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david cameron was asked about the european union as well as transportation issues in the united kingdom. he also spoke about the election of london's first muslim a year. this is 40 minutes. speaker: questions for the prime minister. david cameron: 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. mike: even fantastically corrupt nigeria is asking britain to clean up its act and introduce beneficial ownership registered to the overseas territory. will the prime minister achieve this at the corruption summit? yes, we haver:
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asked three things of the overseas territories and crown dependencies. we asked for automatic exchange of tax information we asked for --ommon reporting spam and standard and central beneficial ownership registries. the firstdelivered on two and they will be following and delivering on the third. that is what he asked for and that's what is getting. >> we have unprecedented housing growth. does the prime minister agree that we must build sufficient starter homes so that the dream of homeownership become something that everybody really can't afford? prime minister: i want to thank my neighbor and honorable friend for raising the question.
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we are building more houses and right across england. we're building more affordable homes. the legislation going through this house and the other place will make sure we deliver on our manifesto pledge. the homes you want to see, affordable for people to buy. even at this late stage labour party should stop locking this bill. corbyn: thank you mr. speaker. celebrate great national events in this house with the prime minister join me in wishing sir david attenborough a very happy 90th birthday & cam for all the ways he has presented nature programs on television and awaken to the ideas of sony people to the
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fragility of our ecosystem. on the side of the house we are that the european union has strengthened workers rights in many ways. in march while the prime minister was trying to undermine workers rights with his trade the european commission put forward proposals to close loopholes in the posting of workers directives. which would stop employers exploiting foreign workers and undercutting national rates of pay. will the prime minister confirm that his government will protect workers and will back these reforms to stop this and grotesque exploitation of many workers across this continent? i joined ther:
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right honorable gentleman in wishing a happy birthday to david attenborough. we grew up with him as a teacher about the natural world. he is a remarkable man i am proud to say that the royal service ship the arctic ship is going to be named after david attenborough. there was strong support for boaty mcboatface. the submarine on the boat will have that name. we dog with our partners seize americans what is being proposed. i can tell them today that the yellow card procedure has been invoked i national parliaments over this. demonstrating the importance of these actions. the best thing we can do for workers rights in this country
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is celebrate the national living wage introduced by a tory government. corbyn: the national minimum wage was a labor introduction. this is a corruption of the very idea of it. my question was about the posting of workers directives. this would prevent the grotesque exploitation by unscrupulous employers of workers being moved from one nation to another in order to undercut the wages of the second nation. will the prime minister be absolutely clear and will the british government support this very very important reform to stop this exploitation? minister: we are working with the dutch government. let them put them up on something. he's just described to the
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national living wage as a corruption. the national living wage, seven pounds 20 an hour is a pay rise for some of the poorest people in our country. , he shouldink before get up and say he supports the national living wage in fact the government for producing it. support a wagei rise obviously. it is not a living wage. as is generally understood. saying yes seems 31 of the hardest words for the prime minister. couldn't he just say whether he does or does not support the posting of workers records? he might be aware that patrick mitford a former advisor the said that theher european union has a negative effect on the city of london. and he would want the shackles
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of european regulation removed. does the prime minister believe that the membership hurts the city of london does he believe that the european union regulation of the finance sector in britain and british administered tax havens would help the sort of people exposed underlinedma papers by my friend in his earlier question? minister: we basically agree with each other about the european union. i will try to identify a question in that lot. disagree with the economist. he wants to see manufacturing industry in our country obliterated. i think they'll be a disaster step if we follow the advice that he gives. in terms of the city of london,
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we need the right regulation for the city of london to continue its massive rate of job creation and wealth creation in our country. we also need to remain members of the single market which is absolutely vital for this important sector of our economy. thepe that i'm that as on issue of the national living wage we can find some eight agreement. corbyn: i asked what he about the u.k. administered tax havens that received large sums of money that shouldources and must be closed down as it should any tax evasion in the city of london. we need a british government is prepared to chase down this level of corruption. this government
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has done more than any previous government to deal with this issue. making sure that our overseas territory and crown dependencies behave in a responsible way. taking part in the automatic exchange of tax information. that is never happened before. they signed up to a common reporting standard. they are getting central registries so we can find out who owns the companies in each territory. realf these things are progress. of course we would like to go further. at have public registries of beneficial ownership like we are introducing in this country. not because of anything a labor government did because of the decision right conservative prime minister. where i would urge him to be fair on these issues is that many of them have gone much further than many developed countries. you get more information now out of some of our crown dependencies that you would get
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from the united states in terms of delaware. let's be fair about this. he should knowledge this. cojeremy corbyn. : he said he welcomed the proposal for tax transparency reporting. conservative members of the european parliament vote against the proposal. did they not receive a memo from him or what? people expect that people pay andr taxes in this country tomorrow the european parliament will be voting again on country by country reporting. can he assure the house that the conservative members of the european parliament will support these measures as he told us they would a month ago?
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prime minister: the most important things that we support these measures. it has been a conservative government has put these forward. disagreement is i don't think we should set a minimum tax rate for these countries. that has a was been a position of labor governments that while we want to make sure all these territories behave properly we don't actually sent them a minimum tax rate. that is the difference. if he wants to swap voting records that have a whole session on it. we've got plenty of material in here. corbyn: that was a very long answer. [laughter] he could've quite simply said
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whether or not he supports these proposals and if his conservative members of the european parliament are going to vote for them. will be veryister well aware of the concern across the whole country about the question of unaccompanied child refugees in europe. they are in the desperate plight and a very dangerous situation. everyone's heart reaches out to them. we have to do more than that. i got a letter this week from a worker with child refugees. childrensome of the have family members in this country. can the prime mister confirm there will be no delay and excepting 3000 unaccompanied child refugees
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into this country to give them support that they need and allow them to enjoy the childhood they and all our children deserve? prime minister: we will follow the amendment. that is the law of the land. to consult for carefully with local authorities to make sure that as we take these children in we are able to house them and close them and feed them and make sure they are properly looked after. so we have the capacity of our care system. they are already struggling because of the large number of unaccompanied children that come in. two figures can put this in context. unaccompanied children arrived last year. even before the scheme was introduced. the second figure is under dublin children with a connection to the u.k. kennerly claim asylum.
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we've accepted 30 such transfers since february. there won't be any delay. to follow the law, we have to talk to our local authorities. >> during president obama's recent visit was the prime minister able to talk to him about the issue of chinese dumping? introducing tariffs of 288%. keep backing british steel, increase the tariff and tell the chinese to go to the back of the line. i did discuss: this issue with president obama. 03 united states and the european union has taken action against chinese dumping. the excess steel capacity in china is much higher. the anti-dumping tariffs we have produced have been very effective and in some categories
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have reduced chinese exports by as much as 98%. he shouldn't believe some of the figures put around that the eu doesn't work. it does work. were outside the eu we might be subject to those tariffs ourselves. >> the prime minister's government was elected with 37% of the vote. i'm sure he would acknowledge the success of nicholas sturgeon in being returned victoriously with 46% of the vote. the highest of any political party in national elections currently in western europe. on the anticorruption summit, has the prime minister read the appeals from nigerian campaigners who say that our efforts were sadly undermined in countries such as your own. our corrupt to hide
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their ill-gotten gains in your luxury homes and department stores and car dealerships. the role of london's property market is to conceal stolen wealth and this has been revealed in these documents. what is the privacy going to do about this? congratulater: i nicola sturgeon on her victory. i'm sure you would congratulate bruce davidson. [applause] we have something in common. they have gone from majority the minority. while conservatives and gone from coalition to majority.
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the whole point of holding that theit in london is to say action is necessary by developed countries as well as developing countries. one of the steps we're taking to make sure that foreign companies that own u.k. property have to declare who the beneficiaries are will be one of the ways we make sure that plundered money from african countries can't be hidden in london. max: it would be helpful if he would confirm that that list will be publicly available. could he explain why seven police forces in the u.k. have launched criminal investigations into conservative mps with electoral fraud? it that a conservative police commissioner conserve in such a role when being under police investigation? minister: let's be clear
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about this anticorruption summit. nobody is lecturing anybody. one of the reasons this issue doesn't get addressed is because countries and politicians are too worried about addressing it. knowing that no country is perfect. it is right for us to take the lead. we are entitled to raise this important issue. as for what he says about the electoral commission, the whole point of that is to be independent and the police forces are independently. that is the hallmark of an uncorrupt country. >> congratulating k.d. born who was reelected.
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significantly for her work in helping victims. commite prime minister to introducing a british bill of rights? minister: i have happy to make that commitment. what we saw in the elections was a very large increase in turnout. new role in our country is doing well. congratulate the other winners. we all look forward to working with the mayor of london for the benefit of londoners. >> when he was left out of the
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government's plans whole businesses got together and produced a privately financed theme to do the work for city. it is been with the department of transport for two years. does the prime minister think that the department of transport's attitude shows incompetence or indifference to the scheme is been put forward? i think you're being unfair to the department. passengers will benefit from 500 brand-new carriages on the railway. 1.4 billion pounds of investment is going into whole stations. for it becomes the u.k. city of culture. i understand the department of transport is considering to complete the electrification. we have a strong economy and we are investing in our infrastructure.
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stephenson: i recently visited silent night. created 40 full-time jobs. will the prime minister can -- join me in helping the company additional 250 pound thank you bonus? prime minister: i've happy to join my honorable friend to congratulating silent night. i rumored visiting with hand in 2014. act then they employed 800 people. they now employing 1100 people. businesses are expanding out of his government. our target is 3 million apprentices in this parliament. >> already in 2016 at least 46 women have been murdered in the united kingdom. this number would be much higher if not for refuges. i am begging the prime minister
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to exempt refuge accommodations from the changes to housing benefits for 2017. i don't want to hear a stock answer. he knows and i know that won't shifting.es will he exempt the refuges? please. we delayed the introduction of this change so we could look at all of the possible consequences and make sure we get it right so that we help vulnerable people. mike: hiv infection rates in the u.k. are on the rise. my honorable friend will be of preexposure prophylactic treatments. me toe agree to meet with
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review this on acceptable? prime minister: my understanding is nhs is considering the commissioning responsibility. i want them to make a decision on this quickly. in this month if possible. there is no doubt that there is a rising rate of infection. these treatments can help the difference. trial sites.ng they are already underway. he is right to raise this. i will make sure he needs to raise the issue. every other person to my right has been an anxious council tenant usually a mother or father or two with three children living in a one-bedroom flat. often in tears. they cannot afford to rent in the private market. they cannot afford a starter home. can the prime minister explain
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impractical and meaningful terms why the housing bill will not make their intolerable situation worse? there is ater: series of things that i believe will help them. ising sure the right to buy there for housing association tenants as well as council tenants with the full discounts makes a difference. because you've got help to buy which means people need a smaller amount of equity to buy the house. that helps to. starter homes will make a difference because people will be more affordable. shared accommodation homes means that where you previously need a deposit of 30,000 pounds to buy a house you may be able to buy a house for just a few thousand pounds deposit. all of those things make a difference. for those in the states that need regeneration we are backing that regeneration and it never happened under a labour
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government. >> i am proud that this government has reduced unemployment levels. government has delivered the cardiff city deal. investment in infrastructure. you share my eagerness to see andm4 relief approach electrification of the city delivered in wales? minister: the money is there. with a new welsh government in place, we need action. securely on the m4. it is a vital transport artery. the delay in upgrading the m4 is damaging business in south wales. and frankly is high time the welsh government got on with it. the report claims it is
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money rather than religious while the syrian army pays $1200 per month. they paid $300 a month. due to its funding and sophistication. does the prime minister agree much more needs to be done to have an alternative economic and to thesyrians terrorists source of funding? minister: i agree with what he says about the importance of economic development and aid. right now in syria is very difficult to get aid through. where i take issue with him is as daeshee this recruiting people because they can pay them is wrong. extremism islamist
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has to be understood so that we can defeat it. it will create around 300,000 new jobs. support the creation of other jobs. prime minister: i certainly congratulate him on supporting the expansion of business in his constituency. since 2010. 52% we need to keep on with this by making sure we are expanding the training and the apprentices that help people get the jobs that are being created. minister and leader of the opposition said the u.k. is rapidly becoming a surveillance state. he promised to sweep the whole edifice away. proposing to maintain a record of every website. why does the prime minister change from being a defender of
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civil liberties to a champion >> i completely disagree with the honorable gentleman and i hope he will listen to the debates that take place. the fact is if you want to make sure that we can keep our country safe just as we have been able to see the communications dana went to people talk to each other on a mobile phone, the conversation is taking place by people visiting an internet site. is he happy for plots to be arrangedurders to be because people are using an internet site rather than a telephone? using an internet site rather than a telephone. we've got to modernize the capabilities to keep our country safe. that is what this bill is about. [shouting] >> my right honorable friend dated november 2015 that access to the internet should not be a luxury.
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it should be right. the accompanying press release went on to say every home in this miss could have access by the end of its parliament. could my right honorable friend said they unequivocally know the commitment will be all of it. >> i'm afraid my honorable friend the way for the speech and thought the next steps of how we make sure at this is absolutely vital. >> train thank you, mr. speaker. for the prime minister give me a personal commitment to deliver funding for the surrounding area? >> i'm very happy to give that commitment. i think the details are working in scotland and i was very proud to be there with the aberdeen city deal. the deal between the scottish government in the scottish government in u.k. government in city concern can only work if we are all one happy united
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kingdom. thank you, mr. speaker. did journalists has been subject to an online hate campaign -- [inaudible] increasingly, this is used against deeply public life by those who have taken opposing views. will my right honorable friend can ban this kind of harassment and will he work with media and social media platforms to reserve the right to speak freely without intimidation or hate? train to >> we want to speak freely and we must have a robust and lively democracy. some of the things people say on twitter that when the air in some way anonymous surfing the appalling and people should be ashamed of assertive sax is pulling the takes place. >> last week when intellect did a new mayor. overwhelming mandates to capture
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the projects and the housing bill will make it work. in april the prime minister launches manifesto promising affordable homes in the same area. why then is the opposing amendment to the housing bill this afternoon which effectively implements last year's manifesto commitment. >> but he began congratulating how much we how much we're looking forward to working with him on the issues as well as housing are keeping mum than safe. i put the question back to the honorable lady. our housing bill needs at every high-value properties sold will mean to new affordable homes in london. so why is that the labour party in the other place i've opposing the wanted more houses, more affordable housing and homeownership is at the truth. they talk a good game, but at the end of the day they are the
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enemies of aspiration. [shouting] >> thank you. thank you, mr. speaker. joining military aspirations in afghanistan can the british forces have live inside a server does who constantly put themselves in harm i had i saw just how brave these interpreters wear. does the prime minister the prime minister agreed the disdain in our country is honored our country's honor that we've abandoned a large number of them to be threatened by the taliban. some have been murdered, others have had to flee homes in fear of their life. we owe a huge debt of gratitude to my must provide safety here. >> what i say to my honorable friend as we debated and discussed in the coalition government and announced in this house of commons a scheme to make sure that those people who help our forces in terms of translation and other services were given the opportunity of coming to the u.k.
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we set up to schemes. want to encourage that, but another to encourage those people that either wanted to say or have been translators for a long enough. she's in afghanistan and rebuild the country. that's important to have both in place rather than simply say everyone in any way about can become a leader. let's back afghans rebuild their own country. >> the prime minister has been turned to me they should we leave the e.u. it would of course cease. but he now confirm in such a case the u.k. government would make up the difference? >> the pointer would make to the honorable gentleman that they would to anyone asking a question about what happens were we to live is i don't think you can give a guarantee. i'm a profound believer in the united kingdom. i want to go on making sure that regions in our country properly supported it. but if it's the case we would
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find our economy would be hit by leaving an tax or cease to hit by leaving. though obviously impact the amount of funding we put into agriculture or research. that is why i think the right option is to vote to remain in a reformed european union. thank you, mr. speaker. can i support the prime minister's comments about nigeria and afghanistan and ask him if he will stop the millions of pounds of taxpayers money to those other corrupt companies until dave cleaned up their act. tree into >> and i think is ever my honorable friend for his help and support and his pitch on diplomacy as well. also useful given the last 24 hours. countries like nigeria and afghanistan, their leaders are
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battling hard against corrupt systems in countries. they made some remarkable steps forward and that's why welcome them to the anticorruption contest in london. i don't think it would be right to withdraw the aid that we gave because frankly the problem in those countries come back with wrist problems of migration, terrorism and all the rest of it. we're a country of alternate dangerous global world. alongside our defense budget, 2% of gdp as we could keep you safe and prosperous in a dangerous world as well as the important moral responsibilities. device in the chamber makes it necessary to out do the premier league matches in terms of the provision of injury time. it's a pleasure to call jill burnham. [cheers and applause] >> seven years ago in my
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constituency with other countries biggest disaster. it is clear that we won't have the full truth until we have the full truth. will the prime minister expect the truth and justice campaign in initiate an inquiry? >> i say to the honorable lady has met with that group and is considering the point they have put forward and will come to that conclusion in the right time. >> mr. speaker, around the country awaiting news of progress on the position of airport inspection in the southeast. following this morning's announcement, they are now accepting all of that commission recommendations. can the prime minister let us know when we can expect a decision and does he agree with me at dirt runway is the best opportunity for growth, jobs of the future prosperity of our country.
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>> and my first of all, with my many unforced areas in the last 24 hours, apologize to the honorable lady. assured of open her to the house of commons and say that she's already made time in speaking up for her constituency in a very accomplished way. but they say to my honorable friend behind me as we announced earlier this year, there issues of air quality that nietzsche be resolved on our way to come back to the house and announced what happens next. >> my constituents mother was killed in the committee went at the time is covered up as a suicide attacks. 18 years later murdered by a constituents father and mistress. i don't think anyone imagines the pain and suffering that her and her family has had to endure. date now have to visit the pain because they are traumatizing their completely against her
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wishes, you see not only the real names of her family, but also her room. as far as i can see, no rules have been broken, but this prime minister not agree they should have a far greater role in discussing their tragedy and will he meet with me in my constituency does s. what more could have been done the situation and how we can strengthen regulations in the future to protect with guns. >> i wasn't aware of the case the lady rightly raises. and remember my time working the television industry that there are occasions where decisions are made that caused a huge amount of upset to families. i will discuss this case of the culture secretary and bring it to his attention and see if there's anything else other than the conversation who are powerful regulator and anything more that can be done. >> he spoke up its way on cigarette. so why are we bringing in a --
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[inaudible] >> i'm happy to look at this issue closely. i think it is necessary to differentiate between smoking and fabian because they are very different health effects. i think that is what has been achieved. other carefully into this and my right honorable friend. >> lastly, mr. tim fallon. [shouting] >> border. however irritating the honorable gentleman -- [laughter] may be, the government must feign interest. he has a right to be heard and he will be heard. >> i'm fantastically grateful to you, mr. speaker.
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[laughter] i heard the prime minister on two occasions this afternoon congratulated the new mayor of london and i would like to speak myself. it does not however apologize to those spaces campaign the conservative party chose to run my campaign. will he take the opportunity to apologize for winning cheap votes. >> a great way to end the session getting the election campaign for the democrats. [shouting] >> order you have been
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watching the british house of commons. question time his life every wednesday on c-span2. you can also watch anytime online at c-span.org. congress is back tomorrow and it is a busy week ahead for the house. members return on monday to consider several bills, including want to prevent tax fraud and identity theft. on tuesday, defense -- debate begins on the defense authorization bill. agenda,the house military construction and emergency spending to combat the zika virus. you can watch the house live on c-span. the senate meets tomorrow and 2:00 eastern, followed by a
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with the confirmation vote at 5:30. later, we will see one on military construction and funding for zika virus research. you can follow the senate live on c-span two. >> monday, while visiting a technology fair on capitol hill, we spoke with fred upton, chair of the energy and commerce committee and bill shuster to be also interviewed innovators from forward -- ford. >> in terms of communication, job creation, we are working on legislation that we have already passed that we are going to see the fcc preamp more spectrum to
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enable devices to be used to communicate. >> putting in the legislation, doouraging to look at how you build a road of the future? dealing with the companies that you needtoday, what do for your technology for working better? >> from the first generation that we launched a decade ago, our focus has been on making your device as useful as possible in a car. for us, that is always about voice technology. understands that there is more command for -- so we are working with our colleagues to come up with sharing solution on the 5.9 and. -- they and. -- band.
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