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Coronavirus: Prime Minister's Questions will go ahead in new virtual Parliament

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Prime Minister's Questions could return this month as plans get underway for a virtual Parliament. MPs and Peers will be able to hold Commons and Lords debates through video conferencing - and work is underway to develop a way for online voting.

A skeleton crew of MPs - including Speaker Lindsay Hoyle - would attend the Commons in person, wherever possible. But for the most part, debates would be conducted online.

Oral questions (including PMQs ), urgent questions and ministerial statements are planned to take place during the first two hours of each sitting day, by video link.

Planning for certain parts of House business to be taken virtually when it returns on 21 April “is progressing well”, Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has said.

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