Nathan Williams
Live reporter

We're wrapping up our live coverage of this week's PMQs, which saw Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer get personal in their attacks.

There's no break for Sunak, with the PM on his way to Northern Ireland. He'll be making an address in Belfast, closing a conference marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

My colleagues in Northern Ireland will be bringing you updates on that speech, which is scheduled for about 15:35, and you can follow along live here.

He'll take to the stage after comments from a line-up of global leaders and former presidents, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen, and Taoiseach (Irish PM) Leo Varadkar.

It's goodbye from us in London - today's PMQs coverage was brought to you by Heather Sharp, Sarah Fowler, Marita Moloney, Thomas Macintosh, Alys Davies, Gem O'Reilly, Chas Geiger and myself.

You can read our story summarising today's action in the Commons here, as well as our report on Rishi Sunak declaring his wife's shares after a financial interests row here.

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Now back to that long-delayed list of ministerial interests that was published shortly before PMQs.

Political reporters have been asking Downing Street for more detail on exactly when Rishi Sunak first declared the financial interest regarding the childcare agency - Koru Kids - that his wife holds shares in.

No 10 has declined to give dates, but said a long-established process had been followed: "We have been very clear that the prime minister has taken his obligation to declare everything very seriously, he has done that for a number of years."

"Three independent advisers have reviewed those declarations so one would infer by that, that those declarations - including that of Koru Kids - have been made for a number of years," Downing Street said.

It also stressed there was a difference between an interest being declared and it being placed in the public domain - something Labour has pressed for.

The PM's spokesman said publication was up to the independent adviser on ministerial interests, Sir Laurie Magnus, emphasising again that the PM has "followed all processes to the absolute letter".

Marita Moloney
Live reporter

Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer came out swinging for their first head-to-head after the Easter recess.

The scrappy exchanges were at times personal, with the two party leaders attacking each other over their records on crime.

'Sir Softie': Starmer's first question to Sunak about the state of public services led to the PM levelling a new nickname on the Labour leader. Starmer accused Sunak of living in another world; the PM maintained crime sentencing has been toughened up - something he said "Sir Softie over there" has opposed.

'Violent criminals go free': Crime was a focal point for this week's sparring match. Starmer said a backlog in sentencing meant violent offenders are not ending up in prison.

'Soft on crime': Sunak hit back, saying the government is cracking down on grooming gangs and has toughened the law on sex offenders, adding Starmer "voted against it". He says that Starmer is "soft on criminals".

'Why did Scottish Tory leader urge voters to back Labour?': There was plenty of noise in the Commons today, not least when SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn brought up remarks from the leader of the Scottish Conservatives suggesting voters should vote tactically for Labour in Scotland. Sunak responds: "We're just going to motor on with the job."

'A scandal': We didn't hear from the Greens, but Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey used his question to ask the PM about the prevalence of tooth decay in children. Sunak said his party was improving access to NHS dentists.

'The battle is on': And finally, a word from the BBC's political editor Chris Mason. He says next month's local elections are not only about the parties, but "the personal brands of Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer too".

Shortly before PMQs, a long-delayed list of ministerial interests was published.

It included a declaration by Sunak of the childcare agency that his wife, Akshata Murty, holds shares in as a financial interest, as he is investigated over a possible breach of the rules.

Parliament's standards watchdog is looking into claims he did not correctly declare his wife's shares in Koru Kids, a firm which could benefit from measures in last month's Budget.

The PM's team insisted he had followed the rules by declaring it as a ministerial interest, rather than to the Commons. But the list of ministers' interests had not been updated for nearly a year until it was published this morning.

Sunak's entry includes - for the first time - his wife's minority shareholding in Koru Kids, which he did not mention when questioned by MPs last month about why one of his policies specifically benefitted childminders who sign up through private agencies.

The new register does not state when Sunak added Koru Kids.

Conservative MP David Davis questioned Rishi Sunak about the junior doctor strike during today's PMQs, saying it was "causing harm and pain to our constituents".

A four-day walkout by junior doctors - who are demanding a 35% pay rise - took place last week. Figures showed that more than 196,000 hospital appointments had to be cancelled because of the strike in England.

Sunak responds by explaining that the government values the role of junior doctors and is keen to find "a fair and reasonable settlement".

Let's take a quick look back at some of the exchanges at Prime Minister's Questions.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer asked the prime minister about the state of public services, referencing NHS waiting times, court cases and migrants crossing the Channel in small boats.

Rishi Sunak said: "With the Conservative government you get more funding, more reform and better outcomes for Britain."

Brian Wheeler
Politics reporter

This PMQs felt a bit like a job appraisal for Sir Keir Starmer - he even quoted glowing reviews of his own performance as Director of Public Prosecutions.

Rishi Sunak, naturally, had different reviews of the former DPP’s record.

Tory researchers have clearly been working overtime combing through every decision Sir Keir made in his former job. Sunak had plenty of ammunition.

And he also tried out a new attack line, dubbing the Labour leader "Sir Softie" for allegedly being soft on crime.

Shades of Boris Johnson, who made a specialty of derogatory nicknames for Sir Keir.

Reality Check

In exchanges about the level of crime, Rishi Sunak said: “Since 2010 crime [is] down by 50%.”

The preferred source of figures on trends in crime is the Crime Survey for England and Wales, external (CSEW), which gave a figure of 9.5 million incidents in March 2010 and 4.7 million in September 2022 - that’s a fall of about 50%.

But those figures exclude fraud and computer misuse, which only started being included in the CSEW in 2017.

That makes this comparison difficult. It’s a significant category - in September 2022 there were almost as many incidents of fraud and computer misuse as incidents of all other crimes put together.

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Labour's Daniel Zeichner says he recently went to visit a major supermarket, and was shocked to hear from shop workers about their expectations of suffering violent assault every day.

"What is this out of touch prime minister doing to ensure people can be safe in their workplace?" he asks.

Sunak says "everyone deserves to be safe in their workplace".

He says the sentencing act will make sure there is appropriate sentencing in place, and that more generally the government is making sure that there are police officers and community support officers across the country to help combat crime.

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Labour MP Rosie Duffield raises the shocking scale of rape and sexual assault which takes place at hospitals.

She cites figures which say 33 attacks take place every day as she asks what the prime minister can do to make sure all women are safe in Britain's hospitals.

Sunak replies: “I was deeply shocked and appalled to hear about the cases of sexual assault in the NHS."

He outlines that the government will work closely to make sure programmes aimed at fixing the issue are implemented.

The questions have now finished in the Commons, but we'll continue to bring you more of what was said in the Commons - and of course reaction and analysis.

Stay with us.

The SNP's Stuart C McDonald says civil servants who have worked "tirelessly and with distinction" through very challenging times are fed up with ministers patting them on the back and treating them "with contempt" - by offering them derisory" 2% and 4.5% pay rises with inflation now in double digits.

When, he asks, will they get fair offers?

Sunak pays tribute to "all our hardworking public sector workers". He says there is a well-established independent pay review process, and he is pleased the government has reached settlements with many unions.

Conservative MP Saqib Bhatti says he has recently met one of his constituency members, 17-year-old Alfie, who is walking 15,000 steps every day in April to raise awareness of autism.

He asks whether the PM will join him in wishing Alfie well on his walk and mission to change the way people think about autism.

Sunak says Alfie is an inspiration to his community and many others and wishes Alfie the best of luck.

SNP MP for Dundee Chris Law starts by saying there is some good news that the city's airport now has flights which will connect to London Heathrow.

But, he draws on claims there are issues with Scotland being ignored on the global stage.

Sunak replies he is pleased to say the government is supporting Dundee and has invested millions of pounds into the city.

Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey brings up the issue of tooth decay, citing it as the number one reason why children over four end up in hospital.

He cites the low number of children in some areas seeing a dentist in the past years as a "scandal", and asks the PM: Will he follow the Lib Dem plan to end this crisis and ensure people can get access to an NHS dentist when they need one?

Sunak replies that the NHS recently reformed dentistry contracts which will improve access for patients. Dentistry receives about £3bn in funding every year and there were 500 more dentists delivering care in the NHS last year compared to the year before, he says.

Almost 45% more children saw a dentist over the same period, he adds.

Chris Mason
Political editor

The striking thing about the exchanges between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer just now was how personal they were - about each other.

"He is letting violent criminals go free" Sir Keir claimed of the prime minister.

"Sir Softie… soft on crime, soft on criminals," the PM branded the Labour leader.

Sunak even waved around the law - passed by the Conservatives - relating specifically to Sir Keir’s pension from his time as director of public prosecutions, to point to an alleged hypocrisy.

The battle is on - ahead of next month’s local elections in parts of England and the general election expected next year - to be seen as the face of the country’s future.

Yes, that is about the Conservative and Labour brands, but the personal brands of Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer too.

Sunak says the Scottish Conservatives deserve "enormous praise" for forcing the SNP into abandoning "their completely unworkable fundamentally flawed deposit return scheme".

"If they can't fix the mess Sturgeon left in the party, how can they possibly fix the mess that she left Scotland in", he says.

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SNP's Stephen Flynn continues to attack the prime minister as he reiterates remarks from the leader of the Scottish Conservatives to vote for Labour in Scotland.

"Let me be clear we will take no lectures [from a party] which has not had a right to govern in Scotland since 1955," he says as he then turns to point out Sunak has been fined by the police twice.

Flynn says the message is "Don't give the Tories what they want."

Sunak says his government will not be distracted from delivering for the people of Scotland; it will continue funding public services and helping people with the cost of living.

"I know the SNP are focused on other matters," the PM adds, "we're just going to motor on with the job".

Stephen Flynn, the SNP’s leader in Westminster, is now up.

He jokes that he's delighted to hear Sunak had as peaceful an Easter break as he did.

He asks the PM was it their refusal to stand alongside striking workers on the picket line, the acceptance of the economic damage caused by Brexit, or perhaps their acceptance of denying the people of Scotland the right to choose their future which led to the leader of the Scottish Conservative Party to urge voters to vote Labour?

Douglas Ross has suggested people could vote tactically to oust the SNP.