Here's a round-up of today's main stories:

- David Cameron has vowed  to end the "merry-go-round"  , as he put it, of taxing low earners then handing them money back in benefits

- Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman said reducing tax credits would be "absolutely the wrong thing to do"

- To find out more about how the welfare bill is spent, and where it might be cut,  check out our handy guide

- Elsewhere, the BBC has learned that,  from now on, the government will count  some peace-keeping missions as part of defence spending

- About 250 planned onshore wind farms are likely to be cancelled because of an early end to subsidies, according to the government

- The chair of the Commons Home Affairs Committee, Keith Vaz, has said the UK must "up its game" on stopping people travelling to join Islamic State in Syria

- Lobby group Business for Britain said David Cameron should push for Britain to leave the EU unless other leaders agree to a "special deal" for the UK, including a "veto" against policies from Brussels

And we leave you with the news that the new justice secretary, Michael Gove, is to use his first speech to call for an overhaul of the justice system in England and Wales, saying it is failing the poorest in society

Newsnight

Newsnight is under way on BBC 2, and a discussion is taking place about the current crisis in Greece. Former Conservative Chancellor Ken Clarke, says the Greeks should never have been let into the euro as "they never had a convergent economy and they produced bogus figures". Mr Clarke, a pro-European MP, predicts the euro won't fall apart, saying it's "a British neurosis" to say it is.

What is needed now, Mr Clarke goes on to argue, are "arrangements" that make the countries that remain in the euro "run on a more disciplined basis" and enable them "to get the structural reforms that several economies.. require to enable them to thrive in the modern world".

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The government’s Education and Adoption Bill has cleared its first parliamentary hurdle after MPs rejected Labour's attempt to block the bill "because it fails to set out measures for dealing with inadequate academies."

MPs voted by 308 to 193, a majority of 115, to reject the Labour amendment.

The bill was then passed without the need for a vote, meaning it progresses to committee stage where line-by-line scrutiny will be undertaken by MPs.

The UK must "up its game" on stopping people travelling to join Islamic State in Syria, Commons Home Affairs Select Committee chairman Keith Vaz has said.

He said the British authorities need a "hotline to Istanbul" to stop people trying to cross the Turkey-Syria border.

Earlier the MP met with two of the husbands of three Bradford sisters thought to be in Syria, whose lawyers say police were "complicit" in radicalising them., external

West Yorkshire Police said it rejected that suggestion.

Read more here.

The House of Commons is busy debating the Education and Adoption Bill at second reading. A vote on the legislation is expected when the debate concludes at 22.00 BST. We'll be bringing you the result as soon as it is announced.

Peers are also busy in the House of Lords, continuing with their committee-stage scrutiny of the Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill.

Ministers are being urged to exempt councils from paying business rates on public toilets, saying it is leading to the closure of facilities.

Parish and town councils say keeping conveniences open is vital for public health and rates are adding thousands of pounds to the cost of running them.

They say laws passed in 2007 require ministers to consider removing barriers to the wellbeing of local areas.

The number of public toilets has fallen markedly in recent years.

More here.

The Department for Communities and Local Government has released new statistics suggesting its "Troubled Families" programme has turned around 116,654 families.

The programme provides intensive support for families identified by local councils as struggling with truancy, crime, anti-social behaviour and worklessness.

Since it began, 117,910 families have been enrolled in the programme.

This morning, David Cameron said the initiative had "changed lives" and "saved as much as £1.2bn in the process".

Here's a run-down of everything that's gone on today: 

- David Cameron has vowed  to end the merry-go-round , as he put it, of taxing low earners then handing them money back in benefits. While he didn't say it in so many words, Westminster has taken that to mean he's planning to make significant cuts to tax credits.  Nick Robinson blogged on the matter for us

- Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman said it was "absolutely the wrong thing to do" and people on tax credits were not "abusers of the welfare system"

- To find out more about how the welfare bill is spent, and where it might be cut,  check out our handy guide .

- Elsewhere, the BBC's Carole Walker learned that from now on, the government will count  some peace-keeping missions as part of defence spending. UKIP accused ministers of "creative accounting" at a time when the future of the defence budget is a hot political potato

- Lobby group Business for Britain says David Cameron should push for Britain to leave the EU unless other leaders agree to a "special deal" for the UK, including a "veto" against policies from Brussels

Finally, on a lighter note, we learned that shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves gave birth to a baby boy last week so congratulations to her.

Birmingham Post

Would you like to be "part of the change", are you looking for "a fresh start", or perhaps you're "proud of our values". Political editor Jonathan Walker has been comparing the slogans, external used by the rival candidates for Labour's leadership.

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Welsh councils need re-organising to deliver "better public services", the first minister has said.

A new map suggesting that the 22 authorities be cut to eight or nine has prompted anger within Welsh Labour, with senior council figures opposed to the plans.

Carwyn Jones told BBC Radio Wales reform was needed when four of the 22 councils were unable to run their education services due to failings.

Bigger authorities would work more effectively, he said. Read our full story.

Julia Unwin, chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, has reacted to the prospect of tax credit cuts. She says they are "a vital tool to prevent people’s incomes slipping so low that their health, education and prospects are damaged".

NI Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has said Sinn Féin will be backing Finance Minister Arlene Foster's new budget bill.

He said: "In the context of the present situation in relation to the budget, we will be giving conditional support to this budget bill."

The move would "create space which hopefully will see a resolution" on the dispute over welfare, he added.

Mr McGuinness was speaking ahead of Monday's debate and vote on the budget bill. Read our full story.