America where government colleagues the rules makes the rules, where it runs more of our businesses and runs our lives. Or an america where we restore the principles that made the nation that it is. That we bring back the principles of the declaration of independence and recognize god gave us our rights and they include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as we choose. Watch engage as president obama and mitt romney meet in their final debate. Our preivew starts at 7 00 p. M. Eastern followed by the debate at 9 00 and your reaction at 10 30. Back from their annual Party Conferences, members of the british house of commons return for their weekly question time with Prime Minister david cameron. The Prime Minister answered questions on the National Health service, youth unemployment, and britains relationship with the european union. Members paid tribute to labor members who died over the parliament break. Heproblem and im sure they will be addressing it. Order. Questions for the Prime Minister. Number one, mr. Speaker. Thank you, mr. Speaker. [shouting] mr. Speaker, im sure the whole house will wish to join me in paying tribute to the servicemen who tragically have fallen since we last met for Prime Ministers questions. Lance Corporal Dwayne grew a first by john grenadier guards, sergeant and private of the third battalion yorkshire regiment, Sergeant Johnson coops of mechanical engineers, captain james of the royal engineers, and captain manley of the royal marines. Once again we are reminded of the immense danger our armed forces operate n to uphold our safety and our security. Thr families and the whole country should rightly be proud of their heroic service, and we will always remember them. The house im sure will also wish to join me in paying tribute to fiona bill and Nicholas Hughes who were killed brutally murdered in the line of duty on the 18th of september, the whole country has been deeply shocked and saddened by the loss of these two young dedicated exceptional officers. Our thoughts are withe served tt we must also pay tribute to another great character and it is hard to believe he is not sitting in front of me. He was hugely popular across the house. We will always remember him as a dedicated member of the house whose kindness transcended the political divide. We send our sympathies to his wife and family. Mr. Speaker, i had meetings and in addition to my duties, i shall have other meetings later today. Can i associate all honorable members with the tribute to the members of the armed forces and the police who have died in the service of our country and to their families and also how much we will miss mr. Stewart bell and malcolm. Mise work would always pay but this morning baroness grey thompson of the Children Society have revealed that his current plans for universal credit next year will mean that up to 116,000 disabled people in work includes as much as 14 pounds a week . Doesnt say a thing about how this device o Prime Minister always stands up for the wrong people, always stands up for the wrong people when at the same time a standing huge tax cuts to 8000 people and over 1 Million Pounds a year come he is going to penalize some of the bravest and our countr mr. Speaker, let me try and deal with it as fully as i can. The money thats going into disability benefit will not go down under universal credit, it will go up. The overall amount of money will go from 1. 35 Million Pounds last year to 1. 45 Million Pounds in 2015. Under the plan now recipients will lose out unless their circumstances change. All current recipients are fully protected by counterproductive scheme. What were doing and this is important, this is a decision and a choice we made is that future recently and were going to increase the amount we the gift of the most a very disabled children, and there will be a new lower amount for less disabled people. Thats a choice were making. Increasing the overall amount of money, focusing on the most a stable, that i think shows the right values and the right approach. Mac and graduate the government on the early construction of the gross res judicata to bill. Farmers in third world helping companies producers desperately need protection from what i think been described as [inaudible]. Could i ask how quickly come how quickly will it be before the government actually introduced is finally important measure . We are making progress with introducing the measure. As my friends and i think it is an important measure. I think its very important we stand up for farmers, the farmers get a fair deal from supermarkets. I think on occasions there have been unfair practices of things like retrospective discounts that sometimes been proposed and i think this bill will be a major step forward. Mr. Ed miliband. [shouting] mr. Speaker, i joined up runners in paying tribute to the sixtsix servicemen that have did since the house last met. Lance corporal of First Battalion the grenadier guards, sergeant, a third battalion yoshire regiment. Sergeant jonathan coops are the royal electrical and mechanical engineers. Captain James Townley of the corps of royal engineers, and captain karl manley of the royal marines. They all died heroically serving our coury. Fish of the outpost bravery and sacrifice and i condone our condolences goes to the family of friends but i also ined them in paying tribute to the on the on the bill and hughes. To remind us of the dangers work, mr. Speaker, our Police Officers to aid in and day out in the line of duty. Her death is a great loss to the great manchester police, the committee they serve and most of all of course to the families. I also want to thank the Prime Minister for his generous comment about the two lead colleagues we have lost since we last met. Stuart bell was the sun of a mother, a longstanding member of this house. He was passionate about european issues and he served with distinction of the church commissioner. His death was incredibly sudden. His illness dignosed as a matter of days before he died. The condolences of the site of the house under no the whole house gosto his family. And let me just say about Malcolm Wicks, he was one of the deepest thinkers in this house. He was a brilliant minister. I know from my time as Energy Secretary what it really Energy Minister he was pretty was also someone who faced his illness with the utmost bravery. He knew was going to happen to him, but he carried on writing, thinking, talking and, indeed, engaging in he work with the suspect my last conversation was a motion before our Party Conference we talked passionately about politics as he hoisted. Again, our condolences go to his whole family. Mr. Speaker, the unemployment figures today are welcome to click to the fall an youth unemployment. And im sure we all agree that there are too many people still looking for work, the number of people out of work for long period over a year remains suddenly i. And the Prime Minister tells why he believes the Fourth Quarter and unempyment is not yet been matched by the biggest longterm unemployment . I thank him for his generous remarks about those who have fallen, about his Police Officers and also about the colleagues. In terms of the unemployment figures, i think this is a good piece of news that should be properly welcomed and looked at, because basically a number of Different Things are happening. Employment is up b 212,000 this quarter. Unemployment is down by 50,000 this quarter. The claimant count has fallen by 4000. What that means its actually since the election is there are some 170,000 fewer people on out of work benefits. And what is i think what remarkable about the figures is they show there are more women in work and at anytime in our history. Inaction overall level of employment is now above where it was before the crash in 2008. So we still have huge economic challenges toe. We are in a global race. We do need to make a whole set of reforms in our country to education, welfare and help grow the private sector but this is positive news today. In terms of longterm unemployment, it is still too high. I think thats partly because of the big increase in unemployment that took place at the time of the crash, but we nee to do more to do with longterm unemployment, and that is why the work program has helped 693,000 people already. We are prepared to spend up to ,000 pounds on one individual longterm unemployed person to get them back into work so i think we do have the measures in place to tackle this scourge. Ed miliband. Mr. Speaker, notwithstanding that, unemployment, youth unemployment, longterm unemplment and longterm youth unemployment are all higher than when he came t office. On the particular issue about longterm youth unemployment i dont think you ca attrite to the crash happened four years ago because its been steadily rising over the last year or 18 months. And it remains a bit concerned, the number of people out of work r more than year is continuing to rise. Does he agree with me the longer young people remain out of work, the greater the damage not just now to the longterm prospects and the greater damage to our economy . Of course hes right. The longer people out of work the worse for them, the worse for our economy. That is why we have to use contract. That is why webwork programs, the biggest back to work program nce the war. He mentioned the problem of longterm unappointed averages remind them in the last two yearof the last government, longterm unemployed almost double so i think we should hear about that before we get election. In terms of helping young people it is also noticeable that under this government 900,000 people have started apprenticeships, and we are reforming our schools and welfare system so that it pays for people to get those jobs. We face Enormous Economic challenges in this country. Nobody doubts that. We have to we both our economy because the state sector was too big, the private sector was too small. What has happened is 1 million new jobless private sector jobs. Weve got a huge amount more to do but reform welfare, reform our schools, and the private sector and britain can be aware in the global race. I would just say to him on longterm unemployment there are more people out of work for longer than at any time for two decades. That is happening on his watch. I want to point to one group in particular losing their jobs directly. Year ago, he tld me, and ago, there is no reason for there to be fewer frontline Police Officers. Canny now tell the house how my frontline Police Officers have lost their jobs since the election . The percentage of officers on frontline duties has gone up. I think that is the key. Frankly, frankly whoever [shouting] whoever won the last election was going to have to reduce police budget. He was committed to reducing police budget. Weve had to reduce police budget. The reason why we been able to increase the percentage is because we have got the paperwork, weve taken difficult decisions about pay. Weve taken difficult decisions about allowans. What is remarkable is while the percentage of officers on frontline is up, crime is down. I really hoped just for once we would get a straight answer. [shouting] allhe Prime Minister needs to do, all the Prime Minister needs do is take a lead out of the placement book. Because on monday he told the house the truth. He said that are 6778 fewer frontline Police Officers than when he came to power. Why not just i dont think hes going to help you, Prime Minister. [laughter] now maybe the parttime jobs is taken over the home office. Another promise broken. They are not just breaking their promises. Its there conduct as well. [shouting] this is this is [shouting] this is what the mayor of london said. Border. It will just take longer to get the backbenchers who do wish to participate as opposed to shouting and screaming into jubilee fashion because of how to extend the session. The leader of the opposition will be heard and the Prime Minister will be heard. That is the end of it. Mr. Adelle banks. This is what and mayor of london can his new best mate said last at conservative Party Conference. I reckon we need to make it clear that peoples were at the police, they must expect to be arrested. He says he didnt come [inaudible] according to the official police report, and i quote, a man claiming to be the chief [laughter] told them they should know their place and use other of use of language. Can the Prime Minister now tell us to the chief use those words . What the chief whip did and what the chief weapons that were wrong. Right . Am absolutely clear about that. Thats what it important that the chief would apologize. That apology has been accepted by order, order. I said a moment ago the leader of the opposition must and would be heard. The same goes for the Prime Minister. He must and will be heard. The Prime Minister spent what the chief whip said and did is wrong and that is what it is important he apologized and ologized probably. That apology has been accepted by the office conservatives been accepted by the head of the metropolitan police and that is why this government will get on with the big issues of helping britn compete and succeed in the world. Ed miliband. No straight answers on Police Numbers and notraight answers on the chief whip. Just because a pole officers he sid its a real isue. I think it is a real issue of using Police Officers. [shouting] is because a Police Officer has better manners than the chief web chief whip, doesnt mean he should keep his job. On a saturday night abuse a Police Officer ranting and raving, chances are they would be arrested and placed in the back of a police van. And rightly so. And the Prime Minister will be the first to say it was right. But while its a nice in [inaudible] isnt that declares a case it could be, a total double standard . His apology has been acepted by the Police Officer. Its been accepted by the head of the metropolitan police. Its clearly not going to be accepted by the leader of the opposition because he doesnt want to talk about what we need to do this country to get our deficit down becausehes got no plan. He doesnt want to talk about how he builds on a record implement because he has got no plan. He doesnt want to talk about how we reform welfare because he is opposed to welfare cuts. That is the truth. He wants to discuss hese issues because hes got nothing serious to say about the country. Ed miliband. Heres the most ex ord or thin tragic they say that my practice club, and they go around calling people names. Can you believe that . I have to say its good to see the cabinet in a place supporting him in public but in the newspapers what are they saying in private but hes completely under my biggest position is untenable. In other words, that is the reality. Here isthe truth about his government. While everybody else loses their job, the chief whip keeps his but if youre a millionaire you get a tax cut. If you everybody else, you get a tax rise. [shouting] order, order. Order. Im very worried about your health. For shouting in a bizarre manner. Call yourself, man, mr. Ed miliband. Tax cuts are totally out of touch with this government. Its one rule for those of the top and one rule for everybody else. [shouting] now we know, mr. Speaker, he wrote those questions yesterday before unemployment fell. He wasnt listing early. Let me remind you. Employment is up 212,000. Unemployment down 50,000 this quarter. The claim it down 4000. Thats asuccess. Typical. It comes to this house. Hes written out his clever political question. He doesnt care which really happening in our economy. Order. Mr. Glenn davis. Over two weeks ago, mr. Speaker, at edward jones a fiber loopr work doctor when playing with her friends in my constituency, a very white, very well behaved always do. Well my right honorable friend, the Prime Minister join in playing tribute to the truly amazing way in which the people, the police and the mountain rescue teams have come together and committed to the ongoing search . I will certainly join my honorable friend into the. I think the whole country has not only been shocked by these appalling events, but also i think the whole country frankly has been lifted and and crovitz impressed by the response of ofe communy, and everything has done, everybody has done to help the police can help emergency services. We seen a whole Community Come together not just in greece but in action to help this family. I think its a huge credit to everyone involved. The Prime Ministers Energy Summit last year has promised faithfully he would take action to hep people reduce their energy billsut can he tell the house and the country housing going . Weve encourage people to switchhichs one of those ways to get your energy bill down and i can announce which im sure he will welcome is that we will be legislating so that Energy Companies have to get the lowest power to the custom. Something labour didnt do in 13 years even though the leader of the labour party actually couldve done for the other job. Close question. Dr. Julian lewis. I know that my