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Today the government won a Commons vote on its plans to introduce "English votes for English laws", with MPs backing the move by 312 to 270. The SNP claimed the plans would make Scottish MPs "second class citizens". But Commons leader Chris Grayling dismissed objections to the new law as "nonsense" during the bad-tempered debate.

Here's a recap of today's other political developments:

• Police would struggle to monitor terror threats if further significant cuts were made to budgets, a chief constable has told the BBC
• George Osborne says the decision to push ahead with tax credit cuts is a "judgement call" he is "comfortable" with despite pressure over the plans
• Sources close to the Iraq Inquiry have indicated chairman Sir John Chilcot may write to David Cameron with a timetable for his report before 3 November
• Home Secretary Theresa May has said the public will not have confidence in the police unless there are more black and ethnic minority officers
• A sugar tax and cutting buy-one-get-one-free deals are part of Public Health England's "key actions" to tackle people's addiction to sugar

Feminist write Germaine Greer blames the situation on globalisation. She says China is being accused of dumping cheap steel "but it isn't dumping, it's marketing". She says it is "a bad idea to produce steel which is actually uneconomic" and goes on to criticise globalisaion which she says has been a particularly "disastrous policy" for developing countries.

Nigel Farage, UKIP leader, says the government can't intervene "because its hands are tied" by EU state aid rules.

Apprentice winner and businesswoman Michelle Dewberry says the UK steel industry is in "crisis" and she doesn't believe the government is doing enough. She says it's not a problem that has emerged over the past few weeks, saying the industry's been facing issues for some time.

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Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi says global steel prices have gone from $1,600 a ton to below $400. "This isn't just dumping from China - it's Ukraine and it's India. It's happening because there's overcapacity."

Defending the government, he says it is looking at ways to help the UK steel industry through procurement and ways to make it more competitive. The government is also looking at training workers who have been made redundant, he adds.

The Stratford MP says once demand catches up with supply, prices will rise again and the UK industry will be "robust".

This week's Question Time comes from Grimsby. The first question is on the UK steel industry, amid a series of job losses. We could be doing much more to help the UK steel industry, argues former Labour home secretary Alan Johnson.

He says the government needs to look at business rates and energy costs and should do more - through the EU and World Trade Organisation - to deal with "dumping", when steel is sold at below cost price.

 "I've seen no real attempt to have a strategy for dealing with this," he adds.

James Landale
Deputy political editor

Britain's famously flexible constitution has changed once again. England gets a greater voice. The SNP has another grievance. There are going to be huge rows over the changes as they begin to bite in the coming weeks. But the impact will be felt far beyond the corridors of Westminster. When you start tugging at one part of the devolution settlement, quite often you'll find it frays somewhere else.

Robin Brant
Political Correspondent

MPs are set to vote on the government's revised plans to allow fracking underneath national parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty in England. 

The proposals are due to go before MPs next Tuesday with a vote expected shortly after.

The changes will be considered by what is known as a Delegated Legislation Committee, and it's likely there will not be a fuller debate in the House of Commons.

Plans to completely ban energy companies from drilling for gas in these protected areas were overturned in the summer.

Companies won't be allowed to set up drills inside the protected zones but instead they will be permitted to drill horizontally to search for gas directly underneath.

The government says protections remain in place through the planning system to ensure national parks and other areas aren't damaged. But the prospect remains of drilling rigs being set up around the edge of the areas.

Greenpeace has accused the government of using an "arcane parliamentary process" that it says could see parts of the English countryside "fracked without anyone noticing".

Prime Minister David Cameron is hosting China's President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan at his country retreat, Chequers this evening.

Mr Xi is to discuss global affairs and tackling extremism during the meeting, Downing Street has said.

In a joint statement, the leaders have praised the trip as opening a "golden era" in UK-China relations.

Earlier the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh bid farewell to Mr Xi on the penultimate day of his UK state visit.

More here.

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The Scotland Office has said there are no plans to change its name after a revamp of its social media accounts.

The office has rebranded its Facebook page and Twitter accounts to UK Government for Scotland, external and @UKGovScotland, external.

The former @ScotlandOffice handle was taken over by someone running a parody, but it has since been suspended.

The Scotland Office said the branding was to explain what the department does and that no major changes are planned.