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 other business. this is live coverage on c-spa c-span2. >> the police commissioner said that he will dismiss her and humiliate her. is the police and crime commissioner the governors stupidest policy? >> mr. speaker, for the first time democracy introduced into the policing of this country which must be desirable. i heard the evidence also and no doubt the home affairs select committee will be reporting in due course. >> order. questions to the prime minister. >> number one, mr. speaker. >> thank you, mr. speaker. this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and

others, and in addition to my duties in this house, i shall have further such meetings later today. >> does the prime minister a gripping and i think much of the nation that the best way to celebrate the birthday of the nhs and its 65th birthday is governors to strip out the cover-up we see so strongly? [inaudible] >> i think my honorable friend is absolutely. the way to celebrate the nhs birthday is to go on investing in it like this government is with an extra 12 million pounds but also to be on the side of patients and that's why we are introducing the chief inspector of hospitals will make a real difference and yes, we do need to in the culture of secrecy and cover-up that we had under labour. >> mr. ed miliband. [shouting] >> mr. speaker, i'm sure i speak for everyone in this house when

i say there's deep concern about what we've witnessed over the past few days in egypt including appalling violence and death. just a year on from predilections. cannot begin by asking the prime minister for assurances that all the appropriate steps are being taken by the government to guarantee the safety of the uk nationals in that country? >> i can certainly give him that assurance, and also to safeguard our embassy in cairo. i should also add where advising british nationals against all but essential travel to egypt except for the red sea resorts. he's right these are deeply disturbing scenes, the level of violence as appalling. we should appeal to all sides to calm and stop the level of violence and particularly the sexual assault. it is not for this country to support any single group or party. what we should support his proper democratic processes and proper government by consent. >> mr. speaker, i agree with the prime minister and all of us want to be a peaceful resolution

to the present crisis. therefore, cannot trace retail the house what work is being done even at this late stage by the uk and, indeed, by the european union to encourage the egyptian government to secure a negotiated political solution to this crisis in advance of today's egyptian army deadline? >> what i can tell the right honorable gentleman is very clear messages have been sent to president morsi including by president obama spoke to him directly but we have been communicating through our ambassadors that yes, he is a democratic mandate and we respect that but democracy also means ensuring that everyone has a voice and that leaders have a responsibility to represent all egyptians and show that are responsive to their concerns. that is what the government needs to do in order to bring about piece and stability in that country. >> i'm grateful for the prime minister's answer to him that he and, indeed, the foreign secretary will keep the house updated in the coming days. let me turn to a number subject. the country when the 240,000

extra primers go places by 2014. can the prime minister usher parents that -- [inaudible]. >> what i can assure them is we put in place through the spending review the additional money for 500,000 extras go places so he should be able to provide us go places without seeing an increase in classes. >> but mr. speaker, class sizes are rising. when the labour government came to office the number of infants being taught in class sizes over 30 was a quarter. when we left office it was just 1.8%. it's doubled on his watch and that is the reality for lots of parents. under his plan one-third of new schools are being built in areas where there are surplus places. can he place a parent in areas with are starting to get their children to primary school weise in the money building schools were the already plenty of places?

>> i have to say to him is what the left is the biggest budget deficit in britain's history. we have had to make difficult decisions but that is why we have cut welfare but that's why we've got areas as been. but on education we have made it a priority. and that is why the amount of money going into our school is going up and not down. that is why we are funding half a million extra school places. that is why this government has built 200 new schools, school buildings since taking office. now, he asks about new schools going into different areas, what that is code for is labour's opposition to free schools. we want more new good schools. their policy is still the same as john prescott policy. remember that? the trouble with good schools is everyone wants to go to them. well, we want good schools but as ever his questions are

written by linda kraske of unite. [cheers and applause] >> mr. speaker, mr. speaker, as always this prime minister has no answer to the questions that he is asked. [shouting] if he won't answer me, if you want it to me, maybe he will answer david simmons. david simmons who is a conservative spokesman for the local government association. this is what he said mr. simmons. we know of schools that are literally falling down and still have to compete with a brand-new build down the road. in other words, in areas where there are surplus places but isn't the truth that while he is pouring millions of pounds into building new schools where there are already places, the only way he can meet the shortage in other areas is teaching kids in cabins and increasing class

sizes? >> the fact is the last labour government can't primary school places. let me tell him what this government is doing. the education capital budget is 21 billion over the next six years. that is what we are doing. but what is so interesting is that he is taking his script from the trade union. they don't like choice. they don't like new schools. they don't like free schools. they want to control everything. but what we know is one organization they have got control of. we see it in black and white, they've taken control of the labour party. [shouting] >> mr. speaker, mr. speaker, i am speaking -- mr. speaker, i am speaking for parents up and down this country. [shouting] >> as usual very low-grade, very substantial, very unnecessary heckling. the session has to run longer,

has to run longer. let's try to observe some decorum which the public can respect. mr. ed miliband. >> and let's have a debate about ethics. this is a prime minister who had dinner for doughnuts and downing street. the idea, the idea that his lecturing us about ethics takes double standard to a whole new level. [shouting] now, in this one policy, in this one policy on schools we see the hallmark of this government. they made the wrong choices on tax and spending. the millionaires tax cut, the top down reorganization of the nhs and schools in areas where there are surplus places. and all the time they repeat the meaningless mantra, we're all in this together. >> the right honorable gentleman

goes up and down the country speaking for lynn mccleskey. no wonder the former home secretary calls him the party of the graveyard. the fact is i've got to do. i've got it here. i've got the press release, mr. speaker. how unite plans to change the labour party. look, i know you're paid to shout by tonight but calm down a bit. this is what it says. we give millions of pounds to the party. the relationship has to change. we want to firmly class base and left wing chun the election campaign. that's what this week shows. two week -- too weak to stand up for free schools, too weak to stand up to unite union. too weak to run labour and certainty to run the country. [shouting] >> thank you, mr. speaker. new roles me my constituents --

[inaudible] if they want to vote to stop electoral fraud. does my right honorable friend think the same motion provides -- applies to political parties to? individual vote is a major step forward but, frankly, we have a situation in this country where we've got one of our political parties when it's become apparent votes are being bought, people are being signed up without consent. you know, all done, all done by the men, lynn, who gave him his job. >> [inaudible] demand for food banks is 30,000 households in the year before the general election. it was 350,000 households last year. unlike his noble friend will he knows rocketing demand the food banks shows we have a problem? >> i'm sure as a member of honon

constituency member labour party. who knows how many people they have bought and put on the register? what i would say to him, food bank use went up 10 times under labour. that is what happened and it's this government is helping working people by freezing the council tax and giving 24 million people a tax cut and taking 2.4 million of the poorest people out of tax. >> the prime minister will be aware of the recent terrible stabbing in my constituency in shipley which led to the death of two people. will the prime minister join with me in praying for the place in making a swift arrest in this case but also sobering local committee, congratulate them on their steadfast assessment and the community spirit which has

helped the committee get through a very dramatic very? >> i served to join the honorable member. these were truly shocking events and reading about the ms. murren, particularly the young boy who staggered out of the park bleeding having been stabbed and reading about the grandmother was described as someone who is so much committee member that they were seen as everybody's grandmother is truly disturbing. i join him praising the police and the local committee and we must make sure that justice is done. >> the government has promised that by 2016 no one would have to pay more than 72000 pounds towards the cost of the personal care. has he had a chance to read an article on saudi pacific capital not be on actual costs but eligible costs. and elgin golf will not include the cost of people meeting -- nor indeed all the costs they have to enduring going to a private residential home it is this another example the prime

minister promising to do one thing when in reality planning to do something completely different? >> what we are introducing is what was debated and discussed in this house in terms of those costs that will be covered and those cost that won't be covered. but i have to say to them the party opposite had 13 years to cap the cost of care to do something about the rising cost of social care, and they did precisely nothing. >> may i congratulate the government on achieving political agreement for the next round of reform? proper time he taken to agree the implementation to ensure level playing fields and a fair deal for britain and our farmers a? >> i think the honorable lady is absolutely right. i think we have got a good deal over the common agricultural policy but i think we need to listen carefully to our farmers about their concerns so they're not disadvantage as against other countries, and we need to take the time to introduce the new system because when the last

system in terms of the single farm payments was introduced so quickly we suffered rather large fines as results i think she speaks extremely wise about this issue. >> is the prime minister aware of the rather disturbing commitment giving yesterday by his chancellor that he will continue to intervene in the affairs of the royal bank of scotland on behalf of the taxpayer bucks is a where his last, in his last intervention the completely irresponsible ousting of steven has cost the british taxpayer so far 4.5 billion in its shareholding? with the agreed -- [inaudible] >> what i would say to the honorable gentleman who i know has great expense in lending money -- [laughter] [shouting] >> is that it's very important

that the government stands up for the taxpayer and to make sure that royal bank of scotland has the right strategy and the right leadership going ahead so that we get the money that was put by the last government into the banks we get that money ba back. >> mr. jordan hufford. >> two days ago -- [inaudible]. does the primers agree when you to do more to support local independent shops, keep high street by redgrave and avoid takeover by multiple retailers information of close house? >> on this issue i very much agree with the honorable gentleman and on this issue i think he speaks for a lot of britain. and that is we should be looking at our town centers working out what we can do through the review and in other ways to back our town centers. we should be looking at the rate system and how that works for our town centers. we should also as we are be looking at the planning system and how we can use change of use to back our town centers and we

should work with local authorities who want to see the town center 60. this is a vital issue. the towns up and down our country and it has my full backing. >> question number seven, mr. speaker. >> i very much enjoyed my recent visit to the factory for phant 0 across britain's car industry and on for to visiting the northeast again soon. >> when the prime minister next visit the region he will again see for himself the key issue facing the region is unemployment. there are over 20 applicants for every advertised vacancy, and his policy of partnerships and enterprise zones is not making the same effect, impacts on the region's economy as they give government agency did. will he consider the appointment of a minister to work with a local enterprise partnerships and individual members of parliament for the region to push forward the private sector employment agenda?

>> well, ministers do work with the enterprise zones and let me just give in to figures. obviously, we want to see more about employment in the northeast is actually up by 9000 since the election. the northeast private sector jobs are up 37,000 since the election. it's not just the success of this and. we've got attacks committed to building the new train building plant in county durham. that will bring 700 jobs. we've also got the new tunnel which opened in 2011. the extra money going in to the metro, all of those things to make a difference. and, of course, in the honorable members only consistency, the use claimant count has followed by 4% over the last year. >> will the prime minister take opportunity on his next visit to promote apprenticeships and the support government is giving to them among northeast businesses? will be -- energy press transport to get on with the

job? >> i made a speech about apprenticeships and i think it's remarkable the number of people started apprenticeships under this government. i can tell them in terms of the transport issued that he raises come is actually we are funding feasibility studies into fixing problems on the anyone north of newcastle and the newcastle david a1 western bypass and also win improving the a 19 between newcastle and south shields, this is a much better record, this is a much better record than a party opposite even though they had a primitive became from the northeast. they never did what we are proposing to do. >> mr. speaker, given the prime minister is so keen to talk about infrastructure investment, can you explain what his government has cut the capital investment again in 201516 by nearly 1 billion pounds? >> i have to say to the lady she is wrong if she looks at the

figures. if you take the plans that labour had for this parliament and we've actually added to those plans under increasing the amount of capital spending. but the real point is this. if you come to this house and you oppose changes on welfare, you oppose cuts to government programs, you oppose the efficiency changes that we're making, and they haven't supported a single cut that we have made, if you do all those things that no way you would any capital spending at all. that is the problem with the weakness of the labour front bench. bench. because they've taken no tough decisions they can support the capital spending this country needs. >> can the prime minister confirm reports from jordan that a new treaty has been signed and that this country could have the pleasure of seeing -- [inaudible] >> i can confirm that this treaty has been taken through both the jordanian parliament and also our own, but i don't

want to say anything that in any way would stop what we all want to happen happening. >> when the government tries to get work -- workers to shape the right hoosiers were told 6000 doses would sign up in the event only six have even shown an interest. not 600 or 60 but only six. what went wrong? >> first of all, the program hasn't started yet. it starts in september. [laughter] and it's a program that has been praised by the institute of directors, praised by the cbi, praised by the federation of small businesses. but, of course, it hasn't been praised by len mccluskey and the unite union. and, of course, he's a member of the unite union so we has to stick to the script. what a sad day for democracy. >> thank you, mr. speaker. [inaudible]. >> i very much, i enjoyed all my

visits there. i look forward to visiting again and i always pay special time to look at the statue of sir robert peel. >> mr. speaker, whatever the prime minister does next -- [inaudible] will be joining in meeting with some of the hundreds of local small businesses who will be 2000 pounds a year better off from next april because of the new employment allowance which will cut employers national insurance contribution giving them a real -- genuine new jobs? >> i think my honorable friend is right. you can now log in any high street in any town in britain and point out the shopkeepers and businesses that if they did employ people they are going to see a 2000-pound reduction in the national insurance bill and if they don't employ people they can take people on a not pay national insurance.

that is only possible because of the tough decisions this government has taken on public spending come on welfare, decisions that never have been backed by the party opposite but it demonstrates we are on the side people who work hard and want to get on. >> the prime minister's deputy party leader in scotland is describing the uk government scaremongering about independence as silly whilst one of his key don't in scotland is describing it as puerile, and they consciously conservative commentator says it's trite but given the prime minister is in charge of projects for uk government will he -- spent remarkable sense of déjà vu. i was asked precisely this question yesterday. i'll give a different are pretty similar answer. which is, if you look at the information that has been produced by this government on what would happen in terms of scottish independence, i think it is impartial, extremely

powerful, very sensible. and the fact is that the scottish nationalists are losing the argument. they are losing the arguments on jobs. they're losing the argument on the economy. they're losing the argument on influence scotland would have on the world. >> mr. speaker, -- raise over 10,000 pounds. i'm sure the prime minister will join me, the voluntary series but whose -- [inaudible] >> my auto friend is absolutely right and it's a huge honor that i am on the remember of my local rotary club. they raise a lot of money. did an excellent job and they certainly don't go around who bring up members by making single payment from trade union

in order to buy influence. >> thank you, mr. speaker. back in march the climate change minister said i wouldn't be sleeping if we didn't have 10,000 signed up for the green deal by the end of the year. given that so far only four households have signed up on the dotted line, is he sleeping while? >> the audible gentleman is wrong. the honorable gentleman is wrong about the figures. the fact is 37,000 households have had green deal assessment and over 5000 have had their borders changed. now, even -- [shouting] spent sorry, i missed out. he, too, received sponsorship from the unite union. so i think -- oh, you don't? i suspect you're to go through his constituency records, check all the members are still alive, that might be a good start. >> the prime minister is quite

rightly won much praise for his work on giving with tax avoidance but some people have called and hypocritical. what does he say to that? >> i think what is hypocritical is the pay donations in the form of shares in order to avoid taxes. that is what the labour party has done. they should pay back a 700,000 pounds to the taxpayer and that money should be going towards schools and hospitals. that is labour's chain. >> thank you, mr. speaker. can the prime minister confirm that the latest work program figures -- every single one of its minimum performance standards? >> if the honorable lady as asking about the work program, the fact is that it's actually got 312,000 people into work. 60% of the people going into the work program are coming off benefits and while the unite union and all the unite members opposite might not want to do this and wha why it might not be part of len mccluskey's script, the fact is this program is

twice as good as the flexible new deal. >> thank you, mr. speaker. as a doctor who once sat listening credibly to a patient national discussion is nine months pregnant on arrival at terminal three heathrow, i was very pleased to the secretary of state for health, -- does the promise to agree with me that although the savings are modest the principle matters to health service should be national not international? >> i think the honorable friend makes a very important point. this is a national health service, not a national health service. british families pay about 5000 pounds a year in taxes to pay for our nhs and it is right to make sure those people who don't have a right to use our nhs gets properly charged for it. we have made this announcement but i hope there would be full party support for both labour's public health minister has

condemned it as xenophobic so i assumed it would post the sensible change which working people in this country will roundly support. >> the bedroom tax is turning into disaster in constituencies like mine. families are moving out of good quality social housing and into the private sector at a greater cost to the taxpayer. bedroom houses are now standing empty. [inaudible] is this not turning into a disaster for the taxpayer? >> what this is is fair for the taxpayer because we don't give a subsidy for people and private sector accommodation so we shouldn't have a spare room subsidy to people in council accommodation. but the question now is for the party opposite. we have decided to remove that spare room subsidy. they now say they support our spending change it. well, they did for about five

minutes last week it is that still the case or are they committed to rebuilding this? absolutely no answer. >> thank you, mr. speaker. the shocking abuse that was revealed by operation in wales has revealed a gap in the law which means lost the staff get prosecuted, the organizations are never partly accountable for what they've allowed to take place. will the prime minister meet with me in a small delegation to discuss how we can plug this gap in the law and ensure there is proper account of the for abuse and neglect? >> well, i'm very happy to meet with the audible judgment about this issue because it is important i think in the report are number of recommendations about duties of care in canada we need to put in place, and i'm keen to make sure we get this done. >> the royal charter approved overwhelmingly by the south still not being sent to the privy council and should have been in may. will he assure the south and the victims that he won't do a deal

with certain newspapers to further water down lord justice leveson's recommendation? >> what i can say to the right honorable gentleman is now to follow the call correct legal processes. we have to take these things in order to grab to take the presses, royal charter proposal first and then we have to bring forward the royal charter of which we have all a greater i have to say i think the press is royal charter has serious shortcoming so no, i haven't changed my view. >> thank you, mr. speaker. >> gentlemen want it to be called to i called him. >> thank you, mr. speaker very much indeed. [inaudible] [laughter] >> given the selection of parliamentary candidate, is it a legitimate concern of this --

[shouting] with the prime minister agree with me that the voting irregularity should be looked at as a matter of urgency? >> order. order. the question is about a party matter. is not about a government responsibly. not a matter. not a matter for the prime minister. complete waste of time. mr. peter bone. >> mr. speaker, the all party group against human trafficking has raised the awareness of modern-day slavery to a great level. i'm delighted to report last night, 158 audible, write audible members of this house and the of the house attended. that is a credit to the prime minister's personal commitment to this. would he consider a tax -- a