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Agricultural Policy is not suited Scotland, especially those forming | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
in less favoured areas. We now have an opportunity to do something | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
different and we should seize it. Questions to the Prime Minister. | :00:08. | :00:16. | |
Number one Mr Speaker. Thank you. This morning I had meetings with | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
ministerial colleagues and others, in addition to my duties in This | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
House, I will have further such meetings later today. Thousands of | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
babies are born each year, shibboleth by alcohol consumed | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
Alcohol is a primary factor in domestic violence attacks on women. | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
Does the primers to recognise the seriousness of the country's alcohol | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
problems and the billions of pounds of cost to the public purse and will | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
she instructor government to address these problems effectively and as a | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
matter of urgency? I can certainly say that I recognise the problem is | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
that alcohol causes. He particularly referenced not just problems for | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
pregnant women but also the issue around domestic violence and the | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
part alcohol can often play on domestic violence and abuse. That's | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
why when I was Home Secretary we produced an alcohol strategy, we | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
worked on the issue and the government continues to recognise | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
the importance of this issue and to work on it. Will the Prime Minister | :01:19. | :01:27. | |
join me in paying tribute to the NHS staff who provide us with such | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
magnificent treatment day in, day out? Will she also agree with me | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
that people who miss NHS appointments without cancelling them | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
cost the NHS a great deal of money and also take up slots which would | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
otherwise be used by other patients? Will she consider how she might let | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
those people know of the inconvenience they are causing? My | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
honourable friend makes two important points. I'm pleased to | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
join with him in paying tribute to the dedication and hard work of all | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
those who work in our NHS. Secondly, he is right to point out that if | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
somebody misses an appointment it is a cost on the NHS. There are a | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
number of ways in which this is being dealt with, including in some | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
hospitals sending out text messages reminding people of appointments and | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
telling them how much it costs if they miss that appointment. Jeremy | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
Corbyn. Thank you Mr Speaker. Mr Speaker, yesterday the Prime | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
Minister snubbed Parliament, and snubbed the Brexit committee's | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
recommendations to bring forward a white paper, while at the same time | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
describing the referendum as a vote to restore our Parliamentary | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
democracy. This is about our jobs, living standards and future | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
prosperity. Why will it not be scrutinised by this House? I say to | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
the right honourable gentleman that what I did yesterday was set out a | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
plan for a global Britain. I set out a plan that will put the divisions | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
of last year behind us, that will show a vision... That shows a vision | :03:21. | :03:30. | |
for a stronger, fairer, more united, more outward looking, prosperous, | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
tolerant and independent, truly global Britain. It was a vision | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
which will shape a stronger future and build a better Britain. Mr | :03:45. | :03:55. | |
Speaker. Restoring democracy whilst sidelining Parliament. It's not so | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
much the Iron Lady as the irony lady! Yesterday, Mr Speaker, the | :04:03. | :04:18. | |
Prime Minister finally provided some detail. Can I urge her to stop her | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
threat of a bargain basement Brexit, a low pay tax haven on the shores of | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
Europe. It won't necessarily damage the EU, but it would certainly | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
damage this country. Businesses, jobs and public services. She | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
demeans herself and her office, and her country's standing, by making | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
these kind of threats. What I set out yesterday was a plan for a | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
global Britain bringing prosperity to this country, and jobs to people, | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
and spreading economic growth across the country. But actually yesterday, | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
we'll so learned more of the right honourable gentleman's thinking on | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
this issue. What he said was the following. "She Has said will leave | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
the single market but at the same time says she wants to have access | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
to the single market. I'm not sure how that's going to go down in | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
Europe. I think we have to have a deal that ensures we have access to | :05:23. | :05:33. | |
the market". LAUGHTER I've got a plan, he doesn't have a clue! Mr | :05:34. | :05:47. | |
Speaker, she made the threat. She was the one he made the threat about | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
slashing corporation tax. If you reduce corporation tax to the lowest | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
common denominator, this country loses ?120 billion in revenue. How, | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
then, do you fund public services as a result of that? Last year, the | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
Prime Minister said leaving the single market would make trade deals | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
considerably harder. And, while we could certainly negotiate our own | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
trade agreements, there would be no guarantee that they would be on | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
terms as good as those we now enjoy. But yesterday, the Prime Minister | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
only offered as vague guarantees. Can I ask her, does she now disagree | :06:31. | :06:40. | |
with herself? LAUGHTER The right honourable gentleman might also have | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
noticed that when I spoke in the Remain Campaign, I said if we voted | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
to leave the European Union, the sky wouldn't fall in. Look at what has | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
happened, actually, to our economic situation, since we voted to leave | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
the EU. I say he talks about the future of this economy, I want us to | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
be an outward looking nation, trading around the world, bringing | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
prosperity and jobs into the UK. The one thing that would be bad for the | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
economy is the answer is that the right honourable gentleman has. He | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
wants a cap on wages, no control on immigration, and to borrow an extra | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
?500 billion. That wouldn't lead to prosperity, that would lead to no | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
jobs, no wages and no skills. The Chancellor said after the referendum | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
that to lose single market access would be catastrophic. A few days | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
later the Health Secretary said, the first part of the plan must be | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
clarity that we will remain in the single market. The Prime Minister | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
said something about frictionless access to the single market and a | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
bespoke customs union deal. Could the Prime Minister give us a little | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
bit of certainty and clarity about this? Has she ruled out paying any | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
kind of access to what she describes as a frictionless market? I can say | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
to the right honourable gentleman that access to the single market is | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
exactly what I was talking about yesterday in my speech. One of the | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
key principles, key objectives, is that we negotiate a free trade | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
agreement with the European Union that gives us the widest possible | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
access for trading with and operating within the European Union. | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
And he talks about frictionless access, actually this was a separate | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
point, which is about frictionless borders in relation to the customs | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
issue. A very important issue in relation to our relationship between | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The Taoiseach and I and all | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
parties are absolutely on a single page on this, we want to ensure we | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
have the best possible arrangement that doesn't lead to a Borders of | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
the past in Northern Ireland. The question was, would we have to pay | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
for access to the market or not? The Prime Minister hasn't given an | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
answer on that. Yesterday she set out a wish list on immigration | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
referring to skills shortages and high skilled migration. Does she now | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
disagree with the Secretary of State rural affairs, who told an employer | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
's conference, don't worry, you can still have cheap EU labour after we | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
leave the European Union? The Right honourable gentleman talks about | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
access. Yes, the whole point is that we will negotiate a free trade | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
agreement with the European Union, but it's about the best possible | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
access for British business to operate in the European Union member | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
states and for European businesses to operate here in the United | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
Kingdom. It's about sitting down and negotiating the best possible deal | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
for the United Kingdom. That's what I'm committed to and that's what | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
this government is going to deliver. My question was about how much we | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
are going to have to pay to have access to the market. Still no | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
answer. Yesterday she talked about the pressure put on public services | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
by migration. Can I just remind her, as one of her honourable friends did | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
earlier, but at the moment there are 55,000 EU citizens working in our | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
NHS, helping to treat all of the people of this country. There are | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
80,000 care workers helping our, mainly elderly, people. There are | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
5000 teachers, educating our children. The real pressure on | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
public services comes from a government that slashed billions | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
from the social care budget, that is cutting the schools budget, that is | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
closing A departments and walk-in centres and sure start centres. | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
Instead of threatening to turn Britain into an offshore tax haven, | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
let's welcome those who contribute to our public services and fund our | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
public services properly, so that we do have the fully functioning NHS | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
that we all need and deserve! I made clear yesterday, we value those who | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
have come to the UK and contribute to our economy and our society, and | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
there will still be people coming to the UK from the European Union, when | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
we leave the EU. The crucial issue is that it is this government that | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
will be making decisions about our immigration system for people from | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
the European Union. But yet again, I say to the right honourable | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
gentleman, there is indeed a difference between us. It's very | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
simple, when I look at the issue of Brexit, or indeed at any other issue | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
like the National Health Service or social care, I consider the issue, I | :11:45. | :11:56. | |
set out my plan, and I stick to it. It's called leadership, he should | :11:57. | :12:09. | |
try it sometime! Yesterday was a day for being bold and ambitious and I'm | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
sure that she noted Lincoln city football club... Qualify to the | :12:14. | :12:21. | |
fourth round of the FA Cup. I noted her recent comments about white | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
working-class boys in university. In ten years half a million fewer males | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
have gone to university than females. Exam result of lower -- | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
exam results are lower at all levels. I ask my right honourable | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
friend, when can we expect to see practical action on closing the | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
gender education gap? Can I join my honourable friend in congratulating | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
Lincoln city on their victory last night and say I think it was a | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
fitting tribute to Graham Taylor that they won that match. He's | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
raised an important point. I have highlighted the issue particularly | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
of white working-class boys who are the group in society least likely to | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
go to university. We are committed to making sure that every child gets | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
the opportunity to fulfil their potential, that is about ensuring | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
apprenticeships are as accessible as possible and I'm pleased to say that | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
the number of apprenticeships started by males have increased this | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
year to almost 50%. Also, universities expect to spend ?800 | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
million this year in improving access and success for disadvantaged | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
students. We want everybody to achieve their potential, whatever | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
their background and whatever their gender. Shortly after the Prime | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
Minister confirmed she wants to take the UK out of the single European | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
market, the Scottish Parliament voted by a large cross-party | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
majority to remain in the single European market, just as a large | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
majority of people in Scotland voted to remain in the EU. The Prime | :13:56. | :14:04. | |
Minister has said that Scotland is an equal partner in the United | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
Kingdom. Does she still believe this is true, or is she just stringing | :14:09. | :14:10. | |
the people I might refer the right honourable | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
gentleman to my speech yesterday where I reiterated my commitment to | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
be working with the devolved administrations to ensure their | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
voice is heard of, their interests are taken into account as we proceed | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
along this path negotiating our exit were European Union. I specifically | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
references the Scotland plan. I understand the Welsh Government will | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
produce a plan for Wales for us to look at too. That Scotland plan will | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
be considered by the JMC on European negotiations tomorrow, I believe. | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
We'll look at it seriously, working with the Scottish Government on the | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
proposals they bring forward. Scotland's leading economic | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
forecaster says, real wages will fall... LAUGHTER Tories jeering and | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
cheering when the forecast for people's income is as likely to drop | :15:05. | :15:13. | |
by ?2,000 and that 80,000, Mr Speaker, that 80,000 people may lose | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
their jobs in Scotland as a result of the hard Tory Brexit plan of the | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister believe that this is a | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
price worth paying for her Little Britain Brexit? I repeat what I said | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
earlier. We'll work to ensure we get the best possible deal in terms of | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
access to the single market and continuing to cooperate in part are | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
inship with the 28 remaining member states of the European Union. The | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
right honourable gentleman once again talks about the possibility of | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
a negative impact on Scotland if Scotland were not part of the single | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
market. His party is dedicated to taking Scotland out of the single | :16:02. | :16:09. | |
market by taking it out of the UK. Mr Speaker, this week directors of | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
our larger companies have been told by investors to reign in senior | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
executive pay which is too often distorted by long-term incentive | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
plans which are too complex to manage and too excessive in their | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
rewards. Will my right honourable friend look the such schemes as part | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
of her corporate Government review? I'm pleased to say this Government's | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
taken action on executive pay already giving shareholders the | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
power to veto pay policies and force companies to Des cloy their board's | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
pay. I want to build on that. We've pubbish Hirsched a Green Paper on | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
how to strengthen shareholders' influence over executive pay and | :16:58. | :17:06. | |
have greater transparency. Will the #3r50i789 provide a commitment today | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
that no part of Great Repel Bill will be subject to ennish votes for | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
English laws? -- lengthish votes. The honourable lady might recognise | :17:15. | :17:28. | |
the Great Repel Bill will have a number of complex issues it will be | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
dealing with. It will be ensuring at its heart will be the European | :17:33. | :17:40. | |
communities act repeal. One of the issues we'll need to look at looking | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
at that bill and negotiating our way out of the European Union is the | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
issue of reserve matters and devolved matters. There are many | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
aspects... THE SPEAKER: Order. Order. Members | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
of the Scottish National Party led by the right honourable gentleman on | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
the front bench who's supposed to be a statesman-like figure should | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
demonstrate some calm and reserve while being answered by the the | :18:09. | :18:10. | |
Prime Minister who was questioned. The Prime Minister. The honourable | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
lady will know full well that any legislation brought before this | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
House, if any part of it only applies to England then it will be | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
subject to the English votes on English laws. May I congratulate the | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
Prime Minister on her delivery yesterday of an historic, defin | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
tiff, pragmatic, outward looking speech which saw the pound rise to | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
its highest level in two years and its highest level in two years and | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
the FTSE up today. Would she agree with me a strong and prosperous UK | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
as she has planned, would be a nightmare for the Leader of the | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
Opposition and the EU ruling class? I agree with my honourable friend, a | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
strong and prosperous Britain is what we want to build as we leave | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
the European Union. It is only a pitty it seems the Labour Party | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
aren't interested in doing that and want to do the opposite and bring | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
this economy down. Number 3, Mr Speaker. I always enjoy my visits to | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
Wales. I hope to visit Wales in the future. Quite an answer as to | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
whether she'll visit the Rhondda. I'm happy to accommodate her. I can | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
do bacon and eggs. More importantly, I could take her to see the best | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
brass band in the world. Or I could take her to the local food bank | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
which is based in the closed down Conservative Club. What's happening | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
at the moment is since 2010, the Government's closed the local | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
courts, closed the local tax office, the DWP office and the driving | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
centre. Now the Government's intending to close all the tax | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
offices in Wales and centralise them in Cardiff. We feel in the valleys | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
as if we're just ignored by the Government. Can I just beg her to | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
change direction and start putting Government offices in the small | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
towns, villages, valleys of this country? Can I say to the right | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
honourable gentleman, the last time I looked, Cardiff was actually in | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
Wales. He says we're going to take offices away from Wales but we'll | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
put them in Cardiff. I think he might find the whole point about | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
what the HMRC is doing is they are taking, moving from outdated offices | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
to large, modern, regional centres. That will make it possible for them | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
to modernise their ways of working, make tax collection more efficient | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
and improve customer services by HMRC. I welcome my right honourable | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
friend's speech for a global Britain. It shows you are list why | :21:01. | :21:10. | |
enning to this side of the House. The council leaders considering the | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
grater Manchester framework consultation responses as they | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
listen to the people, give us better infrastructure and protect our green | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
spaces. I thank my honourable friend for his comments and raising the | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
issue. The con siltation -- consultation closed earlier this | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
week. There has been a huge amount of interest from local people. I | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
echo his comment sayings local leaders should take all | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
representations into account. In the UK, we have 14 regional markets for | :21:47. | :21:55. | |
electricity disprobe Ewingses. Highlanders and islanders are facing | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
higher charges. They are an eye watering 84% higher than | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
distributary bugs charges for London. Will the Prime Minister | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
introduce a universal market for electricity pricing. Those of us who | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
live in the coldest windiest place are are diskrilled against by her | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
Government and it must end. The honourable gentleman draws attention | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
to the fact of course geography has an impact on these matters. He talks | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
about living in the coldest and windiest place. One of the issues | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
that's interesting to look at in relation to Scotland is the whoa | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
question of renewables and the opportunities for renewables. I can | :22:42. | :22:49. | |
tell him we are looking at the impact... We are looking at making | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
sure... We are looking at making sure energy markets in the UK are | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
indeed working properly. I'm very pleased the Prime Minister has said | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
she will take the necessary action on air quality to deal with the | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
40,000 premature deaths it causes across our country every year. As I | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
know she believes in her Government leading by example, will she make | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
sure that all diesel cars are removed from the Government car | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
service as soon as possible? My honourable friend is right, | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
improving air quality is a priority for this Government. We are | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
determined to cut harmful emissions. We've committed money since 2011 to | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
supporting the take-up of low-emission vehicles. The | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
Government car service is working to remove diesel cars from its fleet. | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
It has replaced a quarter and this work conditions to remove diesel | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
vehicles. Is the Prime Minister aware that I totally agree with what | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
she said yesterday. It is the job of people in this... Wait for it... | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
LAUGHTER We in this House have a real responsibility for our children | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
and grandchildren to have a bright future. But is she aware there are | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
dark clouds looming on the horizon in terms of intolerance, racism | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
across Europe and the foundering and flux of many of our great | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
institutions that have kept peace and prosperity since the last world | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
war. I speak of the in UN, Nato and indeed the European Union. Are we | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
fit for purpose in keeping this country safe, secure in that ward? | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
-- world. I recognise the important issue that the right honourable | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
gentleman raised in this area. It is pro sighsly as we move out of the | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
European Union, the UK will be more outward looking. We want to ensure | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
we play our part in the UN. That the UN itself is able to do the job that | :24:55. | :25:02. | |
everybody wants it to do. Nato has been the most important bull washing | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
in terms of maintaining safety and security across the European | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
continent. That's why we're continuing to support Nato. British | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
troops are in Estonia. British Forces in Poland, Romania, | :25:17. | :25:18. | |
continuing to show our commitment to Nato. The thrust of my speech | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
yesterday was we want a strong, strat edgic partnership with the | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
European Union. That access to the single market, that free trade | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
agreement but to continue to work with them on justice and security | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
matters. Now is not a time to cooperate less, it is a time to | :25:37. | :25:44. | |
cooperate more. Delighted the third round replay where Sutton united won | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
against Wimbledon. The pressing issue is to be able to get into work | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
on a day-to-day basis. Does the Prime Minister welcome the talks | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
between Aslef and Southern to finding a solution for hard pressed | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
commuters? As a former Wimbledon councillor, I am anot sure I share | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
the enthusiasm for the defeat of AFC Wimbledon. On the point about train | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
strikes, yes, I do. I hope those sitting around the table will | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
enensure we see an agreement reached which enables passengers to get on | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
with their lives, their jobs and not suffer the misery brought about by | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
the strike in the first place. Can I agree with the Prime Minister and | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
disagree with the last member about the reference to last night's | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
meeting and AFC's results. If the Prime Minister really believes that | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
GP surgeries should be open seven days a week, 12 hours a day, would | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
she be my guest at a meeting against Department of Health diktat which | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
will close a 6,000 strong surgery. Even better, could she just tell her | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
Government to stop cuts to GP Ps Sir verieses which force thousands to | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
attend hard pressed A's like St George's and St Helier or is she | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
happy to see the poisible collapse of the NHS on her watch? I might | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
remind the honourable lady, she and I sat on a council together where we | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
tried to keep Wimbledon playing in Wimbledon other at least in Murton. | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
GPs are part of the solution in terms of the NHS for the future. | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
We've seen more GPs coming into the NHS. Something like 5,000 more GPs | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
being trained and will be in place by 2020. But what we do want to | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
ensure is that GPs are open and providing the services at times when | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
the patients want to access them. Mr Speaker, it was quite clear from the | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
Prime Minister's speech yesterday that she seeks to build a Brexit | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
consensus and to bring our country back together. I thank her for that. | :27:57. | :28:05. | |
To that end, and to strengthen the Prime Minister's negotiating hand, | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
before Article 50 is triggered, would she please considerate least | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
publishing all those 12 objectives in a White Paper so that we can | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
debate them here in this place on behalf of all our constituents? My | :28:20. | :28:25. | |
honourable friend is right. I absolutely understand the point she | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
raised about Parliament's desire to be able to debate those objectives | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
which I set out in the plan yesterday. One of the objectives, | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
one of the principles was about certainly and clarity. It continues | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
to be the Government's intention that we will provide clarity | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
whenever it is possible and we will ensure that at appropriate times | :28:49. | :28:51. | |
both the public and Parliament are kept informed and are able to | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
consider and properly scrutinise these issues. Thank you, Mr Speaker. | :28:57. | :29:04. | |
While dedicated and talented staff at the royal Liverpool hospital's | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
A department struggle to find beds for sick people, around 135 patients | :29:10. | :29:15. | |
are unable to be discharged solely because of Government cuts to social | :29:16. | :29:21. | |
care. When will the Government recognise its responsibilities and | :29:22. | :29:25. | |
not try to blame GPs for a problem of the Government's own making? | :29:26. | :29:33. | |
There is a pressure on social care. I accept that and recognised this in | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
this House. That's why the Government's recognised it and put | :29:39. | :29:42. | |
improved funding through the better care fund and social care | :29:43. | :29:48. | |
pre-September. Liverpool raced ?8 million and they'll receive ?48 | :29:49. | :29:53. | |
million from the better care fund by 2019/20. This isn't just a question | :29:54. | :29:58. | |
of money. It is ensuring we have a sustainable social care system for | :29:59. | :30:01. | |
the future. That's what the Government's working on. Could I | :30:02. | :30:09. | |
commend by right honourable friend for her remarks yesterday, not least | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
the constructive terms to the future of the EU in marked difference from | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
others over the years. Would she confirm that constructive tone will | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
remain as the best base for getting an agreement between ourselves and | :30:24. | :30:29. | |
the EU and the default position of no deal will remain a default | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
position and not the Government's default position? Absolutely. We | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
want to get that good deal and expect to be able to get that good | :30:39. | :30:43. | |
deal. It is right that it is through goodwill and a positive approach on | :30:44. | :30:47. | |
both sides of these negotiations we will achieve that. I'm clear the UK | :30:48. | :30:53. | |
wants to see a continuing strong European Union of 27 member states. | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
We want to have a strong, strategic partnership with that Europon and | :30:59. | :31:01. | |
continue to work bilaterally with individual states. I made this point | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
to a number of European Union leaders yesterday when I spoke to | :31:07. | :31:10. | |
them after my speech, we want to approach this in a positive and | :31:11. | :31:13. | |
optimistic fashion. I believe a deal that is good for the UK, will be a | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
deal that is good for the European Union. This week, the national | :31:19. | :31:24. | |
auditor revealed the abject failures in the con accept tricks fiasco | :31:25. | :31:27. | |
which resulted in thousands of people wrongly denied their tax | :31:28. | :31:33. | |
credits. This was not one rogue contractors but a system designed by | :31:34. | :31:37. | |
Government to pursue and chase down claimants for profit. So, does the | :31:38. | :31:43. | |
Prime Minister agree with the Chief Executive of HMRC that payment by | :31:44. | :31:49. | |
ruts has no -- results has no mace in our welfare system. Will she | :31:50. | :31:53. | |
review this model or will she wait for the next scandal to hit | :31:54. | :31:58. | |
vulnerable people? I recognise many people received a poor service. It | :31:59. | :32:03. | |
is not the first time this has been highlighted in this chamber this was | :32:04. | :32:07. | |
not acceptable. I apologise for the poury and stress caused for people. | :32:08. | :32:10. | |
We have been clear about that service. HMRC will learn the lessons | :32:11. | :32:17. | |
from that contract. They remain committed to providing a high | :32:18. | :32:23. | |
quality service. It will not use a private sector service to undertakes | :32:24. | :32:30. | |
tax or fraud checks again. Further to the question from my honourable | :32:31. | :32:34. | |
friend, the Prime Minister did yesterday confirm her commitment to | :32:35. | :32:40. | |
parliamentary democracy. Therefore, I assume she accepts the long | :32:41. | :32:43. | |
standing convention that the he can he can tiff, the Government, is | :32:44. | :32:51. | |
continuously accountable to this House for the policies that she is | :32:52. | :32:55. | |
pursuing. Can she clarify whether or not she intends to make any further | :32:56. | :33:00. | |
statements of policy intentions to this House and whether she | :33:01. | :33:03. | |
anticipates this House having an opportunity to vote its approval for | :33:04. | :33:08. | |
those policies earlier than two years away when the whole | :33:09. | :33:14. | |
negotiation has been completed? My right honourable friend raises a | :33:15. | :33:19. | |
matter that not only our honourable friend has raised but others as | :33:20. | :33:23. | |
well. If I can simply make this point. Yesterday, my right | :33:24. | :33:29. | |
honourable, the Secretary of State for exiting the European Union came | :33:30. | :33:33. | |
here and answered questions for two hours. There is a further general | :33:34. | :33:39. | |
debate on exiting the European Union matters taking place today. There | :33:40. | :33:43. | |
have been a number of these do Bates already looking at the issues which | :33:44. | :33:46. | |
are part of the objectives we have set. We will have to consider the | :33:47. | :33:52. | |
result of the decision of the Supreme Court which may, if it goes | :33:53. | :33:56. | |
against the Government, require legislation to be brought before | :33:57. | :33:59. | |
this House. There will be an opportunity in the great wee peat | :34:00. | :34:06. | |
bill to look at issues around the exiting the I the the EU. We can't | :34:07. | :34:09. | |
vote on the deal until we know what the deal is. Parliament will have a | :34:10. | :34:16. | |
vote when we know what that deal is. The Prime Minister's passing | :34:17. | :34:19. | |
reference to the interests of Spanish fishermen in her speech | :34:20. | :34:22. | |
yesterday let the cat out of the bag that our fishing opportunities are | :34:23. | :34:27. | |
already on the table as a bargaining tool before the Brexit negotiations | :34:28. | :34:30. | |
have even started. What does the Prime Minister want to offer the | :34:31. | :34:36. | |
Spanish fishermen? I made a very simple point yesterday which is that | :34:37. | :34:39. | |
negotiation is not just about the UK. There will be others in the | :34:40. | :34:45. | |
European Union who will be looking for ensheering the deal we get is | :34:46. | :34:49. | |
good for the UK and for the European Union. I have to say to the | :34:50. | :34:56. | |
honourable lady, if she thinks continued membership of the common | :34:57. | :35:01. | |
fishers policy is not the case and one of the things we will vote | :35:02. | :35:07. | |
against. The people of Stafford shirt and Stoke-on-Trent are being | :35:08. | :35:11. | |
confronted with the possible loss of emergency services in Stafford or | :35:12. | :35:16. | |
Burton when our Acute Hospitals are under intense pressure. Would the | :35:17. | :35:21. | |
Prime Minister agree with me and others that closing A is no way | :35:22. | :35:26. | |
to deal with increased, real, not imagined, need. I would say to my | :35:27. | :35:33. | |
honourable friend, the important issue is the level of service | :35:34. | :35:38. | |
available for people in a local area. That's why the sustainability | :35:39. | :35:43. | |
and transformation plans being published are taking into account | :35:44. | :35:48. | |
and are being considered at a local level for local clinicians and local | :35:49. | :35:52. | |
people to agree what is best in their particular area. Mr Speaker, | :35:53. | :35:57. | |
last Friday I went to Blackpool Victoria Hospital where the number | :35:58. | :36:01. | |
of people waiting 12 hours or more in A doubled last year. 100 of | :36:02. | :36:08. | |
them aged 90 or over. Trust managers said the biggest factor is dig | :36:09. | :36:13. | |
charging people. Government cuts erodele support for them. Will she | :36:14. | :36:17. | |
stop waffling about her shared society, listen to her own budget | :36:18. | :36:22. | |
watchdog saying we'll need ?30 billion from older people in the | :36:23. | :36:26. | |
next ten years and put that money into local adult care and the NHS? | :36:27. | :36:34. | |
Well, just looking at the figures for what has happened for health in | :36:35. | :36:40. | |
his particular area, there are more doctors and significantly more | :36:41. | :36:45. | |
nurses in his NHS Foundation Trust. I know what the honourable gentleman | :36:46. | :36:49. | |
is talking about. I'm about to comment on it! But the honourable | :36:50. | :36:58. | |
lady who is shouting from a sedentary position might have | :36:59. | :37:02. | |
recognised he started talking about the NHS which is what I'm also | :37:03. | :37:05. | |
commenting on. THE SPEAKER: Order. I'm not having | :37:06. | :37:11. | |
an exchange across the dispatch box. Order. The Prime Minister was asked | :37:12. | :37:17. | |
a question. Order! I require no help from the honourable gentleman which | :37:18. | :37:21. | |
is of zilch value! The Prime Minister will answer and she will be | :37:22. | :37:26. | |
heard with courtesy, including by the honourable gentleman. The Prime | :37:27. | :37:31. | |
Minister The honourable gentleman asked me about pressures on the | :37:32. | :37:36. | |
national health service. We are sighing more doctors and nurses in | :37:37. | :37:40. | |
his hospitals Foundation Trust and he health funding in the honourable | :37:41. | :37:46. | |
gentleman's area will be ?3 billion this year rising with a further 450 | :37:47. | :37:51. | |
million by 2021. In terms of the issue of social care, as I said in | :37:52. | :37:55. | |
this House before, we are putting extra money into social care, giving | :37:56. | :37:59. | |
local authorities the opportunity to raise more money and spend it on | :38:00. | :38:02. | |
social care. This is not just about more money. It is about ensuring | :38:03. | :38:06. | |
best practise is spread throughout the country. About a long-term | :38:07. | :38:10. | |
solution to sustainable social care for the future. An issue ducked by | :38:11. | :38:16. | |
Governments, including a Labour Government for 13 years. On Friday, | :38:17. | :38:21. | |
the east coast of England faced threat of a tidal surge that | :38:22. | :38:26. | |
endangered tens of thousands of homes and thousands of lives. A | :38:27. | :38:30. | |
simple change in the weather meant flooding was averted. Will the Prime | :38:31. | :38:35. | |
Minister join me in praising the response of the emergency services | :38:36. | :38:41. | |
planning ahead, involving the army coastguard, the Fire Service and the | :38:42. | :38:44. | |
ambulance and police to make sure the best possible plans were made | :38:45. | :38:48. | |
and will she further join with me in making sure the public know these | :38:49. | :38:54. | |
warnings, in future, should always be taken seriously? My honourable | :38:55. | :38:59. | |
friend raises an important point. I'm happy to commend the action of | :39:00. | :39:05. | |
all those in the emergency service, Armed Forces, and local authorities | :39:06. | :39:10. | |
who worked so hard to make sure this problem, a change in weather took | :39:11. | :39:14. | |
place, but it is absolutely crucial that when these warnings are given, | :39:15. | :39:18. | |
people recognise they are given for a very good reason, because there is | :39:19. | :39:21. | |
a concern about the danger that could take place. The efforts put in | :39:22. | :39:26. | |
protected tens of thousands of properties. I'm pleased to see the | :39:27. | :39:32. | |
work we have learned from previous flooding incidents, the work between | :39:33. | :39:37. | |
emergency services, local services and the Armed Forces was much better | :39:38. | :39:41. | |
coordinated than perhaps has been in the past. We've been able to learn | :39:42. | :39:47. | |
from flooding in the past. Mr Speaker, in response to the | :39:48. | :39:52. | |
honourable member for Broxtow the Prime Minister talked about her | :39:53. | :39:55. | |
desire to give clarity around our exit of the EU. Many of my | :39:56. | :40:00. | |
constituency yentas are paying taxes. What assurances can she give | :40:01. | :40:05. | |
them about their future. Particularly if they change their | :40:06. | :40:12. | |
employer or are freelancers? What I said yesterday is about the | :40:13. | :40:16. | |
guaranteeing of rights for EU citizens living here in the UK. I | :40:17. | :40:21. | |
want to see the rights of UK citizens living in the 27 member | :40:22. | :40:26. | |
states being given guarantees as well. I encourage others across | :40:27. | :40:31. | |
Europe to agree this is an issue we should look at at an early stage and | :40:32. | :40:36. | |
as early a stage as possible in order to give people the confidence | :40:37. | :40:41. | |
and reassurance she is looking for. ? Supporting my right honourable | :40:42. | :40:51. | |
gentlemen in social care and the Health Service, can she endorse the | :40:52. | :40:56. | |
confidence in our hospitals in market towns across the country. | :40:57. | :41:01. | |
They provide a vital piece of the jigsaw in our NHS such as the | :41:02. | :41:06. | |
Westminster memorial in stats brie? I'm sure as my honourable friend | :41:07. | :41:11. | |
says, the Westminster memorial in Shaftesbury is providing good | :41:12. | :41:15. | |
services for local people. What the structure of the local services | :41:16. | :41:19. | |
should be is a matter for discussion at local level. It is crucial local | :41:20. | :41:24. | |
clinicians agree and others agree we have a safe and secure service for | :41:25. | :41:29. | |
people. They are provided within the NHS services they need at the most | :41:30. | :41:36. | |
appropriate level. I accept very often we think only of major | :41:37. | :41:41. | |
District General Hospitals and acute hospitals but the NHS is made up of | :41:42. | :41:47. | |
different parts. Patients need to be treated at the most appropriate | :41:48. | :41:52. | |
level for their needs. How can aband onning membership of the customs | :41:53. | :41:58. | |
union that thaws 68% of Wales' exports, crucially 90% of our food | :41:59. | :42:03. | |
and drink exports and supports 200,000 jobs cause any other than | :42:04. | :42:09. | |
calamitous self-harm? What we will be doing is negotiating a free trade | :42:10. | :42:14. | |
agreement with the European Union to get the best possible access for | :42:15. | :42:20. | |
trade. We also want to be able to negotiate trade agreements with | :42:21. | :42:22. | |
other countries around the world. A number of countries have already | :42:23. | :42:26. | |
expressed interest in doing that. We want to open up, see new export | :42:27. | :42:30. | |
markets being delivered for businesses here in the UK, including | :42:31. | :42:33. | |
for the sort of trade that he's talking about in Wales. In the | :42:34. | :42:38. | |
customs aspect with the European Union, we want to have an | :42:39. | :42:44. | |
arrangement with them to have as frictionless borders as possible. | :42:45. | :42:53. | |
Were Prime Minister's Questions comes to an end there. | :42:54. | :42:55. |