What's happening

Ken Clarke and Justine Greening announce measures to make it easier for insurers to defend spurious or exaggerated motor insurance claims

10.00 Ed Miliband and Ed Balls hold a Q&A on living standards and recession

10.20 Scottish Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon speaks at a Cancer Research UK conference in Edinburgh on cancer prevention, treatment, care and research

11.00 Foreign Secretary William Hague launches an annual Foreign Office report on human rights worldwide

14.00 Boris Johnson, Ken Livingstone, Brian Paddick, Jenny Jones and Siobhan Benita take part in a London mayoral hustings focused on cycling, chaired by Times editor James Harding

14.30 Eric Pickles takes communities and local government questions in the Commons

14.30 The House of Lords begins to debate the Joint Committee on draft House of Lords Reform Bill

16.30 William Hague gives evidence to a Joint Committee on National Security Strategy hearing

What's been said

Does anybody care about having elected mayors? Daniel Knowles of the Daily Telegraph visits the Birmingham campaign

UKIP is giving Englishness the voice it craves, says Vernon Bogdanor in The Times (£)

David Cameron must make the Conservative Party look like the nation, says Neil O'Brien in The Guardian

We need more independents to break the stranglehold of the three main political parties, says Mary Ann Sieghart in The Independent