Ceasefire resolution passed by the united nations. Chair order, order. Welcome to this session of the liaison committee. We are taking evidence from the Prime Minister. Welcome, Prime Minister, and thank you for being with us. We have two particular overriding, or rather underlying, themes to the discussion today. One is the pressures on public spending and the challenge of squaring the circle between all the demands on public spending, particularly the rise in threat and Security Issues and the pressure on the defence budget and the need to control public spending something that no doubt preoccupies you every hour, Prime Minister. The other is in the context of our ongoing inquiry into how parliament and select committees in particular can promote better Strategic Thinking in government. And so in this session, we will start with a postbudget section on the economy and Public Services. We will move on to global issues, and conclude with a few questions about scrutiny of Strategic Thin
Questions to the Prime Minister. Mr. Speaker. I am sure members will want to join me in wishing people across the uk and around the world a happy st. Patricks day thiscoming friday. Mr. Speaker, this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others in addition to my duties in this house. I shall have future such meetings later today. Heu merriman. I welcome the announcement that well abide by the letter of the manifesto and also the spirit. Mr. Speaker, will the Prime Minister agree with me that, as we move towards balancing the books we must ensure we have a fair and Sustainable Tax system in place . I thank my honorable friend for the question. We made a commitment not to raise tax and we put our commitment into the tax law. The measures we put forward in the budget last week were consistent with those laws. As a number as a number of my parliamentary colleagues have been pointing out in recent days, there is. Order. This is intolerable. The Prime Minister i take you wan
Questions to the Prime Minister. Mr. Speaker. I am sure members will want to join me in wishing people across the uk and around the world a happy st. Patricks day thiscoming friday. Mr. Speaker, this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others in addition to my duties in this house. I shall have future such meetings later today. Heu merriman. I welcome the announcement that well abide by the letter of the manifesto and also the spirit. Mr. Speaker, will the Prime Minister agree with me that, as we move towards balancing the books we must ensure we have a fair and Sustainable Tax system in place . I thank my honorable friend for the question. We made a commitment not to raise tax and we put our commitment into the tax law. The measures we put forward in the budget last week were consistent with those laws. As a number as a number of my parliamentary colleagues have been pointing out in recent days, there is. Order. This is intolerable. The Prime Minister i take you wan
England will be offered the flu jab this winter to try to stop the nhs being overwhelmed if there is a second wave of coronavirus. The Prime Minister is expected to announce new measures to curb obesity, including a ban on tv advert search for food before nine oclock in the evening. Obesity is one of the real co morbidity factors, it is losing weight, frankly it is one of the ways that you can reduce your own risks from covid 19. You can reduce your own risks from covid19. And how lockdown has helped one of britains rarest birds bounce back. As a crane chick hatches in lincolnshire for the first time in 400 years. Hello, good afternoon. Three teenagers have been convicted of the manslaughter of pc and your hi fi. He died last august after getting caught ina he died last august after getting caught in a tow rope, being used in the theft of a quad bike. The court heard how the 28 year old officer died of multiple injuries. After being dragged behind a carfor more than half a mile. The de
Hello and welcome to tuesday in parliament. Coming up in the next half hour, the Health Secretary says hes asked the nhs to be ready to roll out the new Coronavirus Vaccine from next month. I know that they will rise to this challenge. Of being ready when the science comes good to inject hope into millions of arms this winter. Questions for ministers about the appointment of costly Public Relations consultants by the head of the Vaccine Task Force, kate bingham. There something we are not being told and are there undisclosed relationships at play here . And the head of the Football Association quits over outdated language he used at a commons committee. Would you want to withdraw that language, because it isnt that the sort of the exact language that means that inclusion is not a reality even though football is very diverse and has many people within it from ethnic minority backgrounds . If i said it i deeply apologise for it. But first, the Health Secretary says hes asked the nhs to b