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  • >> David Duguid (Banff and Buchan) (Con): If she will list her official engagements

  • for Wednesday 12 September.

  • >> The Prime Minister (Mrs Theresa May): I am sure that Members across the House will

  • wish to join me in congratulating Alastair Cook on his fantastic service to English cricket.

  • As England's highest-ever-scoring batsman, his incredible career had many highlights,

  • including the magnificent 147 in his last innings, against India. We wish him the very

  • best for his future.

  • This morning, I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties

  • in this House, I shall have further such meetings later today.

  • >> David Duguid: I know that the Prime Minister appreciates

  • the significance of fishing communities around the UK, not least my own constituency of Banff

  • and Buchan. What steps will my right hon. Friend take to support our fishing communities

  • during the implementation period? Will she look into ways to support the expansion of

  • the catching fleet, infrastructure, processing capacity and other businesses that are reliant

  • on the sector?

  • >> The Prime Minister: I fully recognise the importance of the fishing

  • industry to my hon. Friend's constituency and to other constituencies represented in

  • this House. I reassure him that we want to secure a sustainable and profitable fishing

  • industry that will regenerate coastal communities and support future generations of UK fishermen.

  • Leaving the EU means taking back control of our waters, setting our own fisheries rules

  • and exclusively determining who fishes what in our seas. It is a priority of the Government

  • to make sure that we have an innovative, productive and competitive food supply chain. Work is

  • under way to consider the long-term future of all funding programmes that are currently

  • managed by the EU.

  • >> Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North) (Lab): I, too, join the Prime Minister in congratulating

  • Alastair Cook on a fantastic achievement and both teams on what has been an absolutely

  • brilliant series, which I really enjoyed.

  • The National Farmers Union, the Federation of Small Businesses, the National Audit Office,

  • the National Housing Federation, Gingerbread and the Royal Society of Artsdoes the Prime

  • Minister know what these organisations have in common?

  • >> The Prime Minister: Yes, I can tell the right hon. Gentleman that

  • what those organisations all have in common is that, across a variety of areas of activity,

  • they give excellent service, they promote the interests of those whom they represent

  • and they are bodies with which this Government interact and to which this Government listen.

  • >> Jeremy Corbyn: I am truly grateful to the Prime Minister

  • for that answer, the first part of which I wholly agree with. What they also have

  • It's all right. What they also have in common is that they are telling this Government that

  • their flagship benefits policy, universal credit, is flawed and failing hundreds of

  • thousands of people both in work and out of work. In 2010, the Government declared that

  • universal credit would lift 350,000 children out of poverty. Does the Prime Minister stand

  • by that figure?

  • >> The Prime Minister: We introduced universal credit because we

  • needed a system of welfare in this country that encouraged rather than discouraged people

  • into work, that made sure that work always pays and that was a simpler system than the

  • legacy system that we were left by the Labour partyremember the legacy system of the

  • Labour party. It meant that we had individuals being paid £100,000 a year on benefitsall

  • paid for by hard-working taxpayers earning a fraction of that sum.

  • >> Jeremy Corbyn: The Child Poverty Action Group says that,

  • far from taking children out of poverty, universal credit will now increase the number of children

  • in poverty. Since 2010, half a million more children have gone into poverty relative to

  • that time. The Government know that this policy is flawed and failing. Their own survey on

  • universal credit found that many were in debt, a third were in arrears with their rent and

  • half had fallen behind with their bills. Does the Prime Minister dispute her own Government's

  • survey, or dispute the experience of the claimants?

  • >> The Prime Minister: Let us look at the experience of some of the

  • claimants. Roberta said, “My work coach helped turn my life around. He tailored his

  • support to my situation and thanks to him I have found my dream job.” Ryan said, “I

  • am happy with the new universal credit. My work coach has been great—I didn't expect

  • to have a job so soon.” Nayim said, “Universal credit gave me the flexibility to take on

  • additional hours without the stress of thinking that this might stop my benefits straight

  • away.” We have gone from a situation under the Labour party where 1.4 million people

  • spent most of a decade trapped on benefits. We are helping get people into work, which

  • is why, earlier this week, we saw unemployment yet again at a record low.

  • >> Jeremy Corbyn: We are all constituency MPs, and I think that

  • most of us are well aware of the pain that universal credit is causing when people come

  • into our advice bureaux. Some 60% of families facing cuts owing to the two-child policy

  • are in work. Universal credit is not making work pay; it is taking money away from families

  • and putting more children into poverty. The National Audit Office report found that universal

  • credit is creating hardship, forcing people to use food banks and could end up costing

  • the system even more. Does the Prime Minister dispute the National Audit Office findings?

  • >> The Prime Minister: The right hon. Gentleman talked about constituency

  • cases. I remember

  • >> Mr Speaker: Order. We are at a very early stage of the

  • proceedings. We have got a long way to go, but questions must be heard and the answers

  • must be heard, and as usual I want to get through the Order Paper.

  • >> The Prime Minister: The right hon. Gentleman started his question

  • by talking about constituency cases. I remember the single mother who came to see me as her

  • Member of Parliament when Labour was in government who told me that she wanted to get into the

  • workplace and provide a good example to her child, but the jobcentre had told her that

  • she would be better off on benefits. That is the legacy of the Labour party.

  • >> Jeremy Corbyn: My question was about the National Audit Office.

  • The Trussell Trust backs the NAO. It says that food bank usage in areas where universal

  • credit has been rolled out is four times higher than in areas where it has not been introduced.

  • But, without resolving any of those failings in the next year, the Government propose to

  • inflict this on another 2 million people. As part of that transfer, hundreds of thousands

  • of people with disabilities and on employment and support allowance, jobseeker's allowance

  • and tax credits will receive a letter telling them that their support will be stopped. They

  • will have to make an application for universal credit. Does the Prime Minister think it is

  • the responsibility of the Government who are changing the system to ensure that people

  • retain the support that they need, or is it down to the individual, many of whom are very

  • vulnerable people who need help and support?

  • >> The Prime Minister: What the Government are doing is delivering

  • a system that does give support to vulnerable people, but encourages people to get into

  • the workplace, because we know that work is the best route out of poverty. However, if

  • the right hon. Gentleman believes that universal credit needed some change, why, when we made

  • changes such as reducing the waiting days for payment and bringing in a housing benefit

  • overlap to help people, did Labour vote against those changes?

  • >> Jeremy Corbyn: It is Labour that has been speaking up for

  • the poorest in this country. It is Labour that has been challenging this Government.

  • It is Labour that wants a decency within our society that this Government are incapable

  • of delivering.

  • >> Mr Speaker: Order. Mr Spencer, I always thought you were

  • a good natured, laid-back farmer. You seem to be a very over-excitable denizen of the

  • House today. Calm yourself, man.

  • >> Jeremy Corbyn: The mental health charity Mind says that there

  • is a real possibility

  • that many people with mental health problems could see their benefits stopped entirely”.

  • It is outrageous that vulnerable people risk losing out because of these botched changes.

  • The Government's Brexit negotiations are an abject failure. I can see that by the sullen

  • faces behind the Prime Ministerand that is not just the European Research Group; it

  • is the whole lot of them. But everywhere you look, Mr Speaker, this Government are failing—1

  • million families using food banks; 1 million workers on zero-hours contracts; 4 million

  • children in poverty; wages lower today than 10 years ago; and on top of that there is

  • the flawed and failing universal credit. Disabled people at risk of losing their homes and vital

  • support; children forced to use food banksand the Prime Minister wants to put 2 million

  • more people on to this. The Prime Minister is not challenging the burning injustices

  • in our society. She is pouring petrol on the crisis. When will she stop inflicting misery

  • on the people of this country?

  • >> The Prime Minister: The right hon. Gentleman talks about challenging

  • the burning injustices. That is about setting up the race disparity audit, which says what

  • public services do and how people from different communities in our country are treated by

  • them.

  • It means saying that nobody in this country should be stopped and searched on our streets

  • because of the colour of their skinthat was me as Home Secretary, never the Labour

  • party. We are seeing 3.3 million more people in jobs as a result of our balanced approach

  • to the economy.

  • And what have we seen from Labour over the past few days? Iranian state TV broadcasting

  • no-confidence votes against Labour Members of Parliament; police investigating anonymous

  • and threatening letters about the deselection of Labour MPs sent to Labour offices; and,

  • most shamefully of all, the hon. Member for Streatham (Chuka Umunna) saying that the Labour

  • party is now an institutionally racist party. That is what the Leader of the Opposition

  • has done to Labourjust think what he would do to this country.

  • >> Hon. Members: More!

  • >> Mr Speaker: Order.

  • >> Mr Speaker: Order. No gesticulation is required, Mr Brakecalm

  • yourself. You are a former Deputy Leader of the Housebehave in a statesmanlike manner.

  • Order. Let us hear the questions and the answers.

  • >> Nigel Huddleston: We quite rightly spend quite a lot of time

  • in this place talking about crime, criminals and prisons, but perhaps we do not spend enough

  • time talking about the victims of crime. So I warmly welcome the Government's announcement

  • this week of a victims strategy. Can the Prime Minister assure me that this will not be some

  • kind of dry document but a genuine effort to boost support for the victims?

  • >> The Prime Minister: I can give my hon. Friend that assurance.

  • We know that nothing can take away the trauma and distress of being a victim of crime, but

  • we need to ensure that people get the support they need as they rebuild their lives. This

  • is absolutely vital. It is our duty to keep people safe but it is also our duty to ensure

  • that victims are properly protected and listened to. That is why we are taking steps to enshrine

  • their entitlements in lawto strengthen the victims code. This first ever cross-Government

  • victims strategy will ensure that victims of crime receive the care and support they

  • deserve at every stage of their interaction with the justice system. I commend my right

  • hon. Friend the Justice Secretary, and also the Under-Secretary, my hon. Friend the Member

  • for Charnwood (Edward Argar), for the work they have put into the victims strategy.

  • >> Ian Blackford (Ross, Skye and Lochaber) (SNP):

  • A decade on from the financial crisis, the poorest in our society are still paying a

  • price. The bankers were bailed out, but ordinary people paid the bill. Institute for Fiscal

  • Studies analysis shows that real wages are, on average, £800 lower. A decade on and people

  • are poorer: a damning indictment of the UK Government's leadership. Tell us, Prime

  • Minister: why have you abandoned millions of familiesthose just about managing?

  • >> The Prime Minister: What we have done is created an economic environment

  • where 3.3 million people are in work. We now see the number of children in workless households

  • at the lowest level ever. We now also see, through what we have done, an increase in

  • the national living wage. We have ensured that we have taken 4 million people out of

  • paying income tax altogether. Over 30 million people have received a tax cut. That is what

  • this Government have been able to do through a balanced approach to the economy, keeping

  • taxes low, putting money into public services, and reducing our debt.

  • >> Ian Blackford: That, I am afraid, simply ignores the reality

  • that people are poorer. It has been the worst decade for wage growth in over 200 years.

  • Households are struggling, and it is reported that a no deal Brexit will increase the annual

  • cost of living for low-income households by hundreds of pounds. Yet this Prime Minister

  • still wants to walk off the Brexit cliff edge. The Prime Minister is unfit to govern. She

  • is incapable of leadership. We know it, her Back Benchers know it, and the country knows

  • it. Ten years after the economic crash, the poorest are still bearing the brunt. It is

  • as simple as this: the Prime Minister should end her austerity programme or admit that

  • her party is unfit for government.

  • >> The Prime Minister: The right hon. Gentleman mentions Brexit.

  • Of course, we are working to get a good Brexit deal for the whole of the United Kingdom,

  • including Scotland. I suggest that he might listen to the views of the Scottish National

  • Farmers Union, which said this week that the plan the Government have put forward is

  • certainly the agriculture and food and drinks sectors can work with”,

  • and that politicians from

  • all sorts of parliaments and assemblies

  • should get behind it.

  • >> Giles Watling (Clacton) (Con): My constituency is a mere 69 miles from London,

  • as I am sure my right hon. Friend remembers from her visit a few years ago. You are lucky

  • to cover that tiny journey in an hour and 40 minutes, and that is if you avoid the Network

  • Rail works. Our sunshine coast has a lot to offer economically, a lot of which remains

  • untapped. We could attract new homeowners, doctors and businesses to the area. Can my

  • right hon. Friend tell me what this Government are doing to improve our rail services and

  • speed up the journey to Clacton?

  • >> The Prime Minister: I do indeed remember the visit that I made

  • to Clacton in 2014, where I was very pleased to meet Caroline Shearer and hear about the

  • anti-knife crime work she had done and the charity she had set up in memory of her murdered

  • son, Jay Whiston.

  • On the issue of rail, Greater Anglia will indeed be introducing a whole new fleet of

  • trains, which will be delivered from the middle of next year. They will be state of the art,

  • with much improved acceleration, my hon. Friend will be pleased to hear. Greater Anglia needs

  • to work with Network Rail to ensure that it can deliver those improved journey times.

  • There are infrastructure constraints on the line, but we will engage with Network Rail

  • to understand what plans it has to renew the infrastructure, so that we can see the improvement

  • on the Clacton branch that my hon. Friend wants to see.

  • >> Melanie Onn (Great Grimsby) (Lab): The Prime Minister just said that work is

  • the best route out of poverty. Without repeating the response that she gave to the leader of

  • the SNP, can she explain why, after eight years of a Conservative Government, the Living

  • Wage Foundation reports that 40% of people in Grimsby do not earn enough to live on?

  • >> The Prime Minister: The figures show that the proportion of the

  • workforce on low pay is actually at its lowest level. That is as a result of the changes

  • we have made in relation to the economy and the balanced approach we have taken. If the

  • hon. Lady if worried about people living in Grimsby, the answer is not a Labour Government,

  • with £500 billion of extra borrowing, fewer jobs, higher taxes and people suffering the

  • cost.

  • >> John Lamont (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) (Con):

  • Given what we know about the Russian state's involvement in the Salisbury poisoning, does

  • the Prime Minister think it appropriate when parliamentarians, both current and former,

  • appear on Russian state television?

  • >> The Prime Minister: I am sure we all have doubts about the objectivity

  • of the reporting on Russia Today, which remains a tool of propaganda for the Russian state.

  • Decisions about appearing on Russia Today are a matter of judgment for each individual,

  • but they should be clear that they risk being used as propaganda tools by the Russian state.

  • I know that that view is shared by other Members of this House, including the right hon. Member

  • for Ross, Skye and Lochaber (Ian Blackford), who has made clear that he does not think

  • people should appear on that station. The same also applies to Press TV, which has had

  • its licence to broadcast revoked in the UK by Ofcom.

  • >> Deidre Brock (Edinburgh North and Leith) (SNP):

  • The Prime Minister refused to answer my written question about AggregateIQ visiting Downing

  • Street, so I will ask her here. Why did Jeff Silvester and Zack Massingham of AggregateIQ

  • visit No. 10 last autumn? Who did they meet? Who invited them? What was the purpose of

  • the meeting and, most importantly, why was the meeting not recorded in the transparency

  • data?

  • >> The Prime Minister: The hon. Lady's letter has not been drawn

  • to my attention. I do not haveFollowing her question, I will ensure that she receives

  • a reply in writing.

  • >> Chris Philp (Croydon South) (Con): When it comes to Brexit, the joint statement

  • of 8 December last year said thatnothing is agreed until everything is agreed”.Does

  • the Prime Minister agree that this means that the payment of the £39 billion exit payment

  • and the Northern Irish backstop are dependent on agreeing satisfactory final-state trade

  • arrangements? Does she also agree that payment of that money should be locked into the legally

  • binding withdrawal agreement, which also requires those final-state trade agreements to be fully

  • agreed and implemented by 31 December 2020 in a form acceptable to this House?

  • >> The Prime Minister: We are very clear that we need to have a link

  • between the future relationship and the withdrawal agreement, but we are a country that honours

  • our obligations. We believe in the rule of law, and therefore we believe in abiding by

  • our legal obligations. However, my hon. Friend is right that the specific offer was made

  • in the spirit of our desire to reach a deal with the European Union and on the basis,

  • as the EU itself has said, that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. Without

  • a deal, the position changes.

  • >> Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central) (Lab): The Prime Minister was right yesterday to

  • be promoting electric vehicles, but she also needs to focus on electricity production.

  • Investment in renewable energy has halved as a result of the Government's policies.

  • Instead of encouraging carbon-emitting technologies such as fracking, which is deeply unpopular

  • in Sheffield and across the country, will she recognise that our future depends on serious

  • investment in wind, solar, tidal and other renewables?

  • >> The Prime Minister: I believe that in the provision of energy

  • across the United Kingdom we need to have a diverse range of supplies. That is why,

  • yes, we do, we have and we will continue to support renewable energy, but it is also why

  • we are ensuring, for example, that we have a supply of energy in the future from nuclear

  • and that we look across other forms of energy as wellfor example, ensuring that we see

  • an increase in the number of interconnectors with Europe. A diverse supply is what we need

  • in our energy sector.

  • >> Alan Mak (Havant) (Con): Jean-Claude Juncker this morning accepted

  • that Britain will always be a close trade and security partner for the EU. Does my right

  • hon. Friend agree that this means that giving Britain a good deal is in the interests of

  • both sides?

  • >> The Prime Minister: I have always said to this House that I believe

  • a deal that is right for the UK will be a deal that is right for the European Union.

  • I note not only that President Juncker said what my hon. Friend has commented on, but

  • that he went on to say that

  • after 29 March 2019, the United Kingdom will never be an ordinary third country for

  • us…I welcome Prime Minister May's proposal to develop an ambitious new partnership for

  • the future, after Brexit. We agree with the statement made in Chequers that the starting

  • point for such a partnership should be a free trade area between the United Kingdom and

  • the European Union.”

  • Let me be very clear: when we leave the European Union, we will be an independent sovereign

  • statewe will have control of our money, our borders and our lawsbut I want to say

  • to our closest allies in Europe, “You will also never be an ordinary third party for

  • us.”

  • >> Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston) (Lab):

  • There is huge concern over proposals to take decisions on fracking away from local councils.

  • This concern is seemingly shared by a prominent Conservative MP, who has a number of statements

  • on her website, including thatlocal planning decisions should be returned to locally elected

  • councillors”,andlocal councils need the power to stop unsuitable developments”.The

  • Prime Minister will I hope recognise these comments. She made them. Does she still agree

  • with them?

  • >> The Prime Minister: It has always been the case, across the planning

  • structure that we have here in the United Kingdom, that there are decisions taken at

  • local level, but there are also decisionssometimes those local decisions are referredat a

  • national level.

  • >> Michael Fabricant (Lichfield) (Con): What recent assessment she has made of the

  • strength of the economy in the west midlands; and if she will make a statement.

  • >> The Prime Minister: I was indeed very pleased to be in the west

  • midlands yesterday at the world's first zero-emission vehicle summit, where I made

  • clear my determination to put our manufacturers in the west midlands and across the UK at

  • the forefront of the design and manufacture of zero-emission vehicles. The midlands has

  • a very strong automotive industry. The growth of high-tech manufacturing across the region

  • continues to drive investment: it is creating high-skilled jobs; it is boosting economic

  • growth. The latest employment statistics, released yesterday, show there are now over

  • 320,000 more people in work in the west midlands than in 2010.

  • >> Michael Fabricant: I thank my right hon. Friend for that answer.

  • Also based in the west midlands is silicon canal. Silicon canal is like silicon valley,

  • but without the sunshine. It employs some 40,000 people working in computer science

  • and there are some 6,000 different companiesthe second largest cluster of its kind in the

  • whole of Europe. With the announcement last week of 5G being based in the west midlands

  • as a test bed, what more will the Prime Minister do to promote high-tech in the west midlands?

  • >> The Prime Minister: I thank my hon. Friend for highlighting the

  • silicon canal. I am sure that, like me, he was delighted that the west midlands bid,

  • which was pulled together by the Conservative metro Mayor Andy Street, was chosen as the

  • winning location of the Urban Connected Communities project. As my hon. Friend mentioned, that

  • will see the development of a large-scale 5G pilot across the region.

  • DCMS is also working closely with the West Midlands combined authority to develop and

  • deliver a region-wide digital skills partnership, which will bring together key sectors in the

  • region, working on improving the digital skills of individuals, small businesses and charities.

  • Ensuring strong Government engagement and support for these sectors will be critical

  • to the success of the Government's industrial strategy.

  • >> Ben Lake (Ceredigion) (PC): The Secretary of State for Education announced

  • a pay award for teachers recently, which, as the Prime Minister will know, is not yet

  • a devolved responsibility. The Government have outlined how they will fund the award

  • for teachers in England, but as yet they have not done so for Wales. Will the Prime Minister

  • intervene to put right this oversight and ensure that Welsh teachers and Welsh pupils

  • are not the ones left to foot the bill?

  • >> The Prime Minister: To reassure the hon. Gentleman, I should say

  • that the Treasury will be setting that out shortly.

  • >> Sir Hugo Swire (East Devon) (Con): Back in July, in Prime Minister's questions,

  • I pressed the Prime Minister on the possible publication of Sir Alex Allan's report on

  • the Windrush affair and she confirmed that the Home Secretary of the time was considering

  • publication very carefully. Two months later, nothing has come from the Home Secretary or

  • the Home Office. Could she as Prime Minister, in the interests of transparency and accountability,

  • which I know she believes in, now personally authorise the publication of this long-awaited

  • report?

  • >> The Prime Minister: I reassure my right hon. Friend that the Home

  • Secretary has been looking at this issue, and the Cabinet Secretary is looking at this.

  • We are committed to publication, but the form of that is currently being considered.

  • >> Mr Pat McFadden (Wolverhampton South East) (Lab):

  • Yesterday, Her Majesty's inspectorate of probation issued a devastating report on its

  • findings relating to the murder two years ago of my constituent Lisa Skidmore. The report

  • sets out catastrophic failures on the part of the probation service to act on warnings

  • about the behaviour of her killer, Leroy Campbell—a lifelong violent sex offenderand concludes

  • that Lisa's murder was entirely preventable. Lisa Skidmore was a young woman with her whole

  • life in front of her. Her family have been left completely heartbroken by her loss. She

  • was let down in the most appalling way by a service that is there to monitor offenders

  • and protect the public. In this case, it failed to do so, with the most devastating consequences.

  • Can I ask the Prime Minister what she and the Ministry of Justice can do in response

  • to this report, to prevent something like this from happening again?

  • >> The Prime Minister: The right hon. Gentleman has raised what was

  • an absolutely devastating caseit was a horrific crime, and devastating for Lisa's

  • family. I understand that my hon. Friend the Prisons Minister has met the family of Lisa

  • Skidmore and apologised for the failings in this case. But as the right hon. Gentleman

  • says, this should not have happened.

  • I understand that some action has already been taken and that two members of the probation

  • service have been suspended. While nothing can be done to bring back Lisa or minimise

  • the impact that this has had on her family, Dame Glenys Stacey has been asked to conduct

  • an independent review to look at what can be done to prevent such tragedies from happening

  • againto do as the right hon. Gentleman has said: make sure that this never happens

  • to anybody else.

  • >> Trudy Harrison (Copeland) (Con): Cumbria and the Lake district are one of the

  • most beautiful parts of the UK, and our farmers play such a unique role in maintaining the

  • landscape. On Back British Farming Day, will my right hon. Friend ensure that our Cumbrian

  • farmers will be able to export their world-class meat after we leave the European Union?

  • >> The Prime Minister: My hon. Friend is absolutely right to recognise

  • the beauty of the area she represents, Cumbria and the Lake District, and the important role

  • farmers play in that part of the country, as indeed our farmers do elsewhere. When we

  • leave the European Union, we are looking to ensure we have trade deals that enable our

  • farmers to continue to be able to export their very important product, which is enjoyed by

  • people elsewhere. By leaving the European Union, we are able to do something else: come

  • out of the common agricultural policy and develop a policy for farming in this country

  • that is right for our farmers, not for others'.

  • >> Wayne David (Caerphilly) (Lab): Last year, 183 people were returned to this

  • country to face justice because of the European arrest warrant. If we leave the EU without

  • a deal, the European arrest warrant will not be available to us. Would the Prime Minister

  • be happy with that?

  • >> The Prime Minister: The hon. Gentleman will know full well that

  • as Home Secretary I stood at this Dispatch Box and led a debate in which we ensured that

  • when we exercised the powers available under protocol 36 we went back into the European

  • arrest warrant. The European arrest warrant is one of those instruments that we have identified

  • in our Chequers plan as one that we wish to discuss with the European Union, with a view

  • to being able to continue to use it.

  • >> Chris Green (Bolton West) (Con): Leah Aldridge was killed by her father in

  • 2002. After the coroner and Greater Manchester police finished their investigation, the body

  • was returned to the family for the funeral. Last year, the police discovered that they

  • had retained some of Leah's body parts, and these were returned to the family for

  • a second funeral. Only a few weeks ago, yet more body parts were discovered by the police

  • and the family had to go through the ordeal of a third funeral. They have no confidence

  • in Greater Manchester police or the police and crime commissioner, the Mayor of Greater

  • Manchester, that they now have finally allowed the family to lay their daughter Leah to rest.

  • Will the Prime Minister hold an inquiry into this matter for the sake of Leah's family

  • and for other families across Greater Manchester?

  • >> The Prime Minister: This is an absolutely terrible case. I am

  • sure, as my hon. Friend will have felt from the reaction of Members across the House when

  • they heard him set out the details, that we all want to express our deepest sympathy to

  • Leah's family for the prolonged trauma they have had to endure as a result of the way

  • that this has been handled.

  • I understand that the deputy Mayor of Greater Manchester has been in touch with the Human

  • Tissue Authority about the case. The authority is advising on ensuring that the establishment

  • concerned does the necessary work to evaluate what went wrong in this case and put in place

  • measures to minimise the chance that this can ever happen again. Officials in the Home

  • Office will meet both the Greater Manchester police and the National Police Chiefs' Council

  • to further address the issue of historically held human tissue. I will ensure that the

  • relevant Home Office Minister updates my hon. Friend on the outcome of those meetings.

  • >> Carol Monaghan (Glasgow North West) (SNP): The Windrush scandal continues to affect my

  • constituent who, despite receiving his British passport, has been told he is ineligible for

  • employment and support allowance as he has not made enough national insurance contributions

  • over the past two yearsan impossible task, since he has been prevented from working by

  • the Home Office. Will the Prime Minister take responsibility for ensuring that the Department

  • for Work and Pensions has special measures in place to deal with Windrush applicants,

  • and will she confirm that my constituent will now get the support he deserves?

  • >> The Prime Minister: The Home Office, of course, set up a special

  • taskforce to deal with the Windrush cases to provide help and support to the individuals

  • Yes, I know the shadow Foreign Secretary is mentioning the DWP. I am coming on to the

  • DWP. What is important for the individuals concerned is that they are able to interact

  • with one Government body that is then able to give them support and take on the issues

  • for them. I believe that the individual concerned should get in touch with the taskforce, and

  • the Home Secretary will make sure that the necessary inquiries are made.

  • >> Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke) (Con):

  • Will the Prime Minister visit my constituency to open Airbus's new wing integration centre

  • in Filton, which is a £40 million investment that will secure hundreds of jobs and good

  • quality apprenticeships for the future? Will she join me in thanking and paying tribute

  • to Airbus for its strong and enduring commitment to the UK?

  • >> The Prime Minister: My hon. Friend has issued a very interesting

  • invitation. I cannot give him an instant response from the Dispatch Box, because I will need

  • to look at diary commitments. It is absolutely right that we thank and congratulate Airbus

  • on the commitment it has made to the United Kingdom and the high-quality jobs it provides

  • here. When I went to the Farnborough airshow, I was very pleased to meet Airbus executives

  • to look at and talk about some their latest products.

  • >> Liz Saville Roberts (Dwyfor Meirionnydd) (PC):

  • In a meeting on Monday, the aluminium and steel industry told leaders of Opposition

  • partieswith the exception of the leader of the Labour party, who refused to attendthat

  • thousands of jobs are to be put at risk by the British Government's Brexit policies

  • and threadbare industrial strategy. Is it not the case that the Prime Minister is prepared

  • to dole out P45s to manufacturing workers simply in order to appease the Brexit extremists

  • in her own party?

  • >> The Prime Minister: The hon. Lady's portrayal of the situation

  • could not be further from the case. What we have put forward in the Chequers plan is a

  • plan that delivers on the result of the referendum and ensures that we take control of our money,

  • borders and laws, but that does so in a way that protects jobs and livelihoods across

  • the United Kingdom. The Government have given support to the steel industry in a number

  • of ways, and the industrial strategy is about ensuring that we have a healthy manufacturing

  • industry in this country, but also a manufacturing industry for the future, providing the high-skilled

  • jobs and skills for people for the future.

  • >> Johnny Mercer (Plymouth, Moor View) (Con): The Prime Minister will be aware of not only

  • my feelings but those of pretty much everyone in this House and the vast majority of this

  • country when it comes to seeing our veterans dragged through the courts in Northern Ireland

  • to appease political differences. What is she as Prime Minister personally doinghow

  • is she personally investing of herself in this processto bring to an end something

  • that the vast majority of her country find completely abhorrent?

  • >> The Prime Minister: I am well aware of the degree of concern about

  • this issue, which is why I have held a number of discussions about it with the Secretary

  • of State for Northern Ireland. We owe a vast debt of gratitude to the heroism and bravery

  • of the soldiers and police officers who upheld the rule of law and were themselves accountable

  • to it. That is something that has always set them apart from the terrorists, who during

  • the troubles were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of members of the security forces.

  • But as I have made clear, the current system in Northern Ireland is flawed. It is not working;

  • it is not working for soldiers, for police officers or for victims—a group, in fact,

  • that includes many soldiers and police officers as well. Although a number of terrorist murders

  • from the troubles are actively under investigation by the Police Service of Northern Ireland

  • and other police forces, under the current mechanism for investigating the past there

  • is a disproportionate focus on former members of the armed forces and the police. We want

  • to ensure that all outstanding deaths in Northern Ireland are investigated in ways that are

  • fair, balanced and proportionate.

  • >> Mary Glindon (North Tyneside) (Lab): Since the life-changing spinal muscular atrophy

  • treatment Spinraza was rejected by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in

  • its first guidance last month, families affected, including that of young Sam Mckie in North

  • Tyneside, have been left heartbroken. Will the Prime Minister meet me and Muscular Dystrophy

  • UK to discuss the urgent need to make progress on the managed access agreement so that patients

  • can access Spinraza as soon as possible?

  • >> The Prime Minister: I am very happy to look at the specific issue

  • in relation to the decision taken by NICE, and I will ensure that Health Ministers look

  • into it and have a meeting with the hon. Lady to discuss the details.

>> David Duguid (Banff and Buchan) (Con): If she will list her official engagements

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