Extract from Westminster Hall debate on School Attendance: Covid-19 - Nov 2
Wes Streeting (Ilford North) (Lab):...As a general point, as was set out earlier in the debate, fines are a blunt instrument for compelling people to turn up to schools...
Tuesday, 3 November 2020 07:59
Extracts from Parliamentary Proceedings - Nov 2
Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge) (Lab):...I think that that question is as valid today as it was then, because the issues about the shared prosperity fund...
Tuesday, 3 November 2020 07:54
Extract from end of day adjournment debate on Covid-19: Support for Rugby League - Nov 2
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Nigel Huddleston):...I know that Castleford without its rugby team would be unimaginable and that rugby league clubs are vital to their towns right across the country...
Tuesday, 3 November 2020 07:54
Extract from Lords consideration of the Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 - Nov 2
Baroness Thornton (Lab):...A recent article in the Observer highlighted that a supplier working on behalf of British American Tobacco had been caught handing out BAT’s popular e-cigarette brand Vype to a 17 year-old without carrying out any kind of age check...
Tuesday, 3 November 2020 07:42
Pension Schemes Bill: Amendments tabled for committee stage in the Commons as at Nov 3
Pension Schemes Bill: Amendments tabled for committee stage in the Commons as at Nov 3...
Tuesday, 3 November 2020 07:41
£49 million uplift drives automotive industry towards green future
Government awards funding to low carbon automotive projects across the UK...
Tuesday, 3 November 2020 06:48
IPPR: Business groups urge reforms to new points-based immigration system to ensure economic recovery
A new report from the IPPR think tank today reveals the stark challenge posed to some of the UK’s most vulnerable industries by the government’s new points-based immigration system...
Tuesday, 3 November 2020 00:01
"Colleges and universities face significant funding shortfalls and heightened uncertainty due to COVID challenges" says IFS report
In the latest flagship IFS ‘Annual Report on Education Spending in England’, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, researchers look at the challenges posed by COVID-19 for the education sector...
Tuesday, 3 November 2020 00:01
NCSC defends UK from more than 700 cyber attacks while also supporting national pandemic response
THE National Cyber Security Centre defended the UK from an average of 60 attacks per month during a year which saw its resources proactively focused on the coronavirus response, the organisation’s latest Annual Review revealed today...
Tuesday, 3 November 2020 00:01
Office for Students: Support for disadvantaged students crucial as selective university numbers rise
Analysis of UCAS data by the Office for Students (OfS) shows there was a 22 per cent increase in the number of students from the most underrepresented communities placed at high-tariff universities this year...
Tuesday, 3 November 2020 00:01