What's happening

Today William Hague meets with John Baird, Canadian foreign minister

Today Eric Pickles speaks at the NLGN annual conference

9.30 The Office for National Statistics publishes its first estimate for GDP growth in Q4

9.30 Pensions minister Steve Webb gives evidence to the work and pensions select committee on automatic enrolment in workplace pensions and the National Employment Savings Trust

9.50 Ed Vaizey speaks at the Oxford Media Convention. Tom Watson follows at 10.20, with Harriet Harman at 16.10

10.00 Economist Will Hutton gives evidence to the Scottish Parliament finance committee

12.00 Prime minister's questions in the Commons

13.35 Alex Salmond launches the consultation document on the terms of a referendum on Scottish independence

14.15 Charles Hendry gives evidence to the energy and climate change select committee on electricity market reform

15.30 David Cameron addresses the Council of Europe parliamentary assembly

15.30 William Hague and David Willetts attend the Higher Education Global Adivsory Service launch in London, where Willetts will make a speech

15.30 A demonstration outside the Egyptian embassy in central London marks the anniversary of protests beginning in Egypt

19.00 David Willetts attends Cutting Edge 2012, which celebrates the use of technology in sport

What's been said

The Strasbourg Court is still a cranks’ paradise says Dominic Raab MP in the Daily Telegraph

Christina Patterson in The Independent writes about the plight of the 'squeezed middle' (unless they have a talent for PR)

Tory women bring feminism out of the ghetto, argues Louise Mensch MP in The Guardian

The third-way on Scottish independence, or 'devo-max', is the biggest threat to the union, says Alice Thomson in The Times