House of Lords Home Affairs EU-Sub Committee look at data protection
Wales questions start Commons day
PMQs at noon
MPs deal with amendments to legislation
Peers sit at 3pm
Lords then examine private members' bills
Peers also to look at Northern Ireland and Finance (No 2) Bills
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UUP MP Tom Elliott echoes calls for further action on broadband speed.
He tells MPs he helped his son download a video game on Christmas morning, hoping it would be finished by lunchtime - but it took until New Year's Day.
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Image source, HoCLabour's Sharon Hodgson praises the government's decision to include new clauses on ticket resale in the bill.
It will go some way to mending the "broken" ticket market, she says, paying tribute to other campaigners on this issue including the late Baroness Heyhoe-Flint.
"There's plenty more to do to ensure fans are not ripped off," she adds.
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Conservative Nigel Adams condemns ticket resale company Viagogo's decision not to appear before the select committee, calling it "despicable".
He welcomes measures in the bill intended to prevent mass buy-up of tickets and resale at much higher prices.
He notes the "difficulty" faced by Culture Minister Matt Hancock in trying to buy Paul Simon tickets.
Reality Check
Shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth told Radio 4 that the NHS had not been given the money it asked for by the current government.
Reality Check looked at whether this was the case earlier this year when the prime minister said in Parliament she had given the NHS more than it had asked for.
It turned out that the amount the NHS in England was due to be given by 2020 was at the bottom end of the range that it asked for and that the funding calculation did not take into account the knock-on effects of shortfalls in other areas such as social care.
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Image source, HoCThe SNP's Calum Kerr tells MPs he still has concerns the bill is not doing enough to improve broadband connectivity.
"We would have liked to see more ambition," he says, arguing a higher target speed would have been possible.
Broadband is replacing roads as the "lifeblood" of rural communities, he notes.
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Image source, HoCShadow digital economy minister Louise Haigh begins by noting the opportunities "missed" by the bill such as addressing the "responsibilities of the behemoths of the digital age" and protecting the rights "individuals should have over their own data".
She describes the government's movement on broadband speeds as "a baby step and nothing more".
She welcomes as "fantastic" the government's decision to "accept the opposition's arguments" and allow consumers to set a limit on their monthly mobile bill.
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Image source, HoCCulture Minister Matt Hancock begins by urging MPs to reject a Lords amendment which calls for internet providers to offer every household download speeds of 30 megabits per second.
He says he supports the ambition but argues that it is not yet deliverable.
Instead, he offers an alternative amendment which would set the minimum download speed at 10 megabits.
He adds that the figure would be reviewed once take up of super-fast broadband stands at 75%.
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Image source, ReutersMPs approve a ways and means resolution on the Digital Economy Bill, which aims to improve broadband connectivity and protection of children from online pornography.
They then move to consideration of Lords amendments, concerning:
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Image source, ReutersThe SNP's Alan Brown introduces his ten minute rule bill, which aims to safeguard cash retentions in the construction industry.
Retention is the withholding of payment until a contractor completes the work free of defects and omissions, generally subject to the wording in the builder's contract.
Alan Brown says that failure to protect cash retentions leads to job losses and in some cases bankruptcy.
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Image source, HoCLabour's Paul Flynn raises a point of order expressing concern over the well-being of members of the House.
He fears that there has been an outbreak of "parliamentary Tourettes" caused by "a Crosby chip" being implanted into the heads of Conservative backbenchers requiring them to say "strong and stable leadership" every 18 seconds.
Is this affliction curable? he asks.
John Bercow suggests that this is not a matter for him.
Conservative Michael Fabricant makes a subsequent point of order - "There has been speculation about what is on my head - but a chip is not one of them."
In fact, there were a considerable number of points of order, following one of the longest PMQs ever.
Conservative Sir Gerald Howarth, one of those who asked a question during PMQs, also made a point of order, staying to thank the Speaker for permitting the long session, giving many retiring MPs the chance to speak in the chamber for the last time.
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says for Jeremy Corbyn PMQs had been an attempt "to go through his greatest hits" on housing, NHS and school cuts. But she said going through the emails he had received had not served him well.
Laura added that the prime minister had been given the opportunity twice to give assurances about the "triple lock" on state pensions "and twice she swerved it", adding that clearly there's "a live debate" on the issue at the top levels of the Conservative Party.
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Asked about appearing in a TV debate during the election campaign - something she has ruled out, Theresa May says: "I've been in televised debates week in and week out" - a reference to her appearances at PMQs.
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This is almost certainly a new record - we are heading towards an hour of Prime Minister's Questions now.
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Image source, HoCWe're well into extra time now and Lib Dem leader Tim Farron says the legacy of this Parliament is the "abject failure" of the opposition to hold the government to account, and asks if it's time for a new opposition.
Theresa May said he talks about a decent opposition but he has a candidate with "questionable views on anti-Semitism".
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