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With PMQs finished, Conservative MP David Davis will now ask an urgent question on the Home Office’s policy towards police surveillance of journalists.

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The SNP's Patrick Grady returns to the so-called "hostile environment" policies introduced by Theresa May as home secretary, which aimed to clamp down on illegal immigration.

He says the legacy of that approach can be seen today in "structural failures" in the visa system, which make it hard for people from Africa to get visas.

In reply, Theresa May says the visa system is an important way for the UK to manage its borders and tackle organised crime.

She says the proportion of African nationals whose visa applications are granted is up by 4% on what it was 10 years ago.

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Conservative Nigel Evans says he attended global Pride in New York last month. He say many Commonwealth countries still have colonial era anti-gay laws which have not yet been removed.

Mrs May says this issue was raised at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting last year, when the UK government offered to help other governments in repealing those laws. She says she hopes this will enable those in the Commonwealth to "live in true equality".

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Conservative MP for Harlow Robert Halfon uses his question to launch a blistering attack on developer Persimmon over the quality of accommodation built in his constituency. He says his constituents complain about homes that are part of the government's Help to Buy scheme, making it an issue for those in Westminster.

Theresa May says developers should be building good quality housing under this scheme.

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Labour's John Spellar asks for British Royal Navy ships to be built in British yards using British steel.

Mrs May says it was this government which brought in a shipbuilding strategy to try and encourage shipbuilding in the UK. She says the current policy of allowing other countries to build Royal Navy ships still stands.

The aforementioned transport secretary is, by the way, Chris Grayling - sitting close to the PM on the Tory front bench.

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Labour's Sharon Hodgson says "nothing has changed" three years after Theresa May's pledge to tackle "burning injustices" during her time as PM.

She asks Mrs May whether she will provide funding so all children on free school meals will continue to receive them during the summer holidays.

Thousands of parents are worried about feeding their children during the break, she adds.

Theresa May replies that £9m has been put aside to provide free meals to 50,000 disadvantaged children in 11 council areas.

This represents an expansion from a similar scheme run last year, she tells the House.

These are the Home Office vans to which the SNP Westminster leader was referring to - driven around London for a week in August in 2013, attracting much criticism.

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The SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford says "the prime minister finally did the right thing" this week when she called out Donald Trump's comments on four Democratic Congresswomen. He asks her to call out the "go home vans" that she "created in government in coalition with the Liberal Democrats".

Mrs May says she called them out at the time - and has described them as "too blunt an instrument" - but there needs to be a "fair immigration system".

"I have strongly condemned those comments by President Trump," she adds.

Mr Blackford says the Tories "stay silent" when people are deported to countries in which they face harm and have stayed silent in previous incidents of Boris Johnson's comments. He accuses the Conservative Party of being nationalist.

Mrs May replies that the only party with nationalist tendencies in the Commons is the SNP.

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For his final question, Jeremy Corbyn focuses on the issue of air pollution levels, which he says are “suffocating our children” in certain areas.

He accuses the government of "dodging its responsibility" on climate issues, which he says "cannot be left to the market".

In reply, Theresa May defends the government's record in this area, adding there are more jobs in renewable energy than ever before.

Returning again to the issue of anti-Semitism cases within Labour, she says Mr Corbyn has been "dodging his responsibility" in that area.

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Mr Corbyn says "we are hiding the scale of the problem by passing the buck to other countries as well". He says that if the true figures were counted, then the carbon emissions statistics would be 69% higher.

Air pollution kills 40,000 people annually, he goes on.

Mrs May says "our clean air strategy is the most ambitious... in a generation" which the World Health Organization calls an example "for the rest of the world to follow".

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Jeremy Corbyn says Labour has committed to measure "total UK emissions" within the emissions target by including the carbon footprint of imports.

He asks the prime minister whether the Tories will commit to do the same.

Theresa May replies that the UK measures emissions "according to the international definitions" and is generating record levels of solar and offshore wind power.

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Mr Corbyn says his party "opposes racism in any form whatsoever in our society." He says the prime minister "encouraged the hostile environment" policy on immigration and "deported British citizens" - presumably a reference to the Windrush scandal.

The Labour leader again tries to bring the conversation back to climate change. He says the latest figures released in April show the government will not meet the UK's carbon emissions target by 2099, never mind 2050 - the current stated deadline.

Mrs May says the government has taken an "historic step" by making that 2050 target a legal requirement and tells MPs the UK has so far hit three targets on emissions reductions.

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Jeremy Corbyn comes back at the prime minister's broadside by telling her that Labour "totally opposes racism in any form whatsoever".

He quotes a recent survey which said a majority of Tory members see Islam as a threat to the British way of life.

Returning to the issue of the climate report, he said the Committee on Climate Change had described the government's approach to dealing with the problem as being "run like Dad's Army".

Theresa May again defends the government's progress towards emissions targets, but brings the conversation back to issues around prejudice.

She says claims of Islamophobia within the Conservative Party "are dealt with", but again accuses him of "failing to deal" with anti-Semitism within Labour.