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  • >>The Prime Minister (Mrs Theresa May): I am sure that the whole House will join me

  • in offering our condolences to the families and friends of those who lost their lives

  • and were injured in the gun attack in Quebec City on Sunday, and in paying tribute to our

  • former colleague Tam Dalyell, who died last Friday. He was an outstanding parliamentarian,

  • and I am sure that all our thoughts are with his friends and family.

  • This morning, I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties

  • in the House, I shall have further such meetings later today.

  • >>Peter Heaton-Jones (North Devon) (Con): I associate myself with the remarks made by

  • the Prime Minister and the tribute paid to the victims in Canada and to the family of

  • Tam Dalyell.

  • North Devon is quite rightly concerned that the current review of health services across

  • the county may result in the loss of some acute services at our hospital in Barnstaple.

  • For some residents, the nearest alternative could be three hours away. Will my right hon.

  • Friend assure me that she will listen carefully to those concerns, because I want to be able

  • to say to North Devon that we are the party of the NHS?

  • >>The Prime Minister: I thank my hon. Friend for his question. I can reassure him that

  • this Government are absolutely committed to ensuring the best possible healthcare for

  • patients right across the country. I recognise that concerns have been expressed locally

  • about the North Devon district hospital. I understand that there are no specific proposals

  • at the moment, but I know that the input of local communities will remain crucial throughout

  • the process, and I can assure him that of course it is this party in government that

  • is putting the extra funding into the NHS and showing how we value it.

  • >>Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North) (Lab): I join the Prime Minister in offering condolences

  • to all those who died in the horrific attack, fuelled by hate, in Quebec, and we should

  • send our solidarity to everyone in Canada on this sad occasion.

  • May I also associate myself with the Prime Minister’s tribute to the former Member

  • for West Lothian, and later Linlithgow, Tam Dalyell? A Labour MP and former Father of

  • the House, he doggedly fought to expose official wrongdoing and cover-ups, from the miners

  • strike to Iraq. I am sure the Prime Minister would agree that Tam’s scrutiny and contributions

  • made this House a better place, and may I recommend to all Members his autobiography

  • The Importance of Being Awkward”? [Interruption.] And I am quite happy to offer my copy to the

  • Secretary of State for Brexit to have a good read of it. I am sure that he has probably

  • already read it.

  • At last week’s Prime Minister Question Time, the Prime Minister told the House:

  • “I am not afraid to speak frankly to a President of the United States”. What happened?

  • >>The Prime Minister: First, let me say that I was not aware of Tam Dalyell’s bookThe

  • Importance of Being Awkward”, but given the number of resignations that the right

  • hon. Gentleman has had from his Front Bench, I suspect that some of his colleagues have

  • indeed read it.

  • I am pleased to say to the right hon. Gentleman that when I visited the United States, I was

  • able to build on the relationship that we have with our most important ally and get

  • some very significant commitments from President Trump. Crucial among those was a 100% commitment

  • to NATONATO which keeps us safe and keeps Europe safe too.

  • >>Jeremy Corbyn: Downing Street has not denied that the Prime Minister was told by the White

  • House that the Executive order on travel to the US was imminent, so let us be clear: was

  • the Prime Minister told about the ban during her visit, and did she try to persuade President

  • Trump otherwise?

  • >>The Prime Minister: On the policy that President Trump has introduced, this Government are

  • clear that it is wrong. We would not do it. In six years as Home Secretary, I never introduced

  • such a policy. We believe it is divisive and wrong. If the right hon. Gentleman is asking

  • me whether I had advance notice of the ban on refugees, the answer is no. If he is asking

  • me if I had advance notice that the Executive order could affect British citizens, the answer

  • is no. If he is asking if I had advance notice of the travel restrictions, the answer is,

  • we all did, because President Trump said in his election campaign that he was going to

  • do this. The question is how you respond. The job of Government is not to chase the

  • headlines; the job of Government is not to take to the streets in protest; the job of

  • Government is to protect the interests of British citizens, and that is exactly what

  • we did.

  • >>Jeremy Corbyn: On the day after the Executive order was made to ban refugees and visitors

  • from seven predominantly Muslim countries, why did the Prime Minister three times refuse

  • to condemn the ban?

  • >>The Prime Minister: I have made it very clear that we believe that this policy is

  • divisive and wrong, and that it is not a policy that we would introduce. I have also made

  • it very clear when asked about this that this Government have a very different approach

  • to these issues. On refugees, this Government have a proud record of the support that we

  • have given to them, and long may it continue.

  • >>Jeremy Corbyn: The Prime Minister said: “The United States is responsible for the

  • United Statespolicy on refugees.”

  • But surely it is the responsibility of all of us to defend the 1951 refugee convention,

  • which commits this country, the United States and 142 other states to accept refugees without

  • regard to their

  • race, religion or country of origin.”

  • President Trump has breached that convention. Why did she not speak out?

  • >>The Prime Minister: First, I have made absolutely clear what the Government’s view on this

  • policy is. Secondly, as I have just said, this Government and this country have a proud

  • record on how we welcome refugees. In recent years, we have introduced a very particular

  • scheme to ensure that particularly vulnerable refugees in Syria can be brought to this country,

  • and something like 10,000 Syrian refugees have come to this country since the conflict

  • began. We are also the second biggest bilateral donor, helping and supporting refugees in

  • the region. That is what we are doing. I have said that the US policy is wrong. We will

  • take a different view, and we will continue to welcome refugees to this country.

  • >>Jeremy Corbyn: I also wrote to the Prime Minister on this issue and received her reply

  • this morning. I hold in my hand her piece of paper. She makes no mention of the refugee

  • convention and does not condemn US action in that respect.

  • Last week, I asked the Prime Minister to assure the House that she would not offer up our

  • national health service as a “bargaining chipin any US trade deal. She gave no

  • answer. She also refused to rule it out when asked in the US, so let me ask her a third

  • time: will she rule out opening up our national health service to private US healthcare companiesyes

  • or no?

  • >>The Prime Minister: I could give a detailed answer to the right hon. Gentleman’s question,

  • but a simple and straightforward reply is what is required: the NHS is not for sale

  • and it never will be.

  • >>Jeremy Corbyn: I hope that that includes not having US healthcare companies coming

  • in to run any part of our national health service.

  • President Trump has torn up international agreements on refugees. He has threatened

  • to dump international agreements on climate change. He has praised the use of torture.

  • He has incited hatred against Muslims. He has directly attacked women’s rights. Just

  • what more does he have to do before the Prime Minister will listen to the 1.8 million people

  • who have already called for his state visit invitation to be withdrawn?

  • >>The Prime Minister: The right hon. Gentleman’s foreign policy is to object to and insult

  • the democratically elected Head of State of our most important ally. Let us see what he

  • would have achieved in the last week. Would he have been able to protect British citizens

  • from the impact of the Executive order? No. Would he have been able to lay the foundations

  • of a trade deal? No. Would he have got a 100% commitment to NATO? No. That is what Labour

  • has to offer this countryless protection for British citizens, less prosperity, less

  • safety. He can lead a protest; I am leading a country.

  • >>Stuart Andrew (Pudsey) (Con): Today it is inconceivable that somebody would be prosecuted

  • based on who and what they are. Will my right hon. Friend join me in welcoming the posthumous

  • pardon of some 49,000 men thanks to the Government’s Turing Bill which was enacted yesterday? Will

  • she also encourage those who are still alive to come forward so that their injustices can

  • be overturned?

  • >>The Prime Minister: I am very happy to join my hon. Friend in welcoming an extremely important

  • change in the law. We committed to it in our manifesto and have now delivered on it. Passing

  • Turing’s law has been a long-standing commitment for the Government. It is momentous and takes

  • action to right the wrongs of the past. Like my hon. Friend, I certainly encourage those

  • still alive to apply to the Home Office to have their offences disregarded.

  • >>Angus Robertson (Moray) (SNP): We on the SNP Benches associate ourselves with all the

  • comments thus far about the tragic deaths in Quebec City and about the passing of Tam

  • Dalyell. Respect for him was held across the political parties and he served with great

  • distinction for more than 40 years.

  • The Prime Minister had a successful international visit this last weekto Ireland. She spoke

  • publicly about her commitmentthis is importantnot to have a hard border on these islands, to

  • the continuation of free movement of peoples on these islands and to protect and enhance

  • trade. Given that people will be watching this not just in Britain but in Ireland, will

  • she take this opportunity to explain how she will deliver those sensible, important outcomes?

  • >>The Prime Minister: Those are absolutely the outcomes that we want to see. I was very

  • pleased to meet the Taoiseach and to discuss with him the joint intent that both his Government

  • and mine have to ensure that we do not see a return to the borders of the past in Northern

  • Ireland. We focus on the land border that is between Northern Ireland and the Republic

  • of Ireland. Of course, the issue of movements from Ireland affects other places as well;

  • it affects ports in Wales and Stranraer. Therefore, it is an important issue for us and we have

  • agreed the work that we are going to do together to deliver what I believe will be as frictionless

  • a border as possible. Also, one of the objectives that I set out in my plan for our negotiating

  • objectives is to retain the common travel area.

  • >>Angus Robertson: We on the SNP Benches very much welcome what the Prime Minister has just

  • said on all those issues. Of course, we also welcome the intensifying of negotiations between

  • the UK Government and the devolved Administrations ahead of triggering article 50. The Prime

  • Minister has very helpfully explained that it is perfectly possible for parts of these

  • islands to be in the single market, without hard borders, with free movement of people,

  • while at the same time protecting and enhancing trade with one another. That is very, very

  • welcome, so will she give a commitment to work with the Irish Government and a commitment

  • to work with the Scottish Government to deliver all those thingsor will we just have to

  • get on with it ourselves?

  • >>The Prime Minister: First, the right hon. Gentleman is right that following the meeting

  • of the Joint Ministerial Committee plenary on Monday morning, we agreed to intensify

  • discussion on issues related to the bringing back of powers from Brussels and where those

  • powers should lie within the UKto intensify that in the run-up to the triggering of article

  • 50 and beyond the triggering of article 50.

  • On the other question, the right hon. Gentleman really should listen to the answers that are

  • given, because he is trying to imply something that is not there. [Hon. Members: “Oh!”]

  • Yes. We are very clear that we want to see a frictionless border between Northern Ireland

  • and the Republic of Ireland, but I am also clear that one of the objectives of our negotiation

  • is to see as frictionless a border as possible between the UK and the rest of the European

  • Union. Of course, if he is so worried about having a frictionless border between Scotland

  • and countries in the EU, he should not want to take Scotland out of the EU by wanting

  • to see it independent. [Interruption.]

  • >>Mr Speaker: Order. We should not have to allow for the reaction from the SNP Benches

  • to every answer before we proceed to the next question.

  • >>Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke) (Con): EU nationals provide a vital and expert service

  • in my local hospital in Basingstoke and, along with thousands of others, they face an uncertain

  • future. I know that this is something that the Prime Minister wants to give priority

  • to and to sort out. Will we be hearing more about it in the forthcoming White Paper?

  • >>The Prime Minister: My right hon. Friend makes an important point about EU nationals.

  • I would like to confirm my intention and expectation that we will be able to offer that reassurance

  • to EU nationals living in the UK, but I also want to see reassurance offered to UK nationals

  • living in the EU. I hope and will be working to try to ensure that this is an issue we

  • can deal with at a very early stage in the negotiations. It was one of the objectives

  • I set out in the plan. It will be referenced in the White Paper and I can inform my right

  • hon. Friend and the House that that White Paper will be published tomorrow.

  • >>Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde) (Lab/Co-op): Prime Minister, your responses

  • today have been deeply unsatisfactory. The President of the United States has advocated

  • torture, misogyny, racial discrimination, sexual assault and isolationism. The leaders

  • of Canada and Germany were able to respond robustly, but your response was to jump on

  • a plane as soon as possible to hold his hand. Does this country not deserve a leader who

  • is willing to stand up for British values?

  • >>Mr Speaker: Order. I have issued no response and the hon. Gentleman not only should not

  • breach parliamentary protocol but should not tempt me.

  • >>The Prime Minister: I will tell you what standing up for British values is. I and this

  • Government introduced the first Modern Slavery Act in this country. I have ensured that stop

  • and search has reduced, because I do not believe that anyone on the streets of this country

  • should be stopped and searched because of the colour of their skin, and I ensured justice

  • for the families of Hillsborough.

  • >>Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet) (Con): In light of the fact that most of the countries

  • covered by the Trump ban have a total bar on the admission of Israeli citizens, should

  • the protestors not be calling for that ban to be lifted as well?

  • >>The Prime Minister: I thank my right hon. Friend for pointing that out. It is absolutely

  • right that the House should be aware of the discrimination around the world and of that

  • ban, particularly for those who are Israeli citizens. We are consistent: we do not agree

  • with that approach and it is not one that we will take. I wait for the day when the

  • right hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn) stands up and condemns it too.

  • >>Chris Elmore (Ogmore) (Lab/Co-op): My constituent Dianah Kendall suffered a bleed on the brain

  • in 2012 and has struggled to work since, but was due to retire in September. Government

  • changes to her state pension retirement age mean that she will now not retire until 2022.

  • This injustice has short-changed 2.6 million WASPI women and brings shame on this Government.

  • Will the Prime Minister think again and support Dianah and the millions of women who deserve

  • fairness in retirement?

  • >>The Prime Minister: On the issue of those who are known as the WASPI campaign, I refer

  • the hon. Gentleman to the fact that, as I am sure he knows, we committed more than £1

  • billion to lessen the impact on those worst affected, so no one will see their pension

  • age change by more than 18 months. There is a wider point: we need to be realistic when

  • considering pension ages about the fact that people are living longer. If we want to carry

  • on having an affordable and sustainable pension system, we need to equalise the state pension

  • age for men and women faster and to bring forward the rise.

  • >>Will Quince (Colchester) (Con): I welcome the £450 million announced in the autumn

  • statement to fund a trial of the digital railway. Given the new fleet of trains on order and

  • the economic growth opportunity for our region, does the Prime Minister agree that the great

  • eastern main line has the most compelling case for that pilot?

  • >>The Prime Minister: My hon. Friend is absolutely right about the importance of transport links

  • for economic growth. I understand that digital signalling could increase capacity on commuter

  • trains by up to 40%, hence the investment of £450 million for trials over the coming

  • years to which he rightly refers. I know that the Department for Transport is considering

  • where those trials should take place, but we certainly recognise that the great eastern

  • main line is one area that could benefit from those improvements.

  • >>John Nicolson (East Dunbartonshire) (SNP): A few moments ago, the Prime Minister tried

  • to claim credit for passing Stonewall’s Turing Bill. She did not; the Turing Bill

  • pardons all gay men found guilty of crimes no longer on the statute book. When will the

  • Prime Minister follow the Scottish Government and automatically pardon the living as well

  • as the dead?

  • >>The Prime Minister: It was during my time as Home Secretary that the legislation was

  • introduced that gives those who are alive the opportunity to apply to the Home Office

  • to have those offences that are no longer on the statute book expunged from their record

  • >>John Nicolson: They are not doing it.

  • >>The Prime Minister: The hon. Gentleman says that they are not doing it. In this Chamber

  • today my hon. Friend the Member for Pudsey (Stuart Andrew) and I have both encouraged

  • people to come forward and make that application, and that is a message that we should all put

  • out.

  • >>James Duddridge (Rochford and Southend East) (Con): At the White House, my right hon. Friend

  • gained some assurances from President Trump about his commitment to NATO, an achievement

  • that was welcomed by the Governments of the Czech Republic, Latvia and Lithuania. Does

  • my right hon. Friend agree that the way to engage with President Trump and to win such

  • agreements is not by insulting our close ally but by bringing him close, rather than doing

  • as the Leader of the Opposition demands? If we reject our closest ally, would that not

  • leave Britain and our European partners less safe and less secure?

  • >>The Prime Minister: My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We should never forget that America

  • is our most important ally. Our relationship is long standing and American men and women

  • served and died alongside UK men and women in two world wars to protect our security

  • and the security of Europe. If we were not able to have that relationship and to see

  • that commitment to NATO, in particular, we would leave this country and Europe less safe.

  • >>Deidre Brock (Edinburgh North and Leith) (SNP): Many were surprised that immediately

  • after those cosy images with Donald Trump were taken the Prime Minister chose to meet

  • the Turkish President, who has been running an increasingly repressive regime since the

  • failed coup last summer. Will she confirm whether she raised any human rights concerns

  • with President Erdoğan, or, as we turn our face from Europe, will it be the policy of

  • post-Brexit Britain to put arms deals before human rights abuses?

  • >>The Prime Minister: First, the hon. Lady should recognise that Turkey is an important

  • country in relation both to our security and the issue of migration into Turkey and potentially

  • into Europe. She will also recognise that Turkey has, and continues to host, 3 million

  • refugees from Syria, and I commended the Turkish Government on the welcome they have given

  • them. I suggest that she should just have looked at the press conference I gave after

  • my discussions with President Erdoğan and Prime Minister Yildirim, in which I made it

  • clear that we had condemned the coup but expected the Turkish Government to support their democratic

  • institutions, international human rights and the rule of law.

  • >>Alec Shelbrooke (Elmet and Rothwell) (Con): I wholeheartedly congratulate my right hon.

  • Friend on securing 100% for NATO from the new US Administration. Will she outline what

  • she is doing to persuade our other NATO allies of the importance of achieving what was agreed

  • at the NATO Wales summit on their obligations?

  • >>The Prime Minister: First, I thank my hon. Friend for the work that he does on the NATO

  • Parliamentary Assembly. I know he is fully engaged with that. He is right that commitments

  • were made at the NATO summit in Wales in 2014, when all our NATO allies committed to spending

  • 2% of their GDP on defence within a decade. We have seen progress, but I agree with President

  • Trump that many allies need to go further. I can assure my hon. Friend that I and other

  • Ministers across Government raise the issue regularly with our allies and partners and

  • will continue to do so.

  • >>Ruth Cadbury (Brentford and Isleworth) (Lab): Last week, air pollution in London was worse

  • than in Beijing. Will the Prime Minister therefore assure me and my constituents in Osterley,

  • Brentford and Chiswick that the hugely expensive proposal to double the capacity of the M4

  • as it arrives in London will be shelved forthwith?

  • >>The Prime Minister: I can assure the hon. Lady that this Government take the issue of

  • air quality very seriously. A lot of work has been done. Since 2011 more than £2 billion

  • has been committed to enable, for example, bus operators to upgrade their fleets, and

  • to ensure that changes are made to reduce pollution from vehicles such as refuse trucks

  • and fire engines. We do recognise, however, that more needs to be done. We have seen a

  • reduction in nitrous oxide from some 17% in recent years, but we will bring forward proposals

  • to ensure that we can maintain the air quality that we all want to see.

  • >>Richard Benyon (Newbury) (Con): Will my right hon. Friend show her support forBrighter

  • Berkshire”, the campaign as part of the 2017 year of mental health? Will she give

  • her continued commitment to ensuring that we have parity between mental health and physical

  • health in this country?

  • >>The Prime Minister: I am very happy to endorse the campaign to which my hon. Friend refers.

  • It is important that we continue to raise awareness of the issues around mental health.

  • The fact the Government have committed to the parity of esteem between mental and physical

  • health is important. There is more for us to do on mental health, and I have already

  • set out some steps that we want to take. I commend all those, however, who are working

  • to raise the issue of mental health and provide support to those with mental health problems.

  • >>Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow) (Lab): The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has

  • said that £4.6 billion has been cut from social care budgets since 2010. Does the Prime

  • Minister take any responsibility for the pain and the distress that the Tories have inflicted

  • on poor, vulnerable old people being denied their rightful care? Yes or no?

  • >>The Prime Minister: The Government have taken a number of steps to increase the funding

  • available for local authorities to provide for social care. It is also important that

  • we ensure that best practice is developed and put into place across the country. In

  • some parts of the country the record on social care and the interaction with hospitals is

  • better than in others, but the longer-term issue is for us to ensure that we have a sustainable

  • system for delivering social care for people in this country. The Labour party ducked that

  • issue for 13 years. We are addressing it.

  • >>Andrea Jenkyns (Morley and Outwood) (Con): Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating

  • Morley Academy on its recently awarded World Class Schools quality mark and say how such

  • awards drive pupil excellence?

  • >>The Prime Minister: I am happy to join my hon. Friend in congratulating the whole team

  • at Morley Academy on receiving the award, which I think shows the work that the GORSE

  • Academies Trust is doing to drive up excellence and improve outcomes for pupils. We are determined

  • to drive up standards in schools to ensure that more children have good school places—a

  • good school place for every childso that they can all reach the sort of level we see

  • at Morley Academy.

  • >>Mr David Winnick (Walsall North) (Lab): How will the thousands of people who lost

  • their jobs at British Home Stores feel about the fact that it may take years before the

  • case of Philip Green, the totally discredited and disgraced businessperson, results in his

  • knighthood being taken away or otherwise? Is it not remarkable? People lose their jobs

  • and suffer all the consequences, but this man keeps his billions and his knighthood.

  • >>The Prime Minister: The hon. Gentleman raises an important issue. Many Members of this House

  • have expressed concern about what happened at BHS and the attitude and approach taken

  • by Philip Green. Whether a knighthood should be taken away from someone is a matter for

  • the relevant committee—I have forgotten the namewhich will be examining the case;

  • I understand that it is waiting for the investigations to be completed. This is a matter for an independent

  • committee and it is up to the committee how it looks into it.

  • >>Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough) (Con): Tonight, there will be an historic vote in this place,

  • a vote that I thought I would not see in my political lifetime: the British Parliament

  • voting to withdraw from the European Union under the excellent leadership of the Prime

  • Minister. Is my right hon. Friend surprised that Opposition Members who demand time to

  • discuss the matter and debate itnamely, the Liberal Democratsdid not even bother

  • to turn up last night? The Government Benches were packed, the Scottish National party Benches

  • were packed, the Democratic Unionist party Members were here, and there were some Labour

  • Members. Is that not surprising?

  • >>The Prime Minister: Throughout my political career I have fought Liberal Democrats, and

  • nothing that they do ever surprises me, but I join my hon. Friend in commending the Bill

  • before the House. This House has a very simple decision to take. We gave the right of judgment

  • on this matter to the British people, and they made their choice: they want to leave

  • the EU. The question every Member must ask themselves as they go through the Lobby tonight

  • is: do they trust the people?

  • >>Mr Speaker: Well, the right hon. Gentleman is here now, so let us hear the fellowTim

  • Farron.

  • >>Hon. Members: Hear, hear!

  • >>Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale) (LD): Who would have guessed it, Mr Speaker? We

  • are here now, asking the questions—[Interruption]—asking the

  • questions about the future of our country and Brexit that a strong Leader of the Opposition

  • should be asking

  • >>Hon. Members: Where were you?

  • >>Mr Speaker: Order. [Interruption.] Mr Knight, I am very worried about you. You recently

  • suffered from a bad leg. With all that shouting, you will be suffering from a bad head. Calm

  • yourself man!

  • >>Tim Farron: The Prime Minister will return at some point with a deal with Europe that

  • our people will have to live with for decades to come, especially our young people, 73%

  • of whom voted to remain. Nobody knows what that deal will look like, but someone will

  • get to agree it. Should it be her Government, should it be this Parliament, or should it

  • beas I believe it shouldthe British people?

  • >>The Prime Minister: I have already said that there will be a vote on the deal in this

  • Parliament. [Interruption.]

  • >>Mr Speaker: Mr Shelbrooke, calm yourself. You are in a state of excessive excitement,

  • even by your standards.

  • >>Nigel Adams (Selby and Ainsty) (Con): It is quite difficult to follow that, Mr Speaker,

  • but back in the real world—[Laughter.]

  • In December 2015, my constituency suffered terrible flooding, especially in the town

  • of Tadcaster. The damage became worse when the bridge collapsed, separating the town.

  • Thankfully, the bridge will be reopened, hopefully this week. Will the Prime Minister join me

  • in thanking all those who were involved in the restoration of the bridge and, most importantly,

  • the residents of Tadcaster, who have had a terrible year?

  • >>The Prime Minister: I am happy to join my hon. Friend in commending and thanking not

  • only all those who worked so hard to restore the bridge at Tadcaster, but the people of

  • Tadcaster, who have had to put up with disruption and inconvenience for such a long time. I

  • am sure that those people will all welcome the return of the bridge, and we commend all

  • those who have ensured that that has happened.

  • >>John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness) (Lab/Co-op): The news revealed yesterday that Toshiba is

  • reviewing its investment in the Moorside nuclear power plant, which puts a huge question mark

  • over not only 21,000 jobs in Cumbria but the future of our nation’s energy security.

  • What will the Prime Minister do personally to ensure that the deal stays on track?

  • >>The Prime Minister: I assure the hon. Gentleman that both the Business Secretary and I have

  • involvement in a number of deals and possible deals around the nuclear industry. We are

  • keen to ensure that those jobs are brought to the United Kingdom and that such deals

  • are kept on track. I assure him of the Government’s commitment.

  • >>Jo Churchill (Bury St Edmunds) (Con): This week the Danish drug firm Novo Nordisk invested

  • £115 million in the UK to further research into type 2 diabetes. Will the Prime Minister

  • join me in welcoming that investment as well as the academics and scientists involved,

  • many of whom are from the EU and around the world and will appreciate the assurance she

  • gave earlier? Will she also work with me to ensure that any innovations and new treatments

  • get to patients as quickly as possible?

  • >>The Prime Minister: As my hon. Friend will probably understand, I recognise this issue

  • particularly personally, although I am a type 1 diabetic rather than type 2. Any investment

  • in diabetes research is to be welcomed, and when new solutions and support for diabetics

  • are found, it is important that they get to people as quickly as possible. A significant

  • number of people in this country suffer from type 2 diabetes, and the figures show that

  • there is a great risk that the number will increase significantly in the coming years.

  • We need to do all that we can not only to prevent people from becoming type 2 diabetics

  • in the first place, but to support those who have that condition so that people suffer

  • from fewer complications and are able to manage their lives.

  • >>Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh (Ochil and South Perthshire) (SNP): Today is World Hijab Day.

  • Will the Prime Minister join me in recognising the right of Muslim women to wear the hijab

  • if they wish, without fear, and indeed the right of all women everywhere to wear what

  • they want, when they want? Will she also commit to standing up for the right to refuge for

  • men, women and children wherever they may be, regardless of their religion?

  • >>The Prime Minister: On the hon. Lady’s second point, it is absolutely the case that

  • this country welcomes refuges to the United Kingdom, and we do so regardless of their

  • religionthere is no question of discriminating on religion.

  • I am absolutely in line with the hon. Lady on her point about wearing the hijab. I believe

  • that what a woman wears is a woman’s choice.

  • >>Sir Julian Brazier (Canterbury) (Con): Russian armed forces regularly carry out large-scale

  • exercises, including with nuclear-capable equipment, on the borders of eastern Europe.

  • Does my right hon. Friend agree that the American commitment to NATO is absolutely pivotal to

  • protect the countries of eastern Europe from going the same way as eastern Ukraine?

  • >>The Prime Minister: I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. The 100% commitment to NATO

  • that President Trump has given is crucial to ensuring that we can provide for the security

  • of this country and others in Europe, especially those in eastern Europe on the border with

  • Russia. I noted that my hon. Friend the Member for Rochford and Southend East (James Duddridge)

  • referred to the fact that the Governments of the Czech Republic, Latvia and Lithuania

  • had welcomed that 100% commitment. I am pleased to say that we are playing our part, as about

  • 800 troops will be going to Poland and Estonia this year as a sign of NATO’s strength and

  • our belief in keeping those countries free and democratic.

  • >>Naz Shah (Bradford West) (Lab): In 2015, my constituent Samia Shahid was lured to her

  • death in Pakistan, where she was brutally raped and murdered. Will the Prime Minister

  • join me in reiterating the commitment of this House and this country that we will not tolerate

  • violence against women, and encourage the Pakistani Government to continue in their

  • efforts to get justice for our British girl, Samia Shahid?

  • >>The Prime Minister: The hon. Lady raises a very tragic case, and our deepest sympathies

  • are with Samia’s husband following her tragic death last year. We do not interfere in the

  • legal processes of another country, but I understand from the Foreign Office that the

  • Pakistani police have arrested two people and charged them with murder. The Foreign

  • Office has provided assistance to Samia’s husband and will continue to do so. I am sure

  • it will keep the hon. Lady informed, and I understand that the Home Secretary will meet

  • the hon. Lady soon to discuss this issue.

>>The Prime Minister (Mrs Theresa May): I am sure that the whole House will join me

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