Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) - 1 March 2023

Official Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) Podcast

UK Parliament

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🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

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 MP, asks six questions and the leader of the second largest opposition party asks two. If a minister takes the place of the Prime Minister, opposition parties will usually nominate a shadow minister to ask the questions.

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0:00.0	We start with questions, Prime Minister.
0:02.0	Justin Mothers.
0:03.0	Question number one, please, Mr. Speaker.
0:07.0	Mr. Speaker, may I wish everyone but in particular,
0:11.0	my honourable friend from Montgomeryshire, a very happy St David's Day.
0:15.0	Mr. Speaker, this morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others.
0:20.0	In addition to my duties in this House, I meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition
0:20.9	to my duties in this House, I shall have further such meetings later today.
0:24.6	Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Prime Minister understands the importance of NHS stuff because
0:29.4	he was out there every Thursday night clapping for them during the pandemic. He must therefore
0:34.1	also surely know that he hasn't got a hope of dealing with the NHS crisis.
0:38.3	If he doesn't invest in its workforce, we have a plan to double medical services and end the scandal of straight A students being denied the chance to become a doctor.
0:49.3	Patients support our plan. The NHS supports our plan, even his Chancellor supports our plan.
0:55.2	Why doesn't he?
0:56.2	Mr. Speaker, the Honourable Chairman needs to keep up.
1:00.7	We are doing a workforce plan for the NHS.
1:04.0	There are tens of thousands, more doctors, more nurses in the NHS, record number of GPs,
1:10.8	record investment in the NHS. That number of GPs, record investment
1:11.6	in the NHS.
1:12.6	That's what you get with a Conservative government delivering.
1:15.6	Mr Speaker, will the Prime Minister join me in congratulating the staff of Nottingham University
1:22.6	Hospital's Trust, who faced with a challenging winter with 300 COVID and flu patients, as well as thousands
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