Here is Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow health secretary, on the plan to scale back free hospital parking for NHS staff. (See 9.34am.)

Alex Flynn, chief of staff at the BMA, had a better version of the “clamp carers” line in a tweet last night.

It sounds like we might be getting a U-turn of sorts today over hospital parking charges for NHS staff.

The Independent published a story last night saying that “NHS workers will have to start paying for parking at their own hospitals again as the Covid-19 crisis starts to ease”. The reporter, Hugo Gye, had a good source. He had actually read the reply to a Commons written question on this topic provided by the health minister Edward Argar, who said:

The provision of free parking for National Health Service staff by NHS trusts has not ended and nothing has changed since the announcement on 25 March. However, free parking for staff has only been made possible by support from local authorities and independent providers and this support cannot continue indefinitely.

We also want the NHS to deliver on the government’s commitment on free hospital parking for those in greatest need, the disabled, frequent outpatient attendees, parents who have sick children that are staying overnight in hospital and staff working nightshifts. Implementation of this commitment has been on hold whilst the NHS has been managing the Covid-19 pandemic and devoting its hospital parking capacity to staff and other facilities necessary for managing the pandemic.

The question was tabled by Labour’s Rachael Maskell.

Nicky Morgan, the Tory peer and former culture secretary, has been giving interviews this morning and, as the Telegraph’s Cat Neilan points out, she changed her line between interviews, suggesting there may have been a rethink.

In fact, the rethink had already started last night. This is what the Department of Health and Social Care told PA Media in response to the Independent story, and the statement stresses that NHS staff will continue to get free parking at hospitals “in certain circumstances”. A DHSC spokesperson said:

We want to make sure NHS staff can travel safely to work during the pandemic, which is why we requested that the NHS make parking free for staff, and that local authorities do the same with their car parks.

When the pandemic begins to ease, the NHS will continue to provide free hospital car parking to key patient groups and NHS staff in certain circumstances. We will provide further updates on this in due course.

This may just be a reference to staff working nightshifts getting free parking (a proposal confirmed by Argar), but the tone of the statement is slightly different from that adopted in the written answer.

Ian Blackford, the SNP’S leader at Westminster, says all hospital parking charges should be abolished.

The mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has urged the government to guarantee a real living wage for the lowest paid workers.

Speaking on Sky News he challenged Rishi Sunak to show a genuine commitment to the Conservative’s promise to “level up” society. He said:

There are millions of people in the north of England on low paid insecure contracts. And I keep hearing that, if they have symptoms, or if they get a message from the test and trace system, they can’t go off work, because they know they won’t be paid.

Two million people in our country have no access to statutory sick pay. And for those who do it’s £95 a week. This virus has hit the poorest communities hardest because of the really poor nature of people’s work up and down the country. This is why I’m a bit worried about this statement today from a chancellor. I don’t hear proper measures to level up the country here. If it was really going to do that, he would say the people who’ve been out running the country for the last three months, ‘we’re going to make sure they all have a real living wage’. That is levelling up.

Burnham also warned that a stamp duty holiday would not tackle inequality.

He said: “I’m worried that we’re noticing another big political moment pass here from the chancellor, where we haven’t got substance behind this phrase ‘levelling up’.”

Greenpeace activists have replaced the destinations on the road signs around parliament to read “Green Recovery”.

The stunt was designed to highlight Greenpeace’s view that the government only has one option with its economic recovery package, and that much greater investment is needed to green the transport, energy, housing and waste sectors, create new green jobs and tackle the climate emergency.

It comes as the government is threatened with legal action over the expected lack of green measures in the summer statement.

On Tuesday, a letter threatening court action was sent to the prime minister and the chancellor by the pressure group Plan B, which successfully took the government to the appeal court this year over its green light for the expansion of Heathrow airport.

Sunak will set out £3bn of green spending, focusing on improving energy efficiency in homes and public buildings, in his summer statement on Wednesday. But the letter contrasts this sum with the billions committed to airlines and carmakers in the taxpayer-funded coronavirus recovery package, and funding for fossil fuels.

That report about hospital parking charges resuming for NHS staff appears to be causing unease in Tory ranks.

Labour has been highly critical of the plan – a sign that it may be raised by Keir Starmer at prime minister’s questions.

Welcome to live coverage of the UK’s coronavirus crisis and the chancellor’s summer statement.

Rishi Sunak is set to put a job creation plan for under-25s at the centre of his statement, which is expected at about 12.30pm.

The £2bn scheme will fund six-month job placements for an estimated 350,000 18- to 24-year-olds.

Sunak is also reported to be considering a stamp duty holiday for properties under £500,000 to boost the housing market, as part of a package to tackle the economic impact of the coronavirus.

Richard Partington has a preview of these and other measures to look out for in the chancellor’s statement.