MPs have moved on to asking the PM about Covid and the impact of the pandemic.

Conservative Greg Clark asks why shouldn't double vaccinated Brits be able to go on holiday to Spain this year?

Boris Johnson says vaccines are the "great liberator" and we will hear more tomorrow from the transport secretary about travel.

Clark asks if 16 August is the date by which the PM thinks we will have reached "herd immunity" and what will that mean for the rules on isolation.

Johnson says that is not the way to think about it. All these decisions are a balance of risks, he says, and by then many more people will be vaccinated.

Clark asks about hospital admissions and the PM says ministers have been looking at all the data and we are moving to a position of testing rather than isolating.

"We want to retain the tool of asking people to protect others from the disease," he says.

Asked what he would do differently with the benefit of experience since the pandemic started, the PM says the single most important thing he has learned is the massive benefit of investing in science.

Labour MP Meg Hillier, who chairs the Public Accounts Committee, asks Boris Johnson how the government intends to "fill the gap" from fuel duty when petrol and diesel cars are phased out.

The prime minister admits the government will see a hit in tax income "down the line".

He says he can't pre-empt the chancellor's decisions in this area, but he doesn't want to see bills go up to compensate for the loss.

Tom Tugendhat says the UK is seeing a cut to global spending on medicine in UK aid - and says it's going from £150m to £17m. He asks if there will be a vote for MPs on this issue.

Boris Johnson says "we've put £1.15bn" into supporting Covax, and he adds that roughly a third of UK vaccines are being distributed at cost.

MPs press Boris Johnson over his answerspublished at 16:23 British Summer Time 7 July 2021

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Damian Grammaticas
Political correspondent

A thread running through this questioning has been the PM’s own truthfulness and what some MPs clearly felt was evasiveness in his responses.

Labour’s Chris Bryant asked “when a minister lies should he correct the record?”

“Yes,” said Boris Johnson.

Mr Bryant’s immediate riposte “it seems you very rarely correct the record. Why?” - and Mr Johnson began to expound on the referendum campaign, only for Mr Bryant to cut him off, sharply, trying to ask “did you sack Matt Hancock?”

To which there was no clear answer. Another MP displaying impatience at the prime minister’s extemporising was the Conservative Tom Tugendhat.

He interrupted Boris Johnson to say: “I’m interested in your answers to my questions, not the questions you wished I’d asked” and then again “Prime Minister, you are going over history.”

The MPs apparently frustrated, feeling answers were not forthcoming.

Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee Tom Tugendhat says that at the G7, the UK didn't manage to get six closest allies to abandon coal use. He asks how he plans to get 25 other countries to agree to this at COP26.

Boris Johnson says "we have to engage" with China and "make the case with China" for cutting out coal use.

Mr Tugendhat asks what the government is doing about the sale of a chip manufacturer in Wales to China, called Newport Wafer Fab.

Boris Johnson says he has asked for a "review" into the matter. He says because of the government's actions in passing a security bill, "we are able to take action".

"This government is spending a huge quantity of taxpayers' money to make sure we get Huawei out of our telecommunications," he states.

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Conservative Caroline Nokes asks if the PM is hoping for any gender-specific outcomes from COP26 and how will they be measured.

Johnson says it will inevitably be "a massive benefit to those who have tended to suffer the most" - women, in particular - when it comes to their education, because they don't get the investment they need, he says.

Nokes asks if the cuts to UK foreign aid will help women and girls.

The PM says the UK is contributing substantial amounts of money.

Boris Johnson says the drive for heat-pump installation will require the government to potentially place some "big bets" to make sure the market supports affordable choice.

He also pledges ministers will lay out their plan for reducing emissions from domestic homes "long before" the UN COP26 conference in November.

Labour chair of the housing committee Clive Betts asks the prime minister for his plan to reduce carbon emissions from the housing sector and replace gas boilers with heat pumps.

He says the government's own climate advisers have said there has been minimal progress in this area.

But Boris Johnson says there has been "massive progress" and this "continues to be made".

He says the government is working with manufacturers on heat pumps, but a plan to roll them out will depend on them becoming more affordable.

"At the moment, the prices are too high," he adds.

Legacy of serious questions over Afghanistan policypublished at 16:12 British Summer Time 7 July 2021

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Damian Grammaticas
Political correspondent

First subject up and the prime minister was sounding pretty gloomy about the outlook for Afghanistan.

With Nato forces withdrawing after 20 years in the country, and the Taliban advancing the PM didn’t have any optimistic words for the situation there, describing it as “fraught with risks”, “difficult” and himself as “apprehensive.”

The best he could hope for was that “an accommodation can be reached with the Taliban.”

This is likely to be seen as a significant failure for British foreign policy.

The prime minister sounded like he knew it leaves a legacy of serious questions, as to the conduct of that policy over the past two decades, and quite what has been achieved for all the British money spent and lives lost.

Questions not just for prime ministers past, but for him too.

Philip Dunne says the PM is "right" to say that the private sector can work to deliver these commitments, but he says this can't be done without the policies being "out there".

Boris Johnson says there is a "huge opportunity" for the UK to lead in "low carbon jobs and growth". He says there couldn't be a "clearer signal" to industry than only allowing electric cars to be sold from 2030.

Philip Dunne says the UK won't get another opportunity like COP26 to demonstrate leadership on climate change, he asks if new strategies and policies will come out before COP26.

Boris Johnson says the "UK was the first country in the world... to set a net zero target by 2050". He says the UK has a "very strong hydrogen strategy".

Dunne says the PM was probably as "shocked" as he was to see media reports of Amazon destroying unsold stock.

Boris Johnson says he was "absolutely horrified" and he doesn't know "the reality" of their position. He says destroying consumer electronics to landfill is "absolutely insane".

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Conservative chair of the Environmental Audit Committee, Philip Dunne, starts questioning the PM on COP26 and the climate.

He asks when the prime minister and ministers will start delivering policies which will allow the government to keep lowering carbon emissions.

Boris Johnson says "you will see what is happening with regard to green investments in this country". He says last week Nissan announced it would be building a battery factory in Sunderland.

He says there are "huge investments going on" to meet his target of the UK becoming "the Saudi Arabia of wind".

The government is working to ensure that by 2030, wind will serve the domestic needs of every household in this country, he states.

Chris Bryant asks if it is time to have one set of rules governing the conduct of ministers rather than separate codes governing conduct.

The PM says some issues are a matter for Parliament and some are a matter for the executive.

He agrees that it is certainly an idea to publish a register of ministerial interests every month but says it has only recently been published.

Bryant asks about the refurbishment of the PM's flat and what was the interest the PM should have declared.

Johnson says everything that needed to be registered was "duly registered" and he has nothing to add.

Bryant asks why does the PM "very rarely correct the record" when he has been told that the words he uses are not the "full and accurate representation of events".

Did the PM, for example, sack Matt Hancock, as he suggested he had?

Johnson says considering the UK is in the middle of a global pandemic, it was "quite fast going" how quickly Matt Hancock left the job of health secretary.

MP Rob Roberts could face recall under a Labour proposal.

The party is putting forward a rule change that, if approved, could see the MP facing a recall petition.

Roberts was suspended from Parliament for six weeks in May for sexual misconduct but did not face a petition.

Read more about the story here.

Boris Johnson is asked whether the government intends to change Commons rules so that MPs suspended for bullying and sexual harassment have to automatically face a by-election.

Currently this does not happen - because these cases are dealt with by an independent panel, rather than the usual Commons standards commission.

Labour has asked for the rules to be changed following the six-week suspension of former Conservative MP Rob Roberts in May.

The prime minister says he accepts this is a "loophole" and says Commons leader Jacob-Rees Mogg is "at work" on how to close it, and will have more to say about it tomorrow.

The first question comes from Tom Tugendhat, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, who asks a question on Afghanistan.

He asks how any kind of inquiry will be conducted into deployment of British troops into the country.

Boris Johnson says he is "apprehensive" and hopes that sides in the country can "come together to reach an agreement". He says he hopes that the "blood" spent by people from the UK in helping Afghanistan will not be "in vain".

Liaison Committee Chair Sir Bernard Jenkin asks if the government will be addressing the fact that service members are required to wait to be double vaccinated alongside the standard national waiting lists, rather than being prioritised. Nato allies are prioritising service men and women in their vaccination programmes, he says.

Boris Johnson says "to the best of my knowledge" groups of the armed forces are being double jabbed. He says in 40 countries around the world, armed service personnel have protection from the virus.

The Liaison Committee is under way.

The PM faces a couple of hours of questioning from the chairs of Parliament's select committees on COP26, Covid, Brexit and other miscellaneous issues.

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Former Conservative leader, Iain Duncan Smith, is asked about plans to phase out the £20-a-week universal credit top up from the autumn.

The former work and pensions secretary designed the benefit when he was in government and then resigned over cuts to it.

He says the increase should be retained because it gets money to the people who need it most and will reduce anyway as more people get back to work.

We need to make sure we invest in the benefit, he says and the idea of taking it away completely does not necessarily send people back to the job market immediately.

Political statements about it do not work, he says - it was designed to assist people back in to work.

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The BBC asks if people's behaviours or business plans will change after 19 July.

Read more about the response here.

After a break following PMQS, Boris Johnson is preparing to spend around two hours answering questions from senior MPs on the Liaison Committee.

It is made up of the chairs of all the Commons select committees and gets to question the prime minister about policy a few times a year.

Boris Johnson last appeared before the committee in March.

Today he will be asked about COP26, Covid and the impact of the pandemiic, the post Brexit impact and other miscellaneous issues.

We can expect lots of questions around the ending of coronavirus restrictions, the timing of the change to self isolation rules for contacts of positive covid cases and the scientific basis for those decisions.