Prime Minister's Questions: 22 March 2017
Official Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) Podcast
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🗓️ 22 March 2017
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| 0:00.0 | Question one, Mr. Speaker. |
| 0:02.0 | The Prime Minister. |
| 0:03.0 | Thank you, Mr. Speaker. |
| 0:05.0 | And I would like to express my condolences to the family and colleagues of the former Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, Martin McGuinness. |
| 0:14.0 | Of course, we do not condone or justify the path he took in the earlier part of his life, and we should never forget that, nor the victims of |
| 0:23.1 | terrorism. However, as my noble friend Lord Trimble set out yesterday, he played an indispensable role |
| 0:30.2 | in bringing the Republican movement away from violence to peaceful and democratic means and to building |
| 0:35.5 | a better Northern Ireland. Mr. Speaker, this morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. |
| 0:41.3 | In addition to my duties in this House, I shall have further such meetings later today. |
| 0:45.3 | John Mann. |
| 0:47.3 | The Prime Minister says that there's more money for the National Health Service, |
| 0:52.3 | more nurses and more doctors. |
| 0:55.0 | Yet Basset Law Breast Care Unit has been cut back |
| 1:03.0 | and Bassett Law Children's Ward has been closed overnight. |
| 1:07.0 | Something clearly doesn't add up. |
| 1:10.0 | Therefore, I and the mothers of the most seriously |
| 1:14.2 | ill children who use the children's ward the most frequently offer to the Prime Minister |
| 1:20.9 | to work with her to solve this problem. Is her door at number 10 open to us? Yes. |
| 1:28.3 | I say to the honourable gentleman, if we look at what has happened in his area, his NHS |
| 1:35.3 | Basset Law Clinical Commissioning Group is receiving a cash increase, the Doncaster and Basset Law |
| 1:40.3 | Hospital's NHS Foundation Trust, see over 80 more doctors and nearly 30 more nurses. |
| 1:47.0 | But of course what we see, he talks of listening to the voice of local people |
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