Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is joining forces with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to oppose UK government trade union law reforms. They're both speaking at a rally tonight in Glasgow, which has been organised by the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC).

Westminster ministers want to tighten the rules on strike ballots to halt what they see as endless threats of industrial action. But opponents say the Trade Union Bill is an attack on the rights of workers.

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Shadow health secretary Heidi Alexander has asked an urgent question to the government relating to a report on an alleged NHS failure to investigate unexpected deaths.

"The whole house will be shocked by this morning's allegations," Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said and added NHS England has assured him that the report "will be published before Christmas".

He said: "It is our intention to accept the vast majority, if not all, of the recommendations it makes." 

He said ministers and MPs should not "pretend this is the result of the wrong culture at just one NHS trust", before adding: 

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Labour asked the Government if there would be a "politically motivated delay" to the announcement about whether Heathrow Airport will be expanded.

Speaking in the Commons the Shadow Transport Secretary Lilian Greenwood asked whether the Prime Minister would keep his "guarantee" to make a decision on airport expansion before the end of the year.

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin responded saying "when an announcement is to be made I will make it in the House".

Laura Kuenssberg
BBC political editor

It is the most eagerly anticipated "decision" in Westminster for quite some time. Except when the metaphorical white smoke drifts up over SW1 the likely outcome is that the "decision" is not to make a decision yet at all.

The politics of making a decision on building more runways in the South East of England were always going to be fraught - this time there's the London Mayoral election and a wannabe Tory Mayor, Zac Goldsmith who says he'll walk if Heathrow goes ahead.

There are strong arguments put forward by Gatwick's supporters, concerns over air quality at the West London option, and the implacable opposition from several members of the Cabinet.

By delaying, the government avoids a short term political problem and a pretty acute one at that.

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Local authority staff who administer Housing Benefit face losing their jobs when the government rolls out its new Universal Credit programme. 

Ministers have decided not to transfer existing staff to work on the new system. Housing benefit will gradually come under the umbrella of the centrally-managed Universal Credit over the next few years.

The Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan-Smith, says in a written statement today: "My Department does not propose to make any staff transfer arrangements for Local Authority staff who currently work on Housing Benefit for people of working age." 

He adds: "The phased nature of this process means that the impact on Local Authorities can be managed in a way which minimises the need for any redundancies." 

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Sadiq Khan, Labour's London mayoral candidate, says he wants to "educate" Donald Trump. 

He says "when he loses the Republican race - hopefully when he loses not if - I'm looking forward to educating him".

He points out that if Muslims were prevented from entering the US and he became Mayor of London he wouldn't be able to travel to the US to speak to the Mayor of New York.

He says: "I'd be stopped from doing so because I happen to be a Muslim."

He says he'd like to show Mr Trump around London and introduce him to other Muslims he says: "I'm in favour of debating him, show him how wrong he is, prove to him what a buffoon he is."

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Conservative MP Bob Stewart says David Cameron is "damned if he does, damned if he doesn't" on making a decision about expanding Heathrow Airport. 

He also makes the point that even with another runway, more capacity will still be needed in the future and remarks the situation is at "bursting point". 

He says if people really object to expansion at Heathrow, than Gatwick is probably an option "we could accept all round".

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Sadiq Khan, Labour's London mayor candidate, said he supports a new runway at Gatwick, saying "I'm in favour of a new runway at Gatwick Airport and no new runway at Heathrow Airport."

He added that a decision to delay may be good to internal Conservative politics but not for Londoners. 

Asked about his changing stance on the issue, having previously backed Heathrow expansion, he says: "I'm not scared to change my mind if the facts change."

He says "Cameron should say yes to Gatwick, no to Heathrow and get on with it".

Danny Shaw
BBC Home Affairs Correspondent

The number of terrorism-related arrests has increased by a third in the past 12 months. 

Home Office figures show there were 315 arrests in the year ending September 2015. 

The number of women and girls detained more than doubled from 21 to 50. 

The number of under 18 year olds arrested for terrorism-related offences almost doubled from 8 in the year ending September 2014, to 15 in the year ending September 2015.

Despite not having a date for the referendum on the European Union yet (beyond the PM's promise to hold it by the end of 2017), the Electoral Commision have decided on a place for the result to be announced - Manchester.

The Electoral Commission says it chose the location to "ensure value for money for the taxpayer". The chief counting officer Jenny Watson said:

Labour MP Mary Creagh writes in the New Statesman, external urging unity for her party after the divisions over the air strikes in Syria. She was one of 66 MPs who voted in favour of military action and warns against the influence of "hard-left parties".

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David Willetts, former Conservative cabinet minister earlier told Today "wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of the baby boomers" and more should be done for younger generations.

He said wealth needed to be spread across age groups and said the problem was being "exacerbated" and could cause divisions in society. He said public policy wasn't delivering the values people hold of helping other generations.

He warned against a state that delivers services to older people and is less good at services for younger people.

He said the "triple-lock" system, which ensured the state pension goes up by whichever is higher - inflation, wages or 2.5% - needed to be looked at as pensioner income kept on increasing, whereas younger people were earning less than previous generations.

Below is the agenda for the House of Commons. 

In addition, at 10.30 GMT there will be an urgent question on the investigation into deaths at Southern Health Foudation. The Shadow Health Secretary Heidi Alexander will be asking Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

Read more on the Southern Trust here