The Tory leader insisted she has a ‘great team’ when asked about reports Mr Jenrick added some 600 people to a WhatsApp group.

A Home Office spokesman said ministers are ‘intensifying’ collaboration with France and other European countries.

Foreign Secretary Mr Lammy commented on the war in Sudan ahead of a London meeting on Tuesday to mark the conflict’s two-year anniversary.

Douglas Alexander demanded that interlocutors explain why Wera Hobhouse was blocked from entering the Chinese region last week.

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has new powers to control steelworks in England.

Town centres and crime ‘hotspot’ areas are expected to receive guaranteed patrols during forces’ busiest periods.

‘I want to create just a better environment for children,’ Kemi Badenoch told reporters.

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Ayoub Khan MP asked the Deputy PM whether Army personnel could ‘assist the local charities and organisations’ that are helping to clear the waste.

A Conservative former minister asked Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner to ‘confirm’ the 1.5 million new homes target ‘has gone’.

Labour MP Perran Moon called for a ban on trail hunting, which he warned was being used as a ‘smokescreen’ for illegal fox hunting.

Dr Ben Spencer MP called for a new ‘duty to co-operate’ in law to ease repeated disruption when utilities companies dig up roads.

Lord Kamall proposed a change to the Mental Health Bill so that nurses or doctors could carry out detentions without police present.

Ministers have proposed a ban in the Employment Rights Bill on harassment by third parties.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said ‘no stone should be left unturned identifying the causes of the incidents’.

Heidi Alexander also vowed the Government will take railways into public ownership ‘without any cost to the taxpayer’.

Labour MP Jenny Riddell-Carpenter backed the Tobacco and Vapes Bill and gave up smoking herself.

A plastic cigarette filters ban ‘will make a great deal of difference’ for swimmers in The Solent, Dame Caroline Dinenage said.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting told the Commons that the ‘conflation of sex and gender identity isn’t helpful’ for data analysis.

Tory shadow housing secretary Kevin Hollinrake said new planning legislation could still be delayed by nature restoration proposals.