Welcome to our coverage of the day in Westminster.

We'll be focused on day 6 of the EU Withdrawal Bill today, as debate begins at about 1.45pm.

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An agreement to move on to the next phase of Brexit talks is "good news" for both Leave and Remain voters, Theresa May has told MPs.

She told Parliament it should reassure those who feared the UK would get "bogged down" in endless negotiations or "crash out" without a deal.

She said the UK did not want a trade arrangement based on any other country but "a deal that is right for the UK".

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Mrs May had only just "scraped through".

MPs also passed the Finance Bill enacting Budget measures at second reading, while peers debated data protection after Brexit.

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MPs vote 313 to 269 to approve the Finance Bill at second reading, a majority of 44.

That's it for our live text coverage of the Commons today and we'll be back in the morning.

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MPs vote 312 to 271 against Labour's amendment to the Finance Bill, a majority of 41.

The Commons divides again to vote on the second reading of the bill.

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Andrew Jones, exchequer secretary to the Treasury, says that public investment in transport will reach its highest level in decades during the current spending period.

Mr Jones says that the government has done more than any other to clamp down on tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance.

He says that the economy is 15.8% bigger than it was in 2010.

With that, the Commons divides to vote on Labour's amendment.

The amendment declines to give the bill a second reading and states that the Budget "contains no measures to address the fact that the UK has the slowest economic growth in the G7".

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Shadow Treasury minister Anneliese Dodds is summing up for the Opposition.

She says the UK had the third slowest growth in the whole of the OECD at the beginning of this year.

She cites the Office for Budget Responsibility in saying that the stamp duty cut will not help the housing situation in the UK.

She says that staff numbers have dropped by 17% in the past seven years, at a time when there will be more work for HMRC with Brexit.

Ms Dodds adds that the poorest families in the UK will see a drop in living standards of 17% in the coming years, after cuts to family and children's services.

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Conservative Rachel Maclean praises the government's "jobs miracle" which has brought unemployment to a 40-year low.

She says that the government have given tax cuts to 31 million people in the UK, which allows people to take home more of their money at the end of the working week.

The Conservatives are the true party for many working people, she adds.

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Crossbencher and former Supreme Court Justice Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood introduces a set of amendments designed to address his concerns about aspects of the bill which "risk infringing parliamentary privilege".

His objections relate to penalties for breaches of data protection and how they might deter MPs and peers from exercising privilege.

Government spokesperson Baroness Chisholm concedes the process could be improved and ministers will bring forward amendments at third reading.

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Labour's Ruth George says that the UK's debt is now at nearly £2 trillion, nearly 90% of GDP, she adds.

She says that the UK has the longest commuting times in Europe, which she argues makes the productivity problems the UK is facing even worse.

Since 2010, there have been £1,000 of tax credit cuts for families, she adds.

Ms George says that the Budget does nothing for working people in the UK, with seven million working people in the UK in poverty.

"Only four in ten businesses survive for five years," she says.

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Labour spokesman Lord Kennedy of Southwark welcomes the government's decision to place further conditions on the use of Henry VIII powers to deal with data.

He signals his party's agreement to the amendments and they are added to the bill.

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Conservative Kevin Hollinrake says that people's experiences in borrowing from banks does prevent some people from wanting to turn their start up into a bigger business.

He says the UK needs to look at an independent redress scheme for businesses which are missold financial products by banks.

He believes it is one of the "missing pieces of a jigsaw" which can improve productivity.

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Labour's Grahame Morris is criticising the £4.6bn reduction in the banking levy at a time when he says children's services are being cut.

He says he supports Ms Creasy's amendment to require an independent review of how women will be affected by this year's Budget.

Cutting stamp duty "is the wrong solution," he says, adding that 40% of the home sold under Right To Buy are now in the private sector. Private rents are higher than social rents, he adds.

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Peers continuing report-stage debate on the Data Protection Bill, which provides a data protection framework for when the UK leaves the EU.

Government spokesperson Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen introduces government amendments relating to Henry VIII powers arising from the bill.

Henry VIII powers do not receive the same level of scrutiny as primary legislation.

The amendments place some extra checks on these powers in the bill, but Baroness Chisholm defends the decision to maintain the powers to alter conditions for the processing of sensitive data in order to keep pace with "the extraordinary pace of change" in this sector.

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Conservative Luke Graham criticises the SNP, calling them "the political manifestation of Veruca Salt" for demanding more from Westminster.

"No matter how high the price, no matter how good the deal, the SNP are not satisfied," he says.

He says the SNP needing a return of VAT receipts for police and fire services brings a return of frontline services to Scottish Fire and Rescue and Police Services.

Remaining in the UK benefits Scottish citizens by £1,750 each per year, he says.

He says that after ten years of an SNP administration, life expectancy in Scotland is still shorter than the rest of the UK, whilst levels of literacy and numeracy have fallen.

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Conservative Jack Brereton welcomes the investment in cutting-edge technology in the Budget, which he also says will make the tax system "simpler and fairer".

He says the government is doing more to not just increase the number of jobs, but to make sure pay increases too.

He says the UK can look forward to "championing trade agreements beyond our shores".

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Labour's Stella Creasy says that the UK is "now a nation up to our eyeballs in personal debt".

She says that Brexit is sucking time and money from the UK Exchequer, she says that the changes in the Bill will do nothing for those in the private rented sector and those on Universal Credit.

Ms Creasy says the Finance Bill could have been an opportunity to restart the relationship between the government and companies supplying private finance initiative (PFI) contracts.

She says that closing tax loopholes used by multinationals could make the Exchequer £5.5bn.

Her amendment, tabled and being debated this evening, calls on the government to do an independent assessment of the Budget's impact on women. MPs will vote on this later tonight.

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Labour's Gareth Thomas calls for a "consumer ombudsman" to help prevent malpractice by large companies.

He says the UK energy market is not competitive enough, and further mergers in the business world are preventing competition.

"Markets need robust competition", he says, adding: "85% of all current accounts are held by five banks".

He calls on the UK government to use its shares in RBS to turn it into a mutual or building society, rather than a privately-owned bank.

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SNP economy spokesperson Kirsty Blackman begins by drawing a comparison between the Budget and the recent dispute over analysis of how different sectors of the economy will be affected by Brexit.

She argues it's "not surprising" the government did not carry out Brexit impact assessments, as it does not do so for Budget announcements.

She goes on to say more could be done to tackle tax avoidance and to improve wages for public-sector workers.

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Conservative Kit Malthouse says contrary to Labour's assertions, the Budget brings in a "smorgasbord of measures which will touch the lives of many people".

He praises policies which will develop UK companies' ability to "invent and export to the rest of the world", which he thinks will be "absolutely critical" to future prosperity.

It's important to "energise private capital to sit alongside" initiatives such as enterprise investment schemes, he urges.

He also notes that the risk-reward balance for investors offered by tax incentives is not currently quite right.

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Shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Peter Dowd opens for Labour on the bill, saying he brings a message from all parts of the country.

He specifies that this message is "enough is enough" and they are "fed up with this government's economic incompetence", which is driving them to turn to Labour.

He says UK productivity has fallen "far behind the French, the Americans and the Germans" because the government has "refused to invest in our infrastructure".

He then attacks comments made by the chancellor about disabled people and productivity, describing them as "out of touch".