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Questions to the Prime Minister. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:25 | |
Number one, please, Mr Speaker. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:26 | |
I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others this morning. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:29 | |
In addition to my duties in this House, I shall have | 0:00:29 | 0:00:32 | |
further meetings today. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:33 | |
A report recently produced by a number of organisations | 0:00:33 | 0:00:36 | |
including the Citizens Advice in five found that one third | 0:00:36 | 0:00:41 | |
of families that should have been applying for support didn't | 0:00:41 | 0:00:45 | |
and that it was partially because it was a ?20 application fee. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:55 | |
The 4% collection fee impacted family budgets. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:07 | |
Will the Minister review these charges? | 0:01:07 | 0:01:09 | |
The issues of trying to ensure that those who are responsible | 0:01:09 | 0:01:11 | |
for children actually pay for their children when a family has | 0:01:11 | 0:01:14 | |
broken up has been a long-standing question this House has addressed. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
There have been various ways of dealing with it | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
through the agency that has been responsible. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:21 | |
It is right that the changes which have been introduced on a more | 0:01:21 | 0:01:24 | |
level basis and that more people are able to access the support | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
that they need as a result. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:30 | |
The Government has rightly focused on economic growth, | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
jobs and prosperity, something that all of us on these | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
benches can get behind. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:37 | |
With that in mind, will she back our highly competitive bid for funding | 0:01:37 | 0:01:41 | |
for the north-west relief road in Shrewsbury, not only dealing | 0:01:41 | 0:01:48 | |
with the congestion our town is facing but dovetail | 0:01:48 | 0:01:50 | |
into that narrative. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:51 | |
And I thank my honourable friend for raising this and I know that | 0:01:51 | 0:01:55 | |
that Northwest relief road in Shrewsbury has been an issue | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
of particular concern to him, a priority for him and it has | 0:01:58 | 0:02:01 | |
had much backing. | 0:02:01 | 0:02:04 | |
I know a feasibility application has gone in and what I can say | 0:02:04 | 0:02:11 | |
at the moment is that the announcement of the successful | 0:02:11 | 0:02:17 | |
bids for visibility funding is expected very soon indeed. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:19 | |
Jeremy Corbyn. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:20 | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:30 | |
The Government's sustainability and a summation plans | 0:02:30 | 0:02:32 | |
for the National Health Service hide ?22 billion worth of cuts | 0:02:32 | 0:02:36 | |
from our service according to research by the British | 0:02:36 | 0:02:41 | |
Medical Association. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:42 | |
That risks, and I quote, starving services resources | 0:02:42 | 0:02:45 | |
and patience of vital care. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:49 | |
That comes from Doctor Mark Porter of the BMA. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:53 | |
When he calls this process a mess, where is he wrong? | 0:02:53 | 0:02:59 | |
The National Health Service is indeed looking for savings | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
within the NHS which will be reinvested within the NHS. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:05 | |
I would remind the right honourable gentleman that it is this Government | 0:03:05 | 0:03:09 | |
that is providing not just the 8 billion of extra funding | 0:03:09 | 0:03:15 | |
the NHS requested, but 10 billion extra funding requested | 0:03:15 | 0:03:19 | |
by the National Health Service and the sustainability | 0:03:19 | 0:03:22 | |
and are summation plans are being developed at local level | 0:03:22 | 0:03:24 | |
in the interests of local people by local clinicians. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:34 | |
It's very strange the Prime Minister should say that, Mr Speaker, | 0:03:37 | 0:03:40 | |
because the Health Select Committee, chaired by our honourable friend | 0:03:40 | 0:03:42 | |
the member board Totnes Zenit St Petersburg back | 0:03:42 | 0:03:48 | |
it's actually 4.5 billion, not 10 billion. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:50 | |
There's quite a big difference there. | 0:03:50 | 0:03:51 | |
Part of the reason for the strain on our national Health Service | 0:03:51 | 0:03:54 | |
is that more than 1 million people are not receiving the social | 0:03:54 | 0:03:57 | |
care that they need. | 0:03:57 | 0:03:58 | |
As a result of this, there's been an increase | 0:03:58 | 0:04:02 | |
in emergency admissions for older patients. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:07 | |
Margaret wrote to me this week saying, it's not funny. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:16 | |
She described how her 89-year-old mother suffered two falls leading | 0:04:21 | 0:04:24 | |
to hospital admissions due to the lack of nursing care and went | 0:04:24 | 0:04:27 | |
on to say, my mother is worth more than this. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:32 | |
What action will the Prime Minister take to stop the neglect of older | 0:04:32 | 0:04:37 | |
people which ends up forcing them to take A and E admissions | 0:04:37 | 0:04:40 | |
when they should be cared for at home or in a care home? | 0:04:40 | 0:04:48 | |
Of course social care is an area of concern and social | 0:04:48 | 0:04:51 | |
care is an area of key concern for many people. | 0:04:51 | 0:04:53 | |
That is why the Government has introduced the better care fund, | 0:04:53 | 0:04:56 | |
why they have introduced the social care precept for local authorities | 0:04:56 | 0:04:59 | |
and we are encouraging the working together of the Health Service | 0:04:59 | 0:05:02 | |
and local authorities to deal with precisely the issues he has | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
raised on social care and bed blocking. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:07 | |
But I will just say this to the right honourable gentleman. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:15 | |
We have introduced the social care precept | 0:05:15 | 0:05:16 | |
and the better care plan. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:18 | |
Let's look at what Labour did in 13 years. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:20 | |
They said they'd deal with social care in the 97 manifesto, introduced | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
a Royal commission in 1999, a Green paper in 2005, | 0:05:23 | 0:05:33 | |
a review in 2006, said they would sort it in 2007 and another | 0:05:39 | 0:05:43 | |
green paper in 2009. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:44 | |
13 years and they did nothing. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:50 | |
Mr Speaker, as the Prime Minister well knows, health spending | 0:05:50 | 0:05:54 | |
trebled under the last Labour Government and the levels | 0:05:54 | 0:05:59 | |
of satisfaction with the National Health Service | 0:05:59 | 0:06:05 | |
were at their highest ever in 2010. | 0:06:05 | 0:06:12 | |
This Government's choice was to cut social care by ?4.6 billion | 0:06:12 | 0:06:16 | |
in the last Parliament. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:18 | |
That was at the same time as they found the space, | 0:06:18 | 0:06:22 | |
shall we say, to cut billions in corporate taxation bills. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:27 | |
That means it is affecting patients leaving hospital as well. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:31 | |
In the last four years, the number of patients unable to be | 0:06:31 | 0:06:37 | |
transferred from hospital due to lack of adequate social care has | 0:06:37 | 0:06:40 | |
increased by one third. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:43 | |
Will the Prime Minister ensure how Government guarantees | 0:06:43 | 0:06:47 | |
all of our elderly people the dignity they deserve? | 0:06:47 | 0:06:53 | |
I recognise the importance of caring for elderly people and providing | 0:06:53 | 0:06:55 | |
them with the dignity they deserve. | 0:06:55 | 0:07:00 | |
He says that this Government has done nothing on social care. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:03 | |
I repeat, we have introduced the social care precept. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:06 | |
That is being made use of by his local authority and mine. | 0:07:06 | 0:07:10 | |
We have also introduced the better care fund by Debbie talks | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
about support for elderly people, I would remind him which Government | 0:07:13 | 0:07:15 | |
has put the triple lock in place for pensioners, | 0:07:15 | 0:07:20 | |
ensuring the largest increase in pensions for elderly people. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:30 | |
The precept is a drop in the ocean compared to what is | 0:07:32 | 0:07:35 | |
necessary for social care. | 0:07:35 | 0:07:36 | |
I'll give you an example. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:37 | |
The whole house, I'm sure, would have been appalled | 0:07:37 | 0:07:39 | |
by revelations in a BBC panorama programme this week showing older | 0:07:39 | 0:07:42 | |
people systematically mistreated. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:43 | |
The Care Quality Commission's assessment that care homes run | 0:07:43 | 0:07:47 | |
by the Morley group require improvement and has issued | 0:07:47 | 0:07:49 | |
a warning notices. | 0:07:49 | 0:07:53 | |
They go on to say that the owner has allowed services | 0:07:53 | 0:07:56 | |
to deteriorate further and has, and I quote, utterly | 0:07:56 | 0:07:58 | |
neglected the duty of care to the residence of these homes. | 0:07:58 | 0:08:04 | |
What action is how Government going to take to protect | 0:08:04 | 0:08:06 | |
the residents of those homes? | 0:08:06 | 0:08:13 | |
The right honourable gentleman raises the issue of the quality | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
of care that is provided in homes and the way in which elderly | 0:08:16 | 0:08:19 | |
people are treated. | 0:08:19 | 0:08:22 | |
I'm sure everybody is appalled when we see examples of poor | 0:08:22 | 0:08:25 | |
and terrible treatment which is given to elderly | 0:08:25 | 0:08:27 | |
and vulnerable people in care homes. | 0:08:27 | 0:08:33 | |
What we do about it is ensure that we happy CQC, able to step in, | 0:08:33 | 0:08:36 | |
take action, that has powers to make sure that nobody in the chain | 0:08:36 | 0:08:39 | |
of responsibility is immune from legal accountability. | 0:08:39 | 0:08:41 | |
But we know that there is more that can be done and that is why the CQC | 0:08:41 | 0:08:50 | |
is looking into ways in which it can improve its processors, | 0:08:50 | 0:09:00 | |
increase its efficiency. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:04 | |
My right honourable friend, the Minister for community | 0:09:04 | 0:09:06 | |
health and care will be writing to the CQC shortly. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:08 | |
He will let at how we can improve what they do. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:11 | |
It is the CQC which deals with these issues, we have back in place, | 0:09:11 | 0:09:14 | |
is there more we can do? | 0:09:14 | 0:09:15 | |
Yes, and we are doing it. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:17 | |
The problem seems to be that that home was understaffed | 0:09:17 | 0:09:19 | |
and we shouldn't be blaming the staff. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:21 | |
We should be ensuring that are enough of them properly paid | 0:09:21 | 0:09:28 | |
in all of those homes. | 0:09:28 | 0:09:29 | |
There was a problem serious understaffing and it was the last | 0:09:29 | 0:09:32 | |
Labour Government which established the CQC and I think a warning | 0:09:32 | 0:09:35 | |
notice is insufficient. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:36 | |
We need stronger action than that. | 0:09:36 | 0:09:37 | |
Yesterday, the Government propose that patients may have show | 0:09:37 | 0:09:40 | |
passports or other IDA to access non-emergency health care. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:42 | |
As the Government considered that the impact of this on elderly | 0:09:42 | 0:09:47 | |
people, with the last census showing us that 9.5 million people in this | 0:09:47 | 0:09:53 | |
country do not have passports? | 0:09:53 | 0:10:03 | |
Rather than distracting people, with divisive policies, | 0:10:16 | 0:10:18 | |
could the Government provide the NHS | 0:10:18 | 0:10:20 | |
and social care with the money they need to support people? | 0:10:20 | 0:10:22 | |
Over the course of this Parliament, the Government will be spending half | 0:10:22 | 0:10:25 | |
?1 trillion on the National Health Service. | 0:10:25 | 0:10:27 | |
The right honourable gentleman asks about a process to ensure that | 0:10:27 | 0:10:29 | |
people receiving NHS treatment are entitled to receive | 0:10:29 | 0:10:31 | |
that NHS treatment. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:32 | |
For many years, there has been a concern about health tourism, | 0:10:32 | 0:10:35 | |
about people turning up in the UK, accessing health services and not | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
paying for them. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:39 | |
We want to make sure that those who are entitled to use the services | 0:10:39 | 0:10:42 | |
are enjoyed able to see those free at the point of delivery | 0:10:42 | 0:10:45 | |
but that we deal with health tourism and those who should be paying | 0:10:45 | 0:10:48 | |
for the use of our Health Service. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:56 | |
Sir Simon Stevens said two weeks ago that the next three years will be | 0:10:56 | 0:11:02 | |
the toughest ever for NHS funding and that 2018 would see how spending | 0:11:02 | 0:11:06 | |
per person cut for the first time ever in this country. | 0:11:06 | 0:11:15 | |
The NAO reported that the cost of health tourism is over 100 times | 0:11:15 | 0:11:18 | |
less than the ?22 billion worth of cuts the NHS is facing from this | 0:11:18 | 0:11:21 | |
Government. | 0:11:21 | 0:11:22 | |
The reality is that under this Government, there are 6000 fewer | 0:11:22 | 0:11:25 | |
mental health nurses. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:30 | |
A record 3.9 million people on NHS waiting lists. | 0:11:30 | 0:11:34 | |
All of us who visit accident and emergency know the stress | 0:11:34 | 0:11:38 | |
the staff are under and that the waiting time is getting | 0:11:38 | 0:11:41 | |
longer and longer and that there are 1 million people in this country | 0:11:41 | 0:11:44 | |
not receiving the social care they need. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:48 | |
Instead of looking for excuses and scapegoats, shouldn't | 0:11:48 | 0:11:56 | |
the Prime Minister be ensuring that health and social care is properly | 0:11:56 | 0:11:59 | |
resourced, properly funded, taking away the stress and fear that | 0:11:59 | 0:12:03 | |
people face in old age over social care and the stress that is placed | 0:12:03 | 0:12:06 | |
on our very hard-working NHS and social care staff? | 0:12:06 | 0:12:15 | |
Billions of pounds extra into social care through the social care precept | 0:12:15 | 0:12:19 | |
and the better care fund. | 0:12:19 | 0:12:20 | |
Half ?1 trillion being spent on the National Health Service. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:24 | |
A record level of investment in mental health in | 0:12:24 | 0:12:26 | |
the National Health Service. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:28 | |
Order. | 0:12:28 | 0:12:33 | |
Members must not attempt to shout down by Minister. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:35 | |
The question was asked, heard and the answer must be heard. | 0:12:35 | 0:12:43 | |
There is a fundamental point that the right honourable gentleman | 0:12:43 | 0:12:45 | |
refrain from mentioning. | 0:12:45 | 0:12:46 | |
We can only afford to pay for the National Health Service | 0:12:46 | 0:12:49 | |
and social care if we have a strong economy creating wealth. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:55 | |
That is precisely what he's going to hear from the Chancellor | 0:12:55 | 0:12:58 | |
of the Exchequer in a few minutes time. | 0:12:58 | 0:13:00 | |
Order. | 0:13:00 | 0:13:07 | |
On the 23rd of June, my constituents voted by a margin | 0:13:07 | 0:13:11 | |
of 62% to 38% to leave the European Union. | 0:13:11 | 0:13:18 | |
Many of those people, many of those people are unhappy | 0:13:18 | 0:13:22 | |
and frustrated at what they see are delaying | 0:13:22 | 0:13:25 | |
tactics by some remain as who don't seem to understand the meaning | 0:13:25 | 0:13:27 | |
of the word democracy. | 0:13:27 | 0:13:30 | |
Order. | 0:13:30 | 0:13:31 | |
This is very discourteous. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:33 | |
The honourable gentleman has a legitimate question and this | 0:13:33 | 0:13:36 | |
question should be thoroughly and with politeness and heard. | 0:13:36 | 0:13:45 | |
Thank you Mr Speaker. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:53 | |
Remainers who don't seem to understand the meaning | 0:13:53 | 0:13:55 | |
of the word democracy | 0:13:55 | 0:13:59 | |
which I would remind them is Government by the people and rule | 0:13:59 | 0:14:02 | |
of the majority and with that in mind what reassures | 0:14:02 | 0:14:09 | |
can my right honourable friend give my constituents and me that | 0:14:09 | 0:14:11 | |
article 50 will be triggered by March next year? | 0:14:11 | 0:14:21 | |
I am clear that we will trigger Article 50 by the end of March | 0:14:21 | 0:14:24 | |
next year but my honourable friend is absolutely right | 0:14:24 | 0:14:27 | |
to make the key point, the referendum was decided by this | 0:14:27 | 0:14:29 | |
Parliament 6-1 that the people should have the opportunity to vote | 0:14:29 | 0:14:32 | |
on the EU, the vote was held the turnout was high | 0:14:32 | 0:14:37 | |
and the public gave the verdict. | 0:14:37 | 0:14:39 | |
There must be no second referendum or attempt to weasel out of this. | 0:14:39 | 0:14:42 | |
This is the government that will deliver on the vote | 0:14:42 | 0:14:44 | |
of the British people. | 0:14:44 | 0:14:47 | |
We on these benches have repeatedly brought up the devastating | 0:14:47 | 0:14:53 | |
impact on disabled people from the UK benefits system. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:59 | |
The Government plans to cut support for people with long-term health | 0:14:59 | 0:15:02 | |
difficulties by ?30 per week. | 0:15:02 | 0:15:06 | |
Last week my SNP colleague the member for Airdrie and Shotts | 0:15:06 | 0:15:09 | |
proposed the motion that was passed by this house with support from both | 0:15:09 | 0:15:12 | |
Labour and Conservative members for these cuts to be postponed. | 0:15:12 | 0:15:15 | |
Will the Prime Minister act on the vote of this house? | 0:15:15 | 0:15:23 | |
Let me say to the right honourable death and what we have been doing | 0:15:23 | 0:15:26 | |
in relation to benefits for disabled people. | 0:15:26 | 0:15:28 | |
The overall funding for disability benefits will be hiring every year | 0:15:28 | 0:15:30 | |
up to 2020 that was in 2010, we have been focusing support | 0:15:30 | 0:15:33 | |
on those who most need it, those who are not able to get | 0:15:33 | 0:15:36 | |
into the workplace. | 0:15:36 | 0:15:38 | |
For those who are able at some stage to get into the workplace we have | 0:15:38 | 0:15:42 | |
been providing a wider package of support. | 0:15:42 | 0:15:44 | |
I'm pleased to say that over the last six years almost 600,000 | 0:15:44 | 0:15:47 | |
more disabled people are in the workplace | 0:15:47 | 0:15:49 | |
with the dignity of having a job which is what any people | 0:15:49 | 0:15:52 | |
with disabilities want to have. | 0:15:52 | 0:15:55 | |
We focus help those who most need it and help those with disabilities | 0:15:55 | 0:15:58 | |
who want to get into the workplace to do just that. | 0:15:58 | 0:16:03 | |
It is widely trailed that the Prime Minister | 0:16:03 | 0:16:07 | |
will make changes impacting on benefits recipient in work. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:09 | |
Will the Prime Minister confirm that she has no intention of helping | 0:16:09 | 0:16:14 | |
people with disabilities and medical conditions? | 0:16:14 | 0:16:17 | |
Why should people unable to make a living be punished | 0:16:17 | 0:16:20 | |
for the disability or illness I was ?630 per week? | 0:16:20 | 0:16:23 | |
Does she have any intention of changing that? | 0:16:23 | 0:16:25 | |
I have just set out for the right honourable gentleman the ways | 0:16:25 | 0:16:35 | |
in which we are providing support and help for those people | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
who have disabilities. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:40 | |
As they said the overall funding, spending on disability benefits | 0:16:40 | 0:16:42 | |
will be higher in every year to 2020 than it was in 2010. | 0:16:42 | 0:16:47 | |
It is important to recognise that when we give support for people | 0:16:47 | 0:16:50 | |
with disabilities it is not simply about the benefits system and how | 0:16:50 | 0:16:53 | |
much money they are given, for those are able to get into work | 0:16:53 | 0:17:03 | |
and on that part of the ESA we provide ideas that are outside | 0:17:03 | 0:17:07 | |
of benefits as well because we recognise that people | 0:17:07 | 0:17:09 | |
want the dignity of getting into the workplace. | 0:17:09 | 0:17:11 | |
That is what we are helping people with disabilities | 0:17:11 | 0:17:13 | |
who can work to do. | 0:17:13 | 0:17:20 | |
Will my right honourable friend agree that thousands | 0:17:20 | 0:17:23 | |
of road commuters including many of my constituents who used | 0:17:23 | 0:17:29 | |
a 12 pack travelling on roads that need to be repaired and upgraded? | 0:17:29 | 0:17:32 | |
To improve connectivity and speed up the daily commute times, | 0:17:32 | 0:17:39 | |
would my right honourable friend except that the proposal | 0:17:39 | 0:17:47 | |
?1.3 billion investment to improve our road network | 0:17:47 | 0:17:54 | |
is warmly welcomed and will do a great deal | 0:17:54 | 0:17:57 | |
to enhance connectivity? | 0:17:57 | 0:18:00 | |
My honourable friend is absolutely right, | 0:18:00 | 0:18:05 | |
the importance of infrastructure expenditure in helping to deal | 0:18:05 | 0:18:10 | |
with the issue of productivity in our economy and I am pleased | 0:18:10 | 0:18:13 | |
that the 1.3 billion for new roads shows is investing | 0:18:13 | 0:18:15 | |
in the term future for Britain. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:17 | |
It is about delivering jobs, economic growth, it is about making | 0:18:17 | 0:18:20 | |
sure that this is an economy that works for everyone. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:22 | |
It is one part of the package we are proposing, and my right | 0:18:22 | 0:18:25 | |
honourable friend the Chancellor will be setting our proposals out | 0:18:25 | 0:18:30 | |
were clearly in a few minutes time. | 0:18:30 | 0:18:32 | |
My constituent is in prison in Iran. | 0:18:32 | 0:18:41 | |
A British national, | 0:18:44 | 0:18:45 | |
she has been separated from her husband and two-year-old. | 0:18:45 | 0:18:47 | |
For eight months. | 0:18:47 | 0:18:48 | |
She has been on hunger strike and is now suicidal. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:54 | |
The Prime Minister needs to reunite this mother, this daughter, | 0:18:54 | 0:18:57 | |
this wife with her family. | 0:18:57 | 0:19:00 | |
Mr Speaker, will it take her death for the government to start | 0:19:00 | 0:19:03 | |
taking her seriously? | 0:19:03 | 0:19:09 | |
Obviously this is a very difficult time for the whole family and I'm | 0:19:09 | 0:19:19 | |
sure we're all concerned about the reports of the impact | 0:19:20 | 0:19:25 | |
that detention is having on her health as she is | 0:19:25 | 0:19:28 | |
in detention in Iran. | 0:19:28 | 0:19:29 | |
This is an issue that he's been repeatedly raised with the Iranian | 0:19:29 | 0:19:32 | |
government by the UK Government, but the previous and current | 0:19:32 | 0:19:34 | |
Foreign Secretary is, I personally written | 0:19:34 | 0:19:38 | |
with President Rohani on the 20th of September and stressed | 0:19:38 | 0:19:40 | |
the importance of finding a resolution as quickly as possible. | 0:19:40 | 0:19:43 | |
I have written to present a highly suggesting a commutation | 0:19:43 | 0:19:45 | |
of the charges and assurances that she will be allowed full legal | 0:19:45 | 0:19:48 | |
representation and regular contact with her family. | 0:19:48 | 0:19:50 | |
We will continue to do everything we can for the family including | 0:19:50 | 0:19:52 | |
the British government remaining being ready to help bring her back | 0:19:52 | 0:19:55 | |
to Britain if that is the request. | 0:19:55 | 0:20:06 | |
Does my right honourable friend agree that most of our social | 0:20:06 | 0:20:11 | |
problems are either caused or aggravated by the acute | 0:20:11 | 0:20:13 | |
shortage of housing? | 0:20:13 | 0:20:22 | |
So even if, as I hope, we manage to reduce the net immigration | 0:20:22 | 0:20:26 | |
to this country we will have to build far more new homes. | 0:20:26 | 0:20:28 | |
So isn't the recommendation by the European banking authority | 0:20:28 | 0:20:38 | |
to increase by 50% the reserves banks must hold | 0:20:38 | 0:20:40 | |
against house-building | 0:20:40 | 0:20:41 | |
making it even more costly for them to lend for housing | 0:20:41 | 0:20:44 | |
than for unsecured credit cards, profoundly unhelpful and perverse? | 0:20:44 | 0:20:47 | |
I am sure my right honourable friend will recognise that we are subject | 0:20:47 | 0:20:53 | |
to our own regulation authorities, but the point he makes | 0:20:53 | 0:20:55 | |
about house-building is correct. | 0:20:56 | 0:20:56 | |
We need to build more homes. | 0:20:56 | 0:21:01 | |
That is something the government has been doing, there have been 900,000 | 0:21:01 | 0:21:07 | |
new homes built since 2010 and there's more for us to do. | 0:21:07 | 0:21:14 | |
The Brexit secretary and the Foreign Secretary | 0:21:14 | 0:21:16 | |
are described by a senior German politician is having no idea | 0:21:16 | 0:21:19 | |
what Brexit really means. | 0:21:19 | 0:21:29 | |
The Tuimes reports today that EU ambassadors | 0:21:34 | 0:21:35 | |
say that the Foreign Secretary's more colourful outbursts | 0:21:35 | 0:21:37 | |
are damaging our relationships with member states. | 0:21:37 | 0:21:39 | |
When will the Prime Minister get a grip on her ministers | 0:21:39 | 0:21:42 | |
and demonstrate to the country and to our EU colleagues | 0:21:42 | 0:21:44 | |
that she has a coherent workable plan for Brexit? | 0:21:44 | 0:21:54 | |
I have been very clear in this house on many occasions about the plan | 0:21:54 | 0:21:58 | |
that we have for Brexit, crucially, we will be leaving the EU | 0:21:58 | 0:22:01 | |
and we will be triggering article 50 by the end of March next year | 0:22:01 | 0:22:11 | |
and that is when the formal negotiations will start. | 0:22:13 | 0:22:15 | |
But that is absolutely right that we do not set out at this stage | 0:22:15 | 0:22:19 | |
every single detail of our proposed negotiating strategy because that | 0:22:19 | 0:22:21 | |
would be the best way to get the worst possible deal for Britain. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:25 | |
As we leave the EU, maintaining the UK's cutting edge | 0:22:25 | 0:22:28 | |
and world leadership in scientific and technological discovery | 0:22:28 | 0:22:30 | |
is of paramount importance to our industries and universities. | 0:22:30 | 0:22:36 | |
Can I welcome the Prime Minister's announcement that each year | 0:22:36 | 0:22:38 | |
we will invest a further 2 billion in research and development to bless | 0:22:38 | 0:22:42 | |
the science and engineering base? | 0:22:42 | 0:22:46 | |
Isn't this just the type of vital support that our businesses | 0:22:46 | 0:22:52 | |
and researchers need, rather than the threats | 0:22:52 | 0:23:02 | |
from the Labour Party to slash RND tax credits | 0:23:03 | 0:23:05 | |
which would hamper innovation? | 0:23:05 | 0:23:06 | |
My right honourable friend is absolutely right. | 0:23:06 | 0:23:08 | |
The extra investment we will put into research and development | 0:23:08 | 0:23:10 | |
is a crucial part of the long-term task we have of ensuring | 0:23:10 | 0:23:13 | |
that we have the economy around growth and prosperity in this | 0:23:13 | 0:23:16 | |
country that we need. | 0:23:16 | 0:23:17 | |
The new funds will be able to put us at the cutting edge | 0:23:17 | 0:23:26 | |
of scientific discovery, which I saw for myself, | 0:23:26 | 0:23:28 | |
we are already doing this. | 0:23:28 | 0:23:32 | |
I was at the welcome genome campus in Cambridge on Monday to see | 0:23:32 | 0:23:35 | |
the really exciting, really transformational work | 0:23:35 | 0:23:36 | |
that is being done coming out of the knowledge base and scientific | 0:23:36 | 0:23:39 | |
research here in the UK. | 0:23:39 | 0:23:40 | |
We want to see more of that and that is why | 0:23:40 | 0:23:43 | |
you will be investing in it. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:48 | |
Aleppo's hospitals are destroyed and Syrians who avoid the bombs | 0:23:48 | 0:23:55 | |
and chlorine gas are starting from the Russian blockade. | 0:23:55 | 0:23:57 | |
We must do more. | 0:23:57 | 0:24:04 | |
So will she revisit the prospect for aid drops and will she look | 0:24:04 | 0:24:07 | |
at backing the campaign to stop this daily perpetrator of war crimes, | 0:24:07 | 0:24:11 | |
of stripping them of their right to hold the 2018 World Cup? | 0:24:11 | 0:24:16 | |
The honourable gentleman is right to raise the issue of the appalling | 0:24:16 | 0:24:23 | |
atrocities taking place in Aleppo. | 0:24:23 | 0:24:25 | |
And it is right that we along with the international allies | 0:24:25 | 0:24:28 | |
are doing all that we can to try and bring this to stop. | 0:24:28 | 0:24:31 | |
He will recognise that the issue of who hosts sporting events is not | 0:24:31 | 0:24:34 | |
in the government remit, what is in the government remit | 0:24:34 | 0:24:37 | |
and what we are doing is working with the international allies to put | 0:24:37 | 0:24:40 | |
more pressure on Russia to stop the appalling atrocities, | 0:24:40 | 0:24:42 | |
the appalling attacks taking place in Aleppo. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:46 | |
What we want to see is an agreement for the political transition | 0:24:46 | 0:24:49 | |
to a Syria without President Assad. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:54 | |
Does my right honourable friend agree that if the UK is to remain | 0:24:54 | 0:24:59 | |
competitive and our citizens are to enjoy the benefits | 0:24:59 | 0:25:01 | |
of the digital revolution, it is essential that we should be | 0:25:01 | 0:25:08 | |
at the forefront of deployment of both ultrafast broadband and | 0:25:08 | 0:25:11 | |
5G mobile connectivity. | 0:25:11 | 0:25:13 | |
Can I therefore welcome the announcement that we're led | 0:25:13 | 0:25:17 | |
to believe might be made shortly of a ?1 billion investment | 0:25:17 | 0:25:19 | |
to achieve this? | 0:25:19 | 0:25:25 | |
My right honourable friend will of course be waiting | 0:25:25 | 0:25:27 | |
in anticipation for my right honourable friend | 0:25:27 | 0:25:29 | |
the Chancellor's Autumn Statement but he's absolutely right that | 0:25:29 | 0:25:33 | |
as we look at improving productivity in this country and as we look | 0:25:33 | 0:25:36 | |
to the economy of the future, the provision of that superfast | 0:25:36 | 0:25:44 | |
broadband and provision of the new technological | 0:25:44 | 0:25:46 | |
opportunities for people is a crucial part of that | 0:25:46 | 0:25:48 | |
and that is something that is government recognises | 0:25:48 | 0:25:50 | |
and will act on. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:52 | |
One day last week four police officers in my constituency | 0:25:52 | 0:25:55 | |
were assaulted over a single 24-hour period. | 0:25:55 | 0:25:56 | |
There are over 23,000 assaults on police officers last year | 0:25:56 | 0:26:00 | |
and an assault on police officers is an assault on society. | 0:26:00 | 0:26:03 | |
What will the Prime Minister do to insure the toughest deterrents | 0:26:03 | 0:26:06 | |
are in place to protect front-line officers and when will the number | 0:26:06 | 0:26:16 | |
of police on our streets be restored? | 0:26:16 | 0:26:18 | |
Can I send our best wishes to those police officers who were assaulted | 0:26:18 | 0:26:21 | |
in her constituency last week? | 0:26:21 | 0:26:23 | |
It is important that we recognise that when police officers go out | 0:26:23 | 0:26:26 | |
on duty and indeed for many of duty they sometimes find themselves | 0:26:26 | 0:26:35 | |
intervening in situations where they find themselves | 0:26:35 | 0:26:45 | |
with assaults and violence against them. | 0:26:45 | 0:26:47 | |
They are willing to enter the line of duty were others are not | 0:26:47 | 0:26:50 | |
and we recognise that. | 0:26:50 | 0:26:51 | |
What we have done in relation to this is one of the things | 0:26:51 | 0:26:55 | |
we want to do is recognise better the number of assaults taking place | 0:26:55 | 0:27:00 | |
and that is why last year we introduced provisional figures, | 0:27:00 | 0:27:03 | |
and we are improving those figures this year. | 0:27:03 | 0:27:04 | |
Sentencing guidelines already allow for an assault on a police officer | 0:27:04 | 0:27:07 | |
to be taken as an aggravating factor into account, | 0:27:07 | 0:27:09 | |
and also new developments like the body worn videos help | 0:27:09 | 0:27:12 | |
provide the evidence that ensure that people can be brought | 0:27:12 | 0:27:16 | |
to justice and that deter assaults in the first place. | 0:27:16 | 0:27:19 | |
I know the Prime Minister shares my concern at the level | 0:27:19 | 0:27:25 | |
of acute hospital bed blocking. | 0:27:25 | 0:27:27 | |
Does she agree with me that part of the solution is to promote | 0:27:27 | 0:27:30 | |
Community Hospital beds where they still exist in places | 0:27:30 | 0:27:32 | |
like Warminster and Shaftesbury as part of the sustainability | 0:27:32 | 0:27:34 | |
and transformation planning process? | 0:27:34 | 0:27:39 | |
As regards to the SDP process that will take place at the local level | 0:27:39 | 0:27:45 | |
and it will be at local level that the proposals will be | 0:27:45 | 0:27:48 | |
considered and put forward by clinicians, but the concept | 0:27:48 | 0:27:50 | |
of being able to deal with the bed blocking any variety of ways | 0:27:50 | 0:27:54 | |
is absolutely right. | 0:27:54 | 0:27:55 | |
There are good examples around the country are having those | 0:27:55 | 0:27:57 | |
step-down beds available is actually resolving | 0:27:57 | 0:27:58 | |
the problem of bed blocking. | 0:27:58 | 0:28:01 | |
There are other ways in which it is being done, | 0:28:01 | 0:28:08 | |
part of the country where social workers are being employed | 0:28:08 | 0:28:10 | |
by hospital trusts for example, but it is very good to recognise | 0:28:10 | 0:28:13 | |
good practice when it is done and we should see more | 0:28:13 | 0:28:16 | |
of that across the country. | 0:28:16 | 0:28:22 | |
Earlier this month an IRA man turned lawyer, | 0:28:22 | 0:28:28 | |
confessed to the BBC that he took part in robberies and gun attacks | 0:28:28 | 0:28:31 | |
that murdered British soldiers. | 0:28:31 | 0:28:35 | |
He stated that he will never disclose information on any fellow | 0:28:35 | 0:28:43 | |
IRA man despite knowing details of IRA actions that he himself | 0:28:43 | 0:28:50 | |
defines as war crimes. | 0:28:50 | 0:28:51 | |
In the Prime Minister assure me that Her Majesty 's government | 0:28:51 | 0:28:53 | |
will apply for the extradition of this terrorist for questioning | 0:28:53 | 0:28:56 | |
from the Republic of Ireland? | 0:28:56 | 0:28:57 | |
The question as to whether or not an individual would be extradited | 0:28:57 | 0:29:00 | |
or a request including for extradition would be | 0:29:00 | 0:29:02 | |
for the appropriate prosecution authorities. | 0:29:02 | 0:29:03 | |
What I say to the honourable gentleman is that we do of course | 0:29:03 | 0:29:06 | |
recognise the concerns for those cases where it is still possible | 0:29:06 | 0:29:10 | |
to bring people for justice and obviously want to see | 0:29:10 | 0:29:12 | |
that being done. | 0:29:12 | 0:29:20 | |
During the last six years we have had three major referendums all with | 0:29:20 | 0:29:23 | |
varying degrees of excitement. | 0:29:23 | 0:29:27 | |
Would the Prime Minister agree with me that you can have too much | 0:29:27 | 0:29:34 | |
excitement and will she therefore rule out | 0:29:34 | 0:29:38 | |
any further referendums in this Parliament? | 0:29:38 | 0:29:41 | |
My honourable friend is trying to take me down a route. | 0:29:41 | 0:29:43 | |
One thing I will certainly rule out is a | 0:29:43 | 0:29:45 | |
second referendum on whether or not we leave the European Union. | 0:29:45 | 0:29:50 | |
Mr Speaker, the people of Aberdeen have | 0:29:50 | 0:29:52 | |
launched a financial appeal because of the increased number of people | 0:29:52 | 0:29:55 | |
finding themselves homeless as a direct result of the UK | 0:29:55 | 0:30:05 | |
Government's pursuit of austerity. | 0:30:05 | 0:30:10 | |
How can the prime ministers sleep in her warm | 0:30:10 | 0:30:12 | |
bed at night knowing her policies are consigning people to a cold | 0:30:12 | 0:30:15 | |
Christmas? | 0:30:15 | 0:30:16 | |
The Government is taking action in and a variety of ways to | 0:30:16 | 0:30:19 | |
address the issue of homelessness and one | 0:30:19 | 0:30:21 | |
thing we need to do is | 0:30:21 | 0:30:22 | |
ensure more homes are built in this country. | 0:30:22 | 0:30:24 | |
I would say this to the | 0:30:24 | 0:30:25 | |
honourable lady. | 0:30:25 | 0:30:29 | |
She talks about austerity in the tone which she | 0:30:29 | 0:30:31 | |
refers to it. | 0:30:31 | 0:30:33 | |
Posterity is about living within our means. | 0:30:33 | 0:30:43 | |
And we should always remember when | 0:30:43 | 0:30:44 | |
we are talking about Government providing support for individuals | 0:30:44 | 0:30:46 | |
that taxpayers have do pay for that support | 0:30:46 | 0:30:48 | |
and many taxpayers are | 0:30:48 | 0:30:49 | |
themselves struggling to get by. | 0:30:49 | 0:30:52 | |
The Prime Minister will be aware that | 0:30:52 | 0:30:57 | |
yesterday the peninsula rail task force launched its report, | 0:30:57 | 0:30:59 | |
commissioned following the storms that severed Devon and Cornwall's | 0:30:59 | 0:31:01 | |
vital rail link. | 0:31:01 | 0:31:07 | |
Does she welcome the report and will she commit the | 0:31:07 | 0:31:10 | |
Government to ensuring its vision is delivered? | 0:31:10 | 0:31:11 | |
I thank my honourable friend for his question. | 0:31:11 | 0:31:19 | |
Can I suggest he listens very carefully | 0:31:19 | 0:31:21 | |
to what my right honourable member Chancellor has to say? | 0:31:21 | 0:31:26 | |
In these uncertain times we will certainly | 0:31:26 | 0:31:27 | |
agree that Britain needs strong defence. | 0:31:27 | 0:31:32 | |
So how can the prime minister justify her Government's | 0:31:32 | 0:31:34 | |
decision to scrap all the Navy's heavyweight surface to surface | 0:31:34 | 0:31:39 | |
guided missiles without any replacement? | 0:31:39 | 0:31:45 | |
I have to say I don't recognise the picture the honourable gentleman | 0:31:45 | 0:31:48 | |
presents in relation to what the Government is doing | 0:31:48 | 0:31:50 | |
with the Armed Forces. | 0:31:50 | 0:31:51 | |
We are investing billions of pounds to ensure our Armed Forces | 0:31:51 | 0:31:55 | |
do have the missiles, boats, the ships for | 0:31:55 | 0:31:57 | |
the Royal Navy and the other | 0:31:57 | 0:31:59 | |
pieces of equipment for the other Armed Forces, so that picture is not | 0:31:59 | 0:32:02 | |
one I recognise. | 0:32:02 | 0:32:08 | |
Would my right honourable friend agree that it | 0:32:08 | 0:32:15 | |
would be good for confidence in the rule of law if judges did not | 0:32:15 | 0:32:18 | |
enter into speculative public thoughts on | 0:32:18 | 0:32:20 | |
cases that they are about to hear? | 0:32:20 | 0:32:26 | |
We value in this country the independence of our judiciary. | 0:32:26 | 0:32:34 | |
That's the independence for the judiciary when they come to make | 0:32:34 | 0:32:39 | |
their judgments in court but also they are independent and it is to | 0:32:39 | 0:32:42 | |
them to determine what they choose to put in their speeches or not, not | 0:32:42 | 0:32:45 | |
for the Government to tell them what to do. | 0:32:45 | 0:32:52 | |
As millions of public sector workers face another year of | 0:32:52 | 0:32:55 | |
suppressed pay after another week of shambolic Brexit negotiations and | 0:32:55 | 0:33:04 | |
with a National Health Service facing a winter crisis, crying out | 0:33:04 | 0:33:09 | |
for cash, does the Prime Minister worry that her Government is only | 0:33:09 | 0:33:12 | |
just about managing? | 0:33:12 | 0:33:19 | |
Well, I have to say to the right honourable | 0:33:19 | 0:33:21 | |
gentleman that we are very clear about the amount of money we are | 0:33:21 | 0:33:24 | |
putting into the National Health Service. | 0:33:24 | 0:33:26 | |
He talks about the negotiations. | 0:33:26 | 0:33:29 | |
Actually the negotiations for us leaving the | 0:33:29 | 0:33:31 | |
European Union don't formally start until we trigger article 50. | 0:33:31 | 0:33:35 | |
We will do that by the end of March next year. | 0:33:35 | 0:33:40 | |
What the right honourable gentleman wants to do is to stop us | 0:33:40 | 0:33:43 | |
from leaving the European Union by denying the people the decision and | 0:33:43 | 0:33:50 | |
deliverability of the vote that they too brightly on the 23rd of June. | 0:33:50 | 0:33:53 | |
He wants to deny people what they want, we are going to give it | 0:33:53 | 0:33:57 | |
to them. | 0:33:57 | 0:33:58 | |
May I raise the Prime Minister the concerns of many | 0:33:58 | 0:34:00 | |
drivers and hauliers across the United Kingdom who worry | 0:34:00 | 0:34:02 | |
about the cost of driving, the cost of fuel | 0:34:02 | 0:34:05 | |
duty and whether her Government will look at keeping that down and also | 0:34:05 | 0:34:09 | |
at the pump pricing and how forecourt pricing works as the oil | 0:34:09 | 0:34:12 | |
price falls. | 0:34:12 | 0:34:13 | |
They jump like a rocket and fall like a feather. | 0:34:13 | 0:34:18 | |
I recognise as my honourable friend says that many people look with | 0:34:18 | 0:34:21 | |
great concern at the cost of motoring in this country. | 0:34:21 | 0:34:26 | |
I suggest that he is a little more patient and wait for the | 0:34:26 | 0:34:29 | |
Chancellor's Autumn Statement. | 0:34:29 | 0:34:34 | |
The Prime Minister has talked about her | 0:34:34 | 0:34:36 | |
worries with social care, but surely we have do | 0:34:36 | 0:34:40 | |
judge her by her actions. | 0:34:40 | 0:34:44 | |
In the last six years, there has been a 37% on average cut in | 0:34:44 | 0:34:51 | |
local authority funding, 57% in my area and nearly a quarter | 0:34:51 | 0:34:57 | |
of those in need of social care have been denied any help at all. | 0:34:57 | 0:35:00 | |
What is she going to do about it? | 0:35:01 | 0:35:02 | |
The right honourable lady might have noticed that I have been asked | 0:35:02 | 0:35:05 | |
several questions about social care and I will give the answer that I | 0:35:05 | 0:35:09 | |
have given previously. | 0:35:09 | 0:35:19 | |
What this government is doing about social care | 0:35:22 | 0:35:23 | |
is putting more money on through the better care fund, | 0:35:23 | 0:35:26 | |
giving more opportunities through the social | 0:35:26 | 0:35:27 | |
care research and making sure that health and social care come together | 0:35:27 | 0:35:30 | |
to deal with the issue of bed blocking. | 0:35:30 | 0:35:33 | |
Mr Speaker, how many of us would charge into a | 0:35:33 | 0:35:36 | |
darkened store in night knowing that inside were three mask wearing | 0:35:36 | 0:35:38 | |
crowbar wielding thugs. | 0:35:38 | 0:35:45 | |
Well, my two constituents did just that and by intervening, | 0:35:45 | 0:35:47 | |
the thugs fled, leaving the money, the staff were hurt less and one | 0:35:47 | 0:35:52 | |
of the gentleman was hurt himself. | 0:35:52 | 0:35:56 | |
Will my right honourable friend join me in | 0:35:56 | 0:35:58 | |
praising their courage and selflessness in this extraordinary | 0:35:58 | 0:36:00 | |
act of bravado? | 0:36:00 | 0:36:06 | |
I absolutely agree with my honourable friend and I | 0:36:06 | 0:36:15 | |
commend the bravery and courage that was shown by those two | 0:36:15 | 0:36:22 | |
individuals, who stepped into that situation to | 0:36:22 | 0:36:25 | |
ensure that it was not as bad as it might have been. | 0:36:25 | 0:36:28 | |
That is incredible bravery. | 0:36:28 | 0:36:30 | |
There are many members of the public who would not have been | 0:36:30 | 0:36:38 | |
willing to step forward in that way and can he pass on the best wishes | 0:36:38 | 0:36:41 | |
of the whole house to those individuals? | 0:36:41 | 0:36:43 | |
Does the Prime Minister believe that big companies should | 0:36:43 | 0:36:48 | |
put a worker on the board? | 0:36:48 | 0:36:54 | |
I believe that we should see the worker's | 0:36:54 | 0:36:56 | |
representation on boards and I make no apology but the fact that this | 0:36:56 | 0:36:59 | |
Government is going to deliver on that. | 0:36:59 | 0:37:01 | |
For all their years in | 0:37:01 | 0:37:02 | |
Government, the Labour Party did nothing. | 0:37:02 | 0:37:11 | |
Order! | 0:37:11 | 0:37:17 |