Government loses two House of Lords votes on EU withdrawal bill – as it happened

Plaid Cymru’s Ben Lake asks about the lifeboat in Ceredigion Bay. Does May agree the lifeboat service should continue in the bay?

May says a number of services provide rescue services. But the RNLI plays an important role, she says. It is independent; it decides where it allocates resources.

Anne Main, a Conservative, asks about a tech investment in her constituency.

May gives her support to the company.

Labour’s Virendra Sharma asks May if the government will continue to support the fight against TB.

May says the government wants to follow the example India is setting on this issue.

Labour’s Afzal Khan asks about Kashmir.

May says the government continues to take the view that the best solution is for India and Pakistan to come together to resolve this issue.

Iain Duncan Smith, a Conservative, asks May if she agrees that all parties should kick out antisemites and apologists for antisemites.

May says she agrees. It is very important for parties show a clear signal that antisemitism will not be tolerated.

She pays tribute to the Labour MPs who spoke out in last night’s debate about the antisemitic abuse they had suffered. That was a fine example of what parliament is for, she says.

May says there is no causal relationship between crime and the number of police officers. Those are not her words, she says. They are the words of the shadow policing minister.

PMQs - Snap verdict: May prevailed. She dodged the bullet. It would be wrong to describe anything associated with this wretched affair as a triumph, or even a victory, but it was a success of sorts because, in response to the killer question, she had an answer that exonerated her. Or at least seemed to. We need to learn more about her claim that it was the Labour home secretary in 2009 (Jacqui Smith or Alan Johnson) who took the decision to get rid of the Windrush landing cards, but for the purposes of PMQs, her answer was enough to derail Corbyn and let her off the hook. (May’s comment about Albert Thompson now getting NHS treatment also needs further scrutiny, as Corbyn suggested.) Barristers supposedly operate on the basis that you should never ask a question to which you don’t know the answer, and Corbyn did not seem to have prepared for what May told him about the landing cards. That said, he did not really let it throw him off his stride. He had another deadly question ready - the one about whether Amber Rudd, or May, was to blame for the institutional problems with the Home Office Rudd mentioned on Monday (and he should have asked it a second time, after May ignored it.) And his soundbite sound-off in question six was good. But it is hard to avoid the feeling that Labour MPs will view this as a missed opportunity.

Corbyn said May was to blame for sending ‘go home” vans around sending warnings to illegal immigrants. On Monday Rudd said she did not know if anyone had been deported. How many people have been deported.

May says some people may have wrongly been sent letters saying they should not be her. The government has apologised. But there is a difference between the Windrush generation, who are here legally, and those who are not here legally. People have a right to know that services only go to people who should get them.

Corbyn says he has been told that Thompson has not been told he will be getting treatment. He says May’s pandering to people over immigration led to May creating a hostile environment. Vital documents were shredded. The Windrush generation came here to help rebuild Britian. Under May the Home Office was heartless and hopeless. And under her the government is callous and incompetent.

May says the government is helping the Windrush generation. She says Corbyn talks about being callous. But she initiated the race disparity audit. She asks what can be done to ensure there are equal opportunities in this country. Corbyn accuses her of being callous. She will not take that in the light of what was said in last night’s debate about antisemitism, and she will not take it from a man who allows antisemitism to exist in his party.

Corbyn says it was May’s government that tried to create a hostile environment for immigrants.

May should not blame officials, he says.

May says Corbyn asked about the decision to destroy the landing cards was taken in 2009, under a Labour home secretary.

Corbyn says the decision was implemented under a Tory government.

On Monday Amber Rudd said the Home Office was too concerned with policy. Who is to blame? Rudd or her predecessor?

May says Rudd has been swift in responding to this issue. Corbyn asked about action taken to deal with illegal immigration. It is right that action is taken against people here illegally. But the Windrush generation are here legally. If Corbyn wants to question what is being done about illegal immigration, he should question Yvette Cooper, the former shadow home secretary, who said in 2013 tougher action was needed to deal with illegal immigration.

UPDATE: This is what May actually in her reply to Corbyn (in her third reply, or her first reply in this block.)

[Corbyn] asked me if the decision to destroy the landing cards - the decision to destory the landing cards - had been taken in my time as home secretary. The decision to destroy the landing cards was taken in 2009 and as I seem to recall in 2009 it was a Labour home secretary who was in office.

In my original write-up, I said “May says Corbyn asked about the decision to destroy the landing cards was taken in 2009, by a Labour home secretary.” That was my mistake, as I was trying to summarise her point. I have corrected it, so it now reads “under” a Labour home secretary.