Stewart Hosie, from the SNP says in Scotland a vaccine passport is being introduced but it will be limited to nightclubs, outdoor standing events with more than 4,000 people and any event with more than 10,000 people.

He says: "It's not enough to say you won't need a vaccine passport to get an essential service. It's got to be any setting where your attendance is unavoidable - shops, public transport, medical services, education - we need the confirmation."

Zahawi says: "In the process of parliamentary engagement and scrutiny we will be able to share the detail on that in due course."

Vicki Young
Deputy Political Editor

After borrowing hundreds of billions to deal with the pandemic, Boris Johnson is about to put up taxes to fund the NHS and eventually social care too.

And Labour will vote against it. It feels like a distortion of the political landscape that we’ve observed over the years.

The audacious move brings political risks for the prime minister and Keir Starmer. The former is hoping that his instinct is right – that voters want better-funded public services and are willing to pay for it.

Labour’s hoping that people will think the tax is falling unfairly on lower-paid workers and that a party that breaks its election promises will get punished. Many Tory MPs have reservations but how outspoken will they be to Mr Johnson’s face?

Replying to Rayner's questions, Nadhim Zahawi says the government needs to go further to make sure it recognises other vaccines from around the world to make it even easier for people to travel to the UK.

He says it is "incredibly important" that there are some essential services that will not need people to show Covid vaccine ncertification, Zahawi says.

"These are settings that have stayed open throughout the pandemic - obviously public sector buildings, essential retail, essential services and of course public transport," he says.

Zahawi says the reason for the "very difficult decison" to introduce vaccine passports "is to allow us to sustain the opening of the economy, including the nightlub sector, without having to flip-flop and go back and close down sectors because of super-spreader events."

Angela Rayner, shadow cabinet office minister asks how and when the UK government will decide which businesses must implement vaccine certification and will they rely on low-paid staff at venues to act as public health officials?

The NHS Covid pass app currently allows the user to input a negative test option which is important for people who are unable to have a vaccine. Rayner asks why the government plans to drop this option.

She says: "UK business has had a hell of an 18 months during this difficult pandemic".

She says the government has not set out a clear path forward.

She asks for assurance that no one will be required to have a Covid pass to access essential services.

Nadhim Zahawi says no one in the government wants to curtail people's freedoms or require them to show a piece of paper before entering a nightclub.

But vaccine passports will ensure these businesses are able to operate "sustainably", he says.

He says the view of clinical experts is that the additional relative safety of being fully vaccinated "does begin to mitigate against super-spreader events" which could cause the government to decide to close nightclubs.

The Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi is now giving a statement on vaccine passports in the House of Commons.

He says the government will be giving more details in due course on the need for people to prove they have had both jabs for entry into nightclubs by the end of September.

Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael says the deadline for implementation is now just three weeks away so information is needed "urgently" not "in due course".

He asks when ministers will be able to vote on the plans to introduce vaccine passports.

He says: "Nightclubs have been opened now since July... if they are safe today for people to enjoy responsibly then what does the government expect to change between now and the end of the month?"

He says: "We do know that 60% of people who have two jabs will not become infected with the Delta variant and therefore cannot infect someone else - although 40% can and will."

"The 40% figure highlights one of the biggest dangers of the whole idea - taking people into large social gatherings where they think they will be safe from infection but in fact they are not."

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David Ibbotson, 75, from Cheshire, has been in touch to say his older sister is about to be charged more than £4,200 a week in a nursing home.

He says: "She lives on her own. She had a fall in April and has been in hospitals and nursing homes.

"The nursing home she is in is near her house - and neighbours and friends could visit. [The council] was paying but that will stop soon.

"As she has no power of attorney, the local council can control her financial affairs so when the time comes to pay for her care, they could sell her semi-detached house.

"At the moment she is not mentally capable. But the council is not accepting this because a letter from her doctor stating this, although signed, was not stamped.

"But I would like her moved from her current nursing home to somewhere else that is half the price.”

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In his final question, Starmer says the PM is out of touch with the reality of workers.

He tells the story of Rosie, a single mother working on the minimum wage in a nursing home.

"She will lose £87 a month because of the cut in universal credit," says Starmer, "and will now be hit with a National Insurance tax rise."

He accuses the Conservatives of under-funding the NHS over the past decade and cutting social care, while "always putting rich mates and donors before working people".

But Johnson calls it the "same old nonsense from Labour".

He says he has "every sympathy for Rosie", but the best way to help her and other families was through building a "strong and dynamic economy", which he insists his government is doing.

Sir Keir Starmer says: "2.5m working families will face a double-whammy. A national insurance tax rise and a £1,000 a year universal credit cut.

They are being hit from both sides. Of all the ways to raise public funds why is the PM insisting on hammering working people?"

Johnson says: "We are proud of what we've been doing throughout this pandemic to look after working people. We are proud of the extra £9m we put in through Universal Credit."

He says Labour wanted to scrap Universal Credit.

He says the government is investing in 30,500 work coaches 3,000 for 11 million adults to train under the lifetime skills guarantee and wages are rising.

Sir Keir Starmer says: "His plan is to impose unfair taxes on working people, my plan is to ensure those with the broadest shoulders pay their fair share."

He says people will still face huge bills and many will need to sell their homes.

He says: "Under his plan, a landlord renting out dozens of properties won't pay a penny more but their tenants, in work, will face tax rises of hundreds of pounds a year

"A care worker earning a minimum wage doesn't get a pay rise under this plan but does get a tax rise. In what world is that fair?"

Johnson says: "The top 20% of households by incomes will pay 40 times what the poorest 20% will pay. The top 40% will pay half of the entire levy."

Starmer asks the PM: "Will his plan clear the NHS waiting list backlog by the end of this Parliament - yes or no?"

Johnson says: "The only way to fix the long-term underlying problem in the NHS - the problem of delayed discharges - is to fix the crisis in social care as well, which Labour failed to address for decades and we are going ahead and doing it."

Starmer continues: "There we have it - working people will pay higher tax, those in need will still lose their homes to pay for care and he can't even say if the NHS backlog will be cleared.

"He gesticulates but they're breaking their manifesto promises and putting up taxes on their working constituents for this?"

Starmer says the PM has not answered his question as to whether someone needing care will have to sell their home.

He says someone with £186,000, including the value of their home, will have to pay £86,000 under this plan and asks how they are expected to find that money without selling their home.

Johnson says the government is lifting the threshold level for people needing to contribute to their costs to those with £100,000 or more in assets.

He asks what Labour would do to fix the backlogs in the NHS and fix social care.

Prime Minister's Questions has started and the Leader of the Opposition, Sir Keir Starmer, has asked Boris Johnson about the promise he made to the British people that no one needing care would have to sell their home to pay for it. Starmer asks if this guarantee still stands.

Johnson says the plan for health and social care "deals after decades with the catastrophic costs faced by millions of people, the risks that they face up and down the country, they could face the loss of their home, their possessions, their ability to pass on anything to their children".

He says in order to deal with the problems of the NHS backlog you also have to deal with social care. He asks Starmer how he will vote this evening.

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Julie Casey from Manchester says her mum has Alzheimer’s disease and is in a care home.

She says: “My mother is currently paying care home fees of £1,040 per week. She has been a resident for over two years at a cost of approximately £120k.

"Whilst I welcome that finally, care home fees will be capped, waiting another three years in the hope that there will be funding available once monies have been ploughed into the NHS gives me very little comfort or indeed hope, that this will actually come to fruition.

"I am an only child and I am renting mum’s house to help pay for her care but I am only getting a quarter a month of what my mum has to pay weekly in care fees.

"My mum is also taxed on the rental income and I am expecting a tax bill to pay next year.

"The dementia is worsening but she seems happy. I am not sure if she knows me but at least she is well looked after.

"The government’s plans will come into force quicker than I thought but by October 2023, mum would have paid a quarter of a million pounds in care home fees, and in order to meet these costs, I will have to sell her property. Her savings are all but depleted."

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We will be turning our attention to the House of Commons at midday for Prime Minister's questions.

Stay with us for the main lines on the proposed new health and social care tax and coronavirus.

Or for a blow by blow account of what's said you can follow our politics live page here.

BBC social affairs correspondent Michael Buchanan has been answering your questions about the proposals.

Under the new proposals, will I have to pay National Insurance if I work after state retirement age? - Mary Petchey, Suffolk

In the year from April 2022, everyone in the UK who currently pays National Insurance will have to pay an extra 1.25% contribution. Under the current system, people over retirement age who are still working don't have to pay this.

However, from April 2023, this extra contribution will no longer be taken from National Insurance, but will be part of a new separate tax called the Health and Social Care Levy.

From that point, anyone working after pension age will have to pay the extra tax. The government will bring in new legislation for this change to happen.

Meanwhile, at the same point, National Insurance rates will revert to their current levels.

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A leading economic research group is warning that the National Health Service could consume all of the extra £12bn a year raised by the new health and social care tax.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies, says the new health and social care levy is "very much NHS-weighted" in the near term, turning towards social care over the course of this parliament and this decade.

But the IFS's Ben Zaranko says the NHS is likely to require more money than is currently planned - leaving the social care sector "disappointed".

He adds: "History suggests these plans will be topped up further – they have been in almost every year for the last 40 years. That could leave little if any of the tax rises announced yesterday available for social care."

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BBC social affairs correspondent Michael Buchanan has been answering some of your questions about the proposals.

We have already spent more than £150,000 on my mother's social care after she was diagnosed with dementia in 2015, and have run through all her savings. She is physically well, aged 94, and is currently in a residential home which costs £5,500 per month. Will the new cap count for my mother? Or will we have to sell her house to continue funding her care? - Jane Russell

Under the government's proposals, people in England will no longer pay any more than £86,000 in care costs over their lifetime.

However, the cap will not be introduced until October 2023.

That means anyone currently in the care system will not benefit from these changes, as they will not be backdated.

So, if you cannot afford to keep paying for your mother's care from her savings - and no-one else lives in her house - then you may indeed have to sell it.

In fact, even once the cap has come into effect, people may still end up having to sell their house in the future. If they cannot pay the first £86,000 of care costs from their income or cash savings, it may be their only option to fund their share of the cost.

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Analysis: Why the cap on care costs is not all it seemspublished at 10:59 British Summer Time 8 September 2021

10:59 BST 8 September 2021

Nick Triggle
Health Correspondent

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The cap on care costs is being hailed by ministers as the golden chance to fix the broken system and create a fairer way of paying for care.

The plan for England sounds simple - from 2023 no-one will pay more than £86,000 for the care they need for daily tasks such as washing, dressing and eating, whether that is in a care home or provided to people in their own home.

But it's not necessarily the silver bullet it may first appear.

Read more from Nick here

Boris Johnson has said his government "will do what is right, reasonable and fair" as it works to "make up" NHS Covid backlogs and change the way social care is funded in England.

In a promotional video, the PM is seen meeting care home residents in east London and visiting NHS wards.