creation podcasts: westminsterwindow

This week Brian talks to Welwyn Hatfield MP Grant Shapps, Brecon and Radnorshire MP Roger Williams, Reading MP Rob Wilson and Cardiff MP Jenny Willott, covering his top issues from the political week.

This week Brian Shallcross takes advantage of the Easter Recess in Parliament to head to the upper cahmber where he talks with Lord Renton. Tim Renton used to be Conservative MP for Mid Sussex and rose to be Government Chief Whip when he was in the Commons. Now he's in the upper house as an active back bench peer.

This week we hear from an MP who suggests that bankers take an oath, rather like the Hippocratic oath taken by doctors. We meet the man who opened a keynote debate on energy supplies for the future, and who fears we may have left it too late to stop the lights going out in just a few years' time. We also take a look at the anti terrorist laws that are gettin ginnocent tourists into trouble.

This week on Window on Westminster with Brian Shallcross we talk recession in rural towns and villages as, shoplifting, the importance of local markets and we have an exclusive with Former financial Secretary to the Treasury, Lord Higgins.

Is gambling getting out of control?Do the government to enough to prevent silent phonecalls?Is banning product placement in TV a good or bad idea and is British bacon really British bacon?Brian Shallcross asks the MP’s.

Music and film piracy, abusive images of children on the internet, ID cards; some of the major issues discussed by Brian Shallcross this week on Window on Westminster. Plus, Christianity and politics; how much should they be kept separate in public life?

This week on Window on Westminster with Brian Shallcross we take a look at Britains curry industry, Scottish banknotes and are we happy with the way the European Union is working?

This week Window on Westminster looks at the decline of British pubs, the expansion of Heathrow Airport, the move from weekly rubbish collection to fortnightly and the surprising number of of our fellow citizens who are unable to cast their vote because they are not on the electoral register? Presented by Brian Shallcross.

Do we have an official language in the UK? Are UK carers getting a raw deal? Is Brittish pork produce really coming from from Britain? This weeks Window on Westminster with Brian Shallcross debates these questions and takes a look at nanotechnology.

In this weeks Window on Westminster with Brian Shallcross one MP talks about Hamas being an anti-jewish organisation and we talk about the extremely worrying rise in suicides amongst young men. Also we discuss data sharing and could reducing the minimum wage create more work during a recession?

Why is it the Americans have spent money on research into Gulf War Syndrome and proved it exists, and have properly compensated their soldiers, whilst here in the UK, eighteen years later, our soldiers are still suffering serious illness with no proper compensation? And an MP accuses the tobacco companies of being complicit in the huge amounts of tobacco smuggling that goes on in the UK. Wndow on Westminster is presented by Brian Shallcross.

This week on Window on Westminster with Brian Shallcross, we discuss the gender pay gap that still exists in the workplace, and we examine the very real possibility of refining used cooking oil as a biofuel for both power stations and diesel vehicles. Also this week, we meet the MP who is calling for new ways of controlling our street lighting. And as the massive digital switchover of our television systems gets ever closer, we talk to the Liberal Democrat Culture spokesman about how its...

This week Brian Shallcross discusses home information packs, the UK’s poor performance broadband, the small business sector and will our politicians ever give a straight answer?

In this weeks Window on Wesminster Brian discusses the ever increasing numbers if house reposessions in the UK, the shortage of allotments to grow our own foodstuffs,the shocking new websites giving young girls tips on how to hide eating disorders from their parents and how the economic downturn has also hit charities- should the government step in?

In the first Window on Westminster podcast of 2009, Brian Shallcross discusses the Government’s carbon footprint, secular laws and Segways.

As the recession bites ever deeper into our lives, how far will the government go to rescue ailing businesses? Should we follow the United States, and rescue, not just the banks, but the car industry as well? We also meet an MP who has been campaigning to get ministers to do more to make sure that young people who want to undergo body piercing don't suffer from serious infection as a result of unqualified workmanship. And how feasible is it to harness the heat generated in undergound train...

This week Brian Shallcross discusses whether our children should havehave lessons on how to be good parents in the future as part of the national curriculum. And with thousands of innocent people whose DNA is stored on the national police DNA database, we ask – is the intrusion into privacy justified by the fact that a number of crimes are solved as a result. Also this week- are the government doing enough to prevent flooding after the flooding of 2007 and is government legislation...

This week Brian Shallcross takes a close look of two of the most controversial bill sin the Queens Speech- on immigration and airport security. The immigration Minister speaks exclusively to Window on Westminster. We also visited the European parliament in Brussels and ask how the European Parliament has a real impact on our everyday lives.

Brian Shallcross debates whether visitors from foreign countries should be able to receive free medical treatment on the NHS and should the government exert more control over internet content. He also speaks to one MP who wants to rethink the physical relationship guidelines between teacher and pupil and another looking into alternative energy sources.

Brian Shallcross discusses whether cigarette vending machines should be banned entirely, should the government be allowed to keep detailed reports of our phone calls, emails and visited websites. Also do the government need to toughen up on drug driving, and should we take another look at speeding limits on country lanes?