Second reading (and remaining stages) (Commons) of the National Insurance Contributions (Increase of Thresholds) Bill - Mar 24
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr Simon Clarke): Yesterday, the Chancellor announced in his spring statement a series of extraordinary measures that will harness the tax system’s power to build a stronger and more secure economy for the United Kingdom...
Friday, 25 March 2022 07:42
Extracts from Commons proceedings: Great British Railways - Mar 24
Peter Gibson (Darlington) (Con): Darlington is the birthplace of the modern railway, and I am of the view that Darlington is the best place for the new headquarters of Great British Railways...
Friday, 25 March 2022 07:37
Extract from Lords consideration of Commons Reasons and Amendments to the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill m- Mar 24
Lord Baker of Dorking (Con):...Perhaps the Minister can explain one of the problems. BTECs will be disqualified if they overlap, but what does overlap mean...
Friday, 25 March 2022 07:31
Extract from Lords repeat of Commons statement on Daniel Morgan Independent Panel Report - Mar 24
Lord Paddick (LD):...The Metropolitan Police has national responsibility for such important issues as the security of the Royal Family and protection of government Ministers, and for terrorism...
Friday, 25 March 2022 07:27
Guidance on DCMS Multi-sport grassroots facilities programme
The multi-sport grassroots facilities programme is investing funding to level up facilities across the UK, including in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland...
Friday, 25 March 2022 00:35
Tens of millions of pounds of public money used to “prop up” poorly managed academy schools, with potentially excessive levels of pay, say MPs in new report
Around 43% of state-funded schools now operate as academies, educating over half of pupils in England across over 2,700 academy trusts, and the Department for Education (DfE) aims for all state-funded schools to become part of a family of academy trusts...
Friday, 25 March 2022 00:01
National Audit Office report on The Police Uplift Programme
Government is on course to achieve its target of recruiting 20,000 additional police officers by 2023, according to the National Audit Office (NAO)...
Friday, 25 March 2022 00:01
Majority of drivers unconvinced that strengthened laws on handheld mobile phone use at the wheel will make the roads safer - RAC
On the day drivers face six penalty points and a £200 fine if they are caught using a handheld phone at the wheel for virtually any reason after a loophole in the law was closed...
Friday, 25 March 2022 00:01
ASCL responds to PAC report on academy trust finances (re-sent with embargo)
Commenting on the report of the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts (PAC) on the finances of academy trusts, Geoff Barton, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said...
Friday, 25 March 2022 00:01
Free school meals: One million more school children could be fed if sign-up process eased, councils urge - LGA
More than a million additional school children could receive free school meals and be entitled to extra support funding if the sign-up process for the scheme was simplified and extended to more families, councils say today...
Friday, 25 March 2022 00:01