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Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4

for Thursday the 13th of March, when the Health Secretary announced the scrapping of the organisation

which runs the Health Service in England.

The Prime Minister has committed to cutting the number of quangos.

Today, we are abolishing the biggest quango in the world.

As farmers gather outside Parliament to protest against changes to inheritance tax,

the Conservatives accused the government of a farming fiasco.

In just a few short months, this city-dwelling government has destroyed families' ambitions for the future.

And MPs hear how the country will mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.

A minister says the commemorations will honour veterans.

And reflect on the freedom and value that the Second World War generation fought so hard to

protect. But first, the body that runs the health service in England is going to be abolished.

The Prime Minister said merging NHS England with the Department of Health and Social Care

would cut bureaucracy and bring management of the NHS back under democratic control.

Sakea Stama made the announcement during a speech in Hull.

A short time later, the Health Secretary Wes Streting made a common statement about the changes.

NHS England was set up by the Conservative Liberal Democrat Coalition

as part of a controversial shake-up of the Health Service.

Wes Streting said a review of the NHS by the cancer surgeon

and former Labour Health Minister Lord Darcy

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