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PMQs is about to start.
Here is the list of MPs down to ask a question.
At 7pm tonight MPs will vote on the principle of the new £12m levy for health and social care. They are not voting on legislation, but instead on a ways and means resolution (a mechanism to approve new taxation) which says:
That provision may be made for, and in connection with, the following—
(a) the imposition of a tax on earnings and profits in respect of which national insurance contributions are payable, or would be payable if no restriction by reference to pensionable age were applicable, the proceeds of which are to be paid (together with any associated penalties or interest) to the Secretary of State towards the cost of health and social care but where expenses incurred in collecting the tax are to be deducted and paid instead into the Consolidated Fund, and