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Andrew Neil and Jo Coburn are joined by former Scottish Secretary Lord Forsyth, and they will recall his election warning when he debates with the SNP’s Pete Wishart. 

They will speak to Ben Bradshaw, one of Labour’s deputy leadership contenders, and also hear from George Eaton from the New Statesman and Dan Hodges from the Daily Telegraph. 

They will also be taking a look at badger culling with the Conservative MP and former farmer Neil Parish, and Jay Tiernan from Stop the Cull.

And they will hear about Greece and European matters with Marina Prentoulis, a member of Syriza and Daily Telegraph deputy editor Allister Heath, while ComRes pollster Tom Mludzinski will look at how well it did on the election result.

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Away from the Commons, David Cameron has marked thecompletion of tunnellingfor Crossrail by hailing the £14.8 billion cross-London project as "an engineering triumph". Addressing around 150 Crossrail workers deep underground at Farringdon in London, Mr Cameron said the project made him "dead proud to be your prime minister". Crossrail, running from Reading in Berkshire in the west to Shenfield in Essex in the east, is due to open in 2018 with full services running in 2019.

Commons leader Chris Grayling - who quoted the lyrics of The Farm song All Together Now at one point - has told MPs that the second reading of the bill paving the way for the EU referendum will be next Tuesday.

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The SNP's Pete Wishart welcomes planned parliamentary time for of the Scotland Bill in the Commons. He tells the Commons his party sees the Smith Commission proposals - arrived at immediately after the No vote in the independence referendum - as "a baseline" and a "very minimum", pledging to improve the bill when it comes forward. 

In his widely praised piece on Ed Miliband's leadership of the Labour Party in the Guardian today, Patrick Wintour looks back to the conference speech in which Mr MIliband forgot to mention the deficit. He writes the then Labour leader knew the story "would prove devastating". 

The full piece is well worth a read, external .

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Natalie Bennett, the leader of the Green Party in England and Wales, has called for free social care for everyone. She says austerity is "misguided" and argues Britain "could afford to pay for social care for all who need it". Her party says £1.1bn budget cuts to adult social services are planned.

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Health minister Ben Gummer says it is "extraordinary" Mr Burnham did not talk about patients in his question. He accuses Mr Burnham of using urgent questions for his own political reasons, something he argues reflects badly on the shadow health secretary. 

The plan for health is not one being imposed from Whitehall, Mr Gummer tells MPs. Instead, it has been arrived at through "a genuine conversation" between local patients and health commissioners, the health minister adds. 

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Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham says the announcement has "far-reaching implications" for people in the areas affected. He questions why it was not mentioned during a Commons debate on the issue and why Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is not present to answer the urgent question.

He asks for more details on the scheme and assurances on staffing and safety. He suggests the scheme is evidence of failure of government's local commissioning. 

Andy Burnham, Labour's shadow health secretary, is asking now about on the "success regime" applied to failing hospitals.

Ben Gummer, a government heath minister, says he welcomes the regime, which is designed to improve health and care services for patients in systems struggling with financial and quality issues.   

The regime, he says, is designed to help some of the most challenged "health and care economies". North Cumbria, Essex, and North East and West Devon are the first selected, based on data, he adds. 

The SNP's Pete Wishart calls for sanctions for ministers who leak information to the media - suggesting they should not be allowed to give the oral statement in the Commons. Mr Whittingdale says Mr Wishart should treat current cabinet minister as innocent unless they are proven guilty. 

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Chris Grayling, the leader of the house, is being asked about ministers making policy announcements outside the Commons. He refers in particular to David Cameron's announcement about the government's immigration policy.

Mr Grayling says the house was not sitting at that stage and that leaders on all sides have been making announcement of their plans in recent weeks. We'll continue to make sure Parliament is treated with the respect it deserves, Mr Grayling adds. 

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Asked about the BBC licence fee, John Whittingdale tells MPs he agrees with Chris Bryant that "elements of the licence fee are regressive because everyone has to pay it and so it falls as a greater percentage of the income on the poorest people."

He says he hopes he will be able to renew the charter by the end of 2017. 

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Chris Bryant, Labour's shadow secretary for culture, media and sport, tells the Commons it is "increasingly evident" Fifa is a "stinking sink of corruption" that has "polluted everything it has touched". He says it would be "wholly inappropriate" for UK broadcasters' money to go to the organisation until there is serious reform.

Mr Whittindale says he will wait to see the outcome of investigations into the World Cup bid process. The case for a rerun would be strong if there was evidence of corruption, he says, but it would be unfair to say to British fans they can't watch their teams on TV if the tournaments go ahead. 

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John Whittingdale is asked whether England could host the 2022 World Cup if it was decided it should not take place in Qatar.

The culture secretary replies it was "unlikely" another European country would be asked to host with the 2018 tournament taking place in Russia, but adds England has facilities and mounted a "very impressive if unsuccessful" bid for the 2018 tournament. 

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John Whittingdale, the culture secretary, is asked about the corruption allegations surrounding Fifa. He is asked whether it is time for a fresh look at the 2022 World Cup due to be held in Qatar. 

Mr Whittingdale tells MPs the first requirement towards reform was a change in leadership and Sepp Blatter's resignation was the "beginning of the process". The home nations should work with others who want to see change to make sure the new leadership is "properly committed" to reforms, he adds.