Live webchat with David Cameron - this Thursday 19th, 1.45 pm

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Hello all - David Cameron is coming on to Mumsnet to answer your questions this Thursday at 1.45-2.45. Please post advance questions here if you can't make it on Thursday. (And please read our Webchat guidelines above before posting ie only one question each). Many thanks.

come on! justine and rachel, can't you both take dictated answers and he just pace up and down firing them out??? or would that just be too 1970s for words?

Shineoncrazydiamond and others who asked about tax credits

Here?s a straight, non-waffle answer. As a part time worker and a lone parent, you should not lose out. We recognise that tax credits help families, that?s why we introduced the first one way back in the 1990s. We would stop the payment of tested tax credits to families of incomes of more than £50,000. We?ve got a massive debt crisis in this country, and so I think that those payments aren?t really affordable any more. We would also reform the whole administration of tax credits to make the system simpler, fairer, and stop the painful problems we?ve got at the moment where people are getting the wrong payments and then the Government has to claw the money back.

Bring back Alan Johnson I say.

Oh he is from the 'other' party.

Then let's have Boris then. At least he'd be entertaining.

Are we all on the wrong thread? Is he contributing to another thread we've missed?

at are the Tories going to change nappies!

But TDWP, lots of very, very good questions have been posted - and very few answered so far, hence the joshing.

It's why questions about biscuits happen ...!

LOL @ bring in the butler

devil we're only doing it to pass the time between answers!

Why does it take so long to respond? I thought at first it's because it's going through a committee process before it can be posted, but then I realised you're a politician... you don't have to work by committee when you're answering questions in speeches, so surely it should be the same here? Just dictate and don't let people "finesse" your answers.

i had my lunch between those last two questions

I agree DWP. Makes it too easy for 'em to dodge the real questions.

Mr Cameron,

I would like to second Bramblebook's post about the inequality of service provision for children with type 1 diabetes, and would like to know whether we can expect some improvement in the availability of funding for pumps and new technologies for children who will otherwise have their future lives affected to their detriment - simply because the NHS does not appear to be able to take a long term view.

Poor control of childhood diabetes leads to shortening of life expectancy, kidney problems, amputations, blindness.

I also would like to know whether more support will be offered to us as parents by the introduction of a Support In schools act to cover the children who need to take insulin by injection during school time and whose educations are negatively affected by having diabetes.

I am one of many many parents who is unable to work as I am unable to access proper support for my daughter during school hours, when I would much prefer to be out in the workplace again.

Thanks

Teenage pregnancy and apathy plagues our cities, how will your government challenge those trends and pull children out of their inevitable misfortune?

I want to know David's personal opinion on whether abortion should really still be allowed at 24 weeks when babies live at 22 weeks, and whether he would support lowering the limit.

And choices in hospital care only work if you're living in London or somewhere with more than one (badly design PFI constructed) hospital...

david that last answer was very good until the bit about making the whole system fairer, better, shinier and more magical. that was a tiny bit waffley. HOW? and if it's so easy why isn't it already?

No one answers my questions on immigration, not Gordon, nor David

Anyone would think they didn't like immigrants!

Speaking of the debt crisis DC - perhaps the questions about inheritance tax thresholds are relevant - they appear to be going in the wrong direction??

If the Conservatives get into power, will they be this slow at implementing policies?