Downing Street has defended plans to renew the Coronavirus Act's emergency measures for six months.
Today, Boris Johnson will address Tory MPs ahead of Commons votes on his plan for easing lockdown.
The Prime Minister will speak to the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee to defend the Government's approach, which will see some restrictions remain in place in England until at least June 21.
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On Thursday, MPs will be asked to approve the regulations for the road map and extend some of the emergency powers in the Coronavirus Act for a further six months.
The Government also indicated it will remove or suspend 12 measures that are no longer required.
They include provisions on emergency volunteers which could have come into force if the delivery of health services was at risk and the end of an extension to time limits for retaining fingerprints and DNA profiles.
But Tory former chief whip Mark Harper, leader of the Covid Recovery Group of lockdown-sceptics, said the road map regulations expire on June 30, rather than June 21 and "however minor this seems, it may add to concerns that goalposts are being moved".
He added that the planned six-month extension to the Coronavirus Act was in "fundamental contradiction" to the road map because it would go far beyond the June date.
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Mr Harper said: "The Coronavirus Act contains some of the most draconian detention powers in modern British legal history, and if ministers want to renew its provisions, they must demonstrate they are proportionate, reasonable and grounded in evidence."
Responding to the news, the Prime Minister's official spokesman said: "The Coronavirus Act needs a renewal vote every six months, that will mean this is the second such vote."
The spokesman said an extension of the Act was needed to allow furlough payments to continue, "vital court hearings" to proceed and measures including the extension of sick pay provision for "as long as they are needed".
