NHS 'listening' tour
David Cameron will be joined by Nick Clegg and health secretary Andrew Lansley today at an event designed to promote planned reforms to the health service.
The "listening exercise" will be held in a hospital in the Home Counties where they will take questions from medical staff on the controversial plans to shake up the operation of the NHS.
On Monday Lansley made a highly unusual statement to the Commons announcing a pause in the passage of the legislation, amid concerns the government did not have the public or its Lib Dem members on side.
Yesterday the deputy prime minister suggested the outcome of the two-month process would be "substantive changes" to the reforms.
The House of Commons rose for its Easter recess yesterday, but Westminster has not entirely shut down as the House of Lords is still in session.
Peers will begin their day at 11am by discussing telephone hacking by newspapers.
Yesterday the News of the World's chief reporter, Neville Thurlbeck, and its former head of news, Ian Edmondson, were arrested in relation to phone hacking at the paper.
The Lords will also debate the financial management of EU Funds, the Role of the African Union and the EU in the crisis in Cote d’Ivoireand the Postal Services Bill.
Two MPs from the last Parliament will be giving evidence to a House of Lords committee today.
Tony Wright, former chair of the Commons public administration committee and the Wright committee on parliamentary reform, will be giving evidence on the constitutional reform process to the constitution committee.
Wright will be joined by David Howarth, now of the University of Cambridge and former Liberal Democrat MP for the university city.
Chaired by Baroness Jay, the committee has already produced reports condemning the lack of consultation and pace of reform pursued by the coalition government.
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