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Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: International Affairs
Alberto Castrenze Costa (Conservative, Centre-right): May I say thank you to the Prime Minister? On his first day here in the House of Commons, he has given an unequivocal guarantee to EU nationals like my mother and father. That should have been three years ago by the previous Administration. Having met Mr Barnier last Friday, may I ask the Prime Minister, if he wants to take the country out on a no-deal basis, to confirm that he will do everything in his power to protect the 1.3 million British nationals living and working in the EU?
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Energy
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): Yes, and I congratulate my hon. Friend on what he is doing to support our hydrocarbon industry in Aberdeen and thereabouts. Clearly, that industry has a great future, and it can be used additionally to help reduce our carbon footprint as well.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Macroeconomics
Simon Richard Clarke (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank my right hon. Friend for his commitment on free ports, which is fantastic news for Teesside. Can I just push him on one issue regarding our local industrial strategy, which is of course the maintenance of the current Government approach to the sale of British Steel? This is essential for providing investor confidence.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Education
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I hope the children in her constituency that the hon. Lady describes will be able to learn from watching these proceedings that they are going to get more funding for their schools—£4,000 per pupil in primary schools, £5,000 per pupil in secondary schools—and I am sure that would be welcome news to them all.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Law and Crime
Henry Edward Millar Smith (Conservative, Centre-right): The vast majority of people in my constituency who voted to leave welcome the Prime Minister’s determination to deliver Brexit. Beyond that we welcome extra police numbers, because we share a concern about rising crime. When will we know the numbers for the different force areas?
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Law and Crime
Robert John Blackman (Conservative, Centre-right): Across the country more young people are carrying knives, and knife crime has gone up. In his previous role as the excellent Mayor of London, my right hon. Friend solved that issue. What action will he now take to solve it across the country, given that it will take time for the new police officers to arrive?
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Law and Crime
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank my hon. Friend for his campaign for safer streets in his constituency, and I was proud to work with him in London when we reduced serious youth violence by 32%. We reduced the murder rate by 50%—not even the pessimists and doubters on the Opposition Benches could contest that—and we kept that rate at fewer than 100 a year for four or five years running. We reduced knife crime in London with a very active policy of stop and search. I know Labour Members opposed that, but they were wrong, and we took thousands of knives—11,000 knives—off the streets of London. We saved lives across the city, and my hon. Friend can be proud of what he did to help that campaign.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I hesitate to do anything to disrupt my hon. Friend’s nocturnal arrangements in any way, other than to say that I think the whole country can sleep soundly in the knowledge that we will come out of the EU on 31 October. We are going to get it done, deliver on the mandate of the people, and take this country forward in the way that I think it wants.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Labor
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): That will be a matter for this House, and the hon. Gentleman should welcome that opportunity. If he is now saying that he does not wish to do anything to improve the rights of workers in this country, or that the entire corpus of EU law must remain whole, inviolate and untouched, that is why the people of this country are fed up with remaining in the EU—they want legislation for the advantage of the people of this country.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Environment
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I certainly will, and I congratulate my hon. Friend on everything he does to promote the environment. It is amazing that thanks to the work of colleagues on the Government Benches, the environment and green issues are now seen as the agenda that we Conservatives lead on. We will continue with that, and to make improvements to our environment that will be of immense value to the people of this country.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): The answer is for the House of Commons to do what is sensible and right, deliver on the mandate of the people, and get Brexit done by 31 October. That is the right thing to do.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Education
Abimbola Afolami (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome the Prime Minister’s statement on increasing funding for education. Will he expand more on what we might do to help those with special needs, not just in my constituency but across the whole country, who have considerable requirements?
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Education
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is entirely right. He may have noticed that we announced policies to allow the establishment of schools for those with special educational needs, and in areas where local authorities need those SEND schools, we will fund them.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Macroeconomics
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): The answer is that the spending commitments so far are really rather modest, and they can be amply financed by the strength of the UK economy, which the Labour party would jeopardise through its retrograde policies.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Social Welfare
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I ask the hon. Lady to look at my political record and at what we have achieved. Look at what I have done, as a one-nation Conservative, to lift up and help with policies that are uniformly delivering better outcomes for the poorest and neediest in society. That is what I stand for, that is what I believe in, and that is what the whole Government will deliver.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I do. They are, if I may say, a withering retort to the gloomsters on the Opposition Benches who say there is no solution and who begin the prospect of negotiations by saying that defeat is inevitable. That is not true. As my right hon. Friend has identified, the facilitations and the remedies do exist. What it takes now is the political will to get there.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman will know, since he is a keen student of the Conservative party manifesto, that the Government were committed both then and since to preparing for a no-deal outcome. Not that we want that. [Interruption.] I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Boston and Skegness (Matt Warman) who reminds me from a sedentary position that the policy was that no deal was better than a bad deal. We do not want it, but the way to avoid it is to prepare well for it.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Technology
Caroline Elizabeth Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I congratulate the Prime Minister and welcome him to his role. Some 19% of my constituents still do not have access to 10 megabytes of broadband, affecting their business, educational and leisure opportunities. Will my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister commit, as he has done during the campaign, to delivering broadband to every one of my constituents?
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Technology
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank my hon. Friend. She may have noticed that in the course of the recent election campaign I made it absolutely clear that we will accelerate the programme of full fibre broadband by eight years, so that every household in this country gets full fibre broadband within the next five years.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Transportation
Mark Andrew Menzies (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome the Prime Minister to his role and his commitment to infrastructure in the north of England. Will he commit to the Government continuing to invest in small projects across the north of England, such as the M55 Lytham St Annes bypass?
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Transportation
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I lost count, in the course of the recent campaign, of the number of dualling schemes and bypasses that I seemed to commit myself to. I will certainly make sure that we invest massively in road. Although I believe passionately in mass transit, there is no doubt that for many people investment in improving our roads is absolutely essential for economic progress.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): The Government are appointing a fantastic team that will take this country forward. It is absolutely astonishing: the hon. Gentleman talks of the campaign to leave the European Union; Opposition Members voted to trigger article 50. It is an utter disgrace that they are now trying to reverse that result.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Law and Crime
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): Not only that, we must do much more to ensure that police in rural areas get out to victims of crime in a timely and efficient way. I know that my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary will be insisting on that as well.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Environment
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I am grateful to the hon. Lady for parsing and counting the lines in my speech. I can tell her that, by what I have said today the House will know that we place the climate change agenda at the absolute core of what we are doing. By the way, she will also I think acknowledge that it is this party, by committing to net zero by 2050, that is not only leading the country but leading the world. This party believes in the private sector-generated technology which will make that target attainable and deliver hundreds of thousands of jobs. That is the approach we should follow.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): That is why it is absolutely vital that we prepare for a no deal. After all, the more determined and the more capital our preparations, the less likely the risk of any disruptive or disorderly Brexit.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Law and Crime
Thomas Christopher John Pursglove (Conservative, Centre-right): My right hon. Friend’s commitment to 20,000 new police officers is very welcome, as was the now Chancellor’s commitment to a new policing covenant. We have managed to get "Back Boris" over the line; when does he expect to complete the job on "Back bobbies"?
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Law and Crime
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I have the fullest admiration for the Home Secretary’s policies on law. I do not support the death penalty, but what the people of this country want to see is proper sentencing for serious violent and sexual offenders—[Interruption.] I am glad to see some nodding from those on the Labour Benches. There are Members opposite who know where their constituents truly are on some of these issues, and they are right, unlike the current leadership of the Labour party. That is what we will do, but of course, we will also be pursuing all the preventive measures necessary to reduce our prison population and to pursue a humane and liberal approach at the same time.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Labor
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank the hon. Lady for that important point. I have to say that—[Interruption.] The answer is yes. I was very proud when I was running London that we massively expanded the living wage. We made sure that it was paid not just by Greater London Authority bodies but by their contractors as well, and that is what we should be doing.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Agriculture
David James Duguid (Conservative, Centre-right): May I welcome my right hon. Friend to his post? I also welcome the comments that were made earlier about the SNP’s policy on fishing: to take us back into the CFP. Will he also confirm that as we come out of the CFP, we become an independent coastal state, only negotiating on access to our waters on an annual basis?
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Agriculture
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is completely right. I congratulate him on the vision that he has for promoting Scottish fisheries and for using the opportunity of coming out of the EU to build that extraordinary industry. He and I have discussed it and I think that we should be taking forward the plans that he suggests. It is quite dismal to listen to the SNP because, as I say, it would give back to Brussels control over our fishing. What kind of a manifesto is that? I bet the SNP U-turns on that before too long.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Transportation
Giles Francis Watling (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank my right hon. Friend for bringing some sunshine into this place. I invite him to come to the sunshine coast of Clacton, if he can put up with the 1 hour and 40 minute journey that it takes to cross the 69 miles. Will his Government please focus on infrastructure to places such as ours, which are so often overlooked?
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Education
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank my hon. Friend for the plea that he has put in. He has added the line to Clacton to the long list of infrastructure projects that I propose now to expedite. He is quite right, because our programme is to use infrastructure, education and technology to level up across the country, and that is what we are going to do.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Law and Crime
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I understand why the hon. Gentleman was nodding to my answer earlier. It would be wrong of me to intervene in particular cases, but I think that he and I are at one in agreeing that people should serve appropriate sentences for serious crimes.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: International Affairs
Ross Thomson (Conservative, Centre-right): I know that my right hon. Friend, from his head to his toes, is a committed and passionate Unionist. Does he therefore agree that, as we leave the European Union on 31 October as one UK, and as powers come back to this country from Brussels, we can strengthen the bonds of our four nations?
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend makes a powerful case. When we come out of the EU as a United Kingdom—whole, entire and perfect—the SNP will find that its guns are spiked and that the wind has been taken out of its sails, and that its sole manifesto commitment is a bizarre pledge to restore the control of Scotland’s fish to Brussels. That is what it stands for. That is its programme and I am waiting for the U-turn.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): Of course, we work very hard to secure the release of Nazanin and all dual nationals who are held, in my view unfairly and illegally, by the Iranian regime. It is time that an innocent woman was released.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Social Welfare
Andrew Iain Lewer (Conservative, Centre-right): I was delighted that the Prime Minister spoke at the very earliest opportunity about adult care and the changes needed to it. May I commend to him particularly the joint report of the Health and Social Care and Housing, Communities and Local Government Committees, which I took part in, and which talks about insurance-type solutions as well as hypothecated taxes?
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Social Welfare
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I do not want to prejudge what we will do, but we will put forward a detailed plan for how to deal with social care, and I hope it will attract cross-party support.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): As far as I can remember, in 2014 the people of Scotland had a referendum, and the hon. Lady’s side did not prevail; the people of Scotland voted to remain part of the United Kingdom, from which there are many benefits—economic, political and geo-strategic. That is a great future for the people of Scotland, and one that I think will prevail.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Foreign Trade
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): As the right hon. Gentleman knows full well, our intention is to make sure that there are no tariffs imposed, and that we leave with a zero-tariff, zero-quota outcome, which I am sure that he would support.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Macroeconomics
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I am grateful, and I thank the hon. Gentleman for what he is doing to work with manufacturing industry. I give him my absolute assurance that we will do everything we can to protect just-in-time supply chains. As he may know, my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is now in charge of making those preparations. I am sure that he would be only too happy to meet the hon. Gentleman and the representatives that he mentioned.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Macroeconomics
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): People across this country will have heard me mention the JLR investment in Birmingham three times already today. It is a measure of this country’s success that it continues to attract such fantastic investment from JLR, and indeed from other car companies, and that is because we have cut corporation tax, whereas the Labour party would put it up to the highest level in Europe. That is the risk posed to JLR and to many other businesses around the world.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer that I have given several times already today, which is that the people of Scotland had a vote in 2014, and they voted overwhelmingly to remain in the Union. They were absolutely right, and I see no reason to dissent from that view.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Transportation
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): It is a great pity, in my view, that the current Mayor of London—not a patch on the old guy—decided to cancel the contract with Wrightbus of Ballymena, which has been of great value to the people of this country. I give the hon. Gentleman an assurance that we will do everything we can to ensure the future of that great UK company.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Environment
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I will tell the hon. Gentleman one thing that we are doing: we have secured for this country the COP 26. We will be hosting the world climate change conference here in the UK, once again showing the world what UK technology and technological optimism can achieve.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): The House of Commons has voted several times to honour the mandate of the people. It is the law of this country that we leave the European Union on 31 October. That is what democracy requires, and that is what we will do.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Agriculture
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): Had the hon. Gentleman been paying the slightest attention, he would have heard that I have pledged to restore the money to Scottish farming, and it is thanks to the Scottish Conservatives that we have done so.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Macroeconomics
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I think that what the people of this country want to know is what is the Government’s programme for taking this country forward. I think that the contrast is between a Conservative party, which is the party of the people, and which wants to improve healthcare and invest in public services, and the Labour party, which would destroy the UK economy and ruin the livelihoods of everybody.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): Those guarantees, as the hon. Gentleman knows, we are giving unilaterally, in a supererogatory way. Of course, I want to see a symmetrical response from the other side of the channel, but I think that we should be very proud of the steps that we are taking.
Priorities for Government — House of Commons, 2019-07-25
Topic: Agriculture
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): It really is extraordinary that the Scottish nationalist party is returning to the issue of fish. It is now clear that its whole policy is not just to join the euro and submit to the whole panoply of EU regulations, but to hand over control of Scottish fisheries—Arbroath smokies, kippers and all—to the EU. That is its policy, and I would like to see it try to get elected on that.