That concludes our text coverage of Monday's proceedings at the Lib Dem conference. You can watch all the speeches in full on BBC Parliament and follow all the latest twists and turns at Today at Conference at 23.25 on BBC Two. Tuesday is set to be a busy day with the week's set piece economy debate and speeches from Energy Secretary Ed Davey, Care Support minister Norman Lamb and Party President Tim Farron. For the early birds, there is also a debate on the state of British football at 9.00 am. Please join us then.

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We are now onto the final formal session of the day. Delegates are now debating a series of reports by the parliamentary parties of the Liberal Democrats.

Activists vote to reject a proposal to a ban state-funded schools from selecting children on grounds of faith. The rest of the amendment - which includes calls for an end to the current legal requirement for all state-funded schools to hold acts of collective worship and for non-religious schools to hold acts of worship of a broadly Christian character - is adopted.

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Women and Equalities spokesperson Baroness Northover says the movers of the faith schools amendment are right to highlight the issue - but she adds that such an important issue should be thoroughly examined and not "tacked" on to a wide-ranging equalities paper.

Summing up the debate on amendment three, Julian Huppert argues that everyone should be treated equally, but insists that religious discrimination still exists within the education system. The Cambridge MP says the amendment is not about closing faith schools or restricting choice, but stopping state-funded schools from selecting children and teachers on the basis of faith.

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Stephen Lloyd MP and Justice Minister Simon Hughes also add their voices to opposition to "amendment three" - which says a ban on selection by faith schools should be party policy. Mr Hughes argues that with eight months to go before the general election "to pull up our policy on something that will cause huge difficulty for all of us irrespective of our faith or belief is absolutely not the thing to do in the middle of an afternoon with a half-attended hall and almost no notice".

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Back in the main hall, Vince Cable makes his third appearance on the conference stage today - and apologises to activists for "hogging" the rostrum. He is defending the role of faith schools in society, as he appeals to activists to reject an amendment advocating the ending of admission on religious grounds. People should have the right to send their children to a faith school if they so choose, he argues.

Danny Alexander has said the government should consider commissioning housing if targets for building new homes are not met. Speaking at a fringe meeting in Glasgow, the Treasury minister suggested giving central government the power to build homes as a "backstop". "A truly radical approach would be for the government to also have a direct role in house building, not just affordable house building but in the private market also," he argued.

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