Peter Hoskin

PMQs live blog | 24 February 2010

Stay tuned for live coverage from 1200.

1200:
Alistair Darling is sat next to Brown. How cosy.

1201: And we’re off.  Brown starts with condolences for fallens soldiers – sadly, seven names to read out.

1202:
Labour MP Jamie Reed asks Brown for reassurances that the public will one day see the taxpayers’ cash that’s been pumped into the banks. He gets in a dig at George Osborne’s public shares plan.  Brown responds by banging on about the G20.

1204: Cameron now. He leads off with a question about the deaths at the Stafford Hospital – asking whether a private inquiry is sufficient to tragedy and the public interest.

1206: Brown gives a managerial response – saying that the government is doing all it can.

1207: Cameron points out that above average death rates had been happening inthe Mid-Staffordshire trust since 2005, but there was a delay before they were investigated.  He calls for more openness and transparency.

1208: Brown’s reponse is, effectively, that there’s transparency enough.

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