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Sainsbury’s to sponsor COP26 climate summit in Glasgow

Sainsbury’s joins SSE, Sky, Scottish Power, NatWest Group and National Grid as Principal Partners for UN climate change summit

Thursday, 25 February 2021 09:58

Direction issued to Ofqual about qualifications

Direction from the Secretary of State for Education to Ofqual's Chief Regulator about how GCSE, AS, A level and vocational and technical qualifications should be awarded in 2021.

Thursday, 25 February 2021 09:49

Self-Employment Income Support Scheme statistics: November 2020

The number of individuals claiming the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme grant up to 31 October 2020 by age, gender, industry sector and geography...

Thursday, 25 February 2021 09:46

Need for Sunak to extend £20-a-week Universal Credit boost indefinitely underpinned by Unite survey

The pressure on chancellor Rishi Sunak to extend the £20-a-week uplift in Universal Credit (UC) indefinitely in next week’s budget has been reinforced by a new survey from Unite, Britain and Ireland’s largest union...

Thursday, 25 February 2021 08:43

Lords motion to approve the Non-Domestic Rating (Designated Area) Regulations 2021 - Feb 24

The Minister of State, Home Office and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (Lord Greenhalgh) (Con): My Lords, you will recall that under the business rates retention scheme introduced in 2013-14, local authorities typically keep up to 50% of the business rates collected from local ratepayers...

Thursday, 25 February 2021 08:41

Oral answer (Lords) on Covid-19: Vaccination Passport - Feb 24

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock asked the Government what discussions they plan to have with the devolved Administrations about the introduction of a COVID-19 vaccination passport to enable those who have been vaccinated to travel...

Thursday, 25 February 2021 08:39

Oral answer (Lords) on Covid-19: Vaccination Programme - Feb 24

Baroness Walmsley asked the Government what assessment they have made of the progress of the COVID-19 vaccination programme towards meeting its (1) delivery targets, and (2) objectives...

Thursday, 25 February 2021 08:36

Extract from Questions to the President of COP 26 - Feb 24

Dr Andrew Murrison (South West Wiltshire) (Con): Will there be an opportunity in Glasgow to debate so-called energy from waste...

Thursday, 25 February 2021 08:32

Extract from commons consideration of Lords amendment to the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill - Feb 24

Conor McGinn (St Helens North) (Lab):...We are eternally grateful to those in the police, the security services, the National Crime Agency and wider law enforcement...

Thursday, 25 February 2021 08:28

Extract from Oral answer (Lords) on Rail Freight: Channel Tunnel - Feb 24

Lord Young of Cookham (Con): My Lords, is not one of the barriers referred to in the Question the fact that gauges in the UK restrict the destination of much of the freight traffic coming through the tunnel...

Thursday, 25 February 2021 08:24