the dodd-frank law and gay marriage. watch his comments on line at the c-span video library. >> now to london for prime minister's question time live from british house of commons. prime minister david cameron takes questions from members of the house of commons. prior to question time the house is wrapping up other business. this is live coverage on c-span2. >> how do we make sure that doesn't happen? >> ministers in my department had robust meetings with the government of sudan. i can tell the hon. gentleman

that the message we give is that it is important that the oil should be brought back into commission. the oil should be exported from sudan and the african union road map should be adhered to by both sides. >> questions for the prime minister. >> this morning i had meetings with ministerial bodies and others and in addition to my duties i shall have further such a meeting later today. >> bradley. >> people recognize the government with the deficit. most shiver about that. >> the honorable lady makes a good point. it is worth while listening to

how managing director of the imf said yesterday. when i think back to may of 2010 when the deficit was at 11% and i tried to imagine what the situation would be like today if no such fiscal consolidation program had been decided i shiver. we should remember who was responsible for leaving that situation. doubling the national debt. catastrophic inheritance and one in which we still haven't had an apology. [shouting] >> mr. speaker, the prime minister's adviser said the law should be changed to allow employers to fire people at will. the business secretary says it is the last thing government should do. does the prime minister agree?

we need to make it easier for businesses to grow and take people on and advance. the report which i commissioned had a number of excellent ideas we are taking forward. governing the qualifying period for unfair dismissal and businesses with less than ten people from the e.u. regulations and a million people are self-employed from self and haiti -- health and safety and officials only for micro businesses. it is right that we take that in session. >> the prime minister didn't answer the question about the proposal. >> no, he didn't answer the question. he made a proposal that employers can fire their employees at well. the people behind the proposal, they support the proposal.

the people over there think of the bond proposal and this has been going around saying it. we want to know who does he agree with? he didn't listen to my answer. we have a call for evans on dismissal for my pro-businesses and not receiving other businesses. being incompetent. >> i wonder how long it took to think that one up. >> the prime minister consulting on the proposal, this is what the author of the proposals as quote makes some people will be dismissed simply because their employer doesn't wake them. this is bad but i believe it is a price worth paying. that is what they used to say about unemployment. are you really telling us with a

record number of our work taxing people for no good reason? welcome the fact that unemployment is falling and this government has cut the deficit by 25%. let me explain what the government and business secretariat doing. we are cutting regulation by three billion pounds and scrapping 1,500 regulations and looking at introducing fees for employment tribunals and taking all of these steps which led to the greatest number of small-business start-ups last year in the country history. he cannot support any changes to employment regulation because he is in the pocket of the trade unions. his business secretary doesn't afford the proposal and what a double standard. when comes to ordinary -- -- [talking over each other]

>> when it comes the ordinary workers he wants to make it easier for employers to sack of them. when it comes to the culture secretary is all about -- [shouting] >> can the prime minister tell us what he gives about the government, he committed mice from a multimillionaire -- to stack people on low pay at the same time as giving people like him tens of thousands of pounds. i tell you what we do on this side of the house. we reject the bits we don't agree with. he takes instructions from his trade union office. he asks what we are doing for the poorest people in our country. and increase tax credit and got more people to 600,000 new sector jobs and frozen the

council tax. his record was completely opposite. >> this isn't about the trade union. it is about millions of people. it is about millions of people. it is about millions of people up and down this country in fear of their jobs and the only answer this prime minister has is make it easier to sack them. this proposal is a symbol of the government's failure on growth. unemployment is high. businesses going bust. bad retail figures today. does the prime minister understand how out of touch when he said as he did last week things are moving in the right direction. >> i have to tell him this is about the trade unions and let me tell him why. he is getting 9,000 pounds from united. what have we heard from him? he is getting 400,000 pounds.

they are holding a strike over the diamond jubilee weekend. people need to know on this side of the house. and an opposition party with the trade union interest. >> let's talk about donations. the chancellor, the top rate of income tax and money comes in from the millionaire donors. it tells you all the need to know about this government. they stand up for the wrong people. he may have changed the image of the tory party but the reality hasn't changed. tax cuts for millionaires making it easier to tax people, the nazi party in fact. set up the enterprise zone reforming the planning law and the truth of the apprenticeship.

at taxes for twenty-four million people. it is only labor to think the answer is more borrowing, more spending and more debt. the problem that got us into this mess in the first place. >> we will have more from mr. david murray. >> in 1993 the ira lost warrington killing two small boys and injuring 60 others. last week in memorial plaque was stolen. government legislated to promote the sale of metal. something to consider further is the aggravating factor. >> my friend makes an important point. the whole country was shot by that memorial and everyone remembers the bomb and the

people who died in that bomb. he is right to say we already legislated and made this an offense and doing everything we can to sort out the problems of a scrap metal trade. >> his suggestion of an aggravated offense but every court in this circumstance is able to hand out exemplary sentences because public justice is important and the public are appalled by what happened. >> question 2, mr. speaker. >> two ways of measuring unemployment. the international labor organization definition includes full and part-time students which is just over a million or the claimant time which stands at 466,000. youth unemployment is too high on either measure cohen noted 40% under the previous government. recently fell by 17,000 in the last quarter. if you look at the claimant count and include people on out of work schemes the unemployed people has actually fallen since

the election. >> the number of young people unemployed, underemployed with less opportunity, greatly increase in the last year. we are setting up today taskforce to deal with this increasing skiers. will the prime minister commit the active participation of every department in our task force work? >> i certainly will do that because there is vital work to help unemployed people. what we find with all the schemes we have whether it is the work program or the use contract is the most useful thing is the work experience scheme because it brings young people and let up -- has a better work schemes and other schemes. and in that constituency with the help of all the agencies.

sir >> since may of 2010 the number of people waiting for an operation has fallen by 50,000. this does not demonstrate our commitment to increasing health funding and health reforms are beginning to go through. >> grateful for the question. we made an important and difficult decision that other budgets being cut we would protect the and h s budget but that was not supported by the party opposite. we have the best performance for patients after 18 weeks. over 26 weeks, 52 weeks have reached record lows. but the average waiting time so in patients and outpatients are lower than they were in a of 2010. the party opposite asked if the test should be the number of people waiting 18 weeks. if that was the test we passed

it with flying colors. >> a year ago the prime minister launched the flag ship export enterprise scheme. we learn only five companies have benefited from that scheme. hard-working businesses would like to take exports of 17 as a problem are keen to no to the companies are and why it is such a miserable failure. >> the truth is that export scheme has been rolled into the export guarantee scheme and the amount of exports support is massively up on the last election in terms of billions of extra money being spent and the other point i would make is exports compared with 2010 were up 12% last year. >> will the prime minister join me in congratulating the

partnership on their conference where 27 local authorities -- and agree with me that if we're serious about strengthening our society than providing therapeutic support for families struggling to bond with their new babies is absolutely key. >> the honorable lady speaks with a lot of experience having set up a project that had a major impact and that worked as a huge credit. the truth is all the studies showed a real disadvantage for children kicks in from the moment they're born if they don't get the love and support and help they need. it is important the project she is talking about offer the expansion of the health business scheme that can make a real difference and also point out the measure we took last week to make sure new parents get proper contact and information from their midwife before and after the child is born so we do everything to remove the

disadvantage in early months and years. >> will the prime minister give an undertaking he will not succumb to the european court of human rights in relation to prisoners and found a resolution that was passed in this house by an overwhelming majority, he will stand up for the sovereignty of this house and the british people. >> the short answer is yes. i always believed when you are sent to prison you lose certain rights as one is the right to vote and crucially i believe this should be a matter for parliament to beside, not a foreign court. parliament had made a decision and i completely agree with it. >> today, a new facility, engineering and manufacturing and exports of power electronics where stafford is a world leader. following the trade surplus in 30 years, what makes my friend considered to be essentials to

continue and increase investments in manufacturing. >> i prevent -- when i contested the constituency unsuccessfully in 1997 but what is essentials for manufacturing, engineering and technology based business is the support we are giving to apprenticeships were we achieve 450,000 apprenticeships last year and a lower rate of corporation tax and the links between universities and to make sure technology goes into our business and makes them well meaning. if you look at our exports not just overall but exports to india, china, fast-growing markets of 50%. >> mr. speaker, prime minister pledged to give england's great cities a seat of government. later took control of birmingham city council. the first thing the new council

did was to agree to ask the prime minister to receive a delegation from the council on a fair deal for birmingham. will the prime minister make good his pledge and agreed to meet with that delegation? >> happy to meet with leaders of birmingham city council as i meet with leaders of counsels up and down the country. what is important is focusing on what needs to be done in birmingham to drive economic growth and to make sure you provide good service. i hope the new council will match the record of the old council in providing valuable money. >> all of our constituencies and the sentencing -- fled guilty this week to keeping 10-year-olds in a coal bunker. at the same time encouraging action for children to highlight

the neglect in 1933. and bonds to the modern currency. is not the time to ask for the lot dimension to look at this once again. >> my friend is right to raise this. was a completely shocking case. for anyone understand that is incomprehensible. i would make this point in terms of dealing with these appalling cases of child neglect where families are broken down we do have so many agencies currently working on this including social workers and the most important thing is a real system of pricing on information and concerns rapidly and acting on those concerns passing another law making -- requiring them to deliver? >> can i thank the prime minister for joining so many

colleagues in saving against amendments and ask him given that 65% of the public is cut from credit, ministers are given and doing something about this in the u.k.. >> we have this new power for the financial compact agency which has been established and powers -- it is very important to talk to those agencies and make sure they can act. [shouting] >> lowest inflation rate in three years and local unemployment in five years. great news for job seekers. [shouting] >> will my friend agree that they still need to be done? this government and this country are on the right track. clearly we do face difficult economic times that will go on

in a minute to talk about the growth plans required in europe but what we have to do is rebalance our economy that it becomes overreliant on the private sector and financial services and not fairly spread and we need a growth of the private sector and manufacturing technology and need it more fairly spread across the country including in the area he represents. what you see from employment figures is a decline in public sector employment which would be inevitable whoever was in power but the 600,000 new jobs in the private sector shows that some firms are expanding and growing and we must be on their side. thank you, mr. speaker. >> unemployment is higher than in may of 2010. how would that increased government policies? >> the point i made is the last government excluded from the unemployment numbers people on temporary employment schemes. we include those people. people on the work programs are

included in the unemployment numbers. we measured these things accurately. youth unemployment is actually fallen since the election. >> thank you. scientific research and development. continue to drive so much economic growth, funding is required. this will be delivered for this part of it in the spending review. >> behind the hand of the next spending review but we made an important decision in this comprehensive spending which was to protect the budget. it would have been easy target for production and spend the money on political and more attractive things but we decided to take a long-term view to save the science budget because it is a key part of britain's future. >> and the chair of the

federation, 1600 which would be equivalent of the entire police force. >> the truth is whoever was in government right now would have to make cuts. that is what the labor party is committed to and the police budget. we made reductions in police budget and the key to having police officers on the street. and his party should support it. >> and whether these were the law, and the green party supports squadrons and what can i do? criminalization of swat teams. >> i support what he said. this law was long overdue and it is important that homeowners have proper protection from

people effectively stealing their property. it is a criminal act and is now a criminal offense. >> last week it was revealed officials that the u.k. received a bonuses of 3.5 million pounds. given a horrendous efforts the fact that 100,000 pounds have been archived and 185 people absconded the last six months having given this -- can i ask those the prime minister agree? we should be awarding success, not failure. >> i completely agree with the hon. gentleman. there is no place in modern civil service for a presumption of good performance. i do believe in paying people bonuses if they perform well and meet their targets that if they don't perform well and don't meet their targets they shouldn't. in terms of these growth, is important to continue to make progress. it is an urgent issue for britain. is vital for our trade and

investment that people have a decent experience when they arrive at our airport. a new control room opening this month, extra 80 staff and extra 480 people during the olympic period but i am not satisfied we need to do more including more this week and next week to get in touch with this problem. >> we are relieved to learn this government has cleared one quarter of the record irresponsible deficits led by the party. [shouting] >> you cannot be spending what you do not earn but what they would also like to know is has the prime minister received one apology? >> hon. friend makes a good point. i noticed the party opposite didn't want to go anywhere near the international monetary fund

today. was that because of something else the director-general said yesterday? you have to compare the british deficit situation with other countries that experience severe deficit numbers, did not take action right away and facing stressful financing terms of putting the situation in jeopardy. we would have been in jeopardy if not for the brave steps we took. very necessary they were too. >> electoral commission figures show conservatives got half a million pounds already this year from people attending -- [talking over each other] >> was in to these good hard-working people. >> a very big difference between the money the conservative party raises to business and individuals and the money labor

gets from unions. the money the labor party gets from unions determines your policy, sponsors your members of parliament and elect your leaders. they own you lock, stock and barrel. [shouting] >> order! i am quite certain conservative ventures want to hear mr. stephen williams. >> mr. speaker, the coalition government has restored order and stability in the government. and therefore international confidence. time to put reviews and efforts into returning processes by the government facilitating guarantee in investments. >> the gentleman is right.

i am sure he welcomes the enterprise zone in bristol and support for the animation and television industries. what we need to do in britain and europe is combine the fiscal deficit reduction which gave us low interest rates with an active monetary policy and structural reforms to make as competitive and a way of using our hard won credibility which we wouldn't have if we listen to the moderate idiot sitting opposite me. [shouting] >> order! order! order! i am very worried about the

health of the health minister. he is so overexcited he might suffer a relapse and i am a compassionate chat. i don't want that to happen. please withdraw the word idiot. a simple withdrawal will supplies -- suffice. >> a man who left this enormous deficits in the financial crisis. >> after six months in government, i was surprised his government that created 500,000 private-sector jobs after two years he is giving us the figure of 600,000 sins the election. the rate of growth has grown so

much. >> there are 1,000 extra people in employment over the last quarter ended last week to month we have seen repeated fall in unemployment and increases in employment and i would have thought the hon. lady would want to welcome that. >> with unemployment down a company of 14 family-run employees who supplied the hawk jet and high precision work that goes national and international and two work experiences in to -- [talking over each other] >> things are moving in the right direction in lancashire. >> i am grateful for what he says and i am sure he will be pleased with the order the system has today from saudi arabia which is more good news for british jobs are british investment and british aerospace. >> some of ouron