Government’s latest plan to extend lorry driver hours is not solving problem and is dangerous, warns Unite
Unite, the UK’s leading union, which represents tens of thousands of HGV drivers, has reacted with dismay to the news that the government is intent on further relaxing regulations governing how long lorry drivers can work...
Wednesday, 5 January 2022 15:16
Mayor activates rough sleeping severe weather plan for first time in 2022 as temperatures fall
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has activated the pan-London Severe Weather Emergency Protocols (SWEP) for the first time this year to protect homeless people as temperatures are forecast to fall well below 0°C tonight...
Wednesday, 5 January 2022 14:39
Finance (No. 2) Bill: Amendments tabled for committee stage in the Commons as at Jan 5
Finance (No. 2) Bill: Amendments tabled for committee stage in the Commons as at Jan 5...
Wednesday, 5 January 2022 14:36
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill: Amendments supplementary to the third marshalled list for report stage in the Lords as at Jan 4
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill: Amendments supplementary to the third marshalled list for report stage in the Lords as at Jan 4...
Wednesday, 5 January 2022 14:32
Written statement on Transport for London funding extension December 2021 - Jan 5
The current Transport for London funding settlement has been extended to 4 February 2022...
Wednesday, 5 January 2022 13:13
Home Office to introduce scientific methods for assessing the age of asylum seekers
The Home Secretary has announced that the Home Office is establishing a new Scientific Advisory Committee to provide advice on ways of checking how old an asylum seeker is...
Wednesday, 5 January 2022 12:23
£460 million logistics contract to sustain more than 600 UK jobs
A logistics system critical to UK Armed Forces operations worldwide will be supported under a new five-year, £460 million contract with Boeing Defence UK...
Wednesday, 5 January 2022 10:24
Lib Dems: Give £30 catch-up vouchers for every day a pupil misses to plug lost learning gap
The Liberal Democrats have called for a £30 catch-up voucher for every day missed by primary and secondary school students for covid-related absence...
Wednesday, 5 January 2022 08:28
Labour’s “Dossier of Waste in the Ministry of Defence” reveals Ministers wasted £13 billion of taxpayers’ money
Today, Labour publishes its “Dossier of Waste in the Ministry of Defence” which reveals that the Government has wasted at least £13 billion of taxpayers’ money in 67 officially confirmed cases of MoD waste since 2010...
Wednesday, 5 January 2022 07:50
New blood-based test is the first ever to simultaneously identify if a patient has cancer and if it has spread
A University of Oxford study published today in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, outlines a new type of blood test that can be used to detect...
Wednesday, 5 January 2022 00:01