PMQs: As it happened

So what did we learn from today's session?

• Keir Starmer pushes the prime minister over catch up funding for schools
• The Labour leader and SNP's Ian Blackford both questioned the PM on cuts to overseas aid

• Starmer says the government "balked" at the amount needed for schools after the pandemic and the current plans are a "false economy" that will harm disadvantaged pupils
• Johnson say six million children will benefit from the tutoring measures
• Starmer says the UK is the only member of the G7 that is cutting its overseas aid budget at a time when more help is needed such as in the Middle East where there is a need to reset talks between Israelis and Palestinians
• SNP's Ian Blackford said the aid cuts are "inhumane" and the PM is "running from his own moral and legal responsibilities" ahead of the G7 summit.
• The PM says says the British people are in favour of the balance the country is striking because we are in very difficult financial times and are already spending £10bn.
• SDLP leader Colum Eastwood asks why the PM prioritising a trade deal with Australia for "cheap, dodgy beef" rather than sorting out Brexit issues in Northern Ireland. Johnson says his focus is on the rights and ability of the people of Northern Ireland to have access to goods from GB
• Former PM Theresa May asks if the government will look at the ramifications of the collapsed Hillsborough prosecutions. The PM paid tribute "courage and determination" of the victims' families, and said ministers would consider the options for changes to the law.

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Lord Frost has said that “there weren’t any breakthroughs, there weren’t any breakdowns either” in the talks with the EU Commission this morning. He said the two sides would “carry on talking”.

In a short interview at the end of today's meeting, the UK's Brexit Minister said there had been “some frank and honest discussions” about the situation in Northern Ireland, including on the movement of chilled meats from GB to NI.

Responding to the suggestion that the UK knew that this was part of the Protocol it signed and needs to obey the rules it agreed, Frost said that “the EU is insisting we operate the Protocol in an extremely purist way.

"The reality is that it’s a very balanced document designed… to deal with very sensitive politics in Northern Ireland” he said.

Welsh Independent MP Jonathan Edwards asks the PM about the fate of the steel industry - will it be next to be betrayed by Brexit, he asks.

The PM says Brexit offers export opportunities for Welsh farmers.

Labour's Ian Lavery calls the government's catch up help for school children in England "derisory".

He says the PM, who went to Eton and Oxford University, has a "wonderfully privileged education background" and asks him to explain the situation.

Boris Johnson replies that this is wrong and that the scheme in place will make a "huge difference" to pupils.

The issue of forced adoptions is raised by the Conservative Sir David Amess who says thousands of women suffered as a result, including those in his Southend constituency.

Does the PM agree that an apology should be given and an acknowledgement that this was wrong, he asks.

Johnson says he echoes the sentiments about those who have been affected.

But he says the practices can't happen now because the law has been changed to protect people.

The agencies involved have apologised he adds and that's "quite right too".

The BBC has reported the stories of hundreds of women forced to give up their babies for adoption in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

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Former prime minister Theresa May says in April 1989, 96 Liverpool fans "were unlawfully killed at Hillsborough" but nobody has ever been prosecuted for these deaths.

She says the most recent trial collapsed because police evidence had been changed.

She asks for the PM to look at the ramifications of this for future inquiries, and for the families of the Hillsborough 96.

Boris Johnson says the families of those killed in the Hillsborough disaster "have shown tremendous courage and determination".

He says "we will always consider opportunities to consider the law and how it operates" and will be considering this case.

Labour's Andrew Gwynne asks about the resignation of advisers and recent criticisms over standards in government, saying: "Does the prime minister wonder why this keeps happening to him?"

The PM responds that the government takes standards seriously.

Conservative David Jones is up next and he also asks about the ongoing Brexit tensions with the EU.

He says he notes that some in Brussels have problems with Lord Frost, who negotiated Britain's departure.

Jones asks if the PM agrees with Frost's assessment that matters would be easier if the EU adopted a pragmatic rather than a purist approach to implementing the rules.

Johnson says he agrees with Frost "completely" and thinks he is doing an "outstanding job".

Labour MP Fabian Hamilton asks what is being done to avoid marriage and inheritance exploitation.

He says an elderly constituent of his with late stage dementia was married by a man who befriended her.

This, he says, wiped out her previous will, and meant her entire estate was left to him. Since this episode, he says he has been contacted by "hundreds" of other people whose family members have had the same thing happen to them.

Boris Johnson says he will put Mr Hamilton in contact with the relevant people in government to deal with the issue.

Labour's Barry Sheerman asks when the government's "levelling-up" agenda is "going to start", criticising the level of resources and quality of management of projects. The PM responds that people "across the country" are responding to a "massive" investment, transforming "lives, hopes and opportunities".

Colum Eastwood from the SDLP raises the issue of how Brexit is playing out in Northern Ireland with the so-called Northern Ireland protocol.

He asks why the PM is prioritising getting "cheap, dodgy beef from Australia" over the concerns of the people of Northern Ireland and reducing checks in the Irish sea.

The PM says that is wrong.

He says he is prioritising the rights and ability of the people of Northern Ireland to have access to goods from GB and is also protecting the integrity of the UK.

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Tory MP Scott Benton calls the catch-up help for children in England a "tutoring revolution".

The PM agrees, describing it as an "evidence-based" intervention, offering three to five months' worth of help.

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SNP Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, is up.

He wishes all the best to Scotland's team for the forthcoming European football championship.

He says the PM will walk in to the G7 summit as the only country to cut aid spending at a time when people need it most and is "on the run from his own moral and legal responsibilities".

Will Johnson commit to a vote on "his inhumane cuts" he asks?

The PM says people of this country are in favour of the balance the country is striking because we are in very difficult financial times and are already spending £10bn.

But "no-one is safe until all are safe" says Blackford so we should support each other "rather than walk away from those in need".

Johnson repeats his earlier comment that one in three of the vaccines being distributed around the world come from the Oxford AstraZeneca supply.

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For his final question, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says the government is the only member of the G7 which is cutting its aid budget.

He says business development groups are calling for leadership from the UK on overseas aid.

He says the prospect of a new government in Israel is an opportunity to reset talks in the Middle East for Israelis and Palestinians. He says over 60 Palestinian children died in the latest conflict.

"For too many in Palestine" the "recognition of a sovereign state" is too distant, he states.

Boris Johnson says it's "been a long standing" view of the UK that the way to achieve peace in the Middle East is for a two state solution.

"Under this government, we continue to spend more than Labour ever did" on overseas aid, he adds.

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In his fifth, and penultimate, question to the PM, Sir Keir Starmer says the attainment gap will rise under the government's plans, accusing Boris Johnson of being "all over the place".

Turnng to this week's G7 summit, Sir Keir says the UK must lead a "truly global effort" to increase Covid vaccinations.

Johnson replies that this is "indeed" happening already, and that one in three doses distributed around the world are of Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine.