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Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Friday the 28th of February.

Coming up, I'll be taking a first look at the government's major new legislation on crime and policing in England and Wales.

Also, there's no good news for HS2 rail in a new report from MPs.

I think that the whole situation is probably worse now than it's been.

A former government chief whip just about survives the job.

It is very, very demanding because you're dealing with a lot of very passionately held views by some very ambitious people and the emotional wear and tear is quite significant.

And we join the women's parliamentary football team for the launch of a new campaign to get even the old and the slow involved in the game.

But first, this week saw the first outing of a bill which is likely to dominate a great deal of Parliament's time and attention in the months to come.

Crime and policing, Bill.

Second reading, what day?

Tomorrow.

Tomorrow. Actually, they always say tomorrow, what day? Tomorrow. Tomorrow.

Actually, they always say tomorrow, but it never is tomorrow for the first big debate.

It's just how they do things best not to ask why.

The actual first debate is in 10 days' time.

But the crime and policing bill, which covers mainly England and Wales, has been published ahead of that, with an extraordinarily long list of areas covered, from shoplifting to serious sexual crimes to the wider use of lie detectors or polygraphs. Some loopholes are closed up. Then there are moves to tackle crimes many of us won't even have heard of before, such as cooing, where criminals take over someone's home.

As this police officer explains, as she tries to protect a vulnerable woman in Shrewsbury.

She had people staying in her house and dealing drugs in this particular area.

She's an alcoholic and she's been targeted because she is lonely. She doesn't leave the house.

People visit her and she's been found and been targeted by these drug dealers who will probably supply her with more booze.

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