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follow us on twitter. >> coming up next, the camera in the house of commons -- david cameron at the house of commons. and president obama and prime minister cameron discuss security issues. >> during wednesday's prime minister's questions," they discussed the terror attacks. the prime minister to questions on public safety versus -- took questions on public safety versus privacy. this is just under 35 minutes. >> order. questions to the prime minister. >> number one, sir. >> prime minister. >> thank you, mr. speaker.

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. >> thank you, mr. speaker. giving the damage over future investment and jobs which his strategy has created in the business community, will the prime minister today give the guarantee that he will not support and outvote any future and an eu referendum? >> since i made the announcement that there should be an end out of referendum on europe, actually investment coming into britain has gone up and there are regular times when britain is getting more inward investment and the rest of europe put together. >> i assume the whole house will want to order the bravery of nhs volunteers are welcome the news

that no -- [inhonorable] with the prime minister congratulate them for their outstanding work so far and offer support efforts to develop this vital vaccine? >> i think my honorable friend is right to raise this issue. i'm sure everyone is thinking of them and it is good news she is out of critical care, but still there's a long way to go. i think what she says about developing a vaccine is vitally important. my right honorable friend the minister of the government policy is leading to work on this and making sure we do everything to try and cut through some of the bureaucracy that otherwise will be in place so that we can develop a vaccine fast. >> ed miliband. [shouting] >> mr. speaker, the whole country across all faiths and communities have a sense of solidarity for the people of france following last week's deadly attacks.

and this house of commons has sent a clear signal on this issue, we are united. can the actions of the be taken, does the prime minister agree that a key objective of our characters of effort must be to prevent young people from of being drawn into violent extremism in the first place? does he also agree the program to tackle the problem to prevent needs to be extended -- expanded and is given the priority it deserves a? >> first of all it agree with right honorable gentleman about how important it is to stand together in favor of free speech, freedom of expression, the rule of law, democracy, the values that we hold dear. and i think that demonstration in paris and the outpouring using both here and around the world against these horrific attack shows that these values will not be defeated. in terms of what the right honorable gentleman says about what must be done, we've got to prepare for any attack that could take place, and that these mickey shorter we fund our

counterterrorism police properly as we do. it is reaching up to potentially vulnerable groups of people and i met with a jewish leadership council yesterday, but as he says it also means confronting the poisonous narrative of islamist extremism and that is what we're doing through putting a duty on every public organization to confront extremism wherever they find it, whether that is in universities or in schools, on campses, in prisons or elsewhere. that is what the present program which we're expanding is also all about. >> let me associate myself with what he said particularly about anti-semitism and prejudice wherever we find. as he also granted one about -- to persist in the conflict with more than half of them ever return that we need to do more. in particular does a great we need to do much more rigorous approach incdingluompulsory engagement with the deradicalization program to turn these people away from violent extremism?

>> i think it is right that we do everything we can to stop people traveling to syria to take part in thes eactivities, and that is what the counterterrorism bill which is going to the house of lords right now is aimed to do. but also as he says people coming back should be looked at on a case by case basis, a in every case it should be considered about whether they would benefit from going into it counter radicalization program. what we've done with the freedom program is we have the review by lord carlisle in 2011 and be done existing program at a quote he said there have been cases where groups who we would now consider to support extremist ideology have received funding. that's the reason want we changed prevent when expanded program faces when you make make sure everyone the benefit from counterradicalization gets it. one final point and i make, i hope in the spirit of feminist across the house one or two people have referred to our current situation and part of a something of a zombie parliament.

can i just i make the point that this counterterrorism bill which is vital in defeating terrorism is being discussed and debated in this house of parliament right now. >> mr. speaker, i'm glad we can work across parties on this issue, and we will endeavor to continue to do so. now let me turn to an issue where there is less agreement. in may 2010, speaking about the tv debate, a party leader, a party -- [shouting] a party -- a party leader said, and i quote it would have been feeble to find some excuse to back out. so i thought we've got the stick-to-itness. we got to do. can he remind us, who said that? >> i am all for these debates taking place but you cannot have -- >> order.

the question has been asked and answered must be heard. prime minister. >> you cannot have two minor parties without the third minor party. so i put the question to him why is he so frightened of debating the green party? >> mr. speaker, i will debate anyone the broadcasters invite but the man who said, the man who said it would be feeble to back out of the debate was him. now we all understand that as long ago as last thursday, his dividing patch was to get the green party a platform that it is frankly a pathetic excuse. [shouting] it's not for him -- it's not for him, it's not for me, it is not for any party leader to decide who is in of the debate. it's up to the broadcasters. that's the country we live in. is he really telling the people of britain that is going to speak to deny them the tv -- the tv debate if he doesn't get to choose who was end of the?

that was in the? -- was in them? >> we had a set of european elections this year, and ukip and the green both beat the liberal democrats, i'm afraid to say, and you either have [laughter] it's very simple. you either have both of them or you have none of them. so let me ask him him again. what is he's a chicken when it comes to the green? [shouting] >> mr. speaker, there's only there's only one person, there's only one person running scared of these debates, and that's this prime minister. [shouting] this prime minister. [shouting] and when he says he doesn't want to take part because of the green, but nobody believed them. not the people behind it. not a person next to them. not the country. however, he dresses it up, everyone knows he is running

scared. these debates don't belong to me. they don't belong to them. they belonged to the british people. what does he think he it gives them the right to run away from these debates? >> there are two credible sets of debates did you either have a debate with all the national parties who appear in this house, or you can have a debate, or both have a debate between the two people who have become a prime minister. those are the credible debates. so i ask them again, when he looks at the green party, why is he so scared? [shouting] >> mr. speaker, i will debate, i will debate anyone the broadcasters invite to debate. i think he protects to much. he's run out of excuses. he's running scared of these debates. and in the words of his heroine lady thatcher he brit. [shouting] >> is an interesting, mr.

speaker, with just 10 of these sessions to go he wants to debate having a debate. he can't talk about unemployment because it's coming down. he can't talk about growth in the economy because it's going up. he can't talk about his is energy price freeze because it's turned into a total joke. and mr. speaker, the more time he and i can spin in a television studio and on television, the happier i will be. [shouting] >> but please committees get anymore questions left ask a serious one. [shouting] >> mr. speaker, mr. speaker yesterday the former prime minister mr. blair had to be summoned to the select committee to reluctantly give evidence. we now understand that the director general of the bpc, lord hall, is refusing to give

evidence to another select committee on the grounds that he is a member of parliament. is also a paid public servant. but isn't it time that we review the matter of parliamentary privilege in this place? >> i will look very closely a a woman on the front says. of this is a matter for the committee for the house but the general rule should be the people involved in the management should come because it needs to be and is publicly accountable. i actually think fort hall does a very good job and i'm sure he would give a good account of himself but i'll have a careful look at what my honorable friend says. >> dr. alan whitehead. >> at the liaison committee meeting on december 16 the prime minister promised to look into the full publication of extent redacted report on show classroom economy impact. as he looked into this? is enough going to insist on full and non-reductive

publication? >> i did look into the issue but don't want to give the honorable gentleman and in i could answer sal go and check about the action taken after that meeting and see what i can tell them. >> in a speech last week the director general of mi5 identified a number of important gaps in their surveillance which does need to be addressed by law. now, some of these have called them a breach of civil liberties, others have said that it's just another snoopers of charter. but doesn't the prime minister agree with me the public safety most come above everything else and that civil liberties must include not being bombed shot or beheaded some deranged jihadists because i can? >> the first duty of every good is to keep the country safe. we certainly don't do that by trashing our own civil liberties

and traditions, but i believe it comes to this vital issue of the nibbled a proper surveillance on the communications of potential terrorists, up until now this parliament and british governments have taken a very clear view whether it's been about looking at letters whether it's been about fixed telephone communication for mobile communications, we've always believed that in extremists on the production of a signed war from the home secretary, it should be possible to look at someone's communication to try and stop a terrorist outrage. and the decision i think we have to take is are we prepared to allow in future as technology develops safe spaces for terrorists to communicate? the principle i think we should adopt his no we are not content with that weapon. as a result we should look to legislate accordingly. >> and then faces 1000 lashes and 10 years in is because he wrote some articles which is government does not agree.

will the prime minister join me in condemning the barbaric and medieval regime of saudi arabia? does he believe that our international alliances should be more on human rights and less on economic muscle? >> we don't approve of these sorts of punishments and we always raise these cases when british citizens are involved in the strongest possible way and another we will on this occasion too. >> thank you, mr. speaker. unemployment down 44% youth unemployment down 45%, long-term unemployment down 44%, this is started up 30%. all in the last year in my constituency. [shouting] >> what is my right honorable friend thinks that says about our long-term economic growth the? >> delighted with the views of my on will friend brings but it is remarkable how it almost every constituency in this house

a number of people claiming unemployment benefit is down the number of young people claiming benefit is down. if he looks at the east of england as a whole, there are 224,000 people, almost a quarter of million more people in work inin the east of england. those are statistics but everyone is about someone who's going out and earning a wage and supporting their family and managing to achieve a better standard of living. that is what we must continue with and that is why we'll stick to the long-term economic plan. >> eliminating the deficit, net migration down to the tens of thousands, no vat rice, the top every organization of the nhs. why did the prime minister make these promises and why did he break them? >> we said we would get the deficit down and the deficit is down by half of a share from the disgraceful situation left by labour. i thought the honorable gentleman would take the

opportunity to talk about the vital steel interest in his constituency which we will be talking about later on today. i'm working as hard as we can to try to make sure we keep steel production growing in our country i have to say to them as he's introduced a political element, so might i. under this government steel production is up where's it was down under labour. under this government employment in the steel industry is up what it was down under labour. why is that? because we have a car industry that's growing and aerospace industry that is growing. we've got construction that is growing. we are getting britain back to work. [shouting] >> is my right honorable friend to wear that in the past 12 months over 60 journalists have been killed in the course of the work including those at charlie hebdo last week? just five weeks ago i attended with several other members upon the finding in paris a declaration by representatives

of every european country recognizing the vital role of the journalist in a free society, and pledging to do everything possible to protect their safety. will my right honorable friend reaffirm that commitment today? >> i pay tribute to my right honorable friend for the work he does in supporting the freedom of the press and i certainly reiterate what he says today. win this most struck me was action when i visited chapter in northern sri lanka in which is a newspaper office that had been shot up, bombed and burned. that brings him to you what journalists and other countries have four years faced in bringing the truth and putting in front of the people which is a vital part of a free democratic system. and the event in paris are truly horrific and i think the duty of everyone in public life is not necessary to say whether not we agree with this been published or that been published. everyone will have the own opinion. what matters is we should always defend the right of people to publish whatever is inside the

law, and in their opinion right to publish. that's our job and we must do it properly. >> mr. speaker, we are seeing a meltdown in emergency care. the prime minister's health secretary accuses us of whipping up a crisis. isn't it time for some honesty this government is simply failing our nhs? >> i'm glad she raises any just because absolutely we do face real challenges this winter with pressures on a&e butter on constituency the university hospital foundation trust, proved what can be done with the extra resources we are putting in and the excellent management of that hospital. last week, 96.6% of people going to a&e in her constituency were seen within four hours. >> thank you, mr. speaker. last week i met chloe, a care assistant apprentice who has started her condition after visiting my most recent jobs

there. with the prime minister congratulate all those people who have got jobs and started apprenticeships in my constituency since 2010 were unemployment has fallen by 30% in the last year alone, further evidence the government's long-term economic plan is delivering quality jobs and opportunities for people across the region's? >> i certainly join my honorable friend in congratulating chloe and starting her print issue. in his constituency nearly 4000 people have begun an apprenticeship since 2010. if you look at what is happened to the claimant count as i said a few months ago in his constituency, the claimant count is down 42% since the election. the long-term use claimant count which should be the greatest concern to us because that is young people on unemployment benefit month after month that is down by 50% in the last year alone. this recovery is gathering pace, providing jobs for people each one of those jobs is a chance

for them to provide a better future for their families but we've got to stick to the plane and a key part of the point is getting that deficit down. >> ambulance trusts are downgrading because of some six people in the country. east of england 57 people have believed to have died waiting for anglers that never arrived. isn't the prime minister a shame that this is what happens when the tories run the nhs? >> clearly what happened in these england was wrong and the change was made without the knowledge of the trust board. as soon as it was found out, the chief executive reverse the decision and ordered an independent investigation, an investigation carried out by someone from outside the trust. the investigation found it had been no harm to patients. i think it is important to put this in context. he quite rightly says it's very important we conduct this debate in a good and civilized way. not to weaken, the leader of the opposition was asked seven times whether he had used the phrase

that he wanted to weaponize the nhs. seven times he refused to answer the question. everybody knows that he said those words and if he had a shred of decency in him, he would get up and explain he should have said those words and apologized. [shouting] >> thank you, mr. speaker. a few weeks ago a tragic event occurred in my constituency were a young five year old girl was killed in a traffic accident. since then, her school has rallied around to support the family, her parents. they have braved the money to try to bring the grandparents over from zimbabwe to join him at the funeral. the home office has refused to say and said the relatives may abscond to the parents of give me -- i have even gone one step

further and said i would ask as a guarantor that the relatives will return to zimbabwe. the home office decision is cruel and unkind. prime minister, will you intervene in? >> well, it is absolutely horrific when children are killed in accidents like this and we're all in her own constituencies no individual cases cases and it's heartbreaking when it happens. i will look at the case but i was just discussing it with the home secretary make sure the home office is a careful look to see what can be done. >> thank you, mr. speaker. the prime minister will be aware that the public and small businesses across the uk have had to endure very high fuel bills in recent years when oil prices averaged over $100 a barrel. in recent weeks that price has been steadily dropping and now stands at less than half that but fuel prices at the pump have not reduced by anything like that. last week the chancellor indicated that some actual action will be taken against fuel companies.

and the prime minister named what action? >> i think we should welcome this fall in oil prices. we're beginning to see prices fall quite substantially at the pumps but i agree want to see that go further and faster but some of it will depend on on the buying strategies that the fuel companies had but we will make sure the competition of 40s the government does everything it can to make sure those fuel prices are passed on. >> thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, on the 30th of january i shall be holding a dementia summit in my constituency bringing together some of the fantastic work the organizations like lies in peter smith have done to help dementia in the voluntary sector. does the right of the french agreed that dementia is one of the biggest challenges this country faces in the coming century? does he also agree that we need a strong economy to develop to invest in dementia research?

>> he is right. this is a crisis for our country and it's been creeping up as a sort of silent crisis because the diagnosis rates for dementia haven't been high enough and i don't think there's been enough action across our communities to join up and deal with this. there is a very clear dementia strategy. we're doubling the amount of money going into research, training many more people in our nhs and in our care homes to do better with people with dementia. and also we're making sure more people in the community become dementia friends with the target of over 1 million people become dementia friends, and we headed session the other day where every member of cabinet became a dementia friend. i commend what he's doing. i did the same of getting together all of the organizations that can help people so we spread the word about good practice. because people with dementia don't just need great health care, they need help whether therethey're at the post office, the bank, the bus or train station. they need help in every part of the life and we all have a role to play. >> according to the role college

of nurses, the number of nurses in london has fallen to 4500. a prime minister says the number is rising. who is right? >> the fact is a nationwide we have 3300 more nurses, and i can give him some figures for his on constituency. if we look at the nac -- nhs redbridge group it is getting increase of funding a 4.97%, at the numbers of staff in their there are up to give her look at for instance, the baath hospital what we had was last week over 6630 people were seen within four hours and performance across the london area has been very good. i mean, one further point which you might want to bring into his own local authorities, and they think this is important when we consider what is happening in social care is that to

authorities, redbridge who have seen the reserves go up by 65 million cents 2010 and 26 million cents at 2010. that is what's happening and that actually was right. but let me give them the information on other areas as a whole in terms of the winter funding money. that is provided 22 more doctors, 27 more nurses, 146 more beds. >> there are over 3 million with the diabetes in this country, and today diabetes has published the nation of the state reported a culture education for people to prevent type two diabetes educational people to know when to approach their gp with symptoms type one or type two and education for people with the condition so that they can self manage and take pressure off the nhs. will the prime minister look through the report and act on

its findings? >> i will certainly get this report because i think of all the health care conditions there are. one of the ones which, if we act on fastest we could have a huge knock on effect on the nhs is diabetes but if you look at the costs of things like amputations and other treatments because people getting diabetes, we can make an enormous impact. he raises the issue but being able to self regulate. there's an enormous amount of exciting new technology coming forward in terms of diabetes and i want to make sure that technology is rapidly adopted by the nhs. >> thank you, mr. speaker. the independent obr says the government's long-term spending plan means cutting 1 million public service workers. could be prime minister tell the country, which million public service workers she is planning to cut? >> what the obr say is exactly

what the treasury say, which is everyone in the last night voted for the fiscal mandate is committed to 30 billion pounds of adjustment in the next two years. on this side of the house my party has sent out exactly how we meet that. it is 13 billion of department cuts, 12 billion of welfare cuts and 5 billion in tax evasion and avoidance. so far the labour party has told us absolutely diddly squat about how they would raise a single penny of that money. so the challenge for the labour party is come if you're going to sign up for 30 billion pounds of adjustment, is it time you told us which attacks are going to go, what you're going to do to get and how you're going to wreck this country's economy? >> thank you, mr. speaker. has my audible friends in the story of -- in "the sun" on page six today? is he aware that under this

government women are flourishing? over 20% of businesses are run by women at over 53% apprenticeships are started by females. does my audible friends agree with me they are the whales off our long-term economic plan? >> absolutely. those wheels must keep turning. i think it is important the point he makes of course i look at "the sun" every morning and was fascinated to see this article. but the fact is under labour theme of a deployment wind up by 24%. under this government the number of women in work is highest since records began. the proportion of women led businesses in our country is up by a third but it is still true if we could get the same level of the mill entrepreneurship in britain as there is in america we would virtually wipe out the remaining unemployment we have. >> at 1:00 this afternoon a

petition will be at number 10 downing street by parents and children that are suffering from -- [inaudible] it is calling on the prime minister to get involved -- [inaudible] will the prime minister personally get involved with this and get this resolved as a matter of urgency? >> i will try and find time to see this there's today. i was looking at this issue last night where their child about the exact same age of my center i saw a picture of his local football team and maybe think about how vital it is to get these drugs through as quickly as we can. i know there has been a debate about whether these drugs should be licensed quickly at all the issues and problems. i will meet them and have a look at this petition to see what can

be done. >> will by right honorable friend telehealth what it is worth decided efforts at -- [inaudible] >> i think as it were into three stages of melamed, i think were now at the final part which is i think that no finally accepted that there is a deficit the they have now voted for 30 billion pounds of adjustment, but they cannot manage to tell us how much they will raise in taxes, what they will do in spending. they have had four and a half years to come up with an economic policy, and they have absolute no plan for our country. >> andrew slaughter. >> by 94 year old constituent was taken by ambulance to transport hospital which waited six hours in the corridor before being admitted. the next morning she was moved to another hospital because there were no beds available to

does the prime minister think that asking the transport and all the 24, 360 inpatient beds as he proposes will make such an appalling instance more or less likely in the future? >> the truth is that nationwide 94% of people this year so far have been seeing the doctor within four hours at a&e but everybody in this house knows and they don't who is in neighboring member of parliament of the honorable gentleman knows that is tousled instrumental in spreading disinformation campaign after disinformation campaign about his local hospitals. for once he should take the truth and put it on a leaflet. shot back. >> thank you, mr. speaker. some people are very quick to criticize the nhs. it must also been right to celebrate its successors. therefore with the prime minister congratulate milton keynes hospital and the university of buckingham for

establishing a new medical school that will not only train the next generation of clinicians but raise standards at our hospital? >> i'm very happy to join my honorable friend in doing that. making sure we educate the next generation of doctors and nurses and clinicians is vital. what we see under this government is 9000 more doctors, 3300 more nurses. we are treating 1.3 million more people in a&e and/or 6 million more outpatient of what ms. that's what's happening in our nhs and all credit to the hard-working staff who are carrying out out all the vital work. >> trying to -- [inaudible] does the prime minister agree -- [inaudible] >> i am in favor of the living

wage. i think those organizations that convey the living wage should pay the living wage. i think it is a very good a very good thing that should happen to but in addition to that, what we can help with -- and notice the leader of the opposition doesn't pay the living wage so maybe he can start with his own backyard. [shouting] spend that shut him up. but in addition to that in addition to seeing minimum wages rise, we should also be taking the lowest paid people out of tax. and under this government we have taken 3 million of the lowest paid people out of tax. >> order. [laughter] the great victory over a mighty >> who have been watching "prime minister's western