THERESA May has paid tribute to Connor Sparrowhawk's family for their tireless campaign for justice, and insisted 'lessons have been learnt' from the tragedy.

The Prime Minister was grilled about health services in the House of Commons during Prime Minister's Questions today, and Jeremy Corbyn quizzed her about Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.

She commended Connor's family for exposing failures at Southern Health, and revealed the trust is due to have a 'comprehensive' inspection by healthcare regulator the CQC later this year.

At Oxford Crown Court yesterday, the trust was fined £2m over the deaths of Headington teenager Connor and another patient, 45-year-old Teresa Colvin. 

Connor, who had autism, epilepsy and a learning disability, drowned in the bath at Southern Health-run Slade House in Oxford in 2013.

A judge yesterday agreed the 18-year-old's death was 'entirely preventable' and the result of 'endemic and systemic' failures at the trust. 

His verdict was a milestone victory in the JusticeForLB campaign, set up by Connor's family to hold the health authority to account.

During PMQs today, Mr Corbyn said: "I hope the whole house will join me in paying tribute to the families of Connor Sparrowhawk and Teresa Colvin, for their dignity in campaigning for answers about the deaths of their loved ones at the hands of Southern Health.

"How confident is the Prime Minister that deaths like Connor's and Teresa's could not happen today?"

The Prime Minister replied: "The very sad deaths we saw with Teresa Colvin and Connor Sparrowhawk do raise very real questions.

"I join him [Mr Corbyn] in paying tribute to the families for the way in which they have campaigned on this particular issue.

"Obviously those incidents took place some time ago and lessons have been learnt by the health and social care system as a result of the failings of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.

"A comprehensive CQC inspection into Southern Health is expected later this year."

Connor's mother Sara Ryan said her son, also known by the nickname Laughing Boy or LB, would be 'chuffed' to see the exchange.