Clinicians but raise standards at our hospital . I am very happy to join my honorable friend in doing that. Making sure that we educate the next generation of doctors nurses and clinicians is vital. Under this government, we have 9,000 more doctors and 3,300 more nurses. We are treating 1. 3 million more people in a and e, and there are 6 million more outpatient appointments. That is what is happening in our nhs, and all credit to the hardworking staff who are carrying out that vital work. Welfare benefit recipients are often demonized as a burden on our taxpayers, but does the Prime Minister agree that the real burden on taxpayers are those employers who can afford to pay well above the minimum wage, thereby lifting hardworking families out of state dependency and food banks . I am in favor of the living wage. Those organizations that can pay the living wage should pay the living wage. It is something that should happen. But in addition to that, what we can help with i hear the leader of the opposition. Doncaster council does not pay the living wage, so perhaps he should start with his own backyard. That shut him up. In addition to that and to seeing the minimum wage rise, we should be taking the lowestpaid people out of tax. Under this government, we have taken 3 million of the lowest paid people out of tax. Order. You have been watching Prime Ministers questions. Question time airs live on cspan2 at 7 a. M. Eastern. Watch any time at cspan. Org, where you can find videos of past Prime Ministers questions and other British Affairs programming. In response to the recent terror attacks in paris, british home secretary theresa may told members of the house of congress the changes to the data bill will not allow the government to snoop on emails, but added the government should have access to phone records to combat terrorism. She took questions from members about additional antiterrorism measures combating antisemitism, and securing the borders. This is just over an hour. Order. Statement by home secretary theresa may. With permission, mr. Speaker, i would like to make a statement about the terrorist attacks in paris, and the threat we face from terrorism in the United Kingdom. It will take some time for us to learn the full details of the attacks last week, but the basic facts are now clear. 17 innocent people were murdered in cold blood, and a number of others were injured. Amedy coulibaly, the terrorist who attacked the jewish supermarket, claimed his actions were carried out in the name of isil. Unconfirmed reports suggest that cherif and said kouachi, the two brothers who attacked the office of Charlie Hebdo, were associated with alqaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in yemen, the same alqaeda affiliate that had been in contact with the men who murdered Fusilier Lee Rigby in 2013. As the appalling events in paris were unfolding, this house was debating the governments counterterrorism and security bill, and the threat level in the United Kingdom, which is set by the independent joint terrorism analysis centre, remains at severe. This means that a terrorist attack in our country is highly likely and could occur without warning. Three serious terrorist plots have been disrupted in recent months alone. Nearly 600 people from this country have travelled to syria and iraq to fight, around half of them have returned, and there are thousands of people from across europe who have done the same. As i said during the passage of the counterterrorism and security bill and have said on many, repeated occasions, the government will do everything they can to keep the public safe. As soon as the attacks in france took place, the government increased security at the uk border. Officers from border force, the police and other organizations intensified checks on passengers, vehicles and goods entering the uk, and we offered the french government all assistance necessary, including the full cooperation of our police and security and intelligence agencies. On sunday, before i attended the peace rally in paris, i held talks with my counterparts from europe, the United States and canada to discuss what action we can take together. There was firm support from all the countries present for new action to share intelligence, track the movement of terrorists and defeat the ideology that lies behind the threat. It is important that we now deliver on those talks, and my officials, the security minister and i will keep up the pace, in particular when it comes to passenger name records, with other european Member States. On monday, the Prime Minister, the defense secretary and i held a security meeting with senior officials to review the paris attacks and the risks to the uk of a similar attack. Of course, we have long had detailed plans for dealing with these kinds of attacks. The house will recall the attacks in mumbai in 2008 when terrorists armed with assault weapons and explosives took the lives of more than 150 people. Since 2010, and learning the lessons of that attack, we have improved our Police Firearms capability and the speed of our military response, and we have enhanced protective security where possible through a range of other measures. We have improved joint working between the Emergency Services to deal specifically with marauding gun attacks. Specialist joint police, ambulance and fire teams are now in place in key areas across england, with equivalents in scotland and wales, and they are trained and equipped to manage casualties in the event of that kind of an attack. The police and other agencies regularly carry out exercises to test the response to a terrorist attack, and these exercises include scenarios that are similar to the events in paris. We will ensure that future exercises reflect specific elements of the paris attacks, so we can learn from them and be ready for them should they ever occur in the United Kingdom. In addition, i should tell the house that the police can call on appropriate military assistance when required across the country. The attacks in paris were enabled by the availability of assault weapons. Although there are obviously a number of illegal weapons in the uk, we have some of the toughest gun laws in the world, and as a result firearms offences make up only a small proportion of overall recorded crime. The types of firearms used in the attacks in paris are not unknown in the uk, but they are extremely uncommon. However, as the Prime Minister has said, we must step up our efforts with other countries to crack down on the illegal smuggling of weapons across borders. In particular, the Member States of the European Union need to Work Together to put beyond use the vast numbers of weapons in the countries of the former yugoslavia and disrupt the supply of weapons from other parts of the world, especially north africa. The measures we have taken following events in paris are in addition to the substantial work that the government have undertaken, and continue to undertake, to counter the threat from terrorism. Last summer, parliament approved emergency legislation to prevent the sudden and rapid loss of access to Communications Data and to provide for the ability to intercept communications where it is necessary and proportionate to do so. Parliament is of course scrutinizing the proposals in the counterterrorism and security bill as we speak. This important legislation will strengthen our powers to disrupt the ability of people to travel abroad to fight, and control their ability to return here. It will also enhance our ability to deal with those in the uk who pose a risk. In particular, it will allow the relocation of people subject to terrorism prevention and investigation measures to other parts of the country. In addition, the Prime Minister has announced funding of £130 million over the next two years for the agencies, police and others, on top of the more than £500 million spent on counterterrorism policing every year. This government have done more to confront the ideology that lies behind the threat we face. I have excluded more foreign hate preachers than any home secretary before me. We have deported abu qatada and extradited abu hamza. We have reformed the prevent strategy so that it tackles nonviolent extremism as well as violent extremism. And we have invested more Time Resources and money in counternarrative operations. We have always been clear that the police and the security agencies must have the capabilities and powers they need to do their job, and following the attacks in paris the Prime Minister has reiterated that commitment. Unfortunately, when it comes to Communications Data and the intercept of communications, there is no crossparty consensus and therefore no parliamentary majority to pass the legislation to give the police and Security Services the capabilities they need. Let me be absolutely clear. Every day that passes without the proposals in the draft Communications Data bill, the capabilities of the people who keep us safe diminish; and as those capabilities diminish, more people find themselves in danger and crimes will go unpunished and innocent lives will be put at risk. This is not, as i have heard it said, letting the government snoop on your emails. It is allowing the police and the Security Services, under a tightly regulated and controlled regime, to find out the who, where, when and how of a communication but not its content, so that they can prove and disprove alibis, identify associations between suspects, and tie suspects and victims to specific locations. It is too soon to say for certain, but it is highly probable that Communications Data were used in the paris attacks to locate the suspects and establish the links between the two attacks. Quite simply, if we want the police and the Security Services to protect the public and save lives, they need this capability. Last weekend people of all nationalities, faiths and backgrounds came out on to the streets of france and other countries to demonstrate their opposition to terror, and to stand for democracy and freedom. We must stand in solidarity with them, and do all that we can to confront extremism and terrorism in all its forms. The attacks last week in paris demonstrated the savagery with which terrorists seek to divide us. The murderous intolerance and the bigotry that they pursue aim to spread fear and also to sow division, which they believe exists, us against them. Paris has not let the terrorists win and we must not do so either. The French Police have been praised for the actions that they took. Charlie hebdo is being published today. Faiths have united, abhorring the antisemitism and grieving for the victims of the attack on the kosher supermarket. Muslims across the world have condemned an attack which is not islamic and is not in the name of their religion, and the brother of the french Muslim Police officer, ahmed merabet, said, my brother was killed by people who pretend to be muslims. They are terrorists. Thats it. the leader of the opposition rightly attended the unity rally in paris along with the Prime Minister, and on saturday i joined people in Trafalgar Square raising pens in solidarity with the je suis charlie cause. In the attack, the terrorists targeted other peaceful religions, they targeted writers, and they targeted those whose job it is to keep us safe. In other words, they targeted both liberty and security, and the response of democratic governments everywhere to these sorts of attacks must be to defend both. Governments need to keep our people safe so that we can enjoy the very freedoms that our democracy depends on. Let me turn to the specific issues in the home secretarys statement. I am concerned about the rushed way that she has made this statement today. I did not see it before coming into the house. I hope that she can set out what the reasons were and what has changed in the home offices position this morning that meant that the statement was changed at late notice. I welcome the action taken by the intelligence agencies and police to support their counterparts in paris. I think the whole house will want to pay tribute to the work of our security and Intelligence Services and the counterterror police, who do so much to keep us safe. It is important that they have the resources they need, and i welcome the resources that the home secretary referred to today. As the home secretary said, the government have going through parliament right now the counterterrorism and security bill, which we have supported and continue to support, and which includes restoring the relocation powers for serious terror suspects that she abolished four years ago and for whose reinstatement we have called. She will know that the agencies have pointed to the ongoing threat in this country posed by the estimated 300 people returning from the conflict in syria. Have any of those estimated 300 been prosecuted . Can she confirm that none of them is currently subject to terrorism prevention and investigation measures, even though these powers are supposed to be for dangerous suspects whose activity needs to be restricted to keep us safe . Are the Security Service and the police now reviewing all those cases to see whether tpims could help, especially with relocation powers restored, or whether there needs to be any further change to the tpims powers, which are different from the previous control orders . How many of the estimated 300 have engaged with the Channel Program . Does she agree that we should now make that compulsory for those returning, for which the current bill does not yet do . On access to dangerous weapons the home secretary will know that there has been concern about reduced customs and border checks. What action is she taking to increase border checks for dangerous weapons . The home secretary raised the issue of Communications Data. Technology is changing all the time, and that means that the law needs to keep up, in the capabilities of the agencies to get the vital intelligence we need and in the oversight that we need. In july, parliament supported emergency legislation to ensure that the agencies and police could maintain vital capabilities. This month, the commons supported extending those powers to ensure that ip addresses are covered in the same way as telephone numbers. In july, all parties agreed to support a review by david anderson, the independent reviewer of terrorism, into the powers and the oversight needed to keep up with changing technology. The home secretary referred to the Previous DataCommunications Bill. That was rejected three years ago by the joint committee that the government established to scrutinize it because, the committee said, it was too vague, too widely drawn, and put too much power directly in the hands of the home secretary. They recommended that the new legislation needed should be drawn up in a far more limited way, and that the government should provide more evidence and clarity about what they wanted to achieve. Since then, the home secretary has not come forward with any revised proposals. She has not come to me to discuss them or put them to parliament, even though we have said that we were happy to discuss details with her. Given the urgency she says there now is, why did she not come forward with revised proposals after the conclusions of the joint committee three years ago . She was happy to agree to the statutory review by david anderson, which is due to report before the election. Today she has not mentioned that review. Has she now discarded it, or will she be waiting for its conclusions . This is an extremely important issue, and the detail, about the powers and capabilities that our intelligence agencies need, as well as about the safeguards and that are also needed. We agree that the police and the agencies need to get the intelligence to keep us safe and that they need updated legislation, and we also need safeguards and stronger oversight to make sure that powers are effectively and appropriately used. I strongly caution the home secretary and the liberal democrats against setting up a caricatured argument between them about security on the one hand and liberty on the other, because we need to protect both in our democracy and we need a responsible debate on getting the detail right. The terrorists targeted both writers and Police Officers on that first day. The editor of Charlie Hebdo had Police Protection to protect his freedom of speech. That shows the strong link between our security and our liberty in any democracy. We know that the most important thing to keep us safe in any democracy is making sure that we have the cohesive communities that can prevent hatred from spreading. We have supported extending prevent by putting it on to a statutory footing. I hope that the home secretary will now listen to the concerns we have expressed over some years about more needing to be done to have communityled programs to tackle the hatred and to challenge the spread of extremism, including through social media, as well as in local communities and organizations. I hope that she will work with local government to that effect. Cannot also ask her a she is working with the Community Security trust on tackling antisemitism, because we need to tackle all forms of extremism . Terrorists try to silence us, to cow us and to divide us. Paris has shown, as millions marched and as we stood in solidarity with them, that we wi