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  • >> Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing, Southall) (Lab): If she will list her official engagements

  • for Wednesday 27 February. >> The Prime Minister (Mrs Theresa May): May

  • I first say that the UK is deeply concerned about rising tensions between India and Pakistan

  • and urgently calls for restraint on both sides to avoid further escalation? We are in regular

  • contact with both countries urging dialogue and diplomatic solutions to ensure regional

  • stability. We are working closely with international partners, including through the UN Security

  • Council, to de-escalate tensions and are monitoring developments closely and considering implications

  • for British nationals. Mr Speaker, I understand that Eve Griffith-Okai in your office retires

  • at the end of the week. She has worked for four Speakers and I am sure that the whole

  • House will want to join me in wishing her the very best for the 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.

  • >> Mr Sharma: I thank the Prime Minister for her initial response. In the face of her total

  • failure to secure the agreement of this House, when will the Prime Minister call time on

  • this farce, extend article 50 and put her deal versus remain back to the people?

  • >> The Prime Minister: First, I made a statement and answered 82 questions on these issues

  • in the House yesterday. We will be bringing the meaningful vote back by 12 March. As I

  • said yesterday, if that meaningful vote is rejected again by the House, we would have

  • a vote in this House on 13 March on whether the House accepts leaving without a deal on

  • 29 March. If the House rejects leaving without a deal on 29 March, there would be a vote

  • on a short, limited extension to article 50. On the hon. Gentleman's final point, I continue

  • to believe that it is right for us to deliver on the result of the referendum that took

  • place in 2016. >> Julian Knight (Solihull) (Con): The 2017

  • Birmingham bin strike led to mass fly-tipping across the borough border in my beautiful

  • town of Solihull. With the threat of another strike ever present, will the Prime Minister

  • join me in urging Birmingham City Council to do what often seems to be beyond itnamely,

  • to be a good neighbour and sort out these strikes, which seem to be just a taster of

  • what would happen under a hard-left Labour Government?

  • >> The Prime Minister: Obviously, this is a matter for Labour-controlled Birmingham

  • City Council to resolve: rubbish piling up on the streets because of the failure of the

  • Labour council to get a grip. Not only does it show what a hard-left Labour Government

  • would be like; it shows all of us that, under Labour councils, you pay more and get less.

  • >> Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North) (Lab): There is an urgent question coming up on Kashmir,

  • but I will just say that from our side of the House we strongly support rapid dialogue

  • between India and Pakistan in order to reduce the tension and deal with the root causes

  • of the conflict before more lives are lost. I also join the Prime Minister in wishing

  • Eve a very happy retirement, Mr Speaker. She has been absolutely brilliant in your office

  • over the many years of people rushing in and out and making totally unreasonable demands.

  • She has always sorted it out. Could you pass on to her the thanks of lots and lots of Back

  • Benchers over many years? The Bank of England forecasts that growth for this year will be

  • the slowest in over a decade. Does the Prime Minister blame her shambolic handling of Brexit

  • or her failed austerity policies for this damaging failure?

  • >> The Prime Minister: First, I think the right hon. Gentleman should have seen the

  • report that actually showed the expectation that in this country over the coming year

  • we will have higher growth than Germany. He talks about the economy, so let us just say

  • what we see in the economy under a Conservative Government: more people in work than ever

  • before; unemployment at its lowest level since the 1970s; borrowing this year at its lowest

  • level for 17 years; and the largest monthly surplus on record. Conservatives delivering

  • more jobs, healthier finances and an economy fit for the future.

  • >> Jeremy Corbyn: I know that the Prime Minister is very busy—I understand thatand she

  • possibly has not had a chance to look at the Bank of England forecasts, which suggest that

  • there is a one in four chance of the UK economy dipping into recession. Manufacturing is already

  • in recession, car manufacturing has declined at the steepest rate for a decadedown 5%

  • in the past quarter aloneand Honda, Jaguar Land Rover and Nissan have announced cuts

  • to either jobs or investment in recent months. Does she blame her shambolic Brexit or her

  • Government's lack of an industrial strategy for this very sad state of affairs?

  • >> The Prime Minister: I have just explained to the right hon. Gentleman the positives

  • in the economy and the consistent quarter-by-quarter growth that we have seen under this Government.

  • What do we know would be the worst thing for the economy in this country? It would be a

  • run on the pound, capital flight and £1,000 billion of borrowing under a Labour Government.

  • >> Jeremy Corbyn: As manufacturing industry declines, it is skilled well-paid jobs that

  • are lost. But the Prime Minister is rightthere is something that is increasing, and that

  • is the income of the top fifth richest people in this country, which went up by 4.7% last

  • year while the incomes of the poorest fell by 1.6%. With the poorest people worse off,

  • will the Prime Minister now commit to ending the benefit freeze, or does she believe that

  • rising poverty is a price worth paying? >> The Prime Minister: Perhaps it might again

  • help to look at some of the facts. The top 1% are paying 28% of income tax, which is

  • higher than at any time under a Labour Government, income inequality is lower than that which

  • we inherited from a Labour Government, and the lowest earners saw their fastest pay rise

  • in 20 years through the national living wage. The Conservatives are building a fairer society

  • and delivering for everyone. >> Jeremy Corbyn: Some of us cannot forget

  • that it was the Conservative party that so opposed the principle of the national minimum

  • wage from the very beginning. Perhaps the Government could start by tackling the scourge

  • of low pay in their own Departments. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

  • and the Ministry of Justice pay some of their central London workers as little as £7.83

  • an hour, and they have been on strike again this week, hoping to get a London living wage.

  • Will the Prime Minister intervene and ensure that they do get the London living wage so

  • that they can continue doing their valuable work for both those Departments? Low pay means

  • that many workers have to claim universal credit just to make ends meet. This month,

  • the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions admitted that universal credit is driving

  • people to food banks. Is it not time to stop the roll-out and get it right, or does the

  • Prime Minister believe that rising poverty is a price worth paying?

  • >> The Prime Minister: No. I am not sure whether the right hon. Gentleman is repeating his

  • previous question, but he talks about universal credit. We have made changes to it as we have

  • rolled it out as we have seen how it has been operating. In my first months as Prime Minister,

  • we cut the taper rate so that people could keep more of what they earn. Since then, we

  • have increased allowances to 100% of a full monthly payment, we have scrapped the seven

  • days' wait, meaning that people get their money sooner, and we have brought in a two-week

  • overlap for people on housing benefit. When we were making all those changes to universal

  • credit to benefit the people who receive it, why did the Labour party oppose every single

  • one of them? >> Jeremy Corbyn: Can I just give one example

  • of what is happening? Take the food bank in Hastings, which is represented by the Secretary

  • of State for Work and Pensions, where demand went up by 80% after universal credit was

  • rolled out, and the Trussell Trust said that a significant proportion of referrals are

  • related to benefit changes, delays or sanctions. It is a huge increase in food bank use. Some

  • 4.1 million of our children are growing up in poverty, and the Resolution Foundation

  • said last week that UK child poverty was on course to hit record levels. Will the Prime

  • Minister act to prevent that? Will she start by ending the two-child limit? Will she end

  • the benefit cap? Will she restore the 1,000 Sure Start centres that have been lost under

  • her Government? >> The Prime Minister: We want to ensure that

  • we have a welfare system that is fair not only to those who need to use it, but to all

  • the hard-working taxpayers whose taxes actually pay for the welfare system. The right hon.

  • Gentleman talks about child poverty, but absolute child poverty is at a record low. We know

  • that a child growing up in a home where all the adults work is around five times less

  • likely to be in poverty than a child in a home where nobody works. Under this Government,

  • the number of children in workless households is at a record low. So, when the right hon.

  • Gentleman stands up, will he recognise that work is the best route out of poverty and

  • welcome the fact that we now have more people in work than ever before—3.5 million more

  • than in 2010? >> Jeremy Corbyn: It clearly is not working,

  • because so many people who are themselves working very hard, some doing two or even

  • three jobs, have to access food banks just to feed their children. The Prime Minister

  • used to talk about thejust about managing.” Well, they are not managing anymore. Income

  • inequalityup. In-work povertyup. Child povertyup. Pensioner povertyup. Homelessnessup.

  • Austerity clearly is not over. People on low incomes are getting poorer, while those at

  • the top are getting richer. The economy is slowing, manufacturing is in recession and

  • this Government's shambolic handling of Brexit

  • >> Mr Speaker: Order. The right hon. Gentleman will not be shouted down. It is not going

  • to happen. The attempt is foolish and it demeans the House. Stop it. Grow up.

  • >> Jeremy Corbyn: Austerity clearly is not over. People on low incomes are getting poorer,

  • while those at the top get richer. The economy is slowing, manufacturing is in recession

  • and this Government's shambolic handling of Brexit is compounding years of damaging

  • austerity. Their policies are driving people to food banks and poverty in the fifth richest

  • economy on this planet. Are any of these burning injustices a priority for the Prime Minister?

  • >> The Prime Minister: Manufacturing is not in recession, and what the right hon. Gentleman

  • says about the lowest earners is not the case. If he had listened to my earlier answer, he

  • would know the lowest earners have seen the highest rise in their pay for 20 years as

  • a result of the introduction of the national living wagethe national living wage introduced

  • by a Conservative-led Government. If the right hon. Gentleman is talking about actually helping

  • people who are in work, let us talk about the fact that we have cut income tax to help

  • people to keep more of what they earn. We have frozen fuel duty to help people for whom

  • a car is a necessity, not a luxury. Since 2010, those measures have saved working people

  • £6,500. From the way the right hon. Gentleman talks, one might think that he would have

  • supported those measures. But what did he do? No, he voted against them over a dozen

  • times. That is the reality: it is working people who always pay the price of Labour.

  • >> Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire) (Con): For rural areas, access to emergency care

  • is hugely important, with distances and journey times crucial. Does the Prime Minister therefore

  • agree with me and the 40,000 Pembrokeshire people who signed the petition against proposals

  • to remove accident and emergency services from the local hospital that the Welsh Government

  • need to look again and ensure that communities such as mine are not left with second-class

  • services that put lives at risk? >> The Prime Minister: I thank my right hon.

  • Friend for raising this issue. Obviously I recognise the concern those people feel, particularly

  • those who live furthest away from the planned new hospital. As he says, health is a devolved

  • matter for the Labour Welsh Government, but I urge them to consider fully the impact of

  • the changes on local residents. We want to ensure that people can access the services

  • they need, wherever they live in the United Kingdom.

  • >> Ian Blackford (Ross, Skye and Lochaber) (SNP): I am sure the House will want to join

  • me in welcoming the president of the Dutch Senate and the Dutch parliamentarians who

  • are with us. Goedemiddag. Hartelijk welkom, dames en heren. Some 100,000 jobs in Scotland

  • are under threat from a no-deal Brexit. The Scottish Government's top economic adviser

  • has warned that it could create a recession worse than the 2008 financial crisis. The

  • Prime Minister must rule out no deal right here, right now. Why is she still blackmailing

  • the people of this country? >> The Prime Minister: The right hon. Gentleman

  • might not be surprised if I point out to him that there are only two ways to ensure that

  • no deal is taken off the table. [Interruption.] It is no good SNP Members shaking their heads

  • or muttering from a sedentary position. They need to face up to the fact that we will not

  • revoke article 50 because we are leaving the European Union, so the only way to take no

  • deal off the table is to vote for the deal. >> Ian Blackford: I think it will be for Parliament

  • to decide, and of course there are other options: we can extend article 50 and we can have a

  • people's vote. The Prime Minister should look at the faces of her colleagues; she is

  • fooling no one. Parliament will not be bullied into a false choice between accepting her

  • very bad deal or no deal at all. MPs from Scotland must now decide: will they stand

  • up for Scotland or will they stand up with the extreme Brexiteers on the Tory Benches?

  • Today, the Scottish National party will move an amendment to rule out no deal in any and

  • all circumstances. Scottish MPs can back the SNP or betray voters in Scotland. Will the

  • Prime Minister finally end this Brexit madness and vote for the SNP amendment tonight?

  • >> The Prime Minister: The right hon. Gentleman talks about an extension to article 50 or

  • a second referendum, but that does not solve the problemit does not deal with the issue.

  • The issue is very simple: do we want to leave with a deal or without a deal? That is the

  • question that SNP MPs and every other MP will face when the time comes. He then talks about

  • betraying voters in Scotland. I will tell him what has betrayed voters in Scotland:

  • an SNP Scottish Government who have raised income tax so that people in Scotland are

  • paying more in income tax than people anywhere else in the UK; an SNP Scottish Government

  • who have broken their manifesto promise and raised the cap on annual council tax increases

  • for homeowners; and an SNP Scottish Government under whom people are facing the prospect

  • of an extra tax for parking their car at their workplace. And all of that—[Interruption.]

  • >> Mr Speaker: Order. There is a fest of undignified arm-waving, and bellowing, Mr Kerr, from a

  • sedentary position. Calm yourself, man. Take some sort of soothing medicament that you

  • will find beneficial. >> The Prime Minister

  • And all of that in a year in which the Scottish Government's block grant from Westminster

  • went up. The people betraying the people of Scotland are the SNP Scottish Government.

  • >> James Cleverly (Braintree) (Con): Yesterday, we heard of the horrific antisemitic attack

  • on an elderly Jewish gentleman in north London. Tonight, right hon. and hon. colleagues from

  • across the House will be breaking bread with the Community Security Trust, a charity that

  • exists to defend against antisemitic violence. Does my right hon. Friend agree that we can

  • never be blasé about antisemitism, we can never be tolerant of antisemitism, and the

  • Labour party can never be too apologetic about antisemitism?

  • >> The Prime Minister: First, I join my hon. Friend in recognising the work done by the

  • Community Security Trust. It does such important and valuable work throughout the year, and

  • I am pleased that the Government are able to support the work it does. He is absolutely

  • right to say that one can never be too apologetic about antisemitism, but I think what we have

  • heard sums up Labour under its leader: it loses the hon. Member for Liverpool, Wavertree

  • (Luciana Berger) and it keeps the hon. Member for Derby North (Chris Williamson). That tells

  • us all we need to know about the Labour leadership: they are present but not involved. Perhaps

  • if the Labour leader actually wants to take action against racism, he would suspend the

  • hon. Member for Derby North. >> Layla Moran (Oxford West and Abingdon)

  • (LD) One homeless person dying—[Interruption.] >> Mr Speaker: Order. The hon. Lady must be

  • heard. >> Layla Moran: One homeless person dying

  • on our streets is enough for national shame, yet the latest figures show that in 2017 nearly

  • 600 died. In that same year, the Vagrancy Act 1824 was used more than 1,000 times to

  • drag homeless people before our courts. Crisis, Centrepoint, St Mungo's and MPs on both

  • sides of this House agree that it is time to scrap this law. Will the Prime Minister

  • consider meeting us and the charities so that we can make the case for why we should not

  • wait one more day? >> The Prime Minister: As I think I indicated

  • in Prime Minister's questions last week, the number of people sleeping on our streets

  • has gone down for the first time in eight years, but of course there is more to do.

  • On the wider issue of homelessness, there is more to do in terms of building more homes,

  • and we are doing that. I will ensure that the Minister from the relevant Department

  • meets the hon. Lady to discuss the matter. >> Robert Neill (Bromley and Chislehurst)

  • (Con): Residents of Northpoint House in Bromley in my constituency have aluminium composite

  • material cladding on their building. They are paying out £5,000 a week for a waking

  • watch, repairs and remediation will cost £3 million, and their fire brigade enforcement

  • notice expires on 30 April. The flats are valueless, so the residents cannot raise the

  • money against them. Despite personal intervention by the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities

  • and Local Government, for which I am grateful, the freeholders and the developer refuse to

  • accept liability. Under the circumstances, will the Government accept that it may be

  • necessary to intervene directly to ensure that the innocent flat-owners are not out

  • of pocket? >> The Prime Minister: My hon. Friend raises

  • a very important issue. I know that, as he said, he has been in touch with the Ministry

  • of Housing, Communities and Local Government, as well as the Treasury. As I have said previously,

  • we fully expect building owners in the private sector to take action, make sure appropriate

  • safety measures are in place, and not pass costs on to leaseholders. We have written

  • to all relevant building owners to remind them of their responsibilities. They must

  • do the right thing; if they do not, we are not ruling anything out. I should also point

  • out to my hon. Friend that local authorities have the power to complete works and recover

  • the costs from the private owners of high-rise residential buildings. I am sure that a Minister

  • from MHCLG would be happy to meet my hon. Friend to continue to discuss this matter,

  • to ensure that the residents are given the peace of mind they need by the action being

  • taken. >> Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion) (Green):

  • The Government have just decided that in the event of a no-deal Brexit, imports of medical

  • supplies are to be handled by the same company that forced hundreds of restaurants to close

  • because it was incapable of delivering chicken to Kentucky Fried Chicken. It is horrifying

  • that the Prime Minister's stubbornness is literally putting people's lives at risk

  • through bargain-bucket supply deals. What guarantee can she give patients who are watching

  • us now, looking at the pantomime and farce in this House, that they will be able to get

  • their vital medicines when they need them in the event of that no-deal Brexit?

  • >> The Prime Minister: The Department of Health and Social Care is taking the steps necessary

  • to ensure that medicines are available. We have been clear before that it is not necessary

  • to stockpile and that patients should not be stockpiling medicines. Medicines will be

  • available. If the hon. Lady is so concerned about the impact of no deal

  • >> The Prime Minister: It is no good the hon. Lady shaking her head. There is a very simple

  • answer: if she does not want no deal, she should support the deal.

  • >> Robert Halfon (Harlow) (Con): Yesterday, The Sun newspaper reported on proposals for

  • a £1.6 billion post-EU fund for deprived areas in the north, predominantly in seats

  • held by Opposition MPs. Will my right hon. Friend ensure that money from the fund is

  • available to constituents like mine in Harlow, where we have significant deprivation and

  • disadvantage? >> The Prime Minister: We will be introducing

  • a fund to ensure that our towns can grow and prosper. The details will be announced in

  • due course by the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government. I can confirm

  • to my right hon. Friend that Harlow, and indeed other towns across England, will be able to

  • propose ambitious plans to help to transform their communities. Of course, we will work

  • with the devolved Administrations and in Northern Ireland to ensure that towns in Wales, Scotland

  • and Northern Ireland also benefit from town deals.

  • >> Sir David Crausby (Bolton North East) (Lab): As a former shop steward and works convenor,

  • I completely understand the need to approach the cliff edge in order to secure a deal,

  • but rational negotiators never go to the edge, hold hands and jump into the abyss. When will

  • the Prime Minister recognise that constructive discussions should take place without the

  • nuclear option of mutually assured destruction? >> The Prime Minister: Constructive discussions

  • are taking place. This House was clear on what it wanted to be changed in relation to

  • the withdrawal agreement and the deal that we had brought back from the European Union,

  • and we are making progress and having exactly the constructive discussions the hon. Gentleman

  • talks about. >> George Freeman (Mid Norfolk) (Con): Public

  • trust in politics is dangerously low. Failing to honour and deliver the EU referendum result

  • cannot be an option. I campaigned to remain, but I am 100% committed to leaving; the question

  • is how. Most of my voters in Mid Norfolk said that they wanted to be in the Common Market,

  • not a political union. Given the clear warnings from the life science and agriculture sectorskey

  • industries in Norfolkabout the danger of no deal, I welcome the Prime Minister's

  • decision to give this sovereign House the vote and ask that if the House votes against,

  • she will consider the European Free Trade Association instead of the backstop, giving

  • us the Common Market 2.0 that most British voters want.

  • >> The Prime Minister: As I said yesterday, in answer to a question from, I think, our

  • right hon. Friend the Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon), the first aim of the Government and

  • my first aim is to bring back a deal that can command support across the House in a

  • meaningful vote, such that we are able to leave with a deal. The arrangements within

  • the political declaration have significant benefits in relation to issues such as customs,

  • but they also provide for us to have an independent trade policy and to bring an end to free movement.

  • My hon. Friend talks about trust in politics, but I believe that those were important elements

  • of what people voted for in 2016 and it is important that we deliver on that.

  • >> Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood) (Lab): The Prime Minister previously committed

  • to a meaningful vote on her Brexit deal but had to be forced by the courts to hold it.

  • She then committed to that meaningful vote in December, but pulled it at the last minute.

  • When her deal fell to the worst Government defeat in history, instead of listening to

  • MPs, she carried on regardless, so I ask her: what guarantee, other than her word, will

  • she give this House that we will be able to vote to stop a no-deal Brexit before 29 March?

  • >> The Prime Minister: I set out clearly in my statement yesterday and I have repeated

  • it in answer to a question today, the process that the Government will follow. The Government

  • policy is to leave with a deal. We are working to ensure that we can bring back that deal.

  • The hon. Lady talks about the rejection of the meaningful vote and not listening to Parliament,

  • but the constructive discussions that I am having with the European Union at the moment

  • are exactly about listening to Parliament—[Interruption.] It is all very well the shadow Trade Secretary,

  • the hon. Member for Brent North (Barry Gardiner), shouting, “Nonsense!” He might not have

  • noticed that on 29 January this House voted by a majority to say what it wanted to be

  • changed in the withdrawal agreement, and that is what we are working on.

  • >> Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings) (Con): Little moves us more than the death

  • of a child and for bereaved parents that grief is beyond words. Action speaks louder, which

  • is why I have championed, inspired by the hon. Member for Swansea East (Carolyn Harris),

  • the Children's Funeral Fund. Will the Prime Minister tell us when the good work of her

  • Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for Charnwood (Edward Argar), will come to fruition and

  • the fund will begin to bring support and solace? We cannot mend broken hearts here, but those

  • who have loved and lost deserve better than delay and doubt.

  • >> The Prime Minister: I thank my right hon. Friend for his question and for the work that

  • he has done on this issue with the hon. Member for Swansea East. It is accepted across the

  • House that it is not right that grieving parents have to worry about how to meet the funeral

  • costs when they have lost a child. As he knows, we have confirmed that parents will no longer

  • have to meet the cost of burials or cremations. Fees will be waived by local authorities and

  • paid for by the Government. The relevant Ministries have been working on the most effective way

  • to deliver this, and I can confirm that the fund will be implemented by the summer.

  • >> Bambos Charalambous (Enfield, Southgate) (Lab): In the past few months in my constituency,

  • a 98-year-old man was killed in an aggravated burglary, an Asian couple were robbed, held

  • hostage and beaten in their home, schoolchildren were mugged at knifepoint, and a spate of

  • burglaries were committed across Enfield Southgate. My constituents do not feel safe. Does the

  • Prime Minister recognise the severe consequences of underfunding our police service, and will

  • she commit to restoring funding for community policing to pre-2010 levels?

  • >> The Prime Minister: Of course we recognise the concerns about serious violence, which

  • is why my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has brought forward measures such as the Offensive

  • Weapons Bill and set up the serious violence taskforce. In relation to funding for the

  • police, the Metropolitan police will receive up to £2.5 billion in funding in 2019-20,

  • which is an increase of up to £172 million on 2018-19. If the hon. Gentleman also wants

  • to ask questions about funding for police in London perhaps he should speak to the Labour

  • Mayor of London. >> Justine Greening (Putney) (Con): With the

  • Government's review of higher education still under way, does the Prime Minister agree

  • that the reintroduction of maintenance grants is one outcome that could clearly aid social

  • mobility for more disadvantaged students? >> The Prime Minister: I recognise that my

  • right hon. Friend has been, and continues to be, a huge champion for social mobility.

  • She is asking me to provide a solution to higher education funding and student finance

  • before the Augar report has been received and published. All I can do is assure her

  • that Philip Augar and his panel are working on the report and we will look seriously at

  • the proposals they bring forward. >> Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow) (Lab): In my

  • constituency of Jarrow there is a wonderful young lady, four-year-old Harriet Corr, whose

  • life would improve dramatically if she had access to the cystic fibrosis drug Orkambi.

  • It is available in Ireland and many other European countries, and is due to become available

  • in Scotland. Will the Prime Minister intervene personally in the negotiations between the

  • NHS and Vertex to ensure that Harriet's family and many other families are not forced

  • to leave their homes and move elsewhere? >> The Prime Minister: I am sure the whole

  • House will recognise the concerns of Harriet and her family. We want to ensure that patients

  • have access to the most effective and innovative medicines, but obviously at a price that represents

  • value to the NHS. NHS England has proposed its best ever offer for a drug. This offer

  • is the largest ever commitment of its kind in the 70-year history of the NHS, and would

  • guarantee immediate and expanded access both to Orkambi and the drug Kalydeco for patients

  • who need it. We have been closely following the discussions, and the Secretary of State

  • for Health and Social Care has offered a meeting with the global chief executive officer of

  • Vertex, NHS England and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in an effort

  • to move the situation forward for the benefit of patients.

  • >> Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon) (Con): Is my right hon. Friend aware that five years

  • ago today Russian special forces seized the Government building in Crimea and raised the

  • Russian flag? Will she confirm that the UK Government remain committed to the restoration

  • of Ukrainian sovereignty over Crimea, and will she look at strengthening sanctions against

  • Russia until that can be achieved? >> The Prime Minister: I am happy to give

  • my right hon. Friend that confirmation. This was an illegal annexation of Crimea by Russia,

  • and we have been doing everything we can to ensure that the appropriate sanctions are

  • imposed that will have an impact. We have been one of the voices around the EU Council

  • table that has been advocating the roll-over of sanctions at every stage and ensuring that,

  • as we look at the actions of Russia here and elsewhere, we enhance those sanctions and

  • rightfully put pressure on those who are responsible. >> Angela Crawley (Lanark and Hamilton East)

  • (SNP): The Scottish Government have used their powers to increase carer's allowance to

  • the level of jobseeker's allowance, yet this top-up is being undermined because carer's

  • allowance is regarded as income under universal credit. If carer's allowance is meant to

  • help cover the extra costs incurred by providing care, why are carers on universal credit being

  • penalised? >> The Prime Minister: The hon. Lady knows

  • full way the way in which universal credit operates to encourage people into work, but

  • I will ask the Minister in the relevant Department to write to her on this matter.

  • >> Rebecca Pow (Taunton Deane) (Con): Thousands of young girlsincluding, sadly, some from

  • Taunton Deaneare purchasing so-called quick-fix diet and detox products that are often endorsed

  • by celebrities on social media, something for which these celebrities can be paid thousands

  • of pounds. NHS chiefs say that some of these products can have highly detrimental health

  • effects and are heaping work on our mental health services. In Eating Disorders Awareness

  • Week, and following this morning's excellent Westminster Hall debate secured by my hon.

  • Friend the Member for Angus (Kirstene Hair), will the Prime Minister agree that the irresponsible

  • and unsafe endorsement of such products should be addressed?

  • >> The Prime Minister: My hon. Friend raises an important issue. I am sure that all Members

  • have had constituency cases where they have seen the devastating impact that eating disorders

  • can have on individuals, and on their families and friends. The Government have been taking

  • steps over the past few years. In 2014 we announced that we were investing £150 million

  • to expand eating disorder community-based care for children and young people, and 70

  • dedicated new or extended community services offer care as a result. As my hon. Friend

  • said, young people may be encouraged to take products because of celebrity endorsement.

  • The celebrities involved should think very carefully about the impact that these products

  • can have in effecting eating disorders, which devastate lives.

  • >> Nigel Dodds (Belfast North) (DUP): The Prime Minister, and indeed the entire House,

  • knows the conditions under which her withdrawal agreement will have a majority. The whole

  • House, and indeed the country, now knows that as a result of yesterday's events the prospects

  • of the Prime Minister being able to achieve the necessary changes have been undermined

  • and her negotiating position has been weakened. That is the reality of the situation. Can

  • we have an assurance, in terms of any possible extensionand I would be interested to know

  • what the Prime Minister thinks the purpose of the extension would bethat she will

  • continue to focus on getting those legally binding changes? Hopefully, during any future

  • negotiations, she will not be undermined in the way that she has been so far.

  • >> The Prime Minister: First of all, we are continuing to press for those legally binding

  • changes. Those are the discussions we have been having with the European Commission.

  • It is what I have spoken to every European Union leader about over the last 10 days or

  • so. It is what I was speaking to people about at Sharm El Sheikh over the weekend as well.

  • The right hon. Gentleman talks about the extension to article 50. Can I be very clear again?

  • The Government do not want to extend article 50. The Government's policy is to get the

  • legally binding changes so a deal can be brought back to this House, and this House can support

  • the deal, and we can leave on 29 March with a deal.

  • >> Mrs Anne Main (St Albans) (Con): Unlike some Ministers who cannot normally take the

  • view that the Prime Minister's word is binding, I do take the Prime Minister's word as being

  • binding. Can I ask that she reiterates our manifesto commitment to leave with a deal

  • or to leave with no deal, and that is our commitment?

  • >> The Prime Minister: Indeed, I have always said that no deal is better than a bad deal.

  • I think we have actually got a good deal from the European Union. It provides for citizens'

  • rights; it provides certainty for business with the implementation period; it ensures

  • that we have, in the political declaration, the arrangements for customs in the futurefor

  • no tariffs, no quotas and no rules of origin; and it covers a number of other areas that

  • I think will indeed be positive for this country. There is an issue that the House wants to

  • see changed. That is what we are working on in relation to the Northern Ireland backstop.

  • I want us to leave with a deal. I want to be able to bring back a deal that this House

  • can support. >> Ms Marie Rimmer (St Helens South and Whiston)

  • (Lab): Violet Grace Youens was walking home from nursery with her grandma on 24 March

  • 2017. She was hit by a stolen car driven erratically and at 83 mph in a 30 mph zone. The driver

  • and accomplice immediately left the scene, and the driver absconded from the country.

  • Tragically, four-year-old Violet Grace died in her parents' arms the following day and

  • her grandma suffers with life-changing injuries. The offenders have since been sentenced to

  • tariffs that do not fit the gravity of the crimes. In October 2017, the Government published

  • a response to the consultation on driving offences and penalties relating to causing

  • death or serious injury. They confirmed proposals to increase the maximum penalty for causing

  • death by dangerous driving from 14 years' imprisonment to life, along with other tariffs

  • for serious driving offences, and stated that Government would bring forward proposals for

  • reform of the law as soon as parliamentary time allows. Today, after just one week, the

  • public petitionViolet Grace's Lawstands at more than 74,000 signatures. The

  • Government are repeating the same response— >> Mr Speaker: Order. This is a matter of

  • the utmost sensitivity. I respect that, and that is why I am allowing the hon. Lady to

  • go way beyond the normal length, but she must now put a question with a question markone

  • sentence to wrap it up very well. Thank you. >> Ms Rimmer: Prime Minister, when do the

  • Government truly intend to bring forward the changes for the reform of the law?

  • >> The Prime Minister: First of all, I am sure that the feelings of the whole House

  • will be with Violet Grace's family that this terrible tragedy has occurred. I know

  • from a constituency case that I had the concern that parents, family members and others have

  • when they see somebody who has caused a death in this way by their driving being sentenced

  • to a tariff which they feel is less than it should be. The Government have taken this

  • very seriouslythat is why we have had the consultationand we will indeed bring forward

  • our proposals when parliamentary time does allow. But I will ask a Minister from the

  • Department for Transport to meet the hon. Lady to discuss this matter with her.

  • >> Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough) (Con): Mr Speaker, I do not know whether you were as

  • surprised as I was yesterday that, yet again, the media had verbatim reports of the Cabinet

  • meeting straight after it. In fact, there were references to colleagues in front of

  • me as kamikaze pilots. Prime Minister, to sort this issue out, would it not just be

  • easier to televise Cabinet meetings? [Laughter.] >> Mr Speaker: I want to hear the Prime Minister's

  • answer. This is a very important question. >> The Prime Minister: Mr Speaker, when you

  • did a thumbs-up after that question, I was not sure whether that indicated that you had

  • a view on the televising of Cabinet meetings. My hon. Friend has tried to approach that

  • issue in various ways. I seem to remember that last time he asked me about this, it

  • was not about televising Cabinet but sending his CV in to be a Cabinet Minister. Perhaps

  • these are linkedperhaps he wants to sit round the Cabinet table and be on television

  • all the time. >> Mr Speaker: Well, we never knew that the

  • hon. Member for Wellingborough (Mr Bone) had such ambitions, but maybe it lurks within

  • himwho knows? For my own part, I was merely acknowledging welcome and friendly visitors

  • to the House.

>> Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing, Southall) (Lab): If she will list her official engagements

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