to a flawed assessment by

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Atos. Atos have admitted their error and yet my vulnerable constituent

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still remains housebound and without a car. Will the Prime Minister of

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his full assistance to rectify this cruel situation and will he look

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again at the regulations which allowed this situation to come

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about? Let me congratulate the taking of this constituency case.

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Many of us have done exactly the same thing with constituents who

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have had assessment that haven't turned out to be accurate. If she

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gives me the details, I'll look at the specific case and see what can

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be done. A report recently commissioned by transport for the

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North, a body created by this government, highlights the

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opportunity to uphold the growing divide between the north and South

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and creates several new jobs and billions of pounds of growth by

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2015. -- 2050. Does he agree that to build an elegant and prosperity we

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need to continue to rebalance infrastructure spending from London

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to the regions, particularly to the north of England? I think he is

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absolutely right. What that report shows is if we don't take the

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necessary actions, you are going to see a continued north-south divide

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and that's why we are committed, for instance, to seeing increased

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spending on transport infrastructure go up to ?61 billion of this

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Parliament and in my right honourable friend's area, we're

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spending ?380 million upgrading the A1 from Leeming to Barton, which

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will be a big boost for the local economy. I recently met a

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constituent whose husband, a British citizen, has been an Ethiopian's

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death row for two years and was kidnapped while travelling in and

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illegally rendered Ethiopian. You are sentenced to death six years ago

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as a trial he was neither present that nor able to present any defence

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in direct contravention of international law. Given it has been

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accessed two legal wrappers and Titian, and has not spoken to his

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family, there are reports he's suicidal. In your last few weeks in

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office, will you make the case for him to be allowed him to be

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re-elected with his wife and children? We are taking a very close

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interest in this case. The Foreign Secretary was an Ethiopian recently,

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our consul has been able to meet with the man in question on a number

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of occasions and we are working with him and the Ethiopian woman to try

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to get this resolved. One of the reports that won't get so much

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attention is the CQC report into North Middlesex Hospital, which

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confirms that emergency care is inadequate. Why has it taken so many

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years, and why does it need the regulators to know what many of my

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constituents will know, that there has been another quick effort to

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long, too few doctors, to view consultants? And the Primus assure

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me that we now have in place the right plans on the right number of

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doctors and consultants to ensure my constituents get the care they

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deserve? I think he raises an important point, which is that I do

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think the CQC is now acting effectively at getting into

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hospitals, finding bad practice, reported on its 50. In some cases

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that bad practice has always been there but we haven't been as

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effective in some cases as we should be at shining eyed and. What we have

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seen in North Middlesex is one of the busiest emergency department of

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the country, the practice was an acceptable. We've now got a new

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clinical director of the trust, additional two doctors in A and we

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have been the ones that have set up the role of the Chief Inspector of

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hospitals to have a zero tolerance approach to practice like this and

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make sure things are but right. The Secretary of State for Business,

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Innovation and Skills has stated he wants the UK to borrow tens of

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billions of pounds to create a green Britain fund worth up to 100

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billion. Can I ask the PM whether this is a formal plan or whether

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this is merely an attempt to come up with a plan amid a vacuum of

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government? We are spending billions of pounds on the British economy and

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an investment and that has clear consequences under the Barnett

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formula for Scotland but clearly my colleagues during a leadership

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election, and at least the side of the House we're actually having a

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leadership election, rather than the never-ending... I thought you wanted

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one. You don't want one? Hands up who wants a leadership election! Oh,

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they don't want a leadership election! I'm so confused. One

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minute it is like the Eagle is going to sweep and the next minute it is

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Eddie the camera crew eagle at the top of the ski jump, not knowing

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whether to go or not. Anyway, in case you hadn't noticed, we're

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having a leadership election. Right from the start this United Kingdom

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has been an outward looking, international trading nation. I'm

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very glad to see the Trade Minister... The honourable gentleman

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the Member for Worcester is entitled to be heard and his constituents are

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entitled to be represented. And glad to see the Trade Minister out in

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Hong Kong today talking up the prospects for investment in the

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British economy but what steps can the Prime Minister take to bolster

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the resources available to UKTI and the Foreign Office to make sure we

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attract as much trade and investment from the wider world is possible? P

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Maytin important point and a very clear instruction has gone out to

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all our embassies around the world, to UKTI, that we should be doing all

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we can to engage as hard as we can with other parts of the world start

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to think about those trade deals, those investment deals and the

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inward investment we want to see in the UK. Business is very clear to us

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as well, whether they agree or disagree with the decision the

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country is made, they know we've got to go on and make the most of the

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opportunities we have. With the real prospect of a recession on the

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horizon, the offer from the Chancellor is cutting corporation

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tax, yet companies worry whether they will make a profit in the UK,

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not how much tax they are going to pay on it, so can the Prime Minister

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tell us what immediate action his government would take to protect

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people's jobs and livelihoods right now? Immediate action has been

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taken, not least the Bank of England decision to encourage bank lending

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by changing the reserve asset ratios that they insist on and I think

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that's very important because that's a short-term measure that can have

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some early effect. Clearly what the Chancellor was talking about is now

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we are in this new situation, we need to make sure that we configure

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all our policies to take advantage of the situation that we're going to

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be in and that's going to mean changes to taxes, changes to the way

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UKTI works, there's going to be a change in focus for the Foreign

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Office and the business department. All these things we can make a start

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on irrespective of the fact that she and I were on the same side of the

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referendum campaign. Further to my honourable friend from Worcester's

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question about UKTI, may I remind the Prime Minister that next Monday

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the greatest airshow in the world takes place at Farnborough in my

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constituency, to which all honourable and right honourable

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members are expected to attend! And may I remind my honourable friend

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that last time, two years ago, deals worth $201 billion were signed at

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the Farnborough airshow and may I prevail upon my right honourable

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friend, who may have some time on his hands, to come and open the show

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on Monday and encourage all other ministers to attend? I think I'm one

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of the first prime ministers in a while to attend the Farnborough

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airshow and I'm very happy to announce that I will be going back

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there this year because I think it's very important. We have the second

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largest aerospace industry in the world after the United States, and

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it is a brilliant moment to showcase that industry to the rest of the

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world and to clinch some important export deals, both in the military

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and in the civilian space and I will always do everything I can, whether

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in this job or in future, to help support British industry in that

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way. The UN committee on economic social and cultural rights have

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recently joined the UN committee on the rights of a child in expressing

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serious concerns about this Tory government's brutal welfare cuts.

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How much more international condemnation would it take for this

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Prime Minister to scrap his aggressive to child policy and his

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rate" we've seen under this government many more people in work,

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many more households... Many fewer households where no one works and

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many fewer households where there are children when one works. All of

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this has been a huge success but she and her party now have the

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opportunity, now we've made some huge devolution proposals, including

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in the area of welfare, if you don't feel that what we're doing on a UK

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bases... I don't know why you're all shouting. You're getting these

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powers. Instead of whingeing endlessly, start to use them! Sir

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John Chilcot finds that the only people who come out of the 2003

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invasion of Iraq well our servicemen and civilians. Will the Prime

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Minister look at how he can make sure that the precedent he set last

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autumn for transparency and scrutiny ahead of military action becomes the

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norm for his successor? I think we have now got a set of arrangements

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and also a set of conventions that put the country in a stronger

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position. I think it is now a clear convention that we have a vote in

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this House, which we did on Iran, before military action, but it is

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also important that we have a properly constituted National

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Security Council, proper receipt of legal advice, a summary of that

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legal advice provided to the House of Commons, as we did both in the

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case of Libya and Iraq, and I think these things are growing up to be a

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set of conventions that will work for our country, but let me repeat

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again, even the best rules and conventions of the world doesn't

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mean that you always going to be confronted by easy decisions or ones

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that don't have very difficult consequences. The Prime Minister

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will no doubt be aware of my constituent Pauline Cafferkey, a

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nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone in 2014, and was there as part

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of the DFID response to the outbreak. She and around 200 the NHS

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volunteers have not received an equivalent bonus of ?4000 that was

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awarded to 250 Public Health England staff. Wilbur Prime Minister agreed

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to meet with me to discuss how DFID can rectify this situation. -- will

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the Prime Minister agree. Roll Pauline Cafferkey is one of the

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bravest people I've ever met and it was a great privilege to have come

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to Number Ten Downing St and I'm proud of the fact that she and many

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others, I believe, have received the medal for in Sierra Leone. It is

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something Britain should be incredibly proud of. We partnered

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with that country to deal with Ebola and it is now free of Ebola to talk

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I will look specifically into the issue of the bonus. I wasn't aware

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of that and I will get back to her about it.

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