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It is clear from the tribute that he was a highly talented and professional soldier. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues at this are difficult time. He has made the ultimate sacrifice and we must never forget him. On a happier note im sure the whole house will join me in celebrating the christening of baby Prince George later today. This morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others, and in addition to my duties in this house, i shall have further such meetings later today. Mr. Speaker, go to join my right honorable friend in his tribute to the corporal. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and colleagues. And also in his applaud for the christening of Prince George this morning. Could ask my honorable friend does he think it is a good time for an apology from those regional branches of the priest federation so produce are honorable friend, right honorable friend . And also from the leader of the opposition. Let me start by saying, in part start by saying by whole house everyone in the house that we should put on record what an incredible job the police do on our behalf every day. I see that at very close and. The leader of the opposition and i saw that at the Police Bravery awards last week. As i said last week, the former chief whip give a full explanation of what happened to the police in the meeting said he gave no explanation and so it is now clear reading the report that the police do need to make an apology. As far as the officer is concerned and others are coming to the house of an alto give a full account and a proper apology to the Home Affairs Select committee. It is a take a moment for all of us to consider what we sit at the time and hope the leader of the opposition will do the same thing. Ed miliband. Mr. Speaker, can i join the Prime Minister in paying tribute to Lance Corporal james brian in who died on his second tour of duty in afghanistan. He was a brave, professional soldier and i send our deepest condolences to his family and friends. I also join the Prime Minister in celebrating the christening of Prince George later today and send best wishes to duke and duchess of cambridge. Thank you for Prime Minister said anyone who wanted to intervene directly in Energy Market was libbey and a marxist universe. [laughter] can he tell the house how does he feel now that the red peril has claimed john major . We are intervening [shouting] im not surprised he wants to quote the last conservative Prime Minister and also forget the mess that the people in between made of our country. [shouting] let me be clear. Let me be absolutely clear. I do believe in intervening in the Energy Market. That is why we are legislating, that is why we are legislating to put customers on the lowest tariffs. Now where john major is absolute write is that builds in this country have reached a completely unacceptable level. We need to take action on that. We need to help people to pay their bills and we also need to help to get bills down. This is where we need a very frank conversation about what it is that is putting builds up. Were prepared to have that conversation. He is employed in cynical ploys and gimmicks. Ed miliband. Of course john major was a conservative Prime Minister the one day majority unlike those Prime Minister [shouting] unlike this Prime Minister. [shouting] further, trendy i think the Prime Minister said something rather interesting. He obviously does agree with john major of the energy price increases are unacceptable. If we agree there unacceptable the question is what of it going to get about it. The former Prime Minister says given the scale of the profits we should recruit that money. Thats a quote from him, that he wants to do it through a windfall tax. I say we need a price freeze. What does the Prime Minister want to do to recoup that money for the consumer . We need to roll back some of the green regulations that have pushed up our build. [shouting] yes, yes. We all know who put them in place. We all know the put them in place. [shouting] order. The house is very overexcited. I want to hear the answers. Lets hear the Prime Minister. First of all, he talks about john major winning election and hes right. He beat a week an incredible labour leader. Isnt it rather familiar . John major also said john major also said that hes absolutely right. The first thing he said was that labours policy was unworkable, and hes absolutely right. What we need to do is recognize that there are there are the wholesale prices which are beyond our control. There are the cost of transmission and the grid which are difficult to change. The are the profits of the energy company, and or the green regulations. It is those last two we need to get to grips with. I can tell the house today that we will be having a proper competition test carried out over the next year to get to the bottom of why this market can be more competitive. I want more companies, better regulation, i want better deals for consumers. But yes, we also need to roll back the green charges that he put in place as Energy Secretary. [shouting] ed miliband. Mr. Speaker, he really is changing his policy every day of the week. Its absolutely his Energy Secretary was in his place as theres nothing to do with green taxes. 60 of the green taxes were introduced by him. Whos the and visit vote blue to go green . It was ham. [shouting] and ill tell you what it was him. Its not standing up to the Energy Companies. And thats this Prime Minister all over. He talks about the biggest six Energy Companies. Who created the Big Six Energy companies . When labour came to power there were 17 companies in the market now there are six. But mr. Speaker, i can help members opposite because i have the briefing, the fact bench legs have been given about the own energy policy. And they might want to listen yes. In case they havent read the briefing they might want to hear it. Question seven, what would stop the Energy Companies just increasing their prices beforehand . Absolutely no answer. Question six, question six [shouting] i think no, no. Let me share in the briefing with you. How will you stop question six, how will you stop Companies Just increasing their prices once the freeze ends . Here we have a great labour answer. Here we have a great answer, the public would take a dim view. A dim view. How brave. Lets have question nine. This says it all. Labours briefing, this is what it says, ed miliband was Energy Secretary in the last government. Is indeed to blame for writing bills . And we all know the answer, yes, he is. [shouting] ed miliband. Ill tell him what happened. When i was Energy Secretary, energy bills went down. Since he became Prime Minister they are up by 300 pounds. Now, lets clarify where we are. The Prime Minister said these price rises are unacceptable. He says he wants to act. He is the Prime Minister. Heaven help us but he is the Prime Minister. Suggestion that he should implement labours price freeze. [shouting] theres an Energy Bill Going through the house. We can amend the bill and we can bring in that price freeze right now. Two parties working together. Lets do it. [shouting] mr. Speaker, mr. Speaker, i think he has been following too much of the guys wearing too many woolly jumpers of it. Getting overheated. Lets do it. We can bring in this price freeze right now. [shouting] he knows perfectly well it is not a price freeze. It is a price con. He admitted it was a price con the very next day because he cannot control global gas prices. The truth is prices will go before him. He wouldnt keep his promise and prices would go up afterwards. It is a cynical ploy from the Energy Secretary directed the Energy Market in the first place. [shouting] ed miliband. Mr. Speaker, ill tell them what is a con. Telling people last week that the answer was to switch supplies and that was a broken engine market. What does he take say to someone who took his advice last week to switch from british gas only to discover the end power is raising the price by 10 . You can save up to 250 pounds if you switched. But we want a more competitive Energy Market. He left us a market with just six players. We have already seen seven new Energy Companies come into that market, so we need an annual audit of competition to make this market more competitive. Something he never did when in office. We need to rollback the costs that have been imposed on Peoples Energy bills, part of which he was responsible for. One of the first acts of his government was to take the 179 pounds that is going to put on energy bill because it is renewable heat initiative. He put bills up. Is trying to con the public. We will deliver for hardworking people. Mr. Speaker, john major said what we all know, we have a Prime Minister who stands up for the Energy Companies, not hardworking families. Many people face a choice this winter between heating and eating. These are the ordinary people of this country who is Prime Minister will never meet and whose lives they will never understand. [shouting] the difference is, john major is a good men. The right honorable gentleman is acting like a con man. That is what we are seeing. He is promising something he knows he cant deliver. He knows he cant deliver because he never delivered it when he was in office. [shouting] mr. Andrew stephenson. Tran one. Tran one. In the town where i live on unemployed is down and Small Businesses are flourishing. However, Traffic Congestion is holding back the Economic Growth of the area. Will be Prime Minister join with me in welcoming the start of a sixweek consultation that would address this problem . I very much welcome what my audible princess. Hes right. The need for building bipartisan and roads in a country, thats why were spending 3 billion pounds over this parliament a major upgrade. I welcome the consultation on the cole bypass and it comes as he says at the same time is very good news on unemployment where we have 1 million more people and working and work in our country. Thank you, mr. Speaker. On this day 20 years ago the provision of either a brutally murdered innocent man, woman and children. Will the Prime Minister join with me and my right honorable and audible colleagues, ensuring that no one is in a Civilized Society will ever take innocent victims with guilty murders . I joined the honorable gentleman and commemorating that appalling act that took place that day. We all remember that. What i can say to him is that, of course, no one should ever glorified in anyway terrorism or those who take part in terrorism. But what he knows and what i know is that everyone in Northern Ireland has to try to come together to talk about a shared future and try to leave the past behind. Rural post offices are finally important but they need more government workers to survive. They have to continue to face pensions and benefits. [inaudible] will the Prime Minister encourage all his ministers to give more government work to post office in . We all want to see the post Office Network to survive and in the threat. Unlike the last government is on nearly a third of the row post Office Network close, weve committed that no post office will close in this parliament. So i hear what he says. The current arrangements for collecting pensions and benefits of post offices will remain in place at least until 2015, and the department are discussing the idea of an extension to 20 2017. Mr. Speaker, at 1. 5 Million People in the uk are addicted to barbiturates. I know of one individual who has been on these products for over 45 years, total life ruined. They are not drug and its users. They are victims of the system of restriction. Will the Prime Minister advice the department of health to give some guidance to the Clinical Commission groups to introduce withdrawal programs in line with the advice from the professor of Newcastle University who is the expert in this field to get these people back their lives . First of all, can i pay tribute to the honorable member who i know has campaigned strongly on this issue over many years and i join him in paying tribute to professor professor action. Hes right. People have become hooked on repeat prescriptions of tranquilizers. The minister of Public Health is happy to discuss this issue with him and as he says make sure the relevant guidance can be issued. Thank you, mr. Speaker. [shouting] thank you. I know the trend is very well aware of concerns that many of our people have on Rising Energy prices. Will be there for act to reduce the effect of the unfortunate legacy by cutting the carbon reduction policy along getting the target in relieving the burden on both consumer and business is . Want my honorable friend makes a good point and thats what i say we have to have an honest discussion about this because the fact is on our energy bills its 112 pounds of green taxes and green regulation, and we need to work out what is necessary to encourage renewable energy. What is necessary to go on winning overseas investment in the uk, but how we can bear down on peoples bills. It simply is the policy of the con man to pretend that you can freeze prices, but the proper approach is to look at whats driving up bills and deal with it. Order. Let me just say i let it go the first time. The word con man is frankly on parliamentary. [shouting] and let me order. Order. It is Prime Minister is a man of great versatility and the use of language. It is a bit below the level. We believe that there. Order. No, no. Its a bit below level. Mr. Speaker, mr. Speaker, yesterday the independent state reported the governments failure to close the tax loophole which could be losing the extent of 509 pounds a year. Has the Prime Minister ever been lobbied on this loophole, and will he now pledged to close it immediately . To my memory ive never been lobbied on this particular issue. I look at it this morning. The treasury has listened carefully to the our kids and is made the decisions for the reasons that she knows. Over 300,000 new businesses have been registered in the United Kingdom over the last three years, a record figure. The key priority in supporting these businesses over the difficult years of trading is to make sure that we bear down on regulation. Much has been done to the challenge, what more can the government do to support these risktakers at the fiscal time . Im grateful for the question. The news that today as we now have the largest number of companies in our country that has ever existed. Over the last three years we now see 400,000 to companies become established. What we have to do is help them in every way we can pick i think the most powerful thing were doing is cutting the National Insurance they will have to pay by 2000 pounds starting next year. That will be a real boost for Small Businesses. Bu