Prime Minister's Questions - 8 January 2025

Official Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) Podcast

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 40 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	Before we give Prime Minister's questions, I'm delighted to welcome in the gallery, the Speaker of the Loxaba of India.
0:07.0	Right, let us move to questions to the Prime Minister.
0:11.0	Number one, please, Mr Speaker.
0:13.0	Prime Minister.
0:14.0	Thank you, Mr Speaker.
0:16.0	May I wish all members of this House a happy new year.
0:20.0	Mr. Speaker, our thoughts, of course, are with those affected by the recent flooding,
0:26.6	and we thank the responders who are working hard to keep communities safe.
0:31.6	This week we published our elective reform plan to rebuild our NHS and end the Tory backlog. We will
0:39.8	deliver where the previous government failed, empowering patients, boosting productivity, more
0:45.3	care in the community and incentivising reform. This morning I had meetings with Minister
0:50.6	or colleagues and others in addition to my duties in this House. I shall have further such meetings later today.
0:56.0	Bill Clause.
0:57.0	On behalf of everyone in South, and I hope the whole House, can I offer the Prime Minister condolences
1:01.0	on the lot of his brother over Christmas?
1:03.0	I wish everyone, a happy new year.
1:05.0	Last July, the public overwhelmingly backed Labour's manifested commitment to harbbing violence
1:10.0	against women and girls.
1:11.3	Can the Prime Minister set out how today's vote on the Children's Well-Being Bill is a crucial
1:15.2	step to delivering that promise to protecting children and without the delay of an unnecessary,
1:20.1	further, lengthy inquiry?
1:23.6	I thank you for his remarks about my brother and the other colleagues who have sent me remarks.
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