Some Conservative MPs are to join the SNP in demanding a debate on postponing disability benefit cuts.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd writes to campaigners explaining why she ruled out an inquiry into violence at Orgreave in 1984.

HMRC is chasing £1.9bn potentially owed in taxes by the UK's richest people, a report says.

Bank of England governor Mark Carney announces he will step down in June 2019.

• Bank of England governor Mark Carney has announced he will step down in June 2019
• Earlier, Theresa May backed him to remain in post
• Home Secretary Amber Rudd announced there would be no inquiry into the Battle of Orgreave, where police and striking miners clashed in 1984
• MPs on the Health Committee questioned government claims that it is putting an extra £10 billion of funding into the NHS
• UKIP leadership contender Raheem Kassam dropped out of the race shortly before today's deadline for nominations

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Labour's shadow business secretary Clive Lewis says it is "fantastic news for Sunderland, and fantastic news for the country as a whole" as well as a great tribute to the workforce at the plant. But Labour has some concerns. 

He says that Greg Clark has not been "transparent" over what he's offered Nissan and that the government must have a Brexit strategy that's very convincing, if it convinced Nissan to stay - and so he asks why Parliament can't know what it is. 

He asks the government to "show us the letter".

In reply, Greg Clark says he's surprised that the Labour Party is "so miserable" and can't "congratulate everyone involved on a success that is in all our interests". He says that he's "set out the information" that he gave to Nissan.

He adds that it's his responsibility as Business Secretary to "attract investment" to the UK.

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Business Secretary Greg Clark is making a statement on the Japanese carmaker Nissan's announcement it would make two new models in Sunderland.

He says it's the "latest in a series of investments" in Britain that "prove we are open for business" and that it's "hard to think of more unambiguously good news".

Greg Clark told the Andrew Marr programme yesterday that he had kept Nissan onside by telling them that post-Brexit the UK would be aiming to "ensure that we have continued access to the markets in Europe and vice versa without tariffs and without bureaucratic impediments".

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Labour backbencher Stephen Timms says that the number of disabled people in work is "pitfully small" and asks how long they expect to take to half the disability employment gap.

Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green says it's "premature of me to set targets" but the government is taking practical steps to increase employment among disabled people such as "more than doubling the number of disability employment advisors".

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Lord Wigley's next amendment would create separate legal jurisdictions of Wales and England.

The two UK nations currently form one legal jurisdiction, with Scotland and Northern Ireland as separate jurisdictions.

The Plaid Cymru peer argues there is "a need to address the diversion of Wales and England".

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Iain Duncan Smith, work and pensions secretary from 2010 until his resignation earlier this year, says he wants to "unreservedly welcome the statement". 

He says he wants the government to consider the difficulties of there being a "binary choice" in the benefits system between people being fit to work or too sick. He asks if it's feasible to "move away from that binary choice". 

Damian Green says he's "very grateful for support" from one of his predecessors who is "quite right about the binary choice". 

He says that under the universal credit system "we have the capacity to be much more flexible" so that "people are not simply put in one group or another and then left there".

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Labour's Debbie Abrahams says the government is "kicking the issue [of supporting disabled people] into the long grass". She says Mr Green is the third secretary of state to promise this, but once again it is "talk, no action".

She says the government is responsible for a negative attitude towards disabled people with a "shirker scrounger narrative" and that many will feel anxiety about "coded messages" in this consultation.

Damian Green says he's "disappointed" with "how completely out of touch" Debbie Abrahams is. He cites support from organisations like Scope, Arthritis Research UK and the Work Foundation as evidence.

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Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green says "the barriers to entry for work are too high" for many disabled people and that the government is committed to providing "opportunity for work for those who can, help for those who could and care for those who can't".

He says the Conservatives inherited a "broken system" from Labour and have now brought "control and the right values" to the system.

He says that after today's Green Paper the government will be "consulting on further reform of the work capability assessment" and hope to create a system which will focus on what people can do "rather than what they can't".

He says that the government "intends to improve the way the welfare system responds to real people with health conditions" and produce a culture of "high ambition and high expectations for the disabled people of this country, because they deserve it".

Jeremy Corbyn has said he agrees with MPs on the Health Select Committee who say the government is wrong to claim it is allocating an extra £10bn to the NHS in England over the next five years.

In a letter to the Chancellor, the committee argued the actual figure was closer to £4.5bn and called for more NHS funding in November's Autumn Statement.

Asked by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg how much extra funding he believes the NHS needs, the Labour Leader said he "couldn't put an absolute figure on it" but said "I do think it needs far more".

Mr Corbyn said he would pay for additional funding by reorganising the NHS in England to end its "internal market", arguing the government was "now spending so much money on internal trade arrangements within the NHS and subsidising many private health companies, some of which are not delivering the service perhaps they ought to be because they lack the accountability that directly employed NHS staff have".

He said this would be paid for by "a combination of corporate taxation, which would be maintained or raised if it's cut by this government, and also collecting uncollected taxes".

The TUC's General Secretary has commented on the announcement that there will be no inquiry into the clash at Orgreave.

Frances O'Grady said: "This is a terrible decision and a massive blow for the Orgreave families. It sends out a dangerous message too - that corruption has a place to hide.

"The NUM and the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign have fought courageously for 30 years, and the TUC will stand by them for as long as it takes. Justice has been delayed, but we will not let it be denied."

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In Westminster Hall right now, there's a Petitions Committee debate on two e-petitions (nos 125003, external and 164851, external) on driven grouse shooting. 

The first - signed by 123,076 people - calls for a ban, arguing that grouse shooting for 'sport' depends on intensive habitat management which increases flood risk and greenhouse gas emissions, relies on killing foxes, stoats, mountain hares etc in large numbers and often leads to the deliberate illegal killing of protected birds of prey including hen harriers.

The second - signed by 23,573 people - argues that grouse moors and grouse shooting are an integral part of moorland management both for the grouse and other native wildlife such as lapwing and curlew; it also helps support of local businesses and jobs in the local areas.

Watch the debate by clicking on the tab above.

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The next piece of legislation before the House is the first of two sessions of detailed, committee stage scrutiny of the Wales Bill.

The bill devolves further powers to the National Assembly for Wales and Welsh ministers.

Debate begins on an amendment from former Plaid Cymru leader Lord Wigley which would make the holding of referendums conditional on a majority vote in the Welsh Assembly.

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Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green is making a statement on a green paper on reforming Work Capability Assessments, the scheme that assesses claimants of disability benefits. 

He told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme this morning that he wanted a more "personalised" system to help more people find work.

Carole Walker
Political correspondent

The Prime Minister's Spokeswoman has said Theresa May fully supports the Home Secretary’s decision not to hold an inquiry into the trouble at Orgreave.

She said the Home Secretary had looked very carefully at all the issues and did not think an inquiry would be in the public interest.

She said the Prime Minister made it clear that in terms of policing it was important to learn the lessons of the past and there have been a number of substantial changes to the operation and oversight of the police.

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Justice Minister Lord Keen of Elie pays tribute to the "cross-party co-operation" during the bill's passage through the Lords.

Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Hamwee praises the "constructive" approach of peers, while Labour's Lord Rosser says the bill has "benefited to a considerable degree" from pre-legislative and parliamentary scrutiny.

The bill then passes but, if MPs overturn today's government defeat, will end up in "ping pong" as it passes between the Commons and Lords until its final form is agreed.