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1201 Eddie Mair is with Jenny for the show today: he welcomes our guest for the show, former Liberal Democrat MP, Jackie Ballard, who's enjoying a fresh lease of life outside Westminster as the head of the RSPCA.

1203 He once said he had no reverse gear - and that was certainly the theme of the Prime Minister's breakfast time speech on the NHS this morning. Despite the recent awful headlines for the government of big deficits and job losses, Mr Blair made it clear there wasn't a Plan B for the health service. So the reforms go on - but is the PM going to pay a political price for his radical surgery? Jenny goes to the Big Board to give us the background.

1206 Jenny talks to the independent MP Dr Richard Taylor, the former NHS consultant, who won his seat at Wire Forest by campaigning against the closure of Kidderminster hospital.

1208 Eddie's joined by the man who was in the room with the Prime Minister when he made his speech this morning, the Labour MP and chairman of the Health Select Committee, Kevin Barron - who's also a lay member of the General Medical Council.

1214 About 3,000 young people are behind bars. But despite doing their time in young offenders' insitutitions, most will commit more crime once they're released and many end up back in custody. So would it be more effective, and cost the taxpayer less in the long run to do things differently? Laura's been allowed to film a radical project where young criminals are not sent into custody but instead taken to live under strict rules with a foster family to try and change their ways.

1218 We round up the other stories occupying minds in Westminster this lunchtime in our Newsbelt.

1219 With just six weeks to go till football's World Cup Finals, and once again the country is about to delude itself into thinking that England might actually win the thing. Sven and his men will go into training in earnest shortly, and the nation is preparing to cheer them on. But not everyone's so wild about Wayne and the boys. Rooney and Owen may have scored some great goals but Wayne's reported �700,000 gambling debts is just the latest example of bad behaviour which has seriously upset some of our MPs. They're going to debate the issue of what our top footy stars get up to in a special session later today. Labour's Graham Allen is leading the charge - asked him to explain exactly what was troubling him.

1221 Former Everton, Rangers and England footballer Trevor Steven, joins us from our Glasgow studio.

1227 Your emails and questions for Jackie Ballard.

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