12/10/2016 Prime Minister's Questions

and the Government stands rdady to work with the Scottish Government on

in the area to support and protect Scottish jobs and industry. Order.

Questions to the Prime Minister Coalition government gifted to the

urgent care. Bergin imposed a system of double appointments forchng

patients to have unnecessarx extra consultations before surgerx

boosting their profits at the expense of the taxpayer and patient

safety. Is this acceptable `nd what is the Prime Minister prepared to do

about it? We want to see in the provision of local services the best

services possible for local people. The Honourable Lady talks about

outsourcing services in the NHS and I have to say to her the party that

I put greater privatisation into the NHS was not this party but her

party. Question two, closed question, Mr Michael Fabric`nt. 12

months ago I went to see... LAUGHTER

Thank you Mr Speaker. The Wdst Midlands economy is in a positive

position at the moment, I'm pleased to say that since 2010 nearly 2 00

more people are at work and 42, 00 new businesses and saw the strength

of the economy when I was in Birmingham last week. We ard giving

the West Midlands new powers with the devolution deal and the election

of a mayor and with his bushness and local experience he would bd a good

mayor for the West Midlands. On the subject of the NHS 18 months ago my

wonderful doctor go Helen Stokes Lampard suggested I have a general

well man checkup and it's jtst as well that I did because the blood

test revealed that there cotld have been and was a problem with my

prostate, despite the fact that I was symptom-free. I was immddiately

referred to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham who were

simply wonderful, and after a period of surveillance I had a

prostatectomy in June, but hey, I'm now fine.

CHEERING But I want to thank the whole team

at the Queen Elizabeth incltding my surgeon Alan Doherty and my

excellent prostate nurse who gave me practical advice. In the next ten

years there will be a real shortage of specialist prostate and trology

nurse is, as many are due for retirement. So, may I ask the Prime

Minister, what can the Government do to avert a shortage of thesd

much-needed nurses? Can I say to my honourable friend

that the whole house is ple`sed to see him back in his position as his

normal exuberant self in thhs House. He raises a very serious issue. Can

I join him in commending not only those doctors and nurses and other

health service staff who trdated him for his prostate cancer, but those

doctors and nurses who are `t bay in and day out ensuring that as we see

actually we are having cancdr survival rates at a record high The

Government is putting more loney into awareness of cancer problems

and we will look at the trahning of nurses. There are 50,000 nurses in

training and we will continte to make sure that the special hncidents

are available to do the work necessary in the health service --

specialisms. Jeremy Corbyn. I I hope the Right Honourable member

got the same treatment as everybody gets because we want the sale

treatment for everybody in our society. Is not controversi`l, I'm

just wishing you well. Is that OK? Sorry to start on such a

controversial note, Mr Speaker. I do apologise. At the Conservathve Party

conference the Prime Ministdr said she wants Britain to be a country

where it doesn't matter where you were born. But the Home Secretary

Flagship announcement was to name and shame companies that employ

foreign workers. Could the Prime Minister explain why where someone

was born clearly does matter to members of her Cabinet?

First of all, can I say to the Right Honourable gentleman,

congratulations on winning the Labour leadership election.

And can I welcome him back to his place in this house as his normal

self. Can I say to him that the policy he has just described was

never the policy that the Home Secretary announced. There was no

naming and shaming, no publhshed list of foreign workers, no

published data. What we are going to consult on is whether we should

bring ourselves in line with countries like the United States of

America, which collect data in order to be able to ensure they are

getting the right skills tr`ining for workers in their economx. Mr

Corbyn. Mr Speaker, I most grateful to the over 3000 people -- 300, 00

people who voted for me to become the leader of my party.

Which, Mr Speaker, is rather more than voted for her to becomd the

leader of her party. She sedms to be... She seems to be slightly

unaware of what's going on. First, the Home Secretary. First, Lr

Speaker, the Home Secretary briefed that companies will be named and

shamed, the Education Secretary clarified that they too would only

be kept by government, and xesterday No 10 said it was in consultation

and the Home Secretary clarhfied the whole matter by saying it's one of

the tools we are going to use forced of this government has no answers,

Mr Speaker, just gimmicks and scapegoats. Yesterday we le`rned

that pregnant women will be forced to hand over their passports at NHS

hospitals, no ultrasound without photographic ID, heavily prdgnant

women sent home on icy roads to get a passport. Are these reallx the

actions of a country where ht doesn't matter where you were born?

Well, I've made absolutely clear about the policy the Home Sdcretary

set out. I would say to the Right Honourable gentleman, he rahses

issues around the health service. I think it is right that we should say

that we ensure that when providing health services to people that they

are free at the point of delivery, that they are eligible to h`ve those

services. But where there are people in this country who come to this

country to use our health sdrvice and who should be paying for it

that the health service identifies those people and makes sure that it

gets the money from them. I would have thought that would be `n

uncontroversial view. Of cotrse emergency care will be provhded when

necessary absolutely without those questions. But what is important is

that we ensure that where pdople should be paying because thdy don't

have the right to access to free care in the health service, they do.

Jeremy Corbyn. Some of her colleagues on the smack leave aside

promised us ?350 million extra a week for the NHS. -- the le`ve

aside. She doesn't seem to have answers to the big questions facing

Great Britain. On Monday thd secretary for Brexit when qtestioned

about the approach to the Shngle Market access replied, we nded hard

data about the size of the problem in terms of both money and jobs

They would have been much e`sier if he had simply asked his colleague,

the Chancellor of the Exchepuer because he would have been `ble to

tell him that the Treasury forecast is a 66 billion loss to the economy,

7.5% of the GDP. Can the Prhme Minister now confirmed that access

to the Single Market is a rdd line for the government, or is it not?

Well, the Right Honourable gentleman has asked me this question before.

Yes! He says it is a simple question and I will give him the simple

answer. What we are going to do is deliver on the vote of the British

people to leave the European Union. What we are going to do is be

ambitious in our negotiations to negotiate the best deal for the

British people and that will include the maximum possible access to the

European market for firms to trade with and operate within the European

market. But I'm also clear that the vote of the British people said that

we should control the movemdnt of people from the EU into the UK and

unlike the Right Honourable gentleman we believe we shotld

deliver on what the British people want. Jeremy Corbyn. Someond once

said that leaving the Singld Market would risk a loss of investors in

business and risk going backwards when it comes to international

trade. That person is now the Prime Minister and that was beford the

referendum. The Japanese government, Mr Speaker, the Japanese government,

Mr Speaker, wrote to her in September worried about a shambolic

Brexit. Many Japanese countries are major investors in Britain such as

Nissan in Sunderland, which has already halted its investment.

140,000 people in Britain work for Japanese owned companies. They've

made it clear that those jobs and investment depend on Single Market

access. What reassurance can she give to workers today desperately

worried about their future, their company, and their jobs?

For store I would say to thd Right Honourable gentleman, that the

biggest vote of confidence that we had in Britain after referendum

campaign was ?24 billion investment from the Japanese company t`king

over ARM but secondly in our negotiations what we are dohng is he

doesn't seem to get what thd future is going to be about. The UK will be

leaving the European Union. We're not asking ourselves what bhts of

membership we want to retain. We are saying, what is the right

relationship for the UK to have for the maximum benefit of our dconomy

and citizens this country. The member for Broxtowe said thdre is a

danger that this government appeared to be turning their back on the

Single Market, which was indeed a commitment in a Conservativd Party

manifesto. The reality is that since the Brexit vote the trade ddficit is

widening, growth forecasts being downgraded, the value of thd pound

down 16%, an alliance of thd Chamber of Commerce, Confederation of

British industry, British Rdtail Consortium and Trades Union Congress

have all made representations to the Prime Minister demanding cl`rity. Is

the Prime Minister really whlling to risk a shambolic Tory Brexit just to

appease the people behind hdr? What the Conservative Party

committed to in its manifesto was to give the British people a rdferendum

on whether to stay in the Etropean Union. We gave the British people

that vote. They have given their decision. We will be leaving the

European Union and in doing that we will negotiate the right de`l for

the UK, which means the right deal in terms of operating within and

trading with the European m`rket. That's what matters to comp`nies in

the UK and that's what we are going to be a vicious about delivdring.

Jeremy Corbyn. The Right Honourable member for Rushcliffe almost always

has a mot juste to help us hn these cases and he said... I want to hear

about the Right Honourable lember for Rushcliffe. What he said was, in

his own inimitable way, the reason the pound keeps zooming south is

that absolutely nobody has the faintest idea what exactly we are

going to put in place. We on these benches do respect the decision of

the British people to leave the European Union.

LAUGHTER But this is a government th`t drew

up no plans for Brexit, that now has no strategy for negotiating Brexit

and offers no clarity, no transparency, and no chance of

scrutiny of the process for developing a strategy. The jobs and

incomes of millions of our people at stake, the pound is plummethng,

business is worrying and thd Government has no answers. The Prime

Minister says she won't givd a running commentary, but isn't it

time the Government stopped running away from the looming threat to jobs

and businesses in this country and the living standards of millions of

people? Unlike the Right Honourable

gentleman I'm optimistic about the prospects of this country once we

leave the European Union. I'm optimistic about the trade deals

that other countries now actively are coming to us to say thex want to

do with the United Kingdom. And I'm optimistic about what power we will

be able to ensure that our dconomy grows outside of the Europe`n Union.

But I have to say to the Right Honourable gentleman on this issue,

Labour didn't want a referendum on this issue, the Conservativds gave

them a referendum, Labour dhdn't like the result. We are listening to

the British people and delivering on that result. Now the Shadow Foreign

Secretary is shouting from ` sedentary position... The Shadow

Foreign Secretary wants a sdcond vote. I have to say to her, I would

have thought that Labour MPs would have learned this lesson. You can

ask the same question again, you still get the answer you don't want.

CHEERING Thank you, Mr Speaker.

Despite several rounds of Etropean regional development funding the

Cornish economy continues to lag around 30% below the UK average

Does the Prime Minister agrde with me that Brexit provides us with the

opportunity to develop our own economic programme that will be less

bureaucratic, more effectivdly targeted and offered better value

for money for the taxpayer? And will she confirmed that her government

will continue to invest in the poorer regions of our country such

as Cornwall once we leave? I thank my honourable friend and I

can give them that assurancd. What I was saying at our party conference

and what I have been saying since I became Prime Minister, is wd want an

economy that works for everxone that means every part of our

country, including areas like Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

We've already negotiated a devolution deal with Cornwall,

signed in 2015, that will demonstrate that we recognise the

challenges Cornwall faces btt we're open for further discussions for

Cornwall in the way we can hmprove their economy for the futurd. THE

SPEAKER: Angus Robertson. The European Commission agahnst

racism and intolerance has found that a number of areas of concern

over political discourse and hate speech in the UK, as well as

violent, racial and religiots attacks. Police statistics have

shown a sharp rise in Islam phobic, anti-Semitic and zenophobic assaults

over the past year. So, does the Prime Minister agree that all

mainstream governments and `ll mainstream political parties should

do everything that they can to oppose xenophobia and racisl?

Hear, hearment. - Hear, hear. I have been clear from the despatch box on

a number of occasions, therd is no place in our society for racism or

hate crime. It is right that the police are investigating allegations

of hate crime where they occur. I'm pleased to say as Home Secrdtary, I

was able to improve the recording of hate crime, bringing the

arrangements to improve that recording. We made also improving

the requirement on police to specifically record hate crhme in

relation to faith, so that we see the anti-Islamphobia that h`s been

taking place as well as anti-Semitism and other typds of

hate crime. There is no place for that in our society. We shotld, with

one voice, from across this chamber, make that absolutely clear `nd give

our police every support in dealing with.

THE SPEAKER: Angus Robertson Can I remind the Prime Minister when she

was Home Secretary, she put advertising vans on the strdets

telling foreigners to go hole and at her party conference, we he`rd her

party is wishing to register foreigners working in the UK. The

crackdown and the rhetoric `gainst foreigners by this Government has

even led to Ukip, Ukip, sayhng that things have got too far.

Can I tell the Prime Ministdr that across the length and breadth of

this land, people are totally disgusted by the zenophobic language

on display from her Governmdnt. So, will she now confirm to this House,

will she confirm that the intention of her Government is still to go

ahead with the registration of foreign workers, but apparently we

shouldn't worry because it'll be kept secret by her Government?

Can I say very gently to thd right honourable gentleman, that H

answered two questions on that earlier. And I suggest he should

have listened to the answer I gave there.

THE SPEAKER: Your moment has arrived. We have empowered local

doctors to take leadership over important reconfiguration proposals

N Shropshire, 300 doctors, surgeons and clinicians have been working on

a vatal reconfiguration of vital A services in Shropshire and waechls

when they make their decision later this month, it is very important for

Government to back them and provide the capital funding required for

this vital change to enhancd patient safety.

I thank the honourable gentleman. He is raising an important point. The

configuration of services in his condition constituencicy and for

others across this House is a significant issue. A provhsion I'm

pleased to say we are actually seeing more people being trdated in

A today. We will, of course, look at the proposals that could. The

point about the way this is being done, it is for local peopld to be

able to have their voice he`rd and for decisions to be taken that

preflect the needs in a particular local area. We all want to see A

services, they are a vital service and I would like to pay tribute to

all those who work in A hospitals across the country. THE SPE@KER Meg

Hillier. Mr Speaker, the Public Accounts Committee and controller

and auditor general have both warned the NHS budget is not sustahnable.

When is her Government going to wake up to the reality of growing demand

and avoid the political rhetoric and set a stonable NHS budget for this

year and for the future? The Government took a very simple

approach to this. We asked the NHS themselves to propose their

five-year plan for the NHS. We asked them how much money they repuired.

They said ?8 billion. We ard giving them ?10 billion. More than the NHS

said. Funding in the NHS is at record levels.

The only place where fund money for the NHS is being cut is unddr a

Labour administration in Wales. A young man with Asperger's syndrome

awaits extradition to the United States facing charges of colputer

hacking and is then likely to kill himself. It sounds FA he is not of

course, Gary McKinnon, who was saved by the Prime Minister but L`rry Love

who faces in effect a death sentence. So when the Prime Minister

introduced a law to protect individuals, surely it would be for

all. The honourable gentlem`n campaigned long and hard for Gary

McKinnon. I took that decishon, it was for the Home Secretary to decide

whether there was a human rhghts' case for an individual not to be

extradited. We subsequently changed the legal position on that. This is

now a matter for the courts. There are accept parameters that the

courts look at in terms of the extradition decision which hs then

passed to the Home Secretarx but it is for the courts to derment human

rights aspect of any case that comes forward much it was right, H think,

to introduce the forum to m`ke sure there was that challenge for cases

here in the United Kingdom `s to whether they should be held here.

But the legal process is very clear and the Home Secretary is p`rt of

that legal process. THE SPE@KER Vernon Coaker. What does thd Prime

Minister say to British Stedl workers who have lost their jobs, or

whose jobs are threatened, given the news that French steel is to be used

for the new replacement Trident submarines? Is that what shd means

by being a party of the workers Well, I have to say that thd right

honourable gentleman that wd recognise the concerns of British

Steel workers. That is why the Government has been, under ly

predecessor and is continuing, to work to ensure we can do wh`t we can

to promote and encourage and retain a steel industry here in thd United

Kingdom. A number of measurds have been taken. If he was in thd chamber

earlier he will have heard ly honourable friend setting those out

in Scottish Questions. THE SPEAKER: Mr Philip Hollobone

Doctors and nurses in Kettering hospital are treating a number of

patients with increasingly world class treatments. But despite being

located in an area of rising population and housing growth, due

to an historic anomaly, the local commissioning groups are among those

underfunded in the entire country. What can my right honourabld friend

the Prime Minister do to address the situation. As my right honotrable

friend says, we want it makd sure that patients are experienchngs the

same levels of high-quality care regardless of where they live and

work. That's why the funding for my honourable friend's local

commissioning group is being corrected this year to more

accurately reflect the level of need in local health need and it is an

investment of over ?157 million going into his area. I think that

shows the intention the Govdrnment has to ensure that we see that

health service that is workhng for everyone across the country but of

course we can only do that with the economy to back up that NHS.

THE Speak Dr Alasdair McConnell The Prime Minister will be award that a

soft border between the reptblic and Northern Ireland is vital in

boosting the economy of Northern Ireland. Does the Prime Minhster

understand the confusion set in that many of us feel, that going forward,

on the one hand the Governmdnt has defined the intention to tightly

control free movement and l`bour but on the other hand, ensuring us the

border between the Northern Ireland and Republic will be hope. Does the

Prime Minister see the contradiction for many of those who are dhrectly

affected and whose jobs are affected in that? Well, I have been clear,

the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has been clear, the

Taoiseach has also said that on both sides of the border we don't want to

see a return to the borders of the past. I think it is worth rdminding

the House that actually the common travel area has been in place since

the 1920s, so it was there well before we were both members of the

European Union. We are workhng together with the Government of the

Republic and, obviously I h`ve had discussions on this with thd First

Minister and Deputy First Mhnister in Northern Ireland. We want to

ensure, as I say, that we don't see a return to the borders of the past.

Thank you, Mr Speaker, thanks to the Government' growth field a 32

million transformation of a mill in my constituency getsnd way this

week, giving a new lease of life to the largest redundant mill complex

in loan ka shimplt can I th`nk the Prime Minister and commend the other

bids in the late e round of the growth deal, as a great way to Mr A

country that works for everxone Can I commend my honourable fridnd on

taking his opportunity in stpporting the bids put from Pendle. Hd is

right, the money that has bden put in, has enabled this growth, like

the mill, to be unlocked, as a local project. We've seen ?250 million

committed to the Lancashire local enterprise partnership and ?2.8

billion from the northern powerhouse through the growth fund and the

latest round of funding is tp to ?1.8 billion with good bids coming N

we are assessing the bids, hncluding those with Pendle and we'll be

looked at with the seriousndss that my honourable friend would dxpect.

THE SPEAKER: This is the first Christmas that a lady will not see

her husband, they have been together for ten years and married for four

with two young children. It is evidence they are in a long term

relationship but Hayley's Ttrkish hospital was refused a spouse visa

because she o earns less th`n the Home Office target. This, I might

say, compares with the Primd Minister's own constituency, where

the medium salary was ?571. Almost ?30,000 a year.

Can I Prime Minister explain why living in my constituency mdans they

have a less chance of a proper family life and will she pldase

help? I will not comment on the individual case. I know she has sent

details in writing to me. I will make sure she gets a full rdly from

the Immigration Minister in relation to the specific case. The broader

issue she raises about the hncome threshold for those wishing to join

a partner in the UK. What the Government did, we asked an

independent committee, the ligration advisory committee to advisd on the

level that that income throws hold should be at. The migration advisory

committee suggested a range of figures. We actually took the lowest

figure in that range in takhng ?18,600. They recommended that

because it is the level at which a British family generally sedses to

to be able to get benefits `nd we believe that people coming here are

able to support themselves. ! My constituents were delighted to

learn this week Gainsborough House a unique museum and art gallery based

in the building where Gainsborough was born is to received mondy to

become an attraction. Will ly right honourable friend join me in

congratulating the team in their success and does she agree with me n

Suffolk, if we are bold and go for devolution, we can look forward to

more of this investment in the years to come. Can I join my honotrable

friend in commending all those involved in the bid at gains are you

House and the future that m`ny people will enjoy fising it in the

future as a result of the work that is going to be able to be done. I

know the importance of the her stooge lottery fund. It supported a

gallery in my own constituency. He is right, the point about the

devolution deals is people coming together with that ambition for

their local area, they can generate that transformative investmdnt that

he is now talking about and, of course, Suffolk is looking `t the

sort of deal that they might wish to have locally.

THE SPEAKER: Ben Bradshaw. With Russian and Assad regime war planes

bombing civilians in Aleppo at an unpress departmented rate, will she

join France in calling for those responsible for these war crimes to

be referred to the Internathonal Criminal Court? And will shd

reexamine, with Allies, the feasibility of a no-fly zond to

protect the Syrian people, before it is too late?

Hear, hear. Well, we are very clear that it is for the courts to decide

where a war crime has been committed. It was May 2015 when we

cosponsored a UN security rdsolution to refer those responsibility for

war crimes and crimes of hulanity in Syria regardless of affiliation to

the national human tear court it was investigate yoked by Russia and

China. On the issue of a no,fly zone, this has been addressdd and

people have looked at it for a number of years. The scenes we see

of the indiscriminate slaughter of innocent civilians are appalling. We

want to see an end to that. But there are many questions about a

no-fly zone. Actually who is it there to protect? Would it lead to

Assad bombing people in the expectation they would then move to

that zone? How would you actually enforce a safe area there? Who would

do that enforcement? There `re many questions that need to be looked at

in those sorts of issues. What we all know is that the only rdal

solution for peace and stabhlity in Syria, is a political transhtion,

and it's time Russia acceptdd that, that the future of Syria is a

political transition, to a stable Syria, free of Assad.

THE SPEAKER: Fiona Bruce At a high school in my constituency, the most

vulnerable pupils and their families are impressively supportive,

pursuant to the school's mo`t yo of - achievement for all. Will the

Prime Minister confirm that under her plans for education and in a

country which works for everyone, that parents can be assured that

there will be the right school place for their child, whatever their

ability? Well, I thank my honourable friend

and for the example that shd has shown of the work taking pl`ce in

her constituency. The whole aim of the Government's education policy is

to increase the number of good school place so, parents can have

the confidence that their child will have a good school place, and they

will have the school place that is right for them.

That's why we want to see universities more involved hn

schools, we want to see mord faith schools being opened up, we want it

seat independent sector helping the state sector where that is sensible

and their expertise can help and yes, we do want to lift the ban

which currently say that is one type of good new school cannot bd opened,

it is I will Lille to open ` new good school is that a selective

school, we want to remove that ban so people of all opportunithes get

that opportunity. - it is illegal to open a new good school.

The Prime Minister appears to have made a choice, and that chohce is to

side with the protectionist and nationalists who have taken over her

party, as surely - as surelx as momentum has taken over the Labour

Party. She has chosen a hard Brexit that was never on anybody's ballot

paper and she has chosen to turn her back on British business in the

process. As a result - as a result, petrol prices and food retahlers

have warned of huge price rhses Shouting and jeering

On supermarket shelves in the coming days. So when will she put the

interests of hard-working British people ahead of extremist

protectionism that absolutely nobody voted for.

Hear, hear. The right honourable gentleman asks about who we are

siding with. I will tell hil who? We are siding with the British people

who voted to leave the European Union. And it's high time the right

honourable gentleman listendd to the votes of the British people and

accepted that that is what we are going to do.

THE SPEAKER: Victoria Prenths Does the Prime Minister share my sadness

that the majority of Banburx's babies cannot currently be

delivered, as I was, in the Horton General Hospital and will she join

with me in putting any infltence and any pressure we can on the Trust to

encourage them to recruit obstetricians we need to re,open our

much-valued unit? Yes, I can say that I believe every

effort is being made to fill the vacant obstetrics post test Horton

General Hospital. I underst`nd those mothers who are having a midwife-led

delivery are still able it go to the Horton General Hospital but for

others they have to go to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

Maternity services are important to people and I believe the trtst is

looking to ensure it is can fill the posts. What matters is a safe

maternity service for mother and baby. THE SPEAKER: Angle eagle.

I think many people across the House will be reassured that the

Government accepted the amendment to the Opposition motion being debated

later this afternoon, which guarantees that this House hs able,

properly, to scrutinise the plans for leaving the European Unhon

before Article 50 is invoked. Can she tell us, will that scrutiny

involve a vote? I have to say to the Right

Honourable lady, that the idea that Parliament somehow wasn't going to

be able to discuss, debate, question issues around...

LAUGHTER ... Was, frankly, completelx wrong.

Let me give her some examplds. First of all the Secretary of State for

Existing the European Union has already made two statements in this

House and four hours of questions followed from those. A new Select

Committee has been set up, which crucially includes representatives

from all parts of the United Kingdom, which will be lookhng at

the issues and only, just over a week ago, I announced thereby a

Great Repeal Bill in the next session of Parliament to repeal the

act. So the Parliament will have every opportunity to debate this

issue. THE SPEAKER: Will Quince. Thank you

Mr Speaker, every year in the UK, 3,500 babies are still born, I

commend the Government for setting the target for a 20% reducthon by

the end of this Parliament `nd a 50% reduction by 2030 but in in this

babely loss awareness week, will the Prime Minister agree with md, we

must provide the best-quality bereavement care for those parents

who sadly lose a baby. I sahd to my honourable friend, he is right in

this. I'm pleased to say thd Health Secretary will be attending the Boo

I why I Loss Awareness Week reception which will be held in

Parliament today and I would encourage other members to `ttend as

well. My honourable friend hs right, the loss of a baby must be

absolutely devastating and H am aware that there are people sitting

in this chamber who have bedn through that tragedy in thehr lives.

What what is absolutely essdntial is the best-possible bereavement care

can be given to parents at that very, very, vulnerable and tragic

moment in their lives, which is why we have been putting money , we

introduced dedicated bereavdment rooms at 40 hospitals and wd are

investing more in improving birthing facilities as well, because it is an

important part but that card and counsel for people who have lost a

baby is essential and I think we all accept that.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. On the 2nd July, the Home Office were giving

details of 178 children who are still stuck in the Calais rdfugee

camps but had a legal right to be here in the UK with their f`milies

who could keep them safe and protected. Given the delays in

acting, what responsibility does the Prime Minister think this Government

has to the 18 of those children who have now gone missing?

I would say to the honourable lady, far from not acting, actually the

Government has been working with the French Government in relation to

those who are in the camps. We have put extra resource into spedding up

the process of dealing with the claims that are there, for

unaccompanied children in the camps, and we have seen that process

faster, it is quirk and mord children coming as a result of that.

This is alongside all the other work we are doing, in relation to

refugees and to unaccompanidd minors. Of course, cruciallx as

well, working to ensure that we deal with the traffickers and thd

smugglers, who are often in those camps and who we need to make sure

don't have access to childrdn for the future. But we've speeddd up the

process and more children are coming here as a result of that.

Thank you, Mr Speaker, tomorrow is Sendingry Breast Cancer day. I would

like to ask the Prime Minister to join with me in wishing these men

and women well but only one,third of NHS Trusts currently select the data

in this Y would she agree whth me that better data collection can

inform diagnosis, treatment and the use of NHS resources across the

piece and give better outcoles for all patients? Hear, hear. I entirely

accept the point my honourable friend makes, that better

information actually gives xou a greater opportunity to be able to

across these issues but can I also join with her in commending and

wishing well all those, as she says, both men and women, who havd

suffered from breast cancer and who are - who have come through that, as

I know she has herself. There are others in this House in that

position but so many people across the country, and it is important

that they do get the right care to ensure that they can come through

that and see a bright futurd. Thank you, Mr speaker, last night n

this House, a huge number of MPs presented petitions from towns right

up and down this country. So will the Prime Minister now commht to

overturning those mistaken 2011 arrangements and provide justice and

transitional arrangements for Waspie women. The honourable lady should

know. We made changes. We committed ?11 million for those affected. 81%

of women will see increases. There will be no more than 12 months

compared to the previous tiletable. The DWP after the changes in 20 #1,

informed people to the change in the state pension age and as we look

forward, women will gain from the new pension arrangements behng put

in place. It has been a long-standing issue about women s

pensions and women will see better pension arrangement in the future

because of the changes that the Government has brought in.

Mr Speaker, I gather the Prhme Minister gave Chancellor Merkel a

gift of wane write's coast-to-coast book outlining a fabulous w`lk

throughout my constituency. Is the Prime Minister awhich are that it is

not in fact an official nathonal you trail and would she meet me with me

to for my campaign to give this national treasure, national status.

As my honourable friend knows, I enjoy walking and there are

fantastic walks across the TK I have not done the coast-to-coast yet

myself. Maybe - there isn't much time at the moment, but I h`ve to

say to him that I think he probably knows that the decision abott the

designation of the coast-to,coast is one more appropriately put to

Natural England I'm sure he will be doing all he can to lobby n`tural

England on this point. It has come to my attention that

this has now been changed. On the 4th of October, the four-dax system

is now not even in place. There are people who cannot feed their

children or send them to school because they don't have mondy