Invitations are expected to be issued later for former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher's funeral.
The Queen and Prince Philip are already confirmed for next Wednesday's ceremony at St Paul's Cathedral, London.
On Wednesday, MPs were recalled from their Easter break for a seven-hour Commons debate about Lady Thatcher.
PM David Cameron said she "overcame the great challenges of her age". Labour's Ed Miliband paid tribute but said he disagreed "with much of what she did".
While Conservative MPs queued up in the Commons to pay their respects to Lady Thatcher, who was prime minister from 1979 to 1990, about half of Labour's 256 MPs stayed away.
The Lords also held a debate on Lady Thatcher, with her former Cabinet ministers Lord Fowler and Lord Tebbit among those paying tribute.
The Guardian has reported that Commons Speaker John Bercow was taken aback by Mr Cameron's request to recall Parliament because he thought tributes could be paid on Monday, when MPs were due to return.
A lengthy wrangle ensued with Mr Cameron enlisting the support of Mr Miliband to overcome opposition to the move, the paper reports.
Mr Cameron's plan to cancel Prime Minister's Questions next Wednesday and for the Commons to sit later is also likely to be questioned, it adds.
Meanwhile, the Foreign Office has said "an administrative error" led to inaccurate guidance being issued to diplomatic staff in embassies around the world after it was reported they had been told to wear mourning clothes on the day of the funeral.
They were later told it was unnecessary.
Continue reading the main storyGuests who have said they will be attending the former Conservative leader's funeral include ex-Labour prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, as well as FW de Klerk, the last president of apartheid in South Africa.
The Queen's attendance at the ceremony will mean it is the first time she has been to the funeral of a British politician since that of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965.
More than 700 armed forces personnel will line the route of the procession from Westminster to St Paul's, including three bands whose drums will be covered in black cloth.
A gun salute will be fired from the Tower of London and the coffin will be carried into St Paul's by service personnel from regiments and ships closely associated with the Falklands campaign.
Lady Thatcher's family is meeting an unspecified amount of the expense, thought to cover transport, flowers and the cremation, with the government funding the rest, including security.
Downing Street said the cost of the funeral would not be released until after the event.
Lady Thatcher, who won three successive general elections, died "peacefully" on Monday after suffering a stroke while staying at the Ritz hotel in central London.
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