:00:27. > :00:36.Last week saw the 80th anniversary of the 999 service. I know members
:00:37. > :00:42.will want it join plea paying tribute to the men and women who
:00:43. > :00:45.work tirelessly saving lives, day-in and day-out. Mr Speaker, this
:00:46. > :00:49.morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others n
:00:50. > :00:54.addition to my duties in this House, I shall have further such meetings
:00:55. > :00:58.later. Later this week I will attend a meeting of the G20 where I'll
:00:59. > :01:00.discuss the global economy, counter-terrorism and sustainable
:01:01. > :01:05.development with my fellow leaders. THE SPEAKER: Hannah Bardell. Thank
:01:06. > :01:12.you. Her face smashed with an iPad. Her body beaten and forced to abort
:01:13. > :01:17.a baby girl. This is only some of the domestic abuse my constituent,
:01:18. > :01:21.Lola has faced by her estranged husband because she has refused the
:01:22. > :01:26.genital mutilation of her daughter. She's ledgicated, has moot and had a
:01:27. > :01:32.good job with RBS until the Home Office revoked her right to work. I
:01:33. > :01:39.have been writing to the Home Office since March and got nowhere. So will
:01:40. > :01:42.the Prime Minister now intervene to stop this family being deported and
:01:43. > :01:43.the three-year-old girl being subject to female genital
:01:44. > :01:47.mutilation? I say to the honourable lady that
:01:48. > :01:52.the Home Secretary has obviously heard the case she set out here
:01:53. > :01:58.today. The issue of female genital mutilation is one on which I think
:01:59. > :02:02.we are all agreed across this whole House. It is an abhorrent activity T
:02:03. > :02:05.should not be taking place. Great efforts have been made over recent
:02:06. > :02:12.years, in terms of strengthening the law on it but also on getting
:02:13. > :02:17.information out about this issue and also trying to support people in
:02:18. > :02:22.these communities where there is a practice of FGM. The message has to
:02:23. > :02:28.go out from this House today - we will not accept FGM in this country.
:02:29. > :02:32.THE SPEAKER: James Morris. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Until the last few
:02:33. > :02:35.days, Iraqi security forces assisted by coalition air strikes have made
:02:36. > :02:38.significant progress in eradicating Isil fighters from Mosul. This is a
:02:39. > :02:41.significant step forward in the military conflict against Isil in
:02:42. > :02:46.Iraq. But would the Prime Minister agree with me that the UK and the
:02:47. > :02:50.United States and abroad international alliance needs to work
:02:51. > :02:54.with the Iraqi Government to ensure reconstruction in places like Mosul,
:02:55. > :02:58.as well as working with the Iraqi Government to make sure that it is
:02:59. > :03:06.sufficiently strong to withstand the poisonous ideology of the Isil as we
:03:07. > :03:12.seek to defeat it. My honourable friend is right. In order to keep
:03:13. > :03:17.the streets of Britain safe we must continue to I a tack Isil in Iraq
:03:18. > :03:22.and Syria. The RAF has conducted over 1,400 strikes. There are over
:03:23. > :03:26.500 British soldiers on the ground, providing further assistance but my
:03:27. > :03:32.honourable friend makes the important point that it is not just
:03:33. > :03:36.about the military action that takes place, it is about how we ensure
:03:37. > :03:38.there is sustainable reconstruction and rebuilding afterwards. Our
:03:39. > :03:41.troops have helped train 55,000 Iraqi security force personnel. We
:03:42. > :03:46.are providing over 169.5 million pounds in humanitarian aid and a
:03:47. > :03:50.further ?30 million to help Iraq stabilise these liberated areas. And
:03:51. > :03:54.together we must also work, not just in Iraq but internationally, to
:03:55. > :04:01.ensure that the hateful ideology of extremism is not able to poison the
:04:02. > :04:07.minds of people. THE SPEAKER: Jeremy Corbyn? Thank you, Mr Speaker. Can I
:04:08. > :04:12.start by wishing everyone a happy Pride month and especially those
:04:13. > :04:16.taking part in the Pride maefrp this Saturday. We should be aware - the
:04:17. > :04:21.survey taken by Pride in London found half of LBGT people in London
:04:22. > :04:27.had experienced hate crime in the past 12 months. I join the Prime
:04:28. > :04:32.Minister in wishing the NHS a very happy birthday. I was hoping she was
:04:33. > :04:37.going to say a bit more about NHS staff and their pay during birthday
:04:38. > :04:42.greetings, because after a week of flip flopping and floundering, we
:04:43. > :04:45.thought we got some clarity from Downing Street at last. On Monday
:04:46. > :04:49.the announcement was that the public sector pay cap at 1% remains and a
:04:50. > :04:53.rare moment of agreement between number 10 and 11 was seen but
:04:54. > :04:58.yesterday we had news that firefighters are going to be offered
:04:59. > :05:01.2% this year and 3% next year. So, account Prime Minister confirm
:05:02. > :05:07.whether the public sector pay cap will remain for all other public
:05:08. > :05:10.servants until 2020? May I join The Right Honourable gentlemen in
:05:11. > :05:15.wishing everybody who is going to take part in Pride London on
:05:16. > :05:22.Saturday an excellent day. I'm sure it will be a very good occasion as
:05:23. > :05:28.it always has been. Can I also say that I and all members of this House
:05:29. > :05:30.value the work that is done, incredibly important work done by
:05:31. > :05:43.our public sector JEERS
:05:44. > :05:51.And I understand the concerns about the pay. But for the information of
:05:52. > :05:55.the House perhaps I can set out the current position. We have had three
:05:56. > :05:58.pay review bodies in the public sector reporting in March. That
:05:59. > :06:00.covered doctors and dentists, NHS staff, including nurses and the
:06:01. > :06:04.Armed Forces and the Government accepted the recommendations in all
:06:05. > :06:08.three of those cases. The firefighters award is not a matter
:06:09. > :06:14.that is determined by Government, it is determined by the employers and
:06:15. > :06:17.it is not subject to a pay review body. There are outstanding pay
:06:18. > :06:21.review body reports. Those cover teachers, prison officers, police
:06:22. > :06:24.officers and senior salaries and the Government will consider those
:06:25. > :06:29.reports very carefully and we'll respond to them. But while we do
:06:30. > :06:36.that, we will always recognise the need to ensure that we take those
:06:37. > :06:39.decisions, against the need to live within our means. The right
:06:40. > :06:43.honourable gentleman and I both value public sector workers and our
:06:44. > :06:53.public services. The difference is, I know we have to pay for them. Mr
:06:54. > :06:58.Speaker, the public sector pay cap causes real shortages in nursing and
:06:59. > :07:02.teaching and many other professions, as well as real hardship. I had a
:07:03. > :07:08.letter last week from a teacher called David. It's all right, he is
:07:09. > :07:16.a teacher, he is doing a good job, all right. Inhe says, and I quote,
:07:17. > :07:20."I've been teaching for ten years. I have seen my workload increase. I
:07:21. > :07:25.have seen more people leave the profession than start and no form of
:07:26. > :07:29.pay increase in seven years. The only thing holding the education
:07:30. > :07:33.system together is the dedication 20 struggle on for their students and
:07:34. > :07:39.staff." And he says, "This dedication is starting to run out."
:07:40. > :07:44.So what we are doing, by this pay cap, I say to the Prime Minister, is
:07:45. > :07:51.recklessly exploiting the goodwill of public servants, like David. They
:07:52. > :07:56.need a pay rise. The Leader of the Opposition refers to the numbers of
:07:57. > :08:00.nurses and teachers we have working in the public sector. Of course we
:08:01. > :08:04.now have more nurses in our hospitals than we had in 2010. More
:08:05. > :08:06.teachers in our schools. But let me remind the right honourable
:08:07. > :08:10.gentleman of why it has been necessary for us to exercise
:08:11. > :08:20.restraint in public spending, including capping public sector pay?
:08:21. > :08:33.It's because we inherited the biggest deficit in our history...
:08:34. > :08:39.Shouts and jeers SHOUTS THE SPEAKER: Order. I noticed
:08:40. > :08:45.earlier Mr Mcmood you seem to be in a hyper condition today. I recommend
:08:46. > :08:50.you take a soothing medicamen, you will probably feel better. We've
:08:51. > :08:55.acted to bring the deficit down. It is now down by three-quarters. At
:08:56. > :08:57.the same time, we have seen the economy grow and we've seen
:08:58. > :09:02.recordlevels of people in employment. Our policy on public
:09:03. > :09:09.sector pay has always recognised that we need to balance the need to
:09:10. > :09:16.be fair to public sector workers, to protect... To protect jobs in the
:09:17. > :09:22.public sector and to be fair to those who pay for it. That is the
:09:23. > :09:26.balance we need to strike and we continue to assess that balance.
:09:27. > :09:33.We've had seven years of tax cuts for the richest and tax breaks for
:09:34. > :09:41.the biggest corporations. And last year, Mr Speaker, there was a net
:09:42. > :09:49.loss of 1,700 nurses and midwives to the NHS, and in the first two months
:09:50. > :09:53.of this year alone, 3,264 have left the profession altogether. Not a
:09:54. > :09:59.great birthday present for the NHS, is it? Last week the Chancellor said
:10:00. > :10:06."We all value our public services and the people who provide them to
:10:07. > :10:09.us." And went on to laud his own economic record by saying #wed a
:10:10. > :10:15.fundamentally robust economy. Well, the Prime Minister found ?1 billion
:10:16. > :10:21.to keep her own job, why can't she find the same amount of money to
:10:22. > :10:25.keep nurses and teachers in their jobs, who afterall, serve all of us?
:10:26. > :10:31.The right honourable gentleman talks about the number of nurses. In fact
:10:32. > :10:37.I think some of those figures he was talking about was the number of
:10:38. > :10:41.nurses who are registered in the United Kingdom. There are about
:10:42. > :10:48.600,000 nurses registered in the UK. About half of them, 300,000 work in
:10:49. > :10:53.the NHS in England. And contrary to what he says, we have 13,000 more
:10:54. > :10:59.nurses working in the NHS today than compared to 20 o 10. SHOUTS
:11:00. > :11:03.But ginned stand that it has been hard for people who have been
:11:04. > :11:08.working hard and making sacrifices, over the years, as we have been
:11:09. > :11:18.dealing with Labour's mismanagement of the economy. But let me just...
:11:19. > :11:23.Let me remind the right honourable gentleman of what happens when you
:11:24. > :11:29.don't deal with the deficit? It's not a theoretical issue, let's look
:11:30. > :11:32.at those countries that fail to deal with it? In Greece, where they
:11:33. > :11:45.haven't dealt with the deficit... Yes...
:11:46. > :11:50.SHOUTS AND JEERS What did we see? Spending on the health service cut
:11:51. > :11:55.by 36%. Thatp doesn't help nurses or patients. I hope the Prime
:11:56. > :12:01.Minister's proud of her record of controlling public sector pay to the
:12:02. > :12:12.extent that hard-working nurses have to access food banks in order to
:12:13. > :12:17.survive. And the frozen wages of teaching assistants, par meddies and
:12:18. > :12:21.council workers. But, Mr Speaker, it not -- paramedics.
:12:22. > :12:26.But across the economy wages are rising by 2.1% while inflation is
:12:27. > :12:32.nearly 3%. 6 million workers already earn less than the living wage. What
:12:33. > :12:36.does the Prime Minister think that tells us about seven years of a
:12:37. > :12:41.Conservative Government, and what it's done to the living standards of
:12:42. > :12:46.those people on whom we all rely to get our public services, our health
:12:47. > :12:49.services, delivered to us? I'll tell the right honourable gentleman what
:12:50. > :12:57.has happened over the last seven years, we see record numbers of
:12:58. > :13:04.people in employment. Nearly 3 million more people in work. We have
:13:05. > :13:09.seen the introduction of the national living wage - never done by
:13:10. > :13:17.Labour. Done by a Conservative Government. And we've seen 4 million
:13:18. > :13:24.people taken out of paying income tax altogether. And a cut in income
:13:25. > :13:29.tax and a change in the personal allowance which is the equivalent of
:13:30. > :13:33.?1,000 to basic rate tax payers, including nurses. That's the record
:13:34. > :13:40.of good management of the economy. You only get it with a Conservative.
:13:41. > :13:48.Mr Speaker. Mr Speaker, the Prime Minister simply doesn't get it.
:13:49. > :14:05.SHOUTS AND JEERING. There is, Mr Speaker,... We've got
:14:06. > :14:09.plenty of time, I'm quite happy to go for a lot of time. People should
:14:10. > :14:15.try to calm themselves and give a moments thought as to whether they'd
:14:16. > :14:20.like to be viewed by their constituents shrieking their heads
:14:21. > :14:29.off, it's very down-market. Mr Speaker, there is a low pay at the
:14:30. > :14:31.panic in this country. And it has a terrible -- P epidemic in this
:14:32. > :14:38.country and it has a terrible effect on young people. Those in their 20s
:14:39. > :14:42.will earn less than a generation don't before them. The first
:14:43. > :14:45.generation to be worse off than the last. They are less likely to be
:14:46. > :14:50.able to buy their own home, more likely to be saddled with debt, more
:14:51. > :14:55.likely to be in insecure, low-paid work. Except for more misery, what
:14:56. > :15:00.does the Prime Minister and her government actually offer for the
:15:01. > :15:08.young people of this country? THE SPEAKER: Prime Minister.
:15:09. > :15:15.Yes, to echo those colleagues, what we offer young people is more jobs,
:15:16. > :15:20.more homes, and opportunity to own their own home. But let me just, let
:15:21. > :15:25.me just tell the Right Honourable gentleman what isn't fair. It isn't
:15:26. > :15:28.fair to refuse to take tough to sessions and to load debts on our
:15:29. > :15:37.children and grandchildren in the future. It isn't, it isn't fair to
:15:38. > :15:42.bankrupt our economy because that leads to people losing their jobs
:15:43. > :15:47.and losing their homes. And it isn't fair to go out and tell people that
:15:48. > :15:52.they can have all the public spending they want without paying
:15:53. > :15:59.for it. Labour's away leads to fewer jobs, higher prices, more taxes and
:16:00. > :16:08.Labour's way means everyone pays the price of labour. Mr Speaker, when
:16:09. > :16:11.Tories talk of tough choices, we know who suffers, it's the poorest
:16:12. > :16:19.and most vulnerable within our society. Young people, Mr Speaker,
:16:20. > :16:25.in Clwyd on zero hours contracts, are more likely to have -- employed
:16:26. > :16:29.on zero hours contracts, are more likely to have worse physical and
:16:30. > :16:33.mental health. University students who have graduated with ?50,000
:16:34. > :16:39.worth of debt which will stay with them until they retire. Mr Speaker,
:16:40. > :16:43.let me spell it out to the Prime Minister. This is the only country
:16:44. > :16:50.in which wages have not recovered since the global financial crash.
:16:51. > :16:56.More people are using food banks. 4 million children living in poverty.
:16:57. > :17:02.Record in work. Poverty. Young people who see no prospect of owning
:17:03. > :17:05.their own home and 6 million earning less than the living way. The low
:17:06. > :17:13.Payet Adamic is a threat to our economic stability. -- the low Payet
:17:14. > :17:17.Adamic. So can she take some tough choices and instead of offering
:17:18. > :17:24.platitudes, offer some real help for those in work, young people who
:17:25. > :17:32.deserve better and deserve to be given more optimism rather than
:17:33. > :17:35.greater inequality? We actually now see the proportion of people in
:17:36. > :17:39.absolute poverty is at record lows. He asks for help for those who
:17:40. > :17:50.low-paid. I'll tell him the help that we have given, we introduced
:17:51. > :17:59.the mandatory national living wage, the lowest earners fastest pay rise
:18:00. > :18:02.in 20 years. We have cut taxes for those on the basic rate. We are
:18:03. > :18:06.doing what is important for this country which is insuring there are
:18:07. > :18:13.jobs and an economy which provides jobs, which is the best route out of
:18:14. > :18:17.poverty, being in work. And I know, I know that the right honourable
:18:18. > :18:23.gentleman has taken to calling himself a government in waiting.
:18:24. > :18:30.Well, we all know what that means. Waiting to put up taxes, waiting to
:18:31. > :18:34.destroy jobs, waiting to bankrupt our country, we will never let it
:18:35. > :18:43.happen. CHEERING
:18:44. > :18:52.I understand the House is excited about hearing the right honourable
:18:53. > :18:55.member, Nicky Morgan. I know that the Prime Minister and
:18:56. > :19:00.her ministers and many other members of the House are committed to better
:19:01. > :19:04.mental health care for everyone. I'm a founder of the Loughborough
:19:05. > :19:08.well-being project and I recently visited an eating disorder service
:19:09. > :19:17.in Leicester. As a result of the Rodman's careful financial
:19:18. > :19:24.management, 1.4 billion more is going into mental health services.
:19:25. > :19:28.How can she insure that this goes into the service is consistently?
:19:29. > :19:32.May I commend her on her work in this project and I'm happy to join
:19:33. > :19:36.her in paying tribute to the work of the eating disorder service in
:19:37. > :19:39.Leicester. As she says, they do incredibly important work and we
:19:40. > :19:44.must do more to transform the mental health services that we provide for
:19:45. > :19:47.young people, but also mental health generally. That's why, as she says,
:19:48. > :19:52.we are putting more money into mental health and it will reach a
:19:53. > :19:58.record 11.6 billion, it reached that last year. That funding, we need to
:19:59. > :20:03.make sure it gets through to the front line, we are working to ensure
:20:04. > :20:06.that people and staff in schools are trained to better identify and deal
:20:07. > :20:11.with mental health problems when they are present with children. I
:20:12. > :20:14.saw that when I visited a school in Bristol last week, excellent work
:20:15. > :20:22.being done, improving the quality of services for young people with
:20:23. > :20:26.mental health. In Blackford. As we meet here today, the funeral is
:20:27. > :20:29.taking place in Dundee for the former leader of the Scottish
:20:30. > :20:33.National Party and member of Parliament for Dundee East from 1974
:20:34. > :20:36.to 1987, I'm sure the House would like to join with me in
:20:37. > :20:40.commemorating the life and contribution to politics of the
:20:41. > :20:47.late, dearly missed friend and colleague, Gordon Wilson. Mr
:20:48. > :20:49.Speaker, the UK Government has not announced any measures to address
:20:50. > :20:58.rising inflation and slamming wage growth which the eye S S has
:20:59. > :21:04.described as dreadful. -- which the IFS has destroyed as dreadful. As
:21:05. > :21:07.workers endure the worst pay for 70 years, does the Prime Minister think
:21:08. > :21:11.she is looking out for the just about managing? Can I first of all
:21:12. > :21:16.say to the honourable gentleman as I did last week, I am sure all members
:21:17. > :21:19.of the House would like to offer our condolences to the friends, families
:21:20. > :21:22.and colleagues of the late Gordon Wilson but also to recognise the
:21:23. > :21:27.role he played in politics in the UK including in this house. And I say
:21:28. > :21:31.to the honourable gentleman, as I have said to the Leader of the
:21:32. > :21:35.Opposition, what is important is that we ensure that we have an
:21:36. > :21:39.economy which is increasing the number of jobs because the best
:21:40. > :21:44.route out of poverty is for people to be in work. That is what we are
:21:45. > :21:49.doing. We've seen nearly 3 million more jobs being created over recent
:21:50. > :21:53.years. That's important for people. We also help people, for example, by
:21:54. > :21:59.cutting taxes, it's what we've done for people who are you lower paid,
:22:00. > :22:07.introducing the national living wage, that is what people need. It
:22:08. > :22:11.is the forecast in the rise in work poverty which should concern us,
:22:12. > :22:17.particularly the increase of young people in poverty. Since the general
:22:18. > :22:23.election in 2010, the FTSE 100 has risen by 39.6%. Monetary policy, not
:22:24. > :22:26.least quantitative easing, has helped drive up financial assets
:22:27. > :22:35.while workers have paid the price for austerity. Workers will earn no
:22:36. > :22:39.more in 2021 than they did in 2008. Will the Prime Minister give workers
:22:40. > :22:41.a pay rise? I would have thought that particularly with his
:22:42. > :22:45.background, he would have recognised the role that the monetary policy
:22:46. > :22:54.including quantitative easing has done in ensuring that we at able to
:22:55. > :22:58.see those jobs in the enquiry -- economy which are so important. Can
:22:59. > :23:03.my right honourable friend tell me what steps the government is taking
:23:04. > :23:07.to drive value for money and efficiency in the aid budget to
:23:08. > :23:11.ensure taxpayer money is used to promote global peace and security in
:23:12. > :23:15.the national interest? Can I say to my honourable friend that I am proud
:23:16. > :23:17.that the government is committed to honouring our international
:23:18. > :23:20.commitment on aid, that is important for this country. This money is
:23:21. > :23:26.saving lives, building a more stable and prosperous world, that's firmly
:23:27. > :23:29.in our UK national interest but of course, but he's absolutely right,
:23:30. > :23:34.we need to make sure the money we are spending is being spent utterly
:23:35. > :23:37.and efficiently. The international developer and secretary, I can
:23:38. > :23:42.assure him, is driving value for money and efficiency in the aid
:23:43. > :23:44.budget, focusing on greater transparency, boosting payment by
:23:45. > :23:52.results and driving value for money as well. We set up in 2011 and
:23:53. > :23:56.independent aid watchdog together with stronger controls in DfiD. It's
:23:57. > :24:00.important we are committed to this money but it is also important that
:24:01. > :24:07.it is spelt well. My young constituent paid ?300 house
:24:08. > :24:15.reservation fee to an estate agent their landlord clients -- grow which
:24:16. > :24:21.they will not refund after they refused to honour the contract after
:24:22. > :24:26.the landlord pulled out. When will the Prime Minister act and put an
:24:27. > :24:35.end to these rip-off fees and stop these agents capitalising on young
:24:36. > :24:38.people and others? We have made reference in the Queen's speech to
:24:39. > :24:41.what we're doing in this area, we recognise the issues. He says when,
:24:42. > :24:45.but he will recognise in the House that we need to ensure that anything
:24:46. > :24:48.we bring forward in legislative terms get right, so it's going to
:24:49. > :24:53.work. We recognise the problem and we are going to do something about
:24:54. > :24:58.it. In 2008, I brought forward an amendment to the animal welfare act
:24:59. > :25:02.that would have extended the sentences for cruelty to animals
:25:03. > :25:06.from weeks to years. Will my right honourable friend look and see what
:25:07. > :25:09.can be done to ensure that people who are deliberately and wilfully
:25:10. > :25:15.cruel to animals are punished far more severely? I'm grateful to my
:25:16. > :25:20.honourable friend for raising this issue and we all share a high regard
:25:21. > :25:24.for animal welfare, the importance of having strict laws in place to
:25:25. > :25:29.ensure that we deal with people properly who are not looking after
:25:30. > :25:37.animals. And anyone who is cruel to an animal doesn't provide for
:25:38. > :25:41.welfare needs may be and from -- banned from owning animals, given a
:25:42. > :25:44.fine sent to prison. We are in discussion with the Ministry of
:25:45. > :25:51.Justice regularly in remission to the sentencing policy for animal
:25:52. > :25:56.welfare. With this awful service reportedly having to explain in
:25:57. > :26:00.crayon to the -- with the civil service reportedly having to explain
:26:01. > :26:07.in crayon to the Cabinet that there is now know have your cake and eat
:26:08. > :26:13.it option for Brexit, will she admits she is prioritising her own
:26:14. > :26:20.red lines? He will have heard the answer before. We want to negotiate
:26:21. > :26:23.the best possible answer for the United Kingdom which ensures we have
:26:24. > :26:26.a comprehensive free trade agreement, we can trade with our
:26:27. > :26:29.partners, we have a deep and special partnership with the European Union,
:26:30. > :26:33.that we ensure that we are growing our economy but it's not just about
:26:34. > :26:36.our relationship with the European Union, it's about trade deals that
:26:37. > :26:40.we will do with countries around the rest of the world. And it's about
:26:41. > :26:48.ensuring sound management conservative government.
:26:49. > :26:50.Commissioners have highlighted to me the valuable contribution that
:26:51. > :26:56.retired police Sergeant and now special constable Ross Hall has made
:26:57. > :26:59.to maritime policing. Does my right honourable friend believe that
:27:00. > :27:05.joined up working with other agencies is essential and can make a
:27:06. > :27:10.positive contribution to beating crime in our small harbours? And
:27:11. > :27:15.helps protect our borders? Can I join my honourable friend in
:27:16. > :27:20.recognising the contribution that special contribution Ross Hall has
:27:21. > :27:24.made in her constituency, and she makes an important point. When I was
:27:25. > :27:28.Home Secretary, I brought various agencies together to look at just
:27:29. > :27:34.this issue of how we deal with protecting our borders. That joined
:27:35. > :27:37.up working can make a real and positive contribution. As she will
:27:38. > :27:41.know, of course, what matters is not just how we do that but ensuring
:27:42. > :27:46.that we're having an impact but as she will know, crime has fallen by a
:27:47. > :27:55.third since 20 ten to eight record low. -- 2010 to a record low. Thank
:27:56. > :28:01.you for advising me on my blood pressure, when I go to my consultant
:28:02. > :28:05.on Monday, he will give me the same advice. My blood pressure rises
:28:06. > :28:07.because when I go and see those nurses in those hospitals,
:28:08. > :28:14.overstretched, overworked and underpaid and having to use food
:28:15. > :28:18.banks, she pays lip service and does not look at the pace sector gap and
:28:19. > :28:20.does not reduce it. Listen to the plea of those nurses and do
:28:21. > :28:35.something about the pace sector cap. I have set out the position to the
:28:36. > :28:41.Leader of the sop significance when he spoke earlier. -- Leader of the
:28:42. > :28:44.Opposition. And for nurses there is the overall public sector pay
:28:45. > :28:48.increase but also many nurses receive increments or progression
:28:49. > :28:57.pay. And for a typical band 5 nurse, they'll be receiving 3.8% over and
:28:58. > :29:03.above the 1%. It is a strong economy that power this is Government's
:29:04. > :29:07.investment in the NHS and it is a strong economy that is allowing this
:29:08. > :29:11.Government to create 1,500 new medical school places and new
:29:12. > :29:19.medical schools. Does the Prime Minister agree with me that
:29:20. > :29:26.Lincolnshire makes a new case for a new medical school in this great
:29:27. > :29:34.county? My honourable friend makes an important point. We can only pay
:29:35. > :29:40.for public services with a strong economy. And as he said we are going
:29:41. > :29:44.to train 1,500 more doctors every year to ensure the NHS has enough
:29:45. > :29:48.doctors to continue providing a safe, compassionate care we all want
:29:49. > :29:51.to see. We are looking at the question of how to allocate the
:29:52. > :29:54.places and will publish their consultation response. They are also
:29:55. > :29:57.looking at the possibility of new and aspiring medical schools bidding
:29:58. > :30:03.for these places and I'm sure that as my honourable friend has always
:30:04. > :30:07.been a champion for his constituents and constituency, he will continue
:30:08. > :30:10.to make an excellent case for Lynne coreshire. On Saturday the Shadow
:30:11. > :30:13.Chancellor and I joined staff from picture house cinemas outside the
:30:14. > :30:18.Ritzy in Brixton who are striking because their employer reus foos to
:30:19. > :30:21.pay the London living wage and has outrageously stacked their trade
:30:22. > :30:25.union representatives. Will the Prime Minister join me on calling of
:30:26. > :30:31.Picture House cinema who made a profit last year of ?18 million to
:30:32. > :30:37.pay their staff the London living wage and to rein-Tait their local
:30:38. > :30:41.res madly -- reinstate. It is about a relationship between employers and
:30:42. > :30:44.their employees. What I say to her overall is the importance of
:30:45. > :30:53.Government taking the right decisions to ensure we can - excuse
:30:54. > :30:58.me - taking right decisions to ensure that growing the economy and
:30:59. > :31:05.providing those jobs for people in the first place. Tait THE SPEAKER:
:31:06. > :31:11.Andrew Bowie. Thank you Mr Speaker, I would to thank the Prime Minister
:31:12. > :31:17.for taking time during the general election to come up to campaign in
:31:18. > :31:24.my constituency where I think we did rather well. I would like to ask if
:31:25. > :31:27.she agrees with me that it is utterly shameful that the Scottish
:31:28. > :31:31.Government have for the second year in a reh to go pleading to the
:31:32. > :31:37.European Commission for an extension to the farm payment deadline, and is
:31:38. > :31:41.this not proof, if further proof were needed that the SNP are failing
:31:42. > :31:44.rural Scotland? THE SPEAKER: Order. We're fascinated to hear the answer,
:31:45. > :31:48.I should just say although I'm interested to hear the answer and we
:31:49. > :31:54.will, the Prime Minister is not responsible for the Scottish
:31:55. > :31:58.Government. Prime Minister. Can I first of all welcome my honourable
:31:59. > :32:04.friend to his place in this House and I very much enjoyed my visit to
:32:05. > :32:08.his constituency during the election campaign. But what he says is
:32:09. > :32:12.absolutely right because time and again, in this Chamber, Mr Speaker,
:32:13. > :32:17.we hear the Scottish Nationalists demanding more powers for Scotland.
:32:18. > :32:25.Yet what do we see? They are failing to deliver for the Scottish people
:32:26. > :32:29.on the powers they already have. Yet again Scottish schools are now
:32:30. > :32:33.outperformed in every category by schools in England, Northern
:32:34. > :32:37.Ireland, Estonia and Poland. Powers are kept in Edinburgh rather than
:32:38. > :32:41.being devolved to local people and as my honourable friend says, yet
:32:42. > :32:45.again we see farmers waiting months for their subsidy payments. The
:32:46. > :32:50.simple fact is that the SNP's qualities are not in the best
:32:51. > :32:53.interests of the people of Scotland. THE SPEAKER: Order. I say to the
:32:54. > :32:56.honourable gentleman the member for Glasgow South who persists in
:32:57. > :33:02.gesticulating in an eccentric matter, he seems discome bob lighted
:33:03. > :33:08.from the world he inhabits. It is an unhappy state of affairs.
:33:09. > :33:12.The southern rail dispute is causing real damage to the economy of
:33:13. > :33:16.Eastbourne and South East. My constituents have had a shocking
:33:17. > :33:22.time with the services provide the or not for the last 1 months. This
:33:23. > :33:26.shrimp cannot go on. With the Prime Minister enlighten me, my
:33:27. > :33:31.constituents and the House, why the Department for Transport and the
:33:32. > :33:36.train operator will not meet with the unions at the same time in the
:33:37. > :33:39.same room, together, to negotiate a deal? I recognise the problems that
:33:40. > :33:46.have been experienced by passengers on southern rail, this is a matter
:33:47. > :33:49.that has been raised by a number of my colleagues in the House,
:33:50. > :33:52.including my honourable friend the member for Lewes who raised it last
:33:53. > :33:55.weevenlingt I'm very disappointed that they have called more
:33:56. > :33:59.industrial action. It is completely unnecessary. All it will do is cause
:34:00. > :34:04.more disruption and frustration for passengers. The recent independent
:34:05. > :34:08.report says the main cause of widespread disruption on Southern
:34:09. > :34:13.has been union action. So, I would urge the unions to call off these
:34:14. > :34:22.strikes, work with the operators and deliver the services the passengers
:34:23. > :34:27.need. THE SPEAKER: Alex Burghart. Businesses across my constituency
:34:28. > :34:32.will be cock ahoop to hear that their calls for better broadband are
:34:33. > :34:35.being answer bid the digital infrastructure investment fund.
:34:36. > :34:39.Which is going to unlock about ?1 billion for full fibre service. It
:34:40. > :34:42.is going to help them create jobs, particularly in rural areas. Will
:34:43. > :34:46.the Prime Minister agree with me that this is exactly the sort of
:34:47. > :34:51.infrastructure spend we need to get our country Brexit-ready? My
:34:52. > :34:55.honourable friend makes a very important point. And wear already a
:34:56. > :35:01.digital world leader and we're committed to making sure this
:35:02. > :35:07.unremains so. We already see 93% of the UK accessing superfast broadband
:35:08. > :35:13.and we are on track to reach 95% by the end of the year but we do want
:35:14. > :35:15.to see more commercial investment in the gold standard connectivity full
:35:16. > :35:17.fibre provides and this is' why we've launched this digital
:35:18. > :35:21.infrastructure investment fund accompanies aaround the UK will be
:35:22. > :35:25.able to apply for match funding for projects which would see fibre
:35:26. > :35:29.delivered right to the doorstep. Yesterday we also announced 100%
:35:30. > :35:33.business rate relief for businesses rolling out new fibre. This is
:35:34. > :35:37.important. We want to continue to be woorld leader and these are the
:35:38. > :35:41.actions Government are taking in making sure we will be. Police
:35:42. > :35:46.officer numbers in Wales have dropped by 10% since her party came
:35:47. > :35:50.to power. The policing is devolved in Northern Ireland and Scotland and
:35:51. > :35:56.have xrap funding worth ?25 million at their disposal. This would more
:35:57. > :36:00.than replace those lost officers. What justification is there for
:36:01. > :36:06.refusing to want to devolve policing? We have been around this
:36:07. > :36:09.discussion before but can I address the central issue of what the
:36:10. > :36:14.honourable lady is talking about, police budgets and the number of
:36:15. > :36:18.police officers. We are currently protecting police budgets. We have
:36:19. > :36:23.been doing that since 2015. That I believe is acknowledged across the
:36:24. > :36:26.House. And we have we are not protecting the police budgets but
:36:27. > :36:34.ensuring the police need the cape acts they need to deal with new
:36:35. > :36:37.types of crime, creating the national cybercrime unit and
:36:38. > :36:44.national police agency and this is why what we are doing to cut crime
:36:45. > :36:49.and crime is at a record low. THE SPEAKER: Scott Mann. Can I thank the
:36:50. > :36:53.Prime Minister for introducing the trade and fishery Brexit bill in the
:36:54. > :36:56.Queen's Speech. It'll be welcome in the West Country however we are
:36:57. > :37:00.facing significant challenges with rural Post Office network and the
:37:01. > :37:02.trands flings some branches from community branches to community
:37:03. > :37:07.village stores and community buildings. Some of those moves have
:37:08. > :37:15.been smooth and some haven't. Can I ask her to take a look at this and
:37:16. > :37:18.see if there is anything more the Government can do to help my
:37:19. > :37:22.constituents? My honourable friend again raises an important point and
:37:23. > :37:26.it is right we should recognise the role played in communities by rural
:37:27. > :37:31.Post Offices and rural Post Offices in places like Campbell Ford and in
:37:32. > :37:33.his constituency but in the constituencies of other honourable
:37:34. > :37:39.members. We've invested in the network up to 2018. It is at its
:37:40. > :37:44.most stable for decades but he is right, I would urge the Post Office
:37:45. > :37:51.to help to make it as easy as possible for shops who want it take
:37:52. > :37:54.over postal services to be able to do so. . THE SPEAKER: Diana
:37:55. > :37:58.Johnston. Mrnchts speaker, 2,400 people have died as a result of the
:37:59. > :38:01.NHS contaminated blood scandal. More than Hillsborough and all the other
:38:02. > :38:05.disasters over the previous few decades put together. With the excel
:38:06. > :38:08.effort that the former right honourable member for Leigh
:38:09. > :38:12.presented to Parliament on April 25th of a criminal cover-up of an
:38:13. > :38:18.industrial scale, will the Prime Minister now do the right thing and
:38:19. > :38:23.order a public inquiry for the whole of the United Kingdom? The
:38:24. > :38:28.honourable lady raises an important issue. I know the thoughts of
:38:29. > :38:32.members of the House will be with all of those who've been affected by
:38:33. > :38:35.this terrible tragedy in relation to contaminated blood. Serious
:38:36. > :38:38.allegations have been made and I would say obviously information that
:38:39. > :38:44.has been brought forward to the House will be looked at bhinsteres
:38:45. > :38:47.at the Department of Health but if any honourable member has further
:38:48. > :38:51.information or evidence they believe would be important that should go to
:38:52. > :38:53.ministers, so they can properly investigate T we are providing more
:38:54. > :38:59.compensation than any previous Government and committed ?125
:39:00. > :39:02.million of extra funding for those affected for the contaminated blood
:39:03. > :39:06.tragedy last July. But the Department of Health will look at
:39:07. > :39:12.any new evidence that is brought forward. Mr Speaker, rather than
:39:13. > :39:20.celebrating the NHS, the party opposite rather shamelessly have
:39:21. > :39:25.tried to weaponise the NHS with the political campaigning tools. Will
:39:26. > :39:30.the Prime Minister assure me that services like the 999 service will
:39:31. > :39:34.be decided upon, based on clinical decision, not those of politicians
:39:35. > :39:36.that are trying to weaponise our public services? My honourable
:39:37. > :39:41.friend is absolutely right. In relation to the services that are
:39:42. > :39:46.provided by the NHS, it is so important that decisions are taken
:39:47. > :39:49.on a clinical basis by those who understand the needs and
:39:50. > :39:56.requirements of people and in different areas. And that's why we
:39:57. > :40:02.have set up NHS England which has a plan for developing services in the
:40:03. > :40:06.NHS, over a five-year period. It's important that politicians allow
:40:07. > :40:12.clinicians and others in the NHS to make the decisions they need to. I'm
:40:13. > :40:18.thinking of my constituents Konnie and Chris Guard and Charlie at this
:40:19. > :40:23.difficult time. It's clear that if Charlie remains in the UK there is
:40:24. > :40:27.no further treatment available and that life support will be switched
:40:28. > :40:32.off. There are differing views about the charges of the by pass therapy
:40:33. > :40:35.that other children, albeit with less swear forms of Charlie's
:40:36. > :40:37.condition have benefited from. I understand the chances of
:40:38. > :40:40.improvement for Charlie are low but that doctors would be able to say
:40:41. > :40:47.within three months whether Charlie is responding and whether the change
:40:48. > :40:52.is clinically beneficial. If there is any room for discretion within
:40:53. > :40:58.the court ruling for Great Ormond Street to allow Charlie to leave and
:40:59. > :41:00.to transfer his care to doctors at Columbia University and he is
:41:01. > :41:03.sufficiently stable to receive treatment, would the Prime Minister
:41:04. > :41:08.do all she can to bring the appropriate people together to try
:41:09. > :41:14.to make this happen? Can I first of all say to the honourable lady she
:41:15. > :41:19.is right to raise the concerns of her constituents in this matter and
:41:20. > :41:23.I'm sure the thoughts of all members of the House are with the familiar
:41:24. > :41:28.lane Charlie at this exceptionally difficult time. It's an unimaginable
:41:29. > :41:32.position for anybody to be in and I fully understand and appreciate that
:41:33. > :41:35.any parent in these circumstances would want to do everything possible
:41:36. > :41:43.and explore every option for their seriously illchild but I also know
:41:44. > :41:47.that no doctor ever wants to be placed in the terrible position
:41:48. > :41:49.where they have to make such heart-breaking decisions. The
:41:50. > :41:53.honourable lady referred to the fact that we have the court process here.
:41:54. > :41:55.I'm confident Great Ormond Street hospital have and always will
:41:56. > :41:58.consider any offers or new information that has come forward
:41:59. > :42:02.with the consideration of the well-being of a desperately ill
:42:03. > :42:05.child. Mr Speaker, when the Prime Minister and I left our
:42:06. > :42:08.comprehensive schools to go to university, we entered into a
:42:09. > :42:12.privileged elite. Can my right honourable friend confirm that as a
:42:13. > :42:17.result of a tuition fee, introduced by Labour, improved by the
:42:18. > :42:24.coalition, there are now more young people from working class and poor
:42:25. > :42:27.backgrounds staying at university than ever before, because come
:42:28. > :42:37.people say it is fewer. Are they right or are they wrong? I'm very
:42:38. > :42:42.happy to join my honourable friend in relation to this issue. Issue in
:42:43. > :42:45.recognising she and I went to comprehensive schools and
:42:46. > :42:50.universities at a time when the number of people going to university
:42:51. > :42:56.was significantly lower than it is today. And I'm also grateful to her
:42:57. > :43:00.for reminding the House that actually it was the Labour Party
:43:01. > :43:04.that says they would not introduce tuition fees and when they got into
:43:05. > :43:09.Government introduce tuition fees. But what we are seeing - what we are
:43:10. > :43:15.seeing under the current... What we are seeing under the current system
:43:16. > :43:19.is more young people than ever going to university, and crucially, to
:43:20. > :43:23.address the point she raised, disadvantaged 18-year-olds are 40% o
:43:24. > :43:27.% more line e likely to go to university now than they were in
:43:28. > :43:37.2009. The Prime Minister herself
:43:38. > :43:44.commissioned ship Jones to the port on the Hillsborough families. Even
:43:45. > :43:48.-- given what is before us that the state still does not know how to
:43:49. > :43:54.deal with the victims of tragedy, will she give me the date on when
:43:55. > :43:57.this report will be published? I have not seen the report yet and I
:43:58. > :44:02.cannot give her a date, but she raises an important point. The
:44:03. > :44:07.reason why I asked Bishop James Chester undertake this work was
:44:08. > :44:09.because I was concerned about the ways the bereaved families at
:44:10. > :44:13.Hillsborough had been treated over far too many years and we have seen
:44:14. > :44:20.the result of the CPS decisions last week. This is why we have committed,
:44:21. > :44:23.in the Queen's speech, to introducing an independent and
:44:24. > :44:27.public advocate who will be able to act on the behalf of bereaved
:44:28. > :44:30.families in cases of public disaster, because I think it is
:44:31. > :44:34.important that they are able to have that support alongside them. Too
:44:35. > :44:38.many families just have too, as we have seen in Hillsborough, have two
:44:39. > :44:45.over many years fight to get justice will stop I want to ensure they have
:44:46. > :44:49.help and support in doing that. Given the government's record in
:44:50. > :44:56.freezing fuel duty, will she resist recent calls to raise the duty
:44:57. > :44:58.because it hurts the lowest paid the most? Will she do every thing
:44:59. > :45:02.possible to make sure that when the international oil price falls, this
:45:03. > :45:06.is reflected properly at the pumps so that we can have a Britain that
:45:07. > :45:11.works for every motorist? Can I first of all commend my honourable
:45:12. > :45:15.friend who has been championing this issue for all the years that he has
:45:16. > :45:21.been in the House. And the work that he has done as a great campaigner on
:45:22. > :45:24.this and other issues has been recognised in changes the government
:45:25. > :45:29.has made. I'm pleased that we have been able to do what we've done in
:45:30. > :45:34.relation to holding down the issue on fuel duty, he struggled to tempt
:45:35. > :45:39.me down a path which I will not go down because he knows decisions at
:45:40. > :45:41.these matters are time of fiscal events.