Commons started with questions to the culture secretary followed by the attorney general
Leader of the House Andrea Leadsom set out future business
Two statements on a parliamentary complaints policy and supported housing
Debate on Russian interference in UK politics
Peers take part in debates on climate change and ivory trade
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Conservative Rehman Chishti asks about a law in Germany to fine social media companies who fail to remove illegal content.
Facebook's Simon Milner replies that he has concerns about the law because it means companies deciding what is illegal, rather than the courts.
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The Lords begins earlier today at 11am, to accommodate discussion of a report from the Lord Speaker's Committee on the size of the House.
At 2:30pm, peers will have their normal oral questions for government ministers.
There are 96 speakers in today's debate on the size of the House; and of course, more peers may decide to speak "in the gap" shortly before the debate is wrapped up around 10pm this evening.
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Image source, HoCConservative Tim Loughton brings the committee's attention to the hashtag "kill a Tory".
"Simple hashtag, simple search, simple take down," he says.
Sinead McSweeney replies that there are 500 million tweets per day and 330 million users and that removing abusive tweets is "a very significant task".
Tim Loughton suggests a simple filter system would work.
The Twitter vice president argues that removing all content using that hashtag could also remove tweets from people criticising the hashtag.
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Yvette Cooper notes that on YouTube her recommended videos includes extremist content.
"Not only have you not removed such content, you are actively recommending it to me," she says.
Dr Nicklas Berild Lundblad acknowledges that "we are six months into this and not quite there yet".
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Image source, HoCYvette Cooper now brings up an anti-Semitic tweet that she raised the last time Twitter appeared before the committee.
Why is it still there? she says.
I don't know, replies Sinead McSweeney.
What is it we have to do? asks Yvette Cooper.
The Twitter vice president says she will come back to the committee.
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Image source, HoCYvette Cooper says that in August a number of violent tweets towards politicians were reported but have still not been taken down.
She asks why not.
The committee clerk passes printouts of the tweets to Sinead McSweeney who says they probably do violate Twitter's policy.
She says that in the past reports from the target of the abuse would "receive a higher priority".
She adds this has recently changed and that "bystander" reports are taken more seriously.
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Image source, HoCCommittee chair Yvette Cooper asks what action the companies have taken in the last month to tackle violent content.
Simon Milner says that Facebook has increased the number of people reviewing content and launched the "Online Civil Courage Initiative" to encourage positive use of Facebook.
Twitter's Sinead McSweeney tells MPs that the company is now removing 95% of terrorist content and has adopted a tougher stance against hate symbols.
Google's Nicklas Berild Lundblad says Google helped found the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism which he says helps smaller platforms to tackle violent content.
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Members of the Home Affairs Committee are:
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The Home Affairs Committee is about to take evidence from Google, Twitter and Facebook as part of its inquiry on hate crime and its violent consequences.
The session is likely to cover the action taken by social media companies to remove inappropriate and illegal content and trends in online hate crime.
The witnesses will be:
Welcome to our coverage of today in Westminster. We're starting the day with a Home Affairs Committee session, questioning representatives of Twitter, Facebook and Google.
There's plenty more to come throughout the day from both the Commons and the Lords.
Thanks for joining us.
That's where we leave our coverage of events in Parliament - a day on which MPs united against intimidation and harassment via social media.
But there was still plenty to argue about as Theresa May briefed MPs on the outcome of the latest Brexit negotiations last week.
And, there was a sombre mood as the Commons debated the findings of a review into building regulations in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire.
Dame Judith Hackitt was "shocked" by some of the practices she came across.
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Image source, HoLExiting the EU Minister Lord Callanan says a response to the committee will be published early in the new year.
He says he will not be able to go into much detail at this stage, due to the ongoing state of the negotiations. The government has made good progress in the first phase, he adds.
He says the UK is a "global success story" in the trade of services.
The UK exported around £63bn of non-financial services to the EU in 2016, he says, the UK exported "significantly more" to non-EU countries in 2016, he adds.
The government will seek to "maintain continuity" during any implementation period, he says.
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Image source, HoLBaroness Hayter of Kentish Town, Labour's Brexit spokesperson, says the UK economy relies on services, from technology, fashion, accountancy, law, telecoms and other sectors.
She says it appears from the documents available in the Reading Room, that the government is only speaking to trade bodies, rather than consumer regulators and bodies which protect consumer interests, she adds.
"Good data is vital if we want to know where we are going," she says.
A loss of freedom of movement would be hugely detrimental to this sector, she adds.
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Image source, HoLLiberal Democrat trade spokesperson, Lord Purvis of Tweed, says the House is still awaiting clarity from the government.
He says the UK is 18 months on from the referendum and is "only now" getting on to trade discussions with the European Union.
He says that witnesses speaking to the EU Committee are "not vested interests" but raising legitimate concerns about influence. He gives the example that Ofcom wish to remain in European regulations of broadcasters, meaning that it could influence the decision making process.
He adds that it is incumbent on government to explain to the public what leaving European institutions will actually lead to.
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Image source, HoLLabour's Lord Berkeley, says he welcomes the report as it lays out a number of options after Brexit, and in more detail than the 58 sector reports he read in the reading room last week, he adds.
He says a lot of valuable trade, particularly in "just in time" deliveries between the UK and EU are under threat from potentially lengthy customs delays.
This represents £3.6bn in trade for the UK, a lot of it temperature controlled in the "just in time" deliveries, he says.
He can see a good reason why business would not want to throw this away, he adds.
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Image source, HoLLiberal Democrat Baroness Randerson says the nature of the evidence the committee receives every Thursday morning makes her feel depressed "week after week".
She says the committee has done what the government has failed to do, "amassing evidence" on the impact of Brexit.
The overwhelming view of those speaking to the committee, she says, is that they want the current situation to remain for as long as possible.
She says the lack of response to the committee's report is because "the government doesn't have any answers".
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Image source, HoCLabour MP Alison McGovern argues strongly against the cut to stamp duty, saying that in is the current economic context, it is the wrong policy.
If the UK had experienced the same growth as other European countries or dealt with the budget deficit, she says, it might be worth looking at.
But she does not think it is the country's priority, saying: "Our constituents will benefit very little indeed from this expensive policy."
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Image source, HoLThe Bishop of Leeds says services are not just down to the balance sheet, but down to culture, creativity and connectivity.
The Digital Economy is a means to a cultural end, he says. They create cultural and societal norms, as well as shaping them, he adds.
"The economy is not the end, it is a means to an end," he says, "if we forget this, we become utilitarian and materialistic".
"The creative services build culture," he says.
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MPs are now talking about government plans to abolish stamp duty for first-time buyers purchasing a property for £300,000 or less. There are reduced rates for people buying a house for between £300,000 and £350,000.