Marcus Fish, Tory MP, invited the PM to welcome today's "very good" employment figures. "We've built a strong economy," she says in reply.

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SNP MP Deidre Brock asks the PM a question on the passporting for financial services and whether it will continue once the UK leaves the EU. Theresa May says she stands by her previous answers on this that the government will be working to ensure the right deal for the UK in trade, goods and services.

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Theresa May opens the session by paying tribute to David Cameron, who announced this week he was stepping down as an MP. She describes him as a a "tremendous public servant" - both for his constituency and for the country. And she praises his legacy in economic and wider legacy in government, saying hers will build on that to extend opportunity to all parts of the country.

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Shadow international development secretary Kate Osamor asks for greater detail on today's Guardian article , externalthat says Priti Patel "plans a drastic overhaul of the direction of funding based on core Tory values".

Ms Patel says she will be a "champion of British taxpayers" at the International Development Department.

She plans to promote "economic transparency, jobs and empowerment in many of the poorest areas of the world".

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Former Labour shadow cabinet minister Caroline Flint is supporting Owen Smith to be the party's next leader but she says she disagrees with him on the idea of a second referendum on whether or not to leave the EU.

Her view, she says, is that "we have to deal with what we've got and get the best deal for Britain" which addresses voters' concerns including on jobs, NHS funding and immigration.

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Labour MP Kerry McCarthy says that despite the ongoing ceasefire in Syria "we're hearing the Syrian regime is continuing to restrict aid getting to Aleppo and has dropped two barrels of chlorine gas on civilians".

International Development Secretary Priti Patel says the government is "working with the UN and partners to look at getting much needed aid and supplies into besieged areas that have not seen aid in a considerable time".

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Pressed for details on the government's Brexit strategy and aims, Damian Green says it wouldn't be appropriate for ministers to reveal their negotiating stance.

"We want to have a friendly negotiation so a megaphone diplomacy and a TV diplomacy would not be sensible," he says, adding: "You don't go in to a negotiation saying in public beforehand what the details are."

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Liberal Democrat MP John Pugh starts business in the House of Commons asking about tackling violence against women and girls in developing countries.

According to the UN, external, roughly 35% of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual violence at some point in their lives.

Despite this "only 1% of gender specific funds are spent on women's rights organisations" Mr Pugh says, and calls on the government to "align with Action Aid's Fearless campaign, external".

International Development Secretary Priti Patel says she "believes passionately" in ending the "global scandal" of female violence.

While she praises the Fearless campaign she says the "40 existing mechanisms" channel funding "in the right way for the right objectives". 

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Is the Foreign Affairs Committee's criticism of David Cameron over Libya fair?

Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green says he thinks it's "harsh" and "personalising it on David Cameron is particularly unfair".

"This was an international coalition and morally at the time it felt absolutely the right thing to do to protect those people in Benghazi," the former minister adds.

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Some economic news: the number of people without jobs and looking for work fell by 39,000 to 1.63 million between May and July, according to official figures.

The unemployment rate was 4.9%, down from 5.5% a year earlier but little changed from last month's report, the Office for National Statistics said, external.

Growth in average weekly earnings including bonuses slowed slightly to an increase of 2.3% on last year.

The proportion of people in work hit a record high of 74.5%.

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Meanwhile, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has said the EU needs a military headquarters to work towards a common military force. Making his State of the Union address in the European Parliament, he also warned that the UK could not expect selective "a la carte" access to the internal market without accepting free movement of people.

Outgoing UKIP leader Nigel Farage accused the European Parliament of "a declaration of war" on the UK's Brexit talks after naming Guy Verhofstadt as its chief negotiator. Mr Farage told MEPs the ex-Belgian prime minister was the "high priest" of federalism and should be replaced by someone "who likes the UK".

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MPs on the Foreign Affairs Committee have criticised the intervention by Britain and France that led to the overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, in a report out today.

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The report accuses the then PM David Cameron of lacking a coherent strategy for the air campaign and says the intervention was not "informed by accurate intelligence" and led to the rise of so-called Islamic State in North Africa.

The UK government said it had been an international decision to intervene.

Theresa May squares up for her third bout with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn at noon. We'll be bringing you all the action and reaction to PMQs, so stay tuned.

Meanwhile, the Daily Politics is under way, with former work and pensions secretary Damain Green and ex-Labour minister Caroline Flint the programme's guests of the day.