David cameron described the london trike against station. And he talked about more women public office. Questions for Prime Minister. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I had colleagues and others and in addition to my duties i shall have further such later today. London is a 24 7 global city and the commercial is the western world. Ith the economy growing and unemployment we agree that the bring of the union to london boos but i absolutely agree with honorable friend and absolutely no justification for a strike. Need a modernized working for the millions of londoners who every day. The fact is only 3 of involve and now makes sense to have fewer people offices and more people on the platform and stations. I condemn this strike. The shadow defense minister was asked to do so today, he actually said it was a matter union, so i hope that the leader of the opposition unreserve iedly condemn this strike today. The on going floods and storms have seen families driven out of their homes and affected significant parts of the country. As the Prime Minister knows many those affected feel the governments response has been low and more could have done sooner. Will the Prime Minister testimony the house what action areas g taken to ensure affected have all the necessary support they need . Update the house on this very serious situation. I dont accept the government slow. Een weve been having meetings on a basis. There are currently 328 flooded. Es 122,000 properties were protected last night because of flood prevention in place decemberrotected since and seven severe flood warnings. Flood warnings in place which means more flooding is expected and immediate action is required. The Environment Agency has 219 flood alerts in place. A serious situation with so many people losing electricity. 60,000 homes have been reconnected overnight. But as this morning there are 8,000 homes without power. Is required, whether it is dredging work on the river is support for our or money for ices government es this will help those families. Prime withstanding the ministers response he knows that many do feel the response been too slow and left on isolated. And does it mean that the events eve seen demand a comprehensive look at the flood protection and the speed of its response. Prime minister promised that the government would report to the house bite end of january. Us when that report will be available . I can tell the house he will ake a comprehensive statement tomorrow. Let me answer very direct lit issue about flooding. Spent vernment has 2. 4 billion over this four year the d which is more than 2. 2 billion spent under the previous government. A further 1 Million Pounds will e made available to fund essential flood repairs over the next year. This will cover seventyfive repairs and s for ten million for urgent work to deliver the action plans being local agencies and fifteen Million Pounds for extra maintenance. I would make the point mr. We are only able to make hese decisions because we looked after the nation. Ut i can confirm that its new money that will protect more houses and help our country more with floods and well continue do what is right. Figures show the investment has fallen over the series. Not risen. But the reality is that the of challenge we face from hange and flood demands a that we have a look at the investment equired and im glad that the Prime Minister has said i want to turn to another subject, mr. Speaker. 2014 ime minister said in he was going to lead the way on equality. Can the Prime Minister tell us ow is that going in the conservative party . First of all, let me go back issue of y important flooding. Order order on le getting very excited both sides of the house. The question has been put. Answer must be heard. The Prime Minister. Glad hes asking about collection. I want to clarify. This you look at the period 2010 to 2014 when this government was in office, the funding was pounds more than secondly, bviously when it comes to funding, the scheme also matters because its the way the local ent supports authorities. Et me tell the house that we will order order incorrigible delinquent at times. Behavior selves. Prime minister. I know that many honorable to hear about nt the scheme because its the way helps ntral government local government. Well be paying local 100 of eligible costs and well be expending the mr. Speaker however long this session questions will be heard and the answers will be heard. Order that is what the public has a to expect at this house. Prime minister they claim to be concerned they wont listen to the answers. Eligible ending the spending period until the end of march 2014 recognize the bad continuing. Can i say to colleagues that we dont suffere they from having an authority which i know they believe is very important. The important issue of getting more women into lic audience ng from the we ill not represent or govern our country properly at ss we have more women every level in our public life and politics. Im proud of the fact that as party of the conservative the number of women has gone to do to 48 but we need much more. I want this to go further. In ave also seen more women work than ever before, a tax cut million women. And were putting women at the of our international programs. Those are the actions that we are taking. We have more to do and a good record of helping women in our economy. Heckling and booing i do have to say i do have to say, a picture tells a words. Nd this is the Prime Minister who says having to ize for interrupt. Members, calm yourselves. Is only just after midday. Remain. Urs of the day dont destroy your stems by exploding. Pictures tells a thousand words. Look at the all males before us. He says he wants to represent the whole country. Mr. Speaker, i guess they didnt let women in the club either. So there we go. Said a third of his would be women and hes nowhere target. Half the women have resigned. Cabinet, get this mr. Speaker, in his cabinet there is many men as there are women. Its his fault that a conservative party has a women . With let me give him the figures. Of the full members of the cabinet who are conservatives, 24 a quarter of them are women. I want to see that grow. Front bench ministers, of the conservatives around 20 of below what i wants to achieve in 3 . Well making progress and make more progress. Let me make this point, this party is proud of the fact that a woman Prime Minister cheers yes yes neighbor to the party order order order are a very angry people. Out a thousandte times i will behave myself with the Prime Ministers questions. They have had some leaders they have thisut habit of replacing them with men. Y ineffective crowd cheers mr. Speaker, he mentioned lady thatcher. Nlike him she was a leader who won general elections. audience cheers notithere there was an interesting article. Men are guilty of such unconscious plight to women. Prime minister greeted a leading high profile wheres woman by asking your husband. Now mr. Speaker, that says it ll and the reason Representation Matters is because it shapes the policies, introduces and how they impact on women in the country. Is failing women. Why for the first time in five gap between men and womans pay increased . There are more women in work in our country than ever before in our history. Seen a tax cut for twelve million women, a pension benefiting t is women, tax Free Childcare that ill help women who want to go out to work and more support on childcare and he might enjoy one. He candidate has made andrea endorsement today. David milliband. If i were him i would not be alking about canada this week of all weeks because what is the party doing . Were moving one of their most women and seeking to an old person. H question. Nswer the ill tell him why the gap is increasing. Minimum wage has been losing value and the problem that women have in childcare. He promised to modernize his party but hes going backwards. He runs his government by the old boys network. Failing women across his party and across the country. Isnt it interesting when six uestions and an invitation to condemn the strike today, not a word. Isnt that the truth . Raises constituency elections in a week when hes completely rolled over. Lets be clear about whats more power they get over their discretionary funding their of the votes for leader. He told us he was going to get rid of the red flag and all hes is run up the white flag. Unemployment falling since march of last year. Means . T that another 440 hard working families receiving a pay packet Brighter Future under class. Term economic our honorable friend is absolutely right. The biggesteeks ago increase in employment in one since the ures records began in the 19 seventies and weve seen come down and more people in work and most of the new jobs, the overwhelming majority are fulltime. Nine out of ten of those jobs ver the last year have been in better paying professions rather than low paying. Success. Eeing economic everyone of those jobs is someone with a pay packet who can help take care of their and have the dignity and security that work brings. Word about the Economy Today from labor. They know because its growing forecasts were wrong. Evidence to r, in the committee, the leader of the conservative assembly group, its not a sensible course of action and he was expressing very much a personal own. Of his later, he received a letter from he Welsh Assembly group conservatives saying its very much their opinion. Wales . Ks for is the leader of the assembly . Job s doing a superb standing up for wales. Only he and i were discussing make sure the nato conference would be a success for the whole of the welsh in the terms of the bringing it well be forward legislation and taking steps and making sure that wails have a z real say. Under our plan thats exactly do. Well thank you, mr. Speaker. A come of weeks ago, they opened the door to the new campus where its firsttewardship ninetysix students will be earning the skills that young people need to compete under the future. Ensure the young people across the country have more and able to reap benefits of the long term plan. Making sure we have the best kills and best schoolses a key part of our long Term Economic plan and i support very much the University Technology movement. Has umber of people taught fallen by 250,000 in four years. That isnt just a statistic. Of thousands of young people who can have a chance of a good education and future and get a job and get involved in our modern economy. Helps thousands of students in that way. I askedof february 2012 the Prime Minister about fraud and a Company Working with job seekers. He told me he was waiting for the truth before he would act. Weeks guilty pleas reveal that ural of fraud in company. Isnt the list of taxpayer fraudsters getting too long . Stop . S it going to the honorable lady makes an important point. He answer i would give is instead of banding around names of companies where many people in those companies will be do a good job, what we should do is investigate and make g properly sure that courts theyre to court as in this case it clearly was. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Does the Prime Minister share my at the false choice presented by the chair pb. Nvironmental agency between protecting urban and rural areas from floods and does he my constituents xpect decent maintenance dredging and not abandonment . Our old friend is absolutely right. There shouldnt be a false choice between protecting people live in the country side. I think what we need to see and debate is nk the rightly going is that from the long, the , far too Environment Agency believed it was wrong to dredge and those of have been affected by flooding and have seen the ffectiveness of some dredging that has taken place. If its good for some places we need to make the argument it be good for many more places. The toad dredging on and parrot and that will make a difference. But i believe we need to so it the table and work a new approach and make something that id work for decades and reduintroduced again. Queen victoria was on the phone when the factory first world class s, sports r the motor industry. Business second terri and city council have identified three sites and a financial relocate. Will the Prime Minister join and the business secretary walk rging dunlap to not away from 125 years of manufacturing history. Briefed on this issue just before come to the chamber and im happy to look carefully and see what can be done. Honorable y and the gentleman said is hugely welcome country. ll do whatever i can to get a good outcome. Its prao that our long Term Economic plan works. However, the current options under consideration for cropping are limited nd do not maximize the potential. Will my friend agree to meet with me and other interested so he can hear why option a and certainly option c not the right answer . Well, this is an important at allnd we have to look the potential bottle neck that can hold back the country. Happy to meet with the colleague. Its a Vital Development and i see it spread throughout to holdtry so im happy the meeting. You, mr. Speaker. A i think the government did good job to get private sector into royal mail. Evaded all at has for decades. I well remember sitting on that side of the house and hearing the appalling royal mail and hundreds of millions of it is and the fact that well managed and well run with private sector capital is a very development for our country. You. Hank we have a proud and strong istory of supporting apprenticeships across a range of sectors. Apprenticeship pproaching next month, we need increase apprenticeship for men and woman is exactly what we getting back e into work. My old friend is absolutely right. Government has invested records amount in apprenticeships. Over 1. 5 Million People have completed apprenticeships. Again, these arent just statistics. Each and everyone is someone chance, a skill and a job and the opportunity to build life for themselves and to build that stability and that security which should be the birthright of every single in our country. Primeaker, can i tell the minister the loss of the rail ways in the overnight storm is a devastating blow to the economies. T comes a year after we lost our rail way service for a whole month in last years floods. Oes he accept as a country well have to spend a great deal more investing in the resilience transport infrastructure and we need a government that is and d in its acceptance of determination to do something about climate change. Agree wholeheartedly with the gentleman on a number of points. All, we need to make sure that urgent action is taken why ill be chairing bringing together the problems of the power, reductions and the on ds and also the effect your transport. Second of all, we need to make investing in rails and this record is putting records into rail schemes. The third point where i totally with him, we have done and reel o continue to do a analysis of the resilience of our infrastructure, something out by the ied Cabinet Office and protections must be put in place. We have brought manufacturing country from his china. Can he say what are the governments are doing to reassure jobs to the kufplt as economic r long term growth. You need it 1,005 jobs in manufacturing have 2011. Eshored since but if we manage to make sure our energy is competitive if we our labor markets flexible and competitive, if we make this country for business with low tax rates and low Corporate Tax rates there is no see more shouldnt companies coming back to britain. E dont get that we have an antienterprise and antilabor ss and party. Last week there was an an appalling and damning report. Ill the Prime Minister undertake and have the historic r practices and the disciplinary actions examined ensure that the executive team and the board are held to the nt and actually make huge statement the bullying is n. H. S. . Eptable in the i think the honorable laid disabsolutely right to raise this specific case but the lessons that it brings. Of course we still have more to but i think the c. Q. C. Is a organization. Ed all this have is much more transparent than it has been in the past. To look at the specific concerns she has about bullying and make sure it deals with it. Weve got i think this week i think the anniversary of that readful report into the stafford hospital. Am i right . Its absolutely committed to making sure there is a change of culture in our n. H. S. Where we dont put up with practice and were notproblems and afraid or ashamed to talk about them. D deal with my constituency Business Confidence is growing and has fallen by a quarter in the last 12 months. We should take no lectures and schtickly given the report latest the largest challenge having to contend with the consequences of recession, a recession calls for the party. My honorable friend making an important point. The change for economic out look really quite remarkable and the u. K. Recovery is getting escape ser to achieving velocity. If we listen to him there would more e borrowing and spending and more taxing and more debt. His view is very clear that if back the keys to the car he would drive it just as same wall and he again. He economy all over thank you, mr. Speaker. An the Prime Minister make clear whether he still quite wrongly will try to end the ban fox hunting. My view remains what was in is the house which of kphopbz should have the this unity to debate on issue. Does my humble friend share anxiety that the program for chemical ction of weapons on syria has fallen so badly behind. I agree. A promising start with chemicals not only being and removed but also destroyed that do seems to be ndications that the program is slowing and that not all the information necessary is forthcoming. Discussed this with president hours ago and britain will put pressure on all chemical make sure weapons are destroyed. Are ersea students who ffered places at top universities get extra coaching with math and english. Its not fair and doesnt help so