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Today in Parliament: 10/01/2012

10/01/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Today in Parliament, 10/01/2012

Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from Westminster.

Sean Curran has the best of the day's debates in the Commons and the Lords on the first parliamentary day of 2012.

As MPs and peers return after their Christmas and New Year break, Sean Curran reports on a busy day at Westminster.
* The Government gives the go ahead to the controversial 32 Billion pound plan for a new high speed rail line running north from London, firstly to Birmingham and then on to Manchester and Leeds.
* The Scottish Secretary tells MPs the Scottish Government in Edinburgh does not have the power to hold a binding referendum on the separation of Scotland from the rest of the United Kingdom.
* A member of the group of bankers known as the 'NatWest Three' explains to a committee of MPs why he doesn't want to see a system of plea bargaining introduced into this country.
* Cuts in legal aid are condemned by opposition peers in the House of Lords.
* The Commons debates changes to local government financial arrangements.

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