Summary

  • Labour says Ken Livingstone will not have a formal role in its defence review, which will consider policy on Trident

  • Shadow defence secretary Emily Thornberry says the review will be based on evidence and will aim to publish its interim findings in June

  • Jean-Claude Juncker says agreement on the UK's EU re-negotiations is likely next month

  • More than a million benefits claimants may be facing destitution after disappearing from the welfare system, Labour ex-minister Frank Field claims.

  • Head teachers warn the system for creating new school places in England is fragmented and confusing, risking harm to children's education

  1. English anthem: Need fresh settlement for Englandpublished at 13:00 Greenwich Mean Time 13 January 2016

    The English national anthem bill is being introduced to the House of Commons. Labour MP Toby Perkins said the bill would outline which song would be sung at national sporting events. Toby Perkins highlights that Wales and Scotland all have their own national songs.

    He said: "We need a fresh settlement for England and for Britain, as part of reestablishing the distinct identities of the four nations that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland."

    He said recognising England as an entity should not be feared. 

  2. Case for English national anthem in the Commonspublished at 12:55

    Toby Perkins

    Labour MP Toby Perkins is introducing his ten minute rule bill on introducing a new English national anthem.

    He told the house he was neither a "republican or an atheist, nor an English nationalist". He said he wanted to bring the bill as a sign of respect for "God, Her Majesty the Queen, God Save the Queen, or to the United Kingdom" but in order to "preserve" these things.

    He called it a cross-party campaign and said the Prime Minister also showed some "sympathy" for the cause.

  3. Big political divide on housingpublished at 12:55

    The Daily Politics

    The government is focused on helping people own their own home - Labour is focused more than for a long time on ensuring social housing tenants are protected, says Laura Kuenssberg. It's a big political divide.

  4. First openly gay Conservative cabinet minister?published at 12:52

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  5. No guarantees for 'sink estate' residents?published at 12:47

    The Daily Politics

    David Cameron could not guarantee that residents cleared out of "sink estates" so that they can be bulldozed will be guaranteed a home in the same area, despite repeated questions from Jeremy Corbyn, says Laura Kuenssberg.

    Security minister John Hayes says the details have yet to be announced but "yes, of course" decent accommodation will have to be provided for "these people".

  6. Watch: David Cameron says Iran deal should be entered with 'heavy heart, clear eye and hard head'published at 12:47

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  7. Was Jeremy Corbyn right to go on housing only?published at 12:45

    The Daily Politics

    BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg says she was surprised Jeremy Corbyn did not split his questions to David Cameron, to get in some references to the junior doctors strike. Andrew Neil asks why he only focused on the government's plans for "sink estates" without bringing in other housing issues. Labour shadow minister Jonathan Ashworth says Mr Corbyn did well and it was the right way to go.

  8. Scottish Secretary David Mundell comes out publicly as gaypublished at 12:44

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  9. Prime Minister's Questions comes to an endpublished at 12:40

    Mr Cameron deals with questions from Plaid Cymru's Stephen Williams - who warns of a constitutional crisis in Wales - and Tory MP Sir Alan Duncan, on the oil industry, and Labour's Carolyn Harris and a question on flooding in Calder Valley before the session comes to a close and then Speaker moves on to answering questions about the first use of teh English-only vote yesterday.

  10. Watch: David Cameron defends ending of student grantspublished at 12:38

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  11. Constitutional crisis?published at 12:39 Greenwich Mean Time 13 January 2016

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  12. Cameron accused over green subsidiespublished at 12:36

    David Cameron hits back at claims by a Labour MP that he is harming pro-green business such as car maker Nissan by cutting back on wind farm and other green subsidies. Mr Cameron insists this is simply not true - but says it was right to seek a balance between decarbonising the economy and keeping energy bills down.

  13. Watch: David Cameron on Heathrow and air pollutionpublished at 12:34

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  14. Watch: Cameron and Corbyn clash over housingpublished at 12:32

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    PMQs: David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn clash over housing

  15. Grants for poorest students to be axed 'by backdoor'published at 12:31

    Labour's Paul Blomfield asks why grants for the poorest students are to be scrapped "by the backdoor" tomorrow without a vote. Mr Cameron insists the changes have been debated and more people from poorer backgrounds are going on to higher education. 

  16. Iran's nuclear programmepublished at 12:30

    David Cameron says Iran has granted the International Atomic Energy agency full access and it takes that country away from a nuclear weapon, but we must make sureit sticks to the terms of the deal.

  17. Heathrow expansion pleapublished at 12:28

    Tania Mathias

    Conservative MP Tania Mathias tells MPs that in 8 days at the start of this year parts of London had exceeded the annual limit for nitrogen dioxide pollution and urges the prime minister to pledge never to expand Heathrow while pollution levels remain so high. 

    David Cameron replies that air quality was one of the reasons why the decision on Heathrow was delayed. 

  18. Winter deaths due to the coldpublished at 12:25

    Labour's Dan Jarvis asks what the government is doing about the 117,000 older people who die each year as a result of the cold. Mr Cameron says all governments need to do more on this. He says energy bills are not falling as fast as he would like.

  19. Pension entitlement for women born in the 1950spublished at 12:23

    The SNP's Tommy Shephard raises the issue of women born in the 1950s losing state pension entitlement. Mr Cameron hails Britain's pension system - but he has not heard the last of it. Labour's Barbara Keeley says his response is "just not good enough". Mr Cameron reaches back to Gordon Brown's "miserly" pension increase as he again praises his pension "triple lock".

  20. SNP raises post-study visaspublished at 12:20

    The SNP's Angus Robertson asks why the government is preventing foreign students in Scotland from getting post-study visas, allowing them to stay on and look for graduate jobs.

    He says post-study visas in Scotland are supported by many organisations including the Scottish Conservative Party. 

    Mr Cameron says the "the clarity of our offer" to international students "is world beating" - but there are enough British people in need of low paid work.

    The message to foreign students should "not be that it's OK to stay with a less than graduate job", he says. 

    "We don't need the world's brightest and best to come here to study and then do menial jobs," he adds.