Rachel Reeves responds to reports that management consultants have landed contracts worth £180m to carry out “strategic programme management” on the end of the Brexit transition
Rachel Reeves MP, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, responding to reports that management consultants have landed contracts worth £180m to carry out “strategic programme management” on the end of the Brexit transition period, said...
Tuesday, 27 October 2020 10:01
Committee stage (Lords) (day 2) of the Medicines and Medical Devices Bill - Oct 26
Earl Howe (Con): My Lords, it may be for the assistance of noble Lords if I make a short statement before we recommence proceedings...
Tuesday, 27 October 2020 08:28
Committee stage (Lords) (day 1) of the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill - Oct 26
Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Lab): My Lords, in moving Amendment 1, I welcome that today we are not starting on Part 5 of the Bill, as there are two other major issues which need to be reformed...
Tuesday, 27 October 2020 08:25
Oral answer (Lords) on Pension Credit - Oct 26
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock asked the Government what has been the increase, if any, in the uptake of Pension Credit in each of the past 12 months...
Tuesday, 27 October 2020 08:21
Oral answer (Lords) on Pension Credit - Oct 26
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock asked the Government what has been the increase, if any, in the uptake of Pension Credit in each of the past 12 months...
Tuesday, 27 October 2020 08:21
Oral answer (Lords) on Covid-19: Catch-up Premium - Oct 26
Lord Carrington asked the Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the COVID-19 catch-up premium on disadvantaged pupils...
Tuesday, 27 October 2020 08:16
Extract from committee stage (Lords) (day 1) of the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill - Oct 26
Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LD) [V]:...The devolved Administrations are, as has been said, opposed to the Bill as it stands...
Tuesday, 27 October 2020 08:13
Oral answer (Lords) on Covid-19: Cultural and Creative Industries - Oct 26
Lord Colgrain asked the Government what fiscal steps they are taking to support cultural and creative industries affected by the COVID-19 pandemic...
Tuesday, 27 October 2020 08:11
London Mayor urges Government to devolve more adult education funding
The government should urgently commit to devolving further adult education funding to the capital – or risk undermining London’s long-term recovery from Covid-19...
Tuesday, 27 October 2020 06:00
New scheme funding rules risk undermining Defined Benefit pensions and would cost employers billions of pounds, say Ros Altmann
A row has been brewing about the proposed new funding rules for DB schemes, which the Government is supporting in the Pension Schemes Bill which has passed through the Lords and is now in the Commons...
Tuesday, 27 October 2020 00:01