The DUP is abstaining on amendments to the Finance Bill this evening.

As part of the Confidence and Supply arrangement that the DUP has with the government, they are meant to support the government on the Budget and the Finance Bill.

They appear to have abstained on two votes and voted with Labour on a third vote about child poverty - which meant the government only won by five votes.

Brussels believes the backstop offers too many advantages for Northern Ireland, says Theresa May.

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MPs have voted against Labour's new clause 2, with 287 voting in favour and 292 voting against.

That's a majority of just five votes.

They now divide to vote on the SNP's new clause 19, which SNP economy spokesperson Kirsty Blackman said they would force a vote on in response to the government's approach to the minimum wage.

New clause 19 requires a distributional analysis of the effect of increasing the personal allowance to £12,750.

The SNP had withdrawn their amendment to raise the personal tax allowance to this amount.

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MPs have voted against Labour's new clause 1, with 262 voting in favour and 293 voting against.

They now divide to vote on Labour's new clause 2, which asks for an impact analysis of changes to personal tax allowance on child poverty and equality within six months.

Following the 2017 general election, the DUP reached a 'confidence-and-supply' agreement with the Conservatives, under which they would support the government on finance bills.

However, the DUP have expressed their dissatisfaction with the prime minister's Brexit plans and appear to be demonstrating their ability to frustrate the government as a result.

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MPs have voted in favour of clause 5 remaining part of the bill, with 292 voting in favour and 10 against.

They now divide to vote on Labour's new clause 1.

The clause asks for an analysis of the effects of reducing the threshold for the additional tax rate to £80,000 and introducing an additional rate of income tax, which would be charged above a threshold of £125,000 at a rate of 50%.

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SNP spokesman Kirsty Blackman says the government are talking as if people who are on the minimum wage don't work hard, and for that reason her party will push a vote on new clause 19.

MPs then divide to vote on whether clause 5, which concerns the personal tax allowance, remains part of the bill.

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Financial Secretary to the Treasury Mel Stride says a review is being conducted by a commission to look at the national minimum wage.

He says "the government has raised the personal allowance right the way up to £12,500, taking 4 million of the lowest paid altogether."

Mr Stride adds that the higher limit proposed by the SNP amendment "would cost significantly more than the considerable money it is costing to rightfully raise the personal allowance to this level".

In terms of Entrepreneurs Relief, Mr Stride says "it is important for entrepreneurs to not be in and out within 12 months" and says "the party opposite seem to be entirely hostile to the notion, which is not surprising considering their lack of support for business."

Mr Stride says "hard working people should keep more of their money, and the best way to help families is to cut taxes," he adds that "the record speaks for itself", and that "the budget delivers on this."

On the amendments asking for distributional analysis on the income tax policy, and for an extra £250 for the personal allowance limit, Mr Stride says both are "unnecessary".

"Under the party opposite's draconian plans they will drive away investment and destroy jobs," he adds.

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Conservative MP Rachel Maclean opposes the amendments tabled and says Labour are attacking entrepreneurs through their amendment seeking a impact report on Entrepreneur Relief.

Entrepreneurs have done a great deal for the country and make a variety of sacrifices, she says.

"We need to recognise we are not spending the government's money, we're spending our constituents money", she adds.

The Finance Bill drives more money into the exchequer, she says, and she is happy to support it as a result.

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Labour MP Ruth George says the UN's report was "a damning indictment on both the welfare policy of this country and the government".

"If disabled people and homeless people cannot be protected, who are the most vulnerable in society who this government are supposedly protecting," she argues.

Ms George suggests that under the government's policy of Universal Credit, "people are not better off in work."

"When 8 million people are living in poverty, that is not the prosperity this government talks about," she adds.

She calls on the abolition of entrepreneurs relief, which is designed to encourage people to start small businesses and allows people selling their firm to pay half the normal rate of capital gains tax, up to a limit.

"We must stand up for the poorest, otherwise we are poorer as a society," she concludes.

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Conservative MP Alex Burghart tells MPs the deficit is the debt "we pass on to our children and grandchildren", and says people can often be led to believe it can be "wished away".

Mr Burghart rebukes the comments from the Labour benches that the Finance Bill is "voodoo economics" by saying that real voodoo economics is "digging up the dead and rotting corpse of socialism".

"It is growth that matters most to our economy", he adds.

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Labour MP Thelma Walker says "a government's ultimate goal should be the well being of its citizens, but to say this is not a reality under the current government is an understatement."

Quoting the damning United Nations report on poverty levels in the UK, Ms Walker said this budget "offered the perfect opportunity to right the wrongs and relieve the hardship felt by so many across our country".

She says a fifth of the population are living in poverty "yet this Finance Bill is about lip service and rhetoric".

"Our country has never been more miserable and divided," she says "this government don't care about the poor."

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Labour MP Debbie Abrahams says Tory MPs should ask why we have such high levels of in work poverty.

"Two thirds of children in poverty are from working families," she says.

She adds that the Finance Bill "doesn't go anywhere near far enough to addressing the gap between rich and poor".

"This is the miserable product of austerity," she says.

Speaking in favour of amendment 18, which concerns changes to the tax threshold, Ms Abrahams says more consideration needs to be given to single parents and people with a disability or impairment.

"To tackle inequality takes courage, bravery and leadership," she says.

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Conservative MP Leo Docherty says the bill is "hugely welcomed" by small businesses.

Mr Docherty commends the "tradition for tremendous innovation" across the UK, and says the UK is now enjoying the lowest rate of unemployment since 1975.

The Budget announced a financial package of £900m in business rates relief for nearly 500,000 small businesses and a pot of £650m to rejuvenate high streets and their transport links.

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Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable rises to speak in favour of his amendment 18, which removes clause 5, which concerns changes to the tax threshold.

"We need to get beyond the headlines," he says, pointing out that the high earners threshold relieves far larger amounts of tax than the low earners.

The measure has been "badged" as a measure for low earners, he points out, but actually leaves poorer people £130 a year better off, compared to the higher earners who will be £860 a year better off.

"In no conceivable measure can that be described as some enlightened policy for the low paid."