Priorities for Government

Mr Speaker, I applaud your intervention. I also think there is far too much negativity about the ...

I welcome the right hon. Gentleman to his position and thank him for an advance copy of his state...

Order. I indicated that people would not shout down the Prime Minister. Precisely the same applie...

Thank you, Mr Speaker.

The right hon. Gentleman’s predecessor promised to end austerity, bu...

Order. It will take as long as it takes. I have plenty of time; I am totally untroubled by these ...

The office of Prime Minister requires integrity and honesty, so will the Prime Minister correct h...

I struggled to discover a serious question in that, but I will make one important point that it i...

Order. Mr McDonald, you really are at times a reckless delinquent. Calm yourself, man. I know you...

They do not like the truth that more homes were built in this country last year than in any of th...

Order. Mr Lavery, you are another over-excitable denizen of the House. Calm yourself; it would be...

It is only with an effort that I can master my feelings here, Mr Speaker. The right hon. Gentlema...

I unreservedly welcome my right hon. Friend to his place. Today the EU will have listened and rea...

I thank my right hon. Friend very much for that excellent question and the point that he makes. I...

I should welcome the Prime Minister to his place: the last Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his suggestion. I should point out that the people of this c...

Our history is littered with Prime Ministers being dealt an extraordinarily difficult hand but, b...

I thank my right hon. Friend very much for his remarks and for the spirit in which he made them. ...

The 3 million EU citizens are our family, our friends, our neighbours, our carers, yet for three ...

I congratulate the hon. Lady on her own election and join her in insisting on the vital importanc...

I welcome my right hon. Friend to his place as Prime Minister and welcome the optimistic tone tha...

I thank my right hon. Friend very much for what she has done. She has worked tirelessly to promot...

In following the right hon. Member for Staffordshire Moorlands (Karen Bradley), may I also thank ...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman very much for all the co-operation and support that has enabled ...

I congratulate my right hon. Friend on getting off to a terrific start. His words yesterday outsi...

I thank my right hon. Friend. Valiant for truth in these matters, as he has been for so long, he ...

The Prime Minister said in his statement that he had alternative arrangements for the border. I a...

As the right hon. Lady knows very well, it is common ground between the UK and indeed Dublin and ...

It is great to have an optimist as Prime Minister. Once we have left the EU, can we please have m...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on the campaign that he has waged for so long. He and I have discus...

The Prime Minister has set out his new Brexit policy, but did he notice that, yesterday, the

What the right hon. Gentleman has said is redolent of the kind of defeatism and negativity that w...

Leeds Central.

I am sorry. Forgive me. I was thinking of the right hon. Gentleman’s father. His father, of cours...

I very much congratulate my right hon. Friend on assuming his role and on his cracking policies a...

I thank my hon. Friend for his question. The simple and short answer is yes, and my right hon. Fr...

Diolch yn fawr, Lefarydd. Data shows that the Prime Minister faces a binary choice: delivering Br...

Diolch yn fawr, Mr Speaker. My short answer to the right hon. Lady is that, of course, the people...

My right hon. Friend will be aware that he and I do not exactly see eye to eye on the question of...

I thank my right hon. Friend, who has been zealous in his pursuit of arrangements to prevent the ...

If optimism was all it took to get things done, I am sure that thousands of people would be spend...

I thank the hon. Lady very much for her question. I agree very strongly with the thrust of what s...

I thank the Prime Minister for the letter that he sent to the Defence Committee earlier this mont...

I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the campaign he has waged for many years to support our ar...

Do the Government stand by the commitment they made in the joint UK-EU statement of December 2017...

Of course, that is the very trap from which it is now absolutely vital that we escape. As the rig...

I welcome my right hon. Friend to his post; I so welcome his enthusiasm. Would he come down to ou...

I thank my hon. Friend. He is totally right to focus on seaside towns and coastal communities bec...

But, despite all the optimism, if the Prime Minister fails to secure some magical, mythical new d...

This Parliament has already voted several times to honour the mandate of the people to come out o...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that although money for schools is very welcome, further educatio...

I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend for all the work that she has done in her career. She is ab...

The UK’s air pollution is at illegal levels and scientists are clear that we need to do a lot mor...

Of course, the bulldozers are some way off, but I am following the court cases with a lively inte...

Angela Merkel has indicated that there might be some flexibility on the backstop. Does the Prime ...

We should approach these talks in the spirit of maximum optimism, although optimism seems to be a...

This morning’s announcement of 12,500 job losses at Nissan worldwide is really worrying, although...

I will indeed commit to that approach, because I think that is the right way forward. If I may sa...

May I warmly congratulate my right hon. Friend on lifting the mood of the nation? Will he look at...

That is of course what we are doing. That is the nature of the pledge and the undertaking that we...

I want to maximise participation and there is therefore a premium on brevity. I appeal to colleag...

The phrase “workers’ or employment rights” was absent from the Prime Minister’s statement, so wil...

Not only that, but under the freedoms that we will obtain we will be able, where necessary, to en...

Will my right hon. Friend look at helping to make the work of the 20,000 more police officers mor...

Of course it is vital that we look at prevention measures of all kinds. I am familiar with the pr...

The Prime Minister has again given a long list of public spending commitments. I, for one, can se...

Actually, the spending pledges I have made have been modest, so far. As the hon. Lady knows full ...

While waiting to vote a fourth time on a negotiated agreement with the EU27, will my right hon. F...

I am well familiar with the problem that my hon. Friend describes and the injustice that many lea...

The sixth principle of public life reads:

“Honesty

Holders of public office should be...

I think that if the hon. Lady looks at what I have promised the British public and promised the e...

Can I urge my right hon Friend the Prime Minister to continue all the efforts the Government have...

I thank my hon. Friend for his advice. Yes, I am a huge fan of Northern Powerhouse Rail. I went u...

The Prime Minister recently appalled and offended many people when he criticised investigating hi...

This country is proud of its record as a world leader in fighting child sexual abuse, and under t...

I hope the Prime Minister agrees that having a general election might be something that the Leade...

My right hon. Friend and I go back a long way and she and I agree on so many things, but on this ...

Given the welcome change of the Prime Minister’s recognition of the benefits of migration, will h...

My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has made me aware of the issue to which the right hon. Ge...

I welcome the Prime Minister’s commitment to infrastructure. In addition to his support for North...

I have asked Doug Oakervee, the former chairman of Crossrail, to conduct a brief six-week study o...

Following today’s deeply troubling news from Nissan, has the Prime Minister spoken to the company...

The automotive sector globally is suffering a contraction, partly as a result of the diesel crisi...

I congratulate my right hon. Friend, welcome him to his job and wish him the best of luck in achi...

I thank my hon. Friend. I want to pay tribute to the work of Roger Hirst, the police and crime co...

Why does the Prime Minister refuse point blank to answer any questions put to him about his relat...

I struggle to find a point in the hon. Gentleman’s question. If he has an allegation that he wish...

I congratulate the Prime Minister on a brilliant start, and particularly his support of the healt...

I thank my hon. Friend and congratulate him on the heroic campaign he has waged to promote altern...

Does the Prime Minister’s guarantee for EU citizens extend to EU children in the British care sys...

Yes, I believe it does. We will ensure that local authorities are aware of their responsibilities...

I welcome the Prime Minister to his place and thank him for the passionate, optimistic defence of...

I will be only too happy to visit my hon. Friend in Brize Norton; I have a feeling that I may be ...

Does the Prime Minister agree that the UK, Europe and the world face a climate emergency? If he d...

I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman asked that question because, as he knows, it is this part...

I share my right hon. Friend’s optimism for a deal, not least if we are fully prepared for no dea...

My hon. Friend is right. It is vital that we give business in Kent and hauliers of all kinds the ...

It is quite clear that this is now a Vote Leave Government. Contrary to what the Prime Minister s...

Of course, because that is the most sensible way forward. As the House will have heard several ti...

For decades, Members in this House across the political divide have been critical of other countr...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. It is a sad irony that the Labour party, which purports to be...

What did the Prime Minister meet Cambridge Analytica about in December 2016, when he was Foreign ...

I have no idea.

Luton and Dunstable University Hospital has a capital bid approved by the Department of Health an...

Yes.

My constituents are not looking for handouts; they want to be able to stand on their own two feet...

The hon. Gentleman, I am sure, knows that people can get a 100% advance on universal credit on da...

On the hottest day on record and with escalating tensions in Iran, does my right hon. Friend the ...

I thank my hon. Friend, and she is entirely right: it is time for a nuclear renaissance. I believ...

I love our country, but what I love most about our country is the people—all the people. However,...

I am afraid what the hon. Lady says is absolutely diametrically the opposite of the truth, becaus...

Nowhere is enthusiasm and optimism more needed than in the agriculture sector, so may I welcome w...

I thank my hon. Friend very much. He has been a doughty champion of food and farming in this coun...

I warmly welcome the inclusion of social care in the Prime Minister’s list of priorities for his ...

I thank the hon. Lady, and I will of course make sure that I study the suggestions she has made i...

Given the busyness of the last few days, the Prime Minister may have missed the new leader of the...

I thank my hon. Friend, and it smacks of tyranny. It smacks of tyranny. These people pretend to b...

Last September, the Government announced a report on the merits of safe standing at football game...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for raising that very important point with me. I am informed that the ...

May I say thank you to the Prime Minister? On his first day here in the House of Commons, he has ...

Of course. I thank my hon. Friend for what he has done to protect the rights not just, obviously,...

Some unkind fellows have suggested that the new Prime Minister does not do detail, but I just hea...

Of course, the hon. Lady is not quite right, because the figure she refers to is not the amount t...

Order. I would like to accommodate everybody. That may not be possible, but I am going to try. Si...

The Prime Minister visited Aberdeen and saw the successful oil and gas industry, which by deliver...

Yes, and I congratulate my hon. Friend on what he is doing to support our hydrocarbon industry in...

As Prime Minister, the right hon. Gentleman’s trademark bluff and bluster will not wash. He needs...

As the hon. Lady knows full well—not that we will get to that situation, and not that I wish to r...

Order. I do not know what the hon. Member for South Shields (Mrs Lewell-Buck) is looking so dissa...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his commitment on free ports, which is fantastic news for Teessi...

I thank my hon. Friend, and he can take it that this Government are going to leave no stone untur...

In the north-east, children and young people will be off school today, and they may well be watch...

I hope the children in her constituency that the hon. Lady describes will be able to learn from w...

The vast majority of people in my constituency who voted to leave welcome the Prime Minister’s de...

I say to my hon. Friend that he will know them as soon as possible.

The Prime Minister talks passionately about unleashing the productive potential of the whole nort...

I think the people of the north-east should be left to decide what they admire most about that fa...

Order. We must restore some calm. I have been listening with rapt attention to the Prime Minister...

Across the country more young people are carrying knives, and knife crime has gone up. In his pre...

I thank my hon. Friend for his campaign for safer streets in his constituency, and I was proud to...

The Prime Minister has stated his commitment to increasing school funding, but this week we learn...

The position is very clear. We have committed to a £4.6 billion package of extra funding across t...

Despite last night being the hottest night of the year, I slept soundly for the first time in mon...

I hesitate to do anything to disrupt my hon. Friend’s nocturnal arrangements in any way, other th...

Which workers’ rights does the Prime Minister want to enhance that we are currently prohibited fr...

That will be a matter for this House, and the hon. Gentleman should welcome that opportunity. If ...

The model of brevity from Hove must now be matched by that from Cheltenham.

The Prime Minister’s father is a great champion of the environment. Will my right hon. Friend con...

I certainly will, and I congratulate my hon. Friend on everything he does to promote the environm...

Yesterday the Prime Minister started in the job that he always wanted. How will he guarantee that...

The answer is for the House of Commons to do what is sensible and right, deliver on the mandate o...

I welcome the Prime Minister’s statement on increasing funding for education. Will he expand more...

My hon. Friend is entirely right. He may have noticed that we announced policies to allow the est...

The new Prime Minister has outlined a significant spending programme. The new Chief Secretary to ...

The answer is that the spending commitments so far are really rather modest, and they can be ampl...

Will schools get some of that welcome extra cash in this financial year or must they wait until t...

It is my intention for schools to get that extra cash as fast as it can be humanly expedited.

Some 80% of children excluded from mainstream schools have special educational needs and disabili...

The hon. Gentleman is entirely right. All schools need SEND funding, and that is part of the £4.6...

Does the Prime Minister agree that, notwithstanding his commitment to increase capital funding to...

My hon. Friend is entirely right. We should promote mental health in this country by giving busin...

The Prime Minister said that he wants to govern for the whole country, but in a previous role he ...

I ask the hon. Lady to look at my political record and at what we have achieved. Look at what I h...

Does my right hon. Friend welcome the findings of the alternative arrangements commission, led by...

I do. They are, if I may say, a withering retort to the gloomsters on the Opposition Benches who ...

The Conservative party 2017 manifesto says:

“We need to deliver a smooth and orderly depart...

The hon. Gentleman will know, since he is a keen student of the Conservative party manifesto, tha...

I congratulate the Prime Minister and welcome him to his role. Some 19% of my constituents still ...

I thank my hon. Friend. She may have noticed that in the course of the recent election campaign I...

Will the Prime Minister order an inquiry into the £76 million that was wasted paying management c...

I can certainly say that the “Shaping a Healthier Future” programme for north-west London has not...

I welcome the Prime Minister to his role and his commitment to infrastructure in the north of Eng...

I lost count, in the course of the recent campaign, of the number of dualling schemes and bypasse...

The Prime Minister said that some may accuse him of hyperbole. I do not. I accuse him of getting ...

I was relying on the very clear advice of a very distinguished colleague of mine. I will undertak...

My right hon. Friend, I know to my core, is a great one nation Conservative. In that spirit, will...

I absolutely endorse my hon. Friend’s campaign. We should be a meritocracy and people should be a...

The office of Prime Minister is accountable to this House, so detail is needed. Exactly what chan...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady. The answer, I think, was contained in my statement. She will have...

Will my right hon. Friend support the establishment of a stand-alone UK investment and developmen...

Not only will I endorse that suggestion, but I invite my hon. Friend to meet my right hon. Friend...

What does it say to the promises of restoring sovereignty to this House that the Prime Minister m...

The Government are appointing a fantastic team that will take this country forward. It is absolut...

I very much welcome my right hon. Friend’s programme for government. As he employs an additional ...

Not only that, we must do much more to ensure that police in rural areas get out to victims of cr...

If the Prime Minister actually cares about it, why did he devote only one sentence out of 61 sent...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady for parsing and counting the lines in my speech. I can tell her th...

In this new spirit of optimism on the Government Benches, will my right hon. Friend tell one of h...

Mr Speaker, I think I have no alternative but to answer in the affirmative to that question.

The Prime Minister has repeated that this United Kingdom will leave the European Union by 31 Octo...

That is why it is absolutely vital that we prepare for a no deal. After all, the more determined ...

My right hon. Friend’s commitment to 20,000 new police officers is very welcome, as was the now C...

I thank my hon. Friend. The answer is as soon as possible—certainly within the next three years.<...

The Prime Minister surely does not agree with the Home Secretary about the return of the death pe...

I have the fullest admiration for the Home Secretary’s policies on law. I do not support the deat...

I congratulate the Prime Minister on his election. Britain is establishing itself as a world lead...

I thank my hon. Friend for all the good work that he has done to promote investment in such start...

The Prime Minister says that he believes in the London living wage, yet so many cleaners in White...

I thank the hon. Lady for that important point. I have to say that—[Interruption.] The answer is ...

I remind colleagues of the one-sentence imperative.

May I welcome my right hon. Friend to his post? I also welcome the comments that were made earlie...

My hon. Friend is completely right. I congratulate him on the vision that he has for promoting Sc...

Why does the Prime Minister think he is so unpopular in Scotland? Just by him being Prime Ministe...

I think that possibly the reason why I seem to get a good reception in Scotland—which I did—[Inte...

I thank my right hon. Friend for bringing some sunshine into this place. I invite him to come to ...

I thank my hon. Friend for the plea that he has put in. He has added the line to Clacton to the l...

Will the Prime Minister join me in opposing the early release of Vanessa George, the serial paedo...

I understand why the hon. Gentleman was nodding to my answer earlier. It would be wrong of me to ...

I know that my right hon. Friend, from his head to his toes, is a committed and passionate Unioni...

My hon. Friend makes a powerful case. When we come out of the EU as a United Kingdom—whole, entir...

As London Mayor, the Prime Minister courted popularity with pledging an amnesty for illegal immig...

As the hon. Lady will know very well, I have answered the question on Heathrow. I remain deeply c...

Does the Prime Minister share Margaret Thatcher’s belief in home ownership, and will his Governme...

I thank my hon. Friend for everything that he has done to promote home ownership and the stamp du...

In 2012, when the majority of the Members of the Scottish Parliament wanted to hold an independen...

I think that distinguished former Prime Minister’s commitment was—and it was universally agreed—t...

My right hon. Friend will know that under the Conservatives, record numbers of women are in work ...

I thank my right hon. Friend for everything that she has done to promote working women and equali...

Crashing out with no deal would be an unacceptable outcome, damaging to our economy and undermini...

I wonder how many referendums we would have to have before the Liberal Democrats respected the re...

I have been here quite a while now, and the Prime Minister definitely has not reached his quota o...

I thank my hon. Friend for that very cunningly posed question. I think she may be fortunate, beca...

I know that those in government have to make tough investment decisions, so I want to know which ...

It is like asking a tigress to choose between her cubs. I refuse to choose.

Will the Prime Minister commit to fighting on behalf of persecuted Christians worldwide, followin...

I certainly will. I thank my hon. Friend for his question.

The Prime Minister’s carelessness and lack of attention to detail aided and abetted the Iranian r...

Of course, we work very hard to secure the release of Nazanin and all dual nationals who are held...

We in Harlow are optimistic, too—optimistic that the Prime Minister will cut the cost of living f...

I think I had better be careful here. There will be 20 new hospital upgrades, and details of the ...

Having been incarcerated for over 600 days now, and having made accusations of torture against th...

I know that the Foreign Secretary will take up the case of Jagtar Singh Johal assiduously, as all...

I very much welcome the Prime Minister to his place, and welcome his commitment to making religio...

I thank my hon. Friend for the campaign that he managed on Asia Bibi, and indeed others. It is ve...

Further to the Prime Minister’s answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing Central and Acton ...

The Home Office is currently reviewing that matter, and we will make an announcement shortly.

I was delighted that the Prime Minister spoke at the very earliest opportunity about adult care a...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I do not want to prejudge what we will do, but we will put forwa...

Will the Prime Minister look closely at reversing UK Government plans to close East Kilbride’s Ce...

I will make sure that the Chancellor writes to the hon. Lady about that matter at the earliest op...

Single mums often come to my constituency when non-resident parents do not fulfil their duties. W...

We must work with our partners around the world to make sure that non-resident parents fulfil the...

I begin by thanking the new Prime Minister for all the good work he is doing to make the case for...

As far as I can remember, in 2014 the people of Scotland had a referendum, and the hon. Lady’s si...

To inform the debate, could the Prime Minister tell the House what the tariffs are under World Tr...

As the right hon. Gentleman knows full well, our intention is to make sure that there are no tari...

There was no mention of defence in the Prime Minister’s statement, and still less of nuclear dete...

I admire the hon. Gentleman’s commitment to a vital national asset that is, of course, made in hi...

One sentence of fewer than 30 words. I call Jack Dromey.

Yesterday, 50 representatives of 2 million workers in manufacturing came to Parliament to detail ...

I am grateful, and I thank the hon. Gentleman for what he is doing to work with manufacturing ind...

The Prime Minister famously said “F*** business” in the context of Brexit. Does he not accept tha...

People across this country will have heard me mention the JLR investment in Birmingham three time...

Of course, as a result of this Prime Minister’s Brexit obsession, the United Kingdom that the peo...

I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer that I have given several times already today, which is ...

The Prime Minister mentioned aviation. Norway has an aviation emissions plan that includes making...

The hon. Gentleman will have noticed that in my opening statement I mentioned electric planes.