mr. ed miliband. [shouting] >> mr. speaker, i'm sure i speak for everyone in this house when i say there's deep concern about what we've witnessed over the past few days in egypt including appalling violence and death. just a year on from predilections. cannot begin by asking the prime minister for assurances that all the appropriate steps are being taken by the government to guarantee the safety of the uk nationals in that country? >> i can certainly give him that assurance, and also to safeguard our embassy in cairo. i should also add where advising british nationals against all but essential travel to egypt except for the red sea resorts. he's right these are deeply disturbing scenes, the level of violence as appalling. we should appeal to all sides to calm and stop the level of violence and particularly the sexual assault. it is not for this country to support any single group or party. what we should support his proper democratic processes and proper government by consent. >> mr. speaker, i agree with the prime mi

mr. speaker, i don't see why the result of a trade union scandal should be every taxpayer in the country paying for labour. [shouting] >> ed miliband. >> so there we have the truth. so there we have -- >> order, order. mr. miliband. >> the truth, mr. speaker, he is a docking reform. he is ducking under before. he doesn't want it to happen. let's test his willingness to reform in this house. current world allow mps to take on a directorships and consultant fee as long as there declared -- as long as they are declared in the register of interest and mr. blum both sides of by by those rules. i said in the next parliament, and this will affect both sides of this house, mps should not be able to take on new paid directorships and consultant fees. does he agree? >> i think what matters is that everything is transparent and open. those are the rules. but look, he made me an offer, he -- >> order, order. the leader of the opposition must be heard. the prime minister must be heard. >> he made the offer. he made the offer, let me make him an offer. if you want to change i make this offer. there is a bill coming to this house of commons next

>> ed miliband. >> mr. speaker, let me say, we will swap places any time. here is the reality, here is the reality. the prime minister promise to balance the books but borrowing was up last year. he said we're all in it together, but living standards are fallen. he promised to get britain building. they haven't. all you need to know about this chancellor's spending review is the british people are paying the price are there failure. [shouting] >> mr. speaker, mr. speaker, let us -- [shouting] let us remember, let us remember what the leader of the opposition said at the time of the last spending review. he told us unemployment would go up, it's gone down. he told us crime would go up, it's gone down. he told us volunteering would go down, it's gone. he told us that poor students would go to university. the percentage has gone up, and he does our immigration policy wouldn't work but we've cut immigration either. that is what we have done. as ever, wrong about the economy, wrong about everything, never trusted by the british people. [shouting] >> thank you. t

. >> ed miliband. >> mr. speaker, the vast majority of doctors and nurses perform to a very high standard day in and day out. everybody in the country will be concerned that some hospitals are letting people down. an excellent report found and i aote "for the examples of lack of nursing. what will the prime minister do? >> it is an excellent report and it is right. when you have a problem high mortality rates in some hospitals, it is right to hold an investigation only get to the truth, and take action. what measures we would take, first of all, we are putting 12.7 billion pounds into the nhs. and we have over the course of the year seen 900 extra nurses. that backs up the 800,000 extra .linical staff - is there are 4000 fewer nurses and then when the prime minister came to power. one of the issues raised in the staff.was about nursing it was also reflected in a crib this report about benchmarks for the numbers of nursing staff. 4000 fewer are nurses, can the prime minister said it is helping or hindering the

. -- ed miliband. >> mr. speaker, last may, the education secretary said, "work will begin immediately on 261 roger x under the building program the bank can you tell the house how many have begun? >> infrastructure spending under this government has been higher than it was under labour. we have 400 billion pounds reserved for capital spending on our schools. we have had to clear up the appalling mess left by the building schools for our future program. the do not think he knows answer, mr. speaker. i will tell him the answer. schools were 261 promised. only one has started. now perhaps he can explain why. >> we have had to recover from the appalling mess of the noting skew was -- building schools program. that is the mess we inherited, as well as a record deficit. but it is this government that is providing half a minute extra school laces. -- places. another one. in october 2000 11, he said he wanted to bring forward "every single infrastructure project in the pipeline." how many have been completed? >> let