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Questions to the Prime Minister.

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Number one, please, Mr Speaker.

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I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others this morning.

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In addition to my duties in this House, I shall have

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further meetings today.

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A report recently produced by a number of organisations

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including the Citizens Advice in five found that one third

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of families that should have been applying for support didn't

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and that it was partially because it was a ?20 application fee.

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The 4% collection fee impacted family budgets.

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Will the Minister review these charges?

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The issues of trying to ensure that those who are responsible

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for children actually pay for their children when a family has

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broken up has been a long-standing question this House has addressed.

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There have been various ways of dealing with it

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through the agency that has been responsible.

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It is right that the changes which have been introduced on a more

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level basis and that more people are able to access the support

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that they need as a result.

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The Government has rightly focused on economic growth,

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jobs and prosperity, something that all of us on these

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benches can get behind.

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With that in mind, will she back our highly competitive bid for funding

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for the north-west relief road in Shrewsbury, not only dealing

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with the congestion our town is facing but dovetail

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into that narrative.

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And I thank my honourable friend for raising this and I know that

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that Northwest relief road in Shrewsbury has been an issue

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of particular concern to him, a priority for him and it has

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had much backing.

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I know a feasibility application has gone in and what I can say

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at the moment is that the announcement of the successful

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bids for visibility funding is expected very soon indeed.

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Jeremy Corbyn.

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Thank you, Mr Speaker.

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The Government's sustainability and a summation plans

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for the National Health Service hide ?22 billion worth of cuts

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from our service according to research by the British

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Medical Association.

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That risks, and I quote, starving services resources

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and patience of vital care.

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That comes from Doctor Mark Porter of the BMA.

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When he calls this process a mess, where is he wrong?

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The National Health Service is indeed looking for savings

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within the NHS which will be reinvested within the NHS.

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I would remind the right honourable gentleman that it is this Government

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that is providing not just the 8 billion of extra funding

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the NHS requested, but 10 billion extra funding requested

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by the National Health Service and the sustainability

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and are summation plans are being developed at local level

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in the interests of local people by local clinicians.

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It's very strange the Prime Minister should say that, Mr Speaker,

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because the Health Select Committee, chaired by our honourable friend

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the member board Totnes Zenit St Petersburg back

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it's actually 4.5 billion, not 10 billion.

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There's quite a big difference there.

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Part of the reason for the strain on our national Health Service

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is that more than 1 million people are not receiving the social

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care that they need.

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As a result of this, there's been an increase

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in emergency admissions for older patients.

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Margaret wrote to me this week saying, it's not funny.

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She described how her 89-year-old mother suffered two falls leading

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to hospital admissions due to the lack of nursing care and went

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on to say, my mother is worth more than this.

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What action will the Prime Minister take to stop the neglect of older

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people which ends up forcing them to take A and E admissions

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when they should be cared for at home or in a care home?

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Of course social care is an area of concern and social

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care is an area of key concern for many people.

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That is why the Government has introduced the better care fund,

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why they have introduced the social care precept for local authorities

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and we are encouraging the working together of the Health Service

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and local authorities to deal with precisely the issues he has

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raised on social care and bed blocking.

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But I will just say this to the right honourable gentleman.

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We have introduced the social care precept

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and the better care plan.

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Let's look at what Labour did in 13 years.

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They said they'd deal with social care in the 97 manifesto, introduced

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a Royal commission in 1999, a Green paper in 2005,

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a review in 2006, said they would sort it in 2007 and another

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green paper in 2009.

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13 years and they did nothing.

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Mr Speaker, as the Prime Minister well knows, health spending

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trebled under the last Labour Government and the levels

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of satisfaction with the National Health Service

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were at their highest ever in 2010.

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This Government's choice was to cut social care by ?4.6 billion

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in the last Parliament.

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That was at the same time as they found the space,

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shall we say, to cut billions in corporate taxation bills.

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That means it is affecting patients leaving hospital as well.

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In the last four years, the number of patients unable to be

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transferred from hospital due to lack of adequate social care has

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increased by one third.

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Will the Prime Minister ensure how Government guarantees

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all of our elderly people the dignity they deserve?

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I recognise the importance of caring for elderly people and providing

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them with the dignity they deserve.

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He says that this Government has done nothing on social care.

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I repeat, we have introduced the social care precept.

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That is being made use of by his local authority and mine.

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We have also introduced the better care fund by Debbie talks

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about support for elderly people, I would remind him which Government

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has put the triple lock in place for pensioners,

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ensuring the largest increase in pensions for elderly people.

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The precept is a drop in the ocean compared to what is

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necessary for social care.

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I'll give you an example.

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The whole house, I'm sure, would have been appalled

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by revelations in a BBC panorama programme this week showing older

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people systematically mistreated.

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The Care Quality Commission's assessment that care homes run

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by the Morley group require improvement and has issued

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a warning notices.

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They go on to say that the owner has allowed services

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to deteriorate further and has, and I quote, utterly

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neglected the duty of care to the residence of these homes.

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What action is how Government going to take to protect

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the residents of those homes?

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The right honourable gentleman raises the issue of the quality

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of care that is provided in homes and the way in which elderly

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people are treated.

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I'm sure everybody is appalled when we see examples of poor

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and terrible treatment which is given to elderly

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and vulnerable people in care homes.

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What we do about it is ensure that we happy CQC, able to step in,

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take action, that has powers to make sure that nobody in the chain

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of responsibility is immune from legal accountability.

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But we know that there is more that can be done and that is why the CQC

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is looking into ways in which it can improve its processors,

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increase its efficiency.

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My right honourable friend, the Minister for community

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health and care will be writing to the CQC shortly.

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He will let at how we can improve what they do.

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It is the CQC which deals with these issues, we have back in place,

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is there more we can do?

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Yes, and we are doing it.

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The problem seems to be that that home was understaffed

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and we shouldn't be blaming the staff.

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We should be ensuring that are enough of them properly paid

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in all of those homes.

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There was a problem serious understaffing and it was the last

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Labour Government which established the CQC and I think a warning

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notice is insufficient.

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We need stronger action than that.

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Yesterday, the Government propose that patients may have show

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passports or other IDA to access non-emergency health care.

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As the Government considered that the impact of this on elderly

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people, with the last census showing us that 9.5 million people in this

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country do not have passports?

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Rather than distracting people, with divisive policies,

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could the Government provide the NHS

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and social care with the money they need to support people?

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Over the course of this Parliament, the Government will be spending half

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?1 trillion on the National Health Service.

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The right honourable gentleman asks about a process to ensure that

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people receiving NHS treatment are entitled to receive

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that NHS treatment.

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For many years, there has been a concern about health tourism,

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about people turning up in the UK, accessing health services and not

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paying for them.

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We want to make sure that those who are entitled to use the services

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are enjoyed able to see those free at the point of delivery

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but that we deal with health tourism and those who should be paying

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for the use of our Health Service.

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Sir Simon Stevens said two weeks ago that the next three years will be

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the toughest ever for NHS funding and that 2018 would see how spending

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per person cut for the first time ever in this country.

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The NAO reported that the cost of health tourism is over 100 times

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less than the ?22 billion worth of cuts the NHS is facing from this

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Government.

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The reality is that under this Government, there are 6000 fewer

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mental health nurses.

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A record 3.9 million people on NHS waiting lists.

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All of us who visit accident and emergency know the stress

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the staff are under and that the waiting time is getting

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longer and longer and that there are 1 million people in this country

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not receiving the social care they need.

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Instead of looking for excuses and scapegoats, shouldn't

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the Prime Minister be ensuring that health and social care is properly

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resourced, properly funded, taking away the stress and fear that

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people face in old age over social care and the stress that is placed

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on our very hard-working NHS and social care staff?

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Billions of pounds extra into social care through the social care precept

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and the better care fund.

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Half ?1 trillion being spent on the National Health Service.

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A record level of investment in mental health in

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the National Health Service.

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Order.

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Members must not attempt to shout down by Minister.

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The question was asked, heard and the answer must be heard.

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There is a fundamental point that the right honourable gentleman

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refrain from mentioning.

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We can only afford to pay for the National Health Service

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and social care if we have a strong economy creating wealth.

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That is precisely what he's going to hear from the Chancellor

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of the Exchequer in a few minutes time.

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Order.

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On the 23rd of June, my constituents voted by a margin

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of 62% to 38% to leave the European Union.

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Many of those people, many of those people are unhappy

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and frustrated at what they see are delaying

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tactics by some remain as who don't seem to understand the meaning

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of the word democracy.

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Order.

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This is very discourteous.

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The honourable gentleman has a legitimate question and this

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question should be thoroughly and with politeness and heard.

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Thank you Mr Speaker.

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Remainers who don't seem to understand the meaning

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of the word democracy

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which I would remind them is Government by the people and rule

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of the majority and with that in mind what reassures

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can my right honourable friend give my constituents and me that

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article 50 will be triggered by March next year?

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I am clear that we will trigger Article 50 by the end of March

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next year but my honourable friend is absolutely right

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to make the key point, the referendum was decided by this

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Parliament 6-1 that the people should have the opportunity to vote

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on the EU, the vote was held the turnout was high

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and the public gave the verdict.

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There must be no second referendum or attempt to weasel out of this.

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This is the government that will deliver on the vote

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of the British people.

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We on these benches have repeatedly brought up the devastating

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impact on disabled people from the UK benefits system.

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The Government plans to cut support for people with long-term health

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difficulties by ?30 per week.

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Last week my SNP colleague the member for Airdrie and Shotts

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proposed the motion that was passed by this house with support from both

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Labour and Conservative members for these cuts to be postponed.

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Will the Prime Minister act on the vote of this house?

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Let me say to the right honourable death and what we have been doing

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in relation to benefits for disabled people.

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The overall funding for disability benefits will be hiring every year

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up to 2020 that was in 2010, we have been focusing support

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on those who most need it, those who are not able to get

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into the workplace.

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For those who are able at some stage to get into the workplace we have

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been providing a wider package of support.

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I'm pleased to say that over the last six years almost 600,000

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more disabled people are in the workplace

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with the dignity of having a job which is what any people

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with disabilities want to have.

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We focus help those who most need it and help those with disabilities

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who want to get into the workplace to do just that.

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It is widely trailed that the Prime Minister

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will make changes impacting on benefits recipient in work.

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Will the Prime Minister confirm that she has no intention of helping

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people with disabilities and medical conditions?

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Why should people unable to make a living be punished

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for the disability or illness I was ?630 per week?

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Does she have any intention of changing that?

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I have just set out for the right honourable gentleman the ways

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in which we are providing support and help for those people

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who have disabilities.

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As they said the overall funding, spending on disability benefits

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will be higher in every year to 2020 than it was in 2010.

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It is important to recognise that when we give support for people

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with disabilities it is not simply about the benefits system and how

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much money they are given, for those are able to get into work

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and on that part of the ESA we provide ideas that are outside

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of benefits as well because we recognise that people

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want the dignity of getting into the workplace.

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That is what we are helping people with disabilities

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who can work to do.

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Will my right honourable friend agree that thousands

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of road commuters including many of my constituents who used

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a 12 pack travelling on roads that need to be repaired and upgraded?

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To improve connectivity and speed up the daily commute times,

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would my right honourable friend except that the proposal

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?1.3 billion investment to improve our road network

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is warmly welcomed and will do a great deal

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to enhance connectivity?

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My honourable friend is absolutely right,

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the importance of infrastructure expenditure in helping to deal

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with the issue of productivity in our economy and I am pleased

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that the 1.3 billion for new roads shows is investing

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in the term future for Britain.

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It is about delivering jobs, economic growth, it is about making

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sure that this is an economy that works for everyone.

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It is one part of the package we are proposing, and my right

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honourable friend the Chancellor will be setting our proposals out

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were clearly in a few minutes time.

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My constituent is in prison in Iran.

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A British national,

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she has been separated from her husband and two-year-old.

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For eight months.

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She has been on hunger strike and is now suicidal.

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The Prime Minister needs to reunite this mother, this daughter,

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this wife with her family.

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Mr Speaker, will it take her death for the government to start

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taking her seriously?

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Obviously this is a very difficult time for the whole family and I'm

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sure we're all concerned about the reports of the impact

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that detention is having on her health as she is

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in detention in Iran.

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This is an issue that he's been repeatedly raised with the Iranian

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government by the UK Government, but the previous and current

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Foreign Secretary is, I personally written

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with President Rohani on the 20th of September and stressed

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the importance of finding a resolution as quickly as possible.

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I have written to present a highly suggesting a commutation

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of the charges and assurances that she will be allowed full legal

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representation and regular contact with her family.

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We will continue to do everything we can for the family including

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the British government remaining being ready to help bring her back

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to Britain if that is the request.

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Does my right honourable friend agree that most of our social

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problems are either caused or aggravated by the acute

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shortage of housing?

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So even if, as I hope, we manage to reduce the net immigration

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to this country we will have to build far more new homes.

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So isn't the recommendation by the European banking authority

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to increase by 50% the reserves banks must hold

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against house-building

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making it even more costly for them to lend for housing

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than for unsecured credit cards, profoundly unhelpful and perverse?

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I am sure my right honourable friend will recognise that we are subject

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to our own regulation authorities, but the point he makes

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about house-building is correct.

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We need to build more homes.

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That is something the government has been doing, there have been 900,000

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new homes built since 2010 and there's more for us to do.

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The Brexit secretary and the Foreign Secretary

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are described by a senior German politician is having no idea

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what Brexit really means.

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The Tuimes reports today that EU ambassadors

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say that the Foreign Secretary's more colourful outbursts

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are damaging our relationships with member states.

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When will the Prime Minister get a grip on her ministers

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and demonstrate to the country and to our EU colleagues

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that she has a coherent workable plan for Brexit?

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I have been very clear in this house on many occasions about the plan

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that we have for Brexit, crucially, we will be leaving the EU

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and we will be triggering article 50 by the end of March next year

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and that is when the formal negotiations will start.

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But that is absolutely right that we do not set out at this stage

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every single detail of our proposed negotiating strategy because that

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would be the best way to get the worst possible deal for Britain.

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As we leave the EU, maintaining the UK's cutting edge

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and world leadership in scientific and technological discovery

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is of paramount importance to our industries and universities.

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Can I welcome the Prime Minister's announcement that each year

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we will invest a further 2 billion in research and development to bless

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the science and engineering base?

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Isn't this just the type of vital support that our businesses

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and researchers need, rather than the threats

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from the Labour Party to slash RND tax credits

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which would hamper innovation?

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My right honourable friend is absolutely right.

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The extra investment we will put into research and development

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is a crucial part of the long-term task we have of ensuring

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that we have the economy around growth and prosperity in this

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country that we need.

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The new funds will be able to put us at the cutting edge

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of scientific discovery, which I saw for myself,

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we are already doing this.

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I was at the welcome genome campus in Cambridge on Monday to see

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the really exciting, really transformational work

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that is being done coming out of the knowledge base and scientific

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research here in the UK.

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We want to see more of that and that is why

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you will be investing in it.

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Aleppo's hospitals are destroyed and Syrians who avoid the bombs

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and chlorine gas are starting from the Russian blockade.

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We must do more.

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So will she revisit the prospect for aid drops and will she look

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at backing the campaign to stop this daily perpetrator of war crimes,

0:24:070:24:11

of stripping them of their right to hold the 2018 World Cup?

0:24:110:24:16

The honourable gentleman is right to raise the issue of the appalling

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atrocities taking place in Aleppo.

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And it is right that we along with the international allies

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are doing all that we can to try and bring this to stop.

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He will recognise that the issue of who hosts sporting events is not

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in the government remit, what is in the government remit

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and what we are doing is working with the international allies to put

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more pressure on Russia to stop the appalling atrocities,

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the appalling attacks taking place in Aleppo.

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What we want to see is an agreement for the political transition

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to a Syria without President Assad.

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Does my right honourable friend agree that if the UK is to remain

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competitive and our citizens are to enjoy the benefits

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of the digital revolution, it is essential that we should be

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at the forefront of deployment of both ultrafast broadband and

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5G mobile connectivity.

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Can I therefore welcome the announcement that we're led

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to believe might be made shortly of a ?1 billion investment

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to achieve this?

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My right honourable friend will of course be waiting

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in anticipation for my right honourable friend

0:25:270:25:29

the Chancellor's Autumn Statement but he's absolutely right that

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as we look at improving productivity in this country and as we look

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to the economy of the future, the provision of that superfast

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broadband and provision of the new technological

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opportunities for people is a crucial part of that

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and that is something that is government recognises

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and will act on.

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One day last week four police officers in my constituency

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were assaulted over a single 24-hour period.

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There are over 23,000 assaults on police officers last year

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and an assault on police officers is an assault on society.

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What will the Prime Minister do to insure the toughest deterrents

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are in place to protect front-line officers and when will the number

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of police on our streets be restored?

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Can I send our best wishes to those police officers who were assaulted

0:26:180:26:21

in her constituency last week?

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It is important that we recognise that when police officers go out

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on duty and indeed for many of duty they sometimes find themselves

0:26:260:26:35

intervening in situations where they find themselves

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with assaults and violence against them.

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They are willing to enter the line of duty were others are not

0:26:470:26:50

and we recognise that.

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What we have done in relation to this is one of the things

0:26:510:26:55

we want to do is recognise better the number of assaults taking place

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and that is why last year we introduced provisional figures,

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and we are improving those figures this year.

0:27:030:27:04

Sentencing guidelines already allow for an assault on a police officer

0:27:040:27:07

to be taken as an aggravating factor into account,

0:27:070:27:09

and also new developments like the body worn videos help

0:27:090:27:12

provide the evidence that ensure that people can be brought

0:27:120:27:16

to justice and that deter assaults in the first place.

0:27:160:27:19

I know the Prime Minister shares my concern at the level

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of acute hospital bed blocking.

0:27:250:27:27

Does she agree with me that part of the solution is to promote

0:27:270:27:30

Community Hospital beds where they still exist in places

0:27:300:27:32

like Warminster and Shaftesbury as part of the sustainability

0:27:320:27:34

and transformation planning process?

0:27:340:27:39

As regards to the SDP process that will take place at the local level

0:27:390:27:45

and it will be at local level that the proposals will be

0:27:450:27:48

considered and put forward by clinicians, but the concept

0:27:480:27:50

of being able to deal with the bed blocking any variety of ways

0:27:500:27:54

is absolutely right.

0:27:540:27:55

There are good examples around the country are having those

0:27:550:27:57

step-down beds available is actually resolving

0:27:570:27:58

the problem of bed blocking.

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There are other ways in which it is being done,

0:28:010:28:08

part of the country where social workers are being employed

0:28:080:28:10

by hospital trusts for example, but it is very good to recognise

0:28:100:28:13

good practice when it is done and we should see more

0:28:130:28:16

of that across the country.

0:28:160:28:22

Earlier this month an IRA man turned lawyer,

0:28:220:28:28

confessed to the BBC that he took part in robberies and gun attacks

0:28:280:28:31

that murdered British soldiers.

0:28:310:28:35

He stated that he will never disclose information on any fellow

0:28:350:28:43

IRA man despite knowing details of IRA actions that he himself

0:28:430:28:50

defines as war crimes.

0:28:500:28:51

In the Prime Minister assure me that Her Majesty 's government

0:28:510:28:53

will apply for the extradition of this terrorist for questioning

0:28:530:28:56

from the Republic of Ireland?

0:28:560:28:57

The question as to whether or not an individual would be extradited

0:28:570:29:00

or a request including for extradition would be

0:29:000:29:02

for the appropriate prosecution authorities.

0:29:020:29:03

What I say to the honourable gentleman is that we do of course

0:29:030:29:06

recognise the concerns for those cases where it is still possible

0:29:060:29:10

to bring people for justice and obviously want to see

0:29:100:29:12

that being done.

0:29:120:29:20

During the last six years we have had three major referendums all with

0:29:200:29:23

varying degrees of excitement.

0:29:230:29:27

Would the Prime Minister agree with me that you can have too much

0:29:270:29:34

excitement and will she therefore rule out

0:29:340:29:38

any further referendums in this Parliament?

0:29:380:29:41

My honourable friend is trying to take me down a route.

0:29:410:29:43

One thing I will certainly rule out is a

0:29:430:29:45

second referendum on whether or not we leave the European Union.

0:29:450:29:50

Mr Speaker, the people of Aberdeen have

0:29:500:29:52

launched a financial appeal because of the increased number of people

0:29:520:29:55

finding themselves homeless as a direct result of the UK

0:29:550:30:05

Government's pursuit of austerity.

0:30:050:30:10

How can the prime ministers sleep in her warm

0:30:100:30:12

bed at night knowing her policies are consigning people to a cold

0:30:120:30:15

Christmas?

0:30:150:30:16

The Government is taking action in and a variety of ways to

0:30:160:30:19

address the issue of homelessness and one

0:30:190:30:21

thing we need to do is

0:30:210:30:22

ensure more homes are built in this country.

0:30:220:30:24

I would say this to the

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honourable lady.

0:30:250:30:29

She talks about austerity in the tone which she

0:30:290:30:31

refers to it.

0:30:310:30:33

Posterity is about living within our means.

0:30:330:30:43

And we should always remember when

0:30:430:30:44

we are talking about Government providing support for individuals

0:30:440:30:46

that taxpayers have do pay for that support

0:30:460:30:48

and many taxpayers are

0:30:480:30:49

themselves struggling to get by.

0:30:490:30:52

The Prime Minister will be aware that

0:30:520:30:57

yesterday the peninsula rail task force launched its report,

0:30:570:30:59

commissioned following the storms that severed Devon and Cornwall's

0:30:590:31:01

vital rail link.

0:31:010:31:07

Does she welcome the report and will she commit the

0:31:070:31:10

Government to ensuring its vision is delivered?

0:31:100:31:11

I thank my honourable friend for his question.

0:31:110:31:19

Can I suggest he listens very carefully

0:31:190:31:21

to what my right honourable member Chancellor has to say?

0:31:210:31:26

In these uncertain times we will certainly

0:31:260:31:27

agree that Britain needs strong defence.

0:31:270:31:32

So how can the prime minister justify her Government's

0:31:320:31:34

decision to scrap all the Navy's heavyweight surface to surface

0:31:340:31:39

guided missiles without any replacement?

0:31:390:31:45

I have to say I don't recognise the picture the honourable gentleman

0:31:450:31:48

presents in relation to what the Government is doing

0:31:480:31:50

with the Armed Forces.

0:31:500:31:51

We are investing billions of pounds to ensure our Armed Forces

0:31:510:31:55

do have the missiles, boats, the ships for

0:31:550:31:57

the Royal Navy and the other

0:31:570:31:59

pieces of equipment for the other Armed Forces, so that picture is not

0:31:590:32:02

one I recognise.

0:32:020:32:08

Would my right honourable friend agree that it

0:32:080:32:15

would be good for confidence in the rule of law if judges did not

0:32:150:32:18

enter into speculative public thoughts on

0:32:180:32:20

cases that they are about to hear?

0:32:200:32:26

We value in this country the independence of our judiciary.

0:32:260:32:34

That's the independence for the judiciary when they come to make

0:32:340:32:39

their judgments in court but also they are independent and it is to

0:32:390:32:42

them to determine what they choose to put in their speeches or not, not

0:32:420:32:45

for the Government to tell them what to do.

0:32:450:32:52

As millions of public sector workers face another year of

0:32:520:32:55

suppressed pay after another week of shambolic Brexit negotiations and

0:32:550:33:04

with a National Health Service facing a winter crisis, crying out

0:33:040:33:09

for cash, does the Prime Minister worry that her Government is only

0:33:090:33:12

just about managing?

0:33:120:33:19

Well, I have to say to the right honourable

0:33:190:33:21

gentleman that we are very clear about the amount of money we are

0:33:210:33:24

putting into the National Health Service.

0:33:240:33:26

He talks about the negotiations.

0:33:260:33:29

Actually the negotiations for us leaving the

0:33:290:33:31

European Union don't formally start until we trigger article 50.

0:33:310:33:35

We will do that by the end of March next year.

0:33:350:33:40

What the right honourable gentleman wants to do is to stop us

0:33:400:33:43

from leaving the European Union by denying the people the decision and

0:33:430:33:50

deliverability of the vote that they too brightly on the 23rd of June.

0:33:500:33:53

He wants to deny people what they want, we are going to give it

0:33:530:33:57

to them.

0:33:570:33:58

May I raise the Prime Minister the concerns of many

0:33:580:34:00

drivers and hauliers across the United Kingdom who worry

0:34:000:34:02

about the cost of driving, the cost of fuel

0:34:020:34:05

duty and whether her Government will look at keeping that down and also

0:34:050:34:09

at the pump pricing and how forecourt pricing works as the oil

0:34:090:34:12

price falls.

0:34:120:34:13

They jump like a rocket and fall like a feather.

0:34:130:34:18

I recognise as my honourable friend says that many people look with

0:34:180:34:21

great concern at the cost of motoring in this country.

0:34:210:34:26

I suggest that he is a little more patient and wait for the

0:34:260:34:29

Chancellor's Autumn Statement.

0:34:290:34:34

The Prime Minister has talked about her

0:34:340:34:36

worries with social care, but surely we have do

0:34:360:34:40

judge her by her actions.

0:34:400:34:44

In the last six years, there has been a 37% on average cut in

0:34:440:34:51

local authority funding, 57% in my area and nearly a quarter

0:34:510:34:57

of those in need of social care have been denied any help at all.

0:34:570:35:00

What is she going to do about it?

0:35:010:35:02

The right honourable lady might have noticed that I have been asked

0:35:020:35:05

several questions about social care and I will give the answer that I

0:35:050:35:09

have given previously.

0:35:090:35:19

What this government is doing about social care

0:35:220:35:23

is putting more money on through the better care fund,

0:35:230:35:26

giving more opportunities through the social

0:35:260:35:27

care research and making sure that health and social care come together

0:35:270:35:30

to deal with the issue of bed blocking.

0:35:300:35:33

Mr Speaker, how many of us would charge into a

0:35:330:35:36

darkened store in night knowing that inside were three mask wearing

0:35:360:35:38

crowbar wielding thugs.

0:35:380:35:45

Well, my two constituents did just that and by intervening,

0:35:450:35:47

the thugs fled, leaving the money, the staff were hurt less and one

0:35:470:35:52

of the gentleman was hurt himself.

0:35:520:35:56

Will my right honourable friend join me in

0:35:560:35:58

praising their courage and selflessness in this extraordinary

0:35:580:36:00

act of bravado?

0:36:000:36:06

I absolutely agree with my honourable friend and I

0:36:060:36:15

commend the bravery and courage that was shown by those two

0:36:150:36:22

individuals, who stepped into that situation to

0:36:220:36:25

ensure that it was not as bad as it might have been.

0:36:250:36:28

That is incredible bravery.

0:36:280:36:30

There are many members of the public who would not have been

0:36:300:36:38

willing to step forward in that way and can he pass on the best wishes

0:36:380:36:41

of the whole house to those individuals?

0:36:410:36:43

Does the Prime Minister believe that big companies should

0:36:430:36:48

put a worker on the board?

0:36:480:36:54

I believe that we should see the worker's

0:36:540:36:56

representation on boards and I make no apology but the fact that this

0:36:560:36:59

Government is going to deliver on that.

0:36:590:37:01

For all their years in

0:37:010:37:02

Government, the Labour Party did nothing.

0:37:020:37:11

Order!

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