Nissan's decision to build two new models at its Sunderland plant, securing 7,000 jobs is "fantastic news for the British economy", Theresa May says. 

The Prime Minister said the move was an "important commitment" to investment in the UK which "shows the strength of our economy". 

"We’ve been showing Nissan and others that we are committed to getting the best possible deal from the future relationship that we will be negotiating with the EU and we wish to ensure and assure the competitiveness of the British economy," she said. 

Asked if Nissan was offered any deal or compensation to persuade them to stay, Mrs May said: “We’ve been talking with Nissan about how we will ensure we get the best possible deal for trading with the European Union once we’ve come out.

"But also maintaining the competitiveness of the British economy in to the future.”

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Conservative Baroness Harding of Winscombe says she "voted to remain in the EU, but as a businesswoman I can't ignore the fury and the disillusion" of those who voted Leave. They are the people for whom "the modern world isn't working".

In response to several speakers so far today, she points out that many Leave voters "don't agree" that Brexit is an opportunity for more free trade and calls on advocates to work had to convince people of the merits of it.

As starting points, she suggests upskilling people, strong independent regulation in markets and fairer working practices as starting points.

Baroness Harding is CEO of telecoms company TalkTalk.

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Former minister for children and young people Tim Loughton says that it is "really significant" that MPs are giving up mainstream parliamentary time to debate a report from the Youth Select Committee in the main chamber of the House of Commons

He says that the Youth Select Committee has produced a report of "high quality and research" and says that the government should give up government time for debates such as this in the chamber.

Mr Loughton says that the report and the Youth Parliament itself has "a very substantial democratic endorsement", as 875,000 young people voted to decide on what topic should be discussed, and over 90,000 voted for the subject of mental health services.

"This is a huge democratic mandate," he says.

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Labour MP Lyn Brown makes the point that early intervention could have a positive effect on adult mental health provision, as she tells MPs that around half of people with lifetime mental health problems "experience symptoms before the age of 14".

Ms Brown says that early intervention could "well lessen the severity of adult problems" and possibly save the NHS money in the long term.

"More importantly it would reduce unnecessary suffering and enable people to live better lives," she says.

Labour accuses the government of cutting "special deals" for bankers in its Brexit negotiations.

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Lord Taverne attacks the "complacency" at the top of government over Brexit negotiations.

The Liberal Democrat peer says "we'll be negotiating against the clock, a very weak position to be in" and that there's also "little goodwill" towards Britain.

He says he believes it's "very unlikely" a deal will be reached by the 2019 Article 50 deadline and that without an agreement we will get "the hardest of hard Brexits". 

He goes on to suggest that there could be no Brexit at all, and denies that the referendum vote is "sacrosanct". It's a feature of democracy, he says, that "no decision is irreversible".

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The Youth Select Committee is a programme run by the British Youth Council and supported by Parliament. Members are aged 15-18 and include members of the UK Youth Parliament.

Its enquiry into mental health was triggered after the issue topped a British Youth Council poll of 968,942 young people.

The British Youth Council is a charity providing a forum for young people under 25 to influence decision-makers.

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MPs approve the motion to formally admonish Colin Myler and Tom Crone.

Next is a backbench debate on young people's mental health.

It follows a report from the Youth Select Committee, external, which concluded that "mental health services for young people are critically underfunded and that much work is needed to break down the stigma associated with mental health problems".

Opening the debate, Labour MP Helen Hayes says there needs to be a "focus on prevention and early intervention".

She also argues that "parity of esteem" for mental health with physical health is "nowhere near" being achieved and calls for "ringfenced" funding for mental health services.

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Both Tom Crone and Colin Myler have rejected the findings of the Committee of Privileges and denied giving misleading evidence.

It is believed to be the first time in decades that anyone has been found in contempt of Parliament. Mr Myler and Mr Crone had appeared before the Culture Committee in 2009 and 2011, to answer questions about the extent of phone hacking at the News of the World.

The Privileges Committee found that Mr Myler misled the Culture Committee by denying that he was aware of phone hacking or other wrongdoing by staff, apart from royal correspondent Clive Goodman who had been jailed in 2007 for hacking-related offences.

It said Mr Crone misled the committee on the same issue and also with regard to the "significance of confidentiality" in a settlement reached between the paper and Professional Footballers' Association boss Gordon Taylor.

Mr Myler, the former editor, said the findings were "profoundly disappointing", adding: "Had the appropriate standard of proof been properly applied, the Privileges Committee could not have reached a finding of contempt against me, given that the report identifies evidence which plainly contradicts their conclusions."

Former legal manager Mr Crone said he did not accept the findings made against him and stood by his evidence on both issues for which he was criticised.

"In particular, I accepted clearly and unequivocally at the outset of my evidence... that the problem of phone hacking... went beyond" just Clive Goodman, he said.

"That is a matter of record which is beyond challenge."

The Privileges Committee did not uphold similar allegations of misleading MPs against Les Hinton, the former executive chairman of News International, which owned the NotW.

It also found that the parent firm did not commit contempt as a company.

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Sir Kevin Barron, the Labour MP who chairs the Committee of Privileges, says it concluded "there was sufficient evidence" that Tom Crone and Colin Myler "had misled the CMS committee and therefore were in contempt of the House".

His committee did not to uphold a third allegation against Mr Crone, he adds, nor did it find any evidence to support the Culture, Media and Sport Committee's claims against former News Corporation employee Les Hinton.

"We have recommended that Mr Myler and Mr Crone be formally admonished by the House," Sir Kevin says, which "shows how seriously the committee takes these offences".

He says he recognises there is some disappointment that the former witnesses will not be compelled to come to the Commons but "this has not happened in modern times".

The last time it did, in 1957, it was described as "a medieval pantomime", he adds.

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Lord Davies of Stamford joins Lord Ghadia in paying tribute to Edward Heath's decision to accept Ugandan Asian refugees, who had to flee Idi Amin. 

He says the Conservative Party of Heath was preferable to the modern party which is a "hotbed of chauvinism" and is so opposed to freedom of movement it would be would be willing to "pay almost any economic price" to end it.

He also criticises Lord Leigh of Hurley's introductory speech in unusually harsh tones for the House or Lords, calling it "delusory". 

He says that the Conservative member is "a man who went to the Republican Convention and came away thinking that the Republicans are friends of free trade" when the Republican candidate Donald Trump's opposition to the North American Free Trade Area and other trade deals is well known. 

He says "if he listened some more he might not draw such perverse conclusions" from his trips around the world.

Lord Davies of Stamford was a Conservative MP from 1987 until he defected to Labour in 2007, when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister.

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Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg intervenes on Labour's Chris Bryant to suggest that making witnesses appear at the Bar of the House to be admonished would be "unduly theatrical" and would make MPs look foolish.

Mr Bryant says such a move might force Tom Crone and Colin Myler to "show some contrition".

He tells MPs that people are "sick and tired of the extremely powerful and the extremely wealthy being able to lie, scam and brag that they have been able to do so with impunity".

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Labour MP Chris Bryant says the committee "did its absolute best" to treat Tom Crone and Colin Myler fairly and observed "due process".

He doesn't think a political institution such as the House of Commons should have the power to fine or imprison people but urges MPs not to dismiss "admonishment".

"This is the House saying that these two men are liars," Mr Bryant says, "and anybody wanting to employ them should bear that in mind."

However, he argues that, in the US, "this would have gone to court".

Echoing Damian Collins, he says the two men "do not accept they have done anything wrong". He differs from the position of the leader of the House, by calling for the witnesses to appear in the Commons chamber to be admonished.

"The reason that we're not doing that is we're frightened that we can't do that," he says.

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Lord Gadhia, a new Conservative peer, is making his maiden speech. He's a businessman and a close ally of former Prime Minister David Cameron, who he pays tribute to during his speech.

He talks about his family, who had already migrated from Gujarat to Uganda, being forced to flee the country by the dictator Idi Amin; and pays tribute to Edward Heath for providing a "safe harbour". 

He says that "immigration is one of the things that has made Britain great" because "we look out to the world".

Andrew Neil
Presenter, The Daily Politics