NAHT comments on EHRC report into use of restraint in schools
Commenting as the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) publish a report following their inquiry into how schools in England and Wales are monitoring, recording and analysing their use of restraint...
Wednesday, 30 June 2021 13:02
Labour: New report exposes abuse of workers by Truss’s trade partners
Responding to the International Trade Union Confederation annual Global Rights Index, showing that more than a third of the non-EU countries with whom the UK has negotiated post-Brexit trade deals are systematically abusing or denying workers’ rights...
Wednesday, 30 June 2021 13:01
GKN workers in Birmingham prepare to ballot for strike action in battle to save factory
Workers at the GKN Automotive factory in Chester Road Birmingham are preparing for a strike ballot, as part of the campaign to keep the factory, which is critical for the successful electrification of the UK’s automotive industry, open...
Wednesday, 30 June 2021 12:42
Labour condemns the Government for sneaking out aid cuts
Labour’s Shadow International Development, Preet Kaur Gill MP, has today written to the Foreign and Development Secretary Dominic Raab MP raising a series of concerns about the way the Government has been consistently trying to hide cuts to the aid budget...
Wednesday, 30 June 2021 12:41
Tribute paid to Alison Hernandez during PMQs
During Question Time to the Prime Minister today, Anthony Mangnall MP (Totnes, Conservative) called for support for Alison Hernandez's Councillor Advocate Scheme...
Wednesday, 30 June 2021 12:36
Ed Miliband responds to Government's plans for post-Brexit state aid scheme
Ed Miliband MP, Labour’s Shadow Business Secretary, responding to the Government’s plans for post-Brexit state aid scheme, said...
Wednesday, 30 June 2021 12:02
Negotiations on the UK's Future Trading Relationship with New Zealand: Update
The fifth round of Free Trade Agreement negotiations with New Zealand took place between 8-16 June 2021...
Wednesday, 30 June 2021 11:11
BEIS announces ending coal power generation from 2024 – Alan Whitehead responds
Alan Whitehead MP, Labour's Shadow Minister for Energy and a Green New Deal, responding to the announcement from BEIS today on ending coal power generation from 2024, said...
Wednesday, 30 June 2021 10:51
IFS: A shock to come at the end of furlough?
Tomorrow, the government will start to wind down the Coronavirus Job Retention (furlough) scheme...
Wednesday, 30 June 2021 09:45
Rough sleeping rises in London despite pandemic effort - Crisis responds
Today, Wednesday 30 June, the annual Combined Homelessness and Information Network (CHAIN) statistics for 2020/21 have been published, showing levels of rough sleeping across London between April 2020 and March 2021...
Wednesday, 30 June 2021 09:40