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At oral questions in the Lords, Labour spokesperson Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town points to £250,000 raised by the DUP for the Leave campaign, which under rules in Northern Ireland does not have to be reported with its sources.

Lady Hayter says she asked for a meeting with the Electoral Commission chief executive about this and was "declined".

Cabinet Office spokesman Lord Young of Cookham acknowledges it's time to "have another look at the exemptions" for campaign reporting in Northern Ireland.

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There's a five minute limit on speeches now in this afternoon's Queen's Speech debate.

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SNP MP Carol Monaghan begins by paying tribute to teachers throughout the UK, as well as Scotland.

Turning to higher education, she says the numbers of international students have held steady, but that the range of countries they come from has changed - including a greater number of new Chinese students.

It would be better to have their expertise in the cities where they were trained, rather than see them disappear home, she says; and she asks what happens when they suddenly cease to come.

Immigration targets and common xenophobia have overruled common economic sense in this Queen's Speech, she says.

Maybe it's time to devolve immigration policy, she adds.

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Angela Rayner also asks about proposed changes to fire safety regulations in schools, which she says have now been removed from the department for education website.

She says that the original changes said school buildings did not need to be sprinkler protected to achieve a reasonable standard of life safety.

The shadow education secretary asks if these proposed changes have been abandoned for good.

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Angela Rayner raises the issue that the commitment to new grammar schools has been dropped from the government's programme.

She asks if the education secretary will confirm that there will be no attempt to lift the ban on new selective schools.

Tory Mike Wood intervenes to ask if a Labour government would abolish existing grammar schools; Ms Rayner responds that Labour would concentrate on standards and not on structures unlike the current government which is "ideologically obsessing" on the question.

Conservative MPs jeer this answer.

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Labour's shadow education secretary Angela Rayner responds to the opening comments for the opposition frontbench.

She says that there were over 2,500 words on education in the Conservative manifesto but barely 50 words on education in the Queen's Speech last week, "maybe that's why she concentrated so much on what was in our manifesto".

On the education policies the government has announced, she says it amounts "not so much as a programme as it is a post-it note".

"We don't know any more now than when she first stood up," Ms Rayner says.

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Justine Greening goes on to attack the Labour Party's manifesto policy to abolish university tuition fees, saying Labour are not being honest about the effects of such a policy and calling it "snake oil populism".

The approach to higher education funding must address inequality and increase access to university for the most disadvantaged, she says.

Labour's Rushanara Ali intervenes to say that it is time for the government to act and not to attack the opposition.

"You are in power so deal with the cap on aspiration now," she says.

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Turning away from the government's plans for the future, Ms Greening goes on the attack on Labour, outlining what she says Labour would mean for standards in education.

She says that in Wales - where Labour are in charge of education - children are faced with falling standards and that according to the OECD Wales has the lowest standards in the UK and is significantly below England in maths, reading and science.

"This is the legacy for Welsh children that they would import to English schools if they ever got the chance."

Labour will never be credible to parents in England until they have a strategy to address why they are failing in Wales, she says.

Welsh Labour MP Susan Elan Jones says the Welsh government is "quite open" about the need to improve results but says she "will not take" the Tory government demonising Wales. "It's a disgrace," she says.

Ms Greening responds that Labour's answer shows that it is "all about politics" for the opposition.

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Ms Greening says the government plans to build on this strong platform of success to make an education system that works for every young person in the UK.

"Equality of opportunity for everyone is only unlocked by education," she says.

The government will do this by ensuring every child has a good school place and no young person is left behind, she says.

The education secretary says that no group or community has a monopoly on talent and so the government wants to shift the dial on improving social mobility in the UK.

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Education Secretary Justine Greening now gets the ball rolling on this afternoon's debate on the Queen's Speech as it relates to education and public services.

Since 2010, she says, the government has been focused on pursuing higher standards in education "across the board" and says "great progress" has been made, thanks to the energy and skill of teachers, universities, businesses, and technical colleges.

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Speaker John Beercow responds that he does not consider the matter eligible to be discussed under standing order 24, external.

He says that he knows Pete Wishart and his SNP colleagues will raise this issue in every available way during the Parliament and "will not be deterred in anyway by the concern that they are repeating themselves".

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The SNP's Pete Wishart is asking for an emergency debate on the government's confidence and supply deal with the DUP and its subsequent financial arrangements.

He says there must be proper scrutiny on the deal and that the statement yesterday "cannot be considered satisfactory" given the implications of this deal.

The normal funding arrangements for the nations of the UK have been "turned on its head" with the disregard of the Barnett formula, he says; adding that given the £1bn of funding for Northern Ireland, £2.9bn should be available for Scotland and £1.7bn for Wales.

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Labour's Stephen Twigg says that GPs in his constituency are concerned at the impact on the workload on staff at their practices, and asks for an analysis on the the expected impact the review will have on NHS staff.

Jeremy Hunt replies that he is making sure that we are learning any lessons that need to be learned, but says it is a "complex process".

"It takes clinician time," he says and adds that it will take until Christmas to complete as the core work of doctors must also be balanced.

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Labour's Margaret Greenwood says that the NAO report identified some documents with potential harm to patients and asks what action is being taken to help these people.

Jeremy Hunt responds that each of these cases will have been looked at by two sets of clinicians and that on the basis of these two reports, no harm was identified.

He says that there will be a third "even more thorough" clinical review, to make absolutely certain that there is no harm for patients.

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The DUP's Jim Shannon says it is a matter of gross incompetence that the situation was allowed to escalate over a five year period, and asks what is being done to "right this wrong".

Jeremy Hunt responds that "a huge operation has happened" to deal with this problem and that the NHS is continuing to do more thorough clinical research on the documents.

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Conservative MP Bob Blackman says he is glad to hear that the contract is now in-house, and asks for confirmation that this is a totally different operation now and that none of the people who presided over the failure are the same people making decisions now.

"I can absolutely confirm that," Mr Hunt replies

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Jeremy Hunt responds that what happened at SBS "was absolutely unacceptable" and that they should never have allowed the backlog to happen.

He responds to Labour jeers by telling MPs that SBS was set up in 2008 when the Labour government "were rather keen on contracting with the private sector".

"I know things have changed since then," he says, to the Labour frontbench where Jeremy Corbyn is sat next to Jon Ashworth.

On the issue of his membership of SBS's board, Mr Hunt says that although he accepts there is a "potential" conflict of interest, he does not accept that there was an actual conflict of interest because patient safety was his first priority.