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budget. >> order. questions to the prime minister. melanie on. >> mister speaker -- >> damien green. >> mister speaker. i have been asked to reply on behalf of my right honorable friend the prime minister, furthering our interest, >> the whole house will join me in well some welcoming prince harry and megan. this marks the 100 anniversary of the creation of the raf. thanks to a century of service

to this country. >> the first extreme, congratulations to prince harry on his engagement and the outstanding effort by the late council in northeast lincolnton, the project in its industrial strategy document and we need more than a byline to make the potential a reality. will the secretary say when we expect the government to put the money where the mouth is to get going? >> i can welcome the fact the honorable lady is welcoming the industrial stuff. as she should do. it will be good for many communities around this country particularly those who feel that in the past they have been left behind. i am happy to assure her the industrial strategy will come with money attached as you will have heard in my right honorable friend's budget. >> thank you, mister speaker.

the merrill development corporation. he joined me, and a chance to redefine this side of the world, only the start of the process delivering on huge potential to change. >> my honorable friend is getting the hang of questions already. and ben, who is doing so much to develop the area. we want to support him and the development corporation with the work on the long-term, the chancellor announced 123 million pounds of funding on the budget because they recognize the significant economic opportunities am sure

the patron of rugby football, will be joining all of us in the world cup final on saturday and i for one will be waving winston's flag. i am sure the house will join me in sending thoughts to those killed and injured in the horrific attack on the mosque. it is a better reminder the vast majority of the victims of jihadi terror are muslims. let me ask a symbol point. held to the same standards in

government that he requires of others in opposition? >> i think all ministers should respect and debate the ministerial code. and i think that is a very important part of public life. and thoughts about the terrible events in sinai, and also she may find it difficult to waive in georgia's flag. as a welsh rugby fan it is more difficult than her so i will be doing so as well. >> the first looks deterred, doesn't need to worry a, i am not going there. i merely wondered if he remembered the question he asked 17 years ago when john prescott said to tony blair

whether he could answer the same question today, what percentage recruited in the past 12 months are working full time? >> secretary? >> i can't remember asking the question then, and the prime minister answered then. i am happy to assure the right honorable lady we have more nurses, more midwives, in the health services, 17 years ago and the budget, the right honorable friend the chancellor was able to announce 6 billion pounds extra on health funding which will make the health service even stronger in the future and it is now.

>> since you failed to answer the original question, according to the government's latest figures more than 40% of newly recruited nurses with full-time employment in the next year. not just the new recruits that are quitting but the number of nurses is down by 1500 this year and the numbers are lower than when this government. so many nurses leaving. >> there are as i say, more operations being done, more midwives, expanding, we have 14,900 more doctors, 1500 more medical school places each year, and 10,000 more nurses on

board, increasing 5000 extra nurse training, and we have said in addition the chancellor said in his budget that we would commit to make sure the nurses pay increase, the change faces an agenda change, the agenda for change being covered would not come out of other health spending. so nurses, continue to support in pay, and that is why the health service in england is getting better. if you want to look at health service, getting worse. she can look to the labor

government in wales and take it from the public because public satisfaction with the nhs in wales is lower than it is in england, that is the effect of labor government on health. >> more nurses at the nhs than those working in an emergency ward, and nurses in emergency and acute-care. the question i ask is why so many nurses are leaving the vocation they love. the top four i access workload, stock shortages, low pay and worries about patient care. according to government's own figures, the number of nurses quitting because of worries about finances or health has doubled since they first through their pay. and john prescott, 17 years ago, and warning, staff

shortages putting lives at risk. what are the same nurses telling the first secretary. >> since 17 years ago, interesting there were still significant numbers of labor government ahead. and 17 years ago there are significant more nurses in post, and on and off for awards and 10,000 on wards when people want to see them. and to welcome the tax cuts, and to help nurses, put workers

across the public and private sector. and not just good for health services, and the nursing profession. >> he didn't want to talk about patient care, could the reason be local a&e, the most recent minute, and severe stock shortages and nursing care, and the only option to tackle those shortages is to cancel out patient clinics. it gets worse and worse, public meeting tomorrow, to consider closing the local ame for good. and a lot of things they have

been denying, and got a grip. >> i'm entirely innocent in this matter. >> the facts are pretty shaky. the strategic transformation plan. [shouting] >> i am happy to assure her i am in failure -- favor of option one to strategic action plan, in the hospital in the constituency but expanding services there. i would strongly suggest she doesn't try to about what is going on in my constituency,

>> taking any reassurance on that. and nhs in the grip of a chronic funding, in record numbers and the breaking point, but for the windchill prices coming. finally asked the first secretary, that last week's budget, only find 350 million pounds to help a cash strapped stretch to administer nhs, the winter feels crisis. >> 350 million pounds to cope

with a winter crisis and was able to find 11 times that amount to spend on a no deal brexit, the definition of the government fiddling away as the rest of the country burns. >> the right honorable lady determined to tear the nhs down. increasing funding on the nhs, the best health service in the world. of this party which promised and delivered more money for the nhs in 2010, 2015 andy last week's legitimate, there chancellor told me $6.3 billion extra for the nhs. more carried out by more doctors and nurses. when she says at the end the

government is preparing for brexit, we now know the labour party doesn't think it is worth preparing for brexit. they do know it is worth preparing for a run on the pound. >> mister speaker, this week, one of labor's last two remaining counselors in boston crossed the floor to join the conservatives. he said he didn't want to see this country go back to 1973. will be secretary join me in welcoming this new member to the conservative party and will he agree with me and open, optimistic britain deserves better than reheated marxism and layer -- labor bankrupted

holiday. >> i am happy to agree with my honorable friends and the wisdom of the labor counselor, joined the conservative party, quite right what we see from the party opposite that they would lose control of public finances, and cause business, the shadow chancellor caused business the enemy. that is what the labour party -- at the local counselor, may just have moved in anticipation. moderate counselors being deselected by the hard left. >> ian blackburn. >> can i join the first secretary, congratulating the engagement, wish them a long life and happiness together.

in the gallery today. >> can the secretary of state tell the house how much money the government has received from arms sales, the war with yemen began. >> i do urge the honorable gentlemen to recognize the fact the defense industry is an extremely important creator of jobs and prosperity in scotland and other parts, i'm obviously aware of the terrible situation in yemen, this country has one of the most rigorous and robust sales regimes in the world. and the most rigorous, that is the right thing to do through our prosperity and to ensure we

keep proper control. >> the uk government received 4.6 billion pounds and since that regard. and the humanitarian crisis. and 350,000 children will die by the end of this year, the best and the prime minister can do today is follow the example of the netherlands and suspend licenses for arms sales. >> secretary. >> the government received money, it will be the companies received the money and their

workers. the labour party's position as well, that will entail significant job losses. what is important is not only do we have a robust regime but absolutely, the humanitarian efforts that we make to try to alleviate the terrible conditions in yemen. we are the fourth-largest humanitarian donor and the second-largest to the un field and i would remind him that the involvement of the saudi's in this conflict came at the request of the legitimate government of yemen and united nations security council backing. that is why we support a conflict supported by the un security council and i would hope the right honorable gentlemen would have some respect for the security council.

>> rebecca powell. >> the ambition is welcome, struggling to get on the housing ladder and displaying its part, good places to live, energy efficient, sustainable drainage, even where we have challenge, for these. we must have the right rose in the development and with my right honorable friend agreed policy infrastructure fund is key to unlocking funds for vital roads like the spine road. >> my honorable friend is absolutely right. i know what a stout champion she is and is quite right about the housing infrastructure fund, we need more homes but

infrastructure to back them up. the chancellor double the housing infrastructure. >> the secretary of state will note as a result of underfunding the conservative counsel has run out of cash, 70%, four hospital buses, 14 school buses, thousands of pensions especially those in rural areas are tracked at home. the right honorable member support such cuts? >> i do not recognize -- the constituency neighbor, has expressed all local authorities, have to list in with their means because we have to continue paying down the deficit that was run up by

the previous labour government. the good county counsel. for the people of can't and will continue to do so. >> mister kenneth clark. >> my right honorable friend agree for decades the richer member states in the european union, large contributions to the budget to the eu because the macroeconomic benefits of belonging to the large free trade area of the single market might be the bargain to pay their share of the cost. we don't welcome the rumors we have today in the press over possible imminent settlement of the method of calculating future contributions and may enable us to get on with a serious negotiations, how we retain the maximum future access for the benefits of free

trade. >> my right honorable friend has been around long enough to know not to read, or believe everything you read in the newspapers and it would clearly be wrong, he is absolutely right what we are about and what my right honorable friend the secretary of state is about is making sure we get the best possible deal at this stage of the process so we can move on to the trade talks. as a country that meets its international obligations, of course as we exit the european union, meet the obligations and have all the rights we have in that process so that we can maintain a deep and special partnership with the other 27 members of the european union as we move forward in friendship and cooperation.

>> reliving trauma, fear of publicity, culture of denial are some of the reasons many women are reluctant to report rape, assault, sexual harassment, does the agreement meets? will he on behalf of government apologized to the victims parliament and government have been letting down? >> the institution, all political parties to improve complaint procedures and other aspects of the culture of politics to make sure younger men are young women who are interested in politics do not in any way feel deterred from an active role and that is a place for everyone in this house on all sides and the house authorities themselves of making sure this is the best

possible working environment. >> many mothers in this chamber know how hard childbirth can be, a veiled threat against this when being question and the way honorable members did when questioned by channel 4 recently. and complete the work, to use her influence, the prime minister of bangladesh, thinking -- >> i'm sure the honorable lady, notify the honorable lady referred to this question. you didn't. >> that was disorderly.

>> nevertheless the question has been asked, briefly to reply. >> you and the house to be aware i can only speak on behalf, my honorable friends, and important human rights priority area for the foreign office, to raise allegations of enforced disappearance on all levels of the government and i should stop there. >> mister speaker, the present progress takes the field for the department more than 70 years to investigate the claim of 41/2,000 women in pension. they are hiding insult with

injury. >> the honorable gentlemen will be aware the government committed more than 1 billion pounds to make sure no one's pension labeled 18 months from the period. he also as a reasonable man recognizes increasing longevity it is inevitable the pension age will rise. that is what the government is doing. by next year pension any quality will be removed. we will hit 65 for both sexes next year, and an equal pension system. >> the air force is unique among three services, an act of parliament, 100 years ago today. join me and members of both houses in the palace, given to the nation over 100 years in a

unique parade this evening. >> i mentioned this today. we cannot pay high enough tribute, and century of service, and advert from the -- >> on the international court of justice, eu agencies -- more european capitals of culture, an empire of 2.0, and is done. >> the honorable gentlemen, not surprising eu institutions are not going to be in a state as a

member of the eu, the honorable gentlemen, and extremely disappointing they left british cities asking some in scotland, asking to apply to be part of the process. the commission decided they couldn't. and all of those, the cultural development, cultural developing has been shown for the regeneration of cities and towns. >> mister speaker, winners of the annual short competition. and the best of luck and wish those winners congratulations.

>> very happy to share my honorable friend congratulations for her retailers. like i suspect many members will be celebrating small business saturday this weekend, an extremely important part of the calendar, supporting small business is at the heart of the economic strategy and an opportunity to celebrate important work they do in innovation and entrepreneurship serving the people. >> we see shocking new figures, child is nearing a 40 year high. the prime minister promised action but has failed to deliver. nothing in the budget on policing and nothing meaningful to tackle the causes and crime. it is clear we need intervention now and not just from the home office, proven to get out of the cycle of

violence, 6 million pounds to funds. will the first secretary in his role establish a program of action to become good on the prime minister's progress. >> i'm sure the honorable lady is aware this is tougher than ever. we made punishment against repeat offenders stronger and the most serious offenses and no clear message, more likely than ever to go to prison, the latest figures show 42% of adult defenders were given an immediate custodial sentiments, the highest rate in a decade, i hope she can be reassured this is tougher on crime than any previous government. >> does the secretary agree with me that we don't need to break into the computer or the ipad to work out half 1 trillion to borrow 7 billion

pounds every year. >> one difficulty with the ingenious question is it bears no relation to government policy for which the right honorable gentlemen is responsible, but isn't. wayne david. >> jones has a malignant brain tumor removed 20 years ago. this left over excruciating headaches and severe pain, and received esas with engines except not fit for work and has not been placed in work-related activity group under the benefit that was reduced. the secretary justify this? >> the secretary, there will clearly be individual issues in this case which i can't be aware of.

i'm sure my honorable friend will be happy to look at the individual case to see what needs to be done. >> john stevenson. >> i welcome the announcement of a borderland group deal for the border area. this initiative will receive sufficient resource to assure its success. >> i share my honorable friend's enthusiasm for the borderland growth initiative and the many benefits of city deals and growth deals around all parts of the united kingdom since i became first secretary and the borderland growth initiative is important because it will show the mutual prosperity between his part of the north of england and the southern part of scotland and all i can say is the secretary said to scotland, a

constituency indeed in the southern part of scotland this deal will get particularly strict attention in the cabinet. >> the secretary agree with the speaker committee that the house of lords should be reduced to 600 and the term should be limited to 15 years. does he not feel the slightest sense of embarrassment of the crisis of credibility has become so acute that its members are themselves begging for reform as the government refuses to act? >> when the honorable gentlemen speaks on behalf of all members of the house of lords in terms of begging for reform he may not necessarily absolutely present the entire range of views in another place but happy to assure him the government is looking carefully at the proposal of the committee and we will respond

in due course. >> my honorable friend and neighbors say what action the government is proposing against russian backed agencies spreading this information. have been doing it in our political campaigns but worrying reports that misinformation may be spread around important issues. >> the secretary, my honorable friend is quite right to raise this, cybersecurity is an important issue and fake news and dissemination of potentially dangerous information is one part of that. the national cyber security center is working hard at this, take the number of measures to combat it. obviously has to remain private, very high on the agenda of the cyber security center which is just over a year old and doing good work in

ensuring -- >> he, his mother and two brothers, could i find him a council that i grew up in? and the first secretary will note, can i ask simply, with the so-called housing budget, without full scale of the problem with 100,000 children living in temporary accommodation. to make sure that boy, his family and every other child living in bed and breakfast accommodations. >> this is a serious problem. one of the reasons housing was at the center, to the chancellor's budget. i hear from the opposition front bench. and asking what we are doing

about it. we delivered more homes than we have seen in all but one in the last 30 years. taking us to $1.1 million since 2010. over the next five years we invest 44 billion pounds, boosting the funding for low-cost housing of 9 billion pounds. we are building more social housing and labor government did in 13 years in office. we will build more in the future, this is a government addressing constituents problems, previous labor government signaled to do so. >> at the recent extremely successful festival, hillary clinton talked about the importance of ensuring the russians are not allowed to middle british elections or

american elections, my right honorable friend agree with me, we should be building an offense of cybercapability so opponents know we have the will and also the wherewithal to strike back. >> my right honorable friend is exactly right, from the member of parliament who represents gc hq, the offense of capacity that we may well need in cyberarea and the house. >> mary black. >> i would like to ask the new state pension, the scottish government can flex the problem, and the prime minister, hopes he can justify, and the number of women over the age of 60 in receipt of

tsa, because of the government's refusal for pension. >> i applied to a previous question, i hope she would recognize the principle that is right, and moving up the pension age. she knows as well as i do that actually, the scottish government gave the opportunity to top health, they know they could do this? the s&p, stop moaning in this chamber and back to the government in scotland and say if they want to do something they should get on with the day job of running scotland. >> wendy morton. >> the modern industrial strategy, does my right

honorable friend agree with me, to seek global, and quality jobs. >> the point of the industrial strategy is to create, the fairer economy, looking at 2030, to make sure there is not just a global out looking economy. a modern economy where we can capitalize on research, the intellectual strength in the past, to benefit commercially for decades to come and writing productivity and prosperity. >> thank you, mister speaker. this sunday, 3 december, the year the international day of persons with disability, so far the government has carried out

cumulative impact of social security on people living with disabilities and doing the right thing for disabled people. and cumulative impact assessment. >> this government is spending 90 billion pounds on disability, we are being more successful than ever before, a degree of independence, hundreds of thousands more disabled people than ever before. we have a plan to an extra million in the next 10 years. and hundreds of disabled people, that is what we will continue to do.

>> mister speaker, given president rani said they would not be the first to reach the joint plan of action, can the secretary assure us british diplomats, in washington dc, in the interests of the west and iran to uphold the jcp away, and solving other regional problems. >> the jcp oa is a very important part of attempting to improve conditions not just between iran and its neighbors, across the wider middle east and we will continue to argue that case in all parts of the world. >> i join congratulations to prince harry on his engagement. and the issue of mental health

and invest for life campaign doing a fantastic job highlighting the extra resources on that issue. and the time when issues, mental health, need to be prioritized by an ugly default government. and in northern ireland. a gross dereliction of responsibility, engaging by further discussions on restoration of the evolution. we need to move quickly to restore, ministers to the northern ireland office to get on board with the people's business of responsible government in northern ireland. >> the right honorable gentlemen will know my right honorable friend is working as hard as possible to restore

democratic control, restore the northern ireland executive, we all want to see proper devolved government restored in northern irelan announcer: british prime minister theresa may responded to the news that president trump re-tweeted anti-muslim videos posted by british group called "britain first." she said it was wrong to share e