Name: Prime Minister's Questions: 5 July 2017
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If she will list her official engagements for Wednesday 5 July.

Today marks the 69th anniversary of the NHS, and

last week saw the 80th anniversary of the 999 service. I know that Members on both sides

of the House will join me in paying tribute to the incredibly dedicated men and women

who work tirelessly to save and improve lives day in, day out.

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. Later this week I will attend

a meeting of the G20, where I will discuss the global economy, counter-terrorism and

sustainable development with my fellow leaders.

Her face smashed with an iPad, her body beaten, and forced to abort a baby girl: that is only

some of the domestic abuse that my constituent Lola Ilesanmi has suffered from her estranged

husband because she has refused to allow the genital mutilation of her daughter. Lola is

educated, has a mortgage, and had a good job with Royal Bank of Scotland until the Home

Office revoked her right to work. I have been writing to the Home Office since March, and

have got nowhere. Will the Prime Minister now intervene to prevent the family from being

deported, and to prevent that three-year-old girl from being subjected to genital mutilation?

The Home Secretary has obviously heard the case that the hon. Lady describes. The issue

of female genital mutilation is one on which I think all of us, throughout the House, are

agreed. It is an abhorrent activity; it should not be taking place. Great efforts have been

made in recent years in strengthening the law on female genital mutilation, getting

information out about the issue, and trying to support people in communities where FGM

is practised. The message must go out from the House today that we will not accept FGM

>> James Morris (Halesowen and Rowley Regis) (Con):

In the last few days Iraqi security forces, assisted by coalition airstrikes, have made

significant progress in eradicating ISIL fighters from Mosul. That is a significant step forward

in the military conflict against ISIL in Iraq, but does the Prime Minister agree that the

United Kingdom and the United States, in a broad international alliance, need to work

with the Iraqi Government to ensure that there is reconstruction in places such as Mosul,

and also to ensure that they are sufficiently strong to withstand the poisonous ideology

My hon. Friend is absolutely right: in order to keep the streets of Britain safe, we must

continue to attack Daesh in Iraq and Syria, and the UK is playing its part as one of the

71 members of the coalition. The RAF has conducted over 1,400 strikes, and over 500 British soldiers

are on the ground providing further assistance, but he makes the very important point that

it is not just about the military action that takes place; it is about how we ensure there

is sustainable reconstruction and rebuilding afterwards. Our troops have helped to train

over 55,000 Iraqi security forces personnel, and we are providing more than £169.5 million

in humanitarian aid and a further £30 million to help Iraq to stabilise these liberated

areas. Together, we must also work not just in Iraq but internationally to ensure that

the hateful ideology of extremism is not able to poison the minds of people.

>> Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North) (Lab):

May I start by wishing everyone a very happy Pride month, especially those taking part

in the Pride march this Saturday and similar marches around the country? We should also

be aware that a survey taken by Pride in London found that half of LGBT people in London had

experienced hate crime in the past 12 months.

I join the Prime Minister in wishing the NHS a very happy birthday, but I was hoping that

she was going to say a bit more about NHS staff and their pay during her birthday greetings,

because after a week of flip-flopping and floundering, we thought we had some clarity

from Downing Street at last. On Monday, the announcement was that the public sector pay

cap at 1% remains, and a rare moment of agreement between Nos. 10 and 11 was seen, but yesterday

we heard news that firefighters will be offered 2% this year and 3% next year, so can the

Prime Minister confirm whether the public sector pay cap will remain for all other public

First, may I join the right hon. Gentleman in wishing everybody who is going to take

part in Pride London on Saturday an excellent day? I am sure it will be a very good occasion,

as it always has been. May I also say that I and all Members of this House value the

incredibly important work done by our public sector workers, including, yes, including

those in the national health service and others?

I understand why people feel strongly about the issue of their pay, but perhaps I can

just set out. For the information of the House, perhaps I can just set out what the current

position is. Three public sector pay review bodies reported in March—they covered doctors

and dentists, NHS staff including nurses, and the armed forces—and the Government

accepted the recommendations of all three. The firefighters’ award is not determined

by the Government—it is determined by the employers—and is not subject to a pay review

body. There are outstanding pay review body reports that cover teachers, prison officers,

police officers and those on senior salaries. The Government will consider those reports

very carefully and respond to them, but while we do that, we will always recognise that

we must ensure that we take decisions with regard to the need to live within our means.

The right hon. Gentleman and I both value public sector workers and our public services;

the difference is that I know we have to pay for them.

The public sector pay cap causes real shortages in nursing, teaching and many other professions,

as well as real hardship. I had a letter last week from a teacher called David. It’s all

right: he is a teacher; he is doing a good job—all right? He says:

“I have been teaching for 10 years. I have seen my workload increase. I have seen more

people leave the profession than start, and no form of pay increase in seven years. The

only thing holding the education system together is the dedication to struggle on for the students

He goes on to say that that dedication is “starting to run out”. I say to the Prime

Minister that what we are doing through this pay cap is recklessly exploiting the good

will of public servants like David. They need a pay rise.

The Leader of the Opposition refers to the number of nurses and teachers working in the

public sector. Of course we now have more nurses in our hospitals than we had in 2010,

and we have more teachers in our schools. But let me remind the right hon. Gentleman

why it has been necessary for us to exercise restraint in public spending, including by

capping public sector pay. It is because we inherited the biggest deficit in our peacetime

Order. I noticed earlier, Mr Mahmood, that you seemed to be in a very hyper condition

today. I recommend that you take some sort of soothing medicament or go and lie down

for a little while. You will feel better at the end of it.

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