Home Secretary tightens restrictions on GHB following horrific crimes
The Home Secretary is tightening restrictions around the drug GHB (gamma-hydroxybutyric acid) and related substances by moving them from Class C to Class B...
Tuesday, 30 March 2021 08:39
New campaign launched calling for Welsh political parties to commit to changing the law so no one is left out from homelessness support
Current homelessness legislation in Wales is leaving people stuck in a cycle of homelessness for longer, pushed further from support...
Tuesday, 30 March 2021 00:01
Sir Lenny Henry urges black Britons to take covid-19 vaccine
Sir Lenny Henry has written an open letter to encourage Black Britons to take the COVID-19 vaccine, signed by some of the most high-profile names in the UK...
Tuesday, 30 March 2021 00:01
Office for Students: Major shake-up for National Student Survey following review
Major changes in the National Student Survey (NSS) will be introduced over the next two years following the first phase of a review of the survey conducted by the Office for Students...
Tuesday, 30 March 2021 00:01
Labour: Conservatives’ failure on post-16 education exposes Boris Johnson’s empty rhetoric on opportunity
Labour will today warn that the Conservatives have presided over five years of decline in post-16 education...
Tuesday, 30 March 2021 00:01
Keir Starmer to join Labour’s Hartlepool by-election candidate, Dr Paul Williams, on the campaign trail
Keir Starmer, Leader of the Labour Party, will make his first visit as part of the Hartlepool by-election campaign today (Tuesday), where he will say that Labour’s candidate Dr Paul Williams will be ‘a tireless champion for the great town of Hartlepool’...
Tuesday, 30 March 2021 00:01
Multimillion-pound scheme to roll out zero emission buses across England launched
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has today (Tuesday 30 March) launched a multimillion-pound scheme to enable local transport authorities to roll out zero emission buses, as the Government continues to build back greener...
Tuesday, 30 March 2021 00:01
Labour frontbench and PCC candidates write to Conservatives demanding they back Labour’s Victims’ Law
The Shadow Justice Secretary, David Lammy MP, the Shadow Minister for Victims and Youth Justice, Peter Kyle MP, and Labour PCC candidates have today written to their Conservative counterparts demanding that they back introducing Labour’s Victims’ Bill as the first piece of new legislation when the House returns...
Tuesday, 30 March 2021 00:01
Justice system in need of clear Government vision and increased funding to recover from pandemic, says Lords Committee
Following its inquiry into the constitutional implications of COVID-19, the House of Lords Constitution Committee has today published the first of three reports on this subject: the impact of COVID-19 on courts...
Tuesday, 30 March 2021 00:01
IPSOS: Public concern about Coronavirus drops sharply, but it remains the biggest issue facing Britain
The March 2021 Ipsos MORI Issues Index records the first significant drop in concern about Covid-19 since June 2020...
Tuesday, 30 March 2021 00:01