For Labour, shadow health minister Feryal Clark says the publication of a report into the "harrowing truth" over the failures at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust is a momentous occasion.

The treatment of mothers and babies was "shameful", she adds, calling for patient safety to be the priority.

Back in the Commons, Health Secretary Sajid Javid gives a statement on failures at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust, which may have resulted in the deaths of more than 200 babies.

There were problems at every level of patient care, he tells MPs, and multiple opportunities to address them were ignored.

People expect the highest standards of the NHS and ministers must "act firmly" where these are not reached, he says. Javid apologises to the families affected.

Just joining us for the afternoon? Let's take you through what you missed at PMQs...

• The session started with Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer offering their support to Tory MP Jamie Wallis, who came out as trans and spoke about his rape ordeal in a statement on Twitter
• Starmer accused the PM of talking "nonsense" by trying to claim the Conservatives were a tax cutting party, with a new tax being brought in next month to cover NHS and social care costs
• But Johnson insisted his government was "getting on with reducing the tax burden wherever we can"
• The Labour leader also raised the issue of partygate, calling on the PM to resign for misleading the House over the lockdown gatherings
• Again though, Johnson insisted he was "getting on with the job" of prime minister
• A number of MPs, including the SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, raised the cost of living crisis, calling for more help from the government
• The number of Ukrainian refugees being granted visas was also raised, but the PM said the UK could be "proud" of its efforts to help

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That's the end of PMQs...but don't go too far, as we have plenty more for you this afternoon.

We will bring you news from a raft of statements from ministers in the Commons.

And the big event of the afternoon will begin at 15:00 when Boris Johnson faces questions from the Liaison Committee.

Do stay with us!

A lengthy question by Labour's Matt Western on the cost of living, in which he accuses Chancellor Rishi Sunak of being out of touch, is curtailed by Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle.

Boris Johnson says Western's style is better suited to a "light feature in the Guardian" than the pithy demands of Prime Minister's Questions.

The government is doing all it can to mitigate the impact of inflation on households, he adds.

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Tory backbencher Sir Roger Gale brings up the issue of Ukrainian refugees again, pointing to the updated figures of just 2,700 being granted visas through the Homes for Ukraine scheme.

He calls on the PM to give support to ministers "to cut through the Home Office red tape, simplify the process and get people into the country".

Johnson says the Home Office is processing 1,000 a day and hundreds of thousands of people are opening their homes.

"I think we can be incredibly proud of what the UK is doing," he adds.

Read more here: How many Ukrainians have fled their homes and where have they gone? - BBC News

Reality Check

Boris Johnson said earlier: “What we’re doing with income tax and National Insurance… it’s the biggest tax cut for 25 years."

The prime minister is correct to say that the measures proposed in the Spring Statement last Wednesday, if taken in isolation, amount to a larger tax cut than any announced in a Budget over the last 25 years.

The chancellor said the government would increase the amount you can earn without paying any National Insurance starting this July and would cut the basic rate of tax in 2024.

But that’s not the full picture. If you look at all the measures announced by the government in the last year, they mean that people will be paying more tax in 2024 than they are at the moment.

You can read more from our fact check here

Former Justice Secretary Robert Buckland urges Boris Johnson to defend the "rules-based international system" following the resignation of senior UK judges from Hong Kong's Supreme Court.

The judges say they cannot continue to serve, external under a new security law imposed by China.

The PM says it is "vital" to make the point to Chinese leaders that human rights must be respected.

Labour's Catherine West says gas and electric prices and bills "are through the roof", adding: "The just about managing are no longer managing."

She says the government had a "golden opportunity" to tackle it in the Spring Statement last week.

She asks: "Why the devil didn't they take the opportunity?"

Johnson says he "understands the pressure they are under".

But he says: "The best thing we can do rather than endlessly taxing more and borrowing more is having a strong economy and getting people into work."

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Labour's Sarah Champion says she is hearing more stories everyday about how her consituents can't "put food on the table, keep the lights on or fuel their cars".

She said to the PM: "Dont blame Ukraine, don't blame Covid.

"It is your government policies and your political choices.

"How do you sleep at night?"

The PM agrees that "people are facing a very tough time at the moment", but he doesn't agree with her analysis.

He says the government is helping people through changes to universal credit and a rise in the living wage.

"We can't do everything right now, but we will ensure strong economic performance and get people into work."

Tory Lucy Allan says the Ockenden report on failures at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust which may have resulted in the deaths of 200 babies is "devastating".

She calls for a "compassionate" approach to the findings and for maternity care to be improved.

Boris Johnson extends his heartfelt sympathies to the victims and their families and says ministers are striving to work out the "right approach" in future.

Read more about the story here.

Tory MP Johnny Mercer says it's time to "double down" on aid to the Ukrainian armed forces in order to consign Russian President Vladimir Putin "to the dustbin of history".

Boris Johnson promises to do so, promising to work to prevent any "backsliding" on sanctions against Russia by the UK's allies.

Attacks on PM over cost of living crunchpublished at 12:28 British Summer Time 30 March 2022

12:28 BST 30 March 2022

Nick Eardley
Political correspondent

The government is continuing to face pressure from opposition parties about last weeks spring statement.

The Labour party has attacked ministers over the tax burn - and said it would hurt working people. The SNP has said there wasn’t enough support for people facing a cost of living crisis - they want loans for energy bills to be turned into grants.

The prime minister doesn’t accept the criticism, perhaps unsurprisingly. But there will be continued pressure on the PM and chancellor to come up with more support if energy bills go up further and the cost of living is squeezed even more.

And the debate over taxes is unlikely to go away - the prime minister insists he is a tax cutter, but others think he’s waiting too long to bring in the changes promised for 2024.

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey tells a story of how his grandmother welcomed Jewish refugees into her home during the Second World War.

But he says when he visted the Ukrainian border with Poland recently things had changed, with an elderly couple saying telling him they wanted to come "but it was just too complicated".

Davey says the latest Home Office figures show that is true and "paperwork being put ahead of people".

Boris Johnson says the Lib Dem should not "deprecate what the UK is offering".

He says the government is processing 1,000 visa applications a day and there is no upper limit on how many Ukrainians can come to the UK.

"This country is overwhelmingly generous to people coming in fear of this lives and so is this government," he adds.

SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford says Tory MPs gathered for a "champagne bash" dinner on Tuesday evening, a few days ahead of a £700 energy bill rise for millions of families.

He accuses Conservatives of "partying through the cost-of-living crisis", asking what help people will get.

The PM replies that the living wage is rising "by record amounts" and that £9.1bn is going into giving people assistance.

Blackford calls this "baloney", saying a loan scheme is forcing people into "energy debt" and must be replaced by grants.

But Boris Johnson insists "huge investments" are being made to help hard-pressed households.

PM will keep facing pressure on finespublished at 12:20 British Summer Time 30 March 2022

12:20 BST 30 March 2022

Nick Eardley
Political correspondent

Boris Johnson wasn’t keen to discuss the details of fines issued over parties in Downing Street and Whitehall.

The prime minister said it was right investigators got on with the job - and that the government was getting on with its work.

But the PM is likely to keep facing pressure to correct the record on what went on in government buildings during lockdown.

Johnson told Parliament in December that he had been assured no rules had been broken.

He said the same during media interviews.

But the Met police has now concluded that rules were, in fact, broken.

In his final question, Starmer says there are only two explanations on the PM's answer on partygate.

"Either he is trashing the ministerial code or he is claiming he was repeatedly lied to by his advisers and didn't know what was going on in his own house and own office."

The Labour leader says Johnson believes it is "one rule for him and another for others", adding: "When is he going to stop taking the British public for fools?"

The PM hits back, accusing Starmer of having "zero consistency on any issue".

"But the one thing we know is he would like to take us back into the EU and back into lockdown," he claims.

Johnson says under the Tories unemployment was down, the economy had grown and there were record vacancies.

Meanwhile Labour, he says, "play politics".