Labour's Health Team ‏tweets, external: Over 8,000 patients from England were treated in Welsh hospitals last year - up on previous years #healthquestions

We're moving on to topical questions. Tory MP Philip Davies accuses Public Health Minister Jane Ellison of pursuing a list of "nanny state proposals", such as plain cigarette packaging and a ban on smoking in cars when children are present, which in his view are more suited to the Labour front bench.

He asks her "which policies, if any, is she pursuing that have a Conservative flavour to them".

Replying, Ms Ellison says tobacco control is integral to tackling cancer and says smoking prevalence among adults in England fell to a "record low" of 18.4% in 2013, which "I'm sure even [he] would welcome".

Greg Mulholland MP tweets, external: In health Qs I raised @nhsengland's catalogue of errors re #Leeds Children's Heart Unit, will we get apology? @SaveOurSurgery @CHSurgeryFund

Monmouth and Conservative MP David TC Davies accuses the Welsh Government of trying to "delay" an OECD comparison report into the health systems between Wales and England "because they are afraid of what might be discovered".

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says the NHS in Labour-run Wales is in a "perilous state" and criticises the government there of "trying to block" the independent study.

Speaker John Bercow heaps praise on Health Minister Jane Ellison for her "splendidly succinct" answers. He suggests she should issue "her textbook" to her front bench colleagues.

The speaker routinely requests pithy contributions from MPs and ministers during question time and statements, in order to fit more backbenchers in.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and his team are answering a list of tabled questions from MPs. The final 15 minutes of the hour-long session is dedicated to topical questions, of which ministers have no advance notice.

Lib Dem Sir Alan Beith, the MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed, calls for greater co-operation between the NHS in the north east of England and in Scotland.

He says if someone's nearest hospital or health centre is north of the border "health bureaucracy should not be setting up artificial barriers to access".

Labour MP Heidi Alexander says London Ambulances are taking two minutes longer to respond to most serious call outs than three years ago, and claims the service is in "chaos".

Image source, London Ambulance Service

Health Minister and fellow London MP Jane Ellison says her comments are "unfair", and insists "urgent measures" are being taken to rectify the problem, including recruiting extra paramedics and increasing overtime.

Speaker John Bercow appeals for pithy questions and answers from MPs and front benchers. He rebukes Conservative backbencher Jesse Norman for taking too long to ask his question, and says it is "doubly bad" for the MP to "read out a prepared script".

Green MP Caroline Lucas ‏tweets: Health minister tries to dismiss my Question about impact of #TTIP on #NHS - but he's simply wrong! That's why BMA want health excluded too

Shadow health secretary Andrew Gwynne says it is "appalling" that one in four cancers are diagnosed in A&E departments.

He asks the health secretary if he will adopt Labour's plans - set out at the weekend - to cut the waiting time for cancer tests and results in England to one week.

Jeremy Hunt argues that cancers need to be spotted earlier, and said Labour should welcome the fact the government is "on track to treat nearly one million more people for cancer" than under the last government.

Steve Baker MP tweets, external: Raised the millstone of Labour's shocking NHS PFI deals at health questions

Business is underway in the Commons chamber, with questions to ministers from the Department for Health. The secretary of state, Jeremy Hunt, tells MPs that 95.7% of A&E patients were seen within the four-hour waiting time target in 2013-14.

He also informs the House there will be an extra 260 A&E doctors this winter.

Tonight's adjournment debate - expected at about 19.15 BST - will be led by the Conservative MP for Chesham and Amersham, Cheryl Gillan, on the compensation package for HS2.

Ms Gillan has been a vocal opponent of the proposed high-speed rail link between London and the West Midlands.

Labour MP Diana Johnson has the floor of the House at about 12.30 BST, to present her bill on sex and relationships education.

The Kingston upon Hull North MP will argue that the current sex education curriculum needs a radical overhaul. She wants the national curriculum to include education about sex and relationships, resilience against bullying and sexual abuse, and ending violence against women and girls.

Before that debate, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt will field questions from MPs for an hour, from 11.30 BST.

Green MP Caroline Lucas has the first question, and will ask about the potential effect of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership on the NHS. Other topics to be raised include A&E waiting time targets, ambulance response times and hospital walk-in centres.

However, critics of the Recall of MPs Bill argue that it should be easier than to get proceedings against unpopular politicians going, than the government is proposing.

Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith has devised a rival plan, which would force a recall if 5% of voters in a constituency sign a "notice of intent to recall" and 20% then sign a "recall petition". He says this would give constituents more power.

Under the bill, an MP could be recalled if they are sent to jail or given a Commons ban of at least 21 sitting days. If either of these conditions is met, and 10% of voters in the MP's constituency sign a petition, the seat would become vacant and a by-election held.

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Tuesday's proceedings in the House of Commons.

Topping today's billing is a debate on whether voters should be able to deselect errant MPs using a "power of recall". The plans are embodied in the government's Recall of MPs Bill, the general principles of which will be debated at second reading at about 12.45 BST.