Gareth Thomas (Lab) is free school meals will be extended for Christmas.
Johnson says the government will ensure that no child goes hungry this Christmas because of inactivity by government. It was a Conservative government that introduced free school meals for infants, he says.
(In fact, it was a coalition government. The Lib Dems say the policy only happened because they insisted on it.)
Nusrat Ghani (Con) asks if the government will redouble support for programmes like Prevent. And she asks the PM to condemn Islamist TV channels available in the UK justifying practices like wife beating.
Johnson agrees.
Stephen Farry (Alliance) asks when the government will remove the clauses from the internal market bill allowing the government to override the withdrawal agreement.
Johnson says the legislation is vital for the country.
Johnson says he is “so, so sorry” places of worship are having to close. But the government is working to ensure the restrictions can be lifted on 2 December.
Ian Blackford, the SNP leader at Westminster, asks the PM to clarify if Scotland will get full 80% furlough on current terms whenever it is requested in the months ahead.
Johnson says he gave a commitment on Monday. Furlough is a UK-wide scheme. It has saved about 1m jobs in Scotland.
Blackford asks if payments for businesses in Scotland will be available on an on-demand basis. And will the government write to the Scottish government making a commitment in writing.
Johnson says Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, will make a statement tomorrow. The government will support people in Scotland and throughout the UK during the crisis.
Starmer says if four out of 10 people who should be contacted are not being contacted, that is a problem.
Turning to care homes, he says it must be possible to find a way of allowing safe visits by relatives.
Johnson says there will be be new guidance on this today.
He says MPs will have noticed that Starmer has used this crisis to make political crisis. Kate Green talked about a good crisis, he says. He says Tony Blair has written a good piece in today’s Daily Mail in which he broadly supports the government’s strategy, including mass testing and the search for a vaccine. He urges Starmer “to take a leaf out of Blair’s book”. And he says Tony Blair would not have spent four years in a Corbyn shadow cabinet.
Starmer says it would be ‘madness’ to abandon lockdown if R still above 1 on 2 December
Starmer says it would be “madness” to abandon the lockdown on 2 December if R is still above 1 then.
He says 113,000 contacts were not reached in a week, according to the most recent figures.
What will the PM do to fix test and trace?
Johnson says he has been accused of bragging about testing. He is “perfectly willing to accept responsibility for the failing of test and trace”. But to get testing capacity up to 500,000 a day is a remarkable feat, he says.
He says MPs should work together to get the R down.
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Starmer says of course there will be a vote. That is just the process. But what happens if R is still above 1 on 2 December. Will the lockdown still end?
Johnson claims R is “only just above 1” as it is. He says the measures will expire on 2 December. Is Starmer saying the measures should last longer.
Starmer says he looked at the evidence three weeks ago and decided a circuit break was best. He does not accept that the evidence suddenly changed this weekend.
Will the lockdown end on 2 December come what may? Or will it depend on the circumstances at the time?
Johnson says, as he told MPs repeatedly on Monday, these measures will expire on 2 December. He says he hopes very much they can get shops open again before Christmas. But that requires people to get the R down.
It will be up to the Commons to decide what they do.
Starmer says no one wants a lockdown. But an earlier one could have coincided with half term, and lasted two or three weeks. Does the PM understand the economic cost of delaying?
Johnson says it is because he understands the economic cost that it was right to go for the regional solution.
He says the government will soon be rolling out new types of tests on a scale never seen before.
He thanks the Labour leadership of Liverpool for their cooperation.
Sir Keir Starmer asks the PM to agree that is it not for a candidate to declare the results of an election. And he expresses his horror at the terror attack in Nice.
On Covid, he says 11 people died on the day Sage recommended a circuit break lockdown. On Monday, 42 days later, 397 people died. Does the PM understand the human cost of his inaction.
Johnson says he does not comment on the internal affairs of the UK’s allies.
No parliament or government would want to impose these measures lightly, he says.
He says it was right to try the regional approach. It was, and is, showing signs of working. But we have to face the reality that we are now facing a surge in this virus, which the Commons has to tackle.
Andrew Jones (Con) asks when rapid-result tests can be rolled out across the UK.
Johnson says the pilot will last two weeks.
Boris Johnson starts by saying MPs are talking about a heavily contested election – and it is a year to the day since Sir Lindsay Hoyle was elected Speaker.
He thanks Hoyle “for making the Speakership great again”.
PMQs
PMQs will be starting shortly.
Here is the list of MPs down to ask a question.
After PMQs there will be a short speech from Gavin Newlands (SNP) on a 10-minute rule bill, on banning firms from sacking workers and then rehiring them on worse terms. MPs then have to approve a business motion (which should go through very quickly, without a division). And then Boris Johnson will open the debate on the lockdown regulations.
