About domestic issues including child care benefits. Order. Questions to the Prime Minister. Mr. Prime minister. And you, mr. Speaker. Im sure the whole house will with to join me in paying tribute to warrant officer ian fisher of the third battalion who was killed on operation in afghanistan on tuesday, the fifth of november. It is clear that he was a professional and well respected soldier. He made a huge contribution to the army over many years on a number of operational tours. Our thoughts and condolences should be with his family and friends. Mr. Speaker, this morning i had meetings with colleagues and in addition to my duties, i shall have further meetings later today. Us m sure everyone of in this season of her membranes, we remember their service to our country. There are grave concerns about the nightmare unfolding in the banks. Minister share my sense of disbelief that a person such as the reverend is responsible for such large sums of our constituents money, would ever be appointed to the position of chairman . What can he do to find out how on earth that happen . Importantnd makes an point. Hold, bondsle who who are very worried about what will happen to their investment. The First Priority is to safeguard this bank and make sure that it is safeguarded without using taxpayers money. That must be the priority. My friend will be discussing with the regulators what is the appropriate form of inquiry to get to the bottom of what went wrong here. There are clearly a lot of questions that have to be answered. Why was the reverend suitable to be chairman of a bank . Why were alarm bells not run earlier by those who knew . It will be important in the coming days that if anyone does have information, they stand up and provide it to the authorities. Ed miliband. Mr. Speaker, i join the Prime Minister in paying tribute to werent officer ian fisher. He died serving his country. All of our thoughts are with his family and friends. Speaker, can the Prime Minister tell us how his campaign is going to save the Children Center . I support Childrens Centers across the whole of the country. Decisionsf difficult that have to be made across the country, the number of Childrens Centers has reduced by around one percent. Like all numbers of parliament, i find it hard i fight hard for services in my constituency. Mr. Speaker, they are going around saying that Childrens Centers are safe and there is no threat to them. Bad, he isare so even signing a petition in his own area to save Childrens Centers. Is thearify petition addressed to his local council or is he taking it right to the top . There are more people using Childrens Centers than ever before in our country. , there are 3000 Childrens Centers. The point i will make is this, this government can hold its head up high because we are increasing the money that is going to local councils for Childrens Centers. That is what is happening under this government. Speaker, we all wish him luck as a local member of parliament. Imagine what he could achieve if he were Prime Minister of the country. I think we have established a double standard. Lets take another example. In torry ethics, the proposal i know they dont care about Childrens Centers, they can listen. Lets take another example. Their proposal is to close 11 37 withand downgrade the hours they stay open falling from 50 hours a week to as little as five. Your centers, fewer staff, fewer hours. How is that doing what he promised before the election, to protect and improve . Let me tell him what is happening under this government in terms of child care. Childcare for every fouryearold in the country. That ever happened under labor. For the first time, Free Childcare hours for every disadvantaged twoyearold in the country. That never happened under labor. Also, tax Free Childcare under this government. That never happened under labor. We have upgraded the Child Tax Credit by 420 pounds under this government. That is what is happening. Let me be clear. Is theicy we wont adopt policy of funding more hours through the bank levy. They have already spent in the bank levy 10 times over. The youth jobs guarantee, more capital spending, esther speaker, this isnt a policy. , lets talk about the people he associates with. Let the house compound. I am concerned about back benches, and backbenchers who want to speak should be accommodated. Call down and lets move on. He wants to talk about who he associates with. He has taken nearly 5 Million Pounds from michael spencer, whose company was about to be regained. He has a Party Chairman who operated a company under a false name. From taxken millions avoiders. They are just the people i can talk about in this house. Ministere planning have it right yesterday when he said this, the single biggest problem facing the conservative party is being seen as the party of the rich. On today of all days, he wants to talk about the people he associates with and takes money from. What we can now see is that this bank, driven into the wall by this chairman, is being given soft loans to the labour party. Theyre still advising the leader of the labour party. Along they know all knew about his past. Why did they do nothing to bring to the attention of the authorities this man who has broken a bank . Ed miliband. I think you can take it from that answer, he doesnt want to talk about his planning minister. Where is the planning minister . Where is he today . Early last january, he was praising him to the rafters saying he was leading the debate. This is what he says about the tory party. T works for private equity. Speaker, we finally found a Public Inquiry he doesnt want. He asked starr inquiry after inquiry into the culture and practices of this and that. When it comes to the coop banks, he is absolutely frightened of it. Also, an interesting week to talk about people on the front bench. This week, he has referred to his own shadow chancellor i am sorry. I hate to say i told you so but i have been saying this for three years. That is not the most interesting thing in this fascinating exchange. Labour party had a strategy, yes they do have one, replied back to the shadow chancellor, when did the last become part of our thing . I agree, their policies arent built to last. They are built to selfdestruct in about five seconds. What he has shown come principally today is he has no answers on the cost of living prices. That is the truth. His close friend, the planning minister, is right. Order. The house must calm down. Questions will be heard. Ed miliband. His close friend is right. He says this, there are many people who dont like the tory party and dont trust their motives. He says the Prime Minister is not the man to reach them. What he is really saying is, this Prime Minister is a loser. What this proves, mr. Speaker, he cant ask about the economy because it is growing. He cant ask about the deficit because it is falling. He cant ask about the number of people in work because it is rising. He cant ask about banking because he is mired his own banking scandal. What we have learned in the last fortnight the answer must and will be heard. What we have learned in the weeks tonight, two stand up to his bankers, too weak to stand up to his shadow chancellor. We all know it would be a nightmare and that is why we are dedicated to making sure the british people dont have to live through it. Is he as appalled as i am to hear that potential clients are encouraging sister unions to boycott . That this more evidence these tactics costs jobs, not save them. The honorable lady is absolutely right. Visiting the London Gateway Port is one of the most compelling things i have seen in recent years. It is going to be a huge benefit, bringing around 12,000 erect and indirect jobs. She is right about the dangers of Union Intimidation and bully boy tactics. That is why it is important we have a review and frankly, important that both unite and the labour party take part in that review. I am sure the Prime Minister will agree that the victims of terrorism deserve not just words of sympathy, but support and help. Statement by the attorney general of Northern Ireland overnight, made on his own account and on his own behalf without consultation, does he agree that there can be no question of an amnesty for any terrorist atrocities and crimes and that all victims of terrorism deserve truth and justice . Let me agree with what the honorable member says. The words of the Northern Ireland attorney general are his own words, not at the behest of anyone else. The government has no plans to legislate for amnesty for crimes that were committed during the troubles. Is consulting with all the Northern Ireland parties on issues from the past as well as parades and flags. That is the right for him which to discuss these issues. General synod is meeting today and will hopefully find a way to enable women to be consecrated as bishops in the church of england. If this is successful, well my right honorable friend and the Government Support amendments to the bishops act to ensure that women bishops can be admitted to the house of lords as soon as possible rather than having to new women bishops having to queue up behind every existing ocesan bishop di before we can see women bishops in parliament . This is an important question. I strongly support women bishops and i hope the church takes this key step to ensure it takes its place as a modern church. Raises, theem he government is ready to work with the church to see how getting women bishops into the house of lords can be achieved as soon as possible. Does the Prime Minister believed that the proposal from the conservative Free Enterprise group, supported by 42 of his own mps, can put food and childrens clothes shows the true face of the party he leads . I do not support that policy. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I recently joined the plowing Share Credit Union in my constituency. That will help a lot of people and sure a lot of people will not have to go to payday lenders. What can the government do to encourage credit onions and encourage everybody who has a few pounds to spare to put away, to take the trade away from awful payday lenders . I am grateful to my friend for raising this issue. The government strongly supports credit unions. We have invested 38 Million Pounds into credit unions. We want to see them expand. We are regulating property for the first time, payday lending, through a new regulator. We are prepared to look at all the steps i can be taken to sort this problem out. Is universal childrens day. The Prime Minister will be aware that save the children has highlighted the importance of every year in childrens development. Does the Prime Minister except that the closure of three sure Start Centers a week is undermining the life chances of needy children . I would challenge the figures. The fact is, whereas the pot of money for Childrens Centers was 2. 3 billion in 201213, it is going up to 2. 5 billion in 2014 15. There are 3000 Children Centers open. Only around one percent have closed. The government has an excellent record on this front. Now that the changes to and and Maternity Services have been given a green , can the Prime Minister confirm that an field is getting increased memory care and the chase farm hospital is getting 24 7 access to urgent care . Let me pay tribute to my friend who has worked very hard on this issue for his constituents. The strategy has been approved and once implemented, chase farm hospital will provide a service which gives access to gps 24 hours a day, seven days a week. There are increases in primary care funding. That is part of our plan, not cutting the nhs at expanding it. Will the Prime Minister join me in congratulating the good people on winning the city of culture when the 17 . 2017 . I am delighted to join with the gentleman and everyone around the country in celebrating this great award to hull. It is an exciting opportunity. You will be able to celebrate the birth pace of wilberforce, the fact that Andrew Motion was lectured there and Philip Larkin was the librarian. Peter mandelson was the high sheriff. Every city has its burden to bear. Has a fantastic record. I remember the great house i am sure it will be a huge success. My constituency registered 600 new start up last year, putting it in the top 10 places in the u. K. For new business growth. In preparation for small rightss saturday, will my honorable friend meet with me to discuss a review of Business Rates to encourage future growth, especially in london where values are very high . I am happy to discuss this issue. She always stand up for business and enterprise. She refers to the number of startups. It is a real Success Story for our country. An extra 400,000 businesses are operating. My honorable friend will shortly be telling the house about the 10,000 start up loan, a government scheme that has got off the ground extremely quickly. There are concerns and i am happy to discuss those. Encourage all colleagues to take art in Small Business saturday. It is a Brilliant Initiative that worked very well in the United States where everyone can demonstrate how much they care about Small Businesses. Does the Prime Minister agree with his pining minister that when modern britain looks at the conservative party, they see an oldfashioned monolith . We have had some interesting interventions from front ventures past and present. I hope i can break records by explaining a tweet has just come in from tony mcnulty. The former labor security minister. The public are desperate for a pm in waiting who speaks to them, not a leader of the opposition indulging in partisan westminster village knockabout. Tweets ifst a up the you want to get on the right side of this one. I want to hear the words. At the moment, i am not hearing them. I will repeat my declaration. I refer to the house the registered members of financial interest. On both the israeli streets and in the tower, iran remains number one issue of concern. The french president is it it israel this week to discuss this matter with the israeli counterpart. He appears to have understood israels legitimate concern. When will our Prime Minister be visiting israel, our democratic ally in the region, to discuss the Iranian Nuclear issue and other regional concerns . Can i thank the honorable gentleman for his question. There are many people in his constituency who care about this issue. The visit i forget made as leader of opposition. I completely understand i do understand the very real concern that israelis have about the Iranian Nuclear weapon. That is why i spoke to president rouhani of a run last night to make clear that we want a good outcome to these talks. It has got to be an outcome that takes iran further away from a nuclear weapon. While agreeing with the member for Belfast North that there should be no question of amnesty, surely there are some merits in the proposal from the Northern Ireland attorney general. Rather than incurring enormous expenditure and effort are suing crimes committed during the troubles decades ago, where the evidence is difficult if not impossible to establish, the justified grievances should be addressed in other ways so the Northern Ireland can move on from its hideous past. I have Great Respect for his views on this issue. He served in Northern Ireland and knows how important these issues are. I do think it is important to allow richard to do his work and operates and flags and doing with the past. Dealing with the past is the most difficult of the three and the most difficult to unlock. We are all democrats who believe in the rule of law, who believe in the independence of the police and prosecuting authorities. They should be able to bring cases i think it is dangerous to think that you can but some sort of block on that. All interested in ways in which people can reconcile and come to terms with the bloody past so they can build a viable future. People and businesses of suffolk are driving Economic Growth in the east of england. They are increasingly fearful that the proposed a 14 will put some folk at a serious disadvantage compared with other counties. Could i ask my right honorable friend if he will seriously reconsider . We will all listen carefully to the representatives made by suffolk. We have all received presentations. We want new roads to be built. We all know there are shortages in terms of the Capital Expenditure that we can bring for