PMQs live: Jeremy Corbyn grills Theresa May over changes to schools funding

Labour leader accuses Prime Minister of breaking another manifesto pledge

Jeremy Corbyn confronts Theresa May about breaking manifesto pledge over education funding

Theresa May is facing Jeremy Corbyn in the week she announced she would trigger Article 50 - and set the ball rolling on Brexit - on 29 March.

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Last weekend's headlines were dominated by fresh Labour infighting, as Tom Watson attacked the Unite union and campaigning group Momentum over claims of "entryism".

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The SNP, meanwhile, are likely to focus on Nicola Sturgeon's plans to push for a second Scottish independence referendum - an idea rejected by Theresa May. The Scottish Parliament will vote on the proposal later on Wednesday.

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[22 March 2017 12:34 · John Rentoul]

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[22 March 2017 12:35 · Kristin Hugo]

Labour backbenchers join their leader's attack over school funding.

Lillian Greenwood says every school in her constituency will lose an average of £584 per pupil. She asks whether the Prime Minister "has failed at maths or failed to read her own manifesto".

May says there has been a "general acceptance" among MPs that the funding formula for schools needs to be reformed.

[22 March 2017 12:39 · Kristin Hugo]

Pete Wishart, SNP, raises the issue of the Conservative election expenses scandal and asks the Prime Minister how much she and her Cabinet colleagues knew about it.

The failure to declare all expenses was "at best willful negligence and at worst pure electoral fraud", Wishart says.

May says the issue is a "party matter", adding that "the Conservative Party did campaign for the return of a Conservative government". That won't surprise anyone...

[22 March 2017 12:40 · John Rentoul]

/ @Mungo_5 Tory rebellion, but Corbyn didn't mess it up today

[22 March 2017 12:42 · Kristin Hugo]

Nicky Morgan, the former Education Secretary who was sacked by May, agrees there should be changes to the funding formula for schools but says the Prime Minister must commit to the Conservative manifesto promise.

That pledge, which has dominated the debate at PMQs today, said: "Under a future Conservative Government, the amount of money following your child into school will be protected."

[22 March 2017 12:50 · Kristin Hugo]

That's it for PMQs this week. The debate over the schools funding formula looks unlikely to go away, with May being accused of breaking another manifesto promise after having been forced into a U-turn last week over plans to raise National Insurance for self-employed people.

More next week, on the day (Wednesday) that Theresa May will finally trigger Article 50. 

[22 March 2017 12:59 · John Rentoul]

May claiming Corbyn sent his son to grammar school as disgraceful as Howard, who sent son to Eton, attacking Blair's private education #PMQs