Mr Cameron is travelling to France to be with his parents David Cameron will miss prime minister’s questions on Wednesday after his father suffered a stroke.
“The Prime Minister was informed this morning that his father Ian is seriously ill after suffering a stroke and heart complications while on holiday in France,” No 10 said.
After talking to doctors at the hospital the PM has decided to fly to be with his father and mother Mary.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will deputise for Mr Cameron.
Wednesday’s session is the first time that prime minister’s has been held since the end of July when Parliament rose for the summer recess.
In Mr Cameron’s absence, it is likely that acting Labour leader Harriet Harman will also miss the half-hour session.
When Mr Clegg stood in for Mr Cameron in July – during the prime minister’s trip to the US – he was faced across the dispatch box by shadow justice secretary Jack Straw.
The BBC’s Political Correspondent Laura Kuenssberg said the prime minister had often spoken of the close bond between him and his parents and his father’s condition would be of real concern to him.
It had been expected that PM’s questions would be dominated by questions about No 10’s director of communications Andy Coulson following allegations of phone hacking by journalists while he was editor of the News of the World.
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