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Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott questions Sajid Javid about his decision to revoke the UK citizenship of Shamima Begum, who left the UK to join the Islamic State group in Syria.

Ms Abbott says Labour would have preferred the approach of bringing an individual back to the UK for interrogation.

She asks if the home secretary consulted the Bangladeshi High Commissioner or the Bangladeshi government before making this decision.

In reply, Home Secretary Sajid Javid says he "cannot comment on any individual case".

However he says that home secretaries do have the right to revoke someone's British citizenship on national security grounds, "if it does not render them stateless as a result".

The use of the power is based on expert advice, including legal advice, he adds.

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Tory MP Nicky Morgan and the SNP's Joanna Cherry push the home secretary to support an amendment to the Brexit motion MPs are due to debate on Wednesday.

The amendment, tabled by Tory backbencher Alberto Costa, calls on ministers to implement part of the Brexit deal that includes citizens' rights, regardless of the outcome of negotiations.

Home Secretary Sajid Javid says the UK is “not able to force the EU to ring-fence anything".

The government could guarantee citizens’ rights through secondary legislation, which would be "much more straightforward and easier”, he adds.

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Labour's Yvette Cooper, who chairs the Home Affairs Committee, asks how ministers will treat EU citizens who fail to register for the new settled status scheme in time.

She asks the home secretary to confirm whether they will be counted as "unlawfully resident".

Home Secretary Sajid Javid says the government is making sure "all EU citizens know exactly how the process works for them to stay".

"There will need to be at some point some cut-off period," he says, noting that this would ensure there is "not another Windrush-type situation".

He says in terms of a cut-off point, the government "will take a sensible approach".

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Shadow home office minister Afzal Khan asks what future plans the Home Office has for future deportation flights to Jamaica, and whether the government will halt these plans.

It follows a row earlier this month about the deportation of a group of people to the country - the first such flight since the Windrush scandal.

Home Secretary Sajid Javid says all those on the flight had sentences for serious crimes.

"Surely the honourable gentleman is not asking me to break the law?", he asks.

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Hello and welcome to our coverage of the day in Westminster.

The day in the Commons begins at 2:30pm, when Home Secretary Sajid Javid faces a scheduled scrutiny session in front of MPs.

At around 3:30pm, there'll be an urgent question from Labour shadow minister Marsha de Cordova on underpayments of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).

From around 4:30pm, there'll be a statement from Education Secretary Damian Hinds on new guidelines for relationships and sex education.

The final statement will be from International Trade Secretary, Liam Fox, on trade remedies.

After this MPs will debate two Brexit-related pieces of secondary legislation, and then hold a debate marking the twentieth anniversary of the Macpherson Report.