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Answered by the ambulance service within the necessary 8 minutes now this is the leader of the opposition’s blueprint for government does my right honorable friend agree with me that instead of campaigning for more politicians in Wales lab should be focusing on delivering the the health services that the people of Wales Authority

Deserve Mr Speaker I completely agree with my honorable friend I had to call an ambulance a 999 call for my father-in-law at 11:00 one morning it arrived at 4:00 the following morning my father-in-law then had to wait for another 6 hours outside an aee unit in

The back of an ambulance where the Welsh labor government in the ambulance base had actually built industrial fans to waft away the diesel fumes Mr Speaker this is totally unacceptable they are cutting the NHS budget in Wales by around £65 million and yet they can find £120 million extra for more politicians

In Cardiff Bay Williams thank you Mr Speaker the health Minister for England announced 200 00 million extra spending for Den histry I asked her repeatedly was this within the English budget or was it additional where it would produce the ban as consequential all she could answer was that it was additional

Repeatedly she said that now can the Secretary of State tell me does the2 200 million extra for dentistry in England produce about10 million extra for Wales or does it produce nothing at all or perhaps he doesn’t know either s say Well Mr Speaker as a result of the

Uh the budget around 170 million extra will be going uh to Wales The Honorable gentleman knows that Welles receives around 20% extra to deliver Health Care uh and it is therefore absolutely appalling that the Welsh labor government are unable to deliver the same services that are supplied in

England and isn’t it interesting Mr Speaker we’re talking about the National Health Service labor claim to be the party of the NHS and where are they Mr Speaker they’re not standing up for a supplementary on this question because they’re absolutely ashamed of the level of healthcare that they’ve delivered in

Wales let this not become a blueprint for the rest of the United Kingdom Mr Speaker a 90-year-old constituent of mine waited 31 hours in the back of an ambulance outside the repon Milo Hospital waiting to be seen Betsy cadwall is a Health Board which serves North Wales is responsible for

80% of the preventable deaths in Wales would the minister agree with me that the Welsh labor government who run the NHS is putting lives at risk Mr Speaker The Honorable lady is absolutely right to raise concerns about the level of Health Care being provided to her constituents in South Wales and

What is really shocking Mr Speaker is that when the independent Commissioners at the Betsy kadada Health Board raised serious concerns about over 100 million pounds of money being misspent the Welsh labor Health Minister called them in and sacked them no Wonder we’re not getting the right level of healthare in Wales Mr

Speaker the minister the Secretary of State Sor and other T MPS bring up a Litany of health issues in Wales but barard consequentials are due to a result of Health spending in England and need in England has the UK government ever made any spending decisions on need

In Wales S Health and then funded England Scotland and Northern Ireland as a consequence of Welsh he might find that a strange question because UK decessions are always made on England’s need and other people get money as a consequence which is why the likes of Wales is never going to catch Ireland

For as long as Wales is in the UK are not independent isn’t it m Mr Speaker in actual fact the whole review looks at what Well’s needs were and calculated that Welles needed an extra 15% what the UK conservative government did was then to provide Welles with an extra 20% so the question

Still stands Mr Speaker why is it that thousands of people in Wales have been waiting for more than 2 years for treatment when the Welsh labor government have been given more money than they actually need to properly fund the Health Service in Wales Michel long number seven Mr Speaker [Applause]

Sayate Mr Speaker the um I’m afraid not very independent commission was set up by Welsh labor ministers it reports to Welsh labor ministers but it was paid for by wellsh taxpayers and the report they came out with was entirely in line with all the predictions which I made more constitutional Naval gazing more

Calls for po more powers and nothing at all to address the problems that have been inflicted on Wales by the Welsh labor government long thank you Mr Speaker Mr Speaker it is deeply concerning that a so-called independent commission described Welsh Independence as viable despite the fact that the vast

Majority of people in Wales support remaining part of the Union of course there is a difference with something that might be viable and something that is best does my right honorable friend agree with me that Independence for Wales would be hugely damaging to the Welsh economy and public services and any

Further exploration of this idea must be immediately ruled out by the labor Welsh government Mr Speaker I completely agree with the honorable gentleman it’s hugely concerning that the Welsh labor government were even willing to consider Independence for Wales with this commission what they should be doing Mr

Speaker is to sort out the longest Hospital the longest NHS waiting in the United Kingdom they should do something about the fact we have the lowest educational standards in the United Kingdom we have in Wales some of the highest business rates in the United Kingdom and as a result of the last bit

Of legislation we have some of the slowest speed limits in the whole of the United Kingdom it’s time the weal labor government address the real priorities of the people in Wales with the powers they already have that the conservative party never wanted Devolution in Wales or Scotland

In the first place and that’s why they don’t want to see Powers extended to either the senate or the Scottish Parliament here Mr the reality is that I campaigned against the senate in the first place but I was perfectly happy to accept the results of the referendum and

I suggest that members of the SNP ought to similarly respect the results of Independence referendums whether it’s independence from the United Kingdom or independence from the European Union Dr Luke EV number eight Mr Speaker second state Mr Speaker the recent protests by farmers across the whole of Wales

Including outside the Senate show the huge anger about the proposals for the Welsh labor government’s so-called sustainable farming scheme to Luke Evans thank you Mr Speaker one of the best ways we can support Welsh Farmers is by choosing to buy British products this is good for the environment reducing food Mars and it’s

Good for our food security by supporting our Farmers so would the minister congratulate Morrison’s Ali sabur and now Accardo who have all signed up to my campaign to have a bu British button online so consumers can easily find British projects Mr Speaker I completely agree with the honorable gentleman about

Buying British although I might go one step further and suggest that we buy Welsh food wherever possible but it’s it’s going to be a lot more difficult if labor Implement their plans to bury 10% of Welsh agriculture land under trees and to bury another 10% under ponds Mr

Speaker it will increase food miles decrease food security and Destroy Prime agricultural land in Wales and the Welsh labor government need to think again James Shan final speaker the best way to support Welsh farmers and Northern irland farmers and Scottish farmers and English Farmers is to buy British does

The minister agree that we should all work together across all this great United Kingdom of Great Britain and Norther Arland to promote farming everywhere Mr Speaker The Honorable gentleman is absolutely right let’s encourage everyone to buy British and let’s make sure that we use as much of

Our land as possible for growing food not covering it in trees and Mr Speaker is particularly hypocritical for the Welsh government to tell Farmers they have to plant trees on their land when the Welsh labor government are responsible for thousands of Acres of forest are chopping down 850,000 tons of

Trees every year and they’re even putting some of them into the boiler which heats up the cers not that that probably requires many trees to add to the hot air in there we now come to questions the Prime Minister Abel C question number one Prim Minister Mr Speaker the post office it

Scandal is one of the greatest miscarriages of Justice in our nation’s history and I’m determined that the victims get the justice and redress that they deserve today we’re introducing legislation to quash convictions resulting from this Scandal the department for business and trade will be responsible for the new redress

Scheme and we’re widening access to the optional £75,000 payment hundreds of innocent sub post Masters have fought long and hard for justice with this bill we will deliver it meetings with ministerial colleagues and others in addition to my duties in this house I shall have further such meetings later today

AB Mr Speaker despite serious opposition from Archbishop of Canterbury three former home secretaries and three government Min advisers on anti semitism social cohesion and on political violence the leveling up sector is due to widen the definition of extremism tomorrow whilst on the benches opposite members peddle far rde conspiracy

Theories about islamist and Muslims taking over Britain shouldn’t the prime minister’s priority be getting his own house in order and stepping out extremism racism and islamophobia from within his conservative party and will the Prime Minister finally take islamophobia seriously and agree to that [Applause] definition M Mr Speaker discrimination

Has no place in our society and it’s important to distinguish it’s important to distinguish between strongly felt political debate on one hand and unacceptable acts of abuse intimidation and violence on the other I would urge him to wait for the details of the strategy it’s a sensitive matter but

It’s one that we must tackle because there has been a rise in extremists who are trying to hijack our democracy that must be confronted and he talks about pedling conspiracy theories I would just point him in the direction of his previous labor candidate in Rochdale thank you Mr Speaker Armed

Forces Personnel who served their country for 15 uh 15 years are eligible for the long service Good Conduct Medal and similar medals are in place for those who make a career of serving in the police the fire the ambulance service and the Coast Guard but as I

Learned on a recent visit to Bournemouth hospital where I met the dedicated staff there no such Accolade is in place for the NHS would the Prime Minister please support my campaign to see if this anomaly can be corrected so the nation can formally recognize those who devote

Much of their working lives in the NHS to helping others yeah my Minister my ronal friend is right that our incredible NHS staff deserve our utmost thanks for their service and I’m pleased that many NHS organizations as he knows have their own schemes in place to do that we also of

Course recognize NHS staff for outstanding through our honor System and MPS are able to acknowledge their work through the NHS parliamentary Awards and nominations remain open for that and I would encourage colleagues uh to Avail themselves of it but I will make sure that he gets to meet the Secretary of

State to discuss his specific proposals further we now can delet the opposition K thank you Mr Speaker can I welcome the legislation on the post office Scandal Mr Speaker this week we lost the formidable Tommy mcaboy he served his hometown of rlen and the labor government with loyalty and good humor

And we send our deepest sympathies to his wife Elena and their family we also learned that the right honorable member for head will be taking her well-deserved retirement she has served this house and her constituents with a real sense of Duty and her unwavering commitment to ending modern

Slavery is commended by all of us we thank her for her service is the prime minister proud to be bankrolled by someone using racist and misogynist language when he says the member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington makes you want to hate all black women Minister Mr Speaker the

Alleged comments were wrong they were racist and he has now as I said the comments were wrong they were racist he has rightly apologized for them and that remorse and that remorse should be accepted Mr Speaker there is no place for racism in Britain and the government

That I lead is living proof of that Mr Speaker the man bankrolling the Prime Minister also said that the member for hatney North should be shot shame how low would he have to sink what racist woman hating threat of violence would he have to make before the Prime

Minister plucked up the courage to hand back the 10 million that he’s taken from him Mr Speaker as I said the gentleman apologized genuinely for his comments and that remorse should be accepted but he talks about language he he might want to reflect on the double standards of

His Deputy leader of his Deputy lead calling her opponent scum Mr Speaker his shadow his shadow his shadow foreign secretary the shadow foreign secretary comparing conservatives to Nazis Mr Speaker and the man that he wanted to make Chancellor the man that he wanted to make Chancellor talking about lynching a female minister

His silence on that speaks Volumes Mr Speaker the difference is he scared of his party I’ve changed my party Mr Speaker Mr Speaker I want see you both the Prime Minister and lead the opposition here two weeks ago the Prime Minister invited himself into everyone’s living room at 6:00 on a Friday evening no one asked

Him to to give that speech he chose to do it he chose to anoint himself as the great healer and pose as some kind of unifier but when the man bankrolling his election says the member for Hackney North should be shot he suddenly finds himself Tongue Tied shrinking in

Sophistry hoping he can deflect for long enough that we’ll all go away what does the prim think it was about the hundreds of millions of pound of NHS contracts given to Frank Hester by his government that first attracted him to giving 10 million to the Tory party in the first place prime minister

Mr Speaker I’m absolutely not going to take any lectures from somebody from somebody from somebody who chose to represent an anti-semitic terrorist group hisb terer who chose to serve a leader who let anti-Semitism run Rife in this labor party those are his actions those are his values and that’s how he should be Judged Mr Speaker the problem is he’s describing a labor party that no longer exists I’m describing I’m describing the man who is banking that upcoming general [Applause] election K they can shout all they two weeks ago he marked watched them out like Falls to defend islamophobia and now the member

For Ashfield is warming up the opposition benches for them and yesterday yesterday he sent them out to play down racism and misogyny until he was forced to change course he won’t hand the money back he won’t comment on how convenient it is that a man handed huge anous contracts by his government

Is now his party’s biggest donor you have to wonder what the point of a prime minister who can’t lead and a party that can’t govern and Mr Speaker National Insurance contributions fund State pensions and the NHS so is the prime minister’s latest unfunded 46 billion pound promise to scrap National

Insurance going to be paid for by cuts to State pensions or cuts to the NHS Minister Mr Speaker Mr Speaker it’s I’m glad he’s brought up the budget it’s about time that he spoke about his plans because what have we heard Mr Speaker from the shadow Chief secretary the shadow Chief secretary to

The treasury confir prime minister the shadow Chief Secretary of the Treasury has confirmed that the labor party will not be sticking to the conservative government spending plans so we now have a litany a Litany of unfunded promises on the NHS on Mental Health on Dentistry on breakfast clubs and that doesn’t even

Include the 28 billion 2030 Eco plge that he’s still committed to but what we all know Mr Speaker is that while we’re cutting taxes Labor’s unfunded promises mean higher taxes for working Britain no Mr Speaker the lb party will not be sticking to his completely unfunded 46 billion from it and he

Thinks it it can trick people into believe that but simply shaking the Tory Magic Money Tree will bring it into existence no no let let let’s be clear 80% of National Insurance is spent on Social Security and pensions 20% is spent on the NHS so he’s either cutting pensions or

The NHS or he will have to raise other taxes or borrowing which is it prime minister Mr Speaker I know I know it’s not a strong point but if he actually listened to the chancellor last week what he would have seen is NHS spending is going up Mr Speaker it’s going up

It’s a plan that’s backed by the NHS CEO who says that we’re giving her what she needs and at the same time we are responsibly cutting taxes for millions of people in work an average worker benefiting from a 900 tax cut Mr Speaker but what I’m hearing for him is he’s

Against our plans to cut National Insurance the highest tax burd since the Second World War I did listen to Chance said 46 billion of unfunded commitments they tried that under the last Administration and everybody else is paying the price but two weeks ago the Prime Minister promised to crack down on

Those spreading hate today he shrunk at the first challenge last week he promised fantasy tax cuts now he’s pretending it can all be paid for with no impact on pensions or the NHS all we need now Mr Speaker is an especially Hardy lettuce and it could be 2022 all

Over again is it any wonder that he’s too scared to call an election when the public can see that the only way to protect their country their pension and their NHS from The Madness of this Tory party is by voting labor M Mr Speaker Mr Speaker again oh no prime

Minister Mr Speaker he talks about pensions pensions are going up by around £900 in this year it’s this government that’s protected the triple lock for the last 10 years he talks about supporting working people it’s this government that’s cutting taxes for every single person in work Mr Speaker it’s this

Government that’s investing in the NHS but all we have from him are all we have from him is a 28 billion unfunded promise Mr Speaker I had a look at it I had a look at it it’s here it’s all here making Britain a clean superpower he’s

Still stuck to it Mr Speaker and if you look through it carefully there’s billions in spending he’s already committed to Scotland billions for Wales there’s actually money for North London too I noticed but the problem is the problem is the problem is none of it is

Funded so why doesn’t he come clean and tell him under his plans Britain people’s taxes are going up Mr Speaker yeah Mr Speaker millions of people around the UK and Europe have been inspired by the Brilliance of Six Nations rugby and Premier League clubs like gler rugby which were funded during

The pandemic through loans authorized by the Prime Minister as then Chancellor have always been grateful being kept solvent but the Prime Minister will also know that the finances of some of these clubs are fragile and that the current loan repayment schemes could be crippling so will my right honorable

Friend asked the sports Minister and the treasury to try and find a solution through this so that tax PIR interests are protected and all of us can go on being inspired by Top Class rugby for years to come Mr Speaker myal friend is absolutely right that we stepped in with

150 million pound Financial Lifeline to ensure the survival of Premiership rugby league clubs during the pandemic and I am told that dcms is working with sport England as the agent to talk to borrowers with concerns about their loan agreements and any ones that do have concerns should contact sport England in

The normal way but I can also proudly tell him that we are talking to the Rugby Football Union and the Premiership League to secure not just the future of Rugby Union but also his local Gloucester rugby we come to lead of the S SMP Steven

Flynn thank you Mr Speaker and I wish to begin by wishing Ramadan Mubarak to Muslims across these aisles Mr Speaker the conservative party have accepted a 10 million pound donation from an individual who has said that one of our parliamentary colleagues in this chamber should be

Shot why is the prime minister of the United Kingdom putting money before morals Mr Speaker as I said the comments were wrong the gentleman in question has apologized for them and that remorse should be accepted Steven Flynn this is complete rubbish the gentleman in question apologized for being rude he

Wasn’t rude he was racist he was odious and he was downright bloody dangerous now on Monday the number 10 said we’ve seen an unacceptable rise in extremist activity which is seeking to divide our society and hijack our Democratic institutions isn’t the extremism that we should all be worried about the the

Views of those Tory donors that we read about this week prime minister no Mr Speaker there has actually been a rise in extremist activity that is seeking to hijack our Democratic institutions it’s important it is important it is important that we have the tools to tackle this threat

That’s what the extremes and strategy will do and I would urge him to wait for the community secretary to release the details well twins you Mr Speaker sub poost Masters across the country will welcome the government’s announcement today on the introduction of legislation to overturn the convictions of those who

Were wrongly convicted but can my right on friend reassure this house that that legislation will be passed as quickly as possible and we will support all sub postmasters right across our United Kingdom prime minister well Mr Speaker as I said I want to pay tribute to all postmasters who have campaigned

Tirelessly for justice including those who tragically won’t see the justice that they deserve today’s legis marks an important step in finally clearing their names and across this house we owe it to them to progress this legislation as soon as possible before summer recess so that we can deliver the justice that

They have fought for we’re continuing to work with our counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland as they develop their plans but regardless of where and how convictions are quashed redress will be paid to victims across the whole of our United Kingdom on exactly the same basis did thank you Mr Speaker the

Future fut of children’s cancer services and D cancer Services thank you Mr Speaker the the future of children’s cancer services in my constituency across Southwest London across Sur Sussex and Beyond will be decided by NHS England tomorrow the existing service is World leading and has saved the Liv Liv of countless

Children many of us whove engaged with the consultation process feel that a wrong decision is about to be made ignoring RIS to Children’s Cancer Care by moving them to the evina if the evina is chosen tomorrow will the Prime Minister personally intervene and delay any final decision until he’s met with

Myself and conserned concerned MPS across the house so we can prevent these risks to our children’s cancer services uh well Mr Speaker as The Honorable gentle right gentleman knows decisions about clinical provision are rightly made by clinicians in local areas across the country uh more generally we’re investing in more oncologists

Radiologists and Community diagnostic Centers which are contributing to cancer treatment being at record levels but I will of course ensure that he and colleagues uh get a meeting with the Secretary of State thank you Mr Speaker radical islamists pose a serious threat to our nation’s security and I agree with my

Vice honorable friend that we must urgently address this but reports that the government wishes to broaden the definition of extremism are concerning because in separating the definition of extremism from actual violence and harm we may criminalize people with a wide range of legitimate views and have a

Chilling effect on free speech so can my right honorable friend reassure me that instead of trying to police people’s thought and speech as those opposite clearly wish to do the government will instead Target the specific groups that cost of terrorism and those who fund them prime minister my uh mod friend

Makes a good point and that’s why the strategy that I would urge her to wait for will I think be one that she can support because it is our duty to make sure the government has the tools to tackle the threat that she rightly identifies and highlights and this is

Absolutely not about silencing those with private and peaceful beliefs nor will it impact Free Speech which we on this side of the house will always strive to protect J David thank you Mr Speaker children deserve the right to breathe clean air however many schools are in areas with

High levels of air pollution Sadi Khan the mayor of London has announced keep going S Khan the mayor of London has announced a pilot for 200 of London’s most impacted schools to access air quality filters so children can breathe clean air a in their classroom excellent does the Prime Minister

Support this pilot and will he Implement similar measures across our country prime minister Mr Speaker I’m pleased that latest published figures show that air pollution has reduced significantly since 2010 and partly due to our targets partly due to our legally binding targets to reduce concentrations they will continue to reduce over the

Following years and on top of that we’ve also provided almost a ion pounds to help local authorities across the country Implement local plans to reduce NO2 and make sure that we can support those impacted by those plans rejected thank you Mr Speaker I understand the latest scheme that’s been considered is

To pay migrants thousands of pounds to leave Britain prime minister let’s just leave the echr and Deport them for free so far over 40,000 Brits have signed my petition with a conservative post calling for us to leave the European convention on human rights were the Prime Minister commit to leaving the

ECR or at the very least have it in our Manifesto to have a referendum and let Britain decide prime minister well Mr Speaker my honorable friend is absolutely right that we must do everything we can to secure our borders ensure that those who come here illegally do not have the ability to

Stay that’s why our Rwanda scheme and legislation is so important and what I’ve said repeatedly and will happily say to her again is that I will not let a foreign Court block our ability to send people to Rwanda when the time comes there Roberts the National Theater production

NY which stars Michael Sheen celebrates at the end a transformational increase in life expectancy since the founding of the NHS but UCL findings indicate that austerity policies between 2010 and 2019 are responsible for a threeyear setback in life expectancy progress does he or the leader of the opposition for that matter Think Public

Services can withstand an extra 20 billion pounds of cuss prime minister yeah well Mr Mr Speaker first of all I’m pleased that the National Theater received significant funding from the chancell in the recent budget to support their fantastic work across the UK but I I am surprised to hear her raising the NHS

It’s her party that’s propping up the Welsh lab government in Wales which has absolutely the worst NHS performance of any part of the United Kingdom Christopher Mr Speaker may I thank my right honorable friend for meeting me six weeks ago to discuss the plight of victims of covid-19 vaccine damage and

May I ask him following that discussion and his very sympathetic response during the GB people’s Forum to Mr John Watt who himself is a victim of covid-19 vaccine damage whether the government will be supporting my covid-19 vaccine payments bill this Friday well Mr Speaker can I thank my

Honorable friend for raising the issue and the conversation that I had with him previously and extend my sympathies to all of those who have been affected by this I I will of course make sure that he can meet with the secretary of state to discuss his bill and as I committed

Him we are looking at the issue in some detail to make sure that the policies we’ve got are providing the support that they need to thank you Mr Speaker the Prime Minister stood outside daring Street saying that he wanted to root out hate and extremism imagine yet it shamefully

Took him more than 24 hours to finally say the remarks by the Tory’s biggest owner that looking at the right honorable member for Hackney North and sto new Newington makes you want to hate all women were indeed racist in November the Prime Minister accepted a non-cash donation to the tune

Of 15,000 from Frank Hester for the use of his helicopter so will he reimburse him yes or no minister no no Mr Speaker and I’m pleased that I’m pleased that I’m pleased that the gentleman is supporting a party that represents one of the most diverse governments in this country’s

History led by this country’s first British Asian prime [Applause] minister thank you very much Mr Speaker uh later today I look forward to voting for a tax cut for thousands of my constituents a national insurance tax cut that will mean £900 off the tax bill for thousands of my

Constituents after listening to the rhetoric from the leader of the opposition today does the Prime Minister expect that the main opposition party will vote against this afternoon’s tax I right honorable my honorable friend raises an excellent question because whilst on this side of the house we believe in a country where hard work

Is rewarded and people can keep more of their hard-earned money which is why we’re cutting their taxes by an average of £900 each we hear consistently from the party opposite not only do they disagree with that approach they continue to cling to unfunded spending promises that will put taxes

But also the shadow Chief secretary to the treasury we learned just yesterday described our plan to end the double taxation on work as morally abor and that is a contrast between us and Them labor will put your taxes up and the conservatives will keep cutting them thank you thank you Mr Speaker many

Of us back benchers and now it seems the Prime Minister himself have taken to referring to the European Court of human rights as a foreign Court as if there’s something inherently wrong with things being foreign or people being foreign in what way can a court that the UK has

Belonged to since 1953 which has an Irish president and a UK Justice with an LLB from dunde be considered foreign I think the house needs to hear the Prime Minister commit today to the UK’s continued membership of a court and a convention which protected our rights and freedoms for over 70

Years so Mr Speaker when it comes to the issue of tackling illegal migration when expresses a clear view on what it believes should happen supports that with legislation and that we believe we are acting in accordance with all our International obligations I’ve been very clear that I will not let a foreign

Court stop us from sending illegal migrants to Rwanda that is the right policy and in fact the only way to ensure security of our borders and end the unfairness of illegal migration Edward Lee as a general election is not just a mayor expression of opinion but a serious choice will my writable friend

Agree that there is only one potential party of government that has the will the inclination and the determination to stop Mass illegal and legal migration and that is a conservative party let’s unite our movement and do that well I uh I agree agree with my honorable friend entirely I agree with

My honorable friend entirely and we know this because not only has the r gentleman opposite opposed the scheme he’s been clear that even when the scheme is implemented and working he would still scrap it Mr Speaker which tells you everything you need to know on this issue their values are simply not

Those of the British people there’s only one party that’s going to stop the boates it’s the conservative party all me thank you very much Mr Speaker under this conservative government’s watch T’s water have dumped over 72 billion liters of sewage into London’s Rivers all whilst racking up multi-billion pound

Debts and reports are now that they could go bust any day despite this the government is still refusing to publish their contingency plans for the collapse of our country’s biggest water F so yes or no does the Prime Minister believe that Tim’s water will still exist by the

End of the year prime minister yeah well Mr Speaker it wouldn’t be right for me to comment on individual companies all I can say is that our ambitious storm overflow reduction plan is backed by 60 billion of capital investment we now monitor every single storm overflow across England and have legislated to

Introduce unlimited penalties on water companies that breach their obligations the independent regulator and the environment agency have the powers they need to hold water companies wherever they are to account notle Al thank you Mr Speaker um later this year a new digital EU bard system will come in and

Yet key changes that are required key details have still not been decided by the EU there are Urgent decisions that are needed on additional funding and preparation to keep over clear and Kent moving through with its traffic can my right honorable friend the Prime Minister assure me that this issue is

Being taken seriously at the highest levels of government and that funding and support will be made available to keep DOA clear support the residents of do andal and Kent and to secure our Vital cross Channel trade and tourism now my uh my friend’s right to raise this issue and I can assure her

That it is being discussed at the highest levels of government between UK ministers and EU and French counterparts to make sure that we have practical and constructive solutions that will ease the flow of traffic in the way that she describes and will benefit her local community Rachel M thank you Mr Speaker

158 days and there’s no peace and no justice there was no food there was no clean water there’s no sanitation and no Medical Aid there are just no words left as disease is spreading and the death toll is rising not least amongst children victims of these atrocities it is

Evident that the prime minister’s plan is not working so will he change track for the sake of these children and so many more and work to secure Ure a bilateral immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas prime minister Mr Speaker I’ve said repeatedly that we are incredibly concerned about

The growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza too many civilians have lost their lives and nowhere near enough Aid is getting through and in contrast to what the honorable lady said actually the UK is playing a leading role in alleviating that suffering just recently increasing the amount of Aid this year to 100

Million just today 150 tons of UK Aid is due to arrive in Gaza and a full field Hospital flown from Manchester to the Middle East last week will also arrive in Gaza in the coming Days sted by UK and local Medics to provide life-saving care we are doing absolutely everything

We can working with our allies to bring much needed Aid to the people of Gaza show them recort thank you Mr Speaker will my right honorable friend join me in thanking the maternity team at Royal cormal Hospital at trisk in m and farmouth constituency for all their outstanding work they’ve done to improve

Maternity Services over the last few years their sheer hard work along with the coming new women and children’s hospital mean that there are now no Midwifery vacancies in Cornwall which I think you’ll agree is a fantastic well can I thank my honorable friend for highlighting the Improvement in maternity services at the Royal

Cornall and she in particular is a tireless campaigner for reducing baby loss and I commend her for her recent work on the introduction of baby loss certificates and as she knows we are committed to a new women and children’s hospital for marable friends local trust in 2030 as part of the new hospital

Program s thank you Mr Speaker my constituents in sumon and fr working together with the langport Transport Group submitted a robust strategic business case to the government in July 2022 for the reopening of a train station in the summon and langport area a train station that would connect over

50,000 people to the rail network boost the local economy and support local people to reduce their Reliance on their cars almost two years on they are still waiting for a response so does the Prime Minister support this project and can he provide confidence to my constituents

That their hard work to drive this vital project forward has not been futile prime minister well Mr Mr Speaker conservatives in the southwest are rightly championing the reopen of local stations actually recently Colton and Wellington will be one of the places that receives funding as a result of our

Decision on hs2 but it’s because of that decision that we now have freed up billions of pounds of funding to invest in local transport across the country and it will be local leaders that will be put in charge of that many to prioritize their local needs final question mark

Franois prime minister in the 1930s one of your less illustrious predecessors as Neville Chamberlain so denuded the British armed forces of funding until it was too late that we failed to deter Adolf Hitler and 50 million people tragically died in the second world war Russia has invaded Ukraine China is threatening

Taiwan British shipping is being attacked by houes in the Red Sea as the son of a D-Day veteran could you please assure me and the House of Commons we are not going to forget the lessons of history and make the same mistake again Minister well can I thank my honorable friend for his

Tireless campaigning for our armed forces and he’s right to Champion them and the role that they play and I agree with him wholeheartedly that sadly the world that we are living in is becoming both more challenging strategically and more dangerous and in response to those challenges we must invest more in our

Armed forces that is exactly what we are doing with the largest uplift since the Cold War and recently topped up with billions of pounds to strengthen our nuclear Enterprise and rebuild stockpiles he rightly mentioned the threat posed by the houes and Russia and Ukraine and I know that he will be proud

Of the role that the United Kingdom is playing in both of those situations we are respected and valued by our allies but most importantly we on this side of the house will do whatever it takes to keep our country safe that completes prime minister’s questions we now come to the Urgent question

Caroline Lucas thank you very much Mr Speaker to ask the Secretary of State for energy security and Net Zero to make a statement on the government plan to build new gas fired power stations Min thank you Mr Speaker the second review of electricity Market Arrangements consultation was launched

Yesterday and it sets out the choices uh that we need to make in delivering a fully decarbonized electricity system by 2035 this government has already reduced Ed emissions from Power by 65% since 2010 and thus made the UK the first major economy in the world to Harve emissions overall from less than

7% of electricity Supply in 2010 to nearly 50% today we have built record volumes of Renewables allowing us to remove coal alt together by October this year our success in growing Renewables is we want that is why we need flexible backup for when the wind does not blow

And the sun does not shine our main source of flexible power today is unabated gas more than half of that 15 gaw of combined cycle gas turbines could retire by 2035 meanwhile electricity demand is set to increase as heat transport and Industry Electrify we must ensure that we have sufficient sources of

Flexibility in place to guarantee security of Supply we need up to 55 gaw of short duration flexibility and between 30 and 50 gaw of long duration flexibility our aim is for as much of this capacity as possible to be low carbon but Mr Speaker whilst low carbon

Technologies scale up we will extend the life of our existing gas assets but a limited amount of new build gas capacity will also be required in the short term to replace expiring plants as the only mature technology capable of providing sustained flexible capacity we remain committed to delivering a fully

Decarbonized electricity Supply by 2035 subject to security of supply and we expect most new gas capacity to be built Net Zero ready this government has committed 20 billion pounds to ccus and is developing comprehensive support for hydrogen so in the future unabated gas plants will only run a limited number of

Hours per year so emissions will be entirely in line with our legally binding carbon budgets thank you Mr Speaker can I just start by saying that I am a bit tired of this government shunning any scrutiny of their climate record and instead relying on a past record because while the UK

May indeed be the first major economy to cut its territorial emissions by half since 1990 we are not on track we are not on track to achieve our 2030 targets and if we factor in consumption emissions then the UK has only cut emissions by 23% so let’s have a little

Less complacency from the minister now he will know this government’s uh new announcement for new gas fired uh Power stations does in fact contrary to what he claim claimed risk undermining our climate targets and leaving the country reliant on Imports of expensive gas members should have been given the

Opportunity to question the minister on its implications for decarbonizing the UK’s Energy System by 2035 with 95% of the UK electricity being low carbon by 2030 so first why was this statement not made in Parliament why was it made instead in chattam house where members were not able to question the minister

On the impact of this decision second will the minister explain how this proposal differs from the functioning of the existing capacity Market or will he admit that this is just the government’s latest attempt to stoke a culture war on climate third the climate change committee it’s clear that there should

Be no new unabated gas plants built after 2030 so what is the government’s timeline for developing these new gas fired power stations I asked him about this yesterday in the environmental AIT committee I didn’t get a response I also asked him what’s being done to ensure that these gas plants are zeroc carbon

By 2035 that wasn’t set out in either the Secretary of State’s speech yesterday or by the minister uh today uh the minister did tell the environment audit committee that they will be required to be ccs and hydrogen ready that doesn’t actually amount to a meaningful plan so can he please give us

More than just his uh thus far unevidenced words of assurance and will he explain what the government’s plan is to support the development of batteries and long-term storage Technologies and to drive Innovation so that we can get off volatile gas for good uh thank you U Mr Speaker um I mean

Rather to be asked about uh being able to scrutinize this this was the launch of a consultation yesterday which will be going on for some time and The Honorable lady as she knows I was in front of the select committee yesterday so rather strange Mr Speaker um uh uh

That she should highlight that um she’s confused as she often is because she’s so political she would appear to set politics always ahead of climate she struggles to recognize that the unfc rules are about territorial emissions countries own the emissions in the territory where they take place her

Numbers on embedded emissions are wrong um but she doesn’t care about that she just carries on a kind of political diet tribe um on the the government which has done more than any other in any major economy on this Earth to decarbonize its economy and we have done it not as The

Honorable lady would have us done reduced to living in yurs but actually while growing the economy by 82% it’s people like The Honorable lady who make people on my side of the chamber at times think are we engaged in some form of Madness we’re not but she doesn’t

Half make it sound like it can these new gas plants be consistent with the government’s commitment to decarbonize the power sector by 2035 are published Net Zero scenarios I would invite her to read them um for the power sector show that building new gas capacity is consistent with decarbonizing

Electricity by 2035 and on from those scenarios we expect even with new gas capacity that rather than the 38% of electricity generation which in 2022 came from gas it will be down to 1% by 235 or if we follow the uh scenario set out by the climate change committee

Perhaps 2% so we’re going to have that as a backup it’s sensible insurance it’s about keeping the lights on while we carry on the remarkable transformation that this government has achieved moving from the apping legacy of the party opposite less than 7% electricity from Renewables to nearly 50% today sir Jacob

Le thank you um Mr Speaker this announcement on gas fired par stations is extremely welcome but at the moment a kilowatt hour of electricity in the UK costs 44 cents against 17 cents in the US and 8 cents in both China and India we have become fundamentally uncompetitive because of this green

Obsession we want cheap electricity and we should have gas and we should have coal and we should postpone Net Zero indefinitely because we are only 1% of global emissions we are making no difference and the US economy is gr consistently faster than ours because of cheap energy this is a good first step

Against the Net Zero Obsession we need to go further Minister well I I would chide my right honorable friend with the science and the evidence which is emerging all the time there is uh a climate uh uh uh Challenge and a climate emergency that’s why we’re that’s why we’re looking to uh

Reduce our emissions but he’s quite right to also to challenge and say well we’re less than 1% of global emissions how does this make sense that’s why we hosted cop 26 that’s why we got the rest of the world to commit to following us that’s why we’re bringing in carbon B

Carbon border adjustment mechanism from 2027 precisely to ensure that we create econ an economically rational system which supports jobs in this country while meeting the the CH the challenge which does need to be met Shadow Minister Dr Alan white I’m a little puzzled uh frankly about what all this is about because the

Committee on climate change and all credible energy experts have said that we will we will need a small residual of unabated gas on the system for the medium term and that this is consistent with a fully decarbonized power system no one disputes that and indeed it’s barely worth an announcement

We should extend the lives of existing plants to meet that need and if new build plants are needed in the short term to replace some of those retiring gas fir power stations then provided they are capable of converting to hydrogen or carbon capture as the government says they must be then there

Is no disagreement but that’s not what the secretary of state was saying yesterday at the chattam house meeting however the government’s own analysis published yesterday shows that 24 4 GA of existing gas capacity could be maintained via life extension and refurbishment and that 9 gaw of new capacity is already in the Baseline

Under existing capacity Market arrangements so that’s an uncontroversial position and Analysis again hardly something that seems making a huge fuss about but again that was not what the minister was talking about uh the secretary of state was talking about at the chattam house conference yesterday so given this analysis could

The minister enlightened us with the number of new gas plants they are actually hoping to build given there is no mention of that in the 1500 pages of documents that were published yesterday and that’s a very important point in terms of what appears to be government’s intention to go beyond uh what is

Already in the analysis and apparently build a large number of new gas P power stations for the future now there’s a great deal in the review of electricity Market Arrangements public yesterday today that would be worth discussing not least the government’s glaring failure to bring forward the low carbon flexible

Technologies such as long dist long duration storage that everyone knows we will need and it’s a shame that the minister has not properly addressed this so can the minister give us Clarity on whether this is a meaningless announcement within existing policy arrangements or an announcement that

Actually as has been said uh is an attempt to conjure a culture War out of climate and energy policy with announcements with no substance or value and indeed that shows they have no serious plan for energy in our country Minister thank you um Mr Speaker um The Honorable gentleman asked about uh the

If there are new power plants then being hydrogen or ccus ready uh we will legislate to make that a requirement he asked about how many um around 5 gaw but it it’s so dependent on so many interrelated things the growth of the low carbon and flexible storage which we

Are a world leader in developing we both support in Innovation and and we and we uh support uh uh through the capacity Market which he referenced um why He suggests that none of this was clear um uh uh yesterday it was made absolutely crystal clear and what we are doing of

Course is we’re world leaders with the 20 billion pounds we announced for for carbon capture utilization and storage and he will remember because he’s been around a long time that in 2003 the then labor government said that carbon capture usage and storage was urgent there was no roots to 2050 without it

And then the labor government proceeded to do nothing about it well this government is getting on with it it’s putting its money where its mouth is it’s developing those Technologies like uh carbon capture and hydrogen in a way that the labor government failed to do

So uh clearly as it did of course with Renewables to boot so all they do is talk about climate the truth is the greatest climate risk risk to this country would be if Ed millerand destroys the market and starts to run some state-run quango which will wreck the Renewables growth which we’ve seen

May you um thank you thank you Mr Speaker I welcome this announcement and uh the the independent committee on climate change uh recognizes that we’re going to need unabated gas uh in the electricity U market right up until 2035 and Beyond and more widely that even in 2050 25% of

Our energy needs will come from hydrocarbons so does the um right honorable um member agree with me that this is exactly the right way to