PMQs

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I have been campaigning to improve health facilities in Hinckley since I was elected three years ago. There is significant investment but a day case unit is needed for which the funds exist but are tied up in bureaucracy. Will the Prime Minister look into freeing these funds and would he like to open the unit next year?

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The Labour Party's first female general secretary Margaret McDonagh passed away recently. The Prime Minister's party spent thousands on ads against housing targets despite their minister supporting them. Is he for or against building 300,000 new homes annually?

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Can the PM point to anyone who believes his target will be met?

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If he could identify a supporter, why not name them? The inconsistency in their stance has led to a drop in house building and economic chaos. Will the PM admit they will miss their target?

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Mortgage holders are £2,900 a year poorer due to government's economic mismanagement. Will the PM admit they will not meet their housing target?

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He no longer claims his party supports home ownership. The Prime Minister's softly-softly approach risks leaving a million households without support. How many will lose their homes before he acts?

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It is 'housing crisis, what crisis?,' with this Prime Minister. House building at its lowest rate since the war because he cannot stand up to his party; a Tory mortgage bombshell because they crashed the economy; millions left without support because he will not make lenders put families first. Rather than lecturing the rest of the country on holding their nerve, why does he not try to locate his?

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Labour-run Kirklees Council's local plan is seeing hundreds of homes being built on greenfield sites, but the agreed developer levies, the section 106 agreements, which are supposedly for local infrastructure spending, seem to be disappearing into a black hole. Does the Prime Minister agree that agreed infrastructure levies from developers should not be going into a general slush fund? They should be spent on local roads, local schools and local health services for the communities impacted by those developments.

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I wish to start by paying tribute to SNP legend Winnie Ewing and former manager of Scotland men's national team, Craig Brown. On Sunday, the Prime Minister patronised the public when he told them that in the face of ever-increasing mortgage bills, they simply need to hold their nerve. What a nerve! May I ask him, the near billionaire, when was the last time that he struggled to pay a bill?

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That answer confirms what we already know—this Prime Minister is out of touch and the Tory party is soon to be out of time. What the public really want is change but, in a week when the Conservative party and indeed the Labour party both refused to accept proposals for public sector pay rises, while at the same time accepting the economic damage of Brexit, is it not the case that Westminster offers the people neither real change, nor real hope for the future?

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Local police stations are a key part of communities such as Aldridge in my constituency. I continue to make the case to Labour's police and crime commissioner for saving and strengthening the role of Aldridge police station rather than forcing it to close. Does the Prime Minister agree that any such closure would be reckless, and that police and crime commissioners should be working with local communities and local police teams to provide greater certainty?

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Diolch yn fawr, Lefarydd. The Prime Minister's solution to inflation is to push families into poverty while letting corporate profits pile up. Economic illiteracy? The International Monetary Fund said this week that the way to cut inflation is for companies to cut their profit margins. It is corporate greed that is fuelling inflation, not workers' need for fair play. Can he explain to the one in five people in Wales facing hunger because they cannot afford to buy decent food why they must pay his price for lowering inflation?

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As my right hon. Friend knows, I have been liaising closely with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and with the Treasury regarding Woking Council's recent section 114 notice. Does he agree that, in this scenario, the vulnerable must be protected and local councillors of all parties must work together to try to put the council's finances back on the right track?

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The Prime Minister has had responsibility for the UK economy now for 1,323 days, and he has delivered—the largest national peacetime debt ever, the largest tax burden since the second world war, the highest core inflation since 1991, the fastest interest rate rises since 1989 and the biggest fall in living standards in our history. Will he stop lecturing my constituents about holding their nerve, ditch the lame excuses and admit that he is literally the worst person to be leading this country through a cost of living crisis, because he created it?

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My constituents rely on many nearby hospitals: Milton Keynes, where the Government have committed to a new women and children's hospital; Stoke Mandeville, which has just completed the build of a new children's A&E; but also Wycombe, where infrastructure and maintenance issues in the ageing tower are preventing about 2,000 operations from going ahead every year. My local NHS trust has a plan for a new £200 million clinical centre at Wycombe Hospital. Will my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister work with me and Buckinghamshire colleagues to make that a reality?

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Hundreds of steelworkers are outside Parliament today, and some are in the Gallery, to call on the Prime Minister to act now to back our vital steel industry before it is too late. Will he confirm today that he will match the ambition of the Labour party, and our international competitors, to deliver competitive energy prices, invest in green steel production, use UK steel in our procurement systems, and protect us from dirty steel imports by introducing climate measures? When will he get on with protecting and supporting the industry?

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Sadly, despite five years of lobbying, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association international branch will leave the United Kingdom. As you know, Mr Speaker, that is of great concern to the House and, although it is perhaps a little niche for our constituents, it is important. The CPA needs special status, but the Government have not granted that by way of a short Bill or an amendment to an existing Bill. Could the Prime Minister, at this late stage, this month, do something about that because otherwise the association will be gone, never to come back?

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Mr Speaker, your constituents and mine have been made a promise by the Prime Minister: inflation at or below 5% by the end of this year. So let me ask the Prime Minister what will happen if he fails to meet that promise. Will it be yet more ranting on about the Labour party, or will it be the general election that my constituents crave?

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For over 160 years, Southport pier has been at the centre of our visitor economy. Businesses are concerned about the impact on tourism due to the closure by Sefton Labour-controlled Council. Will the Prime Minister condemn this action and support efforts to reopen the pier?

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Why does it seem acceptable to pump sewage into the River Dee, impacting tourism and local communities? The Prime Minister needs to address this unacceptable situation immediately.

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The Prime Minister should celebrate apprenticeships in the aerospace industry. Will he join me to meet apprentices today?

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The Prime Minister must commit to bringing forward legislation for a national register of children missing from education immediately to combat this crisis.

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The UK's private sector expertise should be leveraged to support Ukraine's economic reconstruction and recovery. Will my right hon. Friend help galvanise this?

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The Government must help students like this one who are struggling with rising mortgage rates, risking debt and depression while falling behind in studies.

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We have had flying pickets, reports of the GMB blocking ambulance workers from getting out of their depot as a result of its picket lines. I ask my right hon. Friend to convene a meeting urgently so that we can resolve this, and perhaps he will join me in telling Labour politicians—one in particular—to grow a spine and put people before their paymasters.

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Despite the catalogue of crimes committed by the Wagner Group across Africa and the middle east and in Ukraine, there is no permanent Cabinet Office official to co-ordinate government efforts against it. Will the Prime Minister appoint one and fund evidence collection for future justice?

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The House passed legislation giving police more powers to tackle illegal encampments. Will the Prime Minister make it clear that he expects the police to use those powers against these encampments which blight public spaces and parks?

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Given that a Lord was appointed contrary to MI5 recommendations, does the Prime Minister agree with MI5 or his predecessor on this peer's appointment?