0:00:24 > 0:00:30Let me start by paying tribtte to my right honourable friend, thd former
0:00:30 > 0:00:35Member of Parliament for Whitney, David Cameron.
0:00:35 > 0:00:41He has been a tremendous public servant both for his
0:00:41 > 0:00:44constituency, but also for the country as a whole.
0:00:44 > 0:00:53Under his leadership we saw the economy being
0:00:53 > 0:00:55stabilised, more people in work than ever before, people on low hncomes
0:00:55 > 0:00:57being taken out of paying tax altogether.
0:00:57 > 0:00:59This Government will build on that legacy.
0:00:59 > 0:01:01By extending opportunity to all parts of the
0:01:01 > 0:01:03country.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05Mr Speaker, this morning I had meetings with ministerial
0:01:05 > 0:01:15colleagues and others, and H shall have further meetings today.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18Last week, the Prime Ministdr could not tell us whether she was in
0:01:18 > 0:01:21favour of staying in the single market. As an Edinburgh MP, can I
0:01:21 > 0:01:26tell her how important the financial sector is to the Scottish economy? I
0:01:26 > 0:01:29wonder if she can tell us whether she agrees with her Foreign
0:01:29 > 0:01:31Secretary that passporting for financial services is guaranteed to
0:01:31 > 0:01:39continue after the UK leads the European Union?
0:01:39 > 0:01:42I am not going to give the honourable lady any
0:01:42 > 0:01:45different answer from the answer I gave the House on many occasions
0:01:45 > 0:01:46last week.
0:01:46 > 0:01:51Which is that this Government will be working to ensure
0:01:51 > 0:01:56the right deal for the Unitdd Kingdom in trade, in goods `nd
0:01:56 > 0:02:01services. And that includes listening to the concerns of the
0:02:01 > 0:02:03Scottish Government may wish to
0:02:03 > 0:02:07raise, the Governments of Northern Ireland and Wales `s well.
0:02:07 > 0:02:15We will be fully involved with the devolved administr`tions.
0:02:15 > 0:02:22As I said last week, the best thing for the financial
0:02:22 > 0:02:25sector in Edinburgh and the economy in Scotland is to be part of the
0:02:25 > 0:02:26United Kingdom.
0:02:26 > 0:02:27Marcus Fish.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29Will my right honourable friend join me in
0:02:29 > 0:02:30welcoming figures that show that
0:02:30 > 0:02:32unemployment in my constitudncy has halved since 2010?
0:02:32 > 0:02:41And crucially that youth unemployment has fallen
0:02:41 > 0:02:42by 12% in the last year.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44Will she promote the value of technical
0:02:44 > 0:02:53skills and science and engineering,
0:02:53 > 0:02:56in her push for all children to have a good education that dnables
0:02:56 > 0:03:00them to go as far as their talent and hard work will take thel?
0:03:00 > 0:03:02I am very happy to join my honourable
0:03:02 > 0:03:03friend in welcoming the good
0:03:03 > 0:03:05employment figures we have seen today. Unemployment has halved in
0:03:05 > 0:03:09his constituency since 2010. That is because we have had an economic plan
0:03:09 > 0:03:15and build a strong economy. He is absolutely right.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17As we look to provide opportunities for young
0:03:17 > 0:03:20people, we need to ensure wd
0:03:20 > 0:03:23consider those for whom skills and a vocational education is the right
0:03:23 > 0:03:27route. We want an education that is right for every child, so they can
0:03:27 > 0:03:33actually get as far as their talents will take them.
0:03:33 > 0:03:34Jeremy Corbyn.
0:03:34 > 0:03:40Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am sure the whold House
0:03:40 > 0:03:43will join me in paying tribtte to the police constable who was stabbed
0:03:43 > 0:03:47several times yesterday in the line of duty while trying to arrdst a
0:03:47 > 0:03:55rape suspect in Huyton.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57Can we wish him well and a speedy recovdry.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00I also wish the former Prime Minister well on his departure
0:04:00 > 0:04:04from this House and well in his future life.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07I hope the by-election will concentrate on the isstes of
0:04:07 > 0:04:08education and his views on selection
0:04:08 > 0:04:14in education.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16I want to congratulate the Prime Minister. She has brought
0:04:16 > 0:04:21about unity of Ofsted and the teaching unions. She has unhted
0:04:21 > 0:04:24former education Secretary hs on both sides of the House. Shd has
0:04:24 > 0:04:31truly brought about a new era of unity in educational thinking. I
0:04:31 > 0:04:34wonder if it is possible for her this morning, within the quhet
0:04:34 > 0:04:37confines of this House, to name any educational experts that back her
0:04:37 > 0:04:47proposals on new grammar schools and more selection?
0:04:48 > 0:04:51Mr Speaker, first of all, may I join the Right honour`ble
0:04:51 > 0:04:53gentleman in paying tribute to the
0:04:53 > 0:04:55police constable who was st`bbed in Knowsley?
0:04:55 > 0:04:59One of the events that I usdd to look forward to going to
0:04:59 > 0:05:02every year as Home Secretarx was the police bravery awards.
0:05:02 > 0:05:08At that event we saw police officers who'd never
0:05:08 > 0:05:12know when they start their shift what is going to happen to them
0:05:12 > 0:05:16They run towards danger when other people would run away from ht. We
0:05:16 > 0:05:21owe them a great tribute and our gratitude for that.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Now I am glad the right honourable gentleman has
0:05:23 > 0:05:24raised the issue of education.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27It enables me to point out that over the last six years we have seen
0:05:27 > 0:05:311.4 million more children in good or outstanding schools.
0:05:31 > 0:05:38That is because of the changes that this Government
0:05:38 > 0:05:39introduced.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41It is because of the free schools, the academies,
0:05:41 > 0:05:42headteachers being put in charge,
0:05:42 > 0:05:45more choice for parents. Ch`nges which I know the right honotrable
0:05:45 > 0:05:49gentleman opposes.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51What I want to see is more good school places, I
0:05:51 > 0:05:54diversity in provision of education in this country, so that we really
0:05:54 > 0:05:57see opportunity for all and young people going as far as their talents
0:05:57 > 0:06:00will take them.
0:06:00 > 0:06:05Mr Speaker, I asked the Prime Minister if she could name
0:06:05 > 0:06:07any experts who could help hn this policy.
0:06:07 > 0:06:09Sadly she wasn't able to.
0:06:09 > 0:06:14Can I quote one expert, his name is John and he is a teacher.
0:06:14 > 0:06:18He wrote to me and said the education system
0:06:19 > 0:06:20and teachers have made great strides
0:06:20 > 0:06:23forward to improve quality `nd delivery of the curriculum.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25And he says, why not fund all schools
0:06:25 > 0:06:29properly and let us do the job? The
0:06:29 > 0:06:33evidence of the effects of selection is this.
0:06:33 > 0:06:38In Kent, which has a grammar school system, 27% of the
0:06:38 > 0:06:43pupils on free school meals get five
0:06:43 > 0:06:45good GCSEs, compared with 45% in London.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48We're all for spreading good practice, but why does the
0:06:48 > 0:06:50Prime Minister want to expand a system that can
0:06:50 > 0:06:57only let children down?
0:06:57 > 0:07:00Can I say to the right honotrable gentleman that he needs to stop
0:07:00 > 0:07:02casting his mind back to thd 19 0s.
0:07:02 > 0:07:12What we will be doing, what we will be doing is ensuring that wd are
0:07:13 > 0:07:23able to provide good school places for the one
0:07:44 > 0:07:47and a quarter of a million children who are in schools that are
0:07:47 > 0:07:49failing, inadequate or need improvement. Those children and the
0:07:49 > 0:07:51parents of those children know, they
0:07:51 > 0:07:53are not getting the education that is right for them and the
0:07:53 > 0:07:56opportunities that they need. When we look at the impact of gr`mmar
0:07:56 > 0:07:59schools, if you look at att`inment for a disadvantaged and
0:07:59 > 0:08:01non-disadvantaged children, the attainment gap in grammar schools is
0:08:01 > 0:08:04virtually zero. It isn't in other schools. It is opportunity for young
0:08:04 > 0:08:07people to go where their talents will take them. I know that the
0:08:07 > 0:08:10right honourable gentleman believes in equality of outcome. I bdlieve in
0:08:10 > 0:08:12equality of opportunity. He believes in levelling down. We believe in
0:08:12 > 0:08:22levelling up. CHEERING.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32Mr Speaker, equality of opportunity is not segregating children at the
0:08:32 > 0:08:34age of 11!
0:08:34 > 0:08:40So let me quote the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which
0:08:40 > 0:08:44says those in selected areas who do not pass the 11 plus, do worse than
0:08:44 > 0:08:46they would have done in a comprehensive system. The Sdcretary
0:08:46 > 0:08:49of State for Education suggdsted on Monday, that new grammar schools may
0:08:49 > 0:08:59be required to set up feeder primary schools in poorer areas.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02Will the children in these feeder primaries get automatic
0:09:02 > 0:09:04places in the grammar school?
0:09:04 > 0:09:11Will they be subject to seldction?
0:09:11 > 0:09:14What we are doing is setting up a more diverse education systdm that
0:09:14 > 0:09:23provides more opportunities.
0:09:23 > 0:09:24LAUGHTER
0:09:24 > 0:09:25And what the right honourable gentleman
0:09:25 > 0:09:28appears to be defending is the situation we have at the molent
0:09:28 > 0:09:31where there is selection in our school system but it is seldction by
0:09:31 > 0:09:41house price. I think we want to ensure that children have the
0:09:41 > 0:09:43ability to go where their t`lents take them.
0:09:43 > 0:09:46Can I just gently remind the right honourable gentlelan. .
0:09:46 > 0:09:47He went to a grammar school.
0:09:47 > 0:09:48I went to a grammar school.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51It is what got us where we are today.
0:09:51 > 0:09:52But my side...
0:09:52 > 0:10:02My side might be rather happier about that than his.
0:10:16 > 0:10:20Mr Speaker, the two things the Prime Minister and I have in common is we
0:10:20 > 0:10:23can both remember the 1950s, and we can both remember going to ` grammar
0:10:23 > 0:10:26school. My point is simply this every child, every child should have
0:10:26 > 0:10:29the best possible education they can have. We don't need and nevdr should
0:10:29 > 0:10:32divide children at the age of 1 , a life changing division, where the
0:10:32 > 0:10:36majority end up losing out. I notice she did not answer my questhon about
0:10:36 > 0:10:37feeder primary schools.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39On Monday, the Secretary of State for Education said,
0:10:39 > 0:10:41we have not engaged much in the reform of grammars.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43But the Government would now start the process.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46Can the Prime Minister confirm whether existing gr`mmar
0:10:46 > 0:10:56schools, like those in Kent and
0:10:56 > 0:10:58Buckinghamshire, will now bd instructed to widen their admission
0:10:58 > 0:11:02policy by the Government?
0:11:02 > 0:11:04The right honourable gentleman is right that
0:11:04 > 0:11:07what we are looking and consulting on is it diversity provision in
0:11:07 > 0:11:10education. We want to make sure that all grammar schools actuallx do the
0:11:10 > 0:11:15job that we believe is important, which is providing opportunhties for
0:11:15 > 0:11:18a wide range of pupils. There are many examples across the cotntry of
0:11:18 > 0:11:21different ways that is done through selective education. But he talks
0:11:21 > 0:11:31about good education for evdry child. That is what our polhcy is
0:11:32 > 0:11:33about.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35There are one and a quarter million children today, who
0:11:35 > 0:11:38are in schools that are not good or outstanding. There are parents today
0:11:38 > 0:11:41who fear that their children are not getting the good education to enable
0:11:41 > 0:11:45them to get on in life. I bdlieve in the education that is right for
0:11:45 > 0:11:47every child. It is the Labotr Party that has stifled opportunitx,
0:11:48 > 0:11:49stifled ambition in this cotntry...
0:11:49 > 0:11:59It is the Labour Party that is willing members of the Labotr Party
0:12:02 > 0:12:04will take the advantages of a good
0:12:04 > 0:12:07education for themselves, and pull up the ladder behind them for other
0:12:07 > 0:12:17people.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21I am sorry that the Prime Mhnister was unable to help anyone in Kent
0:12:21 > 0:12:24of Buckinghamshire in the answer to my question and presumably
0:12:24 > 0:12:29she will have to return to ht, but, it is not about putting up ladders
0:12:29 > 0:12:35it is about providing a ladder for every child.
0:12:35 > 0:12:39Let me quote her a critic of grammar schools.
0:12:39 > 0:12:43There is a kind of hopelessness about the demand to bring b`ck
0:12:43 > 0:12:48grammars, an assumption that this country will only ever be able
0:12:48 > 0:12:51to offer a decent education the a select few, the quote
0:12:51 > 0:12:54goes on to say, I want the Conservative Party to rhse
0:12:54 > 0:12:57above that attitude.
0:12:57 > 0:13:02Not my words, those of the former right honourable member for Whitney.
0:13:02 > 0:13:08Isn't he correct, that what we need investment in all of our school
0:13:08 > 0:13:17a good school for every child, not this selection at the age of 11.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20What we need is a good school for every child
0:13:20 > 0:13:22and that is what we will be delivering with the policy
0:13:22 > 0:13:24that we have announced.
0:13:24 > 0:13:28And with that policy, we will see, we will see universities
0:13:28 > 0:13:30expanding their support for school, we will see more faith
0:13:30 > 0:13:32schools being set up, we will see independent schools
0:13:32 > 0:13:34increasing their support for schools in the state sector,
0:13:34 > 0:13:38a diversity of provision of education is what we immddiate
0:13:38 > 0:13:46to ensure good school places for every child.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49That good school place is important so young peopld
0:13:49 > 0:13:51can take opportunities, and get into the workplace
0:13:51 > 0:13:53and I notice I think this is the right honourable
0:13:53 > 0:13:54gentleman's fifth question.
0:13:54 > 0:13:58He hasn't yet welcomed the employment figures todax.
0:13:58 > 0:14:03More people, more people in work than ever before, wages
0:14:03 > 0:14:06rising above inflation, that is more people with a pay
0:14:06 > 0:14:12packet, more money in those pay packets what would Labour offer
0:14:12 > 0:14:15More taxation and misery for working family, it is only the Consdrvative
0:14:15 > 0:14:18Party that knows you can only build an economy that works for everyone
0:14:18 > 0:14:21when even has an opportunity for work.
0:14:21 > 0:14:29Mr Speaker, of course I welcome anyone that has managed to get
0:14:29 > 0:14:32a job, I welcome those people that have managed to get jobs and keep
0:14:32 > 0:14:36themselves and their families together.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39The problem is, that there `re now almost a million of them
0:14:39 > 0:14:44on zero hours contract, who do not know what they
0:14:44 > 0:14:50are going to be paid from one week the the other.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52In order to help her with the expertise on the rdform
0:14:52 > 0:14:54of secondary schools, could I quote to her
0:14:54 > 0:15:00the Chief Inspector of Schools who said the notion that thd poor
0:15:00 > 0:15:03stand to benefit from the rdturn of grammar schools strikes le
0:15:03 > 0:15:07as tosh and nonsense.
0:15:07 > 0:15:13Isn't all this proof that the Conservative Party's green
0:15:13 > 0:15:16paper addressing none of thd actual crises facing our schools sxstem.
0:15:16 > 0:15:21Real terms cut in schools btdget, 500,000 pupils in supersize classes,
0:15:21 > 0:15:27a crisis in teacher recruitment and retention.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30Rising number of unqualified teachers in classrooms,
0:15:30 > 0:15:32vital teaching assistants losing their jobs, isn't thhs
0:15:32 > 0:15:35the case of a government he`ding backwards, to a failed
0:15:35 > 0:15:37segregation for the few, and second class
0:15:37 > 0:15:40schooling for the many.
0:15:40 > 0:15:48Can't we do better than this?
0:15:48 > 0:15:51Well, I have to say, I have to say to the right
0:15:51 > 0:15:52honourable gentleman, that he has got some
0:15:52 > 0:15:53of his facts wrong.
0:15:53 > 0:15:54Plain and simple.
0:15:54 > 0:15:59They, we have more teachers in our schools today, than hn 2 10.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02We have more teachers joining the profession than leaving it.
0:16:02 > 0:16:06We have fewer pupils in supersize classes,
0:16:06 > 0:16:09than there have been previotsly but I simply say this to thd right
0:16:09 > 0:16:23honourable gentleman, first of all, that he has opposed
0:16:23 > 0:16:26every measure that we have introduced to improve the qtality
0:16:26 > 0:16:27of education in this countrx.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29He has opposed measures that increase parental choice,
0:16:29 > 0:16:32that increase the freedom for head teachers to run their school,
0:16:32 > 0:16:34he has opposed to opportunity for people o set up free school
0:16:34 > 0:16:37they are leading to improvelents in our education system
0:16:37 > 0:16:39and we will build on those with our new policies.
0:16:39 > 0:16:49But I recognise to the, for the right honourable gentleman,
0:16:49 > 0:16:52this may very well be the l`st time that he has an opportunity
0:16:52 > 0:16:54to face me, across this despatch box.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56Certainly...
0:16:56 > 0:16:58Certainly if his Members of Parliament have anything
0:16:58 > 0:17:02to do with it.
0:17:02 > 0:17:12I accept that he and I don't agree on everything, well,
0:17:16 > 0:17:18I accept that he and I don't agree on everything, well,
0:17:18 > 0:17:21probably we don't agree on `nything, but I must say to him
0:17:21 > 0:17:22that he has made his mark.
0:17:22 > 0:17:25Let us just think of some of the things that the right
0:17:25 > 0:17:26honourable gentleman has introduced.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29He wants coal mines without mining them, submarines without sahling
0:17:29 > 0:17:31them and he wants to be Labour leader without leading them.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34One thing we know, who ever is Labour leader,
0:17:34 > 0:17:44after their leadership election it will the country that loses.
0:17:45 > 0:17:49Can I just point out to the House that progress today at this
0:17:49 > 0:17:54Question Time session has bden absurdly slow, absurdly slow.
0:17:54 > 0:17:59And I ask, order, I ask the House, on behalf of our constituents
0:17:59 > 0:18:03to show some respect for those colleagues who want to question
0:18:03 > 0:18:07the Prime Minister.
0:18:07 > 0:18:10And I am determined to get down the list.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13Craig Williams.
0:18:13 > 0:18:14Thank you.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17Students from Cardiff schools and UK schools attended the recordhng
0:18:17 > 0:18:19of the British Holocaust survivors giving their testimony
0:18:19 > 0:18:27for future generation.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29It was a moving experience for them and a stark
0:18:29 > 0:18:31reminder to fight racism, anti-Semitism and hatred
0:18:31 > 0:18:33in all forms, as part of thhs vital education effort
0:18:33 > 0:18:36of which I know my right honourable friend is a supporter
0:18:36 > 0:18:40is the establishment of a n`tional memorial to the Holocaust,
0:18:40 > 0:18:45could my right honourable friend update us on this.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47I am grateful.
0:18:47 > 0:18:50He is right that we need to ensure that we never forget the horrors
0:18:50 > 0:18:53of the Holocaust and the lessons that must be learned from that.
0:18:53 > 0:18:58It is right that we have agreed this national memorial,
0:18:58 > 0:19:03next to Parliament on Victoria garden, that is an important
0:19:03 > 0:19:07place for it to be.
0:19:07 > 0:19:08The community's secretary will launch a competition
0:19:08 > 0:19:11for the design of that them mall and included among that
0:19:11 > 0:19:15will be the possibility of a learning centre,
0:19:15 > 0:19:18which will ensure that therd will be those opportunities for young people
0:19:18 > 0:19:20and others truly to learn that the lessons from
0:19:20 > 0:19:24the Holocaust and to learn about the atrocities
0:19:24 > 0:19:28that took place.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30Last week the Prime Minister was one willing or unable to give
0:19:30 > 0:19:32assurances about remaining in the European single markdt.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35Today she has been unwilling or unable to give assurances
0:19:35 > 0:19:38to the financial sector about protecting the passporting
0:19:38 > 0:19:43of financial services, meanwhile, millions
0:19:43 > 0:19:53from across the United Kingdom depend on freedom of movement
0:19:53 > 0:19:55across the EU for business and for pleasure, they face
0:19:55 > 0:19:58the prospect of having to apply and possibly pay for visas,
0:19:58 > 0:20:00is the Prime Minister in favour of protecting visa free travel?
0:20:00 > 0:20:06Yes or no?
0:20:06 > 0:20:11There was a very clear mess`ge from the British people at the time
0:20:11 > 0:20:14of the referendum vote on Jtne 3rd, that they wanted...that thex wanted
0:20:14 > 0:20:18to see an end to Freeman as it operated, they want to see control
0:20:18 > 0:20:21of the free movement of people from the European Union,
0:20:21 > 0:20:24into the UK, and that's what we will deliver.
0:20:24 > 0:20:30Mr Speaker, the Prime Minister and the UK Government are totally
0:20:30 > 0:20:35unwilling to tell us the trte cost of Brexit and what their negotiating
0:20:35 > 0:20:38position will be, in contrast there is a different tune
0:20:38 > 0:20:42from the European Union union, there knew any away
0:20:42 > 0:20:47for Guy Verhofstadt said it is wrong that Scotland might be
0:20:47 > 0:20:52taken out of the EU when it voted to stay.
0:20:52 > 0:20:56Does she agree with Mr Verhofstadt and the Scottish Government
0:20:56 > 0:20:59who want to protect Scotland's place in Europe?
0:20:59 > 0:21:03I have to say to the right honourable gentleman,
0:21:03 > 0:21:07it is all very well him askhng that question but only two years ago
0:21:07 > 0:21:10only two years ago, he didn't want to protect Scotland's place
0:21:10 > 0:21:16in the European Union because he wanted Scotland to leave thd UK
0:21:16 > 0:21:20And on all of these questions, whether it is the question
0:21:20 > 0:21:23of the referendum, for leavhng the European Union, the refdrendum
0:21:23 > 0:21:26on independence in Scotland, or questions in this House,
0:21:26 > 0:21:29the right honourable gentlelan seems to think that if he asks
0:21:29 > 0:21:32the question all the time, he will get a different answer.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35I won't work for me and I won't work for the Scottish people.
0:21:35 > 0:21:40Thank you, Mr Speaker.
0:21:40 > 0:21:45Freedom of speech is a fundamental British value
0:21:45 > 0:21:50which is undermined by so-c`lled safe spaces in our universities
0:21:50 > 0:21:55where a sense of entitlement by a minority of students that
0:21:55 > 0:22:00means that their wish not to be offended shuts down debate.
0:22:00 > 0:22:04As students around the country return to their places of ldarning,
0:22:04 > 0:22:09at the start of this new ac`demic year, does my right honourable
0:22:09 > 0:22:13friend agree that universitx is precisely the place for lively
0:22:13 > 0:22:16debate, and that fear of being offended must not
0:22:16 > 0:22:18trump freedom of speech.
0:22:18 > 0:22:24Well, I absolutely agree with my honourable friend,
0:22:24 > 0:22:27we want our universities not just places of learning but placds
0:22:27 > 0:22:31where there can be open debate which is challenged
0:22:31 > 0:22:34and where people can get involved in that.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36I think everybody is finding this concept of safe
0:22:36 > 0:22:38spaces extraordinary.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41We want to see that innovathon of thought taking place,
0:22:41 > 0:22:46that is how we develop as a country, as a society, and as an economy
0:22:46 > 0:22:50and I agree with my right honourable friend.
0:22:50 > 0:22:57Mr Speaker, nine-year-old Mohammed is one of thousands of child
0:22:57 > 0:23:00refugees alone in Syria, his parents fled the countrx
0:23:00 > 0:23:04believing he was dead and h`ve resettled in my constituencx
0:23:04 > 0:23:05of Midlothian.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08In March, he was identified as being alive,
0:23:08 > 0:23:12he has been kidnapped, beaten and left for dead before
0:23:12 > 0:23:14being refound again.
0:23:14 > 0:23:19He lives in fear of daily attacks or sexual violence and assatlt.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22Will the Prime Minister agrde to meet with me to review the steps
0:23:22 > 0:23:25the Government could take to reunite Mohammed with his devastated
0:23:25 > 0:23:28family, and provide him with the support required to help
0:23:28 > 0:23:30overcome his ordeal.
0:23:30 > 0:23:35I am not aware of the details of the individual case.
0:23:35 > 0:23:39The Home Secretary has heard him, I am sure if he would like to write
0:23:39 > 0:23:43to the Home Secretary, there are rules that enable family
0:23:43 > 0:23:47reunion to take place and also we are as a country,
0:23:47 > 0:23:52have committed to take a nulber of children who are particularly
0:23:52 > 0:23:55vulnerable, potentially vulnerable from sexual violence
0:23:55 > 0:23:58from the region round Syria, to ensure that we can resettle them
0:23:58 > 0:24:01in the UK and take them out of that fear that they are seeing,
0:24:01 > 0:24:04but my right honourable fridnd the Home Secretary will look at it
0:24:05 > 0:24:07if he cares to write to her.
0:24:07 > 0:24:13What assurance can my right honourable friend give that
0:24:13 > 0:24:16whatever criteria comes to guide our immigration
0:24:16 > 0:24:20system, it will be fairer than the present system?
0:24:20 > 0:24:23It will no longer discrimin`te against peoples from outsidd the EU,
0:24:24 > 0:24:26as the present system does.
0:24:26 > 0:24:31As I mentioned earlier in response to a question,
0:24:31 > 0:24:35it is the case that one aspdct of the vote on the 23rd Jund
0:24:35 > 0:24:39was that people wanted us to control movement from the European Tnion
0:24:39 > 0:24:42into the UK, and of course, we are already able to control
0:24:42 > 0:24:44movement from outside the European Union
0:24:44 > 0:24:47into the United Kingdom, and we intend to, details
0:24:47 > 0:24:51of the system we will introduce for EU citizens are currently
0:24:51 > 0:24:55being worked on, but I can assure my honourable friend
0:24:55 > 0:24:57we will have the ability to control movement from the EU,
0:24:57 > 0:25:00and movement from outside the EU, and therefore bring that grdater
0:25:00 > 0:25:03degree of fairness that I think people were looking for.
0:25:03 > 0:25:09How can she try and justify reducing the House of Commons to 600,
0:25:09 > 0:25:16while the House of Lords now have 820 members and by 2020 even more.
0:25:16 > 0:25:21Is this her idea of democracy in the 21st century?
0:25:21 > 0:25:27I have to say, of course, the House of Commons voted for that
0:25:27 > 0:25:30reduction in the number of members of Parliament.
0:25:30 > 0:25:31I think people wanted to sed that.
0:25:31 > 0:25:35But I would gently remind hhm when he refers to the House
0:25:35 > 0:25:39of Lords, and changes in thd House of Lords, that it is this Government
0:25:39 > 0:25:42that has introduced the rethrement procedure for the House of Lords
0:25:42 > 0:25:44that has seen a reduction in the number of members
0:25:44 > 0:25:46of the House of Lords.
0:25:46 > 0:25:54The NHS five year forward vhew states that in future we will see
0:25:54 > 0:25:57more care delivered locally.
0:25:57 > 0:26:01Does the Prime Minister think that in line with that,
0:26:01 > 0:26:04the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG ought to consider the ilportance
0:26:04 > 0:26:08of local care when assessing the future of the Princess of Wales
0:26:08 > 0:26:10minor injuries unit in Ealing?
0:26:10 > 0:26:13My right honourable friend hs right.
0:26:13 > 0:26:17The five year plan does include that proposal for local,
0:26:17 > 0:26:20more local input in terms of care at a local level
0:26:20 > 0:26:22and it is absolutely right that in looking at,
0:26:22 > 0:26:25for example, the future of linor injuries units, local peopld
0:26:25 > 0:26:27should be considered and local concerns be
0:26:27 > 0:26:28taken into account.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31I understand there is to be a meeting in Ealing to conshder this
0:26:31 > 0:26:34and I hope my honourable frhends and her constituents will bd able
0:26:34 > 0:26:36to make their views known at that meeting.
0:26:36 > 0:26:40Tomorrow, I will be helping to launch a programme
0:26:40 > 0:26:44at the engineering company ADI Group.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47To boost the interest of 14-16-year-olds
0:26:47 > 0:26:50in engineering skills.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53No doubt the Prime Minister would like to join me
0:26:53 > 0:26:57in congratulating ADI Group but would she take it from le
0:26:57 > 0:27:00that her words of congratul`tion would mean rather more
0:27:00 > 0:27:03if they were not accompanied by cuts of between 30% and 50%
0:27:03 > 0:27:07in apprenticeships funding,
0:27:07 > 0:27:11a programme which the Institute of the Motoring Industry has
0:27:11 > 0:27:14described as a car crash.
0:27:14 > 0:27:21Well, I, of course, am happx to commend the company he h`s
0:27:21 > 0:27:23referred to, and, of course, the West Midlands are an important
0:27:23 > 0:27:27driver in terms of engineerhng skills in this country,
0:27:27 > 0:27:31but I simply don't recognisd the situation he has set out
0:27:31 > 0:27:32in relation to apprenticeshhps.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35We have seen two million apprenticeships created
0:27:35 > 0:27:38over the last six year, we are committed, as a government,
0:27:38 > 0:27:40to seeing more being created.
0:27:40 > 0:27:43That's giving young people opportunities,
0:27:43 > 0:27:47like the young people I met when I went to Jaguar Land Rover,
0:27:47 > 0:27:51to learn a skill to get into a job, to get into the workplace and to get
0:27:51 > 0:27:52on where their talents will take them.
0:27:52 > 0:27:58Does the Prime Minister agrde that the life chances of many
0:27:58 > 0:28:04children, particularly in the poorest areas,
0:28:04 > 0:28:08are limited through living in chaotic and unstable households,
0:28:08 > 0:28:11and would she kindly look
0:28:11 > 0:28:14at the all-party Parliament`ry children centre's report produced
0:28:14 > 0:28:17which recommends family hubs in local communities and other
0:28:17 > 0:28:19solutions to this issue, with a view to
0:28:19 > 0:28:20considering it further?
0:28:20 > 0:28:23Thank you.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26Can I commend my right honourable friend on the work
0:28:26 > 0:28:29she is doing on the all party Parliamentary group.
0:28:29 > 0:28:34The question of that stable background, that family background
0:28:34 > 0:28:36that young people are brought up in is an important issue
0:28:36 > 0:28:39and she has been a champion for families and for family life.
0:28:39 > 0:28:42Can I say to her I have set up a policy route with,
0:28:42 > 0:28:47led my right honourable fridnd the member for Mid Norfolk,
0:28:47 > 0:28:51I will ask him to look carefully at the report that has
0:28:51 > 0:28:54come out of the all party Parliamentary group.
0:28:54 > 0:29:01On Monday, the Parliamentarx advisory group on carbon capture
0:29:01 > 0:29:05published their report about the potential of CCS
0:29:05 > 0:29:07to create thousands of jobs, save the country billions and play
0:29:07 > 0:29:12a major role in meeting UK emission reduction targets.
0:29:12 > 0:29:15CCS is critical to Teesside.
0:29:15 > 0:29:19Can the Prime Minister tell the House when the Government
0:29:19 > 0:29:21will publish its long-awaitdd new strategy?
0:29:21 > 0:29:24Thank you, thank you.
0:29:24 > 0:29:29Can I first of all say, that the issue of climate change
0:29:29 > 0:29:32and reducing emissions and our energy policy are vdry
0:29:32 > 0:29:35important to this Government, we have a fine record in thhs area
0:29:35 > 0:29:38and we will be continuing to do that.
0:29:38 > 0:29:41But, on the issue of carbon capture and storage,
0:29:41 > 0:29:43this has been looked at cardfully in the past.
0:29:43 > 0:29:46One of the key issues round is the cost,
0:29:46 > 0:29:49we will continue to invest in the development of CCS,
0:29:49 > 0:29:53we are developing over 120 lillion to develop the technology,
0:29:53 > 0:29:56through innovation support with the aim of reducing its costs,
0:29:56 > 0:30:00and so we will continue to look at the role it can play.
0:30:00 > 0:30:08I know that schools have to make the best use of their resources
0:30:08 > 0:30:13therefore I was shocked to learn that schools in the north-wdst
0:30:13 > 0:30:16are charged ?27 million for their water charges.
0:30:16 > 0:30:19Will the Prime Minister agrde with me that schools are important
0:30:19 > 0:30:22community hubs and will the Government make representation
0:30:22 > 0:30:25to Ofwat to change the bandhng guidance so schools are considered
0:30:25 > 0:30:29community assets, rather than classified in the same way
0:30:29 > 0:30:31as big business?
0:30:31 > 0:30:36Can I commend those who plax a role as school governor,
0:30:36 > 0:30:38she is right schools need to think carefully about how
0:30:38 > 0:30:41they use their resources.
0:30:41 > 0:30:44The approach does change but we are looking at the gtidance
0:30:44 > 0:30:47to water companies, in relation to how they can deal with schools
0:30:47 > 0:30:51and whether they could be looking at schools and using more
0:30:51 > 0:30:55concessionary rates in relation to schools.
0:30:55 > 0:31:00Thank you very much.
0:31:00 > 0:31:03The Prime Minister may be aware of last week's BBC Spotlight
0:31:03 > 0:31:05programme on what was seriots allegations of corruption and fraud
0:31:05 > 0:31:09round the sale of properties in Northern Ireland.
0:31:09 > 0:31:12Can the Prime Minister confirm what agencies
0:31:12 > 0:31:16will be investigating those and if the National Crime Agency
0:31:16 > 0:31:21will be involved, and will ` report be publicly published in dud course?
0:31:21 > 0:31:25I have to say to the honour`ble gentleman on the specific
0:31:25 > 0:31:28issue he has raised, if I may, I will come back
0:31:28 > 0:31:30to the details on that mattdr.
0:31:30 > 0:31:33As he knows, the National Crime Agency does operate
0:31:33 > 0:31:35in Northern Ireland on a slhghtly different basis, and it will be
0:31:35 > 0:31:39necessary for the issues where they are being looked
0:31:39 > 0:31:43into to ensure that the appropriate skills and capability
0:31:43 > 0:31:45are brought to bear.
0:31:45 > 0:31:47I will write him a detailed answer to his question.
0:31:47 > 0:31:52Will the Prime Minister give her full and enthusiastic
0:31:52 > 0:31:58support to the Presidents as they reach a crucial stage
0:31:58 > 0:32:01of their negotiations which we hope will deliver a negotiated sdttlement
0:32:01 > 0:32:04for a free and united Cyprus?
0:32:04 > 0:32:09I am happy to join my right honourable friend in what she says.
0:32:09 > 0:32:13It is important, I think everybody across the House
0:32:13 > 0:32:16will wish these talks well, and hope they have a
0:32:16 > 0:32:18successful conclusion.
0:32:18 > 0:32:22It has been two years since the Prime Minister set up
0:32:22 > 0:32:25the child abuse inquiry, it's on to its fourth
0:32:25 > 0:32:29chair and last week, the outgoing chair said it had
0:32:29 > 0:32:31become inherently unmanageable.
0:32:31 > 0:32:36Since the Prime Minister appointed Dame Lowell Goddard to her position,
0:32:36 > 0:32:39will she insist she comes bdfore this House to explain herself?
0:32:39 > 0:32:43Surely child abuse survivors deserve an explanation.
0:32:43 > 0:32:48On the process point, it is not for the Prime Minhster
0:32:48 > 0:32:52to insist who attends beford a committee of this House.
0:32:52 > 0:32:55I understand Dame Lowell Goddard has been invited to attend
0:32:55 > 0:32:57the committee.
0:32:57 > 0:33:00What I would say on the child abuse issue, she and I share,
0:33:00 > 0:33:03we share across this House, many honourable members,
0:33:03 > 0:33:06a desire to see these issues of appalling crimes of child abuse
0:33:07 > 0:33:08being looked into it.
0:33:08 > 0:33:13It is important that the inpuiry, she has set up the enquiry,
0:33:13 > 0:33:17many aspects of this which are already in place
0:33:17 > 0:33:20and operating, and I am verx pleased that Alexis Jay has take on the job.
0:33:20 > 0:33:26She will do it very well and we will have answers
0:33:26 > 0:33:30to questions that so many h`ve been asking for too long.
0:33:30 > 0:33:32Thank you.
0:33:32 > 0:33:36Child sexual exploitation is an issue that affects many comlunities.
0:33:36 > 0:33:39Does the Prime Minister agrde that shining a light on the events
0:33:39 > 0:33:43of the past is the best way to learn lessons in the future,
0:33:43 > 0:33:47and will she agree to an independent review of child sexual
0:33:47 > 0:33:49exploitation in Telford?
0:33:49 > 0:33:54I think my honourable friend has just shown the cross-party's concern
0:33:54 > 0:33:58that there is on this issue of child abuse and child sexual exploitation.
0:33:58 > 0:34:02It is right as my right honourable friend says that we are abld to look
0:34:02 > 0:34:06into the abuses of the past and the crimes of the past,
0:34:06 > 0:34:10there will be important lessons we need to learn from that `s to why
0:34:10 > 0:34:13institutions that were supposed to protect children
0:34:13 > 0:34:14failed to protect them.
0:34:14 > 0:34:18It is for the authorities in Telford to look specifically at how
0:34:18 > 0:34:20they wish to address these issues in Telford,
0:34:20 > 0:34:24but I am sure the Home Secrdtary has heard her comments and I am
0:34:24 > 0:34:26sure she will want to take that up with her.
0:34:26 > 0:34:31Following the successful Hillsborough independent panel,
0:34:31 > 0:34:35will the Prime Minister now look at setting up a similar revhew
0:34:35 > 0:34:39of the biggest treatment disaster in the history of the NHS -
0:34:39 > 0:34:42the contaminated blood scandal.
0:34:42 > 0:34:46Victims are still waiting for answers and justice, 35 years on.
0:34:46 > 0:34:53The honourable lady raises very important point in relation
0:34:53 > 0:34:55to contaminated blood.
0:34:55 > 0:34:58I will take the point she h`s made and away and consider it.
0:34:58 > 0:35:04Obviously, as she will know, the reasons and the backgrotnd
0:35:04 > 0:35:07which let to the Hillsborough independent panel.
0:35:07 > 0:35:10I recognise that the concern people have about contaminated blood
0:35:10 > 0:35:13and will consider the point she has made.
0:35:13 > 0:35:20The Prime Minister will be `ware of coverage regarding a report to be
0:35:20 > 0:35:24published by Dame Louise Casey, the government integration staff.
0:35:24 > 0:35:27The report will speak of Brhtish laws,
0:35:27 > 0:35:32culture, values, and tradithon such as Christmas being threatendd by
0:35:32 > 0:35:35political correctness from council officials.
0:35:35 > 0:35:40Will the Prime Minister takd this opportunity to send a loud `nd clear
0:35:40 > 0:35:44message that the best way to secure a harmonious society is not only
0:35:44 > 0:35:49for mainstream Britain to rdspect minority traditions such as Diwali
0:35:49 > 0:35:54and Eid, but also that council officials appreciate that mhnority
0:35:54 > 0:35:58communities should respect the views and traditions of
0:35:58 > 0:36:01mainstream Britain.
0:36:01 > 0:36:06And that means Christmas is not "Winterval", and Christmas trees
0:36:06 > 0:36:08are not "festive trees".
0:36:08 > 0:36:14I do agree with my honourable friend.
0:36:14 > 0:36:17I'm not going to comment or pre empt the findings of Louise Casex's
0:36:17 > 0:36:21work and her review which is an important piece of work.
0:36:21 > 0:36:25I will join him in saying that what we want in our society
0:36:25 > 0:36:28is tolerance and understandhng, but we also want minority
0:36:28 > 0:36:33communities to be able to rdcognise and stand up for their tradhtions.
0:36:33 > 0:36:36We also want to be able to stand up for our traditions generallx
0:36:36 > 0:36:39as well, and that includes Christmas.
0:36:39 > 0:36:44Would the Prime Minister look very carefully at the calls
0:36:44 > 0:36:47from the Royal British Legion and Poppy Scotland
0:36:47 > 0:36:52for a new questions to be added to the next Census so we can better
0:36:52 > 0:36:56meet the needs of our serving personnel in the armed forcds,
0:36:56 > 0:36:58veterans and their families?
0:36:58 > 0:37:01And in Northern Ireland, where such a massive contribution
0:37:01 > 0:37:05is made to the armed forces in terms of recruitment and service,
0:37:05 > 0:37:10would she look at funding under the Armed Forces Covenant
0:37:10 > 0:37:13so there is equitable funding across all regions
0:37:13 > 0:37:15of the United Kingdom?
0:37:15 > 0:37:19I say to the right honourable gentleman that I am pleased
0:37:19 > 0:37:22it was this government that introduced the military covdnant
0:37:22 > 0:37:24and has recognised the importance of that bond and that link
0:37:24 > 0:37:29with those who are serving in the armed forces,
0:37:29 > 0:37:33but also the importance in terms of veterans in our armed forces
0:37:33 > 0:37:36I have not seen the request.
0:37:36 > 0:37:40That will certainly be lookdd at by the Cabinet Office
0:37:40 > 0:37:42when considering the next Cdnsus.
0:37:42 > 0:37:48Does she agree that the cooperation between Russia and the Unitdd States
0:37:48 > 0:37:53in respect of Aleppo sets a very important precedent,
0:37:53 > 0:37:56and it is in the British national interests to redevelop links
0:37:56 > 0:38:00with Russia and then we may be able to solve many more
0:38:00 > 0:38:02problems in that region?
0:38:02 > 0:38:09The agreement reached betwedn Russia and the United States
0:38:09 > 0:38:14about Syria is important, and I think everybody in thhs House
0:38:14 > 0:38:18will want to see that working, being put into practice
0:38:18 > 0:38:21and actually working on the ground.
0:38:21 > 0:38:24I would say there have been a number of occasions where we have seen
0:38:24 > 0:38:27what appear to be steps forward and sadly it has not been
0:38:27 > 0:38:28possible to implement them.
0:38:28 > 0:38:32I hope this will be different this time and I hope it will
0:38:32 > 0:38:33mark an important step.
0:38:33 > 0:38:36In relation to Russia, we should have no doubt
0:38:36 > 0:38:40about the relationship we should have with Russia.
0:38:40 > 0:38:42It is not a business as usual relationship.
0:38:42 > 0:38:44I made that very clear when I was responding
0:38:44 > 0:38:47to the report on the murder of Litvinenko.
0:38:47 > 0:38:50We should continue with that position.
0:38:50 > 0:38:57Can I join with my right honourable friend, the Leaddr
0:38:57 > 0:39:00of the Opposition, the Prime Minister, Jane Kennedy,
0:39:00 > 0:39:03the Police and Crime Commissioner on Merseyside, in commending
0:39:03 > 0:39:07the tremendous bravery of the police officers involved
0:39:07 > 0:39:10in the stabbing incident in my constituency yesterdax?
0:39:10 > 0:39:14And also, despite that, they apprehended the suspect.
0:39:14 > 0:39:17Will the Prime Minister acknowledge that the police, often in vdry
0:39:17 > 0:39:21dangerous circumstances, are being asked to do more `nd more
0:39:21 > 0:39:25with fewer and fewer resources?
0:39:25 > 0:39:32Once again, I join the right honourable gentleman in recognising
0:39:32 > 0:39:37the work of the individual police constable, as he
0:39:37 > 0:39:39says, apprehending...
0:39:39 > 0:39:42The three police constables, I apologise, in apprehending
0:39:42 > 0:39:44while being under attack.
0:39:44 > 0:39:49Our police officers bravely go where others would not go in order
0:39:49 > 0:39:51to protect the public.
0:39:51 > 0:39:53They do so much in the line of duty.
0:39:53 > 0:39:57But also when they are off duty as well, they are prepared to go
0:39:57 > 0:40:00and face danger in order to protect us.
0:40:00 > 0:40:03On the issue of resources, I would simply remind him
0:40:03 > 0:40:06that we have protected police budgets over the period
0:40:06 > 0:40:09of the comprehensive spending review settlement,
0:40:09 > 0:40:12in the face of a proposal from his front bench
0:40:12 > 0:40:16that we should cut them by 4% to 10%.
0:40:16 > 0:40:18Order!