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As Norman Smith anticipated earlier on the Today programme, Business Secretary Sajid Javid will make a statement to the Commons on Tata Steel's pensions. That's expected at around 12:00 BST.

There will also be an urgent question to the home secretary  at around 10:30 BST, on the imminent deportation of the Brain family.

The family, who have been living in Scotland since 2011, must leave the UK and return to Australia next week if they cannot meet visa criteria.

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Labour Remain campaigner Lord Blunkett told Today why he backed the UK's EU membership.

"Globalisation is unavoidable," he says. "We either face it and we work together or we will be swept aside by it."

Of Labour voters, he says: "I'm worried that they don't see it as their fight. I'm worried that they want to go back to a bygone era."

He argues it is the "obligation" of people such as himself with experience of the EU and foreign affairs to "reassure them that we haven't lost our marbles".

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Labour peer Lord Blunkett says UK immigration can "check who is coming, whether they are authorised to do so" and if they plan to work - even if the UK is in the EU.

"Many are discouraged by coming across the channel by the intervention of our security and immigration staff on French soil," he tells Today.

David Blunkett was Home Secretary when the decision was taken to allow Poles and other East Europeans to come to the UK to work, during the biggest single expansion of the EU in 2004.

He says 40% of those who became eligible to work legally "were already in the country" and many now "would come in illegally if we didn't have those border controls on French soil".

If the UK leaves the EU, "our border would be moved back to Kent", the Remain supporter adds.

The ballot for Commons private members’ bills for the 2016-17 session of Parliament took place a short time ago. The ballot selects 20 MPs in reverse order, with the MP in first place having the first choice of a private members’ bill Friday to debate their bill.

"Foolish" EU procurement rules cost UK taxpayers £1.6bn a year, which could be better spent on new hospitals and flood defences, Leave campaigners say.

Black and minority ethnic people (BME) in Wales do not think the EU referendum is "for them", a campaigner says.

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Former Pensions Minister Steve Webb speaks to Today about his warning that cutting pension benefits to help save Tata Steel's UK operations could take ministers down a "dangerous path".

The ex-Lib Dem MP says "nobody doubts" that ministers want to help the steel industry but claims the plans "could have ripple effects the government hasn't even thought about".

There would be safeguards, including a requirement that such measures can only be used in an emergency but Mr Webb says this is "ill-defined".

He suggests that another employer could "artificially create an emergency" in order to cut their own pension scheme benefits.

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BBC business editor Simon Jack says the pension scheme deficit is "a deal-breaker for any potential buyer" of Tata Steel's UK operations.

The government is expected to propose basing the scheme's annual increase on the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation measure, which is usually below the current Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure.

While other pension schemes have dones this, it is more difficult "when you've got existing pension scheme members", Simon says.

However, he adds, some union leaders might prefer this option rather than the scheme "sliding" into the Pension Protection Fund., external

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More on the accusation that Ryanair is breaking electoral law in its campaign for the UK to stay in the EU.

The Electoral Commission says anyone intending to spend more than £10,000 campaigning in the referendum must register with it. Ryanair has pledged to spend much more - and printed slogans on one of its aircraft - but has not registered.

It has been reported that Ryanair intends to spend €25,000 (£18,980) on a campaign for Remain. It has offered discounted flights to passengers who want to fly home to vote to stay in the EU.    

Vote Leave has urged the commission to investigate. The airline dubbed the campaign "Leave loonies".

Read more from Ross.

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The TImes, external reports that David Cameron's "best friend in politics" - his former adviser Steve Hilton - has claimed he is is "an instinctive Brexit supporter who would be campaigning to leave the European Union if he were not prime minister".

A few days ago Mr Hilton called for a vote to leave the EU, saying membership "makes Britain literally ungovernable".

Now, according to the Times, Mr Hilton says "the prime minister’s whole instinct used to be about taking Britain out of the EU".

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European Commission President Jean-Claude Junker has questioned claims made by Boris Johnson during the EU referendum campaign. Speaking at a G7 press conference in Japan, Mr Junker said Mr Johnson needed "to check... if everything he is telling the British people is in line with reality. I don't think so".

Mr Juncker  added: "I'm reading in papers that Boris Johnson spent part of his life in Brussels. It's time for him to come back to Brussels, in order to check in Brussels if everything he's telling British people is in line with reality."

Mr Juncker was asked whether the European institutions would be able to work with Mr Johnson if he became prime minister, in the light of his remarks. He replied:

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Ryanair has been accused of breaking electoral law because of how much it is spending on campaigning for the UK to stay in the EU.

BBC political correspondent Ross Hawkins tells Today the airline has been clear it is campaigning and spending around 25,000 euros.

Vote Leave reported Ryanair to the Electoral Commission because they are not registered as campaigners ahead of the referendum. The rules say you have to register if you plan to spend more than £10,000.

However, Ryanair is based in the Republic of Ireland rather than the UK and intends to go on campaigning, Ross adds.

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Ministers are considering changing the measure used for British Steel pension increases to cut its liabilities. A £485m pension deficit has been deterring potential buyers of Tata Steel's UK operations.

The government is expected to propose basing the scheme's annual increase on the Consumer Price inflation measure, which is usually below the current Retail Price measure.

BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith tells Today he expects the government "will have to make a statement in the Commons" or Labour will "seek one" by tabling an urgent question.

Labour and the unions, he says, will be looking for "some sort of guarantee that this is limited to Tata", rather than setting a precedent for other pension schemes.

Norman adds that the government "cannot afford Tata to go belly up" before the EU referendum. Leave campaigners have been blaming Brussels for some of the industry's problems.

With four weeks to go before the UK votes whether to Remain in or leave the EU, the BBC will stage its first referendum debate in Glasgow later.

Labour MP Alan Johnson and SNP MP and former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond will represent Remain.

Conservative MP Liam Fox and UKIP MEP Diane James will speak for the Leave camp.

They will put their arguments to an audience of 150 18 to 29-year-olds, live on BBC1 at 20:00 BST - and we'll have coverage right here on the EU referendum live page.

Nick Robinson looks at why curry houses appear to be Eurosceptic.