Laura says the previous Labour government used the private sector a lot - how much would a future Labour government use them to help the NHS?

Streeting replies by saying the private sector tell us they can do more and we are going to have to work in partnership.

We are talking to the private sector already and we are thinking creatively, he says.

For example, Streeting says Labour is announcing a partnership with Nuffield Health to deliver 4,000 appointments for NHS staff through their joint pain programme. This would help address one of the reasons NHS staff are off sick and this will help get them off waiting lists, he adds.

Next, Streeting is asked about staff cuts at hospitals after 11 hospital trusts in Yorkshire identified they had to save £350m from their combined budgets.

Laura asks if he would tell trusts not to cut clinical roles if he becomes health secretary.

Streeting replies: "Of course we don't want to see people getting rid of doctors and nurses."

He adds that Laura's question "underlines just how big the challenge is going to be" if Labour win the next general election.

It is now the Labour shadow health secretary's turn to be questioned.

Laura asks Wes Streeting about Labour's pledge to help cut down on NHS waiting lists by pooling hospital resources.

"The reason we know this will work is that it's currently being done in a small number of hospitals," says Streeting.

"We want to see this available to patients rights across the country," he adds.

Streeting says the £1.1bn required to make the scheme work will be linked to reforming hospital systems.

The next question to the defence secretary is about the infected blood scandal, which is the subject of a key report being published tomorrow.

Can he commit to £10bn in compensation being paid in full, Laura asks.

Schapps replies that it is heart-breaking but he is not in a position to talk about the compensation.

Laura asks Shapps about whether the temporary pier in the coast of Gaza being used to deliver aid is enough to support the people of Gaza.

He says: " Of course it's not enough".

Shapps adds that it's "just another way of getting aid in".

"We are helping to organise the dispatch of that from Cyprus... so we're assisting with getting that aid onto the land in Gaza," he adds.

The defence secretary is now asked about Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's recent comments that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer would be a danger to the country, if Labour were to win a general election, by not committing to the same levels of defence spending as the Conservatives.

Shapps says "people will quite rightly question why that is the case".

Laura asks whether Sunak is himself a danger, given that the new target of spending 2.5% of the budget on defence is relatively new.

Shapps replies that the Conservatives have been building up to the target.

Laura asks Shapps if it would be acceptable for Ukraine to use British-supplied weapons to undertake attacks inside Russia?

Shapps replies that Ukraine should use them to defend their country "in the whole of Ukraine including Crimea".

Laura presses him again - is it up to Ukraine to choose how they are used, or it is up to the country which gives the weapons to decide?

Shapps says he cannot go into detail and does not directly answer the question about whether Ukraine should be using British-supplied weapons inside Russia.

For Laura's next question, she reads out a message from a viewer questioning why the UK and the US shoot down missiles heading to Israel but not Russian ones targeting Ukraine.

He says there is a difference between the two conflicts.

Shapps adds: "We don't want to be in a direct conflict with Russia... we don't intend to go and fight that war."

Laura's first question to the defence secretary is about Ukraine and how he would describe Russia's recent offensive.

He responds by saying while Russia's gains add up to "only a few villages" so far, it is important that the support Ukraine's allies give is consistent.

Schapps says the "civilised world took its eye off the ball" for a while - pointing to the US and other countries where "internal politics meant money did not flow in the way it as in the UK".

"Let's not get into this mess again," Shapps says.

Laura starts off by asking all three panellists what would their one thing be if they could add one pledge to the political parties' list?

Journalist Piers Morgan says he thinks there should be much bigger defence spending – to at least 3 - 3.5% of GDP.

Climate campaigner Mikaela Loach says the two child benefit limit should be scrapped.

Businessman and Tory donor David Ross says making the UK more competitive internationally is the priority.

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The programme starts off with the latest newspaper headlines.

A range of stories are leading Sunday's newspapers.

The Sunday Times leads with a preview of the final report into the infected blood scandal ahead of its publication tomorrow. In an interview with the broadsheet, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announces a £10bn compensation scheme for victims.

The Sunday Telegraph says that Labour will tell NHS staff to work weekends if it wins the next general election. Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting, who announced the plan, is interviewed by the paper after Labour unveiled its general election pledges earlier in the week.

While, The Archbishop of Canterbury has told The Observer that if Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer becomes prime minister in the next general election, he should end the two-child benefit cap policy. Justin Welby describes it as a cruel and immoral policy.

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We hope you’ve got your cup of tea or coffee ready, because this week’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg has begun.

Remember, you can hit Play at the top of this page to watch - it’s also live on BBC One, the BBC News channel and BBC iPlayer.

And we’ll bring you live text updates, clips, reaction and analysis right here.

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Labour is giving a bit more detail about how the pledge they recently made to add 40,000 NHS appointments a week will be delivered.

The party says it will set up groups containing about five hospitals where waiting lists and staff will be pooled and resources will be shared, allowing them to operate in evenings and on weekends.

"Labour will invest £1.1 billion in the policy, to pay staff extra for out of hours working," reads a Labour statement.

"The party expects to roll out the plans and reach 40,000 extra operations, scans, and appointments a week well within the first year of a Labour government."

Read what Labour has said previously about shared waiting lists here.

The Conservatives have dismissed the plan, saying it is the "same old Labour".

"Their pledges for the NHS are completely unfunded and alongside all their other spending commitments, would cost every working household £2,094 in higher taxes, taking the country back to square one," says Conservative Party Chairman Richard Holden

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The 43-year-old was a long-time ally of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and will be appearing on today's programme.

In March this year - just weeks after Navalny suddenly died in a Russian prison colony - Volkov said his arm had been broken in an attack outside his home in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius.

Lithuanian intelligence said the attack was likely "Russian organised". Two Polish citizens were accused of carrying out the assault, and later three people were arrested over the attack.

Poland's prime minister said the person who allegedly ordered the attack was "a Belarusian working for the Russians".

At the time of the attack, Volkov said the attack was "an obvious, typical, gangster greeting from Putin, from bandit St Petersburg" - but gave no more details.

He was briefly hospitalised after the attack, and has lived outside Russia for years.

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According to The Sunday Times, external, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is getting ready to unveil a compensation package of at least £10bn for those affected by the infected blood scandal.

The report says Hunt is fulfilling a promise to his friend Mike Dorricott - a father of two who was among thousands of people to be given infusions of contaminated blood. He died in 2015.

“I think this is the worst scandal of my lifetime and the worst I’ve ever come across in my political career,” says Hunt.

An official announcement from the government is expected soon, possibly in the week ahead.

Read more about the infected blood scandal here.

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As always, we’ll first hear from the panel, who’ll be giving their takes on some of the week’s biggest stories.

They’ll also be picking apart the answers Laura’s guests give in their interviews. Here's today’s studio panellists:

• Piers Morgan- the journalist and presenter’s online show Piers Morgan Uncensoredhas 2.8 million YouTube subscribers
• Mikaela Loach - a climate justice activist who last year wrote a book called It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World
• David Ross- the co-founder of Carphone Warehouse and former Conservative Party donor. In 2020, he was in the limelight when it emerged that he had paid £15,000 for then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson to take a Caribbean holiday, according to the MPs' register of interests

Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting may well be asked about the imminent I, externalnfected , externalBl, externalood , externalI, externalnquiry, external report, which we’re expecting to be published tomorrow. Details of the scandal have been across headlines all week in anticipation of the report.

The chair of the inquiry is also due to speak at Westminster at about 14:00 BST on Monday.

The inquiry follows more than 30,000 people in the UK being infected with HIV and Hepatitis C after being given contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s. It has been called the biggest treatment disaster in NHS history.

Announced in 2017 after years of campaigning from victims, the inquiry has been led by former judge Sir Brian Langstaff.

A number of individuals have given evidence, including former pupils at a specialist boarding school, Treloar’s College, where dozens of young haemophiliacs were infected with HIV.

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Today’s guest, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, made headlines earlier this week when he spoke about up to six amphibious warships planned for the Royal Marines.

These ships would help fight the "conflicts of the future”, he said. Speaking to the BBC, Shapps said the ships would be "more flexible" and capable of carrying out different tasks.

He added that the investment was only possible because of the government's decision to increase defence spending to 2.5% of national income.

The government had previously said it would be building the new ships. However, Shapps told the BBC's Today programme that at that time there was not the "means to actually do it".

"Today, we are able to bring those plans to fruition," he said. Read more on this story here.

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As we’ve already said, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps is on the programme today, representing the government.

Joining him is Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary.

Labour leader Keir Starmer said this week that, if in power, his government would provide 40,000 appointments and operations per week to help tackle NHS waiting lists - so we’ll see if Streeting’s asked about that.

Leonid Volkov, former chief of staff to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, will also be making an appearance on the show.

In March, Volkov said his arm was broken in an attack outside his home in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius.

Navalny himself suddenly died in a Russian prison in February.