Wish to offer them our very best wishes on this special occasion. Mr. Speaker, this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues in addition to my duties in this house. I will have further such meetings today. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Her predecessors excellent work in making sure this economy grows has been confident in our countrys growth despite the troubles and tribulations that have been set before us. Our debt has now our deficit has now come down and our debts are oversubscribed. Will she take this opportunity to invest in our economy even more than she is already and perhaps even take a chance to build more homes . Friend makes a very important point about investing in infrastructure. He refers to housing particularly. We are doing exactly that. That is why we have seen over a quarter of a trillion pounds in Infrastructure Spending since 2010, by putting in another 22 billion pounds from Central Government for economic infrastructure, we are seeing billions of pounds on rail projects, the biggest roadbuilding program ever for a generation that this country, this government building a country fits for the future. Jeremy corbyn. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I joined the Prime Minister in wishing a happy platinum anniversary. Mr. Speaker, the thoughts of the whole house will be with the victims of the devastating earthquake that hit iran and iraq on monday, leaving hundreds dead and thousands without shelter. I hope the government is offering all necessary emergency help and support that can be used to save lives. I also hope, mr. Speaker, im sure the house will join me in sending our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of the late sergeant, Labor Assembly member in wales who tragically died last week. Mr. Speaker, crime is up, Violent Crime is up, and Police Numbers are down by 20,000 and will the Prime Minister urge her chancellor, who i know this week is sitting absolutely next to her, so it will be easy to make the demand on him, to provide the funding our police need to make communities safe . Prime minister. Say threef all, can i points. On the earthquake that took place in iraq and iran, we are monitoring this closely. It is a devastating earthquake. Our thoughts are with all those affected by it. We are looking at the situation, we stand ready to provide assistance for urgent humanitarian need if requested. The government will do what is necessary. We will stand ready to help people. I also join with him in offering condolences to the family and friends of carl sargent. I am sure that goes to everybody across this whole house. He raised the issue of crime and policing. Crimes initially measured by the independent crime survey are down by over a third since 2010. We have been protecting Police Budgets and we protected police we are putting more money into counterterrorism policing. What matters is what the police do, and how they deliver. As i say, the crime survey shows that crime is down by nearly a third since 2010. Jeremy corbyn. Mr. Speaker, i have been following some of the tweets from her friends along the front bench over there. One of them, and i quote, said, very disappointed and mystified at the closure of the police station. [laughter] chattering] for the want of any doubt, mr. Speaker, that came from the foreign secretary, who is also the hear about the police station. Im pleased that you do, mr. Speaker. The foreign secretary is so excited, he will not even hear the answer. [laughter] the real reason, mr. Speaker, is that it is closing because of a 2. 3 billion pounds cut from Police Budgets in the last parliament, and it gets worse. They are going to be cut by another 700 Million Pounds by 2020. Mr. Speaker, under this government, there are 11,000 fewer firefighters in england since 2010. And last year, deaths in fires increased by 20 . In the wake of the terrible Grenfell Tower fire, the Prime Minister was very clear when she said this could not be allowed to happen again and money would be no object to fire safety. Will she therefore, now back or back her campaign to provide one billion pounds to local councils to retrofit sprinklers in all highrise blocks . Prime minister. All, on the first question the right honorable gentleman raises, he may not have noticed but the police and crime commissioner in london is the mayor. [indiscernible] the last time i looked he was a labour mayor. Although perhaps the leader of the labour party thinks he is not labour enough for him. But lets be very clear. Lets be very clear about funding for the metropolitan police. There is more money and offices for each londoner than anywhere else in the country. Thats the reality of our funding for the metropolitan team. Now, he has asked about the issue of fire. And we absolutely take what happened, the appalling tragedy of what happened at Grenfell Tower seriously and that is why i set up the public inquiry, why my right honorable friend the Community Secretary has set up already work taking place on the fire regulations and the building regulations to ensure that we do have those right. And it is why we continue to support kensington and Chelsea Council in ensuring we deliver for those who have been victims of this awful tragedy. But he asked about sprinklers. Of course, we want to make sure that homes are fit for those who live in them. There is a responsibility on building owners in relation to that. And some owners do retrofit sprinklers but there are other Safety Measures that can take place. But perhaps he ought to look at what Labour Council has said about this. It rejected calls to retrofit sprinklers saying what matters is introducing the right Safety Measures. Another counsel says to weigh up the issue because fitting speakers can involve cutting through compartmentalization, which is another safety measure. Another counsel says there were issues retrofitting sprinklers, questions about how effective they were. And another counsel says they need to look at how effective speakers would be. Jeremy corbyn. Mr. Speaker, the corner the coroner thought that fitting sprinklers would be a right thing to do. The fire officer thinks it is the right thing to do. Those local authorities that have asked Central Government those local authorities that have asked Central Government for support to retrofit sprinklers have all been refused by her government. Surely, we need to think about the safety of the People Living in socially rented highrise blocks. Yesterday, i was passed a letter, mr. Speaker, from a n agency in lincolnshire, where universal credit is about to be rolled out. The agency, and i have the letter here the agency is issuing all of its tenants with a preemptive notice of eviction because universal credit has driven up arrears where it has been rolled out. The letter, and i quote, says, g. A. P. Property cannot sustain arrears at the potential levels universal credit could create. Will the Prime Minister pauls pause universal credit so it can be fixed, or does she think it is right to put thousands of families through christmas in the trauma of knowing they are about to be evicted because they are in rent arrears because of universal credit . Prime minister. Can i say to the right honorable gentleman that there have been concerns raised in this house previously over the issue of people managing their budgets to pay rent. But what we actually see, what we see is that over after four months, the number of people on universal credit in arrears have fallen by a third. It is important that we do look at the issues on this particular case. The right honorable gentlemen might like to send a letter through. I know in an earlier Prime Ministers questions, he raised a specific constituent, case of an individual who had written to him about her experience on universal credit. As far as im aware, he has not sent a letter to me despite me asking. Jeremy corbyn. Mr. Speaker, i am very happy to give the Prime Minister a copy of this letter. I suspect it is not the only leading agency that is sending out that kind of letter. She might be aware that Food Bank Usage has increased by 30 in areas where universal credit has been rolled out. 3 million families are losing an average of 2500 pounds a year through universal credit. The Child Poverty action Group Estimates more than a million will be in poverty due to cuts imposed by universal credit. If those are not reasons enough to pause the rollout, i dont know what there are. Mr. Speaker, last week, last week, the chief executive order. Mr. Morris. Paul yourself. Behave with restraint. You are seated in a prominent addition. Quiet. It will be good for your wellbeing. Jeremy corbyn. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Last week, the chief executive Simon Stevens wrote, the budget for the nhs next year is well short of what is currently needed. Any waiting time target has not been met for two years. The 62 day canceling target has not been met since 2015. Again, can the Prime Minister spend the next week ensuring that the budget does give sufficient funding to our nhs to meet our peoples needs . Prime minister. On the first issue that the right, honorable gentleman raised, can i remind him yet again, universal credit is ensuring that we are seeing more people in work and able to keep what they earn . He talks about what was said about the National Health service. Look at what Simon Stevens said about the National Health service. The quality of nhs care is demonstrably improving. Outcomes of care for most major conditions are dramatically better than three or five or 10 years ago. He said what has been achieved in england over the past three years . More convenient access to primary care services, highest cancer survival rate ever. Big expansion in cancer checkups. Public satisfaction with hospital inpatients at its highest for more than two decades. That is the good news of our National Health service. Jeremy corbyn. It is very strange, mr. Speaker, that the chief executive of nhs providers says when the middle of the longest of the deepest financial squeeze in history, i have a pretty good idea they know what they are talking about. Let me give the Prime Minister another statistic, the number of people waiting more than four hours a day has gone up by more than 557 since 2010. Two weeks ago, mr. Speaker, the opposition to us, the tories, were very noisy, when i mentioned you are the government, we are opposition, you are in opposition to us. It is not complicated. It is not complicated. Two weeks ago, mr. Speaker, i raised the question of cuts in school budget. Teachers and parents telling mps what the reality of it was about. The Prime Minister was in denial. Every tory mp was in denial. This week, 5000 head teachers from 25 counties wrote to the chancellor saying, we are simply asking for the money that is being taken out of the system to be returned. Will the Prime Minister listen to head teachers and give a commitment, so the budget next week will return the money to school budgets, so that our schools are properly funded . Prime minister. Can i say to the right honorable gentleman, actually, i think this is a major moment, you have got something right today. We are the government, and he is the opposition. [cheering] on the nhs, there are 1800 more patients seen within the fourhour ane standard every single day compared to 2010. And he talks about School Funding. We are putting more money into our school budget. We are seeing record levels of funding going into our schools. And this government is the first government in decades that has actually gripped the issue of a fairer national funding. We are putting that into practice. But you can only put record levels of money into your nhs and your schools with a strong economy. And what do we see as being the result of policies that this conservative government has put into place . Income inequality, down under the conservatives, up under labour. Unemployment, down under conservatives, up under labor. Up under labour. Workers households, down under conservatives, up under labour. Deficits, down under conservatives, up under labour. He is signing a run on the pound, we are building a briton a britain fit for the future. Mr. Speaker. I would have thought that 5000 head teachers would have a pretty good idea about the funding problems at their schools, and a pretty good idea of the effects of government cuts on school budgets, on their staff, and on their students. Indeed, the iss says School Funding would have fallen by 5 in real terms by 2019 as a result of government policies. Mr. Speaker, Public Service is in crisis, from police to the fire service. From nhs to childrens schools, while a super rich few dodge their taxes. Ah, yes. The government sits on its hands as billions are lost to vital Public Services. The conservatives cut taxes for the few and Vital Services for the many. It is not just one rule for the super rich. Order. I apologize for interrupting the right honorable gentleman. Both sides of this house will be heard. The idea that when somebody is asking a question there should be a concerted attempt to shout that person down is totally undemocratic and completely on unacceptable from which whatever quarter it comes. I would just ask colleagues to give some thought to how our behavior is regarded by the people who put us here. Jeremy corbyn. Mr. Speaker, quite simply, is not the truth that this is a government that protects the super rich, while the rest of us pick up the bill through cuts, austerity, poverty, homelessness, low wages, and slashing of local services all over the country . That is the reality of a tory government. Prime minister. We have taken 160 billion pounds extra in as a result of the actions we have taken on tax avoidance and evasion. The tax gap is now at its lowest level ever. If the tax gap had stayed at the level it was under the labour party, we would be losing the equivalent of the entire Police Budget for england. We, in the conservatives, are building a britain that is fit for the future. The best brexit deal, more high paid jobs, better schools, the homes our country needs. Labour has backtracked on brexit. They have gone back on their promise on student debt. And they would lose control of public finances. I say to the right honorable gentleman, he may have given momentum to his party but he brings stagnation to the country. [indiscernible] thank you, mr. Speaker. In april 2015, the residence saw their only gp surgery close in an area that once had significant challenges, but thanks to the great work of local counselors has been regenerated. My constituents reluctantly accepted shortterm pay for the longterm gain of a new surgery that would open the following summer. Regrettably, the project still hasnt yet started. So i wonder whether the Prime Minister might meet with me and patient action groups to consider the slippage in this village. My honorable friend is right to raise this important issue for his constituents. Ive been assured in this case that all the local Health Organizations do remain fully committed to this project, confident it will bring benefits to the population in the longterm. What i understand the frustrations the honorable gentleman has. I understand he is going to be meeting representatives of nhs england and Nhs Property Services this month. Those two organizations are in the best position to ensure this will progress as quickly as possible, and i hope there will be positive news coming out of that meeting. As my honorable friend has raised, access to local health services, mr. Speaker i would like to take this opportunity to say as well how important it is this is an important issue for people of this house and outside of this house. Services, i want to make sure that everyone that is entitled to a flu jab this year gets one. I have had one and i hope everyone in this house is encouraging their constituents to get one. Ian blackford. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Queen ofgratulate the the impending platinum and diverse array of their wedding. I am sure the house men would like to welcome the lady to the scottish parliament. We should be incredibly proud of our Emergency Services. They do a heroic job putting themselves in danger to keep us all safe. I joined the right honorable gentleman in welcoming. Previously and this chamber, i am happy to confirm that. Do a great says they job. The pride of britain awards posthumously awarded an award in the name of a man who worked to keep this place safe. Other awards were given to Police Officers for what they do. They run toward danger when most of us would run away from it. Ian blackburn. Scottish fire, and police are the only forces in the United Kingdom to be for providing services of 140 million homes since 2013. Has raised this issue 30 times in this chamber. None of scotlands Emergency Services this has been a longstanding campaign. We will not give up. Prime minister. The chief has made clear that officials will look at this issue and report on it in due course. I am pleased t