Now live to london for british Prime Ministers question time. He tweaked the house of commons is in session we bring you Prime MinisterBoris Johnson taking questions from members of the house of commons live wednesday mornings on cspan2. We invite your participation via twitter using hashtag pmqs. Members are finishing up other business prior to question time. Now to the floor of the british house of commons. To ensure that we have the future in wales. If the honorable gentleman has any doubts, look at the work my right honorable friend did to reassure seltzer receive 30 million pods, 800 jobs i wales, our commitment to the industry. We go to questions for the Prime Minister. Questions for the Prime Minister to answer the engagement question and then call the supplementary. Thank you, mister speaker. You have been updated on the leak investigation you referred to on the second of november and i take this matter seriously and return to update the house in due course. This morning i have Virtual Meetings with ministerial colleagues and others in addition to my virtue duties and i have other duties later toy. The pandemic s shown how vulnerable we are to global challenges, we are grappling with covid19,he Climate Emergency and hunger why is this government breaking its own manifesto commitment and cutting the age the budget at saves lives, will the Prime Minister stop this on the global stage retreat and take this opportunity to rule that out here and now . Thank you, everybo can be immensely proud of the massive commitment this country has made and will continue to make around t world, but the commitment we are now making leading the world to tackle the that of Climate Change in the investment in tackling that problem is second to none across the world, the uk leading the world, the greatest problems with those stag. Returning to romford. Reporter thank you, mister speaker. My constituency in romford put up with dangerous junction at gallows corner which is a temporary structure that has been there for 50 years. He was with me when mayor of london. Part of the governments plan to build back better, will the Prime Minister commit today to stepping in, bankrupting tf by have the tune of 10 billion and guarantees unnecessary funding throh place and restraint at this junction especially as it will follow major route. Back to the Prime Minister. My honorable friend is right, in remarkably Good Condition by tweeting the mayor of london before the pandec struck and i can assure my honorable friend we are working with tfl to see what we can do to resolve the problem and we will update you. The leader of the opposition. I send my best wishes to the Prime Minister and all those across the country for doing the right thing by following the rules and self isolating. It is one of the proudest achievements of the last labor government. Until now there has been a broad consensus about the evolution so why tell the centerpiece the scottish evolution is in his words a disaster . Thank you. What has unquestionably been a disaster is the way the nationalist party has taken it as a means not to improve the lives of their constituents, not to address their self Health Concerns or education in scotland but constantly a chair by the right honorable gentleman as the opposition but constantly to campaign the breakup of the country and the sound policy that i personally benefited, but into a mission to break up the uk and let me remind you that would be disaster ande can say so now. Can i just say the Scottish National party, not the nationalist party. The national or nontional. Mister speaker, the single biggest threat to the future of the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister when he opens his mouth, when the Prime Minister said he wants to take back control, the scottisheople, the prime ministeads very clear, it is a disaster north of the border. This isnt an isolated incident whether it is the internal market, and the covid19 response, the Prime Minister, instead of talking down the evolution does he agree we need greater d evolution of resources across the United Kingdom. Prime minister. The leader conceded he did not foresee the the rise of a separatist party or the collapse of scottish labor, can be a great advantage in devolution and i was proud when i was doing this in london to do things in which i passionately believe Like Fighting crime, improving housing and a new success and what disappoints me is the Scottish National party by ruling, the Scottish National party is not engaging. Instead they are campaigning to break up the union, and objective i hope the leader of the opposition will repudiate in the uted kingdom. Its not a ruli. I dont want the breakup of the United Kingdom been anything fueling that breakup is the Prime Minister. Turning to the handling of the pandemic, the Prime Minister is doing the right thing by self isolating after being notified by track and trace but his he think he could have done so its like so many other people across the country all he had to rely on for the next 14 days was either statutory a, 13 pounds a day or a 1off payment of 500 pounds which was 35 pounds a day. It is good finally to have something from the right honorable gentleman to secure these in person. What i can say to him is i believe the package we have to protect people throughout the crisis has been outstanding, the uk as i said many times, 200 billion pound packages increasing the living wage by a record amount, uplifting universal credit, many loans and grants to businesses of all kinds and support the people who are self isolating in addition to all the other benefits and support we give. It is a reasonable package and i am glad that after a long time, simply attacked test and trace and he is coming around to support it. Im not going to take lectures on supporting, the lockdown measures were passed the other week with labor votes. 32 of his own broke the 3 line width and 50 join that group to work out how to oppose it next time around. He should be thanking, not criticizing and only one in eight solidify that seat and talk about the number of people hes helping but ignoring those falling through the gap. Members may be able to afford to self isolate but not for many who send us here. Only 11 of people self isolate when asked to do so. It isnt because they dont want to but many dont feel they can afford to. A construction worker, a photographer and dont qualify for Social Security benefits or run a Small Business and cant work from home number you will see a significant cut your income if you have to self isolate. This affect many families across the country. Does the Prime Minister wa to recognize that we need to make it easier and afforble for people to do so . Mister speaker, its extraordinary about test and trace, the numbers he gives to the self isolation, way too low but we continue to encouge people to break the chain of transmission. After the selfemployed groups he mentioned to support the selfemployed people, universal credit in the way i described, what he wants to do is gethe virus under control, which is below one which is the current measures and encourage people to start isolating the way i am and the firm, the businesses he talks about can get back to close to normality as soon as ssible. In the meantime we are taking every possible support. The Prime Minister must understand is a gap in the system. There is little point of being tested or traced. If there is not enough to isolate properly, we learned there can be 25 Million Pounds of taxpayer money to pay a gobetween, i remind the Prime Minister that a few weeks ago he couldnt find is that amount of money. Does the Prime Minister think 21 Million Pounds for middle man was an acceptable use of taxpayer money . Prime minister. When the crisis bega the right honorable gentlem term blockages and procurements and he will remember a situation where across the world there were not adequate supplies. We shifted heaven and earth to get 52 billion items. I am proud of what habeen achieved, at the beginning of the pandemic and this is typical of hindsight. Attacked our efforts to secure it and it went too fast. To say we are not going fast enough and then we went too far. He should make his mind up. Talks about hindsight i say catch up. I call for a circuit breaker. The Prime Minister said it was a disaster and caught up and did that a view weeks later. It was hard to lockdown because of his delays. The Prime Minister couldnt explain how his government paid 150 Million Pounds on contracts that didnt deliver a single piece of usable ppes affecting 21 Million Pounds on a contract with no oversight. National audit office, the government approach was in her words diminished public transparency. Contracts related to the pandemic totaling 10. 5 billion pounds and suppliers with political connections re more likely. We are 8 months into the crisis. From now on, all government contracts are subject to proper process with full transparency and accountability. All government contracts will be published in a do way and it is extraordinary he attacks the government for securing ppe in huge quantities. I thank the people who are involved in those efforts, thousands of others who built up a mountain of ppe against any further crisis. He talks about transparency, moving to secure the contract. The shadow chancellor, attacking or failing to approach a softball agent offering to supply ventilators, they currently make 170 pounds per week and it includes 16thcentury film policies. At the time he bashed the government for not knowing fast enough, it is absurd that captain hindsight is not once again trying to restore political points by attacking us from moving too fast. I am proud of what we did ring a pandemic, any government would do the same. We now go to paul mccartney. I am sure my honorable friend of some successes, the pride of my constituency have enjoyed. The cabinet colleagues review these outlining matters of all levels of the game as i requested. It has been a while since the Prime Minister visited lincoln. Prime minister. I can tell you, as a result of this pandemic, everything we can. I stand in operation of thousands and get to that as soon as possible and to do whatever i can to lige. We come to the leader of the s p, ian blackburn. Can i wish the Prime Minister, over the past 20 years westminster has imposed extreme brexit, and the bedroom tax, and at the same time the Scottish Parliament delivered the, tuition fees, not clear. And does the Prime Minister understand. Prime minister. He referred to the right honorable gentleman. Will i do think his policies, and on health and taxing crime. And with that is what we focused on. And thbreakup of the uk. Im not sure the Prime Minister was listening because i touted the achievements of the Scottish Government on behalf of the people of scotland. No apology and no regrets from the Prime Minister, it wasnt a slip of the tongue. The chasm has never been bigger. These were not flippant remarks, the biggest threat was the bill, the fact is scotland has been completely ignored by westminster. We see an extreme brexit and another round of tory cuts imposed, what we didnt vote for. s into the case that the real disaster is another 20 years of westminster government. Is a clear as another the only way to protect scotland interests is for scotland becomen independent country. I could not disagree with the honorable gentleman more. He is totally wrong. What the uk does as a whole is far bigger, better and more important than what we can do is individual nations. The uk pulling together during the pandemic the way the Armed Services test throughout the whole of the uk, the way the scheme was deployed acrosthe uk but millions that have been found to help people across the whole of the uk, uk will continue to show this value. Into the european union, what the people of scotland should understand is that a massive surrender by the people of scotland straight back to brussels just as the people of scotland have taken it back again, many aspects of their lives and controlling that as well and all that would be lost under his program and i do not believe it will commit itself to the scottish people in the program that was discussed and rejected. Something they would almost certainly reject again. Ase said thank you, mister speaker, tens of thousands of been lost in aviation, hundreds of thousands more hang in the balance. Will my right honorable friend ke sure the Government Task force ports for testing regime of the arrangements on the third of december. Certainly working fast to see if we can replace the arrangements in every category, i will keep my right honorable friend informed of the develoent. Jeffrey donalon. The people of Northern Ireland, with 165 Million Poundsnvested in at across Northern Ireland as a result of agreement with this during the last parliament. Following the current sting initiative in liverpool. Northern irelands 1. 8 million populaon. It would prove ideal for the next years of the governments ongoing program, work on largescale covert covid19 testing. I think him f his excellent proposal and he is right that kind is very powerful and talking tthe Northern Ireland executive about how to proceed. I have been contacted by many constituents, 18 meters in ight which has not replaced the planning for the s number one form. Some of these residents are desperate to be valueless without reform. What progress is being made and canceled to develop the urgently needed risk prioritization matrix to move on with their lives. I have deep sympathy for those who face this problem. It is not right or fair, in one form, you hope lenders would understand, make sure all the buildings in question, wherever it is necessary for assurances where necessary too. Scrapping the learning union fund, thousands of workers a year, for that opportunity will the prime mister back the commitment to offer a lifetime skills guarantee in their lives and reversed the decision to ensure working people can access education, training and skills for the future. Only a few weeks ago the lifetime guarantee, it is not eligible, getting a new skill or qualification, we want people to help train and retrain people to drive their lives to make a good point. Thank you, to level up constituency, and to help us pay for new infrastructure investnt. Will the Prime Minister consider launching a new Financial Institution like a national developing bank to achieve this . I am grateful to the campaign for that. We are putting that into the growth deal, to bring further measures. For firm measures to boost investments in uk infrastructure in due course. James murray. In march the government is keeping covid19 deaths, a good outcome but still an enormous number of deaths. With gdp, 10 in the last year. Why didnt the Prime Minister think the deepest recession and the highest number of covid19 deaths. Minister. A global pandemic, one in which the uk as he rightly says assess, every life that has been lost and supporting businesses in every part of the uk, no doubt we can get through this strongly, scientific advisors, tools of doing that with scientific weaponry, that is why we are engaged in the current restrictions, to try to get the econommoving the way we would like. Most of our independence retailers are close to 2 covid19 restrictions and they welcom the report by the government, their concerns that supearkets and multiple retailers sell the same products. This enaes them to generate substantial profits while at the same time at a holiday on the payment of business rates. The Prime Minister will agree wi me therehould be fairness between retailers and the Government Spending 200 billion pounds to support businesses and people in these tough times. It would be a welcome gesture for those who continue to trade to pay their business rate. The feeling of unirness that he talks about, what we are trying to do with all the measur we have announced for all retailer the best thing we can do is get through this period awell as we can and allow all retailers to reopen and gi them our support. We are going to scotland with audio only. My constituent applies to the scheme in september of 2019, 15 months on her application, with a few short weeks away, their constituents application and all others standing applications through the scheme will be concluded by 2020. Prime minister. I understand the case is under urgent review. Debbie collins. Fantastic the we will soon have the covid19 vaccine, but in a recent survey one in 5 people say they wont take it. Does therimus to agree that social Media Companies should be d