amtrak that i run, not walk, to the quiet car. but what i believe and i know ill have -- will provide for consumers and it already has on some airlines is more for data enrich engagement and open the market or more competitors to provide options so it will be hopefully over the long term less engage. for those to when you look at the international ecosystem when it i have been told hat 90% of the engagement is data only. so very small part of it is conversation. about t is also great this is up to the carriers, up airline. in the british house of common prime minister

david cameron described the london trike against station. and he talked about more women public office. questions for prime minister. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i had colleagues and others and in addition to my duties i shall have further such later today. london is a 24/7 global city and the commercial is the western world. ith the economy growing and unemployment we agree that the bring of the union to london --

(boos) >> but i absolutely agree with honorable friend and absolutely no justification for a strike. need a modernized working for the millions of londoners who every day. the fact is only 3% of involve and now makes sense to have fewer people offices and more people on the platform and stations. i condemn this strike. the shadow defense minister was asked to do so today, he actually said it was a matter union, so i hope that the leader of the opposition unreserve iedly condemn this strike today. >> the on going floods and storms have seen families driven out of their homes and affected significant parts of the country. as the prime minister knows many

those affected feel the government's response has been low and more could have done sooner. will the prime minister testimony the house what action areas g taken to ensure affected have all the necessary support they need? update the house on this very serious situation. i don't accept the government slow.een we've been having meetings on a basis. there are currently 328 flooded.es 122,000 properties were protected last night because of flood prevention in place decemberrotected since and seven severe flood warnings. flood warnings in place which means more flooding is expected and immediate action is required. the environment agency has 219 flood alerts in place. a serious situation with so many people losing electricity.

60,000 homes have been reconnected overnight. but as this morning there are 8,000 homes without power. is required, whether it is dredging work on the river is support for our or money for ices government es this will help those families. prime withstanding the minister's response he knows that many do feel the response been too slow and left on isolated.and does it mean that the events e've seen demand a comprehensive look at the flood protection and the speed of its response. prime minister promised that the government would report to the house bite end of january. us when that report will be available? i can tell the house he will ake a comprehensive statement

tomorrow. let me answer very direct lit issue about flooding. spent vernment has 2.4 billion over this four year the d which is more than 2.2 billion spent under the previous government. a further 1 million pounds will e made available to fund essential flood repairs over the next year. this will cover seventy-five repairs and s for ten million for urgent work to deliver the action plans being local agencies and fifteen million pounds for extra maintenance. i would make the point mr. we are only able to make hese decisions because we looked after the nation. ut i can confirm that it's new money that will protect more houses and help our country more with floods and we'll continue do what is right. figures show the investment has fallen over the

series. >> not risen. but the reality is that the of challenge we face from hange and flood demands a that we have a look at the investment equired and i'm glad that the prime minister has said -- i want to turn to another subject, mr. speaker. 2014 ime minister said in he was going to lead the way on equality. can the prime minister tell us ow is that going in the conservative party? >> first of all, let me go back issue of y important flooding. order! order! on le getting very excited both sides of the house. the question has been put. answer must be heard. the prime minister. glad he's asking about collection.

i want to clarify. this you look at the period 2010 to 2014 when this government was in office, the funding was pounds more than secondly, -- bviously when it comes to funding, the scheme also matters because it's the way the local ent supports authorities. et me tell the house that we will -- order! order! incorrigible delinquent at times. behavior selves. prime minister. i know that many honorable to hear about nt the scheme because it's the way helps ntral government local government. we'll be paying local 100% of eligible costs and we'll be expending the

-- mr. speaker! >> however long this session questions will be heard and the answers will be heard. order! that is what the public has a to expect at this house. prime minister! >> they claim to be concerned they won't listen to the answers. eligible ending the spending period until the end of march 2014 recognize the bad continuing. can i say to colleagues that we don't suffere they from having an authority which i know they believe is very important. the important issue of getting more women into --lic audience) ng from the >> we ill not represent or govern our country properly at ss we have more women every level in our public life

and politics. i'm proud of the fact that as party of the conservative the number of women has gone to do to 48 but we need much more. i want this to go further. in ave also seen more women work than ever before, a tax cut million women. and we're putting women at the of our international programs. those are the actions that we are taking. we have more to do and a good record of helping women in our economy. heckling and booing) i do have to say -- i do have to say, a picture tells a words.nd this is the prime minister who says -- having to ize for interrupt. members, calm yourselves.

is only just after midday. remain.urs of the day don't destroy your stems by exploding. > pictures tells a thousand words. look at the all males before us. he says he wants to represent the whole country. mr. speaker, i guess they didn't let women in the club either. so there we go. said a third of his would be women and he's nowhere target. half the women have resigned. cabinet, get this mr. speaker, in his cabinet there is many men as there are women. it's his fault that a conservative party has a women? with >> let me give him the figures. of the full members of the cabinet who are conservatives,

24% a quarter of them are women. i want to see that grow. front bench ministers, of the conservatives around 20% of below what i wants to achieve in 3%. we'll making progress and make more progress. let me make this point, this party is proud of the fact that a woman prime minister -- cheers) >> yes! yes! neighbor to the party -- >> order! order! order! are a very angry

people. out a thousandte times "i will behave myself with the prime minister's questions." >> they have had some leaders they have thisut habit of replacing them with men. y ineffective > (crowd cheers) mr. speaker, he mentioned lady thatcher. nlike him she was a leader who won general elections. (audience cheers) notithere there was an interesting article. men are guilty of such unconscious plight to women. prime minister greeted a leading high profile

where's woman by asking your husband. now mr. speaker, that says it ll and the reason representation matters is because it shapes the policies, introduces and how they impact on women in the country. is failing women. why for the first time in five gap between men and woman's pay increased? there are more women in work in our country than ever before in our history. seen a tax cut for twelve million women, a pension benefiting t is women, tax free child-care that ill help women who want to go out to work and more support on child-care and he might enjoy one. he candidate has made andrea endorsement today. david milliband.

>> if i were him i would not be alking about canada this week of all weeks because what is the party doing? we're moving one of their most women and seeking to an old person.h question. nswer the >> i'll tell him why the gap is increasing. minimum wage has been losing value and the problem that women have in child-care. he promised to modernize his party but he's going backwards. he runs his government by the old boys network. failing women across his party and across the country. isn't it interesting when six uestions and an invitation to condemn the strike today, not a word. isn't that the truth? raises constituency elections in a week when he's

completely rolled over. let's be clear about what's more power they get over their discretionary funding their of the votes for leader. he told us he was going to get rid of the red flag and all he's is run up the white flag. unemployment falling since march of last year. means? t that another 440 hard working families receiving a pay packet brighter future under class. term economic >> our honorable friend is absolutely right. the biggesteeks ago increase in employment in one

since the ures records began in the 19 seventies and we've seen come down and more people in work and most of the new jobs, the overwhelming majority are full-time. nine out of ten of those jobs ver the last year have been in better paying professions rather than low paying. success.eeing economic everyone of those jobs is someone with a pay packet who can help take care of their and have the dignity and security that work brings. word about the economy today from labor. they know because it's growing forecasts were wrong. evidence to r, in the committee, the leader of the conservative assembly group, it's not a sensible course of action and he was expressing very much a personal

own.of his later, he received a letter from he welsh assembly group conservatives saying it's very much their opinion. wales? ks for is the leader of the assembly? job 's doing a superb standing up for wales. only he and i were discussing make sure the nato conference would be a success for the whole of the welsh in the terms of the bringing it we'll be forward legislation and taking steps and making sure that wails have a z real say. under our plan that's exactly do. we'll >> thank you, mr. speaker. a come of weeks ago, they opened the door to the new campus where it's firsttewardship ninety-six students will be earning the skills that young

people need to compete under the future. ensure the young people across the country have more and able to reap benefits of the long term plan. >> making sure we have the best kills and best schoolses a key part of our long term economic plan and i support very much the university technology movement. has umber of people taught fallen by 250,000 in four years. that isn't just a statistic. of thousands of young people who can have a chance of a good education and future and get a job and get involved in our modern economy. helps thousands of students in that way. i askedof february 2012 the prime minister about fraud and a company working with job seekers. he told me he was waiting for the truth before he would act.

week's guilty pleas reveal that ural of fraud in company. isn't the list of taxpayer fraudsters getting too long? stop?s it going to >> the honorable lady makes an important point. he answer i would give is instead of banding around names of companies where many people in those companies will be do a good job, what we should do is investigate and make g properly sure that courts -- they're to court as in this case it clearly was. thank you, mr. speaker. does the prime minister share my at the false choice presented by the chair pb. nvironmental agency between protecting urban and rural areas from floods and does he my constituents xpect decent maintenance

dredging and not abandonment? our old friend is absolutely right. there shouldn't be a false choice between protecting people live in the country side. i think what we need to see and debate is nk the rightly going is that from the long, the , far too environment agency believed it was wrong to dredge and those of have been affected by flooding and have seen the ffectiveness of some dredging that has taken place. if it's good for some places we need to make the argument it be good for many more places. the toad dredging on and parrot and that will make a difference. but i believe we need to so it the table and work a new approach and make something that id work for decades and redu-introduced

again. > queen victoria was on the phone when the factory first world class s, sports r the motor industry. business second terri and city council have identified three sites and a financial relocate. will the prime minister join and the business secretary walk rging dunlap to not away from 125 years of manufacturing history. briefed on this issue just before come to the chamber and i'm happy to look carefully and see what can be done. honorable y and the gentleman said is hugely welcome country. 'll do whatever i can to get a

good outcome. it's prao that our long term economic plan works. however, the current options under consideration for cropping are limited nd do not maximize the potential. will my friend agree to meet with me and other interested so he can hear why option a and certainly option c not the right answer? >> well, this is an important at allnd we have to look the potential bottle neck that can hold back the country. happy to meet with the colleague. it's a vital development and i see it spread throughout to holdtry so i'm happy the meeting.

you, mr. speaker. a i think the government did good job to get private sector into royal mail. evaded all at has for decades. i well remember sitting on that side of the house and hearing the appalling royal mail and hundreds of millions of it is and the fact that well managed and well run with private sector capital is a very development for our country. you.hank we have a proud and strong istory of supporting apprenticeships across a range of sectors. apprenticeship

pproaching next month, we need increase apprenticeship for men and woman is exactly what we getting back e into work. >> my old friend is absolutely right. government has invested records amount in apprenticeships. over 1.5 million people have completed apprenticeships. again, these aren't just statistics. each and everyone is someone chance, a skill and a job and the opportunity to build life for themselves and to build that stability and that security which should be the birthright of every single in our country. primeaker, can i tell the minister the loss of the rail ways in the overnight storm is a devastating blow to the economies. t comes a year after we lost our rail way service for a whole month in last year's floods.

oes he accept as a country we'll have to spend a great deal more investing in the resilience transport infrastructure and we need a government that is and d in its acceptance of determination to do something about climate change. agree whole-heartedly with the gentleman on a number of points. all, we need to make sure that urgent action is taken why i'll be chairing bringing together the problems of the power, reductions and the on ds and also the effect your transport. second of all, we need to make investing in rails and this record is putting records into rail schemes. the third point where i totally with him, we have done and reel o continue to do a analysis of the resilience of our infrastructure, something out by the ied cabinet office and protections must be put in place. we have brought manufacturing

country from his china. can he say what are the governments are doing to reassure jobs to the kufplt as economic r long term growth. .> you need it 1,005 jobs in manufacturing have 2011.eshored since but if we manage to make sure our energy is competitive if we our labor markets flexible and competitive, if we make this country for business with low tax rates and low corporate tax rates there is no see more shouldn't companies coming back to britain. e don't get that we have an anti-enterprise and anti--labor ss and party. >> last week there was an

an appalling and damning report. ill the prime minister undertake and have the historic r practices and the disciplinary actions examined ensure that the executive team and the board are held to the nt and actually make huge statement the bullying is n.h.s.?eptable in the >> i think the honorable laid disabsolutely right to raise this specific case but the lessons that it brings. of course we still have more to but i think the c.q.c. is a organization.ed all this have is much more transparent than it has been in the past. to look at the specific concerns she has about bullying and make sure it deals with it. we've got i think this week i think the anniversary of that readful report into the stafford hospital. am i right? it's absolutely committed to making sure there is a change of

culture in our n.h.s. where we don't put up with practice and we're notproblems and afraid or ashamed to talk about them. d deal with >> my constituency business confidence is growing and has fallen by a quarter in the last 12 months. we should take no lectures and schtickly given the report latest -- the largest challenge having to contend with the consequences of recession, a recession calls for the party. my honorable friend making an important point. the change for economic out look really quite remarkable and the u.k. recovery is getting escape ser to achieving velocity. if we listen to him there would

more e borrowing and spending and more taxing and more debt. his view is very clear that if back the keys to the car he would drive it just as same wall and he again.he economy all over >> thank you, mr. speaker. an the prime minister make clear whether he still quite wrongly will try to end the ban fox hunting. >> my view remains what was in is the house which of kphopbz should have the this unity to debate on issue. >> does my humble friend share anxiety that the program for chemical ction of weapons on syria has fallen so badly behind. >> i agree. a promising start with chemicals not only being and removed but also destroyed that do seems to be

ndications that the program is slowing and that not all the information necessary is forthcoming. discussed this with president hours ago and britain will put pressure on all chemical make sure weapons are destroyed. are ersea students who ffered places at top universities get extra coaching with math and english. it's not fair and doesn't help social mobility. going the prime minister to do to help hard working students >>? we must continue with what's is the pening which introduction of the academy schools which is one of the most impressive schools i've ever visited in any country anywhere in the world. you continue with that. need to continue with my friends the chancellor's friend student numbers so that anyone who can get the grades is able to have a place

universities. on a specific point she makes about grades, we have to be it is n the end universities that set the cry i can't wratier i can't than government. as the education secretary said don't make the correct grades, particularly in english and math then we ought encouraging retakes and more work. the reason for that is there world that in the doesn't require good english and math. that's a very important message go out. prime minister saw the feat of destruction. 25 families have been evacuated nd one house is about to fall into the sea. an the prime minister tell us he's taking all action possible to get transport back in actions back in their homes nd review of the funding to

protect the rail way lines and residents which currently cannot implemented for lack of funding. >> i'm very happy to look at all the suggestions she makes. that is why we're holding this this afternoon. members right across the house is this a ot only vital artery for the southwest one of the most scenic and beautiful rail way lines in the country. it is hugely upsetting what has happened and we'll look at all with great and urgency. >> the prime minister will be into of the investigation the systemic beating, abuse and at the n and boys detention center in my constituency. his is the biggest investigation ever undertaken. ill the prime minister commit if it proves necessary, you'll constable to chief

that the investigation will take place. glad and give the honorable lady that assurance. i don't support the police merger of the past. think they're hugely capable when they're doing large investigations like this on occasion they need help and support. we should make sure that's available. i'm pleased with the work that is doing and rime they're fully established and up and running and able to deal crimes in terms of people smuggling and the abuse and alike. > congratulating my right honorable friend on the oferendum bill and the house commons in passing it. will my right honorable friend

the dead parrot is merely resting and does he a plan to introduce the parliament act so that we get talking again? that this parrot who has beauti. be resuscitated. one of my e that colleagues will be delighted to bring the bill back in front of this house. be clear, shall we, because they got a bit quiet over there. let's be clear about why this bill was killed in the house of lords. labor party do not want to give the british people a say. this house frankly should -- we voted for this bill and bill.ted this so i hope this house will come on ther at one and insist bill.

>> he made an announcement about industry. ames vital industries like this are so important for the future of our country. good news to of come shortly. you,mr. speaker. this is absolutely true that residents following recent storlz have been concerned that england will be completely cut off.