Prime Minister's Questions - 4 December 2024

Official Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) Podcast

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🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Prime Minister's Question Time, also referred to as PMQs, takes place every Wednesday the House of Commons sits. It gives MPs the chance to put questions to the Prime Minister or a nominated minister. In most cases, the session starts with a routine 'open question' from an MP about the Prime Minister's engagements. MPs can then ask supplementary questions on any subject, often one of current political significance.

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0:00.0	Question number one, please.
0:03.0	Mr. Speaker.
0:04.0	Mr. Speaker, it's a pleasure to welcome His Highness, the Amir of the State of Qatar, to the UK.
0:14.0	I look forward to discussions this afternoon on how we're strengthening our relationship and boosting trade investment,
0:20.0	including the announcement today of a £1 billion investment in our new Clean Energy Partnership.
0:26.6	Mr. Speaker, Sunday marked World AIDS Day,
0:32.6	and we stand with all those that we have lost and those living with HIV today, and we will
0:39.4	seek to end new cases of HIV in England by 2030.
0:43.0	Mr. Speaker, can I also note that we are joined in the gallery today by Mandy Damari,
0:51.3	mother of Emily, a British citizen still being held hostage in Gaza.
0:58.0	I've met Mandy a number of times, and in my view what she's going through is nothing
1:03.4	short of torture.
1:06.0	This morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others.
1:09.9	In addition to my duties in this House, I shall have further such meetings later today.
1:14.6	In room.
1:15.6	Mr Speaker, I would like to concur with the comments the Prime Minister has just made.
1:21.6	North Devon District Hospital is the most remotest hospital in mainland England. Its intensive care unit has only six beds and
1:31.3	it's almost 50 years old and it serves a population of 165,000 people. Can the Prime Minister assure my
1:40.3	constituents that their hospital will receive the urgent funding that it's needed to, under
1:48.7	the new hospital programme so that they will not face over a two-hour drive to the nearest
1:54.0	trauma unit.
1:55.0	Mr. Mr Speaker, the new hospital programme that we inherited was emblematic of the failures of the previous
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