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Jeremy Corbyn asks about cuts to adult social care, saying that local government has seen its budgets cuts and says 400,000 fewer people were getting publicly-funded care, leading to bedblocking in hospitals.

The Labour leader says the total deficit in NHS hospital is £2.45bn but the figure is likely to be higher and suggests it is being "disguised by temporary bailouts". While bailouts are welcome, he asks why the health service is in such a crisis anyway.

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Jeremy Corbyn broadens his line of questioning, saying in six years the NHS has gone from a "surplus to the worst financial crisis in its history". But Mrs May rejects this, saying the government has guaranteed all the money that NHS England requested and that it was the Conservatives, not Labour, who pledged to honour all the NHS's funding needs in the run-up to the last election.

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We are now into the substantive exchanges between the party leaders. Jeremy Corbyn is asking about mental health funding and whether it has "parity of esteem" with physical health in the NHS. He says many areas are seeing their resources being cut.

In reply, Mrs May commends the greater openness about mental health conditions, including by MPs, and says the government has acted to stop those with mental health conditions being detained in police cells. 

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Jeremy Corbyn starts by paying his own tribute to those who died in Aberfan, including more than 100 children, saying the tragedy lives with many of those families affected to this day. 

The PM agrees and criticises the authorities who did not "step up to the plate" in the wake of the 1966 disaster. 

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The first question is from Tory MP Peter Bone, who says it is his birthday and asks whether the PM would be willing to sing happy birthday to him. Theresa May replies by saying that she wishes Mr Bone a happy birthday and hopes the MP's wife - commonly referred to in the Commons as Mrs Bone - "is going to treat the occasion in the appropriate manner".

This leads to a outbreak of unintended jollity on the Commons benches, leading Commons Speaker John Bercow to intervene, saying that he wants to hear more. The PM, turning the table on the normal interventions from John Bercow, suggests the Speaker "calm down". 

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Theresa May is on her feet in the Commons. She starts by paying tribute to all those who died in the Aberfan mining disaster 50 years ago. 

She says it is time to "pause and reflect" on the important anniversary, praising the "solidarity and resilience" of those inhabitants of the Welsh village in overcoming the tragedy. 

Asked what Jeremy Corbyn will raise at PMQs, Laura Kuenssberg says "who knows", adding it is not obvious whether there is a "big hit" issue like Brexit last week.

But she adds that she expects the future of the child abuse inquiry to be raised by backbenchers. 

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Arch-Brexiteer Peter Bone asks the minister to agree that the post-Brexit fall in the value of the pound has meant that holidays in Wales are "15% cheaper for our friends in Europe".

Minister Guto Bebb agrees there's been a "Brexit dividend" for tourism in Wales since the referendum.

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The BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg says the date of a vote on airport capacity has got people "in a tangle". She says there was a "clear expectation" there would be a non-binding Commons vote in the aftermath of next week's decision and that now this won't happen, this has upset some MPs and led to accusations of a "fudge". 

"It just has the air of something shaky about it," she tells Daily Politics. 

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Labour's new shadow Wales secretary Jo Stevens asks about forecasts of increased passenger numbers at Cardiff Central station and asks why nothing is being done to help expand it. 

"Does he want our capital city to have a station fit for purpose or not?" she asks.

Wales Minister Guto Bebb says the question betrays an "old-fashioned attitude that Westminster knows best" and that the government is "waiting for a proposal from South Wales" about the station's expansion.

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Lord Soley presses the panel on the costs of renegotiations, asking if it would be very expensive to "reinvent" existing cooperation agreements that were lost post-Brexit.

Brandon Lewis says there will be no reinvention if the government agrees with the EU to mirror current relations. 

Lord Soley continues, asking how much the government has assessed the cost of working out new security arrangements with the EU.

Brandon Lewis says it depends on what the arrangements are. Mirroring current relations wouldn't necessarily lead to a change in costs.

He says the Home Office is currently working on various different cost options.

David Jones says "clearly there will be costs, but there will also be significant savings from not being a net contributor to the EU."

He adds that the government hasn't yet gone into the "granularity of detail" that Soley is asking for. 

The Commons is filling up ahead of PMQs at noon. At the moment, Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns and his team of ministers are fielding questions from MPs. 

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Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood denies there has been any fresh hold-up to the decision on whether to expand Heathrow or Gatwick amid reports there won't be a binding vote in Parliament on the issue until early 2018. 

He tells the Daily Politics "we have a decision next week" about where a new runway will be built and we are "on the timetable" to complete it by 2030. 

There has to be a year-long legal consultation after the decision is announced, he says, arguing it would be "illegal to send in the bulldozers next week". 

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Lord Condon seeks reassurance that retaining access to EU criminal data will be central to negotiations.

He says the UK is currently looking at a potential situation where access to criminal records could take weeks instead of seconds or hours. 

Lord Condon says that police access to this data was essential to every day operations, and not a "luxurious bolt-on".

Brandon Lewis repeats the assertion that the UK's negotiating position with the EU was unique as it has a successful, pre-existing relationship with EU agencies.

It also "brings a lot to the table" in terms of security partnerships, he adds. 

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Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns starts Wales questions by marking the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, which is on Friday.

A mountain of coal waste collapsed onto the village school, killing 116 children and 28 adults.

He says it was "an event that shocked not just Wales but the rest of the country and the wider world" and pays tribute to the "bravery and strong community ties" that helped the village through the aftermath.

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Committee chair Baroness Prashar asks the panel for their assessment of the "mood music" around negotiations, and whether they believe the EU is likely to cooperate.

David Jones says the initial reaction to Brexit in Europe was initially one of shock and "a certain degree of disgruntlement."

But now he says he sees a "more hard-headed approach developing".

Brandon Lewis says there's a desire among EU states to work with the UK.

He cites the UK's advanced use of biometric data in policing as an example that other countries look up to, saying that the UK is acknowledged to have highly developed security systems.

"We come from the very strong position of being a valued partner and a strong partner that people want to work with," he adds. 

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