PMQs

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I am concerned about how our Employment Rights Bill will deliver improvements for constituents in Southampton Test and put more money in their pockets as part of our plan for change.

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I thank the Prime Minister for his previous answers regarding the need for unity in addressing the Ukrainian conflict. However, there are reports that the United States has instructed Britain to suspend intelligence sharing with Ukraine and concerns about the future of Five Eyes cooperation. Can the Prime Minister update us on steps he is taking to persuade America to provide a security guarantee?

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I am glad that talks on a UK-US trade deal have begun following the Prime Minister's trip to Washington. However, people across our country are worried about national security, military readiness, the possibility of deploying troops in Ukraine, and economic stability. Can the Prime Minister now change course to provide the economic security needed for our national security?

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I commend the Prime Minister for his leadership on national security both at home and abroad. Will he outline how this increased defence spending will boost jobs and growth in places such as Stevenage?

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Given that four British women have accused Andrew Tate of rape and human trafficking, and British police have issued arrest warrants, does the Prime Minister agree that people wanted by British police for such crimes should stand trial in our country? Given his assessment that President Trump is a reliable ally, will his Government request an urgent extradition of the Tate brothers?

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Will the Prime Minister provide an update on Government work that will reform the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) system, to ensure every child in Exeter has the best start in life?

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Will the Prime Minister provide leadership by urgently making a decision to be the first leader to release seized Russian state assets to Ukraine under international law?

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Will the Prime Minister update the House on how Labour's plan for change will ensure every child has a fair start regardless of background?

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On Monday, the Prime Minister talked about creating defence jobs across the country as we rebuild our defence industrial capacity. Will he and the Government bring forward an urgent plan for skills in the defence sector, and does he agree with his Education Secretary that the strategy for defence skills should sit purely under the Department for Education, and not an under-powered Executive agency?

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My lovely grandad John Henry Richardson passed away in 1998 from work-related asbestos exposure. Today, in South Shields, we have one of the highest death rates from this silent killer in the United Kingdom. Will the Prime Minister look at introducing a national digital register so that we know where the asbestos is, and commit to a phased removal of it from public buildings?

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St Hilda’s girls school looks set to join Immanuel Jewish prep as the second school in Bushey alone forced to close because of Labour’s VAT hike. That is a double hit to aspirations—first, to those of the parents, many of whom are not wealthy and who have described the significant sacrifices they have made to send their children to these schools; and secondly, it affects the excellent local state schools, including the one that I attended, which simply do not have the places, meaning that this policy will not even save money. May I therefore urge the Prime Minister, even at this late stage, to look again at the failures of this policy?

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Daniel Coffey from Cullompton lost his life while serving in Iraq. His grandfather said yesterday that Vice-President J.D. Vance“should have a lot more respect for those who lost their lives”in response to Vance’s comment about“some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years”.Will the PM gently remind the US Government that the UK was there for the US following the 9/11 attacks when Lord Robertson invoked article 5, we were there for the US for the intervention in Iraq, and that they might remember our long-standing friendship when we think about security guarantees for Ukraine?

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Four weeks ago, the Northern Ireland coroner accused British soldiers of unlawful killing after they engaged with IRA would-be murderers. After careful reading, as far as I can see, that judgment was based on no evidence whatsoever. More than 100 special forces soldiers have been summoned before those inquiries; not one IRA leader has been summoned in the same way. Soldiers who serve our country with honour, heroism and skill are being punished in their declining years for doing nothing but carrying out their patriotic duty in the face of enormous risks. Given how the Prime Minister opened his comments, with which I associate myself, does he not think that he and his Government have a duty to protect those soldiers from such partisan parodies of justice in their declining years?

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I pay tribute to the Prime Minister for his efforts to bring Europe together to ensure that we work to restore peace in Ukraine. The war in Ukraine has also demonstrated the need for greater food security and stronger supply chains, but if the Government force our farmers to sell their land because of the divisive family farm tax, they will undermine that. Ahead of the spring statement, will he think that policy through again and seek to end it? National security needs food security, farming and farmers.

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For months, my constituents in Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme have been telling me how fed up they are with not being able to get an appointment because of the 8 am scramble. The last thing they need when they are ill is to have to pick up the phone and wait, and fight again to be first. It is great news that the Government’s new GP contract will start to resolve that, but can the Prime Minister reassure my constituents who cannot use technology that they will still be able to book an appointment?

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Under his Labour Government, does the Prime Minister believe that the UK’s estimated 3 million millionaires should contribute more to our vital national security, or is it just the world’s poorest, by no longer benefiting from our international aid programmes, or the shameful almost 6 million children living in poverty in this country who should pay for it? What happened to the wealth tax, Prime Minister?

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Medway Maritime hospital in my constituency of Gillingham and Rainham has today received a concerning Care Quality Commission report, following an inspection of the emergency department in February last year. Testimonies include patients having to wait up to 50 hours to be seen, and others being told to soil themselves because staff were not available to take them to the bathroom. Will the Prime Minister please outline what this Government will do urgently to tackle the crisis in our NHS, after 14 years of Tory mismanagement?