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Conservative backbencher Justine Greening asks if the PM is aware that a number of airports across the country will have fewer international flights by 2030 as a result of Heathrow expansion, and asks how this helps regional development by "suffocating regional airport growth".

The prime minister says when she visited Newquay following first Heathrow announcement, they were very pleased because of the ability it gave them to improve their local economy and expand their tourist industry.

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A long but effective question from Lisa Nandy based on leaked emails warning of the rail chaos which followed the introduction of the new timetable.

The PM is caught unawares – but we will surely hear more of this.

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Labour MP Lisa Nandy says she has seen emails that show ministers were warned about coming chaos on northern rail routes two year ago.

She outlines the contents of the email, claiming they show a disregard for Northern routes and the way bosses can manage the fall out.

She asks if the prime minister is "so incompetent" she did not know about the emails, or if she deliberately concealed the advice.

Mrs May says she will not respond to leaked emails. She says the timetable changes on Northern and Govia lines were consulted on with an expert panel.

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Labour's Tanmanjeet Singh Desi says there is no greater tragedy than a child being lost to parents through avoidable accidents. He says a constituent of his drowned in the Jubilee river, and he says that schools are not adequately teaching water safety.

Mrs May says sympathies are with his constituent's family, adding that the government is supporting the National Drowning Prevention Strategy.

She says that the government makes it compulsory to teach drowning prevention at primary school and is working to improve swimming education.

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Labour MP Gareth Thomas says Thames Water and other water companies have massive profit margins close to 20%, paying out a great deal to often overseas owners rather than cutting bills.

He says only Welsh Water, a mutual, makes no such payments and he asks when the PM will get behind efforts to double the size of mutual and cooperative contributions to the economy.

Mrs May says there are many examples of mutuals and cooperatives in the UK, with no limit to who could choose to set them up. She wants to see a mixed economy and they play an important part.

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Conservative Antoinette Sandbach says that Saturday marks the two year anniversary of the death of Jo Cox. She says Ms Cox used to work on loneliness, she welcomes the £20m of funding for tackling loneliness yesterday, particularly those in rural areas.

Mrs May says the legacy of Jo Cox lives on every day in the work she did on loneliness. The government is continued to support her work "after her sad and tragic death," she adds.

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The SNP's Ronnie Cowan says the government's plans to license cannabis-based medicines on an individual basis for patients who may benefit from it will fail when 20,000 people apply in one day.

Mrs May responds that the government is taking the issue very seriously.

She says that on top of plans for individual licenses, the Home Office has launched a clinician-led review of the scheduling and prescribing of cannabis medicine.

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Conservative Lucy Allan says the number of children in care rose to record levels last year, and that the care crisis review published last week pointed to a risk-averse blame culture and a failure to direct spending to family support.

She asks for the reviews recommendations to be seriously considered, and for a commitment that children would only be removed from families as a last resort.

The PM says it's right to say care proceedings should only be a last resort, the sector led review is an important contribution to work across the system and ministers are carefully considering the recommendations.

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Labour's Gavin Shuker says that President Trump has locked up 2,000 children in cages and is refusing to release them unless he is allowed to build a wall.

He has quit the UN Human Rights Council and has praised Kim Jong-un, he adds.

Mr Shuker asks what the president has to do to have his invitation to visit revoked.

Mrs May says she has said that the current situation in the US "is wrong", and she says that when the UK disagrees with the United States "we tell them so".

But the UK has shared interests with the US on security and defence, she adds.

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An effective intervention from the SNP’s Ian Blackford (and a difficult one for the Conservative whips, who now stand almost at his elbow, to heckle).

But the PM was well prepared, because someone was bound to ask this question.

There has been widespread outrage after US media organisations released video and audio footage of migrant children being held in what appear to be cages.

The children, some of them very young, have been separated from their parents, who are being held in other detainment centres. The audio recordings contain several children calling for their parents.

Several Conservative and Labour MPs have called for Theresa May to denounce the Trump administration's policy of separating children from their families.

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The SNP's Westminster Leader Ian Blackford associates himself with the comments on the Finsbury Park Mosque terror attack.

He says many members will be aware of the distressing audio of infants and children being caged by the US government and separated from their families.

The former head of US immigration says he expects "hundreds" of these children to never be reunited with their families. Mr Blackford asks if she still intends to "roll out the red carpet" for Donald Trump.

Mrs May says that the images from the US "is wrong" and is not "the UK's approach".

"There will be a range of issues I will discuss with President Trump," she adds.

Mr Blackford says "we should all be unreservedly condemning the actions of Donald Trump," and he adds that the UK detains children, and is the only EU country to detain people indefinitely.

Mrs May says the government has ended the detention of children with families, saying she commissioned a report on this, and the government has improved mental health provision and conditions for those detained.

The government is considering a subsequent report, she adds.

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More heat than light in those exchanges – but the PM seemed rather more confident than last week, while Jeremy Corbyn’s questions meandered a bit.

Now rather ironic cheers from the Conservative benches for the SNP Leader ian Blackford.

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Jeremy Corbyn says health spending grew by 5% in Labour-controlled Wales, more than in England. He says the new funding plan is not enough for the NHS to stand still.

He asks why, when the prime minister is "writing IOUs", the public should trust her on the NHS.

Theresa May says the Conservatives have looked after the NHS for the majority of its 70 year history, and have continued to raise funding.

She says the public trusts them and Labour's plans would bankrupt the economy.

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Jeremy Corbyn says under Labour, the NHS increase would have been 5% this year and the IFS said there would be over £7.7bn more for the year. He says her funding pledge is less, "without her saying where any of this coming from apart from these mysterious phantom taxes".

He says there's a human element - one woman called Virginia wrote to him last week, telling him there's not enough money in the NHS to provide her daughter with a wheelchair.

He says the IFS says the NHS needs 3.3% to maintain current levels and asks whether standing still on funding is good enough when money is needed now.

The PM quotes NHS boss Simon Stevens' comments on the funding increase "we can now face the next five years with renewed certainty".

She says the government spends far more on the NHS than the Welsh government, run by Labour - "Typical Labour, say one thing and do the other."

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The Labour leader says that last night the PM sent an email to Conservative members saying that the money sent to the EU will now go to the NHS.

He says that the Office for Budget Responsibility says that there will be no Brexit dividend before 2023.

He asks if it will be funded through extra borrowing or higher "mystery taxes".

Mrs May says the government is taking a "balanced approach" to the economy "keeping taxes low" and "dealing with our debt".

She says the Labour Party would not have money for the NHS because it would "bankrupt our economy".