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Official Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) Podcast

Prime Minister's Questions: 29 April 2020

Official Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) Podcast

UK Parliament

Government

4.593 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

First Secretary, Dominic Raab, took questions from MPs in the House of Commons on Wednesday 29 April 2020.

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0:00.0

I call James Cotledge virtual.

0:04.0

Thank you, Mr Speaker.

0:05.0

And can I join you in sending heartiest congratulations to the Prime Minister and to carry on the birth of their son?

0:13.0

It's wonderful news and I'm sure he will bring them great joy in these difficult times.

0:17.0

On coronavirus, surely we should not underestimate the significance of getting to what we hope is the peak of the outbreak without the NHS being overwhelmed.

0:26.1

To do that, we've had to take a difficult but unavoidable decision of putting elective surgery on hold for many people.

0:31.6

So can I ask, what more can we do to free up the NHS so that our constituents with cancer and other serious non-COVID conditions

0:39.6

can start being treated again as soon as possible and in significant numbers.

0:44.5

Both things. His engagement.

0:48.1

First Minister.

0:50.8

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I've been asked to reply on behalf of my right honourable friend, the Prime Minister.

0:56.0

As members will have seen, as Mr Speaker has explained, the PM and his fiancé Carrie Simmons, have announced the birth of a healthy baby boy this morning.

1:05.0

Yes.

1:06.0

Both mother and baby are doing well, and I'm sure the whole house will want to join with me in sending

1:11.6

congratulations and our very best wishes to them.

1:14.6

Mr Speaker, the whole house will also want to join me in paying tribute to the 85 NHS workers and the 23 social care workers

1:22.6

who have very sadly died from coronavirus.

1:25.6

My deepest sympathies are with their family and their friends at what is an incredibly difficult

1:31.3

time and we will continue to do whatever it takes to support them.

1:35.3

Mr Speaker, I'm sure the whole House will also want to join me in wishing Captain Tom Moore,

1:39.3

who has done so much raising 29 million pounds for NHS charities together a very happy

1:45.9

100th birthday tomorrow.

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