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National Audit Office finds £3.2bn training programme will "not be running at full capacity until 2019"

Security review calls for “comprehensive and comprehensible new law” to govern security agencies’ surveillance powers

Independent review into intelligence agencies' powers expected at 11am

Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman sides with Tory backbenchers in row over waiving neutrality for machinery of government in the run-up to the EU vote

Higher Education Policy Institute sounds alarm on un-recouped student loans

Prime minister David Cameron to promise moves on benefit cap and childcare will be at the centre of the Queen's Speech

New poll of health workers by Dods Research finds Labour most trusted on NHS, but there is doubt over the main parties' policy pledges

SNP leader and Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon to set out party's plans to 'change the direction' of next government

Conservative leader set to use manifesto launch to promise that Right to Buy will include housing association properties

Prime Minister David Cameron suggests memo on Nicola Sturgeon's contact with the French ambassador could have been leaked by coalition partners

Report by MPs on the Defence Committee says UK must be prepared to deal with both 'unconventional and conventional threats'

Former environment secretary set to pressure government over Ministry of Defence budget, while defence secretary Michael Fallon says he will be 'fighting' against MoD cuts

Former head of MI6 intelligence agency Sir Richard Dearlove says 'lack of trust' in politicians means new regulator needed

Separate reports by the Communities and Local Government and Education committees raise questions about education watchdog Ofsted

Work and Pensions Committee urges new regulator to stop people being 'ripped off' when changes come into force

General Sir Peter Wall says 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review assumed 'benign' world situation

Committee urges greater diversity in intelligence agencies

John Bercow has warned that Parliament could be abandoned unless significant investment is made to renovate and repair the building over the next decade.

Commons leader says EVEL measures would be a "very high priority" for Conservative government