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We're going behind the

food operations in the UK, the House of Commons.

Questions to the Prime Minister.

Following 250 catering staff in a third operation which sustains the business and politics

at the centre of our democracy.

The Labour sit here in the evenings when it's members only.

This is a Tory end up here.

Last week we saw deliveries in and kitchen prep for a busy lunch session post prime

minister's question time and as Westminster celebrates 750 years of parliamentary rule.

We're reflected on a lavish history of feasting at that site by the Thames.

We don't eat Godwits or puffins anymore.

No, that's right.

They would be protected species.

But any hint of lavishness in the comments today is a touchy subject. Parliament itself has been the focus in the week's budget. In this program we'll be meeting some of the 13,000 so-called

passholders who work and eat here including the 650 MPs and asking why this catering operation deserves a 2.5 million

public subsidy.

This house of Commons with all its walks and

deficiencies should be seen as a dignified place.

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