23/04/2026
Today in Parliament
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🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Sean Curran reports from Westminster as Cabinet Office permanent secretary Cat Little gives evidence to MPs on Lord Mandelson's security vetting.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | Order! Order! |
| 0:08.6 | Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4, for Thursday the 23rd of April, |
| 0:15.4 | when a senior civil servant faced questions about the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United |
| 0:22.0 | States. |
| 0:22.9 | I have not been involved at all in either the events to appoint or the withdrawal of the former |
| 0:32.6 | HMA for Washington. |
| 0:34.7 | A minister confirms that confidential medical data belonging to thousands of people |
| 0:39.3 | was put up for sale on a website. The UK Biobank charity informed the government that it |
| 0:44.3 | identified their data had been advertised for sale by several sellers on Alibaba's e-commerce |
| 0:49.5 | platforms in China. And why are so many young men still living at home with their parents? |
| 0:56.0 | First-time buyers having to achieve an almost impossible deposit of over £60,000. |
| 1:04.3 | The fallout from the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the British ambassador to the United States |
| 1:09.7 | has left the Prime Minister |
| 1:11.0 | facing calls to resign from opposition leaders. This week, Sir Keir Starmer faced questions |
| 1:16.6 | about his decision to sack the head of the Foreign Office, Sir Ollie Robbins, in a row |
| 1:22.1 | over Peter Mandelson's security vetting. Ollie Robbins gave his side of the story to the Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday, |
| 1:30.0 | and today the same group of MPs heard from the most senior civil servant at the Cabinet |
| 1:35.5 | office. |
| 1:36.6 | Cat Little has been given the job of finding all the documents about Lord Mandelson's |
| 1:41.3 | appointment that need to be handed over to Parliament. |
| 1:44.1 | A Liberal Democrat member of the committee, Edward Morello, some about Lord Mandelson's appointment that need to be handed over to Parliament. |
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