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The "constructive" meeting with Michel Barnier come ahead of a crucial summit of EU leaders on Saturday.

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The House of Lords adjourns and will return tomorrow for its final day of the current Parliament.

Business begins at 11am with questions.

Peers will also consider orders and regulations, including one on student fees and support which could see a last dust-up for the Lords before Parliament dissolves.

Labour has tabled a regret motion opposing plans to scrap bursaries for nursing and midwifery degrees.

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Baroness Nevillle-Rolfe now responds to the short debate.

She says that during the election campaign her party will offer a programme for a "more secure and more productive economy".

The debate concludes and the bill is passed.

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Shadow treasury minister Lord Davies of Oldham accuses the government of "pursuing tax cuts for the super rich" to be paid by "the mass of our people who have more limited resources."

On education, he asks why the government is "wasting resources on private schools when the state schools are facing a reduction in resources".

He summarises the Budget as being consistent with the government's "conspicuous failure to hit fiscal targets" whilst backing strategies that "reward those who are well-off". 

The Commons has adjourned and will return tomorrow at 9.30am for questions on exiting the EU, the final day of parliamentary business before dissolution for the general election. 

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Environment Minister George Eustice assures the House air pollution is a priority for the government. 

He says evidence suggests that the most of the harmful particulates are from wood-burning, but acknowledges a "substantial proportion" comes from vehicle emissions. 

He points to £2bn of funding for green transport initiatives and the five cities working to implement clear air zones. 

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The bill passes second reading and its remaining stages are treated as a mere formality.

Finally today, peers consider the Finance (No.2) Bill, which enacts some of the measures set out in the chancellor's March Budget.

As the end of the current Parliament is nigh, Treasury Minister Baroness Neville-Rolfe says the bill "is proceeding on the basis of consensus". A number of measures have been removed in order to achieve agreement with Labour.

The Conservatives "will legislate" for those measures if they return to government after the election, the minister adds.

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"This is where we are, frustrating though that is," Lord Dunlop says, replying to the second reading for the government.

He thanks opposition parties for their support for the bill and for fast-tracking it through Parliament.

The UK government and the Irish government will maintain contacts during the election period, he adds.

If no agreement is reached, "an incoming government will have to look at all options he says", though he insists that "no-one wants to see a return to direct rule".

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Labour's Chris Evans is opening his debate on diesel fumes in his Islwyn constituency.

He says his constituency contains the most polluted road in the UK outside London and calls it "concerning the government does not recognise this for the public health emergency it is".

He criticises the government's decision to delay its air quality strategy until after the election. 

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Labour spokesman Lord Murphy of Torfaen recalls his experience as a minister in the Northern Ireland Office under direct rule, including making the "unpopular decision" to raise rates.

Of the Northern Ireland parties, he says: "You ask a British minister to do it and then castigate him for doing it."

He adds that direct rule makes the Northern Ireland parties "supplicants" and is "wholly unsatisfactory".

"Anything that will restore devolution is worth a try," he tells the House, arguing that many of the remaining sticking points in negotiations can be overcome.

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Labour MP Wes Streeting delivers a long list of signatures against the closure of a hospital in Ilford. 

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Two more Labour MPs - John Woodcock and Chris Bryant - also present petitions. 

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Crossbench peer Lord Eames, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, says he "learned the hard way how difficult the whole issue" of the legacy of the Troubles is.

"The minefield has not altered, it has deepened," he says, adding that he supports the bill "with regret".

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Liberal Democrat peer Lord Alderdice, who led the Alliance Party in Northern Ireland from 1987 to 1998, says the lack of an assembly could "wipe out a generation of politicians".

Without a functioning assembly, he argues, "they will go back into their own communities and they will snipe at each other and they will not build relationships".

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Universities Minister Jo Johnson responds to points raised about international students, saying there is "no limit" to the number who can move into full-time jobs.  

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Former Ulster Unionist Party leader Lord Empey, who was an employment minister in the Northern Ireland executive until 2010, bemoans the lack of devolved government.

He says that Northern Ireland has the longest health service waiting lists and "huge problems" in education while, he claims, the opportunity to vary corporation tax has "gone down the drain now".

He also asks how Northern Ireland's views can be represented in Brexit negotiations with "the most critical, difficult situation developing at the border" with the Republic of Ireland.

"All we are doing with all of this is showing contempt for the ordinary people," he adds.

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The SNP's Carol Monaghan tells MPs "devastation" is being caused by falling numbers of overseas students. 

She says foreign students should not feel as though they are "allowed to stay but welcome to stay" and should be offered a more "attractive route" to higher education in this country.

She calls on the government to remove them from the net migration target.