David Cameron has held talks with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels
The prime minister says there is no deal yet on curbing welfare payments to EU migrants
Eurosceptics criticise talk of an "emergency brake" on in-work benefits that would have to be agreed by a majority of EU states
Chancellor George Osborne has defended his decision to postpone the sale of the government's final stake in Lloyds Banking Group.
He told the BBC he would not go ahead with the sale - despite the fact hundreds of thousands of people are interested in buying shares - while the markets are turbulent.
"We need the markets to calm down," he added.
Chancellor George Osborne has defended the deal UK authorities have struck with Google over tax.
"When I became chancellor, Google was not paying tax at all," he told the BBC.
He said the introduction of an additional "diverted profits tax", would ensure companies like Google continued to pay tax in the future.
"I regard that as a major success," he added.
Andrew Neil and Jo Coburn are joined by former Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski to discuss unaccompanied refugee children, David Cameron's EU renegotiation talks and Poland's relationship with the EU.
They'll be talking to shadow work and pensions secretary Owen Smith and Conservative MP Chris Philip about the series of welfare defeats the government has suffered, and debating conspiracy theories.
All that and more on BBC Two from 12:00 to 13:00 GMT. Or you can watch online by clicking on the 'Live Coverage' tab above, and selecting Daily Politics.
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Lord Ahmad says the government is "fully supportive" of efforts by Network Rail to improve the resilience of the railways in the South West of England.
Labour's Lord Berkeley says the House will remember what happened in Dawlish in early 2014, when the sea wall protecting the railway collapsed and the rest of the south west was was "cut off for several months". He asks why the government cut all funding for Network Rail resilience studies and work.
Lord Ahmad says Lord Berkeley's figures are "not factually correct" and the government is engaging in the "biggest investment since the Victorian age".
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Labour's Lord Rosser asks about the government's "slightly delayed" objective of reducing net migration to tens of thousands a year, and when it might be achieved.
Lord Bates says "we're victims of our own success", saying that "when you have an economy that creates more jobs in certain categories than the entire EU" and "top ten universities" it's "not surprising" that people want to come.
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Crossbench peer Lord Green of Deddington has tabled a question about the government's projections for the population increase of the UK between now and 2030. It is thought that the population will rise by 4.4 million people. Lord Green asks if a rise of that size is "feasible or desirable".
Lord Bates says the government wants immigration "reduced to a feasible level" but also recognises the "huge benefits" immigrants can bring and also the "need to attract the brightest and the best" to the UK.
Urgent question
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Foreign Affairs Select Committee Chair Crispin Blunt notes that the accusations laid against Saudi Arabia could easily have been made of the UK in past operations.
The lesson, he argues, is that operating outside the rule of law is "ultimately self-defeating".
He hopes Saudi Arabia will endeavour to learn from these lessons.
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Tobias Ellwood points out that although he has seen the leaked report the government had not "officially received it".
He also notes that the report authors had not visited Yemen relying instead on satellite technology
He insists that this doesn't mean the government will dismiss the report but that "we will go through it with a fine tooth comb".
To emphasise the need for establishing the facts, he tells MPs that following "twittersphere" rumours the Iranian embassy had been hit, British embassy staff subsequently found that there was no real damage.
Urgent question
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Shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn tells the House that a leaked report by the UN panel of experts on Yemen documented breaches of international humanitarian law including attacks on weddings, mosques and markets.
He asks what action the government has taken since receiving the report on Monday.
He also calls on the government to suspend arm sales until the facts are established.
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Foreign Office Minister Tobias Ellwood tells the House that the use of all arms sales are scrutinised in detail through established processes.
He seeks to assure MPs that the government takes very seriously any allegations of breaches of international humanitarian law.
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MPs now move on to the second urgent question, which comes from shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, who asks about arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
The opposition has raised concerns that Saudi Arabia is using British-made weapons in their bombing campaign against Yemen.
The UN has accused Saudi Arabia of violating international humanitarian law for its campaign which has targeted hospitals, schools and markets.
Middle East minister Tobias Elwood has argued that it is more effective to work with other countries than criticise from the sidelines.
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Image source, Getty ImagesThe chancellor has postponed the sale of the government's final stake in Lloyds Banking Group, saying the global turmoil in the markets and slowing growth had sparked the delay.
George Osborne told me that he would not give the go-ahead until the markets had calmed, saying that "now is not the right time".
He said he still supported encouraging wider share ownership in Britain.
So this looks like a significant delay rather than a cancellation.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe UK's second biggest energy supplier SSE is to cut its standard gas tariff for domestic customers by 5.3%.
SSE is the second , externalof the big six suppliers to announce price cuts this winter. Both companies are only cutting gas, not electricity prices.
Last week E.On said it would cut gas prices by 5.1%.
SSE said the move - which it is estimated will save a typical customer £32 a year - will take effect from the 29 March.
But while E.On's customers will benefit from the price cut at the beginning of February, SSE's will have to wait until the end of March.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe European Commission has stepped up efforts to tackle tax avoidance.
It has published a series of measures which it says will "hamper aggressive tax planning, boost transparency between EU member states and ensure fairer competition for all businesses".
The Commission says billions of euros are currently lost to tax avoidance every year.
The proposals come amid criticism of Google's £130bn deal with UK tax authorities to settle a back tax bill.
On Wednesday, 31 OECD members signed an agreement reached last October laying out new rules to stop companies using complex tax arrangements to avoid paying corporation tax.
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Urgent question
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Now it's time for the urgent question on the under-occupancy penalty - or the "bedroom tax".
This week, the Court of Appeal ruled that the so-called bedroom tax discriminated against a domestic violence victim and the family of a disabled teenager.
The ruling, external followed legal challenges by a woman who has a panic room in her home, and the grandparents of a 15-year-old who requires overnight care.
Shadow work and pensions secretary Owen Smith wants to know on what grounds the government are due to appeal.
