As it happened: Prime Minister's Questions

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Prime Minister's Questions
Leaders clash over public sector pay
Corbyn says Tories 'floundering'
May says Labour would 'bankrupt UK'

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Jackie Storer and Alex Hunt

More tie news...published at 12:45 British Summer Time 5 July 2017
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Watch: New SNP Westminster leader on ex-SNP leaderpublished at 12:45 British Summer Time 5 July 2017
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PM pressed for harsher sentences for people who hurt animalspublished at 12:45 British Summer Time 5 July 2017
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Conservative Bill Wiggin asked the PM if she would consider extending the sentences for cruelty to animals from "weeks to years".
He said people "deliberately and willfully cruel to animals" should be "punished far more severely".
Theresa May said anyone who is cruel to an animal may be banned from keeping them or sent to prison, although she accepted that sentencing was an issue.
Watch: Therea May loses her voice in Commonspublished at 12:41 British Summer Time 5 July 2017
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SNP presses PM to say if she's looking after the 'just about managing'published at 12:40 British Summer Time 5 July 2017
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SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford asked the prime minister if she believed she was looking out for the "just about managing" by not announcing any measures to address rising inflation and slowing wage growth with workers enduring the worst period of pay for 70 years.
Theresa May says what's important is the economy increases the number of jobs because "the best route out of poverty is creating new jobs".
Watch: May on cost of public spendingpublished at 12:40 British Summer Time 5 July 2017
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Labour 'sees itself as government-in-waiting'published at 12:40 British Summer Time 5 July 2017
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Ex-education secretary raised mental health spendingpublished at 12:36 British Summer Time 5 July 2017
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Former Conservative education secretary Nicky Morgan said £1.4bn was going on mental health services, but asked the PM to ensure that cash was going to frontline services.
Theresa May said one way of ensuring happens was by making sure the money is being spent on mental heath services in schools.
Watch: Bercow tells off 'shrieking' MPspublished at 12:36 British Summer Time 5 July 2017
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May backs chancellor on public sector pay?published at 12:35 British Summer Time 5 July 2017
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Theresa May: Labour's way means everyone pays the price of Labourpublished at 12:34 British Summer Time 5 July 2017
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In the closing stages of their clash, Theresa May said there were 600,000 nurses registered in the UK and half of them worked in the NHS in England, and said there were 13,000 more nurses working in the health service now compared with 2010.
"I understand that it has been hard for people who have been working hard and making sacrifices over the years as we've been dealing with Labour's mismanagement of the economy," she said.
Failure to deal with the deficit in Greece had caused spending on the health service to be cut by 36%.
Mrs May defended her party's "good management of the economy", which she said had resulted in record numbers of people in employment, nearly three million more people in work, the introduction of a national living wage and four million people taken out of paying income tax altogether.
But Mr Corbyn said there was "a low-pay epidemic in this country", to which Mrs May counters that it isn't fair to refuse to take tough decisions and to load more debts on young people and to bankrupt the economy.
"Labour's way means everyone pays the price of Labour," she said.
What caused the political stalemate in Northern Ireland?published at 12:30 British Summer Time 5 July 2017
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Watch: May hits back on public sector paypublished at 12:28 British Summer Time 5 July 2017
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Bercow 'does a Hyacinth Bouquet'published at 12:28 British Summer Time 5 July 2017
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Watch: Corbyn on nurses 'using food banks'published at 12:24 British Summer Time 5 July 2017
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DUP 'bung' damaging Tories?published at 12:24 British Summer Time 5 July 2017
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Corbyn to PM: Why can't you give £1bn to public servants?published at 12:24 British Summer Time 5 July 2017
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Jeremy Corbyn claims there have been seven years of tax cuts for the richest and tax breaks for the biggest corporations, while last year there had been a net loss of 1,700 nurses and midwives to the NHS, and first two months of this year, 3,264 had left the profession altogether.
The Labour leader, referring to the £1bn promised to Northern Ireland following the Conservatives' deal with the DUP to prop up its minority government, said the PM had found £1bn "to keep her own job" and asked why she couldn't do the same for the people that serve us.
Watch: Theresa May says there are more nurses in NHSpublished at 12:22 British Summer Time 5 July 2017
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May: Pay cap was caused by deficit we inheritedpublished at 12:21 British Summer Time 5 July 2017
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Theresa May says there are more nurses and teachers now than in 2010, adding that the public sector pay cap was imposed because her government had inherited a deficit.
She said the government had acted to bring that deficit down and it was now down by three quarters, while the economy has grown and there is record employment.
She said that Labour would harm the economy and "everyone would pay the price of Labour".
Watch: Corbyn reads out letter from teacherpublished at 12:18 British Summer Time 5 July 2017
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