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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

Domestic abuse victims in England and Wales to be given more time to report assaults

New measures targeted directly at keeping women and girls safer will be added to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill today the Government has announced...

Tuesday, 4 January 2022 17:04

Scottish government announces extra £16 million to tackle homelessness

Councils in Scotland are being given an extra £16 million to help tackle homelessness by moving people swiftly from temporary accommodation...

Tuesday, 4 January 2022 17:00