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Republic. It is why I have committed very clearly in all of my statements | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
to ensure we do not return to those arrangements. That is precisely why | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
will remain a priority for le in my role. Order. Questions to the Prime | :00:07. | :00:24. | |
Minister. Mr Speaker... I al sure that the whole house will whsh to | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
join me in welcoming today's employment figures, which show | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
employment at another record high. And the lowest unemployment rate in | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
over a decade and wages rishng. Mr Speaker, this morning I had meetings | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
in addition to my duties in this house, I shall have further meetings | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
today. This afternoon, I will travel to Berlin to | :00:49. | :00:57. | |
We will cover a number of pressing international issues and tolorrow I | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
, Warmly welcome the Prime Linister discussions with Francois Hollande. | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
, Warmly welcome the Prime Linister to her place and can I also ask | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
given her unwavering commitlent to deliver economic stability `nd | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
national security, in our United Kingdom's interest, does shd welcome | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
Monday's emphatic vote in this house for the Trident successor programme? | :01:29. | :01:43. | |
Can I thank my honourable friend for his kind remarks, and thank him for | :01:44. | :01:54. | |
enthusiastic the welcoming the debate in this house to rendw the | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
nuclear deterrent, showing that we have not only committed to our own | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
national security but also consider the security of our European and | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
Nato allies. We can now get on with the essential job of renewing our | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
nuclear deterrent, and can H thank those on 140 Labour members of | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
Parliament, who put the nathonal interest first. And who votdd to | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
renew the nuclear deterrent. Jeremy Corbyn. Thank you, Mr Speakdr, can I | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
welcome the right honourabld member to her first PMQs, and congratulate | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
her on her appointment and becoming the country's second woman Prime | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
Minister. I hope that she whll agree with me that this house and prime | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
ministers Question Time shotld be an opportunity to debate seriotsly the | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
issues that face our countrx and our place in the world. On the steps of | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
Downing Street, she spoke vdry eloquently about fighting btrning | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
injustice... Yet, her last `ct as Home Secretary was to shut the | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
Orgreave enquiry into the long grass. -- shove. The IPCC told Home | :03:05. | :03:14. | |
Office officials that if it announced any action to set up an | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
enquiry or any other investhgation to investigate Orgreave, it would | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
impact the Hillsborough investigation, that has been | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
disputed, was Parliament misled Will the Prime Minister now proceed | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
with a full public enquiry hnto the terrible events at Orgreave? Can I | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
thank the right honourable gentleman for the welcome that he has given | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
me, can I say to him, he refers to me as the second woman Primd | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
Minister, in my years here hn my house, I have long had the Labour | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
Party asking what the Conservative Party does for women... LAUGHTER | :03:49. | :04:01. | |
SHOUTING I welcome the comments he h`s made | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
about prime ministers, we do make serious issues, I look forw`rd to | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
the exchanges that he and I will have and I hope that we will be | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
having them over this dispatch box for many years to come! CHEDRING | :04:15. | :04:24. | |
As regards the Orgreave enqtiry the Shadow Home Secretary has an urgent | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
question on that this afternoon which the Home Secretary will be | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
responding to. Jeremy Corbyn. The new Prime Minister also said on the | :04:34. | :04:34. | |
steps of Downing Street, " if you are young you will find it | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
harder than ever before to own your own home". In 1998, more th`n half | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
of working households of people aged 16 to 34 were buying their own | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
homes, now it is 25%, the rdsolution foundation suggests this wilful to | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
10% in the next nine years. What figure has the Prime Ministdr set | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
herself for home ownership `mong young people? I know the tileline | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
that has been referred to, he may have forgotten that during that | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
period we had 13 years of a Labour government. 13 years of a L`bour | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
government which had a very bad record in terms of house-buhlding. | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
This is the government that is going to change that, this governlent is | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
going to put more into building more homes, to ensure that young people | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
do have a better opportunitx to get on the housing ladder. | :05:31. | :05:31. | |
That is why we are a governlent that will be governing for everybody in | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
this country. CHEERING That Labour government put ` decent | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
house standard in place in dvery part of this country. -- hole | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
standard. I am not sure... SHOUTING I am not sure, Mr Speaker, that | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
starter homes at ?450,000 for young peopld earning | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
7% less than their parents generation is actually a very good | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
prospect for people owning their own homes. The Prime Minister is rightly | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
concerned, Mr Speaker, she said this, if you are black you `re | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
treated more harshly than if you are white. Before appointing her new | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
Foreign Secretary, did she discuss with him his description of black | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
people as you can in these `nd why he questioned the motives of the US | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
president, Barack Obama, on his part Kenyan heritage? -- like people as | :06:24. | :06:39. | |
piccaninnies. I have sat on these benches and heard him raise that | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
with the right honourable friend for Whitney, when he was Prime Linister, | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
on a number of occasions. Ldt nukes blamed this, if you look at house | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
prices across the country, they vary, in Liverpool, the average | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
house price is ?116,000, in London, the average house price is just over | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
?676,000. That is why we have a higher limit for the starter home | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
figure in London, if he objdcts to that, he needs to tell his | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
constituents why he is against them having opportunities to get on the | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
housing market? He refers to the remarks that I made, and it is | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
correct, if you are black you will be treated more harshly in the | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
criminal justice system, it is exactly why, as Home Secret`ry, I | :07:24. | :07:31. | |
dealt with the issue of stop and search, I was concerned to lake sure | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
that nobody should be stoppdd and searched on the streets of this | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
country because of the colotr of their skin. I did that as a | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
conservative, 13 years of L`bour did nothing on it. Jeremy Corbyn. My | :07:42. | :07:50. | |
question was about the langtage used by the Foreign Secretary, e`rlier | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
this week, the new Chancellor abandoned the budget surplus target. | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
As Labour has long called for. Her government is already missing | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
targets on debt, deficit, wdlfare count and productivity. Six years of | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
government austerity has fahled The long-term economic plan is clearly | :08:10. | :08:19. | |
dead. Is there a new one? It is the long-term economic plan that has | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
delivered the record level of employment that we see... CHEERING | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
Perhaps I could put the right honourable gentleman straight, we | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
have not abandoned the intention to move to a surplus, what I h`ve said | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
is that we will not be targdting that at the end of this Parliament. | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
He uses the language of austerity... Can I say this to him, he t`lks | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
about austerity, I call it living within our means. CHEERING | :08:44. | :08:53. | |
He talks about austerity, in fact it is about not saddling children and | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
grandchildren with signific`nt debts to come. It is not about austerity, | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
it is about ensuring we havd an economy that works for everxone | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
Jeremy Corbyn. Jobless clails have risen for the fourth month hn a row, | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
welfare claims have risen as well. Austerity actually means people | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
being poorer, services being cut, and local facilities being closed. | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
In her speech on the steps of Downing Street, she also addressed | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
insecure workers, saying, you have a job but you do not always h`ve job | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
security. SHOUTING Does that mean, to those people that | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
are worried about their futtre in work... SHOUTING | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
I am talking of the people that sent us here to serve them. Does that | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
mean that she is proposing to scrap and lemon tribunal fees, band zero | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
hours contracts, repeal the trade union act, as more than a dozen | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
European nations have already done, that would help to give gre`ter job | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
security to many very worridd people in this country. Again I sax to the | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
right honourable gentleman, I did say that on the streets of Downing | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
Street, it is very important that here in this house, we conshder not | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
only what might be called the more of these injustices but consider the | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
life for those people for whom they are in work but struggling to make | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
ends meet. It is essential, that is one of the things that the | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
government has done, it has raised the threshold at which people start | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
to pay income tax, for example. It is also about making sure that we | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
have more well-paid jobs in this country. That is also what the | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
government is doing. I'm interested that he refers to the situation of | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
some workers, who may have some job insecurity, and potentially, | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
unscrupulous bosses, I suspdct that there are many members on the | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
opposition benches who may be familiar with an unscrupulots | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
boss... LAUGHTER A boss who does not listen to his | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
workers? SHOUTING Requires some of his workers to | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
double their workload... SHOUTING LAUGHTER | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
Maybe even a boss who explohts the rules to further his own career | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
Remind him of anybody? SHOUTING Remind him of anybody? SHOUTING | :11:23. | :11:35. | |
Speaker, we are sent here to represent people. And there are many | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
people in this country struggling with insecure jobs, with low wages, | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
I know this is very funny for all Conservative members, but I don t | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
suppose, I do not suppose there is too many Conservative MPs who have | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
to go to a food bank in orddr to supplement their family table every | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
week! I think that we should reflect upon those things. The Primd | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
Minister highlighted the fahlures of her predecessor, on social justice, | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
homeownership, education and the cost of living. Some might say that | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
as a cabinet minister, she too was responsible for that but shd | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
empathised with working people when she said, " I know you are working | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
around the clock, I know yot are doing your best, I know that | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
sometimes life can be a strtggle". Yesterday the IFA has found that two | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
thirds of children living in poverty in Britain have at least ond parent | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
in work. -- IFS. What, other than warm words, is she going to offer | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
those families, those children, who are hungry often and very insecure | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
in their living? Isn't it otr duty to offer some hope and security to | :12:48. | :13:00. | |
them? We are concerned about those people but the answer is not | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
unlimited uncapped welfare, as the Labour Party | :13:03. | :13:04. | |
say, the answer for people who are in work and struggling in work and | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
the answer for those that w`nt to get into work is to have a strong | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
economy, an economy which ddlivers jobs and well-paid jobs, and that is | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
why I can assure the right honourable gentleman that on this | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
side of the house, we are focused upon building a country which works | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
for everyone, an economy whhch ensures that everyone can bdnefit | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
from the nation's 12, a sochety where everyone gets the | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
opportunities they deserve, and a democracy that everyone can have | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
faith in. And finally, I sax to the right honourable gentleman, the | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
Labour Party may be about to spend several months of fighting `nd | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
tearing itself apart, the Conservative Party will be spending | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
those months ringing this country back together. -- benefit from the | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
nation's wealth. SHOUTING | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
There will be more. I agree with the Prime Minister .. | :13:57. | :14:06. | |
SHOUTING CHEERING | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
LAUGHTER We are leaving the EU and wd are | :14:10. | :14:24. | |
going to make a success of ht, will the Prime Minister make my Day | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
special by saying that she hs prepared to reject staying hn the | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
single regulated market, and offering instead to our fridnds in | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
Europe a free-trade deal, vdry much in their interests, let's t`ke back | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
control! I'm tempted to say that after that... Aisha Praught be sit | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
down and enjoy that for the rest of the day... My honourable frhend has | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
made my day. -- I should probably sit down and enjoy that the rest of | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
the day. Happy birthday to him, I should say that, and as we look at | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
the result of the referendul, I am very clear that Brexit means Brexit, | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
we will make a success of it, what we need to do in negotiating the | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
deal is listen to what people have said about the need for controlled | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
on free movement but also ndgotiate the right deal and the best deal of | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
trade in goods and services for the British people. Angus Roberts and. | :15:23. | :15:30. | |
-- Angus Robertson. The German vice Chancellor has | :15:31. | :15:43. | |
already confirmed how Scotl`nd is able to remain in the Europdan | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
Union. Did the Prime Ministdr discussed this when she met with | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
First Minister Nicola Sturgdon Wenzhou was in Edinburgh, and will | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
she do everything to ensure that remain means remain for Scotland? -- | :15:57. | :16:06. | |
when she was in Edinburgh. Can I thank the right honourable gentleman | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
for his comments and the recognition that he showed the support for my | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
husband, and as he said then, we all rely on support from those `round | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
cum to do our jobs, and we should never forget that. I did discuss the | :16:18. | :16:26. | |
arrangements for the UK leaving the EU, and I was very pleased that my | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
first trip was to Scotland `nd that I was able to do it so earlx in my | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
premiership, as I have been very clear, the Union is very important | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
to me. I was also clear with the First Minister that I think there | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
are some ideas being put forward that are impractical but I `m | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
willing to listen to the options that are brought forward, and we | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
will be engaging fully with all the devolved add ministrations. Germany | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
has the highest level of support of any continental European cotntry for | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
Scotland remaining in the Etropean Union, so would the Prime Mhnister | :17:00. | :17:07. | |
thank Chancellor Merkel for the interest of the members of her | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
government and members of the Bundestag, their interest in having | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
Scotland remaining within the EU, and will she assure the Chancellor | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
and other heads of state and government that we in Scotl`nd will | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
do everything, everything that is necessary for us to remain hn the | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
EU? I have to say to the right honourable gentleman, because this | :17:34. | :17:35. | |
is a line that he has been taking for some time. I do find it a little | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
confusing, given that only two years ago in the Scottish referendum the | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
SNP was campaigning for Scotland to leave the United Kingdom, which | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
would have meant leaving thd European Union. Daniel Kawczynski. | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker. We all stand with the people of France, `nd | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
particularly Nice, following the appalling terrorist act there last | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
week. We'll be primers to update the House on how the security | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
collaboration between our countries can help prevent such attacks in the | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
future, and reassure the Frdnch people that although we are leaving | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
the European Union, the close links between our two countries whll | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
remain steadfast? My honour`ble friend raises a very import`nt | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
topic, and as has been said in his House before, our thoughts `re with | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
all the people of France and the appalling attack that took place in | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
Nice last week. We continue to work with the French authorities, both | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
obviously in the aftermath of that attack, but my honourable friend is | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
right that we need to continue our security co-operation with France | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
and indeed other European countries. We will not be cowed by terrorists, | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
we both faced the same thre`ts, and we need to work together in order to | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
defeat those threats. And I can absolutely confirm that, yes, the | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
United Kingdom will leave the European Union, but the United | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
Kingdom is not leaving Europe, and our co-operation will continue. | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
Jamie Read. Can I welcome the Prime Minister to her place and whsh you | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
well in healing the country in the months and years to come? After all, | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
it is she and her colleagues have so bitterly divided it. And can I thank | :19:19. | :19:28. | |
too... Can I thank her too, Mr Speaker, for her wholeheartdd | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
support and endorsement for official Labour Party policy on Triddnt? It | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
is such a refreshing change to hear that from the despatch box! | :19:37. | :19:37. | |
LAUGHTER As a type one diabetic and `s a | :19:38. | :19:51. | |
father and uncle to children with type 1 diabetes, and we havd 50 ,000 | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
people, 30,000 of them children in this country, can I thank the Prime | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
Minister for the example shd has shown to those people in | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
demonstrating that this not hold us in anyway whatsoever? There is no | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
doubt whatsoever, Mr Speaker, that the Prime Minister's predecdssor | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
found the NHS, left it in a much worse condition than he. Will the | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
Prime Minister visits... Will the Prime Minister visit my | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
constituency, to honour the promises made by the previous Prime Linister, | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
and to stop the government cutting services there? Thank you, Lr | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
Speaker. Can I say, the honourable gentleman makes a reference to | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
divisions on the Conservative Party benches, no, which is the p`rty that | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
took three weeks to decide which should be that unity candid`te? It | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
was the Labour Party! Can I thank him for his remarks and typd 1 | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
diabetes as well. There are many youngsters from tiny tots to | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
teenagers leaving with type 1 diabetes, and it is important that | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
we give the message to them that their future is not limited, they | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
can do whatever they want. @nd he invites me, he is the first person | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
in Prime Minister's Questions to invite me to visit his constituency, | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
and I will look very closelx at all invitations that I received in Prime | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
Minister's Questions. I think it is important that decisions about local | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
NHS services are taken at a local level, but I would remind hhm, as he | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
made the point about the agreement between Conservative Party `nd | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
Labour Party official policx on Trident, that where we did disagree | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
at the election was it was the Conservative Party that agrded that | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
we would put the money that was necessary into the NHS, the Labour | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
Party refused to commit that. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Extremism takes | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
many forms, from the atrocity in Nice to the violent murder by her | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
own brother in Pakistan, justified as an honour killing. -- Qandeel | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
Baloch. There were many exalples of this in the UK over the last five | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
years. Does the Prime Minister agree that such crimes are acts of terror, | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
not honour, and which he directed that a new governor shows a lead for | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
ending the use of the word honour to describe this vile act in order to | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
stop any legitimacy to the hdea that women are the property of mdn? - | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
and would she direct that hdr new government. This is an issud that | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
resonate across this whole House, and she is absolutely right that | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
extremism takes many forms, and in the counter-ruck stream is policy we | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
are looking very widely across the breadth of extremism. -- cotnter | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
extremism policy. We are looking at tackling the root causes of | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
so-called honour based violdnce and I absolutely agree that there is | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
absolutely no honour in so-called honour based violence, it is a | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
criminal act, pure and simple. Thank you, vista is bigger. I too would | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
like to welcome the Prime Mhnister to her first Prime Minister's | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
Question Time. -- Mr Speaker. I would like to ask you to listen to | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
the head teachers of primarx schools in my constituency. They tell me the | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
weeds and unprecedented changes in primary education, including new | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
sites, have lead to negativd impact on the learning outcomes of | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
children. -- the recent unprecedented changes. Will she | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
urged the new Secretary of State to take these concerns forward? I thank | :23:26. | :23:34. | |
the honourable lady for her welcome to me, and I think education right | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
is absolutely crucial if we are going to ensure that people can take | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
up the opportunities they ddserve also have the aspiration to take up | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
those opportunities. The new Education Secretary will be looking | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
across the at the education provision that is in place, we have | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
made important changes alre`dy over the last six years that are | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
improving the quality of edtcation. More children are getting the | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
quality of education they nded, but there is more for us to do, and we | :24:00. | :24:08. | |
will be looking at that. In my constituency, Aerospace is vital | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
importance, Rolls-Royce and boring over 1000 people at their shte, but | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
it is just important there what do the whole UK economy. Will the Prime | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
Minister congratulate all the companies that attended the | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
Farnborough airshow, on the deals they signed, and will she agree that | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
with nearly ?100 billion of trade deals done this year, Britahn is | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
very much open for business? My honourable friend is absolutely | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
right that Britain is open for business, and I know what an | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
important role the aerospacd industry plays in his consthtuency, | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
but also in other constituencies across the country, and the | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
importance of the Farnborough airshow, and the member for | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
Aldershot was telling me wh`t a great airshow it was. The Government | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
committed there to generate a fund for research to ensure we rdtain our | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
leading position in this sector and as he said, there are a significant | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
number of trade deals signed, and I would encourage other companies to | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
go out and get that business. I wish to welcome the right honour`ble lady | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
to her place. Newcastle Airport was voted best in Britain this week but | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
the good news that we are w`iting for is a decision on Heathrow | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
expansion. The Prime Ministdr knows that Britain needs to be opdn for | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
business, so will she do better than dithering gave and give us ` | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
decision without delay? -- dithering Dave. I have some fond memories of | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
Newcastle Airport from the time when I stood in the North West Dtrham | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
constituency some years ago and made quite good use of Newcastle Airport, | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
it has changed and expanded rather ever since. On Heathrow, thd | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
position has not changed. Obviously, the review work has been done, | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
further work has been done hn relation to the question of air | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
quality around the various proposals that were put forward, and the | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
Cabinet and the Government will be taking a decision in due cotrse | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker. Based on analysis of a crime survey for | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
England and Wales by the Chhldren's Society, an estimated 113 16 and | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
17-year-old girls in my constituency have experienced a sexual offence in | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
the last year. Given the progress made in tackling child sexu`l | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
exploitation in the last few years, could my right honourable friend | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
outline if government has plans to strengthen the protection for this | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
particular vulnerable age group My honourable friend raises a very | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
important issue, we saw, obviously, in recent times the appalling | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
circumstances in Rotherham hn relation to child sexual | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
exploitation, but as my honourable friend Guy Shone, in every | :26:52. | :26:53. | |
constituency in the country there are young people being submhtted to | :26:54. | :27:02. | |
sexual offences. -- has shown. The Government has been working with all | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
appropriate agencies to enstre we put greater support in placd to | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
provide an extra 7 million hn funding to ensure victims of sexual | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
abuse receive the right support launched the whistle-blowing | :27:14. | :27:15. | |
helpline to help authorities spot patterns of behaviour, and patterns | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
of failure, and made child sexual abuse and expedition a national | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
thread so police forces havd a duty to collaborate to tackle thhs | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
terrible crime. We will be strengthening our ravens in the | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
coming months, we are all appalled by child sexual abuse, and we need | :27:34. | :27:41. | |
to make sure we eradicate it. In her first statement on the steps of | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
Downing Street, the Prime Mhnister stated that she would lead ` | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
government that would work for everyone of us. Since she bdcame | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
Prime Minister, I have tried unsuccessfully to get assur`nces on | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
the continuation of the Northern schools strategy, along with the 80 | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
million that was set aside for the Northern schools. Will she therefore | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
give me that commitment tod`y so that children in Bradford and the | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
North can have the same chances as those in London and the South? Well, | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
it is important that we enstre that across the country children are | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
getting the opportunities that they deserve, and the quality of the | :28:21. | :28:22. | |
education they receive is an important part of that, and the | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
review that has taken place, which was launched in March, is m`king | :28:26. | :28:32. | |
recommendations on the issud. What I can assure the honourable gdntleman | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
is that my right honourable friend the Education Secretary will be | :28:37. | :28:38. | |
looking very carefully at the result of that review and will makd the | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
position in which the Government is going to take in response to those | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
recommendations clear in dud course. Stuart Andrew. Mr Speaker, crowing | :28:50. | :28:56. | |
up on a council estate, it was tough coming out as a Conservativd. - | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
growing up. LAUGHTER | :29:02. | :29:07. | |
Difficult as it was, I understood then, as I do now, that onlx a | :29:08. | :29:11. | |
Conservative government delhvers real social mobility. | :29:12. | :29:16. | |
Does my right honourable frhend agree with me that if it is the job | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
of this government to fight for such opportunities for the peopld of | :29:22. | :29:25. | |
Britain, because the party opposite are too busy fighting each other? | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
Well, my honourable friend puts it very well, and if you look `t the | :29:30. | :29:32. | |
Conservative benchers, as hd says, we have Members of Parliament who | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
were brought up in council houses, Conservative Members of Parliament | :29:38. | :29:40. | |
brought up by single-parent families. The chairman of the | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
Conservative Party is a forler miner. It is this party that is | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
looking at opportunity for `ll, and that certainly, I am very clear that | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
the Government I lead will be driven not by the interests of the | :29:54. | :29:57. | |
privileged few but by the interests of everyone in this country, not | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
entrenching the advantages of a privileged few in terms of | :30:02. | :30:04. | |
opportunity, but extending opportunity to all. Steward led | :30:05. | :30:11. | |
Donaldson. Thank you, Mr Spdaker. Whatever your politics, one cannot | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
help but be inspired by the image last week of the female Prile | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
Minister of UK meeting the female First Minister of Scotland, a | :30:21. | :30:23. | |
message to girls everywhere that they can achieve anything they want. | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
Does the Prime Minister agrde that to do this girls and women should be | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
able to live free from genddr race violence and domestic abuse, and | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
will she commit to supporting the bill of my honourable friend for | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
Banff and Buchan and ratify the Istanbul convention? Can I say to | :30:40. | :30:41. | |
the honourable gentleman th`t I think it is an important sylbol for | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
girls and young women to sed women in positions as Prime Minister and | :30:46. | :30:52. | |
First Minister, and I respect the First Minister of Scotland, we had a | :30:53. | :30:55. | |
very constructive first meeting We will disagree on some issues, but we | :30:56. | :31:00. | |
will work practically and pragmatically together. I think it | :31:01. | :31:03. | |
is important to deal with the issues of gender violence and domestic | :31:04. | :31:07. | |
violence against women and girls. That is why the add has a strategy | :31:08. | :31:15. | |
that is being taken on by mx right honourable friend the Home Secretary | :31:16. | :31:19. | |
now. -- why the Government has. We have a good record for putthng in | :31:20. | :31:23. | |
place domestic violence protection orders, but there is always more to | :31:24. | :31:25. | |
do, and we will be doing th`t. Can I welcome one right honourable | :31:26. | :31:36. | |
friend to her place, if it hs not too untoward to say, I decl`re it as | :31:37. | :31:40. | |
game, set and match to her this afternoon. Can I tell my right. . | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
Can I tell my right honourable friend that last week, when I met | :31:46. | :31:51. | |
local NFU representatives in North Dorset, they understood what we were | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
doing in delivering Brexit, but they were keen to ensure that thd needs | :31:56. | :31:59. | |
of agriculture and British farmers are front and centre in those | :32:00. | :32:05. | |
discussions and that their hnterests are considered. Can I invitd my | :32:06. | :32:09. | |
honourable friend to make that commitment today? I'm very happy to | :32:10. | :32:13. | |
make that commitment, as we look at the position I will be taking in | :32:14. | :32:17. | |
negotiations to leaving for the UK leaving the European Union, we will | :32:18. | :32:21. | |
be consulting widely, agrictlture is a sector which is particularly | :32:22. | :32:26. | |
affected by Brexit, and I c`n assure my honourable friend that wd will be | :32:27. | :32:30. | |
consulting with and listening to the views of farmers and others involved | :32:31. | :32:33. | |
in the food industry and agricultural sector. Can I | :32:34. | :32:38. | |
congratulate the right honotrable lady on becoming Prime Minister I | :32:39. | :32:41. | |
gently remind her of the conversation we had a few wdeks ago, | :32:42. | :32:45. | |
when I said she would come through the middle and trounce the len | :32:46. | :32:50. | |
standing for that position. So I was right! LAUGHTER | :32:51. | :32:55. | |
I also said I was going to put some money on her, unfortunately I never | :32:56. | :32:59. | |
got around to it, because the odds were very good at the time. Can I | :33:00. | :33:03. | |
ask the Prime Minister is vdry serious question about the xounger | :33:04. | :33:06. | |
generation, millennials, so many of them in this country believd they | :33:07. | :33:11. | |
are citizens of Europe, thex had the ability to travel, to work, and to | :33:12. | :33:16. | |
be true Europeans, will she soon give them her vision of how that | :33:17. | :33:22. | |
reality, as European citizens, can be delivered even in the prdsent | :33:23. | :33:28. | |
circumstance? I think the honourable gentleman, I do indeed remelber the | :33:29. | :33:32. | |
conversation where he said H would trounce the men, as he said it, the | :33:33. | :33:38. | |
Conservative Party came up with an all woman short list, withott being | :33:39. | :33:41. | |
quiet to do so, if I may sax... LAUGHTER | :33:42. | :33:48. | |
He raises an important point about the younger generation, what I would | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
say is this, as I said in rdsponse to my noble friend, the member for | :33:54. | :33:58. | |
Shrewsbury Town Acton, we are leaving the European Union but not | :33:59. | :34:01. | |
leaving Europe, we will be setting out the negotiating position in | :34:02. | :34:07. | |
terms of our relationship to the European Union, over the coling | :34:08. | :34:10. | |
weeks and months, I would also say this to the young people th`t he | :34:11. | :34:14. | |
talks about, actually, we should not be limiting their opportunities and | :34:15. | :34:18. | |
their horizons by just lookhng at Europe. This country will bd making | :34:19. | :34:23. | |
a success of Brexit because we will be out there in the world, `s an | :34:24. | :34:26. | |
outward looking, expansive country with opportunities around the globe. | :34:27. | :34:32. | |
Philip Davies. I warmly welcome the Prime Minister to her post, unlike | :34:33. | :34:36. | |
dithering Barry, opposite, H did place a bet on her becoming the next | :34:37. | :34:45. | |
leader. I apologise to the Linister for clearly having my phone off when | :34:46. | :34:50. | |
she was calling me to be a part of the front bench of government(! | :34:51. | :34:53. | |
LAUGHTER Reason why the people of Yorkshire | :34:54. | :34:56. | |
voted overwhelmingly to leave, was due to control in immigration, and | :34:57. | :35:00. | |
the Prime Minister reassure the people of Yorkshire that whdn we | :35:01. | :35:05. | |
finally do leave the Europe`n Union, she will insist upon keeping her | :35:06. | :35:09. | |
original promise to get the immigration figures down into this | :35:10. | :35:14. | |
country into the tens of thousands. I say to my honourable friend, I am | :35:15. | :35:20. | |
very clear that the vote th`t was taken in this country on thd 23rd of | :35:21. | :35:24. | |
June sent a very clear mess`ge about immigration, that people want | :35:25. | :35:27. | |
control of free movement from the European Union, and that is | :35:28. | :35:31. | |
precisely what we will be doing and ensuring that we get that in the | :35:32. | :35:34. | |
negotiations that we will bd undertaking. I also remain | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
absolutely firm in my belief that we need to bring net migration down to | :35:40. | :35:42. | |
sustainable levels, the govdrnment believes that is tens of | :35:43. | :35:48. | |
thousands... It will take some time to get there, but of course, now, we | :35:49. | :35:54. | |
have the added aspect of those controls that we can bring hn | :35:55. | :35:57. | |
relation to people moving from the European Union. Finally, Mr Tim | :35:58. | :36:17. | |
Fallon. Thanks. You all verx kind. I would like to warmly welcomd the | :36:18. | :36:20. | |
promise to her position, shd has come a long way since we were on the | :36:21. | :36:23. | |
hustings together in North West Durham, she will reflect th`t she is | :36:24. | :36:28. | |
possessing greater support hn this chamber than either of us got in | :36:29. | :36:33. | |
Consett working men 's club. -- -- Tim Farron. Today there are reports | :36:34. | :36:38. | |
that the new Grexit law meat unit will be hiring lawyers at the cost | :36:39. | :36:44. | |
of ?5,000 per head per day, will the Prime Minister be using the mythical | :36:45. | :36:48. | |
?350 million to pay the leg`l fees, or is that still pencilled hn for | :36:49. | :36:52. | |
the NHS, as promised by cabhnet colleagues who campaign for leave? | :36:53. | :36:59. | |
It is absolute right that wd create a new department to focus upon the | :37:00. | :37:03. | |
work of negotiating the United Kingdom leaving the European Union | :37:04. | :37:06. | |
and that department will nedd to have the expertise necessarx to | :37:07. | :37:10. | |
undertake those negotiations, I say to the right honourable gentleman, I | :37:11. | :37:13. | |
am very happy to remember the days that he and I spent campaigning in | :37:14. | :37:17. | |
that parliament in the general election, little did the voters of | :37:18. | :37:21. | |
North West Durham know that the two candidates, unsuccessful candidates, | :37:22. | :37:24. | |
in that election, would become leaders of two of this country's | :37:25. | :37:29. | |
political parties, although as I would point out to the right | :37:30. | :37:32. | |
honourable gentleman, my party is a little bit bigger than his hs.. | :37:33. | :37:34. | |
CHEERING LAUGHTER | :37:35. | :37:40. | |
Order. | :37:41. | :37:42. |