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Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth says that anyone who has lost a loved one to cancer "will know of the great pain and anguish from that loss".

He asks for assurances that every case will be looked into sensitively "and in a timely manner".

He welcomes the commitment to contact the 307,000 women who are estimated by the government to still be alive.

He asks if any evaluations of pilots in this programme had been tried before the national roll out took place.

"Eight years is a long time for an error of this magnitude to go undetected," he says.

He asks for other cancer screening programmes to have their systems checked to make sure other cancers do not have similar problems.

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Mr Hunt apologises profusely for the error that has been announced this morning.

He says the review will be chaired by the Chair of the Macmillan Cancer Trust and of the Chair of the Royal Marsden Hospital, and will be expected to report in six months.

The government is going to give everyone the information they need "as quickly as possible" and to be "transparent about what went wrong".

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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says there has been a "serious failure" in the NHS breast screening programme.

He says the programme is one of the most "comprehensive in the world".

Earlier this year analysis of data showed that there was a computer algorithm failure dating back to 2009. As a result of this, 450,000 women were not invited to their final breast screening, he states.

He says it is unclear at this stage if delay in diagnosis would have led to any deaths.

He says that there will be an independent review into the facts, there may be around between 135 and 270 women who may have had their lives shortened as a result of this error.

The issue came to light as an upgrade to data in how women were being contacted by the system once they reached 70, he says.

There were linked causes including an issue into the IT system and how ages are programmed into it, he adds.

The department is stopping the failure from continuing, and is no longer occuring. In all, 309,000 women are estimated to still be alive and will be contacted before the end of May, he states.

The first 65,000 letters will go out this week, he says.

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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is making a statement on breast cancer screening.

About 450,000 women in England missed an invitation for routine breast cancer screening due to NHS errors.

Breast cancer screening in the UK is something offered to all women between the ages of 50 and 70.

Once a woman reaches the age of 70, she can request a breast screening, and they can request screening every three years.

Currently, in some areas, women receive invitations to breast cancer screening from the ages of 47-73. This is part of an ongoing NHS study as to whether or not to offer breast cancer screening to a wider age group.

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Treasury Committee chair Nicky Morgan says recent problems in TSB have led people to miss payments for bills.

She says it is unfair to businesses, consumers and particularly unfair when banks are closing branches.

Mrs May says that a robust reliable banking system underpins our faith in the sector. She says she is sure that the Treasury Committee will be looking into this.

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Labour's Helen Jones says that when one of her constituents waited one hour and 20 minutes for a paramedic when he had a heart attack, and was further delayed when he arrived at hospital as there was a queue to get into A&E.

She asks if the prime minister has "any pang of conscience for the shambles she has created in our NHS?"

Mrs May says she is happy to look into the background of this outcome, she wants to make sure that people can be treated in the NHS when they need it, she says.

The government has been putting extra money into the NHS, she adds.

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Conservative MP Sir Bill Cash says that Oliver Robbins has been invited to appear in front of his European Scrutiny Committee, but that has not happened yet.

Mr Robbins is the prime minister's senior Brexit official.

Sir Bill urges Mrs May to "use her charm" to ensure that will happen.

Theresa May says that requests for civil servants to appear before committees are not automatically accepted, and promises to look into it.

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Labour's Karen Buck says that today ministers "will finally" discuss the two potential customs arrangements for the UK and the EU.

She asks why these are still being discussed now with less than a year to go and when the options are not feasible.

Mrs May says the UK will be leaving the customs union and that there will be no hard border between the UK and Ireland. "There are a number of ways in which that can be delivered," she says.

She says the Labour frontbench has still not decided its position on these matters.

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Labour's Jo Stevens asks whether Theresa May agrees with the new home secretary that the hostile environment term "does not represent the values of our country".

Mrs May says that Sajid Javid said he wouldn't use the phrase, which she points out was previously used by Labour ministers in government.

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Conservative Amber Rudd congratulates Sajid Javid on being promoted to the Home Office.

She says the UK threat level remains at "severe" and there were five terrorist attacks in the UK "which got through".

She shares her admiration of the police and security services in the UK.

Mrs May says she pays tribute to her and the work she did as home secretary. She says she did work on modern slavery, domestic violence and work with internet companies on abuse on the internet.

She commends her for the work she did on terrorist attacks last year, and in making sure that the security services keep the UK safe.

Analysis from BBC parliamentary correspondent Mark D'Arcy:

Amber Rudd is clearly not planning to fade into the background.

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SNP MP Joanna Cherry says the Windrush scandal "is the direct result of the prime minister's policies".

She asks Mrs May to make a public apology for her policies.

Mrs May suggests that she "might have listened" to her previous answers, and had apologied for members of the Windrush generation who have experienced problems.

The Times's sketchwriter tweets:

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Plaid Cymru's Hywel Williams asks what border she would like to see between Dublin and Holyhead.

Mrs May says the government have been clear about the fact they don't want a border between the UK and Ireland, and says she has told the EU that she, and any UK Prime Minister, does not want this.

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The SNP's Martin Docherty-Hughes says that the devastating effects of Universal Credit "are clear for all to see".

He asks if this is a price worth paying.

Mrs May says that the government has been staging a roll-out of Universal Credit, it has also reduced the seven days waiting time, she adds.

The evidence of UC is that it helps people into work, she states.

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