The Institute of Directors is giving a "qualified welcome" to the draft EU reform proposals unveiled earlier.

"The deal on the table is better than we expected," says its director general Simon Walker.

IoD members want to "stop the flow of unnecessary red tape from Brussels" and make the EU more competitive, he says.޼

Away from the EU debate, the Green Party says it has launched a "further appeal" against the BBC's decision not to offer it a party political broadcast.

The latest broadcast allocations were announced in December, with UKIP joining the Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems in the list of parties being offered broadcasts in England.

But the Green Party was not on the list.

Deputy leader Shahrar Ali said: “The BBC is a public service broadcaster and we feel they have an obligation to treat all parties on an even keel."

The BBC based its decision on new rules for how broadcasts should be allocated.

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Diane Abbott asks what steps the government is taking to help countries affected and "mitigate the risks to British travellers".

International Development Minister Nicholas Hurd says the UK is the second largest funder of the WHO. He says the risk to the UK population is "extremely low" but "we are not complacent". But he says it is a disease "we do not know enough about". 

He says the UK is playing a "full part" in fighting the disease, saying that doctors from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine are already working in Pernambuco, Brazil, where the outbreak is most prevalent.

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas - who wants the UK to remain in the EU - says she is glad "these protracted discussions seem to be drawing to a close".

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Shadow international development secretary Diane Abbott asks an urgent question on the Zika virus. The World Health Organisation has declared a global public health emergency over the number of cases of microcephaly and other neurological diseases related to the virus.

Microcephaly leads to babies being born with underdeveloped brains, and the WHO says a link with the mosquito borne Zika virus is "strongly suspected".

Cases of the Zika virus have been reported across Central and Latin America.

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What's very clear, says BBC chief political correspondent Vicki Young, is that if David Cameron gets this deal, he will be leading the campaign to remain in the European Union.

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Conservative MP Crispin Blunt, who chairs the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, says his personal position on the EU debate has not changed, and it is "marginally, at the minute, to leave".

Once the negotiations are complete, he says his committee will take a look at the reforms that are agreed and rather than present a recommendation to the British public, will "present the facts".

David Cameron concluded his appearance at the Siemens factory in Chippenham by saying the referendum on EU membership would be "your choice, not the politicians', the MPs' or the cabinet members'."  

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Labour backbencher Andrew Gwynne asks if "watering down" workers' rights has been "part of the conversation" in the renegotiations.

David Lidington says "I don't think there is a contradiction" between supporting "good rights for employees at work" but wanting some reform. 

He says Andrew Gwynne is "out of touch" if he thinks there are not "significant changes" needed to the "complexity" of employee regulation, particularly for small businesses.

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On the challenges facing his side of the EU debate, Nigel Farage acknowledges there are "two big competing camps" bidding to become the official Out campaign (Leave.EU and Vote Leave).

But, he claims, the In campaign is "split all over the place" and in the end the British people will decide, he says.

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"Hardly worthy the wait, pathetic really," is Nigel Farage's verdict on the proposed reforms unveiled by Donald Tusk. The UKIP leader says the free movement principle has not changed, while "a small change to benefits" will not prevent people from moving to the UK.

Asked for more details of the four-year emergency brake on in-work benefits, Mr Cameron says the outline of the "mechanism" has been agreed and the next two weeks will be about cementing the details about what he calls "the phasing" - in other words how much migrants might be legally entitled to receive and over what period. He says the government will "not be neutral" on the question of whether to remain in the EU and will set out a clear position if and when other EU states approve the overall package. At that stage, Cabinet ministers will be able to openly campaign for EU exit, a "reasonable" position that the PM says was discussed and agreed at this morning's Cabinet. 

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The red card system "might well backfire" against the UK, says Valentin Kreilinger, of the Jacques Delors Institute in Berlin, suggesting other EU countries might use it to overturn legislation backed by Westminster.

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Conservative MP Philip Hollobone says those campaigning to stay in the EU have been "trumpeting the myth" that the UK's security is dependent on continued membership of European Union. 

But he says the government whips have put out a memo saying that the EU has "clarified" that "the EU has no business getting involved in this most basic of issues".

Europe Minister David Lidington says Mr Hollobone is finding "contradictions where no contradictions exist". He says that defence is the responsibility of individual nation states, but effective cooperation with the rest of the EU allows the UK to "amplify the efforts that we make on our own". 

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On the PM's bid to curb in-work welfare for EU migrants, Madeleine Sumption, of Oxford University's Migration Observatory, says while people are moving to the UK to work, it is not clear how much of a motivation the UK's benefits system is. As a result, she says:

David Cameron says he will "take as long" as he needs to secure the "better deal" in Europe that he promised, suggesting that a referendum in June may not be set in stone. When the moment comes to argue the case to the British public, he says he will approach the referendum with gusto, insisting there "will be no lack of passion on my part". 

The PM is now taking questions from journalists. In response to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg's suggestion that he has had to "water down" his demands in key areas, he says that "hand on heart I can say I have delivered the commitments I made in my (election) manifesto". He says the package has to be agreed by 27 other countries but that no country has ever managed to negotiate such a package from "a standing start" and all four objectives have been addressed in a proper way. "This is the culmination of some very hard work and tough negotiations," he says, rejecting suggestions the concessions he has won are "technical and hard to explain". 

On welfare the PM says the draft agreements will address the "draw" that the British welfare system currently has for migrants and will end the "instant access" to benefits and the "something for nothing" culture. The emergency brake on in-work benefits will ensure that full-rate benefits can be suspended, arguing that this would be triggered immediately. On child benefit, he says EU migrants will only be able to claim benefits at a "local level" - in other words in the countries their children live - rather than "the rather generous" level they are paid at in the UK. Overall, these are big changes that are on the table, he says.