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.

The home secretary tells MPs there will be "no statutory inquiry or independent review" into the so-called Battle of Orgeave, during the 1984 Miners' Strike.

But Labour MP Chris Matheson accused Amber Rudd of "leading families up the garden path for the last two years", before she told urged him "not to leap to anger quite so quickly" as she explained her decision.

A new app for phones and tablets, called CommonsVotes, will make it quicker and easier to see how MPs have voted in Parliament.

Daily Politics reporter Ellie Price looks at how MPs vote now (although that will not be changing) and how their votes have been traditionally recorded on paper.

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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.

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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.

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Green Party peer Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb says the Investigatory Powers Bill has been improved in the House of Lords "but it is still the most appalling piece of legislation".

She quotes US whistleblower Edward Snowden, who argued that surveillance powers "violate the very right that they purport to defend".

This prompts an intervention from Labour peer and former security minister Lord West, who claims that Mr Snowden's release of confidential documents "has made all of us less safe than we were".

But Baroness Jones thinks that the bill will be "something that comes back again and again to bite us and I think that many of us here will regret having passed it".

Jeremy Corbyn has told the BBC he is "astonished, absolutely astonished" at the government's decision not to hold an inquiry into the Orgreave incident in 1984. 

The Labour Leader told the BBC's Political editor Laura Kuenssberg that Labour would "continue pressing" for an inquiry and "guarantee" one if it came to power.

Mr Corbyn said that when Theresa May was Home Secretary she had "encouraged the families to write to her and ask for an inquiry". He added: "The first question I put to her when she became Prime Minister was: would there be an inquiry into Orgreave, and she gave a fairly sympathetic, fairly helpful reply indicating that that was the direction in which she was moving". 

Mr Corbyn said that without an inquiry a "cloud remains" over those present that day, both miners and police officers, adding that South Yorkshire Police "need to know that there isn't a cloud forever over their force".

He said this wouldn't be the end of the matter: "The determination of people to get justice never goes away and the government should remember that."

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As third reading debate continues, Labour peer and former minister Lord Rooker defends the bill and attacks some members of his own party in the Commons who oppose it.

"It is not a snooper's charter. It is not draconian," he insists. "It will make UK citizens safer."

Lord Rooker feels the bill "deserves active support, not sniping" and is backed by another former Labour minister, Lord West of Spithead.

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Health Select Committee chair Sarah Wollaston, one of the signatories of the letter, asks if Jeremy Hunt recognises the "serious crisis in social care" and the "effect of taking money from public health budgets".

She adds that she sticks by her committee's figures, even though the secretary of state doesn't accept them.

The health secretary says that he'll "always listen carefully" to what Dr Wollaston says but her committee's "calculations are wrong". 

On the disputed £10bn extra for the NHS figure, he says the "government has never claimed there was an extra £10bn in the Department of Health budget" and has always said that "painful and difficult economies" would be needed. He adds that "fully accepts" that social care system and public health budgets have a "big impact" on the NHS.

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Number 10's cat Larry has been gaining worldwide attention,The Daily Telegraph reports.

A group of US officials visiting the Foreign Office scrambled to take his photo as they were taken on a tour of Downing Street.

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The House backs Baroness Hollins' amendment by 226 votes to 186.

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Replying to Jon Ashworth, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says he want to lay out some "facts".

He quotes NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens at the time of the Spending Review last year, saying "our case for the NHS has been heard and actively supported".

He says Labour, by contrast, did not "give the NHS what they asked for". The 2015 Labour platform "refused to support the NHS's own plan for the future...they also refused to fund it". He says Labour's pledges add up to only a third of what the government is putting in.

He also talks about the NHS in Labour-run Wales, where he says NHS funding has been cut.

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Shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth quotes from the letter written by the select committee, particularly the accusation the government are giving a misleading impression that the health service is "awash with cash". 

He says the reality is that the government has cut adult social care, public health budgets and the NHS capital budget and that the average amount spent per person will fall in 2018/19.

He says that all this raises serious questions about claims being made by ministers and that "the only way the government's figures could be further discredited would be if they slapped them on the side of a bus and got the foreign secretary to drive it".

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Baroness Hollins' amendment relates to concerns that the government has not triggered section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act.

Critics of this section say it could lead to publishers who do not sign up to a regulator under royal charter having to pay a claimant's costs even if it won a legal action. Some have further alleged that today's amendment introduces section 40 by the back door.

Labour's Lord Rosser criticises the government, saying that similar amendments had support at report stage.

However, justice spokesman Lord Keen of Elie argues the amendment "simply has no place" in clause eight of the Investigatory Powers Bill, which was "simply not intended to regulate the press".

Anyone carrying out phone hacking would attract criminal charges under the bill's provisions, he insists. But he fails to convince Baroness Hollins who pushes her amendment to a vote.

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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says the "pressures of an ageing population" are "uniquely challenging" and he welcomes a chance to set out the NHS's finances.

He says NHS budgets have "increased in real terms every year since 2010" and are 10.1% higher per head in real terms since the Conservatives came to office.

He goes on to repeat the contentious £10bn claim the select committee wrote to the chancellor to complain about.

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Crossbench peer Lord Low of Dalston urges peers to be "mindful of the lessons of history".

He argues that newspapers have often argued that they can police themselves and that new voluntary regulator, the Independent Press Standards Organisation, "is a much improved version" of the Press Complaints Commission.

However, Lord Low argues that IPSO "falls far short" of the recommendations of Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry into press conduct.

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Shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth has tabled an urgent question on NHS funding.

MPs from the Health Select Committee have written to the Chancellor, external asking the government not to claim that it is giving the NHS an additional £10bn a year until 2020/21, and not continue to say the government has "given the NHS what it asked for".

The MPs, led by committee chair Dr Sarah Wollaston, said that the claims "risk giving a false impression that the NHS is awash with cash" and do not "stand up to scrutiny"