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Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Yesterday in Parliament podcast.

On Wednesday the 19th of March, the Prime Minister came under pressure for his policies towards hospices and people with sickness and disability.

It's safe to say that some of the Prime Minister's hard choices have not been wildly popular

with either some on its own side or the opposition.

But at question time, he held firmly to his tiller,

blaming £22 billion black holes and 14 years of failure.

Those familiar phrases were up against some tough competition, though.

Kemi Badenock pointed to the impact of the Chancellor's tax rise for employers on some crucial services.

Later today, conservatives will vote to exempt hospices, pharmacies and care providers from her national insurance rise.

Will he, at the very least, support exempting these vulnerable services from his job tax?

So Keir Stamer accused her of refusing to say if she'd reverse the employer's national insurance rise.

She carps from the sideline, but can't make her mind up whether she supports or doesn't support national insurance rises.

We've made provision for hospices.

We've made provisions for charities.

But we had to secure the economy.

We had to fill the 22 billion-bound black hole that they disgracefully have.

No, he said there that he'd made provision for hospices.

But Kemi Badernock didn't think he had actually.

I remember when he made that announcement. He's forgotten because the money he's referring to for

hospices is for buildings. It is not for the salaries hit by the jobs tax. As St Helena Hospice

in Colchester said, we cannot use this funding for salaries, which is where we need urgent health.

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