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National Audit Office: The costs of the UK-Rwanda Partnership

The UK Government will pay £370 million under the UK-Rwanda Partnership...

Friday, 1 March 2024 00:01

IFS: The latest picture on school funding and costs in England

The government regularly claims that school funding and funding per pupil in England are at record highs...

Friday, 1 March 2024 00:01

Sunak under pressure to rethink Tory whisky tax

Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, will come under pressure today (Friday 1) to rethink his government’s 75% tax on bottles of Scotch Whisky during a flying visit to Scotland...

Friday, 1 March 2024 00:01

ASCL comment on IFS analysis of school funding

Responding to analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), which shows that the costs faced by schools are growing at a faster rate than school funding...

Friday, 1 March 2024 00:01

Scottish Government: Tourism Minister hears of benefits to paying real living wage

Paying the real living wage can help attract and retain staff amid recruitment challenges in the sector, Tourism Minister Richard Lochhead has heard...

Friday, 1 March 2024 00:01

“In war we expect the deaths to be men of fighting age. In Gaza they are overwhelmingly women and children” - IDC reports on the humanitarian situation in Gaza

Since the Hamas terrorist atrocities of 7 October 2023, the International Development Committee has held three urgent evidence hearings in Parliament...

Friday, 1 March 2024 00:01

Yvette Cooper comments on the NAO's report on Rwanda scheme costs

Yvette Cooper MP, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary, commenting on the National Audit Office’s report into the costs of the Rwanda scheme, said...

Friday, 1 March 2024 00:01

Chair comment: NAO report into the costs of the UK-Rwanda Partnership

In response to the National Audit Office report into the costs of the UK-Rwanda Partnership, Chair of the Home Affairs Committee Dame Diana Johnson MP said...

Friday, 1 March 2024 00:01

NEU responds to IFS analysis on school funding

Commenting on an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies of school funding and costs in England which highlights a likely fall in the purchasing power of schools in 2024/25, Daniel Kebede, General Secretary of the National Education Union, said...

Friday, 1 March 2024 00:01

Prime Minister visits North East Scotland

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will visit the North East of Scotland on Friday, highlighting that it is only the UK Government that has consistently shown it will protect...

Friday, 1 March 2024 00:01