What's happening

Today Nick Clegg and Vince Cable are in Berlin to meet German ministers and industry figures. Clegg will give a speech to launch the Queen Elizabeth prize for engineering

Today Iain Duncan Smith is due to make an announcement on the universal credit,the government's replacement for work-based benefits

Today David Willetts gives a lecture at the University of East Anglia on the economy and growth

Today Policing minister Nick Herbert speaks on the final day of the Association Of Chief Police Officers conference in Manchester

9.30 Sir Jeremy Heywood gives evidence to the public administration commitee on the work of the cabinet secretary

10.00 Fred Michel, News International lobbyist, Adam Smith, formerly special adviser to Jeremy Hunt, and Lord Brooke, former Conservative Party chairman, give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry

10.15 Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones speaks at the Welsh TUC annual conference

10.30 Business questions takes place in the House of Commons before the traditional pre-Whitsun recess debate. The House rises for recess this evening

What's been said

No one is forcing MPs to vote for gay marriage, says Matthew Parris in The Times (£)

What's the point of social mobility if it still leaves some in the gutter, asks Zoe Williams in The Guardian

Call it Plan A, B or C, just give us some growth, says Steve Richards in The Independent

Vince Cable is the moral centre of the coalition, argues Peter Oborne in the Daily Telegraph