PMQs live: Theresa May fails to guarantee all police jobs following anger at pay proposal

Labour leader also likely to grill Prime Minister on lifting of public sector pay cap

(BBC)

Theresa May is facing Jeremy Corbyn across the Despatch Box for the last time before Parliament rises for the conference season recess.

Brexit is likely to once again dominate the debate, after the Commons voted to pass the Government's EU Withdrawal Bill.

Mr Corbyn is also likely to ask the Prime Minister about plans for lifting the public sector pay cap next year. It was announced this week that police officers and prison officers will receive a 1 per cent pay rise - a move that received criticism because it is less than the rate of inflation, meaning it is, in effect, a pay cut.

Elsewhere in British politics this week:

Government passes controversial 'power grab' motion allowing it to pass laws without Parliament

Trade union leaders threaten illegal strike over public sector pay cap

Labour secures vote which could embarrass Tories over planned tuition fees hike

Police and prison officers will receive higher pay rise as public sector pay cap is lifted

Merkel ally warns Theresa May's approach to Brexit 'will not work'

[13 September 2017 12:01 · Kristin Hugo]

PMQs is about to begin

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May announces she is announcing an extra £21m for the effort in the Caribbean after Irma

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Jeremy Corbyn is now up. For his first question he starts on the situation facing disabled people in Britain, citing the "human catastrophe" description by the United Nations.

May says "I have to say over the time we have been in Government we have seen more disabled people getting into the workplace" and says her administration has focused on helping those most at needed. She says the description is "not a fair one". 

Corbyn says we have seen punitive sanctions and the bedroom tax

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Corbyn is now speaking about the public sector pay cap - he mocks the mixed messages from the Government on this issue. "What is the position at midday today," he asks. 

May says prison and police forces reported and they accepted their independent recommendations. "We also recognise balancing out jobs, being fair to tax payers.... there is a need for greater flexibility." 

She says the Government will be working on this on build up to the Budget. 

Corbyn says a rise anything less than the current inflation rate - 2.9% - is unacceptable. He asks whether the PM can guarantee no more officers will be lost as a result of her decision to end the cap this week. 

She fails to answer the question. 

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Corbyn says there are 20,000 fewer police officers than there were in 2010 - and police budgets cut by £300m. He says the Chancellor told Tory MPs at the 1922 committee "we've never had it so good". 

He asks the PM to describe what has happened to the average persons bank account in the seven years the Tories have been in power. 

The PM says Corbyn has failed to cite the employment figures today, "which show unemployment at the lowest point since the mid-1970s" 

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Corbyn quips back saying more are in poverty in work, relying on insecure work and tax credits. 

He's now talking about tuition fees, citing one person who wrote to him addressing high levels of debt. "I am scared about the future of other young people," she wrote. He asks whether the PM will vote against another hike in tuition fees later today. 

May says Corbyn has yet again failed to mention issues the Government has addressed in relation to employment. "That's sound management of the economy," she adds. 

On promises for students, the PM mocks Corbyn for his "promise" to students to deal with their historic debt. "He has let them down," the PM says. 

Corbyn adds the IFS says that English students have the highest debt in the world - blaming the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats for the trebling of fees in 2010

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May asks who was it who introduced tuition fees... "It was the Labour party," she says to jeers from Conservative backbenchers. 

"The Labour Party would only destroy our economy as they did last time." 

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Theresa May has promised a further £25 million of Government funding to help the Hurricane Irma relief effort.

The Prime Minister announced the extra money in the Commons amid criticism of the Government's response to the devastation in the Caribbean.

She said the new funding was on top of the £32 million already promised to tackle the disaster.

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Ian Blackford, the SNP leader in Westminster, is now up.

"I was under the impression this was questions to the Prime Minister," he says after she asked about the state of the economy in Scotland. 

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Louise Haigh is now asking the "real terms pay cut" to police officers - and asks about police "blanket no pursuit policies".... May says she agrees there shouldn't be blanket no pursuit policies. 

The PM also reveals that Conservative MP Michael Fabricant will be appearing on Channel 4's First Dates to much laughter in the Commons.