emily thorn berry stands in for labor party leader jeremy corbin. this is 35 minutes. >>> questions to the prime minister. dr. phil lip, question number one, the leader of the house. >> yay! >> mr. speaker, i've been asked to reply. he's visiting the gulf corporation council summit. mr. speaker, this morning, i have meetings and in addition to my duties in this house, i shall have those such meetings later today. >> dr. with houston space corps and the rice space institute brings the reality of it closer. with a huge boost that could give to the u.k. aerospace industry, will they join scottish government in supporting a deal to literally get this off the ground? >> i can certainly show the honorable lady, the government is looking very keenly at the opportunities to scotland, indeed the, whole of the united kingdom arising from commercial space operations, the project that she has described, i'm sure, will be examined very closely by those colleagues of particular concern with this area of policy, but we definitely want to see the u.k. as a pioneer