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today but copperhead civilly -- on Prensa three. It is now time for | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
prime ministers questions. I know the whole house will want to | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
join me in wishing Wales lock this evening. | :00:18. | :00:31. | |
Chloe Smith. Mr Speaker, I am a Conservative because I believe it is | :00:32. | :00:41. | |
not where you are coming from, it is where you are going to. Does my | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
right honourable friend agree? Does my right honourable friend agree | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
that the opportunities to succeed no matter what your background is what | :00:50. | :01:00. | |
we want for Britain? I absolutely agree, making sure all citizens have | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
life chances to make the most of their talents should be the driving | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
mission for the rest of this Parliament. Yesterday we were | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
talking about boosting national citizens service, which I think will | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
play a key role in giving young people the confidence and life | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
skills to make the most of the talents they have. I think today it | :01:19. | :01:27. | |
would be appropriate if we pause for a moment to think of those people | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
who lost their lives in the bombings in Baghdad in recent days. The | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
people that have suffered and their families, the end of Ramadan, it | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
must be a terrible experience for them and we should send our | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
sympathies and solidarity. I join the Prime Minister in wishing Wales | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
well. I'll be cheering for them along with everybody else. That's | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
quiet, isn't it? There is life after all! 30 years ago, Mr Speaker, the | :02:01. | :02:13. | |
Shire Brooke colliery employed thousands of workers in skilled, | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
well played, unionised jobs, digging coal. Today, thousands of people | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
work on the same site. The vast majority are an zero hours | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
contracts, no union representation, the minimum wage is not even paid. | :02:34. | :02:41. | |
Doesn't it sum up Britain? Let me join the honourable gentleman in | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
giving my thoughts to those killed in these terrible terrorist attacks. | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
On the issue of what has happened in our coalfield communities, to see | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
new jobs and new investment come, we have made sure that there is not | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
only a minimum wage, but now a national Living Wage. Yes, he talks | :03:01. | :03:08. | |
about one colliery. I recently visited the site of the Grimethorpe | :03:09. | :03:18. | |
colliery, there is a business there, Asos, employing 5000 people. We are | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
never going to succeed as a country if we try to hold onto jobs in | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
industries that have become uncompetitive. We have to hold onto | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
jobs of the future. The problem is, if you are on a zero hours | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
contracts, the minimum wage does not add up to a living wage. He must | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
understand that. Can I take him to the Lindsey oil refinery? In 2009, | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
hundreds of oil workers worked out on strike because agency workers | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
from Italy and Portugal were brought in on lower wages to do the same | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
job. Just down the road in Boston, low pay is endemic. The average | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
hourly wage across the whole country is ?13.33. An East Midlands, ?12. In | :04:02. | :04:10. | |
Boston, it is ?9. Isn't it time the government intervened to step up for | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
those communities that feel they have been left behind in modern | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
Britain? We have intervened with a national Living Wage, we have | :04:19. | :04:20. | |
intervened with more fines against companies that don't pay the minimum | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
wage. We have intervened, for the first time, something that Labour | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
never did, naming and shaming companies involved. Those | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
interventions help and can make a difference. The real intervention | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
that you need is an economy that is growing and encouraging investment. | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
What we want are the industry the future. Record numbers are aware, | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
and the British economy has been one of the strongest in the G7. Mr | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
Speaker, this Government promised it would rebalance our economy. It | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
promised a Northern Powerhouse. Yet half of 1% of infrastructure | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
investment is going to the north-east. London is getting 44 | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
times more than that. Does he not think it is time to have a real | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
rebalancing of our economy and invest in those areas that are | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
losing out so badly? I think he is talking down the performance of | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
parts of our economy that are doing well. If you look at the | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
fastest-growing part of our economy, it has been the north-west, not the | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
south-east. If you want to see where exports are growing faster, it is | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
the north-east and not London. There is a huge amount of work to do to | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
make sure we feel that North-South divide. For the first time, we have | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
a Government with a proper strategy, investing in infrastructure, | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
training and skills that will make a difference. For years, regional | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
policy was just trying to distribute a few government jobs outside | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
London. Now we have a strategy about skills, training and about growth | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
and delivery. The idea of this redistribution is a very | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
interesting. The investment in London is more than the total of | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
every other English region combined. Does he not think these issues | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
should be addressed? In March, the government investment was cut in | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
order to meet its fiscal rules. How does the Prime Minister think the | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
economy can be rebalanced when investment is cut and what little | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
investment remains reinforces the regional imbalances in this country? | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
Well, first of all, again, he is talking down the North in the | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
questions he asks. The unemployment rate in the north-west is lower than | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
the unemployment rate London. I think, actually, his figures are | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
wrong. In terms of investment, yes, of course, we need to have the | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
Government investment. We got it in HS2, in the railways, the biggest | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
investment programme since Victorian times, the biggest investment in our | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
roads since the 1970s. You can only invest if you have a strong and | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
growing economy. We know what Labour's recipe is, more borrowing, | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
more spending, more debt, trashing the economy, which is what they did | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
when in office and that is when investment collapses. The Chancellor | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
finally did this week what the Shadow Chancellor asked him to do in | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
the Autumn Statement and what I asked the Prime Minister to do last | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
week, abandoned a key part of the fiscal rule. We now know the deficit | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
was supposed to vanish by 2015, and it will not even be gone by 2020. | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
Isn't it time to admit that austerity is a failure and the way | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
forward is to invest in infrastructure, invest in growth and | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
invest in jobs? What he says is not the case. The rules we set out | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
always have flexibility in case growth didn't turn out the way... | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
Well, the point I would make to him, I would take his advice more | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
seriously if I could think of a single spending reduction that he | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
had supported at any time in the last six years. The fact is, this | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
Government and the last one, the Coalition Government, had to take | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
difficult decisions to get our deficit under control. It's gone | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
from 11% of GDP that we inherited, the biggest in the entire world, | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
almost, to under 3% this year, because of difficult decisions. If | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
he can tell me one of those decisions he has supported, I would | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
be interested to hear it. Mr Speaker, concerns about the fiscal | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
rule investment are obviously spreading on his own ventures. The | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
Work and Pensions Secretary and Business Secretary have seen the | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
light. They agree with my honourable friend the Shadow Chancellor in | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
backing the massive investment programme we have been advocating. | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
Isn't it time that he thanked the honourable member for Hayes and | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
Harlington for the education where he has been doing in this house? | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
Will he confirm that the Chancellor's fiscal rule is dead and | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
invest in the north-east, in Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, all of | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
those places that feel, with good reason, that they have been left | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
behind and the investment is going to the wrong places, and they are | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
ending up with few jobs on lower wages, and insecure employment to | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
boot? If the investment was going in the wrong places, we would not see | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
2.5 million more people in work and we would not see a fall in | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
unemployment, and a rise in employment in every single region in | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
our country. The only area where I think the Right Honourable Gentleman | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
has made a massive contribution is in recent weeks he has come up with | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
the biggest job creation scheme I'd ever seen in my life, almost | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
everyone on the benches behind him has had an opportunity to serve on | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
the front bench! Rather like the old job creation schemes, it has been a | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
bit of a revolving door. They get a job, sometimes for only a few hours, | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
and then they go back to the backbenches. But it is a job | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
creation scheme, nonetheless, and we should thank him for that! | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
On a day when significant questions have been levelled at the collective | :09:56. | :10:04. | |
decision-making of politicians, military leaders and intelligence | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
services, many of our constituents will be seeking reassurance that the | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
lives of their loved ones were not given in vain. That the mistakes | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
made will never happen again. Can I ask the Prime Minister, will he | :10:20. | :10:21. | |
ensure that the lessons learned will be fully examined and acted upon, so | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
that there can never be a repeat of the tragic mistakes made over a | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
decade ago? Well, I am grateful to my honourable friend for his | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
question. I can certainly give that assurance. We will have plenty of | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
time this afternoon to discuss the Chilcot Report and Sir John Chilcot | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
is on his feet at the moment, explaining what he has found. I | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
think the most important thing we can do is to really learn the | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
lessons for the future. The lessons that he lays out, quite clearly. We | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
will want to spend a lot of time, I'm sure, talking about the | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
decisions on going to war and the rest of it. The most important thing | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
for all of us is to make sure we find out how to make sure government | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
works better, legal advice is considered better, those things are | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
the best legacy we can sit from this whole thing. Angus Robertson. Today | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
is hugely important for Muslims at home and abroad at the end of | :11:18. | :11:29. | |
Ramadan. I am sure we wish them all Eid Mubarak. Our thoughts today are | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
with those who have died in Iraq, and the families of those in Iraq | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
who have lost loved ones. The Chilcot Report confirms that in | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
2002, Tony Blair wrote to President Bush, saying, I will be with you | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
whatever. Does the Prime Minister understand why the families of the | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
dead and the injured a UK service personnel, the hundreds of thousands | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
of Iraqis, feel they were deceived about the reasons for going to war | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
in Iraq? First of all, let me join the Right Honourable Gentleman in | :12:04. | :12:05. | |
wishing Muslims in this country and all over the world Eid Mubarak at | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
the end of Ramadan. In terms of the report, we will discuss it in detail | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
later, and I don't want to pre-empt all of the things I will say in my | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
statement. Clearly, we need to learn the lessons of the report, we need | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
to study it carefully. It is millions of words, thousands of | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
pages. I think we should save our remarks for when we debated in the | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
house after the statement. The Chilcot Report catalogues the | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
failures in planning for post-conflict Iraq and then | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
concludes that, and I quote, the UK did not achieve its objectives. That | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
lack of planning has also been evident in relation to Afghanistan, | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
Libya, Syria and, most recently, with no plan whatsoever, for Brexit. | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
When will the UK Government actually start learning from the mistakes of | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
the past, so we are not condemned to repeat them in future? First of all, | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
he is right that what Sir John Chilcot says about the failure to | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
plan is very, very clear. I can read from his statement, that is | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
something he has given. He says when the invasion began, UK policy rested | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
on an assumption that there would be a well executed, US lead and UN | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
authorised operation in a relatively benign environment. He told the | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
inquiry that the difficulties have been known in advance, Mr Blair. | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
What I would say to the Right Honourable Gentleman in terms of | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
planning is what I put in place, following what happened in Iraq, a | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
National Security Council, a properly staffed and national | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
Security Secretariat, all of those things, including listening to | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
expert advice on a National Security Council, all of those things are | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
designed to avoid the problems that the government have in the case of | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
Iraq. The only point I would make is that, actually, there is no set of | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
arrangements and plans that can provide perfection in any of these | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
cases. Military intervention, we can argue whether it is ever justified, | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
I believe it is. Military intervention is always difficult. | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
Planning for the aftermath, that is always difficult. I don't think in | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
this house we should be naive in any way that there is a perfect set of | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
plans or a perfect set of arrangements that can solve these | :14:30. | :14:31. | |
problems in perpetuity. There aren't. Would my right honourable | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
friend join me in congratulating Southend Council, once again under | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
the control of the Conservative Party, for swiftly acting to sort | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
out the mess left by the previous, hopeless administration? And would | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
he agree with me that Southend-on-Sea, being the | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
alternative City of Culture next year, will produce a considerable | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
boost to the local economy? Let me pay tribute to my honourable friend | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
for his long-standing efforts to promote Southend and all it has to | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
offer. While Hull is the official City of Culture next year, I am sure | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
that Southend will benefit from the tireless campaign he has run. I join | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
him in encouraging people to go and see this excellent seaside town for | :15:20. | :15:20. | |
themselves. Is the Prime Minister aware that two | :15:21. | :15:30. | |
miles north of Shire Brooke, already mentioned today, is a town called | :15:31. | :15:38. | |
Bolsover and at the same time they were seeing the notices on the bus | :15:39. | :15:47. | |
saying ?350 million for the NHS. At that time, they decided this | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
government, with the help of the local people, to close the hospital | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
Bolsover. We need the beds. I'm sure he understands that. When the | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
hospital is closed, it is gone forever. I want him here to date to | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
use a little bit of that money, not very much, to save the Bolsover | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
hospital, save the beds, save the jobs and the press might have a | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
headline saying, "The Prime Minister, dodgy Dave, assists the | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
beast to save the Bolsover hospital". What a sensation! I will | :16:32. | :16:40. | |
look very carefully. I don't have the information about the exact | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
situation at the Bolsover hospital. I'll look at it very carefully and | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
write to him. What I would say is that we are putting ?90 billion | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
extra into the NHS in this Parliament. As for what was on the | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
side buses and all the rest of it, my argument has always been, and | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
will always be, but it is a strong economy you required to fund the | :17:00. | :17:07. | |
NHS. -- ?19 billion. Last week I held my first apprenticeship is fair | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
in my constituency. Does my right honourable friend agree with me that | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
apprenticeships are an absolutely vital part of economic develop and | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
in our proud northern towns and cities? She is absolutely right and | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
that's why we've set the target for 3 million apprentices in this | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
Parliament. I think it is achievable, just as we achieved the | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
2 million apprentices trained in the last Parliament, and I wish her well | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
with what I hope is the first of many apprenticeship fares in her | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
constituency. Mr Speaker, before I ask my question, can I thank the | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
Prime Minister for the support he gave my campaign about getting an | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
inquiry into a certain drug which is given to pregnant women, resulting | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
in thousands of babies being born with deformities. I thank him for | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
supporting the campaign. Our universities, the global success | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
stories, outward looking, open for business with the world, and | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
attracting the brightest and the best students and researchers to | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
reduce ground-breaking research on cancer to climate change. In the | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
last year, the... I need a single sentence question. Forgive me but | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
there are a lot of other colleagues who want to take part. The | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
University has received ?836 million last year. What assurances can the | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
Prime Minister give us that in light of the fact that we are now out of | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
the EU, that money will be saved? First of all, let me thank the | :18:39. | :18:40. | |
honourable lady for her thanks because she has raised this case | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
many times and I can tell the Medicines and health care Products | :18:47. | :18:48. | |
Regulatory Agency has been gathering evidence for a review by expert | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
working groups on medicines and they have met on three occasions so I | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
think we're making progress. The point she makes about universities - | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
until Britain leads the EU we get the full amount of funding under the | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
programmes as you would expect. All contracts under that have to be | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
fulfilled, but it will be for a future government, as it negotiates | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
the exit from the EU, to make sure that we domestic league continue to | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
fund our universities in a way that makes sure they continue to lead the | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
world. As my right honourable friend will know, the potential closure of | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
the BHS store in Torquay town centre with the loss of over 100 jobs as | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
again raised the need for urgent regeneration of town centres. Would | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
he outline what support will be made available by the government to | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
ensure plans can be taken forward? It is worth making the point that it | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
is a very sad moment for those BHS staff who have worked so long for | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
that business. For them, it was simply a high-street brand, it was a | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
job, it was a way of life, it was a means of preparing for their | :19:53. | :19:54. | |
retirement and their pensions and we must do all we can to help them and | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
find them new work and there are many vacancies in the retail sector, | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
and we must make sure we help them to get those jobs. What we've done | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
in terms of high street is around ?18 million has gone to towns | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
through them of initiatives and we should keep those up because keeping | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
our town centres vibrant is so vital that this sits alongside the biggest | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
ever cut in interest rates in England, worth some ?6.7 billion in | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
the next five years and I think we need to say to those on our high | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
streets to make the most of that business rate cut. One of my | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
constituents who I've been working with for some time has had her | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
mobility cart removed after falling victim to a flawed assessment by | :20:33. | :20:40. | |
Atos. Atos have admitted their error and yet my vulnerable constituent | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
still remains housebound and without a car. Will the Prime Minister of | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
his full assistance to rectify this cruel situation and will he look | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
again at the regulations which allowed this situation to come | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
about? Let me congratulate the taking of this constituency case. | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
Many of us have done exactly the same thing with constituents who | :21:00. | :21:01. | |
have had assessment that haven't turned out to be accurate. If she | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
gives me the details, I'll look at the specific case and see what can | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
be done. A report recently commissioned by transport for the | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
North, a body created by this government, highlights the | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
opportunity to uphold the growing divide between the north and South | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
and creates several new jobs and billions of pounds of growth by | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
2015. -- 2050. Does he agree that to build an elegant and prosperity we | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
need to continue to rebalance infrastructure spending from London | :21:35. | :21:36. | |
to the regions, particularly to the north of England? I think he is | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
absolutely right. What that report shows is if we don't take the | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
necessary actions, you are going to see a continued north-south divide | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
and that's why we are committed, for instance, to seeing increased | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
spending on transport infrastructure go up to ?61 billion of this | :21:56. | :21:57. | |
Parliament and in my right honourable friend's area, we're | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
spending ?380 million upgrading the A1 from Leeming to Barton, which | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
will be a big boost for the local economy. I recently met a | :22:06. | :22:13. | |
constituent whose husband, a British citizen, has been an Ethiopian's | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
death row for two years and was kidnapped while travelling in and | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
illegally rendered Ethiopian. You are sentenced to death six years ago | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
as a trial he was neither present that nor able to present any defence | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
in direct contravention of international law. Given it has been | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
accessed two legal wrappers and Titian, and has not spoken to his | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
family, there are reports he's suicidal. In your last few weeks in | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
office, will you make the case for him to be allowed him to be | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
re-elected with his wife and children? We are taking a very close | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
interest in this case. The Foreign Secretary was an Ethiopian recently, | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
our consul has been able to meet with the man in question on a number | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
of occasions and we are working with him and the Ethiopian woman to try | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
to get this resolved. One of the reports that won't get so much | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
attention is the CQC report into North Middlesex Hospital, which | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
confirms that emergency care is inadequate. Why has it taken so many | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
years, and why does it need the regulators to know what many of my | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
constituents will know, that there has been another quick effort to | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
long, too few doctors, to view consultants? And the Primus assure | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
me that we now have in place the right plans on the right number of | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
doctors and consultants to ensure my constituents get the care they | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
deserve? I think he raises an important point, which is that I do | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
think the CQC is now acting effectively at getting into | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
hospitals, finding bad practice, reported on its 50. In some cases | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
that bad practice has always been there but we haven't been as | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
effective in some cases as we should be at shining eyed and. What we have | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
seen in North Middlesex is one of the busiest emergency department of | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
the country, the practice was an acceptable. We've now got a new | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
clinical director of the trust, additional two doctors in A and we | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
have been the ones that have set up the role of the Chief Inspector of | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
hospitals to have a zero tolerance approach to practice like this and | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
make sure things are but right. The Secretary of State for Business, | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
Innovation and Skills has stated he wants the UK to borrow tens of | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
billions of pounds to create a green Britain fund worth up to 100 | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
billion. Can I ask the PM whether this is a formal plan or whether | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
this is merely an attempt to come up with a plan amid a vacuum of | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
government? We are spending billions of pounds on the British economy and | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
an investment and that has clear consequences under the Barnett | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
formula for Scotland but clearly my colleagues during a leadership | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
election, and at least the side of the House we're actually having a | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
leadership election, rather than the never-ending... I thought you wanted | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
one. You don't want one? Hands up who wants a leadership election! Oh, | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
they don't want a leadership election! I'm so confused. One | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
minute it is like the Eagle is going to sweep and the next minute it is | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
Eddie the camera crew eagle at the top of the ski jump, not knowing | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
whether to go or not. Anyway, in case you hadn't noticed, we're | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
having a leadership election. Right from the start this United Kingdom | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
has been an outward looking, international trading nation. I'm | :25:35. | :25:36. | |
very glad to see the Trade Minister... The honourable gentleman | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
the Member for Worcester is entitled to be heard and his constituents are | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
entitled to be represented. And glad to see the Trade Minister out in | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
Hong Kong today talking up the prospects for investment in the | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
British economy but what steps can the Prime Minister take to bolster | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
the resources available to UKTI and the Foreign Office to make sure we | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
attract as much trade and investment from the wider world is possible? P | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
Maytin important point and a very clear instruction has gone out to | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
all our embassies around the world, to UKTI, that we should be doing all | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
we can to engage as hard as we can with other parts of the world start | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
to think about those trade deals, those investment deals and the | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
inward investment we want to see in the UK. Business is very clear to us | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
as well, whether they agree or disagree with the decision the | :26:27. | :26:28. | |
country is made, they know we've got to go on and make the most of the | :26:29. | :26:36. | |
opportunities we have. With the real prospect of a recession on the | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
horizon, the offer from the Chancellor is cutting corporation | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
tax, yet companies worry whether they will make a profit in the UK, | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
not how much tax they are going to pay on it, so can the Prime Minister | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
tell us what immediate action his government would take to protect | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
people's jobs and livelihoods right now? Immediate action has been | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
taken, not least the Bank of England decision to encourage bank lending | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
by changing the reserve asset ratios that they insist on and I think | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
that's very important because that's a short-term measure that can have | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
some early effect. Clearly what the Chancellor was talking about is now | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
we are in this new situation, we need to make sure that we configure | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
all our policies to take advantage of the situation that we're going to | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
be in and that's going to mean changes to taxes, changes to the way | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
UKTI works, there's going to be a change in focus for the Foreign | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
Office and the business department. All these things we can make a start | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
on irrespective of the fact that she and I were on the same side of the | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
referendum campaign. Further to my honourable friend from Worcester's | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
question about UKTI, may I remind the Prime Minister that next Monday | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
the greatest airshow in the world takes place at Farnborough in my | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
constituency, to which all honourable and right honourable | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
members are expected to attend! And may I remind my honourable friend | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
that last time, two years ago, deals worth $201 billion were signed at | :28:05. | :28:07. | |
the Farnborough airshow and may I prevail upon my right honourable | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
friend, who may have some time on his hands, to come and open the show | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
on Monday and encourage all other ministers to attend? I think I'm one | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
of the first prime ministers in a while to attend the Farnborough | :28:20. | :28:21. | |
airshow and I'm very happy to announce that I will be going back | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
there this year because I think it's very important. We have the second | :28:27. | :28:29. | |
largest aerospace industry in the world after the United States, and | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
it is a brilliant moment to showcase that industry to the rest of the | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
world and to clinch some important export deals, both in the military | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
and in the civilian space and I will always do everything I can, whether | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
in this job or in future, to help support British industry in that | :28:45. | :28:51. | |
way. The UN committee on economic social and cultural rights have | :28:52. | :28:53. | |
recently joined the UN committee on the rights of a child in expressing | :28:54. | :28:56. | |
serious concerns about this Tory government's brutal welfare cuts. | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
How much more international condemnation would it take for this | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
Prime Minister to scrap his aggressive to child policy and his | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
rate" we've seen under this government many more people in work, | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
many more households... Many fewer households where no one works and | :29:15. | :29:18. | |
many fewer households where there are children when one works. All of | :29:19. | :29:24. | |
this has been a huge success but she and her party now have the | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
opportunity, now we've made some huge devolution proposals, including | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
in the area of welfare, if you don't feel that what we're doing on a UK | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
bases... I don't know why you're all shouting. You're getting these | :29:37. | :29:39. | |
powers. Instead of whingeing endlessly, start to use them! Sir | :29:40. | :29:46. | |
John Chilcot finds that the only people who come out of the 2003 | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
invasion of Iraq well our servicemen and civilians. Will the Prime | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
Minister look at how he can make sure that the precedent he set last | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
autumn for transparency and scrutiny ahead of military action becomes the | :30:02. | :30:06. | |
norm for his successor? I think we have now got a set of arrangements | :30:07. | :30:10. | |
and also a set of conventions that put the country in a stronger | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
position. I think it is now a clear convention that we have a vote in | :30:16. | :30:21. | |
this House, which we did on Iran, before military action, but it is | :30:22. | :30:24. | |
also important that we have a properly constituted National | :30:25. | :30:27. | |
Security Council, proper receipt of legal advice, a summary of that | :30:28. | :30:30. | |
legal advice provided to the House of Commons, as we did both in the | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
case of Libya and Iraq, and I think these things are growing up to be a | :30:36. | :30:38. | |
set of conventions that will work for our country, but let me repeat | :30:39. | :30:42. | |
again, even the best rules and conventions of the world doesn't | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
mean that you always going to be confronted by easy decisions or ones | :30:47. | :30:49. | |
that don't have very difficult consequences. The Prime Minister | :30:50. | :30:56. | |
will no doubt be aware of my constituent Pauline Cafferkey, a | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone in 2014, and was there as part | :31:02. | :31:09. | |
of the DFID response to the outbreak. She and around 200 the NHS | :31:10. | :31:14. | |
volunteers have not received an equivalent bonus of ?4000 that was | :31:15. | :31:21. | |
awarded to 250 Public Health England staff. Wilbur Prime Minister agreed | :31:22. | :31:28. | |
to meet with me to discuss how DFID can rectify this situation. -- will | :31:29. | :31:34. | |
the Prime Minister agree. Roll Pauline Cafferkey is one of the | :31:35. | :31:37. | |
bravest people I've ever met and it was a great privilege to have come | :31:38. | :31:39. | |
to Number Ten Downing St and I'm proud of the fact that she and many | :31:40. | :31:44. | |
others, I believe, have received the medal for in Sierra Leone. It is | :31:45. | :31:47. | |
something Britain should be incredibly proud of. We partnered | :31:48. | :31:52. | |
with that country to deal with Ebola and it is now free of Ebola to talk | :31:53. | :31:55. | |
I will look specifically into the issue of the bonus. I wasn't aware | :31:56. | :31:59. | |
of that and I will get back to her about it. | :32:00. | :32:01. |