Carrilian apprentices some of whom ive met locally. Its not good enough to pass the buck to cibt so will the Prime Minister guarantee today that every one of those apprentices will be able to complete their training and will be paid . Hear, hear i can say to the honorable lady that i recognize that of course, this has been a difficult time for a number of people and concerned about their jobs and about Public Services and about their pensions. I want, first of all, if i may, mr. Speaker, to provide reassurance to all employees who are working on Public Services for carrilian that they should continue to turn up to work confident in the knowledge that theyll be work for the work that theyre providing, but of course, the government is not running carrilian. The government is a customer of carrilian and our focus our focus has been on ensuring that we are providing the Public Services that they are continuing to be provided uninterrupted to reassure workers on those Public Services that theyll get paid, to reassure the pensioners and make sure the supports there for them, and yes, im coming up to the apprentices, but it is important that government is undertaking its role to ensure that the services it provides are continuing to be provided, and i can assure the honorable lady that we are aware of the issues around apprentices and thats why the minister with responsibility for that will be looking very carefully at what action can be taken. Simon hall . Hear, hear, hear sfl thank y. Thank you, mr. Speaker, what better way to start the year than outputting its highest level in a decade and on the up. Can i invite my honorable friends to commit and confirm her government to secure and support uk manufacturing and the important export it delivers . Im very happy. Im very happy to give my friend that commitment from the government and hes absolutely right. Its very, very pleasing to see the figures that the ins produced last week that showed that production has now gone for eight months and the longest streak since 1994, manufacturing output is at its highest since february 2008 and earlier this month we saw that productivity growth has had its best quarter since 2011. That shows that our economy remains strong and we are delivering secure, better paid jobs and we will continue to do that in supporting the manufacturing sector. Hear, hear thank you, mr. Speaker. In the last six months the government has award more than 2 billion pounds of contracts to carrilian. It did so even after the share price was in freefall and the company had issued profit warnings. Why did the government do that . Let me it might be helpful it i just sat out for the gentleman, but a a companys profit warning means that it believes it will want make as much profit as it had expected to make. If if the government did if it was the case if it was the case that the government pulled out of contracts or indeed private Sector Companies pulled out of contracts whenever a profit warning was issued, that would be the best way to ensure the companies failed and jobs were lost. It would also, for the government raise real issues about providing continuing uninterrupted Public Services. Yes, we did. We did, but we did recognize that it was a severe profit warning and thats why we took action in relation to the contracts that we issued, and we ensured that all, but one of those contracts was a joint venture. What does that mean . It means that there is another Company Available to step in and take over the contract, but i say to the right honorable gentleman, this wasnt just an issue of the government issuing contracts. Actually, we see that the laborrun Welsh Government issued a contract after the profit warning last july and only only last week in the Public Sector, a Public Sector body announced that carrilian was their preferred bidder. Only last week. Was that the government . No. It was laborrun lead city council. Mr. Speaker, for the record, ledes has not signed a contract with carrilian. Its the government that has been handing out contracts. Its the governments responsibility to ensure carrilian is properly managed between july, mr. Speaker, between july and the end of last year the share price of carrilian fell by 90 , three profit warnings were issued, unbelievably, some contracts rewarded by the government even after the third profit warning. Mr. Speaker, it looks like the government was handing carrilian public contracts either to keep the company a float which clearly hasnt worked or it was just deeply negligent of the crisis that was coming down the line. Mr. Speaker, i am very happy to answer questions when the gentleman asks one. [ cheering ] mr. Speaker, i have asked if theyve been negligent or not and they clearly have been very negligent. Though they might shout, mr. Speaker, but the reality is as of today over 20,000 carrilian workers are very worried about their future and for many of them, the only recourse tonight is to phone a dwp hotline. The frailties were well known. Hedge funds were betting against carrilian since 2015. Rbs banks and state owned making provision against carrilian last year. The government is supposed to protect, protect public money through crown representatives who were supposed to monitor these powerful corporations who get huge public contracts. So why, and this is a question that the Program Needs to answer and the question is this, why did the position of crown representative to carrilian remain vacant during the crucial period of august to november when the profit warnings are being issued and the share price is in freefall and many people were very worried . Im afraid i would have to say, of course can i say for one section, i will indeed answer the question, but i know that she herself has praised carrilian in the past, so can i can i say . Can i say to the gentleman, there is obviously now a crown representative who has been fully involved in the governments response before the appointment of the crown representative to replace the one that has previously been in place, the government chief commercial officer and the cabinet office, director of marks and suppliers took over those responsibilities so it was not the case that there was nobody from the government who was looking at these issues. Thats a standard procedure. It was sure that there was oversight of carrilians contracts with the government during the process of the crown representative. Well, they clearly werent looking very well. Carril onwent into liquidation with debts that bee now understand to be 1. 29 billion, a pension deficit of 1. 7 million and at the same time this company was paying out everincreasing shareholder dividends while the excessive bonuses to directors and today 8,000 carrilian workers on private sector contracts will no locker be paid. The chief executive will be paid, however, for another ten months. One rule for the super rich, another for everybody else. Can the Prime Minister assure the house today that not a single penny more will go to the chief executive or the directors of this company . Can i first say to the right, honorable gentleman, this is a situation that is changing as decisions are being taken and my understanding is that there are a number of private sector contractors who have now come to an agreement who have come to the agreement with the official receiver which means their workers will continue to indeed be paid. I think its important to say that that is the official receiver and doing their job in working with those companies. Hes raised the issue of bonuses and of course, people are concerned about this issue and are rightly asking questions about it. Thats why were making sure that the official receivers are into the business dealings of the dump is fast tracks, and it looks into the conduct not just of current directors and also of previous directors and their actions, and that the official receiver does have the powers to ensure that in reviewing payments to executives, where those payments are unlawful or unjustified he can take action to recover those payments. Its important that the official receiver is able to do their job. Its also important, governments job is to ensure that Public Services continue to be provided and thats what were doing. The right, honorable gentleman said earlier in one of his questions that we are a customer of carrilian and not the manager of carrilian and thats a very important difference, and it is also important, its also important that we have protected taxpayers from an unacceptable bailout of a private company. Mr. Speaker when carrilian went into liquidation many were still unpaid. This country carrilian were notorious late payers taking 120 days to pay, placing a huge burden on Small Companies four times longer than the 30 days and the prompt payment code that carrilian had indeed themselves signed up to. So why did the government allow a Major Government Contractor to get away with this . Will she commit to labors policy that abiding by the prompt payment code should be a basic requirement for all future govern am contracts . Yes. Of course, we look at the behavior of companies that we contract with in relation to payments. This prompt payments has been one that has been brought up in this hour, i have to say, for as long as i have been in this house and work has always been done on it, but the right hon arable gentleman has raised an important point about the impact on carrilians liquidation on small dumps and thats why this morning the business secretary and the city minister held a roundtable with the banks and discuss credit lines to small and Mediumsized Enterprises and to make sure that they were not responsible for the expense of carrilian and theyve also held further roundtables with representatives of Small Businesses and constructive trade ney gosch wragzs and workers unions to make sure that we are on top of the potential effects on the wider supply chain. It is right that we look at those very carefully and that we take this action and it is also right that we do put in place through the dwp support for any workers who do find themselves no longer employed as a result of this. Its a bit late for one subcontractor. Floratech and have made their staff redundant because of the collapse. Mr. Speaker, this isnt one isolated case of government negligence and corporate failure. Its a broken system. Under this government, under this government, virgin and stage coach can spectacularly mismanage the east coast main line and be let off a 2 billion pound payment. They can continue to wreck the lives through damaging disability assessment of many people with disabilities and win more governmentfunded contracts. G4s promised to provide security at the olympics and failed to do so and the army had to step in and save the day. These corporation, mr. Speaker, need to be shown the door. We need our Public Services provided by Public Employees with a Public Service ethos and a strong public oversight. Will the Prime Minister act to end this costly racket of the relationship between government and some of these companies . Snow i might remind the gentleman that the third of the contracts were led by the labor government. What we want what we want is to provide good quality Public Services delivered at best value to the taxpayer when in this case, the Public Service has continued to be provided, the workers in those Public Services are supported and taxpayers are protected, but what labor opposed isnt just a role for private companies and Public Services, but the private sector as a whole. The vast majority of people in this country, in employment are employed by the private sector, but the shadow chancellor calls businesses the real enemy. Labor is one of the highest taxes in the peacetime history and they would cause a run on the pound and this is a labor party that has turned its back on investment, on growth, on jobs. The labor party that will always put politics before people. [ jeering ] absolutely. Mr. Speaker, can i thank the Prime Minister for visiting on saturday . Where she heard by local residents about the council. People should not have to settle for second best. So will she agree with me that we need to unlock sutton and indeeds london potential on may 3rd by giving resident across london the opportunity to have Great Services and value for money by voting conservative. I was i was very happy to join my honorable friend on the doorsteps and hear from people about the issues, about the democrat services, particularly around the rubbish bins. I believe there are now up to six bins per household. Im beginning to think theyre trying to go for one bin for every liberal democrat of parliament, but hes absolutely right. The evidence is that conservatives deliver Better Services at less cost to the Council Taxpayer and while were talking about cost to the Council Taxpayer, only last week the fire minister announced that labor policy who was to put council tax up on every average house, a typical home by 320 pounds. People should know that a vote for labor is a street pay more. Ian blackbird thank you, mr. Speaker, can the Prime Minister tell the house what official advice she has had on the impact of the uk economy from leaving the eu Single Markets and when she requested any such advice . Well, i have to say to the honorable gentleman that as we go through the brexit negotiations we are constantly looking at the impact that decisions that are taken and will have on our economy. What we want to ensure is that we maintain a good access and good, comprehensive, Free Trade Agreement with the European Union while also leaving the European Union, we will be able to ensure that we get Free Trade Agreements with other parts of the world. Ian blackbird thank you, mr. Speaker. 19 months after the e. U. Referendum and the Prime Minister has not had a shred of Economic Analysis on the impact of leaving the Single Markets. On monday, the Scottish Government published its second analysis paper revealing some horrifying facts and leaving the Single Market for each scottish citizen up to 300 pounds a year. How many jobs have to be lost and how much of a hit before the Prime Minister recognizes the folly of leaving the Single Market . The gentleman asked me for Economic Analysis and we saw the figures this morning for gdp growth in scotland. In the third quarter, gdp and scotland grew by 0. 2 . In the rest of the United Kingdom to grew by 0. 4 . Over the last year, the gdp in scotland under an smp government in scotland grew by 0. 6 , and the United Kingdom as a whole, it grew by 1. 7 . My Economic Analysis, 1. 7 is higher than 0. 6 , you are better off with a conservative government. Mr. Speakerer, will the Prime Minister look at the case of my late constituent who was badly injured by a fleeing shoplifter. She recently died partly because of the injuries at the young age of 70. Her claim has been delayed and the family fear it may lapse completely, should she join me and the local paper in supporting this case and will she make it clear that the rights of victims should always be at the heart of our criminal policy . My humble friend is right to put the case for the rights of victims and hes absolutely right that we should always remember our victims. I am very sorry to hear the case of his late constituent anne banyard and i know the whole house would offer condolences to her family in this tragic case. Of course, as my honorable friend know, the criminal injurys Compensation Authority administers the Compensation Scheme and it applies the rules independently of government, but i am sure that the honorable friend will meet to discuss this case. Mr. Speaker, after the internationally embarrassing news of the Council Leader from my neighboring windsor and maidenhead and his deplorable action with regards to the homeless around the Royal Wedding and the recent putdowns to the Prime Minister and our government by president trump, can the Prime Minister confirm whether he actually wants an invite to be extended for the Royal Wedding and a state visit to the very stable genius from the u. S. Who, by the way, mr. Speaker seems to be copping the buzz words from this want so strong and stable government. The honorable gentleman knows we have a special and enduring relationship with the United States and a visit has been extended. I am not responsible for the invitations for the Royal Wedding to take place, but he did reference the windsor and maidenhead council, i just think he should be aware that it has taken a number