Prime Minister's Questions - 6 March 2024

Official Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) Podcast

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🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 30 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. The Leader of the Opposition, Sir Keir Starmer, asks six questions and the leader of the second largest opposition party asks two. Want to find out more about what's happening in the House of Commons this week? Follow the House of Commons on: Twitter: www.twitter.com/HouseofCommons Facebook: www.facebook.com/ukhouseofcommons Instagram: www.instagram.com/ukhouseofcommons

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0:00.0	We now come to Prime Minister's questions, but we are joined today in the gallery by the Speaker of the Supreme Council of the Keir Giggs Republic.
0:11.0	I now call Charlotte Little.
0:13.0	Number one, please, Mr Speaker.
0:15.0	Mr. Speaker, this morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others, in addition to my duties in this House, including listening to the Chancellor's budget statement,
0:25.1	I shall have further such meetings later today.
0:27.5	Charlotte Little.
0:28.3	Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
0:30.3	The UK used to be a world leader in psilocybin research, but despite the calls from the Home Affairs Select Committee,
0:37.0	leading researchers, charities and veterans organisations from the Home Affairs Select Committee, leading researchers,
0:38.2	charities and veterans organisations and the Royal College of Psychiatrists, we've shamefully
0:43.7	fallen behind on breakthrough treatment for conditions like PTSD and depression, causing
0:48.6	misery to millions of people in our country.
0:51.7	Can the Prime Minister explain why this policy remains the responsibility
0:55.0	of a Home Office that can't give it the attention it deserves and why it's okay that American,
1:00.0	Canadian and Australian patients can access treatment? British patients can't.
1:04.0	Mr. Prime Minister.
1:07.0	Mr Speaker, I completely sympathise and understand why people suffering from distressing conditions will want to seek the best possible treatment available.
1:16.1	And I thank the Honourable Lady for raising the issue.
1:18.3	We are committed to ensuring that the UK is a world-leading jurisdiction for pharmaceutical, clinical and other medical research.
1:24.5	And we have, in fact, asked the Advisory Council on the misuse of drugs to review barriers to legitimate medical research. And we have, in fact, asked the advisory council on the misuse of drugs
1:28.9	to review barriers to legitimate medical research involving controlled drugs such asylocybin.
1:35.3	Our response to the council's recommendations, I'm pleased to tell the Honourable Lady,
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