No 10 refuses to give details of how £4bn pay deal for health workers will be funded – as it happened

Nurses on strike outside St Thomas' hospital, London, in February. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

5.01pm GMT

Afternoon summary

• Intensive negotiations between the government and teaching unions in England are under way, holding out the possibility of a deal over teachers’ pay after a damaging series of strikes.

• Junior doctors could enter pay talks with the government imminently after ministers agreed a deal with other health unions.

• Passport Office workers are to strike for five weeks in an escalation of a dispute over jobs, pay and conditions.

• Ministers are poised to cut £250m from investment in the social care workforce in England, it has been reported, in a move that providers say could set back care “for years to come”.

Gillian Keegan, the education secretary, arriving at the Department for Education in Westminster ahead of talks with the education unions. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA

Updated at 5.16pm GMT

4.59pm GMT

James Cleverly, the foreign secretary, has welcomed the news that the ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin.

Those responsible for horrific war crimes in Ukraine must be brought to justice.

We welcome the step taken by the independent ICC to hold those at the top of the Russian regime, including Vladimir Putin, to account.

Work must continue to investigate the atrocities committed.

— James Cleverly🇬🇧 (@JamesCleverly) March 17, 2023

Updated at 5.14pm GMT