Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer puts his first question to the prime minister.

He says the PM spent this week arguing about an ancient relic which a tiny amount of the British public have interest in, referring to the row over the Parthenon Sculptures, or Elgin Marbles.

"That’s enough about the Tory Party," Starmer jokes.

Starmer says that in 2019 the Tories said they would control immigration and British people would be in control.

"How's it going?" he asks.

Chris Mason
Political editor

A plea for temperate and moderate language from the Speaker.

Let’s see how that goes…

And we're off! Sunak is standing at the despatch box now. He opens by saying he had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others this morning, and will have more meetings later.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is at the despatch box and PMQs is getting under way.

Stay with us for text coverage of this week's Prime Minister's Questions - and watch live by pressing the play button at the top of the page.

Chris Mason
Political editor

Hello from the press gallery of the House of Commons.

There was a modest cheer from the Conservative benches just now as Rishi Sunak walks in.

The seats are filling up – Keir Starmer the Labour leader was already here when I arrived so I can’t offer a measure on the cheer-o-meter when he turned up.

Image source, EPA

Expect at least some of today’s session to focus on the Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles, the fate of which is at the centre of a diplomatic row between the British and Greek governments.

Earlier this week Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was in the UK where he was due to meet his British counterpart Rishi Sunak to discuss issues including migration, climate change and the Israel-Gaza conflict.

But, No 10 cancelled the meeting at the last minute, after Mitsotakis told BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg that the marbles should be returned, as having some of the artefacts in London and the rest in Athens was like cuttingthe Mona Lisa in half.

The Greek PM said he was “deeply disappointed by the abrupt cancellation”. Labour has already described Sunak’s behaviour as “pathetic”, and we can expect its leader Keir Starmer – who did meet with Mitsotakis – to use it as an opportunity to go on the offensive against Sunak.

As our political correspondent Chris Mason writes, the row is as much about politics as it is history.

Today's Prime Minister's Questions comes a week after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt presented his Autumn Statement to the Commons, which included:

• Main rate of National Insurance cut from 12% to 10% from 6 January
• Legal minimum wage - known officially as the National Living Wage - to increase from £10.42 to £11.44 an hour from April
• Universal credit and other working-age benefits in England and Wales to increase by 6.7% from April
• State pension payments to increase by 8.5% from April, in line with average earnings
• Extending the 75% business rates discount for pubs, restaurants and leisure businesses for a further year

But yesterday, the Office for Budget Responsibility, the UK's official economic forecaster, said the spending plans represent "a very big fiscal risk".

So we can expect to hear the fallout from the Autumn Statement when Sunak faces MPs shortly.

Read more about Hunt's key announcements here.

One likely issue to face the PM today is migration - as it's the first PMQs since last week's figures which revealed net migration into the UK hit a record 745,000 last year.

On Monday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said levels of net migration were "too high" and that the government needed to "do more", without giving details of what that might be.

Right-wing Tory MPs have lined up to urge immigration Robert Jenrick to push Sunak to take action - and yesterday Jenrick pledged to bring forward a "serious package of fundamental reforms" to reduce net migration numbers.

After taking questions from Tory MPs, frustrated at growing migration levels, Jenrick said there were "strong arguments" for introducing a cap on migration and restricting the number of dependents who can accompany migrants to the UK. Read more here.

We've just spotted the prime minister leaving No 10, which is looking very Christmassy with a wreath on the door and tree outside.

Rishi Sunak is now making the short journey down Whitehall to Parliament.

Rob Corp
Live reporter

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Rishi Sunak will be on his feet at the dispatch box from 12:00 GMT, where he will open by telling MPs what he's been doing so far today and what else he has on his diary, before taking questions from across the House by MPs of all parties. Some will be relatively kind to him, others will seek to make him uncomfortable.

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