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SNP's Westminster Leader Ian Blackford says the prime minister delayed "the doomed Brexit vote on the promise of written concessions from Brussels."

He asks the prime minister where they are.

Theresa May says she has set out this response already this afternoon.

Mr Blackford says Theresa May promised there would be new concessions and that Parliament would have the chance to vote on the new concessions, but "nothing has materialised and nothing has changed."

He adds that the prime minister suffered "another humiliating defeat last night", and asks when she will "face the facts" that there is "little support for her deal or no-deal in her House".

"The prime minister is frozen in failure," Mr Blackford says, adding that MPs "should not be debating without the full facts".

He asks when the prime minister can guarantee that members of the House will see the full details before the start of the Brexit debate this afternoon.

Theresa May says "the deal that is on the table is the one the United Kingdom government has negotiated with the European Union and if he is really concerned about looking ahead with a bright future he should back that deal."

Mark D'Arcy
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The PM’s not for turning on her Brexit deal - and continues to hope that additional assurances from the EU will convince MPs to back it.

There were taunts, there were questions, but nothing very new, and certainly nothing game-changing, emerges from her exchanges with Jeremy Corbyn.

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For his final question, Jeremy Corbyn accuses the government of "incompetence" in its handling of Brexit and "half-baked" planning for a no-deal scenario.

He says the prime minister has been "begging" follow European leaders for additional "warm words" on her deal but "not one single dot or comma has changed".

He asks whether she will call a general election if her deal fails to win MPs' support next week, to give the public a "real say" on what happens next.

Theresa May says she will not, calling her agreement a "good deal".

She adds that the Labour leader has been "for and against" free movement, having an independent trade policy even triggering Article 50.

His Brexit policies, she quips, are "the many, not the few".

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Jeremy Corbyn says this is the first time since 1978 that a prime minister has been defeated over the Finance Bill in the House of Commons.

It clear that no deal should be ruled out, he says: "This is the position of this House."

He urges the PM to "protect thousands of skilled jobs" and rule out no deal.

Mrs May says the amendment doesn't change the fact the UK is leaving the EU on 29 March, and it doesn't prevent the government from collecting taxes.

She says it is "absolutely sensible" for the government to prepare for no deal, and considering the Opposition's failure to back the deal reached it's now even more important they do prepare.

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Jeremy Corbyn questions if there have been legal changes to the withdrawal agreement.

He adds that the environment secretary said no-deal would damage the farming sector and the foreign sectretary said no-deal is "not something any government would wish on its people".

Jeremy Corbyn adds that "money is being wasted allocated on no-deal planning", and calls on the prime minister to "end this costly charade and rule out no-deal".

Theresa May says if Jeremy Corbyn wants to avoid no deal "he needs to back the deal".

She adds that on Monday, Jeremy Corbyn said no-deal preparations were too little too late - "he can’t have it both ways".

She asks Jeremy Corbyn to break his usual habit and say whether he thinks the government should be preparing for no-deal or not.

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Jeremy Corbyn asks why, if the prime minister's deal is the "only deal available", why she didn't put it to a vote in Parliament last month as scheduled.

He asks whether the "written assurances" being sought by the PM will include changes to the legally binding Brexit withdrawal agreement.

Theresa May that the UK is looking at "what we can do domestically" as well as seeking further undertakings from the EU to reassure MPs.

The undertakings from the EU, she says, will be made available before the final vote on next Tuesday, she says.

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Jeremy Corbyn says "no amount of window dressing" will satisfy MPs, they want to see clear, legal changes to the withdrawal agreement.

He says the PM has "recklessly" wasted time in an attempt to blackmail MPs into supporting the deal as the threat of 'no deal' approaches.

The prime minister says he can say what he likes about no deal, but the reality is he opposes any deal the government reaches with the EU.

"The only way to avoid no deal is to vote with the deal," she adds, urging him to use a lipreader if he's unsure what she is saying.

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Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn pays tribute to Paddy Ashdown saying he was "a very effective member of Parliament", and says he agrees with Theresa May's comments on intimidation of members of Parliament and media representatives in the last few days.

"Intimidation is wrong outside this building as it is wrong in any other aspect of life in this country, and we have to create a safe space for political debate," he adds.

Mr Corbyn says the prime minister scrapped the Brexit vote last month and promised reassurances over the recess and "she failed".

He questions whether the prime minister is "bringing back exactly the same deal she admitted would be defeated four weeks ago".

Theresa May says "the conclusions of the European Council went further than before against the concerns of this House and have legal status", she adds, saying that talks continue.

She says she has been in contact with European leaders and further clarification on the backstop is possible, and those conversations will continue over the next few days.

Theresa May says in the event that the future relationship or alternative arrangements are not in place by the end of 2020, Parliament will have a vote on whether to seek to extend the implementation period, or to bring the backstop into effect.

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SNP MP Drew Hendry opens the question session by asking about EU nationals in Scotland after Brexit.

He asks what will happen to EU nationals not registered by December 2020, branding the policy "xenophobic".

The prime minister says the EU settlement scheme is a way to give EU nationals the status they need to stay.

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It's Prime Minister's Questions and Theresa May remembers former Lib-Dem leader Lord Ashdown, who died in December.

The prime minister also says she condemns threats to politicians and members of the media, which have been made in the past few days.

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The prime minister is the chamber - PMQs will start shortly.

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These reserves of £400m save each person £400 per lease. Per car, the company has to borrow two thirds of the cost of a car, while supplying a third of the funding at the beginning of the lease, Chief Executive Mike Betts says.

He says there has been a misunderstanding in that reserves are not "cash" for the Charity.

The SNP's Chris Stephens says that he has been "battling" to get some of his constituents to get funding from Motability.

Mr Betts says this is "a question of strategic priorities" and that where the money goes is decided with the charity each year.

He adds that if the cost of a car is lower that saving is passed on "penny for penny" to customers.

"If we fail, there is nowhere else for our leasing customers to go," he states.

Frank Field says that there is "no way" the Commons would allow Motability to fail.

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Newly appointed shadow international development secretary Dan Carden - who replaced Kate Osamor after her resignation - says "20%, 600 of all DfID staff, are to be reassigned to other departments to help manage the Tories' Brexit shambles."

He asks what impact "this huge cut" will have on the department's work.

International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt says he is "incorrect" in his assertions.

"The grand total at the moment of DfID staff helping other departments at the moment is 25 individuals," she says.

Mr Carden notes that she hasn't ruled out 600 staff moving in future. He accuses her of "overseeing the managed declined of the Department for International Development".

Ms Mordaunt says everything he has said "is not true".

Mark D'Arcy
Parliamentary Correspondent

It’s the PMQs after the night before, so expect the aftermath of the government’s defeat on Yvette Cooper’s amendment to the Finance Bill to resonate through proceedings.

That vote is best interpreted as a signal that a substantial number of Conservative MPs will vote to stop a “No Deal” Brexit- the heavyweight ex ministers who rebelled last night are, one source tells me, the tip of an iceberg, and the government would, quite simply, disintegrate if it opted for a “No Deal” policy.

So some questioners today will be seeking to hammer home that message or explore the options open to the PM, if her deal is defeated in the vote next Tuesday.

And the other thing to watch out for is overtures to parties and factions that might be persuaded to vote for the deal, if not in its current incarnation then in some warmed-over-slightly-tweaked second try, a bit further down the road to Brexit.

So listen very closely to the words of Nigel Dodds, the DUP Leader, who frequently uses PMQs to deliver public messages about Brexit. Look out for overtures to Labour factions, particularly the increasingly queasy-looking MPs from Leave constituencies.

Of the MPs listed to ask questions, the Lib Dem Layla Moran looks set to ask about Russian interference in the EU referendum, and Labour’s Stephen Kinnock, a leading proponent of the “Norway Option“, will make his pitch that this amounts to a Common Market 2.

Meg Hillier, the Labour MP who chairs the powerful Public Accounts Committee, has the difficult task of being the last listed questioner (all the most promising questions will probably have been asked) and may go on Brexit preparedness (a subject the PAC has been looking into) and the PM’s own preparations for defeat next week...

Other MPs will studiously avoid the B-word.

Conservative Tom Pursglove is set to ask about rehabilitation for veterans in prison, and Micheal Fabricant has a closed question about job creation in the West Midlands - he plans to ask about upgrading a freight-only rail line to create a passenger link to the National Memorial Arboretum, which includes the National Military Memorial.

Maybe the PM will have a positive answer for him.