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The government has won the next division, on removing Lords amendment 7. This was the amendment that would have allowed people claiming asylum to get a job if their application has not been processed within six months (instead of 12 months, as it is now).

But this time the majority was smaller. The government won by 291 votes to 232 – a majority of 59.

Officially the government has a working majority of 77.

The previous majorities were 95, 82 and 98. That suggests there could be around 30 or so Tories who have been voting in earlier divisions but who did not vote in this one.

The government won the division on Lords amendment 6 (see 4.55pm) by 318 votes to 220 – a majority of 98.

MPs are now voting on Lords amendment 6. This removed clause 11 from the bill, allowing differential treatment of refugees depending on how they arrive in the UK. The government wants to reinstate it.

The government won the second division on the nationality and borders bill, on Lords amendment 5 (see 4.40pm) by 313 votes to 231 – a majority of 82.

According to new polling by Ipsos Mori, Boris Johnson has a higher approval rating than Keir Starmer for his handling of the war in Ukraine.

Some of this might just be an incumbency bias; Johnson actually is handling the war in Ukraine, in the sense that he is in charge of the UK’s response. Starmer isn’t.

But the polling also suggests that 56% of people do not think the government is doing enough to help Ukrainian refugees.

Peter has also tweeted this, a lengthy extract from Tim Farron’s speech against the bill earlier.

MPs are now voting on Lords amendment 5, which inserts a clause in the bill saying the bill does not allow the government to ignore the 1951 Refugee Convention. The government wants to remove it – even though it claims the bill does not breach the convention. My colleague Peter Walker posted this on Twitter about this issue earlier.

The government has won the first vote, on reinstating clause 9 (see 4.23pm), by 318 votes to 223 – a majority of 95.

In his wind-up speech, Tom Pursglove, the minister for illegal migration, said he would be holding a meeting with Tory MPs who want to change the rules to make it easier for people claiming asylum to work. (See 12.28pm.) He also said that Ukrainians and Afghans coming to the UK through safe and legal routes – the bespoke ones set up by the government – were in a different position to other people who might be claiming asylum.

My colleague Aubrey Allegretti says some of them are taking this as a concession.

MPs are now voting in the first of what will be multiple divisions on the Lords amendments to the nationality and borders bill.

The first vote is on Lords amendment 4. This was an amendment to remove clause 9 of the bill, which gave the home secretary powers to deprive people of their citizenship. Priti Patel wants to put it back.

There is a briefing on clause 9 from Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association here (pdf).

In the Commons, Tom Pursglove, the minister for illegal migration, is now winding up the debate.

In response, perhaps, to the impression given by earlier comments (see 3.38pm), he says it is not the intention under the bill “to prosecute every illegal entrant”. Instead, prosecution (and, by implication, the threat of jail) would only be for “egregious cases”, he says. As an example, he says that might be if someone entered the country in breach of a deportation order, or where they had been previously removed for illegal entry.

He also says the bill would not criminalise genuine humanitarian rescue attempts.