BBC Politics Live: Thursday 29 October

Summary

Sir John Chilcot says long-awaited Iraq Inquiry report should be ready by July 2016
David Cameron says he is disappointed at timing and asks if it can be brought forward
Mr Cameron is in Iceland for talks set to focus on EU membership
Ex-Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg launching a report backing the UK's EU membership
In other political news... it's the Dog of the Year show for MPs and peers

Live Reporting

Alex Hunt, Rajdeep Sandhu and Izin Akhabau

Reactions to Tim Loughton Kids Company interviewpublished at 08:45
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Kids Company 'threatened ministers with bad press'published at 08:36
Today Programme
BBC Radio 4
Ex-children's minister Tim Loughton says when ministers asked Kids Company about where the funding was going, the charity warned that it could lead to "not very favourable media stories, suggesting you want to waste money on bureaucracy".
Kids Company: Government inability to measure figures 'part of problem'published at 08:35
Today Programme
BBC Radio 4
Tim Loughton says the government's inability to independently verify figures from Kids Company was "part of the problem".
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Any other charity that came for this sort of grant would have been set some performance indicators which they would have been expected to follow."
Kids Company's numbers questionedpublished at 08:28
Today Programme
BBC Radio 4
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Clearly the number of kids being helped by Kids Company was much lower than we were led to believe."
Tim Loughton, Conservative MP and ex-education ministe
'Other charities were squeezed out' because of Kids Companypublished at 08:27
Today Programme
BBC Radio 4
Tim Loughton says his then boss as an education minister, Michael Gove, was aware of questions around Kids Company. He says there were many other charities that were squeezed out because there wasn't enough money to go around.
Batmanghelidjh went straight to Cameron in pleas for fundingpublished at 08:26
Today Programme
BBC Radio 4
Tim Loughton has told the Today programme Camila Batmanghelidjh went over his head and straight to David Cameron in order to get funding for Kids Company when he was in the department for education.
Reactions to Nick Clegg's speechpublished at 08:23
As we've been reporting, Nick Clegg was on Radio 4's Today talking about the upcoming European Union referendum.
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Loughton: Sceptical of giving Kids Company moneypublished at 08:20
Today Programme
BBC Radio 4
Ex-children's minister Tim Loughton on the Today programme is being interviewed about money given to Kids Company. He says the charity had warned they would go bust unless they received a large sum of money.
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I was very sceptical at the time and was very against giving them such a large amount of money."
Hunt: Junior doctors will not lose money in new contract - Huntpublished at 08:17
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Hunt: Junior doctors working 'legal limit week' will not lose pay
No junior doctors working up to the legal limit on working hours will lose money under a proposed new contract, the health secretary has said.
Jeremy Hunt made his remarks in a debate called by Labour to focus on the changes to junior doctor contracts, which are due to be made by government.
He said the new contract was "about patient care and not saving money".
The British Medical Association said Mr Hunt had "finally made a significant shift" but said it wanted more details.
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Collapsed charity Kids Company given £46m in public cashpublished at 08:15
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Kids Company's founder Camila Batmanghelidjh has denied claims the charity was financially mismanaged
Collapsed charity Kids Company received at least £46m of public money despite repeated concerns about how it was run, the National Audit Office has found.
The charity repeatedly asked for government money and warned of closures if officials resisted, the NAO said, external.
Concerns about the charity's cash flow and financial sustainability were raised as far back as 2002, it found.
Former bosses at the charity, which helped vulnerable young people, deny it was financially mismanaged.
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EU referendum: 'UK yet to reveal reform details'published at 08:12
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Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Roivas (L) and Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila
Two European leaders have told the BBC that the UK is yet to reveal any details about what it wants to achieve in a renegotiation with the EU.
Estonia and Finland's leaders say David Cameron has so far failed to provide concrete proposals.
But Mr Cameron, who is in Iceland for a meeting of northern European leaders, said discussions were "going well".
The prime minister wants to renegotiate the UK's relationship with the EU ahead of an in/out referendum on membership.
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MI5 boss wants 'mature debate' on surveillance powerspublished at 08:10
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The head of MI5 has said he is hoping for a mature debate on intercepting communications data, rather than accusations of mass surveillance.
Andrew Parker said the service was not seeking "sweeping new intrusive powers" but rather a framework that "reflects the way that technology has moved on".
He also said the scale of the terrorist threat in the UK was at a level he had not seen in his 32-year career.
A draft bill updating state surveillance powers is due next week.
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Nick Clegg: Time and space needed for PM to make casepublished at 08:00
Today Programme
BBC Radio 4
Nick Clegg says that between the time the renegotiation is completed and the referendum is held it is important that there is "time and space" for David Cameron "whose referendum this is" to make the case.
Nick Clegg warns against 'false prospectus' on EU optionspublished at 07:56
Today Programme
BBC Radio 4
The ex-Lib Dem leader - the most pro-European voice in the coalition government from 2010 to 2015 - says that these "early skirmishes" should be based on the reality of the situation. He says he wants to see:
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A sincerely held clash of views.. but let's not do it on the false prospectus that we can somehow have our cake and eat it - leave the EU and keeping all the good bits and discarding all the bad bits. That simply is not on offer."
Nick Clegg: Options for UK after leaving are worse than being in EUpublished at 07:52
Today Programme
BBC Radio 4
The former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, speaking from Heathrow, tells Today that the current meeting in Iceland has made it clear that all the possible options for the UK outside the EU are worse than being a member.
Good morningpublished at 07:50
Hello and welcome to our rolling political coverage - which begins with ex-Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg appearing on the Today programme...