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Conservative MP Jeremy Lefroy says the government has rightly committed money to the NHS and that the NHS long-term plan revealed last week is "encouraging".

He calls for a fairer formula to allocate money for clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to help those which receive the least funding.

Theresa May says the resources allocated to CCG's have been changed for 2019/20 to ensure the funding formula will become fairer.

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The SNP's Ian Blackford says yesterday the Attorney General told MPs that any new deal with the EU would be broadly the same. He asks if Plan B would be a "redressing of Plan A".

Mrs May says that the government wants to "listen to Parliamentarians" and ask what it is that will secure the approval of the House. She adds that the House must deliver on the result of the referendum.

Mr Blackford says that "she has failed", accusing the government of an "omnishambles". "Westminster is in chaos but in Scotland we stand united," he states, asking for an extension to Article 50 and a second referendum.

Mrs May says that the Commons has previously legislated for a people's vote, and that vote said that the UK should leave the EU. She says the government will be looking "for a solution" which can gain wider support.

Mark D'Arcy
Parliamentary Correspondent

Both leaders are in their comfort zone here, exchanging routine charges and counter charges, but the gravitational pull of Brexit draws them inexorably back to the unavoidable issue….

Jeremy Corbyn is effective in accusing the PM of being in denial; the PM ripostes with accusations that he won't say what Labour’s Brexit policy would be if an election was called.

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Jeremy Corbyn says Labour is the party that properly funded and supported the police force, not the Conservatives.

He says the prime minister has made burning injustices worse, despite promises to tackle them.

"This government has failed our country, it cannot govern," he says, adding that they lack the support of people on Brexit.

Every other PM would have resigned after last night's defeat, he says.

Theresa May says Mr Corbyn has been calling for a general election for months, yet he still hasn't laid out whether Labour would take the UK out of the the EU or not: "He has no answers."

She says he has let anti-Semitism run riot in his party, he would "abandon our allies" and weaken our economy, she says.

"We will never let that happen."

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Jeremy Corbyn says the Labour party wants there to be a customs union with the EU.

He adds that there are now 21,000 fewer police officers on the streets and rising crime, and questions whether the former home secretary got it wrong, referring to cuts made to policing budget.

Theresa May says the government "recognise the need to take action" which is why they have introduced the Offensive Weapons Bill and serious violence strategy, and are making £1bn more available to police forces over the next year.

She accuses Jeremy Corbyn of not supporting the police or the UK's security.

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Jeremy Corbyn says that the prime minister is "in denial on a customs union" and "no deal" and the amount of money being spent on no deal planning.

He asks what the prime minister's "greatest failure" is on education funding.

Mrs May says that there are "hundreds of free schools and a reformed curriculum", and she adds that the government is "delivering the education that our children need for the future".

She states that Mr Corbyn has "failed consistently to set out what his Brexit policy is".

Mark D'Arcy
Parliamentary Correspondent

A couple of probing questions about Brexit options, and then Jeremy Corbyn pivots to poverty; should he have kept going on Brexit options?

Or is he pivoting to what he hopes to be the centrepiece of a general election campaign?

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Jeremy Corbyn says the PM hasn't answered on a customs union and hasn't answered on no deal.

MPs have rejected her deal, he says, and "she needs to come up with something different".

He says the government is failing beyond Brexit, with in-work poverty rising faster than the employment rate.

"When will poverty fall?" he asks.

The PM says absolute poverty is at a record low.

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Jeremy Corbyn asks if the prime minister can reassure businesses and the country and confirm that "we cannot have no deal".

Theresa May says: "If you don't want to have no deal you have to ensure that you have a deal."

She adds that there are two ways of avoiding no deal; agreeing a deal or revoking Article 50 "which would mean failing to respect the result of the referendum which is something that this government will not do".

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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says that shortly after the PM spoke after the vote last night, the government has ruled out "any form of customs union". He asks for confirmation that this is the case.

Mrs May says she wants to go through a process of "reaching out" to various Parliamentarians and to see what could get support.

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Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke uses his first question to lead an attack of the Labour party.

Theresa May says Labour would mean more taxes, more spending and few jobs.

Analysis from Mark D'Arcy

Yep – Charlie Elphicke lobs an easy hit to the PM - inviting her to attack Jeremy Corbyn on the economy.

Expect much more of this.

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Theresa May is at the dispatch box, as Prime Minister's Questions begins.

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Theresa May arrives in the Commons ahead of PMQs, which will begin in a few moments time.

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Asked whether he will encourage the prime minister to extend Article 50 following last night's vote result, Scotland Secretary David Mundell says the prime minister has already asserted that "it is not our intention to extend Article 50".

Environment Secretary Michael Gove and Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson will close the no confidence debate this evening.

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PMQs will be starting shortly and Theresa May will face questions from backbench MPs and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn before she faces a vote of no confidence later this evening.

Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke will kick off proceedings asking the first of today's questions to the prime minister.

Among others, Theresa May will also face questions from Labour MPs Peter Kyle, Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods and Yasmin Qureshi and SNP MPs Stewart Malcolm McDonald and Carol Monaghan.

You can view today's order paper for the House of Commons here, external.

David Cameron is questioned by journalists about Brexit as he leaves his house to go for a run on Wednesday.

"I don't regret calling the referendum," the former prime minister says, adding that he will also support Prime Minister Theresa May in the no-confidence vote later.

Mark D'Arcy
Parliamentary Correspondent

It’s the PMQs after the night before….and the PMQs before the No Confidence debate to come…so expect some choreographed shows of fealty to the prime minister from the Conservative benches.

There will probably be a few pre-emptive strikes against Jeremy Corbyn from the Conservative benches, and some Labour MPs may seek to get their retaliation in first.

And there’s the intriguing possibility that the other big PMQs player, Speaker Bercow, could be targetted as well.

Relationships between him and the government are venomous, and open attacks on Mr Bercow are now a regular event.

The second theme to watch out for is any follow-up to Theresa May’s offer of talks with senior Opposition MPs. In her reaction to her cruching Commons defeat, she seemed to be inviting them over to Downing Street, to be persuaded of the rightness of her approach over a cup of Earl Grey and a slice of Battenberg.

There may be questions from some potential guests to explore whether there is more on the table than that.

All the Brexit factions will be seeking to put down markers for their preferred solution to Brexit, but while some of the listed questioners will certainly want to ask about Brexit; for those who want to avoid such dangerous waters there’s always the safe haven of a constituency question.