Increased lethality and availability right across all three services. So its a its a huge vote of confidence in our armed forces. Well, our soldiers have better accommodation to live in because that is something which is frequently become come under the spotlight. The spotlight. I know i know those issues because i deal with them in in aldershot. We are ploughing billions into accommodation. The vast majority, 97 is up to scratch. But of course we get judged quite rightly on that which isnt. So that is a constant effort and we are putting billions of pounds into, into the first class accommodation. And the challenge for you, baroness chapman, is that labour wont match the tory Spending Plans on defence, will they . Well, weve got to get to 2. 5. We agree with that. Were going to have a Strategic DefenceSpending Review and we will make sure that that money is found to get there when we can do it. Unlike the tories, though, were not going to make some sort of pledge without saying where the money is going to come from. We dont do pledges without plans. We want to make sure that this is done for real. Weve all spoken to people in the armed forces who are concerned about their kit, about the equipment that theyve been given, as gloria says, about the accommodation we want to get this right for our armed forces. And Boris Johnson, when he was Prime Minister did announce this. And nothing came on stream, if you like. Well, weve put our money where our mouths are now. This is fully funded and this wasnt in the budget. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Its this is real. Its this is real. Its this is real. I think were seeing a arrive now in house of commons. I think Oliver Dowden is not yet standing at the despatch box. Hell be the last question. I think were listening to Northern Ireland questions. Thats the secretary of state. Oh, and i think the speaker is taking another question in Northern Ireland. Questions now. Northern ireland. Questions now. Okay. Lets get back to what, Jenny Chapman said about your attacks on Angela Rayner. They said they are desperate. And how do you respond to that . I mean, arent there bigger fish to fry . I think there are certainly bigger fish to fry. I think she could put this to bed by just very simply coming clean on her tax advice that she received and whether or not she does it massively. Odoherty because i massively. Odoherty because i think its a matter of integrity. There are clearly questions to be asked. She can answer them and hopefully shell use this opportunity today to do that. But its not her questions, is it . Its you. Its the governments journalists, actually. I mean, its journalists that are understandably asking these questions. Shes engulfed in scandal. Lets hope she clears it up today. And she doesnt. Keir starmer should show a bit of leadership though, isnt he . I mean, it is basically coming clean about all this properly. She said that one she will provide any information thats needed by the police and hmrc. Not to random tory mps or with the best will in the world journalists to and that, if there is any wrongdoing. Found that shell resign. What more can we ask of her . You know she is. Shes doing everything she could be expected to do. Lets go to the chamber now, where Oliver Dowden is answering questions from, well, all of mps, including deputy labour leader Angela Rayner. Leader Angela Rayner. We now come to Prime Ministers questions. Jonathan gillis, number one. Mr speaker , deputy prime mr speaker, deputy Prime Minister, mr speaker , i have minister, mr speaker, i have been asked to reply. I know that members across the house will wish to join me in offering condolences to the family and friends of lord frank field. He was an outstanding parliamentarian who worked tirelessly to make society a better place. My right hon. Friend, the Prime Minister is in berlin. He has announced the biggest strengthening of our defence in a generation. And mr defence in a generation. And mr speaken defence in a generation. And mr speaker, i am sure that members will also want to join me in wishing the Jewish Community a happy passover , a celebration of happy passover, a celebration of freedom. But of course, we remember the empty chairs of those hostages still being held captive in gaza and call for their immediate release. Mr their immediate release. Mr speaken their immediate release. Mr speaker, this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others in addition to my duties in this house. I addition to my duties in this house. I shall have further such meetings later today. Jonathan meetings later today. Jonathan gullis mr speaker, i too would like to pass on my thoughts and prayers to lord fields family, friends and colleagues, and particularly the students and teachers at the Birches Head Academy in stoke on trent, who are part of the Frank Field Education trust. Mr speaker, education trust. Mr speaker, since being elected in 2019, i have helped reopen Tunstall Town hall with a new library and family hub, secured funding for additional cctv vie, a new alley gate and better lighting in tunstall to make sure our streets are safe, breathing new life as well into tonsils, old library and bars. Thanks to this governments levelling up fund of 56 million to stoke on trent. But sadly labour led stoke on Trent City Council seek to undermine this progress by introducing a brand new garden tax on residents to have their garden waste collected, refuse to take planning enforcement against rogue and absentee landlords who plague tunstall high street and are increasing crime and anti social behaviour by dumping undesirable people in the centre of tunstall. This need arms hotel. This need arms hotel. Does the deputy Prime Minister agree with me that stoke on trent. Labour. Stoke on trent. Labour. Audrey, its not mr cullis whose load so please let me hear him double. Please it just goes to show the disdain the labour party have for stoke on trent. So will. Does the deputy Prime Minister agree with me . Its time for stoke on trent labour to axe the garden tax, to take the fight to lousy landlords, and doesnt odd order odd. Order odd. Order. Order order. Order speech. There is a question to be asked and there is a time in which we ask it. I suggest he puts in for an adjournment debate. Im sure youve got the answer. Answer. Well, mr speaker, theres not much i can add to that. He has. Much i can add to that. He has. He has ever proved what an excellent campaigner he is for his constituents. And of course, he highlights the same problems with labour councillors across the country raising taxes and letting councils and letting Services Fall into disrepair. And of course, he is totally right to be holding rogue landlords to account. Right. We now come to the deputy leader of the opposition. The opposition. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, mr speaker. Thank you, mr speaker. And can i first of all share with the deputy Prime Ministers comments regarding our Jewish Community and a happy passover, and also to start by acknowledging the loss of david mark and baroness massey, both of whom played historic , made of whom played historic, made historic contributions in this parliament. Politics and wider life, and also send my condolences following todays news to the family of lord frank field , who family of lord frank field, who was a good friend of mine and a colleague, and who was a tireless campaigner against poverty and a champion for his constituents. Mr speaker, i know the Party Opposite is desperate to talk about my living arrangements, but but the public, the public, the public want to know what this government is going to do about theirs. Yes. Natalie, from brighton , has been served with brighton, has been served with two no fault eviction notices in 18 months. She joined nearly a million families at risk of homelessness due to his partys failure to ban this cruel practice. And now, instead of practice. And now, instead of obsessing over my house, when will he get a grip and show the same obsession with ending no fault evictions . Fault evictions . Well, to begin with, it is a pleasure to have another exchange with the right honourable lady in this house, our fifth in 12 months. Any more of these and shell be claiming it as her principal residence. It as her principal residence. On on the issue. On the issue of no fault evictions. It may have escaped the right hon. Ladys attention, but we will be voting on exactly that matter later today. The conservative government taking action. Mr speaker, he clearly thought he could spend all week obsessing over my living arrangements and didnt even bother to read up on his own governments bill this afternoon. The reality is, he caved in to vested interests on his backbenches and delayed justice for people like natalie. Yes, this week the housing minister said there is no solid date for banning no fault evictions and the housing secretary now says it will not happen before an election. So if he can give us a date, can he name it now . Yeah. Five minutes. I can name the date for the right hon. Lady, today its today that this house will be voting on it, and im confident that in line with our manifesto, we will deliver on that commitment. Deliver on that commitment. And, lorena. And, lorena. Mr speaker, it clearly hasnt been looking up on his own government bills. But let me turn to another tory housing failure. Leaseholds are a rip off and a con, but the governments proposed ban on new leaseholds applies only to houses , as the majority of houses, as the majority of leaseholds are in flats. Whats leaseholds are in flats. Whats the point on a ban on new leaseholds if it wont apply to flats . Yes again, the right hon. Lady is talking about legislation introduced by this government, which the Party Opposite totally failed to introduce in their entire time in office, and its no surprise because its this government which has brought housing, social housing, waiting lists down by nearly half a million and delivered more Affordable Homes in the last year and the last 12 years than labour delivered when they were in office. But of course, all all of this can only be paid for by making sure that we have a Strong Economy. And ill tell Strong Economy. And ill tell you , her, her policy, her policy you, her, her policy, her policy to repeal every single conservative trade union law in the first 100 days would open the first 100 days would open the door to french style wildcat strikes , sweeping away the strikes, sweeping away the reforms that made this country great. And we all know, though , great. And we all know, though, mr speaker, the one reform that the right honourable lady would not abolish from Margaret Thatcher the right to buy your council house, Angela Rayner. Mr speaker, i was expecting a little bit better from him today. He seems to be a bit worn out. Maybe its the 3 am. Calls from the bad men that have been keeping him up at night. But he also, mr speaker, he also talks about strikes and the unions. Weve had more strikes under this Government Watch than any time before. And once again, he hasnt read his own bill. Their ban on leasehold wont apply to the majority of people. Its like banning non dom but exempting tory Prime Ministers and he speaks about Affordable Homes. Families are trapped in homes. Families are trapped in temporary accommodation and stuck on waiting lists. And in the West Midlands , his mayor has the West Midlands, his mayor has used his multi Million Pound housing budget to build just 46 social homes in eight years. Thats almost as many as the chancellors property portfolio. But the british people know that his party wont build the homes that this country needs. So when are they going to get a chance to vote for a government that will pay . Will pay . Well, im surprised the right honourable lady raises the West Midlands when labour controlled birmingham have virtually bankrupted the council. A hiking up council tax by 21, whilst in the meantime and im sure this would please her continuing to hand out 1. 8 million to the trade unions. By hand out 1. 8 million to the trade unions. By contrast, andy trade unions. By contrast, andy street, our brilliant mayor of the wider West Midlands, has levied 6. 1 billion of investment to improve transport so there you have it. The contrast between the conservative party and the labour party, the usual political opportunism from her failing to ask about the issues that really matter. If you want more bins, if you want more bin collections, more potholes filled lower debt and Lower Council tax vote conservative. Because whether its ben houchen in the tees valley or whether its andy street in the West Midlands, its only the conservative mayors who deliver more for less. More for less. Well, mr speaker, thats pretty revealing that he thinks that housing isnt an issue for the british people because i think it really is. And people think it really is. And people in glass houses shouldnt throw the stones because in birmingham and across the whole of this country, councils are facing black holes because of his governments austerity programme. And i would also warn the deputy Prime Minister that Tory Councils have also faced 114 notices and Birmingham Council has had over £1 billion taken from their budget from some of the poorest people. More than 16,000 families face losing their their homes after the partys mini budget. Mr speaker, and mortgage bills continue to soan and mortgage bills continue to soar. Meanwhile all the former Prime Minister parades around the world in a twisted victory lap promoting her new book, saying that the mini budget was her proudest moment. Saying that the mini budget was her proudest moment. So since her proudest moment. So since she wont apologise to those families losing their homes, will he . Will he . Well, what the Prime Minister has done since he has taken office with the chancellor is to restore stability to our economy in inflation halved and more down to 3. And as a result of that, in an increasingly dangerous world, the Prime Minister was able to announce his plan for the biggest strengthening of defence spending in a generation. But it spending in a generation. But it should come as no surprise that the Party Opposite refused to say whether they back it or not, because this comes from the right honourable lady who voted to scrap trident and install in downing street someone who wanted to change the army into a peace corps. There you have it. Mr speaker , fence. We all mr speaker, fence. We all want to see 2. 5. The difference is, is that we havent cut the army to its smallest size since napoleon. And, mr speaker , never napoleon. And, mr speaker, never mind some secretive deep state, state, never mind some secretive deep state. Its the state of the tory party thats the problem. Theyre in a deep state problem. Theyre in a deep state of sewage. After 14 years, they of sewage. After 14 years, they failed renters , they failed failed renters, they failed leaseholders, and they failed mortgage holders. But, mr mortgage holders. But, mr speaken mortgage holders. But, mr speaker, i read with interest that the right honourable gentleman has been urging his neighbour in number 10 to call an election because hes worried they might get wiped out. Has he finally realised that when he stabbed Boris Johnson in the back to get his main into number 10, he was ditching their biggest election winner for a pint size loser. Biggest election winner for a pint size loser. And the prime pint size loser. And the Prime Minister. Minister. Well, i think i think that i think the whole house will have heard, despite all the bluster from the lady opposite, not a single word on whether she would actually back our plans to invest in our armed forces. No plans in a dangerous world. And of course, as ever, the deputy leader is always looking to attack others failures, but never the one to take responsibility for her own. Theres plenty of them , she once theres plenty of them, she once said. You shouldnt be waiting for the police to bang on your doorif for the police to bang on your door if you did it, then you shouldnt be doing your job. The shouldnt be doing yourjob. The right honourable landlady should forget her tax advice and follow her own advice. Are her own advice. Are thank you, mr speaker, and levelling up like my friend , levelling up like my friend, earlier in the Calder Valley is absolutely on fire. 196. 5 million for hospital reconfiguration , 150 million for reconfiguration, 150 million for flood defences. No fewer than 11 schools being remodelled or rebuilt as we speak. And 45 million for three town centre regeneration. And elland is getting a new Railway Station as