The current law banning fox hunting in Scotland is unworkable, police say in their submission to a review of the legislation.

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Labour MP Rob Marris continues the opposition's teasing of the Conservatives over the Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Bill, and its aim to control the cost of drugs for the NHS.

After Tory MP Kevin Foster accuses some drug companies of "profiteering", Mr Marris intervenes on his "fellow socialist".

He asks Mr Foster if there are other parts of the economy in which he would like "to address the issue of profiteering".

Mr Foster suggests jokingly that the Speaker might rebuke them for "going off the subject". Returning to the bill, he says the NHS is the only customer in this case and some drug manufacturers are "profiteering from illness and pain".

Mr Marris intervenes again to allege that the charge could be levelled at some parts of the defence supply industry as well.

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"Europe has become the biggest research network in the world," says SNP health spokeswoman Philippa Whitford, adding that the UK has been the biggest beneficiary of this.

"But obviously every new drug they discover creates an additional cost pressure for the NHS," she continues.

She says she has "a few concerns" about how the bill's provisions will work across the whole NHS and asks for assurances that data will be shared with the Scottish government.

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There's a comfortable win for the government on an amendment by Labour's Lord Whitty, which would require a "national strategy for local bus services".

The strategy would set out "the objectives, targets and funding provisions for rural, urban and inter-urban local bus services over the next 10 years".

The amendment is defeated by 174 votes to 72. 

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Shadow health minister Justin Madders says the bill aims to control the cost of medicine and close "loopholes" which have allowed "blatant abuses".

He adds: "I only hope this increased appetite for state intervention in the market...will spread more widely across government."

Mr Madders jokes that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is a "fully-fledged Corbynista".

Belgium cannot sign a landmark EU trade deal with Canada, Prime Minister Charles Michel says, because of objections led by its Wallonia region.

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Peers have voted to remove a ban on councils creating municipal bus companies by 192 votes to 180, a margin of just 12 votes.

It is another government defeat in the House of Lords. 

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Peers are voting on Labour's Amendment 111 to the Bus Services Bill, which would ditch Clause 21 of the bill altogether.

The clause is the one that's caused the most controversy in an otherwise uncontroversial bill. It would ban councils from creating their own bus companies to run services.

Although most bus services in England are privately run, a number of areas including Ipswich, Reading and Nottingham have council-owned bus companies. 

Reading and Nottingham rank in the top three places in the country outside London for bus usage. 

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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is beginning debate on Second Reading of the Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Bill, which he says is intended to "control the cost of health".

The bill is aimed at improving the voluntary and statutory price control schemes for medicines bought by the NHS. 

The Department of Health believes the changes could save the NHS around £88m a year. 

Regional governments in Belgium have blocked the EU's trade deal with Canada - could they do the same to the UK?

The first and deputy first ministers say there was support at Brexit talks in Downing Street for their argument that Northern Ireland is facing "unique circumstances".

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Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron says he wants to "challenge" the notion that human trafficking is the cause of the migrant crisis.

He also says the UK does not offer unaccompanied refugee children "the right to sponsor immediate family, including parents, to join them" and urges a policy change to help keep families together.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd says she accepts that human trafficking is only one of the causes of the problem.

She says there are "no plans to change" the policy on sponsoring relatives. 

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Conservative MP Sir Roger Gale says he has housed refugees in the past and the policy should not be entered into "lightly".

He calls for every person entering the UK to be "screened". 

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In response to an amendment to the bill that would make audiovisual aids on buses mandatory, minister Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon says that the government doesn't believe it is right in this bill. 

He says the government intends to amend the Equality Act 2010 "as quickly as possible" to make a similar change, so that across Great Britain "every passenger can board a bus with confidence".

Some buses feature on board announcements of the route number, final destination and stops, both in audio and on screens, but only 19% of buses feature the technology, the majority of those in London.  

• Nicola Sturgeon said she was "not bluffing" over threats to hold another Scottish independence referendum if Scotland is carried out of the single market post-Brexit.
• Theresa May told the Commons the UK would be the world leader in free trade after leaving the EU.
• French authorities moved hundreds of migrants out of the "Jungle" camp in Calais.
• An eighth candidate - John Rees-Evans - declared his intention to run in the UKIP leadership election.
• A Belgian region blocked a free trade deal between Canada and the EU.
• The government announced a review of "fixed odds" gambling machines.

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SNP home affairs spokeswoman Joanna Cherry welcomes progress on accepting child refugees.

She also pays tribute to charities and NGOs working in the camp.

However, she adds that removing the camp does not equate to "a long-term solution" to the migrant crisis.

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Labour's Diane Abbott welcomes the acceptance of more refugee children but thinks that "more could have been done earlier, despite the home secretary's attempt to hide behind the French".

Amber Rudd responds angrily to the shadow home secretary's emphasis, at the end of her speech, that she has visited the camp.

"I do not need reminding... about the scale of misery," the home secretary tells her.

Turning to Ms Abbott's request for a timescale, Ms Rudd says that over three weeks the UK plans to take "several hundred more children in addition to the 200 we have already taken". 

Ministers are also looking at bringing unaccompanied children from Greece and Italy, she adds. 

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"As we speak, thousands of men and women are being bussed out of Calais," says shadow home secretary Diane Abbott.

The situation in Calais "represents everything that is wrong about Europe's response to the refugee crisis", she claims.

Ms Abbott pays tribute to "all those selfless volunteers" who have worked in the camps - and attacks politicians and media commentators who have questioned the age of child refugees.

The shadow home secretary asks the government to set out the timescale for accepting more unaccompanied children. 

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Peers have now returned to debate on the Bus Services Bill at report stage - legislation intended to help deal with a general decline in bus use. 

The most recent government bus usage statistics, external show that across England total bus journeys declined by 2.6% in a year, and for the first time in three years bus use in London declined. 

However, the number of bus journeys taken in London still outweighed the number of bus journeys taken in the rest of England.

In 1986 bus services outside of London were deregulated. Most are operated by private companies on an entirely commercial basis, while less profitable routes can still be subsidised by local authorities. 

In London, Transport for London (TfL) franchises out the running of routes to private companies, but retains ultimate control.

The Bus Services Bill aims to give more London-style bus franchising powers to areas with a combined authority and mayor devolution deal, like the "Northern Powerhouse" deal in Greater Manchester. 

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"More than 80 children with a family link to the UK have been transferred from France," Amber Rudd says.

The home secretary says the process of transferring unaccompanied children slowed as a result of French concerns that children would be encouraged to travel to the Calais camp.

However, the UK government is now prioritising children most likely to warrant refugee status, those under 12 and those deemed most at risk of sexual exploitation, she adds.

Ms Rudd argues it is important not to encourage people to make the journey to Calais in the hope of being allowing into the UK.

The camp known as the Jungle must remain closed, she says, adding: