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The BBC's political editor Nick Robinson says major changes during the last Parliament which raised huge sums of money, such as raising the retirement age and pegging benefit rises to a different measure of inflation, caused "very little political fuss" while the single most controversial change, the introduction of the so-called "bedroom tax", generated very little money indeed.  

Emily Craig
Political analyst

In PMQs, David Cameron said 650,000 more people were being investigated for cancer. A GP makes an urgent two week referral if they suspect a patient might have cancer. Data from NHS England, external shows that in 2009/10 just over 900,000 people had an urgent consultant appointment after being referred by their GP. By 2014-15, this number had risen to 1.55 million (which, as the PM said, is an increase of 650,000).

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Home Secretary Theresa May tells the Commons that EU Member states need to cooperate closely to deal with the problem of illegal immigration.

She tells MPs the most important step towards dealing with the situation was "breaking the link between migrants making this dangerous journey and achieving settlement in Europe."

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Labour's Caroline Flint tells Daily Politics it is fair to have a discussion about whether in-work benefits, including tax credits, were "doing the job we want them to do" and whether, instead, employers need to be incentivised to provide a living wage to their staff. 

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Reflecting on Daily Politics on PMQs, the BBC's Nick Robinson says the session highlighted pre-Budget arguments about cuts to tax credits. He says the PM has "not denied he is going to do it" and the move will be "controversial" because many of those who receive tax credits are in work and the changes could leave them worse off. 

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Shadow immigration minister David Hanson has tabled an Urgent Question on border management in Calais.

Home Secretary Theresa May is telling the House the French and UK government were well prepared for the extra pressure caused by the strike at Calais. 

She says all vehicles are being searched and UK Border Force have identified a "significant number of would-be migrants".

UKIP leader Nigel Farage said:

Tory MP Antoinette Sandbach asked about the incidences of stillbirths. The PM says the government has taken some steps forward but more needs to be done. A Labour MP then suggests the government has a "double standard" in its attitude to wind farms and fracking. The PM rejects this, saying wind farms are a mature technology and it was right to end the subsidies early With that, the session come to an end. 

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In response to a question from Tory MP Sarah Churchill, the PM said he had asked education secretary Nicky Morgan to chair a taskforce to reduce the risk of child sexual exploitation in care, saying that he is "not satisfied" that everything possible is being done.  

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While the protest continued, PMQs went on as usual. A string of Tory MPs raised the issue of faster broadband and mobile phone "notspots" in rural areas. Among Labour questions was one from Jack Dromey raising poor cancer diagnoses. In response to another question, the PM also pledges to publish data about the deaths of disability claimants and those who have undergone fitness-to-work tests. 

Paula Peters from a group, Disabled People Against cuts, tells the BBC about 30 protesters are occupying the central lobby of parliament and refusing to move. She says it's a protest against the end of the Independent Living Fund. The group went in to lobby their MPs about the ILF.

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One protester tells Norman Smith, pictured above, that the Independent Living Fund is "vital for the lives of disabled people". The government announced in June that the fund will be closed.

Tory MP Crispin Blunt, the chair of the foreign affairs committee, raises funding for foreign policy and accuses the last government of a "clever wheeze" of transferring funding for the BBC's World Service from the Foreign Office to the broadcaster. Mr Cameron disagrees with the MP on that point but says that it is vital that the UK continue to support its foreign policy aims for moral reasons but also to project its interests. He adds that the MP will continue to speak out "without fear or favour".

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Norman Smith says it was a "spontaneous protest" as members of different disability rights groups protesting at changes to the Independent Living Fund - tried to get into the chamber, "before doormen managed to close the huge doors".

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The BBC's Norman Smith is in central lobby, just outside the entrance to the Commons chamber, amid extraordinary scenes. 

He says the police were "caught completely by surprise" as protesters in wheelchairs tried to storm Prime Minister's Questions. There is chanting go on in the lobby just yards from where PMQs continues undisturbed.

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