hilary benn talking to us earlier. we‘ll keep you up—to—date with the negotiations.hildren used to tablets, emojis and instant messaging, hand written letters might seem like something consigned to the history books. but teachers at one primary school think pupils are missing out by not putting pen to paper, the way their grandparents did. so the school in kidderminster has teamed up with two local care homes to launch an inter—generational pen pal scheme between children and residents. 0ur reporter emma jane kirby has been to find out more. we have got some exciting post today. what do you think it might be? the letters! the pen pal letters! the postman has been at this school in kidderminster and they‘re eager to find out what their pen pals have to say. dear jasmine. thank you so much for your very lovely and well—written letter... most of the children have never received a letter before, let alone a written one. but thanks to a scheme linking them to a local care home, they‘re now old hands at it. we believe the art of letter writing is lost, so we‘re encouraging

we arejoined by labour's hilary benn who is the chair of the brexit select committee.that the government has added the documents before releasing them to the select committee. that is not what the house of commons decided when it past the motion. —— edited the documents. calling on the government to release all the material that they were holding to my committee and therefore i have said to him what the government has done is not consistent with that motion and not in keeping with the clear expectations that i communicated to him when we met. i said it would be for the select committee tours to decide what will be published and we would give careful consideration of august to any concerns about material that was commercially sensitive or which might undermine the negotiations. that is why with aston to come and see us so we can put questions to him about the process the government went through and then to ask him in a private session of the material that has been released to us to have any remaining concerns about that being put in the public domain. because the purpos

have been passed to the cross—party select committee on exiting the eu, chaired by the labour mp hilary bennfor more on this we can speak to our political correspondent iain watson. the government has reluctantly handed over these papers but mps are not satisfied it seems. that's right. it's not the information perhaps the mps were asking for. at the beginning of this month the commons voted for the government to hand over the analysis. effectively it is its assessment of the potential impact of brexit and 58 parts of the economy, something it hadn't volunteered to do. the commons voted in favour of it and they said you we understand you might not want to make it public but can you handed over to a cross—party committee that is meant to be scrutinising brexit. in a letter to the committee today, the brexit secretary david davis made it clear they were holding back information he regarded as either commercially sensitive or information that might undermine negotiations with the eu. i've spoken to several members of that committee and they are very happy unhappy about it indeed. labour are hap

hilary benn, sorry for interrupting you. we appreciate your time.s no cure. and what scares up all sorts of hostility about those who are ill and very little committee —— compassion for them. and that is what happened for the first 15 years of the epidemic in the united states and the world. it to that long for a effective treatments to be developed to make an hiv infection is something that could be survived. this is the book version of your oscar—nominated documentary. you we re oscar—nominated documentary. you were in new york in the early 1980s. when you then some years later started to think about how you would tell the story, looking back, was there a particular moment that sparked that thought? what i realised was that no one had chronicled the enormous and epic campaign that it too to bring about those medications. and in fact most of the writing is about aids were written and published and staged as plays honours films in the middle of the plague years. once 1996, the watershed of 96 came in the drugs came, there was very little desire to l