Life delinda for british Prime Ministers questions i. Each week the house of commons is in session we bring you Prime MinisterDavid Cameron taking questions from members of the house of commons live wednesday mornings on cspan2. We invite your participation via twitter using the hashtag pmqs. Prior to question i members are finishing up other business. Now live to the floor of the british house of commons. As i just stated very clearly that this is ministers will invite others to discuss the bill further. Question to the Prime Minister. Question number one mr. Speaker. Thank you mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others, and in addition to my duties in this house, i shall have further such meetings later today. The plan was published this week shows prospects for young people have deteriorated since the conservatives came into conflict. In the Prime Minister explain why the reducing opportunity young people further by removing thereby reducing the opportunities . First of all where increasing opportunities for young people by making sure all young people have a job and get a candidate we see another decrease in youth unemployment down 13000 on the quarter, and 92000 on the year. In terms of students weve now got record numbers of young people going to university and because of the action were taking were able to take the cap off the university numbers and see increase in many more people going. In terms of replacing loans and grants with a low scum this is the right approach. Interestingly, interestingly there was a the approach taken in 1997 when the right honorable lady sat in the cabinet. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, its bad enough of the latest figures i have got 363 murders 106 murders in open presence in the last 10 years. These figures are shown for 179 offenders and open presence who were obscure from an open president will Prime Minister give a commitment to ensure nobody was ever absconded from an open prison is ever allowed back into an open presence . I state will examine his proposal. I can tell him we have already overhauled the process for allowing prisoners out of temporary license athletes with 39 drop in the number of those who breached their license conditions. Weve also seen the rate for prisoners who escaped from prison have reached a record low. As i understand it prisoners with a history of escape or absconded are prevented from transfer to open conditions other than in the most exceptional cases. What i will do is look at these exceptional cases and see whether there is a surrogate for the blanket ban patty talked about our right to him over the summer. Harriet harman. [shouting] cannot ask the Prime Minister a question about greece . Its important that a deal on greece mr. Speaker its important for the deal on greece has now been reached. The economic format is unprecedented in europe, this since the end of the federal corporate the agreement should implement in a way that is fair to the people of greece as will be acceptable to the creditors get it seems report this morning that the imf are concerned about whether the deal for greece is, in fact, sustainable. Can the Prime Minister tell us whether the chancellor had discussions with Christine Lagarde about how these concerns can be addressed . I think the right honorable lady is right to raise this entity we all feel for the greek people who have had a very difficult time and with no early signs of relief on the way. Talk to the imf on a very regular basis. The point they are making that there needs to be debt relief for greece might thats the right. The heart of the eurozone is an argument about whether this is a single currency where you have to look after each other said that and you have a physical union and the Banking Union antisocial union. Thats one view or whether you have to do the single currency as strict rules and cant deal with these things. In our interest for the eurozone to resolve these issues we are not involved in the debate directly because we are not in the euro but we do need them and were not going to join the euro. But they need to resolve these issues and the need to resolve them quite fast. Its important that deal is sustainable. Its interesting to the Prime Minister is the about a measure of debt relief has been necessary. Does he agree to with president putin waiting in the wings this is about more than just economics. Its got wider geopolitical significance. What is his view about that . I think the right honorable lady is right. Greece is a member of the European Union as well as a member of the euro. It is a friend and ally of britain, nato member, trading partners. It is not for britain to bailout eurozone countries and we wouldnt do that but as a member of the European Union if greece were to leave the euro and wanted humanitarian assistance im sure that this house and the British Public would take a more generous of you. Sorting out the problems of the eurozone which weve always warned about the dangers of the eurozone is a matter for eurozone countries, but shes right about the dangers of russian involvement. What happens in the eurozone aspect of this country and therefore, its important that we are fully engaged. Turning to the budget, we are all concerned to see todays rise in overall unemployment. But for those in work the chancellor said that he is a changes on pay and tax credit will make working families better off, but they wont. The institute for fiscal studies have now made it absolutely clear that the idea that a higher minimum wage will compensate for the loss of tax credit is a rhythmic adequate impossible. Will they now admit that as a direct result of his county tax credits, millions of working families are low income will be worse off . First albany comment on the unemployment figures. Shes right theres mixed messages. Its disappointing that the claimant count has gone up having fallen for so many months in a row. Is told at the lowest level since 1975 a longterm unemployment is down, youth unemployment is down. The rate of employment for women is set a new record high, and interestingly when you look across the last year you can actually see all of the rise in implement in the last year has been people working fulltime. Interestingly in light of the debates we had in the last parliament, wages are up by 3. 2 in these figures compared with the inflation figures yesterday that 40. In terms of the budget i remember her ask me from the dispatch box making the point that reform and welfare would not work unless the increased minimum wages by a quarter. I can tell if we are not going to. We are increasing them by a third for the National Living wage. [shouting] he is refusing to accept the fact which is being clearly established by the institute for fiscal studies that the minimum wage increase will not compensate for his cut in tax credits and that takes me to another claim the Prime Minister made about the budget. He said that he would protect the most vulnerable. Well, you are obviously vulnerable to get the conditions like parkinsons or youre being treated for cancer. But changes in the budget mean that the support people like that will get will be cut from 100 pounds, the 70 pounds. We agree that the deficit needs to come down. What kind of government is it that thinks the way to do that is to get people who through no fault of their own are suffering from life the debilitating illnesses. Thats what is budget is doing. Let me give her that they could get a family with two children where both parents work full time on the minimum wage, they will be better off by 2020 by a full 5500 pounds. I dont think the Party Opposite has fully grasped the importance of this nation living wage. They bought an election on a path by the next election but its going to be over nine pounds by the next election because of the action of this government. She wants to ask questions about welfare, and i welcome what she said. She said this week we wont oppose the welfare bill we wont oppose the housing benefit cap. She said we wont oppose restricted benefits and tax credits for people with three or more children. I welcome that. What a pity the rest of her party doesnt agree with there. She asked specifically about employment and support allowance and i think this is important we get this right to the are two groups unemployment and support allowed, the support group will continue to get extra money, more than on jobseekers allowance and will continue to get that for as long as they need. In terms of future claimants into work related activity group, existing claimants keep exact existing amount of money but for new payments i think its right they should get the same amount as job seekers out loud and then get all the help that we do the job seekers to help them into work. People asked why. I will tell you. We want to get people into work. We want to give people a chance. We want to give people a life. Thats what this budget was all about. [shouting] he talks about new claimants but it dont think he understands the reality of the situation because a lot of these people, a lot of these people are in and out of work because they want to work but they can only work intermittently. Every time to go back into work when they come out of work they will be treated as a new claim it. Quite frankly mr. Speaker, i dont need to be sorry mr. Speaker, quite frankly i dont need to be about not understanding the minimum wage. We introduced it. And the fact of the matter [shouting] and the fact of the matter is 3 million families will be at least 1000 pounds a week worse off. A year, a year. The minister was on the radio this morning talking about [shouting] the minister was on the radio talking about Party Funding sing government curb on trade unions donations were not an attack on working people and the labour party. But it doesnt look that way. Theres an issue about the money and politics but its got to be done fairly. So will the Prime Minister commit that he will not go ahead with these changes unless its on a cross party basis . Will he include the issue of individual donation cap . Its not acceptable for him to be curbing funds to hardworking people to the labour party while turning a blind eye to donations from hedge funds to the tories. Finally mr. Speaker, we see were all these questions were going. The labour party can go round and round and round but it always comes back to the trade unions. [shouting] let me answer all the questions that she asked. First of all on the National Living wage if the labour party is so keen on a why did he vote against it in the budget last night . Second of all, on employment and support allowance the number of people coming off a jobseekers allowance is more than seven times the number of people have come up in capacity since 20. We want help to get these people back to work. She asked about the issue of trade Union Funding for the labour party. I think thats a very simple principle. If you want to give money to a party, should be an act of free will. Not something that is taken out of your pay packet without you being told about it properly. If this wasnt happening in the trade unions the labour party would be saying this was appalling ms. Seliger to do is time for consumer protection. What is there such a blind spot even with the honorable lady when it comes to the trade union paymasters . There is no simple principle. There is a simple principle which is it must be fair. What hes doing is its one rule for the labour party for something completely different for the tories. To be democratic about this the Prime Minister must not just acting interest of the tory party. Instead of helping working he spent his time breaking the rules of the game. Now he wants to go even further attack the rights of working people to have a say about fair pay and conditions. Thats on top of already having changed the rule to gag charities and trade unions from speaking out. The Prime Minister says he wants to govern for one nation but instead he is just governing in the interest of the tory party. The law for Company Donation was changed years ago. Trait genes have been left untouched but the principle should be the same. Whoever youre giving money to it should be an act of free will. It should be a decision that you have to take. That money shouldnt be sequestered away from you without being asked. Mr. Speaker today weve seen it all. I thought she was the modern one and the leadership contenders are the ones who were heading off to the left. What we heard from them, because everything went of our antistrike laws, oppose everything went over welfare changes, some of them described terrorist groups like hamas as their friends. Mr. Speaker, in a week when were finding out more about Political Risk likely to to colonize the red planet. [shouting] finding out more about pluto thank you very much mr. Speaker. On monday two men were tragically killed in an in dash of explosion in my constituency. The families are devastated and the thoughts everyone is with them and their friends and colleagues of the two workers. Emergency services worked tirelessly and investigations are ongoing. Will the Prime Minister join me in expressing our deepest sympathy and assuring the relevant house government is all they can to support my constituents at this difficult time . This is a very sad case and i will certainly join my friend and send them my condolences and all those in this house to family and friends of the two. It will be a difficult time for the family. No words can do justice to the loss felt by those affected understand the Emergency Service or continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding this incident to get to the bottom of what happened. There will need to be a proper investigation and proper answers for these families. Rape is a horrific time. Crime. The department in the governments budget have been asked to and i quote develop protections for women who have a third child as a result of rape or other exceptional circumstances under the Prime Ministers plans to restrict child benefits, two children commuters. Can the Prime Minister explain how this will work . We are happy to look very closely at issues like this because there is no intention to penalize people who have been treated in this way. But the principle, the principle we are applying is a principle i think set out very clearly by the right honorable lady the leader of the labour party when she said this come anything she puts it extremely well. When i was going around the country talking specifically to women, so often they would say weve got one child, we got one child, we would love to another the witches cant afford it. They are working hard and theyre treated unfairly other people can have families they would love to have. Weve got to listen to the. I think the right honorable lady was absolutely right. Is something all of us here but, of course, in cases like those he raises will have to look carefully to make sure we look after them. Rape is one of the most underreported series of crimes in the uk. It is believed 85 of the victims of rape do not confirm that to anyone for a bright and very, very understandable reasons. Women against rape said the following, asking women to disclose very difficult information and expecting them to be able to prove it in what is frankly a very hostile environment when the dwp is trying to take their money away will have appalling consequences. Can urge the Prime Minister to look again and to think again about what impact his proposals will have on rape victims speak was i ken fischer the right honorable gentleman because he is reading from the budget a book that sets out this issue and the fact that we do need to look very carefully and think about and make sure we get it right. At the same time im sure he would welcome what was in the budget about investing in womens refuges and Rape Crisis Centers to make sure that we look after people who have been suffering such an appalling crime. My right honorable friend has indicated over the weekend that he would like to see greater use made of in the fight against terrorism. But is he aware that for every terrorist taken out by drone between five and 10 innocent civilians, especially women and children, lose their lives . Will be accepted as we seek to win hearts and minds in this conflict against the evils of terrorism we need to bear in mind this affect . Of course we always had to think very carefully before we act but the rules of engagement of both britain and america and follow our to limit Collateral Damage to the absolute minimum. If hes asking me should britain give up the idea of using the drones in extremists to take a people that are threatening our country and terrorism on our street, i would say very firmly know. But i would Say Something to that im sure we both agree with, which is a second general secretarygeneral ban kimoon, and ms. Up until Good Governance that it is good and strong governments that can kill terrorism. [inaudible] all places synonymous with the use of the ira with explosives applied by the Libyan Government to maim and murder thousands of innocent people in the United Kingdom. The American Government has secured compensation from the libyans for the victims of statesponsored terrorism in light of the recent political agreement and libya with the Prime Minister now commit to present the case for uk victims of statesponsored libyan terrorism to be given compensation as well . First of all let me commend the honorable gentleman for raising this issue time and time again that hes right to do so. The fact is it was libbey an syntax that was userfriendly could still