The prime minister is on her feet at Chatham House in London. She begins by running through some of the momentous societal changes she has seen in "a lifetime in politics".

Select Committee
Parliament

The BBC's director general has been defending the broadcaster's decision to take away free TV licences from the majority of over 75-year-olds.

Tony Hall told the Culture Select Committee it was "always assumed" when the BBC took over responsibility for the concession from the government as part of the 2015 licence fee settlement that its universal provision could be reviewed.

He said the BBC had made it clear to ministers at the time that any decision to limit the future availability of free licences would only be done following a consultation and if it was deemed to be in the wider interests of all licence fee-payers.

The BBC announced last month that only pensioners in receipt of the pension credit would receive their licences free from 2021-22.

Lord Hall was pressed by Tory MP Damian Collins on what had changed since 2015, when he told the BBC Trust the additional expenditure incurred in shouldering responsibility for the free licences could be "managed".

He said broadcasting costs had risen significantly, due to competition from the likes of Netflix, while the closure of the iPlayer "loophole" had also affected its finances.

Theresa May will shortly be making a speech in central London - details of what she will be talking about have not been briefed out in advance.

Downing Street says the speech will be on “the state of politics domestically and internationally”.

We'll bring you the best bits here.

House of Commons
Parliament

Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott asks an urgent question on immigration detention and modern slavery.

Immigration Minister Caroline Nokes says being a victim of modern slavery does not give someone an automatic right to stay in the UK.

"There may be occasions" where "having exhausted all options" those victims are detained in order to "secure their removal", she says, bu insists this decision is not taken lightly.

Ms Abbott says the Home Office previously claimed it did not collect data on such detentions, but it is now apparent that they do. Therefore, she asks, can the minister say how many modern slavery victims have been, and are currently, held.

Ms Nokes says this data is not collected by default, and may not be accurate or incomplete. The kind of data Ms Abbott is referring to is for internal use only, she states. 68% of those detained in these cases were released within two days, and the remaining majority within a week, she adds.

House of Commons
Parliament

Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott is now asking an urgent question on immigration detention.

It comes after reports that more than 500 potential victims of trafficking and modern slavery were held in British immigration detention centres last year.

The Home Office figures were recently obtained by the data mapping project After Exploitation using the Freedom of Information Act.

House of Commons
Parliament

Continuing the discussion on Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Foreign Office minister Andrew Murrison says he "deplores" the "maltreatment of prisoners wherever it occurs" and the description of the mother's treatment "is completely unacceptable".

"It is completely contrary to any international norms."

Mr Murrison says he wants to appeal to the "better nature" of people in Tehran to "do what is right for Nazanin".

On concerns the issue of Grace 1, the Iranian supertanker seized by Royal Marines and the authorities in Gibraltar, is linked to the latest developments in Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case, Mr Murrison says: "I don't believe the two are directly linked."

The debate on Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is now over.

House of Commons
Parliament

Labour's Tulip Siddiq says the plight of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a constituent of hers, is "urgent and desperate".

The reason why she has been moved to hospital "has not been made clear" to her lawyers or to her family, she says.

"We have no idea how she is being treated."

She asks what the government is doing to establish her current condition, and what "further steps" ministers will take regarding her case.

Foreign Office Minister Andrew Murrison repeats that consular access is being sought.

Gaining access for family to visit her is the "best way we have right now" when it comes to working out the conditions in which she is being held, he adds.

House of Commons
Parliament

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Foreign Office Minister Andrew Murrison says Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's relatives have not been allowed to visit her or contact her since she was admitted to hospital on Monday.

The Foreign Office is lobbying Iran so they can visit her as soon as possible, and for consular access, he says.

Jeremy Hunt raised her case during a phone call with the Iranian foreign minister on Saturday, he says.

He adds that he pressed the case that "innocent people in prison must not be used as diplomatic leverage".

Norman Smith
Assistant political editor

While it was slightly cheeky of the PM to lean across the despatch box at PMQs and start asking the questions herself, it points to the fact that the anti-Semitism crisis in the Labour Party has now become a Jeremy Corbyn crisis, with MPs, peers and former staff all blaming him personally.

You begin to wonder if the pressure is now becoming so intense that merely circling the wagons and denouncing critics as traitors is no longer sufficient.

House of Commons
Parliament

That’s the debate on police surveillance of journalists finished.

Labour’s Tulip Siddiq will now ask an urgent question on Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran in 2016 after being convicted of spying, which she denies.

Her husband has said she is now in a hospital psychiatric ward, and he fears the Iranian Revolutionary Guard could be isolating his wife in hospital to press her to sign denouncements.

In a press release, the Free Nazanin Campaign said it was not known what treatment she was receiving or how long she was expected to remain in hospital.

House of Commons
Parliament

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Conservative MP David Davis asks an urgent question on police surveillance of journalists.

Policing Minister Nick Hurd says the government is "committed" to protecting the free press in the UK. He says in some "very limited circumstances" intelligence and police services will start surveilling journalists. These requests to monitor journalists must be made by an independent commissioner, he adds.

Mr Davis responds that in the last week there have been "numerous press reports" of the police "using the full source of the state" in trying to find the source of the diplomatic leaks. The government did not use the procedure available to it to prevent publication of these diplomatic cables, he adds.

Mr Hurd replies that the government has an "absolute commitment" to "protect the freedom of the press". He says the processes to try and trace an individual contact is stringent and requires other authorisations.

BBC Politics Live
BBC2's lunchtime political programme

Tory MP Ross Thomson says he "couldn't disagree more" with Conservative voters who told a survey they believe Islam is a threat to British values.

"I've never come across any party member, any colleague, who feels that way..." he tells Jo Coburn.

He says he doesn't believe there is a problem in the party of Islamophobia, but any issues that do exist must be addressed. He's not "afraid" of having an inquiry into it "to show the public we are a home to everyone".

BBC Politics Live
BBC2's lunchtime political programme

Anneliese Dodds, Labour MP, is asked about the reaction from her party to the letter by peers in the Guardian about anti-Semitism. A spokesman has suggested its claims are "misleading", while shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the letter was “completely inaccurate”.

She says she can understand there's been a desire to correct some of the "misleading, not factual comments" made in the media about anti-Semitism, "but the most important thing is to understand why some people feel uncomfortable in our party" and do something about it.

It's more important than "contesting the detail" or focusing on "where people are coming from politically", she adds.