Nick Triggle
Health Correspondent

In terms of health and care, there were two eye-catching numbers in the chancellor’s spending announcement - £6.2bn extra for the NHS and £1.5bn for social care.

Neither are quite what they seem. The £6.2bn refers to the extra cash the frontline of the NHS is getting next year as part of the five-year settlement announced a year ago by Theresa May .

What is new, however, is how much extra the rest of health is getting. This is money that goes on the likes of buildings maintenance and training for staff. It is rising by £400m to £9bn. Experts have welcomed the money, but say it comes off the back of cuts in previous years.

In comparison, the social care announcement for councils is genuinely new. Although the £1.5bn includes £500m which will only be raised from a 2% increase in council tax. The County Councils Network says the extra money is just about enough to stand still.

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The Labour MP for Wigan says she has "spent the last few years arguing passionately that delay has consequences, that companies in my constituency need certainty, and that the public can't take much more of this".

"They want to see us come together, they want to see us compromise, they want to see us respect the 48% of people who came out and said they wanted close ties with the EU... and they want to see us also respect the fact that 52% of those that voted, voted to leave the EU," she says.

She is supporting the bill.

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Over in the House of Lords, peers are debating a motion which sets out the time that will be allowed to debate the EU Withdrawal Bill - which if approved by MPs will head to the House of Lords next.

Those who support the bill are worried others may try to use filibustering tactics to ensure the bill cannot get through the Lords and become law.

Therefore, they have set a tight timetable which is, in the motion's words, "to ensure the timely passage of legislation necessary".

However, anti-bill peers have tabled more than 90 amendments to the motion. Peers may have to sit into the weekend to debate them.

The shadow leader of the House, Baroness Smith, says the timetable allows for "a full and proper debate" but would ensure the proceedings finish before Parliament is suspended next week.

Brexit: The Lords gear up for a battle over no-deal bill

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Former attorney general Jeremy Wright says those bringing forward this Bill are "acting in the national interest in bringing up these issues in the way that they do", and therefore don't deserve the name-calling they have received.

He adds, however, that he disagrees with the bill, and has three issues specifically.

"[The bill] sets out that the government should get specific Parliamentary authority for any deal that it negotiates, it sets out that it should get specific authority for any exit from the EU without a deal, and it sets out that if it fails to enact either of those, it should enact a three-month further extension in our departure from the EU.

"I'm afraid the first two of those are unnecessary and the third is undesirable."

Sir Keir says Labour will not be voting with the government for an election, and the party's focus remains on passing and implementing the bill.

He adds that a no-deal Brexit has "no mandate from the public or this parliament".

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The shadow Brexit secretary says the PM is not making progress towards a deal. "Across the EU, everybody says that no proposals have been put forward," he says.

"There's no progress... there's no workable alternative to avoid a hard border in Northern Ireland," he adds.

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The former chancellor and ex-Tory MP says he has had "confirmation from within the government" that there is no negotiation going on with the EU.

Mr Hammond says that if a "fantasy deal" from the PM were agreed tomorrow "it would still not be possible to get through all the stages of process required".

"We had to act," he says referring to the bill.

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Another newly independent MP Philip Hammond - fresh from expulsion last night - now speaks. Until a few months ago he was the chancellor in the Conservative government.

He says the bill is necessary because "there is no mandate for a no-deal Brexit and a no-deal Brexit will be a catastrophe."

"Many of us now sitting on the backbenches have seen the detailed analysis from inside government of the damaging impact of a no-deal Brexit," he adds.

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The governor of the Bank of England says the potential impact to the economy of a no-deal Brexit is now "less severe" due to preparations made since the end of 2018.

Mark Carney told a hearing Treasury Select Committee hearing that a no-deal exit would see the economy shrink by 5.5% rather than the 8% slump previously predicted.

The meeting follows Mr Carney's comments on Monday that leaving the EU without a deal would certainly cause the pound to fall in reaction to the "real economic shock" - although he was subsequently accused by a chief economist of of making "scary soundbites".

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New Lib Dem MP Jane Dodds says a no-deal Brexit would put 40% tariffs on Welsh lamb - a major worry in her constituency.

"I will be using my votes today to ensure a no-deal Brexit is avoided as it would be catastrophic for the people of Brecon and Radnorshire," she says.

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Now ex-Tory MP Alistair Burt says he doesn't "complain about the removal of the whip"

However he urges his colleagues to "think how this looks".

"What are people going to think about what we have left and what have we lost?" he asks.

He tells MPs that this may be his last speech in Parliament, as he will not be standing in the next election.

"I will walk out of here looking up at the sky and not down at my shoes," he concludes.

His speech is met by applause from surrounding MPs.

Vicki Young
Chief Political Correspondent

Parliament will be packing up - proroguing - probably on Monday, so MPs haven't got very long to get this Bill through.

They're trying to get it through the Commons in just one day - it then goes to the House of Lords and that's where there could be a few problems.

Peers have been turning up with sleeping bags - I saw one coming in earlier with a big bag of food to get them through the night because there are likely to be attempts in the Lords by Conservative Brexiteer peers to block the move. To filibuster - talk for so long that the bill runs out of time and can't get through.

We mentioned earlier the group of Labour MPs trying to revive Theresa May's deal. Well, it looks like a good number of Tories want to back that move, but those in charge aren't happy, as the Guardian's chief political correspondent explains.

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Alistair Burt is the next speaker. Last night he was expelled from the Conservative parliamentary party, after voting against the government.

"I rise to speak as the proud but slightly bemused member for north east Bedfordshire," he begins.

He argues that the bill is "not a stumbling block to negotiations".

He says the reason there hasn't been a deal so far is because MPs did not vote for Theresa May's bill.