Transcripts For CSPAN Question Time 20140505 : vimarsana.com

Impact. We expect better results for thousands of young people at risk of becoming meet. Questions to the Prime Minister. Number one, mr. Speaker. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, im sure the whole house will wish to join me in paying tribute to captain Thomas Clarke of the army air corps, Flight Lieutenant Rakesh Chauhan of joint helicopter command, acting warned officer class do spencer faulkner, Corporal James walters of the army air corps, and Lance Corporal Oliver Thomas of the Intelligence Corps, reservist who also worked as a research assistant. These tragic deaths remind us of the continued commitment and sacrifice of our armed forces, and i know that our deepest concerns are with the families that is very, very difficult time. Im sure the whole house will also want to join me in paying tribute to and mcgwire who was stabbed to death in her classroom on monday. It is clear from the tributes paid she was a much loved teacher that work to school for over 40 years. She gets so much about her pupils, should come in on her day off to help prepare them for exams. Our thoughts are with her family, her friends in the entire School Community who have been left devastated by this truly shocking and appalling tragedy. The criminal investigation is underway in everything they can be done to get to the bottom of what happened will be done. Mr. Speaker, this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others, and in addition to my duties in this house, i shall have further such meetings later today. I very much associate itself with a Prime Ministers tribute to the serviceman who lost their lives in afghanistan last week, and two anne mcgwire who lost her life in the classroom situation he spoke about. Can ask them about something different. Last week the institute for fiscal studies revealed the governments decision to trouble tuition fees will cost more than the system it replaced. Is this disastrous policy a symbol of the governments longterm economic plan . It is another expansion of Higher Education and. Thats what were seeing under this government. All of the forecast from the Party Opposite that fewer people would have applied university, those forecasts were wrong. That people from low income backgrounds would have applied. Those forecasts were wrong. Unlike other countries we put in place a system for tuition fees that means we can expand our universities and go on winning in the global race. Mr. Roger williams. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Id like to thank the Prime Minister and, indeed, the whole house for paying the tributes to the five men who recently died in afghanistan. In particular i pay tribute to Lance Corporal alber thomas who worked for me in westminster. He was an Outstanding Young man who was so well liked and held in such high regard by everyone who knew him and worked with them. The loss of bears particularly held on his family and friends who grew up with them. Im sure the Prime Minister would want to join me in praising all our reservists who face all the risks that are armed forces experience. And sometimes tragically paid the ultimate price. Here, here. My friend is right to pay tribute to Lance Corporal Oliver Thomas. It is a reminder the sacrifices that we have born in afghanistan. This looks as if it was a tragic accident but will get to the bottom of what happened but hes right to mention how our reservists in all three forces serve alongside the regular colleagues and take all of the risk. And in afghanistan preapproved again and again that they are people of huge quality ability and courage. As we go forward and expand our reserves i hope everyone in our country, particularly businesses, the Public Sector, local council and others including the Civil Service will do everything they can to make sure the reservists are welcomed into businesses and supported in the vital work they do for our country. Ed miliband. Mr. Speaker, i want to join the Prime Minister in paying tribute to captain Thomas Clarke, Flight Lieutenant Rakesh Chauhan, acting warned officer class to spend spencer faulkner, Corporal James walters of army ergo, and Lance Corporal Oliver Thomas of the Intelligence Corps who were tragically killed. Mr. Speaker, these deaths are tragic and poignant reminder, sacrifices made by our armed forces including reservists who are serving our country with the bravery and distinction. All of our thoughts go to do their friends of those who knew of those we lost including the honorable member. We share his lost. Our deepest sympathy goes to the families. I would also like to join the Prime Minister thing traded to the speaker anne mcgwire who was murdered in the classroom on monday. This was an appalling tragedy. It is clear from the testimony of those who have spoken out since she died that she was an inspiration to those she taught. Our thoughts are with her family, friends and teachers and pupils of the school. Mr. Speaker, yesterday for the first time we got to know the names of some of the investors including hedge funds who were given preferential access. How were these lucky few chosen . What were talking about is an exercise in privatizing the royal mail which has been a success for our country. A business that lost a billion pounds under labour has now paid the money back to the taxpayer, is making profit, and the people we should be praising are the 140,000 employees of royal mail who are now under this government shelled in the business they work for. Now answer the question to the royal mail is featured in buffalo and was sold out. Only he would want to congratulate for looting losing the taxpayer 1 billion pounds. Now, now, each of these chosen few investors were given on average 80 times more shares than other bidders on the basis of the National Orders words they would provide a stable longterm shareholder base. In the words of the business secretary, can the Prime Minister tell us what assurances in return for their gold ticket these investors it gave us so they would hold the chairs for the longterm . First of all he said the people were given shares. They paid for scheppach second, he raises again, he raises again this issue that there was some sort of agreement. There was no agreement. At the end of the day he should be recognizing that a business that lost money, that he tried in government to privatize but failed, is now in the private sector making money, succeeding for our country and its employees are now shareholders but isnt it interesting that with the growth in our economy the fall any unemployment of the reduction in the deficit, hes reduced like all to labour to complaining about a successful privatization. [shouting] ed miliband. [shouting] no, mr. Speaker but im raising an issue about a ripoff of the taxpayer which the british people know when they see it. The reason this matters, and the reason this matters, and the reason this matters is because order. The orchestrated yelling us are predictable and incredibly tedious but it wont stop us getting through a bit longer. People can call down. Take a tablet if necessary. Mr. Ed miliband. Shares sold for 1. 7 billion windowsill for privatization are now with 2. 7 million. Who cashed in . 12 of the 16 socalled longterm investors made a killing worth hundreds of millions of pounds within weeks. Now yesterday, now yesterday the representative of the bank that sold the shares said was an understanding, and i quote, with those investors, he said there was an understanding. Thats what it says on the record. With those investors about the longterm commitment to royal mail. So why were they allowed to make a fast buck . We are getting them we are giving lectures on taxpayer valley from the people who sold our nations gold. [shouting] he talks about he talks about ripping off t and he is nodding ead. That is now, he talks about the postal workers. He talks a lot about the postal workers, mr. Speaker. So this is her interesting. There were no conditions on the hedge funds but there were conditions on other groups. Can he explain why postal workers were told they couldnt sell their shares for three years but hedge funds were told they could cash in on day one . The post Office Workers were given their shares and its right that they were given their shares. Lets celebrate the capitalism. Lets celebrate. I thought he believed in empowering workers. We are not a 140,000 workers about their shares. In terms of the risk to the taxpayer he ought to reflect order. Theres far too much noise. I say to you, you are a product of the ladies college. [shouting] [laughter] i cannot believe they taught you to behave like that. Prime minister. Mr. Speaker, try to your right there is a lot of history in this shouting because of course in the past with all these privatizations we had the shouting. Over each of us look at labours candidates and the sun of straw wants to give you. Son of prescott wants to get you. Its the same families with the same message. It is literally the same old labour but that is what is happening. No, he asked about [laughter] he asked about taxpayer value. This is what the National Order audit office said privatization has reduced taxpayer risk to support the universal postal service. This is a good deal for taxpayers because of this business was losing a builtin. It is now making money, paying taxes, gaining in value, good for our country but bad for labour. Ed miliband. The post office is making a profit when they privatized. What we discovered today is one rule for the postal workers and another rule for the hedge funds. And mr. Speaker, who rode these hedge funds . Theyve been very coy. None other than the chancellors test man. So why is it mr. Speaker, its one rule if you deliver the chancellors best mans speech, and its another rule if you deliver the chancellors profits . What this shows, mr. Speaker, he cant talk about the deficit because its falling. He cant talk about the economy because its growing. He cant talk about jobs because there are one and a half million more people in work. So he is painting himself into the red corner by only talking about issues that are actually successes for the government but appeal to the trade union, the leftwingers behind them and the people who want to play the politics of envy. Thats whats happening in british politics. Everyone can see it. Nothing to say about the longterm economic plan that shows britain is on the rise and labour is on the slide. And mr. Speaker, what we know is theres a costofliving crisis in this country worst oh, oh, they dont figure the costofliving crisis. Why not . Because they stand up for the wrong people. The more we know about this privatization the bigger the fiasco it is. And National Asset sold at a knockdown price. A sweetheart deal for the city, and the government bungled of the sale. Everything about this privatization stinks. [shouting] not a mention of gdp. Not a mention of what happened while we were a way in terms of employment figures. Noneviction of the fact that deficit is Getting Better. We know, mr. Speaker, hes got in his advisor from america. Yes, he has, mr. Axelrod and this is what he is giving advice is a. Let me share because i think this is excellent advice. He says this, theres a Better Future ahead of us but we must not go backwards to policies that put us in this mess in the first place. [shouting] i dont know what the opinion order, order. Order. [laughter] [shouting] in response to that question the Prime Minister has finished and he can take it from me that he is finished. Mr. Speaker, from the cyber attack on estonia to the invasion of georgia to recent events in the crimea we have seen a clear pattern of behavior from the kremlin, and the west has allowed itself to allow Wishful Thinking to take the place of analysis. Given that defense exports from the eu to russia have amounted to about 700 Million Euros in the last three years not counting the 1. 2 billion of the french warships, isnt it about time we were talking about eu sanctions and . I think by right honorable friend is right on this issue. We have set out a clear set of sanctions in terms of russias behavior toward ukraine. We have taken a series of steps so far in terms of putting asset freezes and travel bans on named individuals. We take an acer is a diplomatic and other steps and weve set out the socalled stage three sanctions that we think should be taken if further destabilization of ukraine are set out and we do believe that restrictions on arms sales should certainly be part of that. Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised by the end of this parliament a third of the cabinet would be women. We know the former cultural secretary had to go. Does he agree with the new culture secretary that this is because government appointment should always be made on merit . What i said was i wanted to see a third of my front bench ministers being women at the end of a conservative government. We have made some important progress in terms of the numbers of people on the front bench. I have to say with respect to my Coalition Partner in terms of cabinet members, the liberal democrats need to do a bit more people to wait on this issue but i hope you make further progre progress. To the subject of royal mail, as the leader of the firm which brought british gas to the market, and as the offer of [inaudible] may i tell the Prime Minister that the questions, the criticisms the way the royal mail launched was handled by Party Opposite those shows their total ignorance of the city markets. [shouting] the fact is that when youre trying to make an immense sale, you have to take trouble to find people who are to underwrite it, and they are not able to prophesies what stock markets are going to be like a week ahead. And, therefore, the whole way, the prudent way in which to handle is for a sensible. It does if you are [inaudible] order, order. People are shouting. I know if you [laughter] if you fail, those institutions responsible for its launch are ruined. [shouting] the right minister. He makes an important point because when youre privatizing stateowned industries, if you sell them for less than the price set outcome it is written off as a failure and if you settle for anything more than the price you are accused of undervaluing the business. That has always been the way. As i said that is what labour said with respect to british airways, british telecom, british aerospace. They oppose every single move to build a strong competitive of private investors sector in our country, and that continues today. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Mitchum would like to be a policeman buddies only working parttime and cant afford the thousand pound bobby taxing each day to apply to join the met. His mom and dad are foster cares and they would like to give it to him if they had. Is if my constituent is people of passing the fitness and test requirements of the police why should his bank balance stop him . Went to become a metropolitan Police Officer become an aspiration for the few rather than the many . The honorable lady is as questions about what she calls a bobby taxing let me make three points. It is not a tax. Secondly, it is not a barrier to recruitment and thirdly recruitment is taking place in the metropolitan police. That is whats happening. We are seeing people being recruited. As is happening members who want to join the metropolitan police are able to get assistance with this qualification that they now require. Mr. Speaker, last week [inaudible] here in your apartment last night Young Scholars painted the scene from shakespeares work. Mr. Speaker, could this right honorable man, the captain of our state, make our national [inaudible] a national day . And cookie choose to tell before the house what shakespeare means to an . Can i thank the ottawa friend for the beautifully and really crafted question about the anniversary of shakespeares birth . It is a moment for celebration not just here in britain but all across the world where shakespeares works are getting a wider and wider understanding and education. I will attempt the quotes he is brought out in his question but i was a to any politician if you read henry v speech, if that doesnt inspire and dry the on i cant think what does. Thank you, mr. Speaker. When will he published the relations they produced standard packaging for Tobacco Products . I cant prejudge the queens speech but we said we want to take action on this front and we will. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Textile engineering, food and drink manufacturing are all blooming booming. For example, fabrics are producing the of wall street for master buses which have been very, very busy this week because they are grading jobs at apprenticeships. Will the Prime Minister praise them and all the other local firms that agreed to attend my first ever jobs fair on friday the 20th of june . First let me make it to my on welfare for holding his job fairs, a number of members of parliament have taken this approach and its in real benefits in local areas as you get businesses coming forward pledging apprenticeship, pledging to take people on and you can bring them together with people who are looking for work. What weve seen since the recess is a series of figures i