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Official Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) Podcast

Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) - 17 May 2023

Official Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) Podcast

UK Parliament

Government

4.593 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 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, Rishi Sunak MP. 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Prime Minister's questions.

0:02.0

Catsmith.

0:04.0

Question of the law, Mr. Speaker.

0:06.0

Deputy Prime Minister.

0:08.0

Mr. Speaker, I have been asked to reply on behalf of my right honourable friend, the Prime Minister.

0:18.0

He is currently travelling to Japan to attend the G7 summit.

0:25.6

I am sure that colleagues from across the House will join me in congratulating Liverpool

0:32.6

for its wonderful staging of the Eurovision Song Contest on behalf of Ukraine.

0:40.3

This morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others, and in addition to my

0:46.2

duties in this House, I shall have further such meetings later today.

0:50.3

Madam Smith.

0:52.3

The Royal Lancaster Infirmary is a 130-year-old crumbling hospital and was meant to be one of the government's 40 new hospitals.

1:02.0

However, the funding announcement has been delayed four times already, so can the Deputy Prime Minister reassure my constituents that this is not going to be another

1:11.3

broken Tory promise?

1:15.3

I can absolutely assure the Honourable Lady that we remain fully committed to those 40

1:20.4

hospitals from our manifesto and indeed we have already provided £3. billion pounds worth of initial capital.

1:29.3

Craig McKinley.

1:31.3

Mr Speaker, I have a very serious matter affecting every constituency to bring to my right

1:36.3

and honourable friends' attention.

1:38.3

Amazon have been facilitating the sale of counterfeit postage stamps from China, virtually perfect except for the barcode.

1:46.1

I've contacted the NCA, the national trading standards, and I'm afraid I've received woeful

1:51.8

responses. I've now sent my concerns to the Serra's fraud office and the economic

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