♪ ♪ >> this week during question time in the british house of commons, prime minister david cameron answered questions on the syrian refugee crisis, goggles corporate tax rate in the uk and recent ruling on the bedroom tax, a law that reduces the housing benefits received by individuals with spare rooms. in honor of holocaust memorial day, mr. cameron announced a new memorial will be placed near parliament. this isrime 35 minutes. >> questions to the prime know minister? >> number one, t heplease, mr. speaker. >> thank you, mr.oin speaker. mr. speaker, i know the whole c house will want to join me in marking holocaust memorial day.he it is right the whole country

should stand together to remember the darkest hour of humanity. last year on the 70th anniversary, i said we would build a striking national memorial in london to show the importance britain places on preserving the memory of the gae holocaust. today val i can tell this memor will be built in victoria gardens and a permanent gra statement of ourte values as a ation and something for our children to visit for ork generations to come. i'm grateful to all those who ade this possible and have given this work the cross party status it so profoundly er deserves. mr. speaker, this su morning i meetings with colleagues and da. others and inin addition to mun duties, i should have further such meetings later today. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i echo the prime minister sentiments regarding holocaust y memorial day, we must never forget. the industry, oil and gas industry on which many people ic my conknit wtiknit web -- const

the government has taken th ste to address the situation but more is required if the industry is first to survive and then to thrive. i'm assured he recognizes the seriousness of the situation and will do all that he can to get i the industry through these very difficult times. >> well, my friend is absolutels right to raise this. real i recognize the seriousness. an the oil price decline is the longest in 20 years and nearly the steepest and this causes real difficulties for the north sea and we can see the effects in the east of england and w across scotland and in other parts of our country, too.thos wee i discussed this yesterday. i'm termed we build a bridge to the future for all those involved in the north sea. we're going to helpdive thers s

billion of support for the north sea and implementing the review [sd go to aberdeen tomorrow to see whatho more we can do to he. >> jeremy corbin. >> thank you, mr. speaker. the 71r s anniversary of the liberation we have to remember the deepest, darkest days of inhumanity that happened then and the genocides that sadly happened since and educate another generation to avoid those for all time in the future. i thank the prime minister for what he said. rate o mr. speaker, independent experts suggested that google is paying an effective tax rate of aroundt 3%. does the about prime minister dg

that figure? >> let's be clear. th're talking about tax that should have been collected undee labor government arranged by a conservative government. giabout.at we're talking i do dispute the figures that he gives. it quite rightly this is done w independently by hmrc but i'm se absolutely clear that no government has done more than rl this one to crack down on tax evasion and aggressive tax avoid. no government andf certainly noc this government. >> mr.te o speaker, my question actually was if the prime minister thinks an effective tax rate of 3% is right or wrong, he didn't answer it. the chancellor described this arrangement as a mayor success while the prime ministers may officialor spokesperson only called it a step forward. the mayor of london described r it, the payment as quite

dericery. what is the isgovernment's position on this 3% rate of taxation? >> absolutely. >> we have put in place the ure diverted profit tax that means that this company and other companies will pay more tax in future and more tax in future than they ever paid under labor where the tax rate for google x was zero percent. that is what we faced.raised then let me tell him what we have done. bill we have changed the tax law so . many times that we raised an extra 100 billion from business in the last parliament. when i came to power, banks didn't pay tax on all their cur profits, allowed under labor, dr stopped, investment companies oc could cut the taxom bill by flipping the kerr remembcurrenc. allowed under labor, stopped. we've done more on tax evasion andd tax avoid dance than labor

ever did. [shotruth is they are running to catch up but haven't got a leg to stand on. >> mr. speaker, it was under labor government that the inquiries have gone into google and in additional as a percentage -- as a percentage of gdp, corporation tax receipts are lower under this governmentr than they weree, under previousg governments. i've got a question here, mr. speaker from a gentleman. you might well laugh but jeff [t speaks forin millions of peoplee when he says to me, can you ask the prime minister if there's ae working man of over 30 years whether there is a scheme which i can join that pays the same rate of taxes google and other e large corporations.

what does the prime minister say to jeff? thi gt i say to jeff is that his taxes areovernme's coming d this government and google's me taxes are going up under this gt government.g he s let me say, let me say to the gentleman, something he just ecp said in his last question was t factually inaccurate. he said corporation tax receipts have gone down but they have ie gone up by 20% under this government because we have a strong economy with business making money employing people, investing in ang our country anr thying taxes and let me say to him, if like me he's genuinely angry about what happened to google, can i tell him a few people he could call? maybe should start by calling tony blair. you can get him at jp morgan anm gordon brown, apparently you cah get him at a california pimco. those are the people to blame for google not paying their ]

taxe taxes. >> the tproblem,he mr. speakere prime minister is the prime minister is responsible for government and tax collection. mr. speaker, google made profits of 6 billion pounds in the uk os between 2005 and 2015. decade and is paying 130 billion pounds in tax for the whole of that decade. millions of people this week are filling in their tax returns to get them in by the 31st.25 they have to send the form back. they do not get the option of 25 meetings with 17 ministers to p decide what their ratele of tax is. is many people going through hmrc are returning them online this d week will say this, why is there

one rule for big multi national companies and another for ordinary small businesses and s. self-employed workers? look, all those people filling in their tax returns will be paying lower taxes under this government. that is what is happening. and i have to say to him, he can if he wants criticize hmrc but hmrc's work is investigated by thee national order office and t when they do that, they found the settlements reached are fair. that is how it works. now, the shadow chancellor is a pointing, the idea those two gentlemen would stand up to anyone in this regard is laughable. look at the record. they met with the unions and gave them flying pickets. they met with the argentina. they met with a bunch of migrants thatple th said they c come to britain. the only people they don't stand up to is the british people and

hard working taxpayers. >> mr. speaker, we've had no answers on google. we've had no answers on jeff. can i raise with him another, cn anothert unfair tax policy that does affect many people in this country. this morning the court of appeal ruled that the bedroom tax is discriminatory because of its impact. i don't know why funny. memberse opposite find this funny because it isn't for those who have to f pay it. and the ruling is because of the impact on vulnerable individual, and victims of disabled -- udgme victims of domestic violence anl disabled children, will the licy prime minister read the judgment and finally abandon this cruel and unjust policy ruled to be

illega illegal? >> our fundamental position is e it's unpair to subsidize rooms a in the social sector if you sue don't subsidize them in the isn private sector where people't a paying a housing benefit and that is a basic issue of a ha fairness. but isn't iton interesting that he makes is dgege something that could cost as much as $2.5 billion pounds in t the next parliament?? who will payayto for it? jeff. the peoplexes, m filling in tax will pay for it. got why is it he always wants to see more welfare, higher taxes, more borrowing, all the things that got us into the mess in the first place? >> mr. speaker, we haven't done the answers on google or the om bedroom tax,t sir, but i ask th prime minister this, shortly before coming to the chamber, i became aware of the final repor reports of the united nations i

panel of experts on yemen and it makes very disturbing reading r and i quote, it says, this is the report that has documented that coalition forces have conducted air strikes targeting civilians and civilian objects in violation of international humanitarian law including camps of internal lly displaced perso and medical facilities,bing r s andd mosques. these are very disturbing reports. this, will the prime minister agree to launch l immediately an inquiry and fulln review into the expert licenses to saudi arabia and suspect thew armed salesel until that review has been concluded? >> we have thehe let strictest rules for exports almost any country i in the world and- we are not a member of the persaudi-led inv coalition and not involved in i the saudi-led coalition and british personnel are not

involved in carrying out rts strikes. i'll look at this report as cor others but the armed experts arn carefully controlled and backing the legitimate government of the yemen not least because run terrorist attacks planned in the yemen would have a direct affect on people in our country. i refuse to run a foreign policy by press release, which is what he wants. i want a foreign policy in the interest of the british people. >> thank you, mr. speaker. the recent explosion of legal claims against british troops e including those pursued donated pounds to usands of the shadow defense secretary -- undermine the ability of our armed forces to do their job. will the prime minister join me in repeatuating the distan thats shows to our brave servicewomany men and our brave servicemen?

. >> here! >> we hold our service personnel to the highest standards but ice quite clear there is ann industg trying to profit from claims that a large brave servicemen and women and i'm determined tot do everything we can to close this bogus industry down and wei should start by making clear we will takem.at's action against legal firm to abuse the system ] to pursue claims that is absolutely not acceptable. >> mr. with speaker, may i begih the comments of the prime minister in relation to holocaust memorial day and commend governments across the united kingdom for supporting the holocaust education trust for the work they do. mr. speaker, does the prime minister agree there is no justification for discrimination or unfairness towards women in the private sector public sector or by government? >> yeah. >> first h ofon all, let me wel what the gentleman says about a. the holocaust trust.

i rememberconstituency and they work extremely hard around the clock but this day is particularly important and i would urge colleagues that haven't visited, it's something you will never forget, no matter what you read or films you've seen. there is nothing like seeing what happened in the darkest hour oftics humanity. in terms of wanting to end discrimination in the public n sector and private, yes, absolutely. >> robertson, i very much hat's welcome what the prime ministerg has to say and he's aware of thd state pension inequality impacting on many women and that this parliament voted unanimously for the government to and i quote, immediately introduce transitional arrangements for those women negatively affected by pension equalization.se what is a prime minister going to do to respect the decision of this parliament and help those

affected, born in the 1950s and should have had proper notice to plan the finances and cam retirement? >>n what i'd say to the gentleman, first of all, the equalization came on the basis of equality, a judgment we put t in place in the 1990s when this governmentno decided rightly iny view to raise the retirement ent age. we made the decision that no one should suffer a greater than 18-month increase in their minao retirement age and that's the decision this house of commons took. in terms of ending e discrimination in the pension system, i would say that the introduction of the single tier pension at 155 pounds a week will be one of the best ways we can end discrimination in the pension system because so many women retiring will get so muchl more in their pension, which of course, under this government is triple lock protected so they will get inflation earnings of 2.5% and never again the 75 p increase in the pension.

>> i'm here, mr. speaker. our prisons can still be sentenced of radicalization. will a prime minister look at almost sul measures of preventig people, troubled young people from falling into the jaws ofex these dangerously screwed up predatory extremists? >> my honorable friend is right. it's very disturbing that when e people are in our care, when tha state is looking after them thar on some occasions they have been radicalized because of what they have heard in prison either fron other prisoners or from perhapsa once occasions visiting arms thr need to sort the situation out. the justice secretary put in place a review. i'll look very carefully at the report but we must make sure if people go to prison they are deradicalized rather than made worse. >> thank you, since the chancellor took control of the public utterly feel to get the

did i have so deficit under control and over 74 billion to flunk the gap or - and mown mental financial blacke hole in his boots as to each onn target for the year by somewhere in the region of 9 billion pounds, will the prime e minister finally conceit -- will the prime minister -- >> order. i don't wish to be unkind but i think we'veth got the gist. no, no, no, order. had that was a polite way of saying the honorable lady concluded hef question. >> what i would say is that my friend the chancellor and nd wil economic strategy thisl government pursued cut the deficit in half from the recorde level we inherited and soon it . will be down by two-thirds and h we're meeting what we want to see in terms of debt falling asc

a sharee of gdp. what a contrast i would say with a situation thatst scotland wou facing if scotland had voted le for independence in just six weeks time. we've actually seen a collapse d of 94% of the oil revenues. because we've got the broad shoulders of thehe united kingd, that collapse in the oil price and taxation won't affect peopld in scotland. it would be a very, very dark day, indeed. >> thank you. recently i held a mental health forum in my constituency where s brought service members and commissions together to explore how to ill prove mental health d services. can i welcome the prime minister's recent announcement on increased funding for mentalc health service and would he agree despite thecl fact we hav more work to do that his commitments are a clear indication of our desire to have a revolution in mental health

services in britain and he has s delivered some commitments on that? >>nvesti well, i'm very gratefud there is further to go but this government is investing more in mental health. we've introduced the waiting times most recently saying youn. people suffering episodes of re psychosis should be seen within two weeks. there is funding, esteem and a waiting time but also needs to be the bigger culture change, not just in the nhs but across the public sector so mental health conditions are m given ts attention they deserve. >> thank you,u, mr. speaker. los from thise april a woman who if works full-time stands to lose thousands of pounds in tax hi credits if she becomes pregnant with her first child. when will this prime minister ec stop attacking working people?a. >> what we're doing for women like that is making sure this year they can earn 11,000 pounds without paying income tax. if they are on minimum wage, 7%

pay increase because of the national living wage, that for the first time there will be 30r hours of free child care for those people. do that's what we're doing for hard-working people in our country. do we need to reform welfare?tyt yes, we do. if the honorable gentleman read the report into why his party e lost the election, he would see that not the one they published, of course, the secret one over the weekend is by endlessly arguing for higher and higher welfare, the british public concludes under labor, there would be higher and higher taxes. >> thank you. thank you, mr. speaker i warmly welcome the prime minister's words on creating a memorial to the victims of the holocaust. tonight, in hero, representative to the whole community will come together to listen to the people that survived the holocaust because that's the only way we can really preserve their memory. my friend rightlyly eluded to the

wonderful work of the holocaust educational trust in allowing literally thousands of young gv people to visit and see for themselves firsthand will he commit the government to ee t continue funding the hole cost educational trust so that many thousands more can see the horrors of the holocaust? >> i can certainly make that commitment. we work. funded it with over 10 pounds and it does excellent work. i also think there is a real need now as tragically the remaining holocaust survivors are coming to the end of their lives, many of them now speaking up in the most moving and powerful way i will be spending time today with some of them recording their testimonies, thich must be part of our memorial is absolutely vital of ons theirir description what they went through and friends and family they lost is so powerful and moving, we musta capture it for generations to cn come. >> sue endinhayman. >> thank you, mr. speaker. in 2013 the energy and climate change select committee ar

recommended extending the retention of business rates to y include new build nuclear power stations. the for center for nuclear p excellence and vital for the prosperity given the governmenth cuts to counsels, does the primt minister agree that if we are to truly build a northern power house our local authorities musi retain all business rates from the nuclear new build?y >> i looked very carefully at e stat the honorable lady says. we're connected.ook we obviously are making good progress but we need to see another big station more broadly but the most important thing is to have an energy infa struct e

structure. >> this government is committed to public ensuring that everyont regardless of where they live ia this country has access to high quality public services and best opportunities and happy to reaffirm that to the house ay. today. >> on this question, mr. ian paisley. >> let me see mr. vickers first. the honorable gentleman, let's hear it. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the prime minister for his reply and recognize the initiatives that the government has taken but hee will know tha many coastal towns such do so standards.that theal we have many high performing accused -- academies trying to invest that. a report with the private sector, will he commit the government to work with me and counsel to deliver regeneration.

>> certainly. no one can silence the vis of the humble. my friend is right and i'm happy to look at that proposal with him. i think the issue we've got is that we have to make sure we tackle both failing schools, but also coasting schools and theree are some actually in coastal s t areas of our country. one of the issues is making surn we get talented teachers and very talented leaders into those schools and that's what the national leaders of education service is all about but i'm happy to talk further with him. >> deja vu.or the only coastal villageconstit. no british prime minister visited and i i wonder when thee prime minister plans to visit this remote location which is considerable economic needs and could generate more employment and tourism. >> i'm the first british prime minister to visit and i fear if i went to this island, there

might be a number of people that might like me to stay there. i'll bear it in mind the next time i visit the province. >> rugby is the fastest growing town with work away to provide 6,200 much-needed new constituey sure they keep pace and see more services at the local hospital. does the prime minister agree with chief executive simon stevens that district hospitals such as st. grass play an know excellent role in the nhs? i'm a believer and know what t a strong supporter he is and there say new dedicated children's outpatient facility there which is welcome. i'd say to my friend and to all honorable members, if we're going to achieve these very aggressive house building targets that we put forward, m there will be more houses built and most of our constituencies important we try as far as

we got to welcome that and make sure the infrastructure that goes with the necessary houses is provided. >> thank you, mr. speaker. not everybody is a satisfied as the chancellor with what google loose changed to cover tax liabilities. on monday, the honorable member n. called on the government to make j companies publish their tax returns. in that way we can all see how > they make i the journey from thn cash profit to the tax bill. does the prime minister agree? h >> i do want to wonder whether the lady ever raised this issuee when she sat in the cabinet when google were paying zero tax. what we have is a situation where we make the rules in this house and where hmrc have to [st enforce the rules. that's the system we need to make work. >> green?his >> thank you, mr. speaker. as cancer survival rates my continue to improve and given that this is cancer talk week,

will my friend join me in welcoming a new state of the aro cancer facility center and praise the collaboration of bolts and pack, bolts and hospice, bolts and ccg who are y all making this happen?mi >> veryly w happy to join my po honorable friend. everyone in this house knows someone or knows a family membet whose been touched by cancer an many people have lost loved onee to cancer. the good news is that cancer survival rates are improving. we need to make sure they a cancers, not al just the best known ones. those what he says is that this is not just an issue for the nhs, it's all of those big society bodies that also want to campaign and act on helping cancer sufferers that have such a big role to play. >> in the summer of 2014, i wrote to the prime minister asking him to join the scottish

government and counsel in taking forward a city. the high land counsel submitted a detailed plan on the theme region for young people. will the prime minister no commit to giving us the green light in the coming weeks? >> we are committed to examining the city as we made very good progress and i think these bring together the best of what the scottish government can put on n the table but also the best of e what the u.k. government can puh on the table because i don't pe want to be too political, the two governments working together can do more. the >> speaker, could i -- could i thank the prime minister for y. meeting the deposed president and his legal team in number ted so saturday. will the prime minister commit to work towards an internationar consensus on targeted sanctionsc so that the more regime may consider the appalling record on

democracy. >> i'm very grateful to my honorable friend for raising this. it was an honor to meet with the former president that did an excellent job for his country in cutting out corruption and turning that important country around. he suffered terribly by being in prison and good he's able to get out to seek medical treatment but we want to see it change in behavior from the more deviant government and we are prepared to consider targeted action against individuals if further progress isn't made. let us hope that the diplomatic efforts including by the commonwealth will lead to the changes we want to see but britain and our allies are watching the situation very closely. >> judith comings. >> thank you, mr. speaker. 4 to 6% 5-year-old children suffer from dental decay compared to 28% across england and half of then children have i seen a dentist in the last two years. given the cost of treating tooth

decay far exceed the cost of prevention, would the prime look at the lack of ability of dentists in bradford urgency. . atter ofof look.fo to if you take a view across the country before eue2010 we had hv k queues around the block when a dentist turned up -- they may eb shake theirer heads but that ise what happened. some of us can remember that.fu we seen a big increase in nhs dentistry but i'll look carefully. >> the task force deliver a y rg report on a resilient and would my friend beth willing to meet u colleagues to ensure the task force and and the reduction of d times a necessary to do this. a >>sk meeting with the southwest

rail task force working very cls closely and make sure that we're continuing to be closely with them. make i clearly, we need to find an e hp answer to this and theen fundin to make it work. we can't have happen what t happened in the past where a t problem on our rail ways led to mee peninsula being cut off. we can't see that happen again. >> thank you, mr. speaker.r. would the prime minister join mewant on the birth of their daughter alice. like every parent they want ve their daughter to have better e opportunities than they had.by but with average london house e prices increasing by 40,000 pounds in 2014 alone and the ndh average house in london being worth over half a million pounds, does he understand that alice will never had the chance they had to buy her own home in the area she was born in?ladder wanted to help alice get on the ladder which is why we're introducing ownership and peopl

is why we got help and the resto of the country. it's why we're selling off the most expensive rebuilding more r affordable and drive of zack to make an excellent. -- to have a and working together. >> mental health to any needs prompt specialist help. can i welcome my honorable w frien friendsi get recognition and 24t psychiatrical liaison is important.

>> we are seeing more mental wr health and psychiatric liaison. we're seeing it in some. p we need over time to see it in t all because so often we got people arriving not in the righe setting where they should be pl being looked after. so whether it's getting people e with mental health c conditions out of police cells or making ly sure they are treated properly e in prisons, all crucially when they arrive making sure they gec this treatment is part of the hs life chances plan. >> thank you, mr.out speaker.? can i commend the prime ministee for remarks about holocaust memorial day and honoring the memory of those murdered by thee nazis, we provide the best an in this case -- the predicted 3 million rough few gees that flee into our continent in 2016 many of whom will die along the w. does he agree thegnitud only wa challenge a crisis of that magnitude is starting working o with our european colleagues at the heart ofof a united europe e will he take this final

opportunity to welcome in and provide a home for the 3,000 unaccompanied children as recommended by save the children? >> first of all, what i'd say t whereof i agree with the gentle is the importance of taking en r action to help with hise refuge crisis and no country in europe is more generous in pretbritain whether in syria, whether inrd turkey, whether in lebanon or whether they are in jordan. where i don't agree with the honorable gentleman is thinkingo the right answer is for britainm to opten in to the eu relocatiol and dresettlement schemes and lt me tell him as for why.. we said we would resettle 20,00m and le in our country. we promised 1,000 by christmas. and because the hard work of myi honorable friend, the honorabled member, we achieved that. now, if you add up all that esel europe has done under the me relocation scheme and less t resettlement schemes of all 27

other member states, they have . done less than we've done here in the uk because of that. so yes, we should take part in european schemes when it's in our interest and interest, help externalashtun european bordere keep our own borders and under this government, that's the way it will stay. coming up on c-span 3, two discussions from the uk youth parliament. first a debate on the living wage and then a discussion on the importance of the magma car that. the refugee resettlement programs. that's followed by a panel on this month's elections in taiwan. >> the iowa caucuses are four days away. former pennsylvania senator rick stan tor rum holds a town hall meeting in the lead-up to the

state's first in the nation presidential caucus ps live coverage at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. and later, kentucky senator rand paul speaks to voters at a rally in des moines, iowa. afterwards, he takes calls from c-span viewers. that's live at 4:00 p.m. eastern, also on c-span. >> c-span's campaign 2016 is taking you on the road to the white house for the iowa kau kpups monday february 1, our live coverage begins at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span and c-span 2. we'll take your phone call, tweets and texts. and we'll take you to our republican kau cause on c-span and democratic caucus on c-span 2. stay with c-span and joan in on the con ver situation on c-span radio and on c-span.org. last november, more than 300 members of the uk youth

parliament gathered in the british house of commons for their annual debate. next the students debate increasing the minimum wage and making it applicable to youths. this is 35 minutes. we now come to the fifth and final debate over the motion that everyone should be paid at least the living wage. to move that motion, i welcome from scotland, ewen mccall. >> over 13 million people live in poverty. hopes, dreams and aspirations