Summary

  • Day in Commons starts with culture questions

  • Urgent question on hormone pregnancy tests

  • Business statement follows

  • Commons leader statement on sexual harassment

  • Main business backbench debates, including one on universal credit

  • House of Lords began questions at 11am

  • Several debates in the Lords this afternoon, including one on universal credit

  1. What's on in Westminster Hall today?published at 09:32 Greenwich Mean Time 14 November 2017

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  2. Good morningpublished at 09:29 Greenwich Mean Time 14 November 2017

    Welcome to our coverage of today's events in Westminster.

    A busy day ahead, with all eyes on the Commons chamber as MPs consider the EU Withdrawal Bill at committee stage.

    The line by line scrutiny of the bill will start from about 2.30pm.

    But first, we're going to over to committee corridor, where the Home Affairs Committee has a session on policing.

  3. NI budget reveals health spend increasepublished at 22:36 Greenwich Mean Time 13 November 2017

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    NI Secretary James Brokenshire said a budget is needed in the absence of a devolved government

    Northern Ireland's budget for 2017/18 has been published and shows an increase in health spending of 5.4%.

    The bill has gone through the House of Commons, backed by all parties without a vote.

    It will go to the House of Lords on Tuesday.

    NI Secretary James Brokenshire said that public services would begin to run out of money if a budget was not in place by the end of November.

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  4. Parliament to get binding vote on final Brexit dealpublished at 22:35 Greenwich Mean Time 13 November 2017

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    David Davis: MPs will get time to debate and scrutinise Brexit deal

    Parliament is to be given a take-it-or leave-it vote on the final Brexit deal before the UK leaves the EU.

    Brexit Secretary David Davis said the terms of the UK's exit, such as money, citizen rights and any transition must become law via a new Act of Parliament.

    Labour welcomed a "climbdown" but some MPs warned of a "sham" if ministers could not be asked to renegotiate.

    Sources have told the BBC some Tory rebels were unimpressed, with one saying the promise was "meaningless".

    Read more.

  5. Lords adjournspublished at 22:34 Greenwich Mean Time 13 November 2017

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    The House of Lords adjourns and will return on Tuesday at 2.30pm for questions to ministers.

  6. Minister defends exemptions to data subjects' rightspublished at 22:05 Greenwich Mean Time 13 November 2017

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    Home Office Minister Baroness Williams of Trafford responds to the points made by Baroness Hamwee, assuring her the bill "does not set aside all of GDPR (the General Data Protection Regulation) for all immigration purposes".

    Confidentiality would still apply, she adds, as well as all safeguards on cross-border exchange of information and oversight by the Information Commissioner.

    The bill "does not give the Home Office carte blanche to use these exemptions as routine", she insists.

    The amendment's lead signatory, Lib Dem Lord Clement-Jones, says he still has concerns but withdraws his amendment "for now".

  7. Lib Dem objects to data use for migration controlpublished at 21:52 Greenwich Mean Time 13 November 2017

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    Lib Dem Baroness Hamwee speaks to an amendment which would remove an exception to data subjects' rights where personal data is being collected for "effective immigration control".

    She observes the Home Office makes mistakes with "embarrassing" regularity and warns it could affect immigrants' willingness to engage with public services.

    "Would a school have to provide a person's address without his knowledge, even if he hadn't committed an immigration offence?" she asks.

  8. Commons adjournspublished at 21:50 Greenwich Mean Time 13 November 2017

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    That's the end of Monday's business in the Commons.

    MPs will meet at 11:30am on Tuesday for health questions, before holding an emergency debate on tax avoidance and the Paradise Papers.

    The main business will be the beginning of the detailed, committee-stage debate of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill.

    This enables MPs to table amendments in an attempt to make changes to the bill and, as the BBC's political editor notes, there are more than a few of those.

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  9. Adjournment debate on police fundingpublished at 21:31 Greenwich Mean Time 13 November 2017

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    Finally in the Commons today, Conservative Andrew Selous opens the short adjournment debate, which concerns Bedfordshire police funding.

  10. MPs pass Northern Ireland budgetpublished at 21:26 Greenwich Mean Time 13 November 2017

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    No amendments are proposed to the Northern Ireland Budget Bill, and its remaining stages are a mere formality.

    Having passed the bill, MPs also pass a money resolution related to the Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Bill.

    This short bill, which has opposition support, creates a statutory entitlement to two weeks' paid leave for bereaved parents.

    It began life as a private members' bill introduced by the Conservative MP Kevin Hollinrake.

  11. UK ministers 'committed to the restoration of devolved government'published at 21:16 Greenwich Mean Time 13 November 2017

    Northern Ireland Budget Bill

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    Chloe Smith

    Northern Ireland Minister Chloe Smith thanks MPs for their support of the Budget Bill.

    "This step has been held off as long as possible," she says, repeating that ministers are "committed to the restoration of devolved government".

    The bill passes second reading without opposition and consideration moves to committee stage.

  12. Labour backs bill to 'keep the show on the road'published at 21:13 Greenwich Mean Time 13 November 2017

    Northern Ireland Budget Bill

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    Stephen Pound

    Shadow Northern Ireland minister Stephen Pound says it would be slightly depressing if Westminster ends up setting the budget for the next financial year as well, meaning "we will have to do the whole thing again in a few months' time".

    He says Labour will not be opposing "this sensible measure which keeps the show on the road".

  13. Paisley: Devolution is coming to an endpublished at 21:06 Greenwich Mean Time 13 November 2017

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    Ian Paisley, who died in 2014, formed a power-sharing deal with Sinn Féin

    DUP MP Ian Paisley says his father, the late former first minister of Northern Ireland, made sacrifices for devolution "and it saddens me that it is coming to an end".

    If power-sharing cannot be restored, he says, "then let's have direct rule".

  14. Peers debate data protection exemptionspublished at 21:00 Greenwich Mean Time 13 November 2017

    Data Protection Bill

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    Peers now move on to the committee stage of the Data Protection Bill, external, designed to set new standards for protecting personal data and prepare a data protection framework for when the UK leaves the EU.

    The discussion focuses on areas which will be exempted from the new General Data Protection Regulation, under which businesses will be required to protect the personal data and privacy of UK citizens.

    Lib Dem Lord Clement-Jones expresses concern at the "narrowness of derogation" for research statistics, which only applies to scientific and historical research under the bill.

  15. 'Primary reason for debt is job loss' - government spokesmanpublished at 20:41 Greenwich Mean Time 13 November 2017

    Household debt statement

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    Responding to the bishop's concerns on household debt, government spokesman Lord Bates emphasises: "Financial stability is an ongoing priority for this government."

    He points out that mortgage providers must place a limit on lending and receive guidance on affordability ratings.

    He says the primary reason for people getting into debt is job loss.

  16. Brexit concession may not appease rebelspublished at 20:40 Greenwich Mean Time 13 November 2017

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  17. Sinn Féin accused of pursuing 'divisive' cultural agendapublished at 20:38 Greenwich Mean Time 13 November 2017

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    Emma Little-Pengelly

    DUP MP Emma Little-Pengelly accuses Sinn Féin of "using a deeply divisive cultural and identity issue" - Irish language legislation - as their red line.

    She adds that Sinn Féin is "putting a cultural agenda before issues such as health and education and I think that is disgraceful".

    She also argues that Sinn Féin could have passed a budget "before they walked away".

  18. What does Sinn Féin say?published at 20:23 Greenwich Mean Time 13 November 2017

    Northern Ireland Budget Bill

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    Sinn Féin's Stormont leader Michelle O'Neill said she was disappointed that power-sharing talks have broken down

    The DUP and Sinn Féin have failed to reach an agreement to restore power-sharing, in spite of numerous rounds of discussions since March's assembly elections.

    The vote was called after the Northern Ireland Executive collapsed amid a bitter split over the handling of a botched renewable energy scheme in January.

    Sinn Féin's demand for legislation to give official status to the Irish language has become one of the main stumbling blocks in negotiations to restore the executive.

    Sinn Féin's Stormont leader Michelle O'Neill said her party had tried to be "flexible", but "endless talks without conclusion are not sustainable".

    Sinn Féin said the confidence and supply arrangement between the DUP and the Conservative Party had "compounded" the problems the parties faced.

    The prime minister made the £1bn deal with the DUP after losing her majority in Parliament in June's general election.

  19. Bishop describes welfare reforms as 'worrying'published at 20:22 Greenwich Mean Time 13 November 2017

    Household debt debate

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    The Bishop of St Albans opens a debate on the risks posed by the level of household debt in the UK.

    He says reliance on credit creates "vulnerability and anxiety" for many people, and banks have a duty to "act responsibly".

    He welcomes the government's plans for a "breathing space" for those in debt but calls on ministers to consider the impact of current welfare reforms, which he calls "extremely worrying".

  20. Unionists continue attacks on Sinn Féinpublished at 20:14 Greenwich Mean Time 13 November 2017

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    Sinn Féin won seven Commons seats in the 2017 election but the party has always boycotted Westminster, a decision which Northern Ireland Committee chairman Andrew Murrision described earlier as regrettable.

    In the absence of Sinn Féin, the DUP continues its attack on the party, with MP Sammy Wilson accusing its former power-sharing partner of setting "unrealistic demands" in order to avoid returning to devolved government.

    Independent unionist MP Sylvia Hermon intervenes to argue that Sinn Féin is hoping to use the Brexit vote "in order to provoke talk about a border poll" on a united Ireland.

    Addressing the secretary of state, Mr Wilson says he knows James Brokenshire does not want to introduce direct rule, "but we're going to hit the same problem next year".