Prime Minister's Questions: 16 November 2016
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🗓️ 16 November 2016
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| 0:00.0 | Order. Questions to the Prime Minister? Wendy Morton. |
| 0:05.0 | Number one, please. |
| 0:07.0 | Thank you, Mr. Speaker. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm sure that the whole House will join me in expressing our condolences to the families and friends of the seven people who lost their lives |
| 0:20.0 | and those who were injured in the tragic tram incident in Croydon last Wednesday. |
| 0:24.5 | And we will all want to thank those involved in the rescue operation. |
| 0:28.7 | Mr Speaker, this morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. |
| 0:32.2 | In addition to my duties in this House, I shall have further such meetings later today. |
| 0:36.3 | Wendy Morton. |
| 0:39.3 | Thank you, Mr Speaker. Would the Prime Minister join me in welcoming today's news that the unemployment rate has |
| 0:44.3 | fallen to 11 million and would she join me in thanking all those businesses who create jobs, |
| 0:52.3 | businesses such as Jennifer Ashen's, whose funeral |
| 0:55.8 | home I was kindly asked to open in my constituency on the Brown Hills High Street last weekend. |
| 1:01.4 | Well, I absolutely agree with my honourable friend and I'm pleased to say that in the last |
| 1:06.7 | year employment in her constituency of Aldridge Brownhills has gone up by 88,000. And it's good |
| 1:12.5 | to hear of companies that are all opening new jobs, as she's indicated. The employment figures |
| 1:19.3 | show the strength of the fundamentals of our economy, with employment rate never been higher, |
| 1:25.9 | the unemployment rate the lowest than it has been in more than a decade. |
| 1:30.3 | And I'm sure that members on all sides of this House will also want to welcome yesterday's |
| 1:36.4 | news from Google that they will be creating another 3,000 jobs. |
| 1:41.5 | Jeremy Corbyn. |
| 1:49.0 | Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Could I concur with the remarks the Prime Minister just made about the disaster in Croydon |
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