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Conservative James Cartlidge says if Suffolk can be devolved it will encourage investment, such as that invested in Gainsborough's house.

Theresa May says she knows the importance of the Heritage Lottery fund, adding that devolution brings people together to create trans-formative investment.

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Theresa May says she doesn't want to return to the borders of the past between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

She made the comments following concerns raised by SDLP MP Dr Alasdair McDonnell.

Mrs May says both sides of the border oppose a return to borders of the past. Common travel between the two countries existed well before the UK was a member of the EU, she said.

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Labour's Vernon Coker says French steel is to be used for new replacement Trident submarines and asks: "Is that what you mean by saying you're a party of the workers?"

Mrs May says her government is doing what it can to maintain a steel industry in the UK.

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To questions on the NHS budget, Theresa May says the NHS asked for £8 billion, and "we're giving them £10 billion", adding that funding is at record levels.

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The SNP's Westminster leader Angus Robertson asks the prime minister to stamp out xenophobia, to which Theresa May replies that there is no place for hate crime.

Mr Robertson said when she was home secretary she put out adverts telling foreigners to go home. He adds: "Can I tell you that people are totally disgusted by the xenophobic language of this government?"

He asks if she is still going ahead with the plan to register foreign workers, to which Mrs May says she's already answered this and he should've listened to those answers.

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Jeremy Corbyn says it's time the govenment stopped running away from concerns over Brexit, claiming it was offering no clarity, transparency or scrutiny of the process.

He adds that jobs are at stake, the pound is plummeting, people are worrying and yet Mrs May "won't give answers".

The PM said unlike Mr Corbyn she was optimistic about the prospects of Britain pro-Brexit and how the economy will grow outside the EU.

She accused the shadow foreign secretary of wanting a second vote on Brexit, and joking about Mr Corbyn's re-election, added: "You can ask the same question again, you still get the answer you don't want."

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Continuing on the Brexit theme, Jeremy Corbyn asks the prime minister what reassurances she can give to workers today over their future, their company and their jobs.

Mrs May says the Labour leader doesn't seem to get that the UK will leave the European Union.

Mr Corbyn asked if Mrs May was prepared to risk "a shambolic Tory Brexit to appease the people behind her".

Mrs May says the Tory manifesto pledged a referendum, and following the result they would negotiate the right deal for the UK and its companies.

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Mrs May says people who come to this country to use the NHS should pay for those services if they are supposed to - as she defends the eligibility checks being proposed in hospitals. The checks would not be needed if it's an emergency, she adds.

Turning to Brexit, Mr Corbyn asks if being in the single market is a red line for the government.

Mrs May says he's asked this before, and says the government wants to get the best deal possible with maximum access for British firms to trade with and within the European market, but adds the government believes it should deliver on what the referendum showed the British people wanted - control of the free movement of people.

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Prime Minister Theresa May congratulates Jeremy Corbyn for being re-elected as Labour leader.

Answering his question about foreign workers, Mrs May says there are no plans for companies to publish lists.

Mr Corbyn replied that he was very grateful to the 350,000 people who voted for him to become leader of my party - rather more than those that voted for Mrs May, he adds.

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Prime Minister's Questions has begun and Conservative Michael Fabricant is talking about his general 'well man' check up. He said a blood test suggested he could have a prostate problem - "but hey, I'm now fine".

He said he wanted to thank the whole medical team "but in the next 10 years there will be a shortage of prostate" nurses through retirement. He asks what can be done to alleviate this problem.

Theresa May says she is glad to see Mr Fabricant back to "his normal exuberant self" and says money is being put into training nurses.

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BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says the debate on Brexit today has been sparked by MPs deciding they need to have a role in the negotiations.

"Nobody knows what's going to happen, nobody knows how this process is going to work," she says.

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Tim Martin, chairman of pub chain JD Wetherspoon, who campaigned for Britain to leave the EU, says EU citizens already in the UK should be allowed to stay.

He told BBC2's Daily Politics that EU citizens "work very hard, come here for the best motives and are good citizens, so they should be allowed to stay on that basis".

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MPs must be allowed a vote on the government’s Brexit negotiating strategy before triggering Article 50, Tory MP Stephen Phillips has said.

Mr Phillips – a Leave supporter – said there should be a debate lasting several days on the “broad negotiating position” the government intends to adopt, followed by a vote.