Up to £600 winter help paid to over 11.5 million pensioners
11.6 million Winter Fuel Payments and Pensioner Cost of Living Payments – support worth a total of £4.6 billion – have already been made to pensioners across the UK this winter, the Department for Work and Pensions confirmed today...
Tuesday, 20 December 2022 10:59
New appointments to the Animal Welfare Committee
Seven new appointments, including a new Chair, made to the Animal Welfare Committee...
Tuesday, 20 December 2022 10:56
New pilot launched to support small businesses across Liverpool city region and Blackpool
A new support service, the SkillsBoost project, is launching to enable small businesses in vital sectors across the Liverpool City Region and Blackpool to boost the skills of their workforce by creating new apprenticeships...
Tuesday, 20 December 2022 10:54
Inquiry launched into Strategic Road Investment in England
The Transport Committee today launches a new inquiry into the Government’s current five-year plan for investing in major roads and motorways...
Tuesday, 20 December 2022 10:52
How prepared is the UK for the next pandemic? MPs launch new inquiry
The Commons Science and Technology Committee today announces a new inquiry into the Government’s preparedness for emerging diseases with pandemic potential, following the largest ever outbreak of avian flu in UK wild and domestic birds...
Tuesday, 20 December 2022 09:39
Committee stage (Lords) (day 5) of the Energy Bill - Dec 19
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Lord Callanan) (Con): My Lords, the Committee will note the large number of amendments tabled in my name on heat networks...
Tuesday, 20 December 2022 07:51
Committee stage (Lords) (day 1) of the National Security Bill - Dec 19
Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD): My Lords, all the amendments in this group are in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Purvis of Tweed...
Tuesday, 20 December 2022 07:47
Oral answer (Lords) on Plastics: Health Research - Dec 19
Baroness Meacher asked the Government what plans they have to fund research into the health impact of plastic through a new National Plastic Health Impact Research Fund...
Tuesday, 20 December 2022 07:45
Oral answer (Lords) on Hospital Beds: Social Care - Dec 19
Lord Dubs asked the Government what assessment they have made of the number of hospital beds currently occupied by patients who could be discharged to their own homes or to residential care if social care support were available...
Tuesday, 20 December 2022 07:43
Westminster Hall debate on Child Bed Poverty - Dec 19
Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North) (Lab): I beg to move, that this House has considered e-petition 604509, relating to child bed poverty
Tuesday, 20 December 2022 07:39