listen to what you want when you want where you want. >> now to london for prime minister's question time fly from the british house of commons. every wednesday while parliament is in session prime minister david cameron takes questions from members of the house of commons. prior to question time the house is wrapping up of the business. this is live coverage on c-spa c-span2. >> minister of defense. >> response because something is government has done. the house of commons for youth unemployment in my constituency has risen by 283%. what is going to say to the young people that they have done over the last 15 months? >> well, what the right honorable lady knows is a youth unemployment rose under her labour government, too. it is a serious, it is a serious issue which should not be the subject of politicking and we

should all want together to resolve youth unemployment. >> questions for the prime minister. dr. joye hovered. >> number one please, sir. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i'm sure the whole house will wish to join and contribute to private matthew from the second battalion, despite only being in the army for a short time he had proved himself to be a dedicated and courageous soldier. he's made the ultimate sacrifice for the safety of the british people. we should send our deepest condolences to his family and his friends. this week we will of course posturing of all those have lost their lives in defense of our country so we can enjoy peace and freedom. we are humbled by the sacrifices they have made. i had meetings with ministers and others, and i shall further such meetings later today. >> may i add my tribute to the prime minister's tribute,

specialist remembered someone so dear. the prime minister is concerned about jobs and growth. crucial to that, does he think telling 25 million workers they have no job security, will both are reduced consumer confidence? >> clearly what we have to do is make it easier for firms to hire people. that's why we have -- [shouting] that's why we have -- that's one we have taken a million of the lowest paid people out of tax. that's what we've established new rule so you can only go to a tribunal after working somewhere for two years. that's what we've introduced tribunals to stop those clips. we are investing in the work program and apprenticeships, all the way of helping to give young people jobs. >> ed miliband. [shouting] >> mr. speaker, can i join the prime minister in paying tribute to private matthew hassell don,

second battalion, he showed immense courage trying to protect local people and i thought with his family and friends and with troops serving in conflicts overseas a few more important that we honor this weekend in reference sunday all of those who have served our country and our serving our country today. mr. speaker, can the prime minister tell us how many people into the u.k. under the home secretary relaxed border control? >> the figures of august 2010 and august 2011 for the number of people who into the company under country are published in the normally. the number of people arrested was up by 10% and the number of drug seizures was markedly up and the number of firearm seizures was up by 100%. i think we should be clear about what did and what did not happen here. first, the home secretary did

agree a pilot for more targeted approach to border control. this was for people within the european economic area. it land better targeting of high-risk people and less for others notably, children. this did not compromise security. this was an operational decision for one i fully back. i think she was right to take. [shouting] but second, this is important, mr. speaker, decisions were taken to extend his yard the european economic area nationals. this was not authorized by the home secretary. indeed, when specific permission was asked for it was not granted. let me just say this did not mean our borders were left undefended. passports continue to be checked but as this was unauthorized action, as it was contrary to what the home secretary agreed, it is right ahead of the border force was suspended and i back that action completely. >> ed miliband. >> mr. speaker, it's just not good enough. [shouting] the prime minister, the prime

minister, to try three can't tell us, the prime minister can't tell us how many people, how many millions of people were let in under the relaxed border control agreed by the home secretary. mr. speaker, is in a totally unacceptable that the home secretary chose the relaxed border controls in july, and even yesterday she could not tell us which airports and ports it applied to, how many to get up, and for how long? >> she provided those figures and the figures for the number of arrests are as follows. firearms, 100% increase in seizures. illegal immigrants 10% increase in arrests. forged documents, 48% increase. the simple fact that the right honorable gentleman right honorable gentleman has to accept anything and one has to accept is this. ahead of the u.k. border agency, rob whiteman, who also didn't

know that this unauthorized action was taking place, he said this and i think it's very important for the house to understand, ahead of the border agency said this, brody clark admitted to me on the second of november that on a number of occasions this year he authorized his staff to go further than ministerial action. i therefore suspended him from his duties. in my opinion it was right for officials who have recommended the pilot so we focus attention on high risk to our border, but it is unacceptable that when my senior officials went further than was approved. that is why he was suspended. that is why the home secretary back to that decision. it's important issue to understand that brody clark was suspended by the head of the u.k. border agency. it was efficient quite rightly taken by him back by the home secretary back to bite me. >> ed miliband. >> isn't it typical, mr.

speaker, when things go wrong it has nothing to do with them? [shouting] >> order, order. let me just emphasize that our members on both sides of the house shouting their heads off. members of the youth parliament last friday spoke -- order. order. spoke brilliantly and passionately, disagreed with each other but they didn't shout at each other. mr. ed miliband. >> now mr. speaker, mr. speaker, what did the home secretary say in the past when she was in opposition when things went wrong with immigration? she said i'm sick and tired of government ministers who simply blame other people when things go wrong. [laughter] the prime minister, the prime minister said yesterday about the relaxation of border control in the last few months, and i quote, clearly it's not

acceptable and it's not acceptable it went on for so long. mr. speaker, why did the home secretary -- spent on the one hand you can't blame you for not take response the and and quote very clearly my word taking responsibility and saying what isn't acceptable. [shouting] [laughter] i have to say, having a lecture in responsibility from a party that troubled immigration, that led to 2.2 many people into our country -- [shouting] that allowed everyone of the eastern europe to come in with no transitional control, that built up a backlog of half a million asylum claims and made no apology about it. and even today when the leader of the opposition is asked whether too many people were let into our country, his answer was very simple, no. >> ed miliband. >> mr. speaker, he has been the prime minister for 18 months. he can't keep saying it's

nothing to do with him. it's his responsibility. and a month ago, mr. speaker, the prime minister gave a speech on border control called reclaiming our borders. but mr. speaker, what he was boasting about reclaiming our borders his home secretary was busy relaxing our borders. doesn't the prime minister think he should at least have known? >> the pilot that the home secretary introduced lead more arrests, more firearms seas, more forged documents found. that is the truth of it. the fact is that officials went further than home office ministers authorized. that is what is wrong and that is why someone had to be suspended and that was the right decision. he asked what we have done. let me tell him what we have done. we are completing e-boarder so every flight will be checked from outside the e.u. by next april. we are greeting financial crime agency with a dedicated border police. we got the first six months of this year, last year we rejected

400,000 applications for visas. we turn to a 68,000 people without the correct documents. i am determined we have tough border control. and violent we have a home office and immigration minister that actually want to cut immigration. >> ed miliband. >> mr. speaker, anyone listen to prime minister would think it has been a great success. it is a fiasco. one thing he can't claim to know a thing about its cuts to the u.k. border force. had he now confirmed how many u.k. border stars will be cut under his government? >> by the end of this part of their we 18,000 people working for the u.k. border agency, which is the same number as were working for the u.k. border agency in 2006 when he was sitting in the treasury. [shouting]

he asked, he asked about what we've done in 18 months in office on immigration. let me tell him. the first effort limit on work visas from outside the european union. we stop more than 470 colleges from bringing in bogus foreign students. we have cut student visas by 70,000. anyone who comes in to get married has to speak english. we are ending automatic settlement rights and stopping the nonsense of people misusing the human rights act. in 18 months we have done more to control immigration and he did in 13 years. [shouting] >> ed miliband. >> mr. speaker, the truth is it's a fiasco and he knows it. and that is the reality. and mr. speaker, it is a passion with this government. broken promises, gross incompetence, blame everybody else. he is an out of touch prime minister to leading a shambles government. [shouting] >> he just completely lost his

way. [laughter] i think, i think he should spend, i think he should spend a little more time listening to the author of labor. lord glassman, because he said this very clear, favor light about the extent of immigration. where's the apology? [shouting] >> thank you, mr. speaker. on friday three commando brigade will be marking hundred marching through the streets on homecoming parade after a successful but costly to of duty in afghanistan. i know the prime minister will be with us in spirit but we did they like just send a message of support to these brave and very professional marines of them we are all very proud? [shouting] >> i will certainly join my honorable friend in doing it. i know the whole of the southwest and whole country is incredibly proud of the marines. we are proud of three commando brigade who are going to be

marching through plymouth. i semi-very best wishes for the homecoming parade and we should put on record what they have achieved in task force helmand. they carried out 37,000 patrols, found over 400 ieds, a trend over 1300 afghan uniform police patrolmen. they made a real difference to the safety and security of that country and the safety of our country, too. >> thank you, mr. speaker. does the prime minister think it is proper and anyway defensible -- [inaudible] >> i don't think it is acceptable. it hasn't yet set its figures for bonus payment. the british come as a service a large shareholder. will be making our views known. >> edward liddy. >> into any and getting our condolences condolences to the relatives of the red arrow pilot killed at rdf yesterday, with

the prime minister acknowledged the overriding need for safety? and our campaign to save from closure is not just based on sentiment for the historic home, but on the overriding need for the kind safe skies which the red arrows need to practice safety? >> well, i'm sure the answer -- the hard everyone goes out to the pilot killed in a still active. it comes on top of a second accident that happened in the red arrows. this has been a very tragic time for something the whole country reveres and loved it and i know the home visits from important we must get to the bottom of what happened and i totally understand why he wants to stand up for his constituency. >> thank you, mr. speaker. yesterday published -- [inaudible] given we won't have the

opportunity to question the prime minister on on the planet that is next year, next week, can he tell me he is leading young people down in mike in stitches he? >> we face a difficult situation with unemployment including amongst young people right across the country and we need to do everything we can to help people back into work. that's why there's record investment going into apprenticeships, record investment going into the work program. but the real need is to grow the private sector because it is a time frankly whoever was in government would be having to make reductions in the public sector. he shakes his head but any government, look across europe at the reductions that are having to be made. we need to get the private sector growing and that is what this government is focused on. >> developing a considerable protection for jobs in the energy sector is -- isn't providing local people with the skills government jobs. with the prime minister ensure the government has done all he can to fund the completion of

the duty -- [inaudible] such an important role -- >> my right honorable friend makes an important point about the school, this goes it will bring. this year suffolk has an extra 33 million pounds in capital fund. it's for the local authority to decide how to spend this money but it would make the point that school capital that is debatable for this spending round, throughout this parliament amounts to 1515.9 billion pounds. money is therefore important school projects. >> gregory campbell. >> thank you, mr. speaker. this weekend nation will pause to remember paying tribute to our war dead. we will pay homage to those men and women who have paid the supreme sacrifice in conflicts down to the just. would the prime minister agreed that whether it is in shops, schools, churches, or on football fields, where there is a desire to display this attribute and an entirely known

partisan way, should not just be allowed, a positively cleared? >> i completely agree with the honorable gentleman and since the entire house does, too. i think it's a remarkable achievement of the royal british and the country as all that we have, over the past years, really reintroduce the sense of this silence taking place on the 11th hour of the 11th day. i think it's absolutely right but i think it's the click appropriate in northern ireland where so maybe that serve so bravely in our armed forces and, indeed, from both sides of the border. whenever i visit the royal irish regiment you are always struck by how many people of both sides of the border have stirred so brave in our armed forces. >> family breakdown would reduce the cost on our economy. will the prime minister encourage household authorities across the whole country to take part in care for the families, path where health visitors and volunteer parents offer relationships to new parents in the early years of the family

life which is one half of all breakups occur? >> my honorable friend has a great record of pushing forward is absolutely vital idea. it is a tragic fact that so many couples break up after the arrival of the first child because of all the stresses and strains it can bring. that is dreadful for those couples and dreadful for the children. we spend huge amount as a country dealing with problems of social breakdown. in my view we should spend more on trying to help keep families together and relationship advice and support and my honorable friend said is absolutely vital in that. >> thank you, mr. speaker. on friday the u.n. security council will consider the democratically conveyed palestinian request for full membership of the united nations. make the international committee not do more to advance the prospect of a two-state solution. doing more to do a two-step process and in that context will be a sure that the u.k.

represent, cast a positive vote on friday and doesn't go back? >> my right friend will make a post into the house about this issue in a few moments done. let me just say this, the british government is fully behind the two state solution. i profoundly believe the way you get a two-state solution is not through declarations and processes at the u.n. the way you get the two-state solution is the to potential states israel and palestine sitting down and negotiating. all our efforts should be put towards helping to make that happen. >> order. close question. >> number nine. >> thank you. the winter fuel payment provides viable help families of people with paying the fuel filter individuals are free to donate their payment to a charity if they wish but it must be addition -- a decision for them. >> i think the premise of for the question. i would like to congratulate --

[inaudible] with the government consider by choosing an option on the left about the winter fuel allowance to allow that -- [inaudible] >> i will certainly look at the suggestion that she makes but i think it's very important we first of all keep the promises that we make to riddance pinchers about getting of these winter fuel payments and cold weather payments. i wouldn't want to see any pressure unnecessary put on people to do something that might not be in the own best. >> mr. speaker, the operational instruction from the u.k. border agency on the 28th of july had said quote, we will see routinely openings within dea passports and checking under 18-year-olds against the war instructed him anywhere in the home office clear that document? given the conflicting stories

between the home secretary's officials and her own vision, will be published all the ministerial -- [shouting] >> prime minister is just for trying to up the ground lost by his leader but i think he lost the house in the process. the point i would make to him, the point and they can is this going to be an inquiry carried out by the independent state chief inspector of the border agency. the very person who found out what was asked going wrong in terms of operations undertaking that didn't have the permission of ministers and all these issues will be aired. >> on christmas day, 1914, troops put down their weapons and played a football match in no man's land. the following day the bloody hostilities continued.

with the prime minister join me in condemning the outrageous decision -- [inaudible] >> i think the honorable lady not only speaks for the whole house that, in fact, the whole country of being completely baffled and, frankly, angry by the decision made by fee for. if teams want to be able to put the poppy on the shirt as many teams do, in a football league, they should be able to at the national level whether it is the english team or whether it is the welsh king. i think this is an appalling decision and i hope they will reconsider it. >> mr. speaker, as poverty is rising, the prime minister is removing the requirement for people to register to vote in britain. thereby removing millions of people's rights to vote. is he not taking their money with one hand and taking their votes with another?

a distortion of democracy to force austerity measures on the most vulnerable while removing their voting power. >> well, the point i would make to the honorable gentleman is we are introducing individual voter registration. which is a labor policy. so he should be welcoming individual voter. i could understand what he doesn't support necessary the idea of making more constituencies the same size because his constituencies only has 62000 people in it. [shouting] where his right friend the member for east ham represents 91,000 people. i do think it is a basic act of fairness to have the same the size because the demand in 1840s, and i think it's time we introduced it. >> is the prime minister aware that there is growing evidence about increase abuse, intimidation, harassment across

country? hassling these problems political will not allow the sum of money, with the prime minister give urgency to addressing these issues so that vulnerable people get the protection they need and deserve as soon as possible? [shouting] spent i think she raises an important point. i have constituency cases myself for people have been treated very badly by park on august. there's a truly good park home owners who do over the rules and not just that the demonstrate responsibility and compassion. but, frankly, there are some who don't. we are committed to providing a better deal by improving the rights and increasing protection from bad site owners. i will arrange for her to have a meeting with the house ministers they can discuss this urgent action. >> in these difficult economic times, it's more important that our politics -- with the prime minister therefore welcome the first successful people on the

speaker's parliamentary placement scheme work with us here today? they would never normally get the chance to work in politics. would he agree to meet with them and listen to the views and perhaps of all of -- [inaudible] >> i started doing the right honorable lady in the point that she makes but she has made a huge amount of impact on this issue of social mobility of wanting to help people who haven't had good chances in life and i applaud her for the. if there is time in my busy diving i will certainly do as she says. i do think there's an important opportunity for everyone in this house to look at organizations like social mobility foundations that provide opportunities for interns for inner-city school to come and had the expense of working here in parliament. i have used this came as other members of the cabinet have and i think it's an excellent scheme to give people good chance to see what we do in this place, not just on wednesday at 12:00, but more broadly.

>> thank you, mr. speaker. does my right friend think it is right for on both method to take instruction from the gnp of out how to propose an amendment? spent i do think the honorable lady raises a serious issue because -- well, i can hear. i can sense a bit of resistance. [laughter] which perhaps is not surprising when 85% of their money comes from the trade union. but the fact is when we discuss legislation in this house it should be bringing our judgment, our ideas, our arguments and not just picking up from the trade union. [shouting] >> thank you, mr. speaker. in my constituency there are over 3000 people -- [inaudible] there are only 300 job vacancies available.

how high does unemployment have to go before the prime minister will accept that had assured that his economic policies send is that working? >> unemployment is too high today. i wanted to come down from his armored high levels. what we have to do in order to make that happen is to put resources into the apprentice scheme, to put resources into the work program, to make sure we do all the things that help businesses to employ people. that is what this government is doing. we are cutting corporation tax, introducing enterprise zones, doing everything we can to help businesses and we will do that in her constituency and throughout the country. >> thank you, mr. speaker. an italian bond yields have jumped this morning by more than a percentage point on a sustainable 8.1%. at the prime minister please say what eurozone leaders must now do to stop the contagion? >> i do think my honorable friend makes an important point. if you don't have credibility, about your plan to do with your

debts india with your deficits, why do you like the markets are not they won't mention any money. that's what we're seeing in countries like greece and that tragically in italy where the price of borrowing money is getting to a totally unsustainable level. it's a lesson for all of us to have sustainable plans to get on top of our debts and our deficit. in terms of euro the problem of contagion is that as we agree, a decisive right down of dead, people inevitably start asking questions about other countries. as that happens you need to have in place the biggest possible firewall. that is what that he as as as is all eurozone leaders urgently need to put flesh on the boat to put figures on the size of the firewall to stop this contagion going any further. >> last year youth unemployment contained stood at an unacceptable 20%. one invite. today it now stands at 34%, which is frankly shocking. in light of is that he still

believed that the decision to scrap the future jobs was the right when? >> let me just make the point that under labour youth unemployment went up by 40%. on the issue, on the issue of the future jobs fund, the evidence that we received on coming into government was that the future jobs fund was three or four times more expensive than other job creation schemes. and, indeed, in many parts of the country, including in the west, the percentage of jobs for the future jobs fund that when the private sector was as low as two or 3%. it was right to scrap the future jobs fund and put in its place apprenticeships, the work program, and working spirit that will make a difference to the young people. [shouting] >> thank you very much, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, war is a failure of politics. the people who go to war are not politicians. they our brave service people