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Order. Order.

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

For Wednesday, the 19th of March, when the Prime Minister defended his plans to shake up the benefit system.

I do understand the human impact of this, but the current system is morally

and economically indefensible. Ministers are under renewed pressure to exempt charities,

hospices and GPs from higher national insurance payments. This is a choice and they have chosen

to make these job taxes imposed on children's hospices.

And there are calls for tough action to stop energy firms charging customers after the one-year cut-off point.

Why should you be allowed to have an energy licence if you're backbilling people and

causing them catastrophic finances? But first, Sakea Stama and the Chancellor arrived in the

Commons Chamber together for this week's Prime Minister's questions. And Rachel Reeves was

sitting next to the Prime Minister as the Conservative leader Kemi Badenock focused on the government's handling of the economy

ahead of next week's spring statement about the state of the public finances.

Winterfield payments have been snatched.

The jobs tax is hammering everyone from business to charities.

The Chancellor promised a once-in-a-parliament budget that she would not come back for more.

And in that budget, she said there will be no extension of the freeze in income tax thresholds.

Ahead of the emergency budget, will he repeat...

It is. It is. It's what it is.

Mr. Speaker, ahead of the emergency budget, will he repeat the commitment that she made?

Those shouts were Labour MPs objecting to the phrase emergency budget.

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