this week after those elections the southwest r.d.a. made 60 million pounds of cuts, cutting projects in my constituency, carving the budget for regeneration in gloucester. why should anybody believe a word the prime minister says again? >> thousands of companies in his area are getting help under the inland revenue scheme and other schemes we're interesting. thousands of companies are getting special help to take them through the recession. but if his argument is that we must avoid cuts, then he better talk to his shadow chancellor because he is proposing massive cuts in services today and in the future. the conservative party has been revealed today as the party that will fight for the next few months on cuts in services and at some point they're going to have to tell us how many nurses and how many doctors and how many teachers and how many public servants are going to lose their jobs as a result of this new policy announced this morning. >> mr. hamilton. >> thank you, mr. speaker. can i ask the prime minister to join with me in payi