Clive Lewis quits shadow cabinet
Rebecca Long-Bailey succeeds him
Sue Hayman and Christina Rees also promoted
Row over ending of child refugee scheme
Business Statement
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Labour's Paul Flynn praises the Speaker's "record as a trailblazer" and asks if he will consider allowing singing during voting divisions.
He says that the SNP's rendition of Ode to Joy was "the only bright spark" during the votes on the bill triggering Article 50.
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Before the debate on Israeli settlements begins, John Bercow makes a statement.
He tells MPs that the votes on amendment 86 to the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill was miscounted.
The number of people who voted against the amendment was 327 not 337 as originally stated.
Amendment 86 stated that Article 50 should be triggered "with regard to the constitutional, institutional and rights provisions of the Good Friday Agreement."
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Laura Kuenssberg
BBC political editor
Image source, ReutersSharpen your pencils. Now Theresa May has her prize from the Commons, getting the Article 50 bill (she never wanted) through with no major changes, it makes its way to the red and gold end of the Palace of Westminster, to the Lords.
The first debate is set for 20 February. More than 140 peers have already put their names down to speak. But at that stage there probably won't be a vote. A week later the thornier more detailed committee stage begins. Then the last certain stage, the third reading and report is scheduled for 7 March.
If it all goes according to the government's plan, which sources say is "hugely unpredictable", it would allow Theresa May to stick to her timetable and push the button for exit talks to start the next week, once the bill has been rubber stamped by the other [Buckingham] Palace. (It's daft in this business to make too many predictions, but I'd put a fiver on that happening on Wednesday 15 March.)
The government will have a bumpier ride in the Lords after a grumpy process in the Commons. The Lords is dramatically different because the government most certainly does not have a majority among peers. And, it is the Lords' express purpose to scrutinise and if needed, improve draft laws before sending them back along the corridor to the Commons.
Business Statement
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SNP MP Alex Salmond says there is disappointment across Scotland that David Beckham has failed to get a knighthood.
He says this is despite his "fawning support" for the Better Together Scottish referendum campaign group, which he was told "would play well with the establishment and help his knighthood".
"Surely the Leader of the House can bend one for Beckham?" he asks.
David Lidington replies that this is not is "not a matter for me".
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Peers are now debating the Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill at second reading.
The CDC is the development finance arm of the UK government, it invests in businesses in Africa and South Asia.
The bill raises the limit of financial assistance the government can provide to the CDC from the current limit of £1.5bn to £6bn.
Introducing debate on the bill, Lord Bates says the CDC provides "private finance that developing economies so desperately need" and makes "groundbreaking" investments in developing industries.
See if your MP voted to get the Brexit process started, or whether they voted against.
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Its been a miserable, frustrating, depressing couple of weeks, says the SNP's Pete Wishart.
He argues that the debate on the bill triggering Article 50 showed the House of Commons "at its absolute worst".
He notes that no amendments were accepted and few were debated.
It was more like a medieval court than an advanced parliamentary democracy, he says.
Business statement
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Leader of the House David Lidington suggests that Valerie Vaz reads the public statement made by Communities Department on Surrey County Council and the proposed referendum.
There is no secret deal, he says.
On filibustering of bills, he tells MPs that there is "no automatic right for legislation to become law".
Concerning the House of Lords, he says the chamber has a "valued function" in reviewing legislation.
He adds however that they should bear in mind the popular mandate that lies behind the bill triggering Article 50.
Quote MessageDear Jeremy, Thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me at length about Article 50. Although it was an extremely difficult topic, it was a warm and friendly chat and typical of the way you have led our party's discussions on this most difficult of issues. I know you understand the deep divide this issue has opened up in the country and it is to your credit that you have led the debate in our party in such an open and comradely way. When I became the MP for Norwich South I promised my constituents I would be "Norwich's voice in Westminster, not Westminster's voice in Norwich". I therefore cannot, in all good conscience, vote for something I believe ultimately goes against the wishes and interests of the constituency I have the honour to represent, love and call home. Our Party, the Labour Party, was right to attempt, through Parliament, to win the protections the people of this country need. Unfortunately, despite the progress we did make, we have been unable to secure them. It is therefore with a very heavy heart that I have decided to resign from the Shadow Cabinet. I do so because I feel I must vote against the government's bill as it stands. It has been a privilege to work with you, the shadow cabinet, my front-bench team and the many hard-working members of staff I've met these past 18 months, and I am deeply grateful for the faith you have shown in me. Please know I will continue to support both yourself and the Party from the back benches, to the very best of my ability."
Yours in comradeship,
Clive Lewis MP
Dubs amendment question
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Labour frontbencher Lord Rosser brings up Lord Dubs' question in the House yesterday.
He asked about reports the scheme was being brought to an end.
The minister, International Development Minister Lord Bates, said the child refugee law "stands".
Lord Rosser wants to know why "no reference was made yesterday to the cap" of 350 children. He also wants to know what capacity councils have to take in unaccompanied children for the next financial year.
Minister Baroness Williams says the minister yesterday referred to the written statement by Immigration Minister Robert Goodwill, although admits it was "laid not long before questions began" so peers may not have had a chance to read it.
She adds that the government is in "constant consultation" with local authorities on the "entirely voluntary" scheme but they "do not want to force local authorities to do things they might not have the capacity to fulfill".
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Shadow leader of the House Valerie Vaz asks for a statement on "Surreygate" - the allegations that Surrey Council received a "sweetheart deal" in exchange for calling off its referendum on raising tax to fund social care.
She urges the government to stop bills from being talked out - "it makes Parliament look petty".
She asks Leader of the House David Lidington to confirm that the government will not act on a letter discussing a vote of no confidence in Speaker John Bercow.
She also seeks confirmation that the House of Lords will not be threatened with abolition during its dealings with the Article 50 bill.
Private Notice Question
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Labour's Lord Dubs has a Private Notice Question on the government's closure of the child refugee scheme. (PNQs are the House of Lords equivalent of an urgent question.)
Lord Dubs was born in Czechoslovakia and arrived in Britain as part of the "Kindertransport" scheme for Jewish children fleeing mainland Europe in the 1930s.
He designed the law that led to the government pledging to accept vulnerable children from the "Jungle" refugee camp in Calais. Yesterday, the government announced it would take no more children under the scheme.
Baroness Williams of Trafford tells peers "we have not closed the scheme".
Yesterday's announcement "specified the total number of children to be transferred" and they will "continue to be transferred up to the specified number" of 350.
Lord Dubs pronounces himself "puzzled". He says that if the government is now transferring 350 children, once it has done so the scheme will be closed.
Initially it had been suggested that 3,000 children could be taken in.
He says that when his amendment passed the then immigration minister (James Brokenshire) said government would accept the "letter and spirit of the law".
After their announcement he says the government is "in breach of its own commitments".
Dominic Casciani
Home Affairs Correspondent
Yesterday’s ministerial statement on Dubs said that the total number of unaccompanied refugee children coming into the UK was 350. MPs who pressured the government last year into accepting the scheme had hoped it would see the arrival of 3,000 vulnerable young refugees.
So when we queried yesterday whether this was genuinely the end of the Dubs plan, officials guided journalists that there were no plans to relocate further children to the UK once the commitment accepted under [the Dubs amendment] was met. That commitment, in law, required ministers to consult local authorities, identify places children could go, and fill them up.
The Home Secretary this morning has faced a barrage of criticism from MPs. What’s clear is that while Dubs is still technically open, to receive the final tranche of 150 children, it will definitely close. But she insists that the UK is still pulling out the stops to help other vulnerable children, including huge sums being earmarked for refugee camps.
Business statement
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Before the business statement begins, John Bercow wishes Labour MP Paul Flynn a happy 82nd birthday.
He is mid-way through his career, says the Speaker.
Child refugees urgent question
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SNP MP Carol Monaghan welcomes the fact that 150 children will be accepted into the UK before the scheme closes.
However, she asks how the home secretary will be able to look the 151st child in the eye.
Amber Rudd wonders how the SNP MP can consider putting children in France and Italy ahead of those living in the Syrian regime.
How can she look those children in the eye? she asks.
Oral questions
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Labour's Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town asks what the government is going to do to protect consumer rights after the UK leaves the European Union.
Business Minister Lord Prior of Brampton says the planned "Great Repeal Bill" will convert much of EU consumer protections to law.
Baroness Hayter replies that the "EU has been good for consumers" and lists a series of positives including the European health card, "safe food and products because of the European rapid alert system", no mobile roaming charges and compensation for delayed flights.
She says that the minister is wrong and that "none of them can be entrenched in the Great Repeal Bill" because they are a matter for negotiation with the 27 remaining members. She adds that consumer protections are not part of the government's negotiation plan.
Lord Prior insists that the Great Repeal Bill will incorporate EU consumer protections "wherever practical" and that ministers are having "regular meetings" on the issue.
BBC Radio 5 live
The lead local government representative on refugees has said that local authorities could house more child refugees in the UK, if the government wants to pay for them.
Councillor David Simmonds, head of the Local Government Association's asylum, refugee and migration task group, told BBC 5 live’s Emma Barnett that funding is the big issue, not a lack of willing families or hold-ups in the vetting process.
He said: "If the money is available, then more places can be found. The government needs to make the decision. How much money is it going to make available? If the money isn't available to pay foster carers, then the council is not going to be able to get them to take on refugee children.
"It costs on average £50,000 to support a child in the UK. The government funding at the moment covers at most around £40,000 a year. The more children we take, the bigger the cost to local taxpayers.
"If we are going to do more, we need to make sure the money is there because no community should be asked to bear an unfair burden and to choose between supporting refugee children and cutting services to rail elderly people or closing libraries."
Mr Simmonds added that the UK had taken thousands of refugee children in total and was a big contributor to the international effort.
On Wednesday, the immigration minister Robert Goodwill said that local authorities had said they only had the capacity to provide places for 400 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children until the end of March.
The Liberal Democrats have criticised suggestions the Conservatives want new "super-selective" grammar schools that take the top 10% of children, a lower figure than the top 25% taken in existing grammar school areas.
John Pugh said: "The Conservatives are determined to keep out all but a tiny, tiny few from their new generation of grammar schools. If you exclude 90% of the population, what are you doing to improve the life chances of kids who don’t come from privileged backgrounds?
"You won’t keep Britain open, tolerant and united if you divide children at the age of 11."
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Home Secretary Amber Rudd has defended the government's decision to accept 350 unaccompanied child refugees, rather than the many thousands suggested by Lord Dubs.
Labour's Diana Johnson said she was "struggling to understand" how putting a cap on the scheme of 350 child migrants was "not closing the scheme".
Ms Rudd said under the Immigration Act 2016 the government was required by a date "which is fast approaching to name a number, having consulted with local councils".
"We've now done that, there remains to be 150 transferred - at some point it will closed, it's not closed yet, because we still need to transfer 150 under the amendment."
The amendment to the Immigration Act 2016, external required the home secretary to bring a specified number of unaccompanied refugee children to the UK after consultation with local authorities. While there was no target number written into the legislation Lord Dubs and his supporters had suggested the UK could help 3,000 of the most vulnerable.