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Parliament's official photographer, Jessica Taylor, was in the chamber for Prime Minister's Questions - here are just a few of her snaps...

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The shadow of the Owen Paterson row remains over Westminster, but talk had quietened down a tad over MPs' second jobs.

That might not last long though...

It was revealed that former Attorney General Geoffrey Cox worked from the Caribbean during lockdown, earning £700,000 as a lawyer advising the British Virgin Islands.

He came in for swathes of criticism, especially after a video showed him carrying out a Zoom meeting with the BVI government from his parliamentary office.

Well, while MPs have been in the Commons for PMQs, it turns out Cox has been taking part in another meeting, as you can see live on the BVI's YouTube, external.

He is not breaking the rules if the meeting is taking place outside of his office and his earnings are declared.

The World at One
BBC Radio 4

Back to the Windrush story, and a Home Office minister has criticised proposals to take the compensation scheme away from his department.

A damning Home Affairs Committee report suggested the move, saying most people who applied had yet to get a penny four years since the scandal emerged.

But Kevin Foster told BBC Radio 4's World at One said removing it from the team "with the most expertise in this area… would potentially just add further delays in the process”.

He claimed 29% of those who applied for compensation had received a payment and that the Home Office was increasing the number of case workers working on the scheme from 80 to 114.

Foster added: “We are very clear with our teams - this is not an adversarial process about defending the Home Office against all claims [but about] working with the claimant to find out the impact on them."

He said they were “looking to work with community groups to build trust” and “working with some of the relevant High Commissions to provide a trusted partner”.

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Away from the Commons chamber, the widow of a police officer killed in 2019 has spoken of her relief after the government backed her campaign for mandatory life sentences for the killers of emergency service workers.

PC Andrew Harper was 28 when he was dragged to his death by a getaway car. Three teenagers were jailed for manslaughter.

Speaking at the start of a meeting with Justice Secretary Dominic Raab, his widow Lissie said she was “really happy to reach this point", adding: "It’s been a long, hard journey but we’re really glad we could get here.”

Earlier, Raab's department confirmed it would aim to pass a law named after her PC Harper "as soon as possible".

If passed, it would introduce mandatory life sentences in England and Wales for those who kill on-duty emergency workers while committing a crime.

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Boris Johnson wants to see "further improvements" to make Parliament family friendly, Downing Street has told reporters.

During a regular lunchtime briefing, the PM's spokesman was questioned on the issue after Labour MP Stella Creasy was informed it was against the rules to bring her child to a debate in Parliament.

However, the spokesman acknowledged the rules are for the House of Commons to decide, not the government.

Earlier, Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said he had asked the Procedure Committee - which recommends changes to the rules - to look into the matter.

Reality Check

During Prime Minister’s Questions, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the government’s pledge to build 40 new hospitals in England was a broken promise.

The Conservative Party's 2019 manifesto said: "We will build and fund 40 new hospitals over the next 10 years."

But the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has a broad definition of "new hospital", which they say can mean:

• A whole new hospital on a new site or current NHS land

• A major new clinical building on an existing site or a new wing of an existing hospital

• A major refurbishment and alteration

Of the 40 projects listed, external on the government's website, the Nuffield Trust says only two involve building an entirely new general hospital, both of which started before the last election and are planned to replace old hospitals.

Most of the developments on the list involve building new wings or refurbishing existing wings on the site of an existing hospital.

BBC Politics Live
BBC2's lunchtime political programme

Conservative MP and Solicitor General Alex Chalk defends the government's social care plans, arguing that everyone in the UK is "better off under this system", regardless of their income or assets.

He says that at the moment, the average house price in the UK is £265,000, but under the current system, someone who develops dementia would lose "almost all of that".

"What we are saying is that the maximum you would have to pay is £86,000," he adds, saying: "No one else has come up with any other ideas."

Nick Eardley
Political correspondent

It was a bit calmer than last week - there was no angry intervention from the Speaker, but the theme was broadly the same.

This is because Sir Keir Starmer thinks he is on to something. He claims: "Here is what the PM tells you will happen, but then when you get to the fine print, it is a bit different."

So, that issue of whether anyone will have to sell their home as part of new social care plans is one we will keep hearing.

There are some circumstances in which you would have to sell your home - that is why Boris Johnson didn't want to get into the detail of Starmer's specific question.

The government will keep selling this as a better plan than the one in place at the moment.

But they will keep being reminded by Labour that it is not exactly what they promised.

Today's weekly question session has come to an end, but don't worry if you missed it - here are some key moments from the sometimes feisty exchanges:

• Sir Keir Starmer accused Boris Johnson of breaking promises to voters, including a 2019 manifesto pledge to prevent people having to sell their home to pay for social care
• The Labour leader also took aim at government proposals for operating a new lifetime cap on care costs, branding them a "working class dementia tax"
• Johnson defended his social care blueprint, and accused Labour of having failed to address the issue during its time in office
• Appearing to reference a rule called the housing disregard, the PM insisted Starmer's claims on housing weren't true, and called him "befuddled"
• Elsewhere, the PM was questioned about his green credentials in the wake of the COP26 summit, supply chain problems, and keeping some BTec qualifications

Reality Check

Boris Johnson was asked about whether he had broken his manifesto pledge on social care.

The Conservative Party’s 2019 manifesto said: "Nobody needing care should be forced to sell their home to pay for it".

The prime minister highlighted what is called the “housing disregard”, which means if you are receiving social care at home or if you are in a care home and your spouse is living in your home, the value of the home is not counted towards your assets when working out how much you should be contributing towards your social care.

He also pointed out that people living in a care home without a spouse living in their home could access deferrals to paying care costs, so that they would not have to sell their homes straight away.

But their homes may still have to be sold to pay for their care, even if this doesn’t happen during their lifetime.

On Monday, the Business Minister Paul Scully told Sky News: "There will be fewer people selling their houses and hopefully none."

Reality Check has looked at other claims about social care here.

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After quite a heated set of exchanges in the Commons, PMQs is over for another week.

Do stay with us though for further reaction and analysis.

Or tune into BBC Parliament, where shadow business secretary, Ed Miliband, is asking the government a question on the collapse of the energy firm Bulb.

The SNP's John Nicholson says Scots "stood slack-jawed" in astonishment at the news the PM had abandoned the idea of a bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland.

He suggests the prime minister will now propose hot air balloons for the crossing, adding: "He will inflate them himself."

The MP adds: "With broken bridge promises to Scotland, broken rail promises to England and with buyers remorse consuming Tory backbenchers - who will be defenestrated first? His hapless Tory leader in Scotland or himself?"

Johnson says the SNP should be representing the people of Scotland and delivering better public services.

He adds that his government will shortly be delivering a review of union connectivity.

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Labour MP John Spellar asks for support on his forthcoming bill, which will ban the import of all hunting trophies.

He says this is something which has widespread public support and has supporters from all parties in the Commons.

So he asks for Conservative whips not to block the bill.

Boris Johnson says the government is "going to introduce legislation in this Parliament" which will block imports like this and he hopes the Spellar "will support it".

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Lib Dem MP Layla Moran asks what the government can do to support a food bank in her constituency that has been struggling due to supply chain issues in the economy.

She also asks what more he can do to persuade the private sector to support such schemes.

The prime minister replies that he thinks businesses do "an amazing job" in this area.

He says the government is working "night and day" to address supply chain issues, adding: "We are seeing some of the problems starting to ease."