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Hello, I'm Alicia McCarthy and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4 for Friday the 21st of March.

Coming up, MPs get set to debate an overhaul of the planning system, but will it meet the government's ambition to get Britain building?

It does give hope there will be a speeding up of decisions and therefore building quicker.

Also on this programme, military chiefs tell MPs they are doing more to end the harassment of women in the armed forces,

but a former chair of the Defence Committee reckons there's still room for improvement.

There are areas which need addressing where I do have concerns about the safety of women.

And a call for the repatriation of human body parts that are on display or up for sale in the UK.

You can't sell ivory in Britain, but you can sell their bones of their ancestors.

But first.

Mr and Mrs Reast are the first proud occupants of a People's House at Desford.

House building has come a long way since this 1952 newsreel of the then housing minister, Harold Macmillan,

visiting the first so-called People's House, costing less than £1,000 and full of innovations for the hard-pressed

homeworker. A combined cupboard and hatch leads through into the rear part of the living room.

It makes it very easy to pass dishes and food back and forth, and of course, saves the housewife

the trial of forever carrying trays from one room to the other.

This government has an ambition to build one and a half million new homes in England by the end of

this Parliament. It also wants to speed up and slim down the planning system to make it easier to build

things like power stations and airports. Ministers are aiming to make the changes in the planning and infrastructure bill

that gets its first debate in the comments on Monday.

I asked Ben Clifford, Professor of Spatial Planning and Governance at University College London,

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