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In Brief
Health secretary Alan Johnson publishes the Health and Social Care Bill.
Universities secretary John Denham makes an announcement on skills. The move comes as a CBI survey of more than 100 firms in London finds that two out of three expect to suffer from a shortage of skilled staff in the next six months, while most now recruit from overseas.
Cabinet Office minister Ed Miliband takes part in a Compass debate in Nottingham on 'building the good society'.
Housing minister Yvette Cooper publishes the Housing and Regeneration Bill.
European Union education and youth ministers conclude two days of talks in Brussels. Items on the agenda include a decision on the European 'capital of culture' event for 2011 and a draft resolution on voluntary activities for young people.
The prime minister's ambassador for England's 2018 World Cup bid has said there should be "cost controls" on footballers' wages. Richard Caborn's intervention comes after his successor as sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe caused controversy by saying Premiership remuneration was "obscene". Asked in an ePolitix.com interview about Sutcliffe's view, Caborn said: "I think there ought to be cost controls. Huge television revenues are now washing through into wages and that is something football ought to look at and some of that ought to be invested back into football." Read the full transcript or listen to the MP3 audio file on ePolitix.com.
Conservative MP Sir George Young takes part in ePolitix.com's look-ahead podcast on issues coming up in Parliament next week. Issues under discussion include Gordon Brown's performances at prime minister's questions, debates on health and education, and decisions on MPs' pay.
In an interview with the Financial Times Conservative MP Patrick Mercer has said holding terror suspects for an extended period without charge risks bolstering the recruitment of radical Islamists. "As we did with the IRA, we risk handing a propaganda tool to radical Islamists, drying up our intelligence sources and turning innocent people into agents of dissatisfaction," he said.
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