Semieconomist vehicles that we have on the road today. We are talking about fully Autonomous Vehicles we are developing for the future. We are also innovation for us is really important. Does they show that encompasses that. Being commissioner is a daunting task. The information to gather. I enjoy coming here. It is an opportunity to learn what innovation is happening in the marketplace and how that will affect my job at the fcc. When i look to the new television, i think about what it will do for the television standard. When i look at satellite products or video products, it is what is the effect on so many items we have. I get to learn a number of different products that may come to market. It as an opportunity to learn. Monday night at 8 00 eastern on the communicators on cspan2. Up next, David Cameron takes questions at the house of commons. After that, british reaction to the terror attacks in paris. That will be followed by a discussion on Global Security issues and the use of strategic deterrence. During wednesdays Prime Ministers questions, David Cameron addressed last weeks terrorist attacks in paris. He also said the u. K. Counterterrorism bill going to parliament is vital in defeating terrorism. The Prime Minister to questions on Public Safety versus privacy, specifically on communication devices of suspect the terrorists. This is just under 35 minutes. Questions to the Prime Minister. Mr. Greg looked cant mclymon t. This morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. Given the Damage Assessment over jobs, will the Prime Minister give a guarantee that he will not support an export in any future eu referendums . Since i made the announcement there should be an in out referendum on your, we have seen investment coming into him britain going up. When britain is getting more inward investment than the rest of europe together. Im sure the whole house want to honor the bravery of colleagues. As the Oxford Vaccine Group moves to the next stage of its ebola trial, will the Prime Minister congratulate it on its outstanding work so far and offer all possible support in the race to develop this vital vaccine . My honorable friend is absolutely right to raise this issue. I am sure everyone is thinking of pauline cafferkey. It is very good news that she is out of critical care, but there is still a long way to go. What my honorable friend says about developing a vaccine is vital. The right honorable gentleman the minister for government policy is leading the work on this, ensuring that we do everything to cut through some of the bureaucracy that would otherwise be in place, so that we can develop a vaccine fast. The whole country, across all faiths and communities, felt a sense of solidarity with the people of france following last weeks dreadful attacks. Those who seek to terrorize and divide us should be in no doubt they will fail. This house of commons has sent a clear signal on this issue we are united. Turning to the actions that need to be taken, does the Prime Minister agree with me that a key objective of our counterterrorism efforts must be to prevent young people from being drawn into violent extremism in the first place . Does he also agree that the Program Designed to tackle the problem, prevent, needs to be expanded so that it supports, in particular, communityled action and is given the priority it deserves . Let me agree with the right honorable gentleman about how important it is to stand together in favor of free speech, freedom of expression, the rule of law and democracy, the values that we hold dear. I think the demonstration in paris and the outpouring we have seen both here and around the world against these horrific attacks shows that those values will not be defeated. On what the right honorable gentleman says about what must be done, we have to prepare for any attack that could take place. That means making sure that we fund our counterterrorism policing properly, as we do. It means reaching out to potentially vulnerable groups of people, for instance, i met the Jewish Leadership Council yesterday. It also means confronting the poisonous narrative of islamist extremism. That is what we are doing through putting a duty on every Public Organization to confront extremism wherever they find it, whether that is in universities, schools, on campuses, in prisons or elsewhere. That is what the prevent program, which we are expanding, is all about. Let me associate myself with what the Prime Minister said and particularly what he said about antisemitism and prejudice wherever we find it. On the point about british citizens who travel to syria to participate in the conflict, does he agree that, with more than half of them having returned, we need to do more . In particular, does he agree that we need a much more rigorous approach, including compulsory engagement with deradicalization programs to turn people away from violent extremism . I think it is right for us to we do everything we can to stop people travelling to syria to take part in these activities, and that is what the counterterrorism and security bill, which is going through the house of lords right now, is intended to do. But also, as the right honorable gentleman says, people coming back to this country should be looked at on a casebycase basis, and in every Case Consideration should be given to whether they would benefit from a counterradicalization program. As for the prevent program, it was reviewed by lord carlile in 2011, and he said of that existing program, there have been cases where groups whom we would now consider to support an extremist ideology have received funding. that is why we changed prevent. We are now expanding the program, and, as the right honorable gentleman says, we need to ensure that everyone who would benefit from counterradicalization gets it. Let me make one final point, in, i hope, a spirit of friendliness across the house. One or two people, referring to our current situation, have said that this is something of a zombie parliament. Let me point out that the counterterrorism and security bill, which is absolutely vital to the defeating of terrorism, is being discussed and debated in the houses of parliament right now. I am glad that we can work across parties on that issue and we will endeavor to continue to do so. Let me now turn to an issue on which there is less agreement. In may 2010, speaking about the Television Debates, a party leader said it would have been feeble to find some excuse to back out so i thought weve got to stick at this, weve got to do it. can you remind us, who said that . I am all for these debates taking place, but you cannot have order. The question has been asked, and the answer must be heard. I am all for these debates, but you cannot have two minor parties without the third minor party. So i put the question to him. Why is he so frightened of debating with the green party . I will debate with anyone the broadcasters invite, but the man who said that it would be feeble to back out of the debates was him. Now, we all understand that as long ago as last thursday his abiding passion was to give the green party a platform, but it is frankly a pathetic excuse. It is not for him, it is not for me, it is not for any party leader to decide who is in the debate. It is up to the broadcasters. That is the country that we live in. Is he really telling the people of britain that he will seek to deny them the Television Debates if he does not get to choose who is in them . We had a set of european elections last year, and ukip and the greens both beat the liberal democrats, i am afraid to say. It is very simple. You either have both of them, or you have none of them. So let me ask him again. Why is he so chicken when it comes to the greens . There is only one person who is running scared of these debates, and that is this Prime Minister. When he says that he does not want to take part because of the greens, no one, but no one believes him. Not the people behind him, not the person next to him, not the country. However he dresses it up everyone knows that he is running scared. These debates do not belong to me, and they do not belong to him. They belong to the british people. What does he think gives him the right to run away from these debates . There are two credible sets of debates. You can either have a debate with all the National Parties who appear in the house, or you can have a debate between the two people one of whom would become Prime Minister, or you can have both. Those are the credible debates. So i ask the right honorable gentleman again. When he looks at the green party, why is he so scared . I will debate with anyone whom the broadcasters invite to debate. I think the Prime Minister doth protest too much. He has run out of excuses, he is running scared of these debates, and, in the words of his heroine lady thatcher, he is frit. Is it not interesting, mr. Speaker . With just 10 of these sessions to go, he wants to debate having a debate. He cannot talk about unemployment, because it is coming down. He cannot talk about growth in the economy, because it is going up. He cannot talk about his energy price freeze, because it has turned him into a total joke. I have to say to him that the more time he and i can spend in the Television Studio and on television, the happier i shall be. But please, if he has any more questions left, will he ask a serious one . The former Prime Minister mr. Blair, had to be summoned to the Summit Committee to reluctantly give evidence. We now understand that the directorgeneral of the bbc, lord hall, is refusing to give evidence to another select committee on the grounds that he is a member of parliament. He is also a paid public servant. Is it not time that we reviewed the matter of parliamentary privilege in this place . I will look very carefully at what my honorable friend says. Obviously it is a matter for the select committee and the house but the general rule should be that people involved in the Senior Management of the bbc who are summoned to appear in front of a select committee should come, because the bbc needs to be, and is, publicly accountable. I think lord hall does a very good job at the bbc, and i am sure he would give a good account of himself, but i will have a careful look at what my honorable friend says. At the Liaison Committee meeting on december 16, the Prime Minister promised to look into the full publication of the extensively redacted defra report on shale gas Rural Economy impacts. Has he looked into this, and is he now going to insist on full and unredacted publication . I did look into the issue and i do not want to give the honorable gentleman an inaccurate answer, so i will go and check on the action taken after that meeting and see what i can tell him. In a speech last week the director general of mi5 identified a number of important gaps in its surveillance which need to be addressed in law. Some have called that a breach of Civil Liberties, and others have said that it is just another snoopers charter, but does the Prime Minister agree that Public Safety must come above Everything Else and that civil liberty must include not being bombed, shot or beheaded by some deranged jihadist . I agree with my honorable friend that the first duty of every government is to keep the country safe. We certainly do not do that by trashing our own Civil Liberties and traditions. When it comes to this vital issue of being able to have proper surveillance of the communications of potential terrorists, up until now this parliament and british governments have taken a very clear view whether it has been about looking at letters, or about fixed Telephone Communications or mobile communications, we have always believed that, in extremis, on the production of a signed warrant from the home secretary, it should be possible to look at someones communications to try and stop a terrorist outrage. The decision we have to take is, are we prepared to allow in future, as technology develops safe spaces for terrorists to communicate . The principle i think we should adopt is that we are not content for that to happen, and as a result we should look to legislate accordingly. Raif badawi faces 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison because he wrote some articles with which his government disagreed. Will the Prime Minister join me in condemning the barbaric and mediaeval regime of saudi arabia, and does he believe that our International Alliances should be founded more on human rights and less on economic muscle . We do not approve of these sorts of punishments, and we always raise these cases in the strongest possible way when british citizens are involved, and i know we will on this occasion, too. Unemployment down 44 , youth unemployment down 45 , longterm unemployment down 44 , business startups up 31 and 800 apprenticeship starts, all in the last year in south basildon and east thurrock. What does my right honorable friend think that says about our longterm economic plan . I am delighted at the news that my honorable friend brings. It is remarkable how in almost every constituency in this house the number of people claiming unemployment benefit is down and the number of young people claiming benefit is down. There are 224,000, almost a quarter of a million, more people in work in the east of england. Those are statistics, but every one of those statistics is about someone who is going out and earning a wage, supporting their family and managing to achieve a better standard of living. That is what we must continue with, and that is why we must stick to the longterm economic plan. Eliminating the deficit, net migration down to tens of thousands, no vat rise, no topdown reorganization of the nhs. Why did the Prime Minister make these promises and why did he break them . We said we would get the deficit down and the deficit is down by half as a share of our national economy, from the disgraceful situation left by labour. I thought the honorable gentleman would take the opportunity to talk about the vital steel interests in his constituency, which we will be talking about later today. We are working as hard as we can to make sure we keep Steel Production growing in our country, but as the honorable gentleman has introduced a political element, so might i. Under this government Steel Production is up, where it was down under labour. Under this Government Employment in the Steel Industry is up, where it was down under labour. Why is that . Because we have a car industry that is growing, an Aerospace Industry that is growing, and construction is growing. We are getting britain back to work. Is my right honorable friend aware that in the past 12 months, more than 60 journalists have been killed in the course of their work, including those at Charlie Hebdo last week . Just five weeks ago, i and several other members of parliament attended the signing in paris of a declaration by representatives of every european country, recognizing the vital role of journalists in a free society and pledging to do Everything Possible to protect their safety. Will my right honorable friend reaffirm that commitment today . I pay tribute to my honorable friend for the work he does in supporting the freedom of the press and i certainly reiterate what he says today. This most struck me when i visited jaffna, in northern sri lanka, and went to see a Newspaper Office that had been shot up, bombed and burned. That brings home what journalists in other countries have for years faced in bringing the truth and putting it in front of the people, which is a vital part of a Free Democratic system. Obviously, the events in paris are truly horrific, and the duty of everyone in public life is not necessarily to say whether or not we agree with this or that being published. Everyone can have their opinion. It is not that that matters. What matters is that we should always defend the right of people to publish whatever is inside the law and in their opinion right to publish. That is our job and we must do it properly. We are seeing a meltdown in emergency care, yet the Prime Ministers Health Secretary accuses us of whipping up a crisis. Is it not time for some honesty . His government is simply failing our nhs. I am grateful to the honorable lady for raising the nhs because, absolutely, we do face real challenges this winter with the pressures on a and e. But in her own constituency, the Homerton UniversityHospital Nhs Foundation trust proved what can be done with the extra resources that we are putting in and the excellent management of that hospital. Last week, 96. 6 of people going to a and e in her constituency were seen within four hours. Last week i met chloe, a care assistant apprentice who started her apprenticeship after visiting my most recent jo