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| Newsdesk live - Tuesday 21 February | Newsdesk live - Tuesday 21 February |
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| 1.02pm: Breaking news that Tesco is changing its work experience programme after the criticisms this week sparked by our reports of the controversial government scheme which has seen more than 24,000 work for no pay or risk losing their benefits. Shiv Malik, the reporter who has been leading our coverage of this story, tweets: | |
| BREAKING: Very interesting news from @UKTesco . Saying they will offer a 4 week paid work trial to all JSA Work Exp people. MTF..... | |
| Shiv has a number of new stories in the pipeline around this whole "workfare" issue, including one that came to him via a Tweet and this blog. Any other information gratefully received. | |
| 11.12am: We're not running a liveblog on the NHS today but we are working on a potentially good story ahead of tomorrow's opposition day debate in which Labour will question the government on its current refusal to publish the risk registers about the proposed reforms. Juliette Jowit, our political correspondent, previously wrote about the local risk registers, but the government is contesting an information commissioner ruling that they should release the national one. | 11.12am: We're not running a liveblog on the NHS today but we are working on a potentially good story ahead of tomorrow's opposition day debate in which Labour will question the government on its current refusal to publish the risk registers about the proposed reforms. Juliette Jowit, our political correspondent, previously wrote about the local risk registers, but the government is contesting an information commissioner ruling that they should release the national one. |
| My colleague Andrew Sparrow has forwarded on a request from his politics liveblog for us to look into MPs' financial interests in the health bill reforms. It was posted by @michaelsylvain here and says: | My colleague Andrew Sparrow has forwarded on a request from his politics liveblog for us to look into MPs' financial interests in the health bill reforms. It was posted by @michaelsylvain here and says: |
| Just seen a tweet from Dr Eoin Clarke claiming 333 private health interests have donated £8.3m to the Conservatives... @AndrewSparrow - is this something the good people at the Guardian could look at (or already have, and I've missed?)? I know there's a massive scale of declared private financial interests, but - if it's even remotely true in context - then it's definitely relevant given the determination to force the Bill through regardless of the cost to us. Everyone has a price, they say. I wonder if £8.3m is the Tory's. | Just seen a tweet from Dr Eoin Clarke claiming 333 private health interests have donated £8.3m to the Conservatives... @AndrewSparrow - is this something the good people at the Guardian could look at (or already have, and I've missed?)? I know there's a massive scale of declared private financial interests, but - if it's even remotely true in context - then it's definitely relevant given the determination to force the Bill through regardless of the cost to us. Everyone has a price, they say. I wonder if £8.3m is the Tory's. |
| Dr Eoin Clarke blog is here. He has used electoral commission accounts to calculate donations to the Tories by people involved in the health industry. | Dr Eoin Clarke blog is here. He has used electoral commission accounts to calculate donations to the Tories by people involved in the health industry. |
| We've had several requests recently to look at this and I'm going to forward the information on to Rajeev Syal, our whitehall correspondent, to get his view on what we can do on this. | We've had several requests recently to look at this and I'm going to forward the information on to Rajeev Syal, our whitehall correspondent, to get his view on what we can do on this. |
| 10.40am: A relatively quiet morning on the national newsdesk today with most of the action happening for our City colleagues one of whom, Graeme Wearden, has been liveblogging the Greek bailout for 26 hours now. We are covering the UK political fallout from that this morning. | 10.40am: A relatively quiet morning on the national newsdesk today with most of the action happening for our City colleagues one of whom, Graeme Wearden, has been liveblogging the Greek bailout for 26 hours now. We are covering the UK political fallout from that this morning. |
| Elsewhere we're interested in: | Elsewhere we're interested in: |
| • The first official figures about the government's work programme are about to come out. In the light of the controversy over A4e, one of the biggest company securing these contracts, we're following those closely. Our society reporters and datablog team are looking at those now. | • The first official figures about the government's work programme are about to come out. In the light of the controversy over A4e, one of the biggest company securing these contracts, we're following those closely. Our society reporters and datablog team are looking at those now. |
| • At 1pm we have the first hustings between Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson ahead of the mayoral elections. Michael White will be sketching, which should make a good read and Hélène Mulholland will be liveblogging proceedings. | • At 1pm we have the first hustings between Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson ahead of the mayoral elections. Michael White will be sketching, which should make a good read and Hélène Mulholland will be liveblogging proceedings. |
| • Our home affairs editor Alan Travis has just flagged up Eric Pickles's new plan for community integration, which includes "the big lunch", an annual plan for communities to get together. The last initiative we heard from Pickles from the social integration plan was about plans for a "curry college". There's definitely a food theme going on. | • Our home affairs editor Alan Travis has just flagged up Eric Pickles's new plan for community integration, which includes "the big lunch", an annual plan for communities to get together. The last initiative we heard from Pickles from the social integration plan was about plans for a "curry college". There's definitely a food theme going on. |
| • And tonight at 8pm we have the Brit awards. For us that means working out how best to cover the results in the paper, which goes to press at about the same time. Lexy Topping will be tweeting from the event you can contact her here via @lexytopping. | • And tonight at 8pm we have the Brit awards. For us that means working out how best to cover the results in the paper, which goes to press at about the same time. Lexy Topping will be tweeting from the event you can contact her here via @lexytopping. |
| Is there anything else we should be covering? Get in touch below the line or via Twitter @pollycurtis. | Is there anything else we should be covering? Get in touch below the line or via Twitter @pollycurtis. |