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
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Image source, HoCShadow Northern Ireland secretary Owen Smith says there are three options for the future of borders in Northern Ireland: A border with Ireland, a border in the Irish Sea or keeping the UK in the customs union.
Which one is it, he asks.
We do not want to see a hard border, replies James Brokenshire.
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Image source, HoCIndependent MP Sylvia Hermon asks why MLAs continue to receive a full salary, given that there is no functioning Northern Ireland Assembly.
"It is an absolute scandal."
James Brokenshire says there is no direct way in which he can intervene.
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The SNP's Partick O'Grady argues that a Common Travel Area covering the UK and Ireland would be impossible and that border checks are inevitable.
DUP MP Sammy Wilson attacks Irish ministers for supporting a border along the Irish Sea and special status for Northern Ireland allowing it to stay in the customs union.
James Brokenshire says the Irish government recognises that there are particular challenges and encourages all involved to engage "positively and proactively".
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Conservative Edward Argar kicks things off. He wants to know what the government has made of the political situation in Northern Ireland.
James Brokenshire tells MPs that Northern Ireland remains without a "fully functioning power-sharing government".
He says he is seeing engagement between the DUP and Sinn Fein but stresses that time is short and urges the parties to reach an agreement.
DUP Leader Nigel Dodds says that his party are committed to restoring devolution so that the assembly can get on with dealing with jobs education and investment.
He suggests that Sinn Fein are more interested in seeking "partisan political demands".
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After two late nights the Commons could be looking at a normal finish time tonight.
MPs begin shortly with questions to the Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire.
Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn will then face each other for the last PMQs before the conference season.
The rest of the afternoon is taken up with two opposition debates – the first on NHS pay, the second on tuition fees.
Former minister Mike Penning brings the day to a close with his adjournment debate on employment tribunals.
Business begins at 11:30am.
Welcome back to another busy day at Westminster.
More drama to come today, with PMQs at noon, as well as what promises to be a fiery debate on tuition fees in the chamber.
We'll also be covering the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee as it takes evidence for the first time in this Parliament - and it's the secretary of state, Michael Gove, who's in the hot seat.
And a debate in Westminster Hall on women on the barriers for women in standing for Parliament at 2.30pm too.
Remember you can watch our coverage of Jean-Claude Juncker's 'state of the union' speech on our European Parliament live page.
Opposition MPs said the motion was a "constitutional outrage" but it was backed by 320 to 301.
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MPs vote 320 to 301 for the government's motion, which gives Conservatives a majority on the Committee of Selection and sets out that where a committee has an odd number of members the government shall have a majority.
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MPs are now voting on the government's motion, which gives Conservatives a majority on the Committee of Selection and sets out that where a committee has an odd number of members the government shall have a majority.
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MPs vote 320 to 300 to reject an amendment from Lib Dem Alistair Carmichael and Green Caroline Lucas which sought to remove part of the government motion securing a government majority on committees.
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MPs are now voting on an amendment from Lib Dem Alistair Carmichael and Green Caroline Lucas which seeks to remove part of the government motion securing a government majority on committees.
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Image source, HoCConservative Jacob Rees-Mogg says the motion on committee membership fits with "the thread of our constitution" which is that "the government must get its business through".
The fact that the Queen's Speech was approved means, he says, "there is a majority for the government's programme".
He accuses detractors of "glorious synthetic anger".
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Labour's Christian Matheson argues the question of who sits on bill committees is "not a one-off but one in a series of moves to fiddle the system".
But Conservative Matt Warman accuses the opposition of trying to "gum up this Parliament" by seeing bills stuck in committee.
The latest negotiating round is postponed by a week to give both sides "flexibility to make progress".
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The SNP's Patrick Grady says: "As we like to say in Glasgow, where's your parliamentary sovereignty now?"
He claims power is being taken back from hated Brussels bureaucrats and handed to a minority executive.
He points out that Margaret Thatcher "opposed the very kind of motion they are now trying to push through".