UK politics: Yvette Cooper quizzed over immigration and prisons crisis – as it happened

5.30pm BST

Afternoon summary

• No 10 is facing scrutiny over its failure to bring in a new ethics watchdog almost a year after the election, as a new inquiry was launched to examine the seeming lack of progress.

• The record numbers of people arriving in the UK via small boats can be attributed to favourable weather and greater numbers being crammed into vessels, Home Office analysis has claimed.

• Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, has told MPs that she wants to legislate to introduce a fast-track process for asylum applications from people from predominantly safe countries, with people removed “really quickly” if they are refused. (See 4.53pm.)

• MPs have accused Apple and Google of profiting from multimillion-pound phone-snatching operations that police say are masterminded by organised crime gangs in Britain, Algeria and China.

• Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, has told MPs that the future path of interest rates in the UK has become more uncertain because of Donald Trump’s chaotic trade policy.

• The UK’s economic growth will be slower than expected this year and next as the damage caused by Donald Trump’s tariff war hits trade and investment, according to a gloomy forecast by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

• More than 5,000 of England’s most sensitive, rare and protected natural habitats are at high risk of being destroyed by development under Labour’s new planning bill, according to legal analysis of the legislation.

For a full list of all the stories covered here today, scroll through the key events timeline at the top of the blog.

5.16pm BST

MPs vote down latest Lords bid to insert AI copyright protections for creative artists into data bill

MPs have for the fourth time voted down an attempt by peers to insert protections for creative artists worried about their work being exploited by AI (artificial intelligence) into the data (use and access) bill.

The bill started its passage through parliament in the Lords, and peers originally defeated the government on this issue in January. MPs removed the relevant provisions when they debated the bill.

But since then peers have voted three times to reinstate measures that will offer creative artists some protection, most recently last night. (See 12.08pm.) Tom Watson, the former Labour deputy leader, was one of the seven Labour peers who joined those voting against the government.

And this afternoon MPs voted again to reject what the Lords was proposing. The government won by 317 votes to 185 – a majority of 132.

As PA Media reports, the Commons rejected an amendment from Lady Kidron which would compel the government to put forward a draft bill covering AI and copyright infringement. The amendment said that ministers should bring it forward within three months of the publication of a report into the use of copyrighted works in the development of AI systems.

Chris Bryant, the culture minister, claimed this amendment would be unprecedented. He told MPs:

I cannot think of any bill in our history that has included such a clause, for very good reason. A central plank of parliamentary sovereignty is no parliament can bind its successor. That doesn’t just mean from one parliament to another, but it means one session can’t bind a future session.

But his argument was dismissed by Caroline Dinenage, the Tory chair of the culture committee, who accused him of “dancing on the head of a pin” and said: “The fact is that all legislation somehow binds those that are coming down the track.”