MPs question culture ministers
Home Affairs Committee takes evidence on Brook House allegations
There are two ministerial statements on housing and schools and an urgent question on police pay
Peers meet at 11am for questions
Then it's a debate on the English Baccalaureate
The Labour leader asked the prime minister to guarantee that pay rises for police and prison service staff would not be funded by job losses.
But Theresa May wanted to know why Jeremy Corbyn was not asking about Wednesday's employment figures that showed the lowest jobless figures since the 1970s.
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Image source, HocHealth Commitee chair Sarah Wollaston welcomes the relaxation of the cap - because the NHS pay review body has to have the flexibility it needs to make recommendations, pointing to discrepancies across jobs and across regions.
Seven years of sustained pressure on NHS pay is taking its toll, she says, and it's right to relax this.
But there are wider pressures on the NHS too, she says, pointing to the nursing workforce as an example.
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Image source, HoCThe SNP health spokesperson Philippa Whitford says that she gets bored of hearing Labour blamed for the global crash.
"They did not have that degree of world domination," she says.
Turning to the pay cap she tells MPs that Scotland chose to direct resources to those on lower wages.
She says that a 1% rise is a "great pay rise" for "a consultant like me" but "pitiful for a person cleaning bed pans".
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Image source, HoCHealth Secretary Jeremy Hunt attacks Labour for portraying the 1% caps as "an ideological mission".
"Absolute nonsense," he says.
He argues that the "worst ever financial crisis in our history" made pay restraint necessary.
He says that Labour wasn't responsible for the global crisis.
However he notes that other countries such as Germany did not need to go through austerity because the German government "did not let their public finances get recklessly out of control".
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Image source, HoCConservative Helen Whately argues that pay restraint has been "uncomfortable but necessary" to put right "the financial mess the country was left in".
Another Conservative Maria Caulfield welcomes the government's movement on the pay cap but asks by how much Labour would increase wages and how they would pay for it.
DUP MP Ian Paisley says he is minded to support the motion but asks Labour to stop attacking the government for giving the Northern Ireland £1bn, which he says can be used to narrow the pay gap.
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Image source, HoCShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth notes that in the last 24 hours the government has briefed that the pay cap has ended.
He says this represents a victory for the Labour Party, the trade unions, "but above all public sector workers".
However he warns the government that the cap "must apply to the whole of the public sector".
He also says that Labour will not accept a below-inflation offer being presented as fair pay.
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Image source, PAMPs now begin the Opposition Day debate on NHS pay.
The Labour motion being debated notes that NHS pay rises have been capped at 1% equating to a below-inflation pay settlement.
The motion calls on the government to end the public sector pay cap in the NHS.
The government has announced that there would be "flexibility" for ministers to breach the cap.
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MPs files out of the chamber and Conservative Eddie Hughes introduces his bill – the Carbon Monoxide (Detection and Safety) Bill.
The MP is calling for carbon monoxide detectors to be mandatory in new-build properties and rented properties.
He notes that detectors only cost £15 but can save lives.
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Image source, HoCLib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable notes that the government treat European fruit pickers as "an economic threat" but remains "completely relaxed" about European control of rail, energy companies and technology companies.
He suggests that the government is "biddable to big business by paranoid about people".
Theresa May says she wants to welcome best and brightest to the UK.
She also quotes Vince Cable as having said that "a second referendum would be seriously disrespectful".
And that concludes Prime Minister's Questions.
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Conservative Nigel Huddleston asks what the prime minister thinks should be done to get "even more talented women" into Parliament.
Theresa May says the Conservative initiative "Women2Win" encourages women to see Parliament as a career option.
There's a Westminster Hall debate on this very subject this afternoon, which we'll be showing here on the live page.
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Image source, HoCLib Dem Norman Lamb raises a case of man who killed someone while suffering from psychosis and who had recently been released from prison.
He expresses concern that vulnerable people are being released from prison without adequate support.
Theresa May says that efforts are being made to improve communication between prisons and hospitals.
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Image source, HoCConservative MP and Defence Committee Chair Julian Lewis notes that hundreds of former soldiers who served in Northern Ireland face re-investigation "while suspected killers walk free".
He urges the prime minister to bring forward legislation to "put an end to this grotesque situation".
Theresa May replies that the new legacy body being set up in Northern Ireland will be under an obligation "to be fair and balanced".
She says the legacy body should also keep in mind that "90% of the deaths in the Troubles were caused by terrorists".
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Conservative Victoria Atkins notes that the shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon refused to condemn illegal strike action.
She argues that such illegal action "would cause misery" for her constituents.
Theresa May agrees "we condem action outside of the law" and says that the people who suffer from strikes are "normal working families".
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Labour's Emma Lewell-Buck accuses the prime minister of ignoring her constituents who lost relatives in the Manchester Arena attack.
She says she had written to the prime minister about their case but had not received a reply.
Theresa May apologises that no reply has been sent. She says the attack in Manchester "damaged lives in many ways".
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Image source, HoCSNP Hannah Bardell raises the case of her constituent whose daughter was under threat of genital mutilation.
She asks if the prime minister will allow the constituent and her family to stay in the UK.
Theresa May says the constituent has been granted leave to remain in the UK. "Female genital mutilation is an abhorrent crime," she adds.
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