Now on bbc news, its monday in parliament. Hello, and welcome to monday in parliament. On this programme mps call for a temporary benefit increase to be made permanent. Labour reckon cutting it could be devastating. The uncertainty it will add in an already uncertain time, the loss it will bring when we have already lost so much. The fear it will cause. But the minister insists its too soon to make decisions. If the honourable gentleman opposite is certain about what the economic and social picture will look like in april, well, to be frank, he must have a crystal ball. More questions for the head of the test and Trace Service about its effectiveness. And concerns over the consequences of records being wiped off the Police National computer. If these 400,000 lost records are not recovered, then this human error will have an impact on public safety, wont it . But first mps have backed a call to keep a £20 a week uplift in universal credit due to be stopped at the end of march. The incr
Now its time for a look back at the week in parliament. Hello there and welcome to the week in parliament, our look back at the big events in westminster and beyond. Coming up in the next half hour, the government suffers two commons rebellions in a week one on trade and one on the planned end of an increased benefit payment. The question for us right now is whether the end of march this year, just ten weeks away, is the right moment to begin unwinding this support. As the uk records its highest daily coronavirus death toll, the labour leader challenges borisjohnson over the home secretarys claims that borders should have shut sooner. I was an advocate, says the home secretary, of closing them last march. I think it was last march that the right honourable gentleman, along with many others, was actually saying that we didnt need to close borders. And asjoe biden takes over as us president , theres a blunt message for his predecessor from scotlands first minister. Im sure many of us acr
The week in parliament. Hello there and welcome to the week in parliament, our look back at the big events in westminster and beyond. Coming up in the next half hour, the government suffers two commons rebellions in a week one on trade and one on the planned end of an increased benefit payment. The question for us right now is whether the end of march this year, just ten weeks away, is the right moment to begin unwinding this support. As the uk records its highest daily coronavirus death toll, the labour leader challenges borisjohnson over the home secretarys claims that borders should have shut sooner. I was an advocate, says the home secretary, of closing them last march. I think it was last march that the right honourable gentleman, along with many others, was actually saying that we didnt need to close borders. And asjoe biden takes over as us president , theres a blunt message for his predecessor from scotlands first minister. Im sure many of us across the chamber and across scotl
Now on bbc news, the week in parliament. Hello there and welcome to the week in parliament, our look back at the big events in westminster and beyond. Coming up in the next half hour, the government suffers two commons rebellions in a week one on trade and one on the planned end of an increased benefit payment. The question for us right now is whether the end of march this year, just ten weeks away, is the right moment to begin unwinding this support. As the uk records its highest daily coronavirus death toll, the labour leader challenges borisjohnson over the home secretarys claims that borders should have shut sooner. I was an advocate, says the home secretary, of closing them last march. I think it was last march that the right honourable gentleman, along with many others, was actually saying that we didnt need to close borders. And asjoe biden takes over as us president , theres a blunt message for his predecessor from scotlands first minister. Im sure many of us across the chamber
Fines are handed out as more than 300 people attend an illegal rave in east london. Police say organisers locked the doors from the inside to stop them getting in. Severe weather warnings for snow and ice are in place across much of the uk amid fears of travel disruption. And the snp will present its National Assembly with what its calling a road map to a new referendum on scottish independence. Now on bbc news, the week in parliament. Hello there and welcome to the week in parliament, our look back at the big events in westminster and beyond. Coming up in the next half hour, the government suffers two commons
rebellions in a week one on trade and one on the planned end of an increased benefit payment. The question for us right now is whether the end of march this year, just ten weeks away, is the right moment to begin unwinding this support. As the uk records its highest daily coronavirus death toll, the labour leader challenges borisjohnson over the home secretarys claims that border