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We've been able to talk to them today and they will be providing key information to us as part of this investigation moving forward At the end the question is did he have a phone with him? | |
| I don't have the specifics on everything that was with him when he was arrested at this time. | ||
| I will say he was armed and that he came when he was taken into custody, but we'll be sifting through all of that information from there. | ||
| What's that? | ||
| I can't on the weapons at this time. | ||
| So, just kind of elaborating on that sort of often question to me, the encounter at Speaker Horton's house with, I believe, the Portland Park police, the gunfire there, the fact that he then had to abandon that vehicle with several weapons, and that's the unsealed criminal complaint. | ||
| How significant was that they ended sort of that and then ending it with him on the ground in the city counter? | ||
| Yeah, the question is again expanding on the Hoffmans and providing addition. | ||
| What I'll tell you, Chief Bruley mentioned this yesterday. | ||
| And his police officers going to check proactively on Speaker Hortman's home at that time. | ||
| If that had not happened, I have every confidence that this would have continued throughout the day. | ||
| By his officers encountering him at that, he was forced to abandon the vehicle that he had at that time and lead to what we got to today. | ||
| So, by that incident occurring and the law enforcement communication that was occurring, it allowed the proactive approach that was able to get to the point where they were able to now eventually take him into custody today. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I just want to clarify: there's a little bit of detail that the Ramsey County Sheriff has provided. | ||
| I just wanted to see if we can nail it down. | ||
| So, the detail that he had provided to the Star Tribune is that for about an hour, Wolterhead tried to evade arrest, and that eight teams crawled in a ditch to try to corral him. | ||
| I don't know if you have that level of detail, but additionally, because they were able to take him into custody without incident, what did your law enforcement officer say to him to go around and have him easily? | ||
| So, the question is about the teams and then what was done to get him into custody. | ||
| So, we don't get into operational details for the safety of our law enforcement going forward in terms of what it is. | ||
| But what I can say is the incredible teamwork that was done and the large number of law enforcement certainly put us in a position where they were able to maneuver into this area to safely put him in a place where, you know, I don't know what was going through his head and I wouldn't speculate, but they have incredibly professional teams that are trained on this and how to take somebody into custody. | ||
| And they provided the commands and he gave up peacefully. | ||
| John, Superintendent Joey Kaplan from WCCO and CBS News. | ||
| First, if you can just speak personally for you and all your colleagues, I imagine this is a relief for a lot of you. | ||
| Can you talk about what it means to you personally to have this done only a few hours ago, but you weren't sure if he was in the state, let alone in the country? | ||
| The question is the relief for all of us. | ||
| I mean, the relief for us in law enforcement is we feel an incredible amount of pressure to bring a person into custody to bring safety to the community. | ||
| These professionals behind me and their teams, this is what they do. | ||
| This is what they get paid to do, and they're honored to do the work on behalf of Minnesotans every single day. | ||
| So the relief is that we can bring that sense of relief to communities across Minnesota, legislators that were on that list, and that's what we want to do. | ||
| Matt's up to call from whom generally that he was in that area in the arena? | ||
| The question was on the call, and when did we get it? | ||
| It was happening over the time. | ||
| I don't have the specific timeline, but we were alerted as soon as there was a spotting of the person in the area for all of the command staff here. | ||
| And as our teams continue to work and as they worked in and honed in. | ||
| Can you speak a little more about the technology that was used? | ||
| You said today earlier that we see about 400 tips. | ||
| We know there was surveillance children that was used for pictures. | ||
| You just mentioned someone talking about the air team. | ||
| Was it a fixed wing? | ||
| Was it a helicopter that was following him? | ||
| What role did the technology play? | ||
| Yeah, the question is, what role? | ||
| And I can't get into all the technology, obviously. | ||
| Just some of it that we do don't share the information to make sure that we protect it so it's utilized going forward. | ||
| However, I will say that both UAVs throughout the day are incredibly important to our teams, unmanned aerial vehicles that we use, that there were numerous ones out there providing that. | ||
| And then our helicopter in this situation provides an incredibly important bird's eye view that also allows us special views to be able to see individuals such as infrared and others that we utilize on a regular basis. | ||
| So technology in cases like this are incredible tools to be able to supplement the great hard work of all the people that were on the ground every day. | ||
| Let's go here first. | ||
| So right now he is being interviewed at a law enforcement facility. | ||
| More information on where he will actually be ultimately will be released at a later time. | ||
| What law enforcement agency at your facility? | ||
| I can't share where he is currently, but that information will be available soon. | ||
| Yes, so this is where was he hiding? | ||
| This is in a rural area. | ||
| These are fields and different wooded settings around, and that's where he was ultimately captured. | ||
| Sibley County is a rural county in the state of Minnesota, and so it's what a lot of that streams, fields, woods, crops, and so where he was ultimately taken into custody was in a field. | ||
| Did the infrared technology help find him, identify him from here? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| The commissioner had mentioned some of that earlier. | ||
| I wonder if that's something that helps. | ||
| Yes, absolutely. | ||
| It assisted previously, and they were out there. | ||
| The helicopter was out there before the sun went down. | ||
| But after that happened, yes, that technology did came into play. | ||
| I'll turn that back over to the superintendent here, too, but I don't think that information is available right now. | ||
| Superintendent. | ||
| Mark Rooley, Police Chief, Brooklyn Park. | ||
| The question is, how long did we know that he was there? | ||
| A vehicle that we believed he was in was spotted many hours before and had been abandoned. | ||
| An alert police officer believed that he may have seen the individual running into the woods, and that started a large-scale perimeter that we set up or down in Sibley County set up. | ||
| And we started to deploy resources, including the Brooklyn Park SWAT team, and along with many other SWAT teams, to contain an extremely large area, knowing that this is a very dangerous individual. | ||
| During that, we got privy to additional information of an individual that was in the woods, and that search went on for many hours until ultimately we were able to locate him in the woods. | ||
| In approximately an hour and a half or so, we're able to close the distance in with the technology and the State Patrol helicopter and where we are able to call him out to us. | ||
| Yeah, it's absolutely way too soon to say that. | ||
| Right now, that's where the investigation we have been just solely focused on the manhunt. | ||
| And the goal was to give some calm to the situation of many individuals that were on the list that were worried about their safety. | ||
| And this is a very dangerous individual for our community. | ||
| And that's why so many resources and such a great collaboration came together to focus on removing him from society so that we can restore some sort of calm and bring some healing to our community and to our state. | ||
| Now begins the hard work of looking at what the motive is, looking at putting this case together. | ||
| And so that's yet to come. | ||
| It was multiple states. | ||
| I don't have the exhaustive list, but it was multiple states that were there. | ||
| Do you have some states that were on the list? | ||
| There's a few. | ||
| I don't want to say it because it won't be exhaustive. | ||
| But, you know, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, some others that were on there, there was a variety in Nebraska, Iowa we've had contact. | ||
| What I will tell you, and I will not get into any more specifics beyond that, we are in coordination with our federal partners and our fusion centers in those states to coordinate with local law enforcement and the FBI in those states and the state fusion centers that are there to be able to provide that information and notify those individuals that they were on that list. | ||
| Are you concerned that there's other people out there that could have been working with him? | ||
| The question is, are we concerned there's other people out there that could be working with him? | ||
| We will fully explore that. | ||
| I've said on this, we are relatively confident, we are confident that the violence that he committed and the murders he committed and the attempted murders, that he conducted that activity alone. | ||
| We will be exploring if there are any broader networks. | ||
| We have not uncovered any of that at this time, but that will be part of our investigation, and we will fully explore that. | ||
| So thank you. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you, everyone. | ||
| You've been watching live coverage. | ||
| We return now to our scheduled program. | ||
| We joined it in progress. | ||
| He is getting worse, and what he does not want to talk about is how he is going to make the economy better. | ||
| That is what the people out there want to hear, and he's got no answers. | ||
| His trade deals have unraveled. | ||
| The Strategic Defense Review, everyone out there is asking where is the money coming from, and the fact is he doesn't know how to balance the books. | ||
| The Chancellor says the winter fuel payment U-turn won't be funded through higher borrowing. | ||
| So will the Prime Minister admit that it will be funded by putting everybody's taxes off? | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I think she let slip on the Mac Ford program the other day that she rehearses her fury for PMQ. | ||
| So a very good rehearsal this morning, I think. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, she asked what we're doing. | ||
| Of the budget, we've put record investment in our NHS and our public service. | ||
| Record investment. | ||
| And she comes every week to carp on about national insurance, but she doesn't stand there with the courage or convictions and say she'll actually reverse it. | ||
| And the reason she won't, because she won't stand up and say she's against the investment in the NHS. | ||
| She won't stand up and say she's against the investment in our public services. | ||
| And we'll all listen very carefully in just 20 minutes when the Chancellor lays out more record investment as to whether they welcome it or whether they say they wouldn't support it. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, every week I come here to tell him the truth. | ||
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The truth. | |
| That the economy is in a spiral because Labour, that's all of them, Labor put up taxes that cut growth. | ||
| And we all heard the Prime Minister, he didn't rule out tax rises, so they are going to have to put up taxes even more. | ||
| This is a spiral. | ||
| And if that wasn't bad enough, Mr. Speaker, if that wasn't bad enough, this morning we heard that because of his terrible Che Goss deal, Mauritius is scrapping income tax. | ||
| Why on earth should the British taxpayer pay £30 billion for tax cuts in Mauritius? | ||
| Mr. Speaker, Diego Garcia is a vital intelligence and strategic capability. | ||
| And it's absolutely clear that legal uncertainty would compromise it in very short order. | ||
| That is why they started the negotiations in relationship. | ||
| And no responsible Prime Minister would let that happen. | ||
| We've secured the base for the long time. | ||
| That has been welcomed by our allies, by the US, by NATO, by Australia, New Zealand, India. | ||
| It's been opposed by adversaries, Russia, China, and Iran. | ||
| And in the second column, we add reform following Putin and the Torres following reform. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister knows this has nothing to do with national security, but he's bad negotiating. | ||
| I've had the security briefings. | ||
| It was a bad deal before and it's still a bad deal. | ||
| And then in half an hour, the Chancellor is going to stand up and tell us that everything is fine. | ||
| But the truth is she has made bad choices. | ||
| Bad choices that mean higher inflation, bad choices that have led to lower growth, bad choices that have meant that jobs have been lost every single month since Labour came into office. | ||
| That's hundreds of thousands of families who've lost their income in Stoke, in Grangemouth, in Luton, those of their constituencies, businesses across the country. | ||
| The Chancellor has lost all her headroom. | ||
| She's fallen out with the cabinet. | ||
| She's making unfunded spending commitments, which she promised not to do. | ||
| Isn't the truth that we've got the wrong Chancellor and the wrong priorities? | ||
| No. | ||
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The wrong choice they made was making our Leader of the Opposition. | |
| Richard Bergen. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and belated birthday greetings to you. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, it's wrong for any Labor government. | ||
| No Labor government should ever try to balance the books on the backs of disabled people. | ||
| Yet in just a few weeks' time, that is what the Prime Minister will ask this House to do. | ||
| Many of us will not be able to go along with that because it will mean that people who need assistance to cut up their food, to wash themselves, to dress themselves and to go to the toilet will lose the pip they currently get. | ||
| That's vital support. | ||
| This week, the Prime Minister changed direction on winter fuel payments. | ||
| Will he do the same in relation to this and now drop these disability benefit cuts? | ||
| Mr. Speaker, it's very important we make the changes to our welfare system. | ||
| It's not working. | ||
| It needs reform. | ||
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I think everybody agrees with that. | |
| It doesn't work for anyone. | ||
| We will do so on a principled basis that those who can work should work. | ||
| Those that want to work should be supported to do so. | ||
| And that we must protect those with the most severe disabilities who will never be able to work. | ||
| And we're doing that by ending reassessments and paying a new premium. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| Can I join others in wishing you belated happy returns for yesterday? | ||
| And can I welcome the government sanctions of ministers in the Netanyahu government, Ben Gavir and Smotridge? | ||
| The violence they've incited, the settler violence they've incited against innocent Palestinians on the West Bank is intolerable and the government will write to act. | ||
| And as it's Carers Week, Mr. Speaker, can I pay tribute to the millions of unpaid family carers across the country and recognise the challenges that they face? | ||
| Mr. Speaker, the last Conservative government left our health service on its knees. | ||
| We've heard reports that the NHS will get extra funding in the spending review. | ||
| If it does, we will support that. | ||
| But does the Prime Minister agree that no amount of money for the NHS will solve its crisis unless we also invest to fix care? | ||
| So without pre-empting the Chancellor's statement, will the Prime Minister reassure me that both social care and family carers will get the priority they deserve in the spending review? | ||
| Can I agree with him that the health crisis created by the previous government cannot be solved? | ||
| They've grown. | ||
| That is exactly how the country feels about the last 14 years and the mess they made of everything. | ||
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Yes, we do need to fix social care alongside the money that we're putting into the NHS. | |
| We're putting record amounts into the NHS. | ||
| That's the right thing to do, and we're seeing the results. | ||
| We've promised 2 million extra appointments in the first year, extra appointments in the first year of the Labour government. | ||
| We've delivered 3 million, so there will be that extra funding. | ||
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I would gently say to him, whilst he welcomes all the extra funding, he can't also at the same time simply say he's against any way of raising the money for the funding. | |
| There's an incompatibility there. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister knows he's got a fairer and better way of funding NHS investment. | |
| And I regret the fact that he didn't answer my question on care. | ||
| But Mr. Speaker, moving on, the Prime Minister is right to increase defence spending. | ||
| Later, we'll hear the difficult choices the Chancellor has had to make, partly to fund that defence expenditure. | ||
| But there are £25 billion of frozen Russian assets in the UK right now. | ||
| Billions that could be used to stop Putin's war machine and to boost Britain's defence industry even faster. | ||
| So at the G7 this weekend, will the Prime Minister try to seek an agreement to seize those frozen Russian state assets and use them to support Ukraine? | ||
| Well, as he knows, that is an issue that's being considered, but it is complicated and there are a lot of countervailing factors that need to be carefully balanced in a decision that can be made. | ||
| We are talking to allies about it, but I don't want to pretend to the House that there's an easy answer on this because there isn't. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| More jobs, cheaper bills. | ||
| That was our promise on net zero. | ||
| If we can't meet those goals, then we must consider our approach. | ||
| In Pembrokeshire, we have a proud industrial history rooted in oil and gas and an incredibly exciting opportunity in floating offshore wind in the Celtic Sea. | ||
| So can the Prime Minister assure me that he is committed to a just transition that protects and creates jobs? | ||
| I thank him for raising this. | ||
| I believe this government must seize the opportunities of net zero for working people, creating good, skilled jobs, taking them off the roller coaster of volatile fossil fuel markets. | ||
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Under past governments, Mr. Speaker, hard-working communities had their pride and their jobs ripped away, and we will never do that in relation to a transition. | |
| We've already seen £40 billion of investment in energy and renewables, and the CBI shows that 38,000 jobs in Wales are linked to clean energy. | ||
| I want to see more of that. | ||
| Both of them are against it. | ||
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Sausia Easworth. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, with your indulgence, I just want to pay tribute to the Police Service of Northern Ireland briefly for tackling public order in Northern Ireland over the last two nights, with over 30 police officers injured. | ||
| I'm sure the whole House would want to join with me in that and also condemning the racist violence. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, whether it's the cardiac scandal at the RVH in Belfast, the cervical smear scandal in the Southern Trust, the COVID-breathed families or the crash of Tanook Zulu Delta 576, all of which has impacted my constituents in Lagan Valley. | ||
| The common thread here is that families simply wanted the truth, but they were let down by institutions at every cut and turn. | ||
| Will this government urgently introduce a duty of candor bill and ensure that it reflects what the Hillsborough Law Now campaigners and families have fought so very hard for? | ||
| Can I start with the important point she makes about Balamina? | ||
| I utterly condemn the violence that we've seen overnight in Balamina and in other parts of Northern Ireland, including against PSNI officers. | ||
| It is absolutely vital that PSNI are given the time they need to investigate the incidents concerned rather than face mindless attacks as they seek to bring peace and order to keep people safe. | ||
| The Northern Ireland Secretary is in touch with the PSNI and the executive and I am being kept updated in relation to that. | ||
| In relation to the tragic cases that she raises, firstly I thank her for raising them and it is important that we have a legal duty of candor. | ||
| We will be introducing that because, as she says, there must be the truth here based on all people being dealt with on the basis of dignity, fairness and accountability. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| In the words of the former Israeli Prime Minister, what we are witnessing in Gaza is indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians. | ||
| More than 50,000 people have been killed. | ||
| Children have been shot while queuing for bread. | ||
| A growing number of genocide scholars, including leading Israeli academics, believe that genocide is taking place. | ||
| Under international law, we have a duty to prevent genocide. | ||
| I served on the UN mission in Kosovo. | ||
| We acted to stop mass killing there. | ||
| What is the difference now? | ||
| Will the Prime Minister please intervene immediately to alleviate human suffering and take steps to recognise the state of Palestine? | ||
| Mr. Speaker, should have seen the statement we made yesterday and the actions that we're taking with allies. | ||
| The humanitarian situation is dreadful and distressing, and scenes that we've witnessed outside aid distribution centres are frankly heartbreaking. | ||
| More aid is needed at volume and speed into Gaza and Israel's plan for aid delivery is inadequate and insufficient. | ||
| What is needed is for the UN and other agencies to deliver that aid according to well-established mechanisms and Israel must allow this. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, we are working with allies to do all that we can to make this happen, as well as to get the hostages out who have been held for a very long time and a desperately needed return to a ceasefire. | ||
| Alex Houston. | ||
| Thank you Mr. Speaker. | ||
| Prime Minister, there are significant concerns regarding the potential job losses at Spirit Aerosystems stemming from the deal with Erebus. | ||
| Would the Prime Minister agree with me and intervene to bring all the main players, including the unions, the Business Secretary and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland around the table to ensure these jobs are protected, especially considering the scale of the issues akin to the challenges faced by British Steel? | ||
| And also there is an issue for Northern Ireland businesses with the outworkings of the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Winter Framework. | ||
| Can the Prime Minister give me reassurances that he's working to resolve all those issues? | ||
| I'm grateful to him for raising this important case of spirit error systems in Northern Ireland. | ||
| I know how important it is for the workforce. | ||
| I've visited them myself on more than one occasion. | ||
| Airbus's decision to expand UK operations is good news for the sector and testament to world-class manufacturing expertise. | ||
| I want to see those high-skilled jobs protected. | ||
| The Northern Ireland Secretary has met Airbus, the trade unions and assembly representatives, to discuss the best outcome. | ||
| The Minister of Industry is continuing engagement with stakeholders, and we will do everything we can in relation to this situation. | ||
| I'm grateful to him for raising it. | ||
| Will the Prime Minister join me in condemning decisions taken by the Transport Minister of the previous government who turned their back on promises to deliver a new train station at Bean Park which derailed growth in my constituency of Dagenham and Raynham? | ||
| And will he also agree that the Granthian condition on the Bean Park development must be honoured and that infrastructure must accompany all developments of scale as we get on with the job of delivering millions of new homes? | ||
| Well I know she's been fighting hard for this project for years and she's right the previous government failed to deliver. | ||
| You could say that about anything they touch Mr. Speaker. | ||
| But the Rail Minister is working with the Mayor and Housing Minister to get an appropriate solution to unlock housing in the area. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, we'll also bring C2C back into public ownership, improving reliability and performance and ensuring every penny is focused on better service. | ||
| I imagine I said disaster is referring to the last government. | ||
| Thank you Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I've spoken to parents for children with special education needs and disabilities but aren't getting the support they need in school. | ||
| However, if as a result their child is out of school, they're left facing prosecution, fines or even prison time. | ||
| Punishing parents for the failings of a broken system is outrageous. | ||
| So will the Prime Minister end this by backing Lord's Amendment 349A to the Children's Wellbeing School Bill and will he meet with me to discuss this further? | ||
| Can I thank her for raising this? | ||
| The epidemic of absence in our schools is something that really does worry me and concern me. | ||
| Thanks to the efforts of schools and parents across the country, we've seen over 3 million more days in school this year compared to last, which is really important. | ||
| But we do know that pupils with special educational needs face more complex barriers in relation to school attendance. | ||
| Look, we will, of course, look at all amendments in the usual way, but in this instance, I do think we've struck the right balance. | ||
| Chris Webb. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| May I start by congratulating Sir Billy Boston? | ||
| Billy ended his career playing at Blackpool and I know this has been a long campaign by the Country Secretary, the Speaker, the Honourable Member for Makerfield, and many in this House. | ||
| So congratulations to Sir Billy. | ||
| 12,000 people, it's been exposed by shelter, are waiting for council housing in Blackpool. | ||
| This is a damning indictment and the legacy of previous 14 years of the government. | ||
| Hundreds of families in my constituency are waiting for housing, stuck in bed and breakfast, or like my constituent, Casey, who's sophistor surfing with her two children in toll. | ||
| So will the Prime Minister, alongside the Deputy Prime Minister, commit to a new generation of social housing and council of housing in my constituency and help me build a better Blackpool? | ||
| Well can I join him on his comments about Billy Boston? | ||
| I think the whole House will, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| We are turning the tide on the housing crisis with the biggest investment in social affordable housing in a generation, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| The chance of investing £39 billion over the next 10 years, almost double what we saw under the last government. | ||
| And no wonder the National Housing Federation welcomed this as transformative, saying it offers real hope to thousands who need safe, secure, and affordable homes. | ||
| It is National Diabetes Week, and as someone living with type 1, as we both are, Mr. Speaker, we are more than aware of the serious complications of diabetic ketoacidosis, KDA, which, if not caught early enough, could prove fatal. | ||
| Now, a quarter of children are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when in KDA, and that could be avoided with early diagnosis. | ||
| So, will the Prime Minister commit to rolling out a national, universal screening programme, as seen in Italy, for type 1? | ||
| Can I thank her for championing this really important issue? | ||
| My late mother had diabetes, and so I know firsthand just what a struggle it can be and how important it is. | ||
| Type 1 diabetes is not preventable, as she knows, but the sooner we can reach people, the sooner we can care for them. | ||
| We have a screening programme in the UK available to families across the country, and over 20,000 children have already taken part. | ||
| It is really important that we continue to deliver that. | ||
| But can I thank her for continuing to champion this and to raise her voice on this very important issue? | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| It is crystal clear how social media and smartphones are harming our young people, with cyberbullying, addiction, and exploitation absolutely right. | ||
| Governments elsewhere are taking bold action. | ||
| I understand ministers are considering a two-hour limit, but that's per app rather than per day. | ||
| I know the Prime Minister takes this seriously, so can he update the House on what he wants to see happen and what action this government will take to protect our children? | ||
| It is important that we take action to protect our children. | ||
| From July, Mr. Speaker, tough new rules will mean platforms must protect children in the UK from seeing harmful and violent content. | ||
| We do need to look at other measures needed to create safer online experiences for young people, and we won't hesitate to take further steps. | ||
| Concerning you, statistics showed that delays for cancer treatment in North Norfolk are greater than the national average. | ||
| Much of this relates to the struggles that we face specifically as an older rural constituency. | ||
| I was elected on a promise to get our NHS back and fighting fit after the criminal damage inflicted on it by the Conservatives. | ||
| Would the Prime Minister recognise that rural health services face acute and specific challenges? | ||
| Can he give his word to the people of North Norfolk that the reforms and spending we need will come forward to address this? | ||
| Can I thank him for raising this really important issue for his constituents? | ||
| I think it does impact rural areas in particular. | ||
| We've set out record funding for the NHS. | ||
| We have our cancer plan, and I can give him that reassurance. | ||
| This is the final question, John Ewing. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| The Prime Minister and members across this House would have witnessed this spectacular victory for Davy Russell and Scotland. | ||
| Hamilton, Markhall, and Stonehouse by-election. | ||
| My constituents are sick of SNP failure, and they voted for change for their NHS, their schools, and for Scotland. | ||
| So, can I ask the Prime Minister, has he seen the calls from within the SNP for John Swenney to resign? | ||
| And does he agree with me that a leader who has only ever lost elections to the Labour Party should stay put to her for the role that she and others played in seeing Davy Russell elected? | ||
| He will be a dedicated champion for her and her constituents. | ||
| And after nearly two decades in power, the SNP got their verdict last Thursday. | ||
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Scotland wants change and they know the SNP are completely out of ideas. | |
| That's why they want a Labor government to deliver real change. | ||
| Right, that completes Prime Minister's questions. | ||
| The U.S. Senate returns Monday at 4 p.m. Eastern. | ||
| Senators are expected to consider more of President Trump's nominations throughout the week, including Assistant HHS Secretary and FCC Commissioner. | ||
| The Senate will vote Tuesday on final passage of legislation aimed at creating a federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins in the crypto market. | ||
| The U.S. House continues its recess over the Juneteenth holiday. | ||
| Members will return for votes on Monday, June 23rd. |