The latest data on council spending was published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

A new amendment is expected to be agreed, allaying fears from supporters that the Bill could run out of time to become law.

The US president and his wife spent around 10 minutes privately at the late monarch’s final resting place in St George’s Chapel.

Data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) study, also know as the Children of the 90s study, was analysed.

The Government said the new legislation will ‘end the culture of cover-ups’.

The Lords was debating the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill for the first time on Friday.

Friday is the first of two days of debate in the Lords on the proposed legislation.

A record number of peers were set to take part in a two-day debate on the Bill for the first time, beginning on Friday.

Friday will be the first of two days of Second Reading of the Bill, and the furthest assisted dying legislation has gone in Parliament to date.

Supporters of assisted dying, including Childline founder Dame Esther Rantzen – who is terminally ill – have appealed to peers not to block the Bill.

This is the furthest assisted dying legislation has progressed in the Westminster parliament to date.

Anna Maxwell Martin said children were being written off amid a ‘ridiculous’ punitive approach involving fines for non-attendance.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting thanked people for ‘putting politics aside to find a way forward’.

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will come before the House of Lords for its first debate among peers on Friday.

Samaritans said communications regulator Ofcom must ‘use their powers to hold platforms to account so we can save more lives lost to suicide’.

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson said the proposed legislation ‘could still fall’ if it runs out of time.

Some 86% of state-funded schools and colleges in England – both primary and secondary – were surveyed by the Children’s Commissioner’s office.

Reform UK’s deputy leader this week indicated the party would consider paying the Taliban and the Iranian government to take deportees from Britain.

Reverend Clive Foster said that according to Home Office records, 66 people have died while waiting for compensation.