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Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Thursday, the 16th of April.

Coming up, the business secretary announces help with bills for more energy-intensive firms.

This is a major industrial intervention

and financial commitment by this government.

I am determined to get it absolutely right from the start.

Also, calls for changes to the prevent de-radicalisation programme

following the Southport stabbings.

Perhaps it's time to stop arresting peaceful eco-protesters

and start thinking more about the violent people

who don't fit into the ideological category that prevent deals with.

And complaints about secure Starmer's conduct at Prime Minister's questions.

Yesterday, we even saw the Prime Minister

Hecturing you, Mr Speaker, in your chair and on live television

just for doing your job.

But first, the government has announced the expansion of a scheme

to help energy-intensive industries with their bills

in response to the recent surge in energy prices caused by the war in the Middle East.

An existing scheme will be extended to a further 3,000 businesses in sectors such as steel and pharmaceuticals,

bringing the total up to 10,000. Eligible firms will see their energy costs cut by about a quarter, payable from next April.

Critics reckoned that was too late and left many other sectors out in the cold.

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