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Wales are dependent on the agriculture sector and it would be | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
short-sighted in the extreme to turn its back on a sector which put Wales | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
on international map. I know the whole house will join me | :00:00. | :00:30. | |
in congratulating Andy Murray, Heather Watson, on their stunning | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
success at Wimbledon. This morning I have meetings with ministerial | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
colleagues and others. Other than one meeting with Her Majesty The | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
Queen this afternoon, the diary for the rest of my day is remarkably | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
light. May I echo his congratulations to Andy Murray and | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
all the other winners. May we thank the Prime Minister for all his hard | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
work and his leadership. And particularly his commitment to the | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
union and to Northern Ireland, and swimming in not on, maybe he would | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
like to come and swim in luck and eight, we look forward to working | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
with the next Prime Minister. I'm told there are lots of roles out | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
there, there is the England football team... There is Top Dear, even | :01:28. | :01:38. | |
across the pond, there is a role that needs filling. If I can go to | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
my pet subject, Brexit really threatens. Really threatens the | :01:45. | :01:54. | |
union. Will he work with his successors to ensure we have | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
somebody who will pull together all the countries of the union and the | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
overseas territories and make it so we all work and thrive together? | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
Festival that mistaken for his kind remarks and fascinating suggestions | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
for future jobs, I think most of them sound harder than this one. -- | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
first of all. I do believe Northern Ireland is stronger than it was a | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
the full devolution of justice and home affairs, delivered under this | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
government, the seminal report, record inward investment, I care | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
passionately about our united kingdom, we do need to make sure | :02:34. | :02:42. | |
that as we leave the European Union, we work out how to keep the benefits | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
of the Common travel area, hard work is being done now with civil servant | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
in Northern Ireland and Whitehall and also the Republic, that what | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
needs to quicken. I would like to also paid tribute to my honourable | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
friend and the hard-working as the leading this great country for the | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
last few years. His lasting legacy will include supporting the Kurds, | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
whose peshmerga are bravely fighting Daesh in all our interest. Having | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
visited them on the front line,, although our training are crucial, | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
the injuries could be reduced with additional equipment like body | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
armour, respirators and front line medical facilities and we could | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
possibly provide beds in a specialist hospital in Birmingham | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
today most seriously injured. Does he agree this is a relatively small | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
investment that would make a huge difference to our allies in the | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
common fight to defeat the evil of terrorism? Thirst -- first of all | :03:44. | :03:52. | |
thank you for your words. The Kurds are doing valuable work against the | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
ash in Iraq and Syria. I will look carefully at his suggestion of using | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, who have excellent facilities for | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
battlefield facilities, our army are helping the peshmerga but we will | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
look and see if more can be done. Let's be frank, the strategy is | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
working on the Daesh is on the back foot, its finances have been hit, | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
more than 25,000 fighters have been killed, desertion has increased and | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
the flow of foreign fighters has fallen by 90%. I have always said | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
this will take a long time to work in Iraq and Syria but we must stick | :04:31. | :04:43. | |
at it. Jeremy Corbyn. Can I start gradually the Prime Minister in pain | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
trouble to be winners at Wimbledon, -- paying tribute. Also I think it | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
would be nice if we can gradually did Serena Williams on her fantastic | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
achievement as well. -- congratulated. It's only right that | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
after six years as Prime Minister, we thank him for his service. By | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
that and is agreed with him but some achievements of his I do want to | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
play recognition to, one is helping to secure the release of shack army | :05:12. | :05:19. | |
from quantum Bay and legislating to achieve equal marriage within our | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
society, and I'm sure he will acknowledge that Labour boats helped | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
get it through on that occasion! Will they acknowledge some concern | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
that the way homelessness has risen for the last six years and looks | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
like it will continue to rise in this country? Let me thank him for | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
his kind remarks, I would join him in pain should be to Serena Williams | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
who has now knocked Steffi Graf's amazing record of 22 grand slams, | :05:49. | :05:58. | |
has overtaken that. The case in Guantanamo Bay was one that be | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
raised again and again with the US government and I'm pleased it was | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
resolved. And also what is it about equal marriage, there are 30,000 | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
dead people in our country when the last six years have been able to get | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
married and that is real progress, I will never forget the day in number | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
ten when one of the people who works very close to the front door said to | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
me, I'm not that interested in politics but because of something | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
you're not have done, I'm able to marry the person I have loved all my | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
life this weekend and that was one of my favourite moments in this job. | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
As for homelessness, it is still 10% below the peak saw on the labour but | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
the key is building more homes, we have put 7000 since I became Prime | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
Minister but the key to building more homes is programmes, reforms to | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
the planning system, but the key is a strong economy. I had to what the | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
Home Secretary has been saying over the past few days and she has been | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
saying it is harder than ever for young people to buy their first | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
house. Does the Prime Minister think this is because of record low | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
house-building for his government's apparent belief that ?450,000 is an | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
affordable starter home? Let me say how warmly I congratulate the Home | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
Secretary on becoming leader of the Conservative Party. When it comes to | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
women prime ministers, I'm pleased to be able to say pretty soon it | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
will be 2-0. And not a pink bus insight! On the issue of... Of | :07:36. | :07:45. | |
housing and homelessness, 700,000 homes have been delivered. He asks | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
about this issue of affordability which is absolutely key. When I | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
became Prime Minister, because of what had happened to the mortgage | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
market, first-time buyer of the needed to have as much as ?30,000 to | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
put a deposit down. Because of the conversion of help to buy and shared | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
ownership, some people are able to get on the housing ladder with as | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
little as ?2000 and with a low mortgage rate, the new houses we are | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
building, we are making good progress. The malaise seems deeper | :08:15. | :08:23. | |
still. The Home Secretary said, talking of the economy, so that it | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
really does work for everyone, because it is apparent to anyone in | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
touch with the real world that people do not feel our economy works | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
that way. Isn't she right that too many people coming to many places in | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
Britain, feel their economy has been destroyed in towns they are in | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
because the industries have gone, there are levels of high and implode | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
or underemployment and a deep sense of malaise? Don't we all need to | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
address that question? If we're going to talk about the economic | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
record, let's get the faxed straight. We have cut the deficit, | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
there are 2 million more people in work, almost a million more | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
businesses, 2.9 million apprenticeships have been trained | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
under this government and it comes to property, 300,000 fewer people in | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
relative poverty, 100,000 fewer children in relative poverty. To be | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
accused of sloth in delivery, let's just take the last week we have both | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
been having, we got on with it, we about resignation, nomination, | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
competition and current nation, they haven't even decided what the rules | :09:34. | :09:34. | |
are yet! -- coronation. If they ever got into power, to take | :09:35. | :09:47. | |
about a year to work out who would sit where! Democracy is an exciting | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
and splendid thing and I'm enjoying every moment of it! The Home | :09:56. | :10:04. | |
Secretary, Mr Speaker, talking of the economy... Again, she said many | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
people find themselves exploited by unscrupulous bosses to stop I can't | :10:11. | :10:22. | |
imagine who she is referring to! But in his... In his hand discussion... | :10:23. | :10:36. | |
In his handover discussions with the Home Secretary, could enlighten us | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
as to whether or not there is any proposal to take on agency Britain | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
by banning zero hours contracts, clamping down on umbrella companies, | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
repealing the trade union act or preferably all three? He's right | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
that democracy is a splendid thing, I have to agree with him. Let me | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
answer directly on expedition in the workplace. It is this government at | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
the first introduced a living wage stop -- exploitation. It is | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
massively increased the power of the gang masters authority, there are | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
fines for businesses that don't pay the minimum wage and more policing | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
and prosecutions taking place although those things have changed | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
under government. As for zero hours contracts, they account for less | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
than one in four people in work, 60% of people in them do not want to | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
work more hours and it was this government that did something the | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
Labour Party never did, which was to ban exclusive so hours contracts. 13 | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
years of them committed a coalition Conservative government to do it. | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
Let me say something about the democratic process of leadership | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
elections, because I did say a couple of weeks ago, I am beginning | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
to admire his tenacity! He's reminding me of the Black Knight in | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
Monty Python's holy Grail. He has been kicked seven times but keeps | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
saying, it's only a flesh wound! I admire that. Mr Speaker, I would | :12:10. | :12:18. | |
like the Prime Minister to address another issue that the house voted | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
on last week. And I have got a question from Nina, hang on... It's | :12:24. | :12:31. | |
a question from somebody who deserves an answer. And she says, I | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
would like to know if there is any possibility that a European Union | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
citizen who has lived in Britain for 30 years can have their right of | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
permanent residents revoked or deported, depending on the Brexit | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
negotiations. There has been no clear answer to this question. It is | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
one that worries a large number of people and it would be good if in | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
his last question Time, he could at least offer some assurance to those | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
people. Let me reassure Nina, there is absolutely no chance of that | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
happening to somebody in those circumstances, we're working hard to | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
get a guarantee for EU citizens that they will have their rights | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
respected, all those who have, to this country. The only circumstance | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
I could ever in visit a future government trying to undo that | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
guarantee would be if British citizens in other European countries | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
didn't have their rights respected, so it's important to have | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
reciprocity. The new Prime Minister will be working together guarantee | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
as fast as we can. I have got an e-mail as well. I am not making this | :13:41. | :13:48. | |
up, I promise was to buy but this on the 62 of September 2015 from | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
someone called Judith and she said, please, please, keep witty and not | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
triumphalism during the first B with Jeremy Corbyn. She said because | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
Tom Watson, who may oust Jeremy Corbyn, is a very different kettle | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
of fish. He is far more dangerous in the long-term. She goes on, so | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
sensible, sober, polite answers, let him create his own party disunity. | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
After this is over, I have got to find Judith and find that what on | :14:19. | :14:29. | |
earth happened next! Mr Speaker... I have had the pleasure of asking the | :14:30. | :14:38. | |
Prime Minister 179 questions. Thank you, there are plenty more to come | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
to his successor, don't worry about that! But before I ask him the last | :14:42. | :14:49. | |
question, could I just put on record and wish him well as he leaves this | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
office and also wish his family well, Samantha and their children, | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
because I think we should all recognise that while many of us | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
really do enjoy our jobs and political rights, is the loved ones | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
nearest to us and our families who make enormous sacrifices that we can | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
do this. I would also like to pass on thanks to his mum for his advice | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
about ties and suits and so on. It's extremely kind of her, I would be | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
grateful if you would pass that on to her personally. And I reflected | :15:23. | :15:24. | |
on the lesson she offered. There is a rumour I want him to deal | :15:25. | :15:36. | |
with. There is a rumour going around that his departure has been | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
carefully Corey Grant so he can slip aimlessly into the vacancy created | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
-- created this morning on Strictly by Len Goodman's departure. Is that | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
his next career? -- carefully choreographed. I can assure him that | :15:56. | :16:03. | |
is not the case. I thank him for the kind words and wishes to my amazing | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
wife, Samantha, and my lovely children, who are watching from the | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
gallery this morning. He is right, the pressure off and bears hardest | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
on those around us in these jobs, and let me send my best to his | :16:15. | :16:23. | |
family. I will leave it to others to work out how many questions are | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
answered from this dispatch box. Because of your belief in letting | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
everyone have their say, I think I have done a record of 92 hours of | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
statements from this dispatch box, as well as some very enjoyable | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
liaison committee appearances and other things. I will certainly said | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
his good wishes back to my mother. He seems to have taken her advice | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
and is looking absolutely splendid today. But it gives me the | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
opportunity to put a rumour to rest as well, even more serious than the | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
strictly come dancing one, and he will appreciate this, because the | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
rumour somehow that I don't love Larry. I do, and I have photographic | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
evidence. Sadly, I can't take Larry with me. He belongs to the house and | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
the staff love him very much, as do I. Is my right honourable friend | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
aware that, in 33 years in this house, watching five prime ministers | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
and several ex-prime ministers, I have seen him achieve a mastery of | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
that dispatch box unparalleled in my time, not just because of his | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
command of detail, his wit, but because he commands the respect of | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
friend and foe alike, who know that he is driven not just by legitimate | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
political ambitions and ideas, but by a sense of duty which always | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
leads him to try to make this country more prosperous, more | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
solvent, more tolerant, more flair and more free, and he will command | :18:03. | :18:13. | |
the respect of generations to come. Those words mean a lot from my right | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
honourable friend, who spent so much time in this house. It is a special | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
place and prime ministers questions, for all of its theatrics, does have | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
a purpose, because it is time every week when the Prime Minister has to | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
know everything going on in Whitehall, and often you find out | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
things which you want to stop pretty quickly before 12 o'clock on | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
Wednesday. I believe politics is about public service in the national | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
interest, which is what I have always tried to do. This session has | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
some admirers around the world. When I did his job and I met Mayor | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
Bloomberg in New York. Everybody knew him and nobody had a clue who I | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
was until eventually somebody said, hey, Cameron, Prime Minister's | :18:55. | :19:04. | |
Questions. We love your show! Thank you very much. I join the Prime | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
Minister and the leader of the Labour Party in paying tribute to | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
all of the winners at Wimbledon. This week, we mark the 21st | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
anniversary of the Srebonica genocide. It is one of the few | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
political causes that the Prime Minister and I both wholeheartedly | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
support and I hope he will be impressing on his successor the | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
importance of supporting the Remembering Srebonica organisation | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
and all of its good work, notwithstanding our differences, I | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
genuinely extend my best personal wishes to the Prime Minister and his | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
family and I wish them all of the best. However... The Prime | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
Minister's legacy will undoubtedly be that he has taken us to the brink | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
of being taken out of the European Union, so we will not be applauding | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
his premiership on this. What advice has he given his successor on taking | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
Scotland out of the EU against the wishes of Scottish voters? First, | :20:07. | :20:14. | |
let me join the right honourable gentleman in paying tribute to all | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
of those who lost their lives in Srebonica and making sure we | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
commemorate this every year. This year, there will be a service in the | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
office where commemoration will be given, test dummy will be read out, | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
and we should think of it alongside the terrible events of modern | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
history such as the Holocaust. -- testimony will be read out. In this | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
house, there is sometimes a price for nonintervention, and we should | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
remember that. In terms of what he says about Scotland and the United | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
Kingdom and Europe, my advice to my successor, a brilliant negotiator, | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
is that we should try to be as close to the EU as we can be, or the | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
benefits of trade, cooperation and security. The channel will not get | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
any wider once we leave the EU and that is what we should seek, which | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
will be good for the UK and Scotland. The Prime Minister's | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
successor is well known in Scotland and across the front pages because | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
of a threat to deport a loved and light family from the Highlands. Her | :21:15. | :21:23. | |
first action in her premiership is likely to be imposing Trident | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
against the wishes of every MP in Scotland. Meanwhile, she says she | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
plans to plough on with Brexit, regardless of the fact that Scotland | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
voted to remain in the EU. How does the outgoing Prime Minister think | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
that all of this will go down in Scotland? Specifically on the Graham | :21:43. | :21:51. | |
family, Mrs Brain came to this country to study for a Scottish | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
history degree, she completed and her husband and son came as | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
dependents. We have given them an extension until August one put in an | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
application for a work visa. On Trident, there will a vote in this | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
house. Many people in Scotland support our nuclear deterrent, | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
maintaining it for the jobs which come in Scotland. He asks about the | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
record of this government when it comes to Scotland. 143,000 more | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
people in work in Scotland, massive investment in the renewable | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
industries in Scotland, the two biggest warships ever built in our | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
history, built in Scotland. A powerhouse parliament, a referendum | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
that was legal, decisive and fair and, I might add, a Scotsman winning | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
Wimbledon twice while I was Prime Minister. Never mind indie two. I | :22:42. | :22:54. | |
think it is time for Andy two. I would like to thank Prime Minister | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
for the leadership he has shown, particularly in his support of women | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
within the Conservative Party. The Prime Minister's legacy for me, | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
however, and for fellow cancer survivors is the personal support he | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
has shown for the cancer drug fund. However, today, I would like to ask | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
him to show that same support for those who have been affected by the | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
contaminated blood. Would he please update the house as to whether they, | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
too, will have a legacy? I think my honourable friend for what she said. | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
She is right to raise this issue of contaminated blood. I can today | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
announce that we will be spending the extra ?125 million we have | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
identified in a much fairer and more conferences scheme, to guarantee | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
that all of those affected will for the first time receive a regular | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
payment. This will include all of those with appetisers stage one, who | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
will receive ?3500 per year, rising to ?4000 by the end of the year. | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
Annual payments will increase over the lifetime of the Parliament and | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
will enhance the support for those who have been read or those who will | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
be in future, significantly boosting the money for discretionary | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
payments. -- those who have been bereaved. Last year, I apologised. | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
Today, I will provide them with the support. While it isn't right to | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
pick out two people, coming to constituency surgeries, making your | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
point to your MP, campaigning as these sufferers have done, in my | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
case, David Leadbetter and Hugh Davies coming to my surgery and | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
saying, this mustn't stand, I know that not everybody will be satisfied | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
in what is being done, but it just show our democracy working and | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
compassion in religion to this problem. The Prime Minister came to | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
office promising to keep the UK's triple-A rating, and top-down NHS | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
reorganisations and to stop his party banging on about Europe. How | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
would he say that is gone? In terms of the economic record, 2.5 million | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
more jobs, the deficit cut by two thirds, 2.9 million apprenticeships, | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
a million more businesses, a growth rate that has been at the top of the | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
developed world, all of that because of the choices we made. Because we | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
did that, we have been able to back our NHS with a 10% funding increase, | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
over 10 billion in real terms in this Parliament. As for Europe, we | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
have to settle these issues. I think it is right, when you are trying to | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
settle a big constitutional issue, you don't just rely on Parliament, | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
you ask the people as well and we made and we kept a promise. I am | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
sorry if this turns out to be my last question to the Prime Minister, | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
but I want to thank him for everything he has done for my | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
constituency, where every school is now good or outstanding and the | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
jobless total is down 64% since he took office. Can I encourage him to | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
return to the big society agenda I know he is so passionate about? Can | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
I ask him if he remembers saying, shortly before coming -- becoming | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
Prime Minister, politicians are a mixture of egotism and altruism and | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
you hope that the right one wins out so people do the right thing rather | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
than the politically convenient thing. It seems to me he has stayed | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
on the right side of that divide, not least in the manner of his | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
departure, and I think the country will miss him a great deal. I think | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
my friend for his kind remarks. When it comes to education, there is a | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
strong record to build on. We have got 1.4 million children in good or | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
outstanding schools since 2010. We have seen the free schools movement | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
really take off. I visited one yesterday that is outstanding, as a | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
court of them are, which is in amazing record. -- a quarter of | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
them. As for the big society, yes, we should use a strong economy to | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
build a bigger and stronger society. One thing we are doing is | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
introducing National Citizen Service, 200,000 young people have | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
taken part in that programme and I hope by the end of this Parliament | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
it will be the norm for 16-year-olds to take part. We talk about the soft | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
skills that are necessary to give people real life chances. National | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
Citizen Service will help that. Can I thank the Prime Minister for the | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
courteous way he has always answered questions I have managed to ask him. | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
I have always listened carefully to his answers, but until I had two eye | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
operations, I wasn't able to see him clearly. If he is concerned that I | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
am about the newspaper reports that people who are not entitled to NHS | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
cataract operations are jumping the queue and stopping people who are | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
entitled to NHS operations having that treatment? I will look | :27:57. | :28:03. | |
carefully... First, I think him kindly for his remarks. I have tried | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
to answer questions from this dispatch box. It is difficult | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
sometimes when you haven't seen the specific story, and I happened here. | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
I recall that we are investing in these cataract operations and the | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
number receiving them is going up but I will look carefully this | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
afternoon at the question he asks about the danger of queue jumping | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
and get back to them. -- back to him. Under the leadership of my | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
right honourable friend, the Prime Minister, in my constituency, | :28:35. | :28:40. | |
unemployment has dropped from 5.1% in May 2010 to 1.9 2010 in May this | :28:41. | :28:46. | |
year. A record to be proud of and one I would like to thank him for. | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
Does my right honourable friend agree with me that this has only | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
been possible thanks to his firm focused on jobs, apprenticeships and | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
skills, a strong economy and investment? The figures are | :28:58. | :29:05. | |
remarkable, when a constituency is getting to 1.9% unemployment, that | :29:06. | :29:09. | |
is very close to full employment and it is remarkable. What we have done | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
with apprenticeships was 2.4 million in the last Parliament, an extra | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
500,000 already in this Parliament, towards the target of 3 million in | :29:18. | :29:20. | |
this Parliament, and I'm confident we can achieve that. These are not | :29:21. | :29:26. | |
just numbers but real people who have experience of the workplace, | :29:27. | :29:29. | |
who are learning a trade and taking first steps in a career. What I want | :29:30. | :29:35. | |
is, when they get back to Korea, not only do they have the national | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
minimum wage but they don't get to pay income tax until they are | :29:41. | :29:43. | |
earning that wage. We have taken the largest people out of poverty... | :29:44. | :29:55. | |
This week is black country week. Yesterday, Black Country manufactory | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
is were in Parliament demonstrating the high quality products that are | :30:01. | :30:06. | |
exported worldwide. Will the outgoing Prime Minister impress upon | :30:07. | :30:10. | |
the incoming Prime Minister the huge importance of maintaining access to | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
the EU single market during exits negotiations, in order that we can | :30:16. | :30:24. | |
maximise the Black Country contribution to exports, | :30:25. | :30:31. | |
productivity and jobs? I agree with the honourable gentleman. | :30:32. | :30:58. | |
I want to make sure we get the vital access to Europe. Ten years ago | :30:59. | :31:08. | |
today I was applying to become Conservative Parliamentary candidate | :31:09. | :31:11. | |
for Worcester as my right honourable friend was uniting the opposition | :31:12. | :31:13. | |
and preparing it for government. Like so many on these benches, I | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
entered the house in the wiki first became Prime Minister. Since that | :31:19. | :31:24. | |
time, unemployment has halved and apprenticeships have doubled. We are | :31:25. | :31:28. | |
getting fairer funding, wages are up and taxes are down. Can I thank my | :31:29. | :31:33. | |
right honourable friend for all of his service to our nation and the | :31:34. | :31:36. | |
legacy of improved life chances he will leave behind? Can I thank him | :31:37. | :31:43. | |
for his kind remarks. We have seen unemployment falling all of these | :31:44. | :31:47. | |
constituencies and the claimant count go down. More importantly we | :31:48. | :31:52. | |
see 450,000 fewer children in households where nobody works. Think | :31:53. | :31:57. | |
of the effect of having a parent or loved one in work, helping to put | :31:58. | :32:01. | |
food on the table and provide a role model for their children, that is | :32:02. | :32:05. | |
what this is about. I thank him for his kind remarks. Between broken | :32:06. | :32:13. | |
vows, Brexit and the likely renewal of weapons of mass destruction on | :32:14. | :32:14. | |
the Clyde. The Prime Minister about... Has done | :32:15. | :32:35. | |
more for Scottish independence than any of us on these benches could | :32:36. | :32:39. | |
ever hope to do. So, as he contemplates a move to | :32:40. | :32:43. | |
Aberdeenshire, could the Prime Minister now make his commitment to | :32:44. | :32:48. | |
Scottish independence official by visiting SNP. Walk. -- SNP.org. What | :32:49. | :33:00. | |
I say to the honourable ladies and all members of Parliament from | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
Scotland, when you have Lord Smith himself that the vow to keep a | :33:06. | :33:10. | |
powerhouse parliament was kept, the SNP should recognise a promise was | :33:11. | :33:13. | |
made and the promise was delivered. I have bought many times at this | :33:14. | :33:17. | |
dispatch box about creating this powerhouse parliament but what I | :33:18. | :33:22. | |
have see is the SNP using any of the powers that they have now got -- | :33:23. | :33:23. | |
what I haven't seen. Mr Speaker, can I first join all of | :33:24. | :33:38. | |
those in thanking the Prime Minister for the statesman-like leadership he | :33:39. | :33:41. | |
has given to our party and to the country for the last six years. And | :33:42. | :33:46. | |
to thank him particularly, on this occasion, for the debating eloquence | :33:47. | :33:52. | |
and also the wit and humour that he has always brought to Prime | :33:53. | :33:54. | |
Minister's Questions on Wednesday. And can I ask that, as no doubt he | :33:55. | :34:00. | |
will have some plans for a slightly more enjoyable and relaxed Wednesday | :34:01. | :34:05. | |
morning and lunchtime, nevertheless he will still be an active | :34:06. | :34:10. | |
participant in this house as it faces a large number of problems | :34:11. | :34:16. | |
over the next few years? As a note to people know what Brexit means at | :34:17. | :34:20. | |
the moment, we need his advice and statesmanship as much as we ever had | :34:21. | :34:27. | |
-- as no two people. Can I thank my right honourable friend for his very | :34:28. | :34:30. | |
kind remarks. I remember one of the toughest conversations I had in | :34:31. | :34:33. | |
politics was when I was Leader of the Opposition and I was trying to | :34:34. | :34:38. | |
get him to join my front bench and he was make bird-watching holiday in | :34:39. | :34:41. | |
Patagonia and it was almost impossible to persuade him to come | :34:42. | :34:46. | |
back. Not many people know this, but his first act as Chancellor of the | :34:47. | :34:49. | |
Exchequer was to fire me has a special adviser. I am very proud of | :34:50. | :34:55. | |
the fact that one of my first acts was to appoint him to my cabinet in | :34:56. | :34:59. | |
the Coalition Government, and I know that then Deputy Prime Minister will | :35:00. | :35:04. | |
join me in saying that he provided great wisdom, great thoughtfulness, | :35:05. | :35:08. | |
great ballast at a time of national difficulty in the advice that he | :35:09. | :35:11. | |
gave us. He is not always the easiest person to get hold of. Tory | :35:12. | :35:16. | |
modernisation has never quite got as far as getting Ken Clarke to carry a | :35:17. | :35:21. | |
mobile phone. He did briefly have won but he said the problem was | :35:22. | :35:27. | |
people keep bringing me on it -- ringing me. We had to move our | :35:28. | :35:31. | |
morning meeting to accommodate his nine o'clock cigar, I recall. But I | :35:32. | :35:38. | |
will watch these exchanges from the backbenches and I will miss the roar | :35:39. | :35:41. | |
of the crowd, I will miss the barbs from the opposition, but I will be | :35:42. | :35:46. | |
willing you on, and when I say willing you want, I don't just mean | :35:47. | :35:49. | |
willing on the new Prime Minister at the dispatch box or just willing on | :35:50. | :35:53. | |
the front bench defending the manifesto that I helped put | :35:54. | :35:56. | |
together, but I will mean willing all of you on. People come here with | :35:57. | :36:00. | |
huge passion for the issues they care about, they come here with | :36:01. | :36:04. | |
great love for the constituencies they represent and also willing on | :36:05. | :36:09. | |
this place. Yes, we can be pretty tough and test and challenge our | :36:10. | :36:12. | |
leaders, perhaps more than some other countries, but that is | :36:13. | :36:16. | |
something we should be proud of and we should keep at it. I hope you all | :36:17. | :36:20. | |
keep at it and I will will you on as you do. The last thing I would say | :36:21. | :36:24. | |
is that you can achieve a lot of things in politics. You can get a | :36:25. | :36:28. | |
lot of things done, and that in the end, public service, the national | :36:29. | :36:31. | |
interest, that's what it's all about. Nothing is really impossible | :36:32. | :36:35. | |
if you put your mind to it. After all, as I once said, I was the | :36:36. | :36:37. | |
future once. | :36:38. | :36:39. |