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Today in Parliament: 01/02/2016

01/02/2016

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Labour returns to the issue of Health Service cutbacks.

Labour returns to the issue of Health Service cutbacks. Sean Curran has the best of Monday in the Commons and the Lords.

Labour accuses the Government of being 'in denial' over the funding of the health service and say hospitals are 'buckling under the strain' of cutbacks. Sean Curran follows the exchanges in the Commons. 
Also in the programme: 
* MPs say women born in the 1950s have been badly treated over changes to their pension entitlements. 
* The Prime Minister's National Security Adviser tells a committee that the terrorist threat from Libya is a "major concern".
* Peers criticise measures in the Government's Immigration Bill .

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