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Hello and welcome to The Week In Parliament.

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David Cameron names the day - it's June 23rd

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Four months for the pro and anti camps to fight it out.

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The choice is between being an even greater Britain inside a reformed EU

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Is the government's policy basically,

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always keep a hold of nurse for fear of finding something worse?

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Peace in our time, after months and months of talks,

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the Westminster and Holyrood governments finally agree a package

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But just why has it been so hard to get a deal?

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When you start altering it, the whole sort of way

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that the fiscal framework works throughout the United Kingdom,

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you realise that if you pull a thread, sometimes more

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And there's more criticism of Government plans to cut the money

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paid to opposition parties in Parliament.

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How can it be right, in the modern age, for politicians

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to expect to be bunged a load of hard-earned taxpayers' cash

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without at least explaining how it gets spent?

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This is the shoddiest consultation - so-called consultation -

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But first, at the start of the week, after lengthy and complex

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negotiations, David Cameron unveiled his deal to change the UK's

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Setting out the changes to MPs, the Prime Minister warned that

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opting to leave the European Union in June's referendum would be

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Mr Cameron insisted that the new special status he'd

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negotiated would mean the best of both worlds for the UK.

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We will be in the parts of Europe that work for us,

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influencing the decisions that affect us, in the driving seat

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of the world's biggest single market.

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And with the ability to take action to keep our people safe.

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But we will be out of the parts of Europe that do not work for us.

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Out of the euro, out of the Eurozone bailout,

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out of a passport-free no-borders area, and permanently and legally

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protected from ever being part of an ever-closer union.

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This is a vital decision for the future of our country

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and I believe we should also be clear that it is a final decision.

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Sadly, Mr Speaker, I have known a number of couples who began

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divorce proceedings, but I do not know of any who have

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begun divorce proceedings in order to renew their marriage vows.

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Mr Speaker, let me end by saying this.

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I have no other agenda than what is best for our country.

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I am standing here telling you what I think.

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My responsibility as Prime Minister is to speak plainly

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about what I believe is right for our country,

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and that is what I will do every day for the next four months.

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I commend this statement to the House.

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The changes the Prime Minister has secured do nothing to address

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the real challenges of low pay in Britain, undercutting of local

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wage rates and industry-wide pay agreements.

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They won't put a penny in the pockets of workers

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in Britain, nor will they stop the grotesque exploitation of many

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migrant workers, or reduce inward migration to Britain.

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Scotland is a European nation and the SNP is a pro-European party.

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We will campaign positively to remain within the EU.

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Hopefully the Prime Minister can confirm today that he will reject

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the tactics of Project Fear and make a positive case for remaining part

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Despite assurances, it is worth remembering that this referendum

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is about the future of our country, not the future of a divided

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Would the Prime Minister agree that it is also not just

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about Britain's place in the European Union,

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but also Britain's place in the world?

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The Prime Minister said in his statement that we are to make

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the one sentence of his statement I fundamentally agree with -

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a final decision to be made in June as to whether we stay

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a failed body, or whether we leave and make our own path.

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Is the government's policy basically, always keep

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a hold of nurse for fear of finding something worse?

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May I ask my right honourable friend...

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..the Prime Minister, to explain to the house

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and to the country exactly what way this deal returns sovereignty over

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any field of lawmaking to these Houses of Parliament?

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This deal brings back some welfare powers,

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But more than that, because it keeps as for ever out of an ever-closer

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union, it means that the ratchet of the European Court taking power

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away from this country cannot happen in future.

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A deal has finally been reached between the Westminster

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and Holyrood governments over future Scottish spending.

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After months of haggling, ministers have settled the financial

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deal which will accompany new tax powers due to come

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The First Minister made the announcement to MSPs

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I have been clear throughout that I would not sign up to a systematic

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cut to Scotland's budget, whether that cut is being applied

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today or by a prejudged review in five or six years' time.

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During the course of this afternoon negotiations have continued on that

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basis and I have spoken to the Chancellor.

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As a result of these conversations I can report to Parliament

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that there is now an agreement, in principle, that I believe we can

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The next day, at Prime Minister's Questions, the SNP's Westminster

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leader raised the deal with David Cameron.

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The position initially endangered ?7 billion of public

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At the beginning of this week that was reduced to ?3 billion.

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Yesterday morning it was ?2.5 billion.

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What changed the mind of the Treasury and helped them

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agree to a deal that will make Scotland no worse off?

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David Cameron said it was an excellent deal for Scotland

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and for the rest of the United Kingdom.

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We want to keep the United Kingdom together.

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What we've just demonstrated is that you can have full on devolution

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with a powerhouse Parliament, with a fair fiscal settlement

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I think that is something to be celebrated.

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Now we are going to move to a situation where

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the Scottish Government and the Scottish Parliament

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will have to start talking about policies and decisions,

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So what exactly has been agreed and, come to that,

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I asked BBC Scotland's man at Westminster, David Porter.

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Well, the fiscal framework is vitally important but in practice

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it is really quite complicated because it is dealing

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with the nitty-gritty of the fiscal effects and the financial effects

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Think for a moment in future that Scotland is going to get

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It will be able to vary income tax, put it up or take it down.

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That means there will be perhaps a reduction in the amount of money

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that Scotland gets from Westminster behind the so-called block grant.

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Once you start changing one part of it, you end up

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It was not so much a problem for the first year.

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The problems were arising when you look down the road

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at what might happen in years to come, if the population

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in England grew faster than in Scotland.

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And the knock-on effects that could have with the amount of money

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that comes from Westminster and still goes up to Holyrood.

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David Cameron is pleased this deal has been done because he says it

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allows everybody to go into the elections at Holyrood

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It was like a super poker game, talking about finances.

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This will be something at the end of the day where both sides,

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the Scottish Government and the UK Government, had to compromise

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From the point of view of the Scottish Government,

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they are delighted that they will have these tax varying powers,

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they will get more powers over income tax, over VAT revenues

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They can go ahead and say, this shows the parliament

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From the UK Government's point of view, they can say,

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we have delivered on the Smith Commission,

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They say it will make Holyrood one of the most powerful parliaments

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throughout the world because it now has these financial powers as well.

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And also as well, you get the impression, listening

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to David Cameron and his ministers, they say it is now time to stop

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arguing about the process and get onto the policies.

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We are only a couple of months away from the next Holyrood elections,

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where we will elect a new parliament in Edinburgh.

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And I think you are going to find that taxation is going to loom large

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Everyone is not totally happy because they had to compromise.

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But the important thing is that the people who really

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matter, like Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister, David Cameron,

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Prime Minister, Chancellor George Osborne, and John Swinney,

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Financial Secretary in Scotland, are on board.

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I think perhaps in months and years ahead where you might see some

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discontent and some people not being happy is from English Tory

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MPs, particularly if they feel that Scotland has got a better

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deal than other parts of the United Kingdom.

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When you start altering the whole way the fiscal framework works

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throughout the United Kingdom, you realise that if you pull

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a thread, sometimes more comes off than you think.

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BBC Scotland's Westminster correspondent, David Porter.

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Back now to the Commons, where PMQs rolled around just a few

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hours after England's junior doctors announced further 48-hour strikes

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in their dispute over a new contract.

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The doctors' union, the British Medical Association has

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scheduled the action for three dates in March and April.

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It's in response to the decision by the Health Secretary,

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Jeremy Hunt, to unilaterally impose the new contracts

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without the consent of junior doctors.

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The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, attacked the Government's handling

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of the health service and the dispute.

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We all want a strong and successful NHS.

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You don't achieve that by provoking industrial action,

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misrepresenting research, or failing to get a grip on the cost

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of agency staff in the NHS, which now amounts to ?4 billion.

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Indeed, in the Prime Minister's own local NHS Trust,

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it is overspent on staffing costs by ?11 million this year,

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yet has managed to spend ?30 million on agency staff.

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Will the chair of the Oxford anti-austerity campaign be writing

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another letter to himself asking on behalf of his constituents

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for the Health Secretary to intervene and support

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David Cameron stood up to answer, saying he was proud of Oxfordshire's

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Someone shouted, "Ask your mum", a reference to the fact that

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Mr Cameron's mother signed a petition objecting

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But the Prime Minister wasn't taking that lying down.

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She'd look across the dispatch box and say, put on a proper suit,

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do up your tie, and sing the national anthem.

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The cheering and jeering continued for some time,

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before Jeremy Corbyn could make himself heard.

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If we are talking motherly advice....

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My late mother would have said stand up for the principle of a health

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service free at the point of use for everybody.

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Because that's what she dedicated her life to, as did

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And the mother theme continued, as David Cameron set out what this

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And when you look at the NHS today, and my mother is equally

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And I know she would be pleased to know 1.9 million more people

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going to A, 1.6 million more operations, 10,700 more doctors,

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And I have to say, I think if Nye Bevan was here today,

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he would want a seven-day NHS, because he knew the NHS

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was for patients up and down our country.

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Jeremy Corbyn went on to quote one doctor he'd heard from.

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Nye Bevan would be turning in his grave if he could hear

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the Prime Minister's attitude towards the NHS.

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He was a man with vision who wanted a health service

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If a seven-day NHS is wanted, we need more nurses,

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more admin staff, more porters, radiographers, physios,

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Will the Prime Minister now today commit to publishing the Department

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of Health's analysis of the real cost of introducing a seven-day NHS,

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and will he be prepared to pay for it, rather than picking a fight

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with the junior doctors who want to deliver it?

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What I think is not clear is whether or not Labour support

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We do support a seven-day NHS, and that is why we are putting

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That is why we are putting in 10,000 more doctors, 11,000 more nurses.

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Crucially, yes, that is why we are looking at the contracts

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in the NHS, to make sure it can work on a more seven-day basis.

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Time now for our look at some of the other stories

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House of Commons library figures show that Tori Royston Smith is the

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least active new MP of the 2015 intake, in terms of parliamentary

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speeches and questions. But he did ask a question in the chamber on

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Monday. Those in Wales could benefit from a

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cat welfare manifesto launched at the Welsh Assembly this week ahead

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of the May elections. No points for the band made up of

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current and former MPs, not short listed for the British entry into

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Eurovision. Membership of the House of Lords

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currently stands at 816, but a debate on the Scotland Bill was

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halted on Wednesday night because not enough peers voted.

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Anxious times for some MPs. The boundary commission has launched its

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review of Westminster constituencies. It is aiming to cut

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the number of seats to 600. There was renewed anger

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in the Commons over Government plans The annual payment is made

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to opposition parties to help with the costs of carrying

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out their Parliamentary functions. It takes its name from former

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Labour MP Ted Short, who helped bring it

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in, in the 1970s. In November, the Chancellor proposed

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reducing the payments by 19%, in line with the average savings

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in unprotected Whitehall departments, then freezing the sum

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in cash terms for the rest Answering an urgent question,

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a Cabinet Office minister At a time when everybody else

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outside Westminster has had to tighten their belts,

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why should politicians expect to be treated differently,

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feathering their own nests How can it be right for politicians

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to expect to be bunged a load of hard earned taxpayers' cash,

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more than ?35 million in total since 2010 for the Labour Party,

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for example, without at least But the opposition was furious

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with the proposals. This is the shoddiest so-called

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consultation I have It deliberately forgets to mention

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that short money is linked to how many seats and how many votes

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all the opposition parties got So the main reason that short money

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has increased in 2015 is because this Government has

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a much smaller majority than the Labour government

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or the coalition government, and the opposition parties got more

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seats and more votes There is nothing wrong in principle

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with reducing the cost of politics. So can we get some assurances

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on reducing the number and cost of special advisers

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and the House of Lords? This decision needs to be

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reconsidered for such It does seem to be unacceptable

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that it is being introduced Can the minister tell the House

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what effect he supposes the cut in short money would have

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on scrutiny and the comfort or discomfort the executor feels

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as he goes about his business? But there was one opposition party

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that gave the proposed Can I urge ministers

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to stick to your guns? The sight of special pleading

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from political parties wanting to get their hands on taxpayers'

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cash is disgraceful. So is the Government

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justified in making this cut? Ministers insist short money has

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gone up by 50% since 2010 and now I asked Dr Hannah White

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from the Institute for Government There are two reasons

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for it, and they are built The first is the amount

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of short money paid increases according

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to inflation every year. The second, more major reason,

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is that, with the 2015 election, the configuration of opposition has

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changed in Parliament. There are 35 more opposition MPs

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than there were under the coalition and there were more

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votes cast for opposition MPs So those two elements,

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votes and seats, are what are used to calculate short money,

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and that made a big impact Ukip's only MP, Douglas Carswell,

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has stood out on this. He's not taken all the short

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money he's entitled to, and he says that's because you can

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do politics and the Parliamentary I think the answer to

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that is, it is difficult to say, because there are very few

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records of how opposition parties They don't have to provide

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records of what they do with that money,

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so it's difficult to say whether they could do

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it more cheaply. So the first thing you would

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like to see is more At the moment all they have to do

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is provide a certificate of audit to say they have had

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their accounts audited. There is no detail about how

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they spent their money, how many staff they

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employed, what travel So I think a very clear

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easy step would be to compel them to provide the Commons

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authorities with detail about how they have spent short money,

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and for that to be made public The public will not

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like the idea that they give political parties

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millions to carry out But realistically,

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is there an alternative? Can we do away with

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short money altogether? I do not think that

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would be a good idea. There are two things

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short money facilitates. The first is having effective

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opposition, opposition parties with the resources

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to develop alternative policies and effectively

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challenge government, which the Institute for Government

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believes is important to make There needs to be

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an effective challenge The other thing is opposition

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parties have the prospect at some point of being

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in government themselves. If they have resources

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while in opposition to develop policies and thinking,

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they will be a better government So there is a rationale

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for taxpayers providing some The government proposal seems quite

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radical on the face of it, Do we have any idea

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what the impact will be? Again, it is difficult

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to say because we don't know how parties currently

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spend the money they get. The consultation the government have

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engaged in draws a comparison between a 19% cut to short money

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and the cuts that unprotected departments are being asked

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to find in the spending But in fact, those departments

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are finding those cuts over the course of a parliament,

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not in a single year, so it is quite a different thing

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the government is proposing. The government says

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it is having a consultation. If you were making recommendations,

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what would you say it should do? The opposition parties need

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to say, this sensible judgment cannot be made about how

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much short money is needed unless we are more

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open about how we are So opposition parties

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need to offer that So that a proper review can be done

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to find out what is needed in order for opposition parties

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to go about their And the government

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need to accept that deciding upfront that a 19% cut

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is the right thing might not have been the best approach,

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and it would be sensible to wait until some sort

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of review has been done before deciding what the level

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of cuts should be. Do you get any sense there might be

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a compromise reached? The fact that there has been

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a formal consultation issued is a positive

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step and it is clear that there is opposition

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in the House to what the Government In the end, there will have to be

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a vote in the House to decide So it will come down

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to whether the Government thinks Thank you for coming

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into the programme. Dr Hannah White on the big

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issue of short money. Now let's take a look at some

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of the other stories from around The Government overturned two

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changes that peers had made The Lords voted to keep targets

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aimed at reducing child poverty. Peers also threw out plans to cut

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?30 a week from the benefits of sick and disabled people who have been

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found unfit to work. But when the bill returned to

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the Commons, the Employment Minister argued cuts to the Employment

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Support Allowance, A broken system that is

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failing those it should be helping and ensure that a good

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proportion of the savings are recycled into practical support,

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and long-term tactical support that will have a transformation

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effect on people's lives. The issue is that they are not fit

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for work, so suggesting that removing financial incentives

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will somehow make them fit for work Peers expressed concern that freedom

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of speech is under threat One independent peer

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gave some examples. The silencing of a female Muslim

:23:33.:23:37.

reformer at Goldsmith's. Smashed glass, fire

:23:38.:23:41.

alarm set off and the police called at King's College

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London to stop an Israeli peace Will the Minister speak to the vice

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chancellors at Universities UK to ensure that the law on freedom

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of speech is upheld? to university is the ability

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to debate, have your views and to challenge others,

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and we must continue to support all universities in making

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sure that all students continue to have that

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opportunity at university. Without black and ethnic

:24:16.:24:20.

minority workers the NHS The comment came from a health

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minister who said it was "outrageous" that so few senior jobs

:24:23.:24:27.

in the health service were filled The performance across the NHS is,

:24:28.:24:30.

as the noble lady mentioned, MPs are in line for

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a pay rise from April. They're to get an increase of 1.3%,

:24:38.:24:42.

a figure slightly higher than the 1% pay cap in the rest

:24:43.:24:46.

of the public sector. It means Members of Parliament

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will get a ?962 increase, just nine months after they received

:24:52.:24:53.

a boost to their pay which put their annual

:24:54.:24:58.

salary up to ?74,000. The rise has been decided

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by the Independent Parliamentary A new railway line to run under

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London is to be named Crossrail will be known

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as the Elizabeth Line once it opens The announcement was made

:25:13.:25:16.

as the Queen visited Bond Street station and unveiled

:25:17.:25:22.

the purple Elizabeth Line logo which will feature

:25:23.:25:24.

across the network. Making the announcement to MPs

:25:25.:25:28.

the Transport Minister, Claire Perry, paid tribute

:25:29.:25:30.

to Her Majesty and said she hoped the Queen would accept an invitation

:25:31.:25:33.

to travel on the first passenger Which regal invitation brings us

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to the end of this edition But do remember to join Joanna Shin

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on Monday night at 11pm for another round up of the best of the day

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here at Westminster.

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