LGA responds to NAO broadband roll-out report
Responding to a National Audit Office report warning that the Government may find it challenging to meet its 2025 target for superfast broadband roll-out...
Friday, 16 October 2020 01:01
Speaker bans alcohol sales in the House of Commons
Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the House of Commons, said: “Following the Government’s decision to move London into the Tier 2 Covid-alert category...
Friday, 16 October 2020 00:15
National Audit Office report on Improving broadband
Today's report from the National Audit Office (NAO) finds that the Superfast Broadband Programme helped the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (the Department) to extend the UK's superfast broadband coverage...
Friday, 16 October 2020 00:01
Covid would magnify no-deal impact for business – IoD
Business leaders fear a potential double hit from Covid and no deal, new figures from the Institute of Directors reveal...
Friday, 16 October 2020 00:01
RAC: Drivers unanimously back tougher sentences for those that cause death by dangerous driving
Majority of drivers believe current 14-year maximum is insufficient, while 40% back the ‘Violet-Grace Law’ amendment...
Friday, 16 October 2020 00:01
Call for transparency in use of taxpayers’ money after “room for fraud allowed in” to “hastily drawn up” Covid support schemes
The Public Accounts Committee is today calling on HMRC to give a more honest picture of the likely levels of the so called “tax gap”...
Friday, 16 October 2020 00:01
Ed Miliband comments on Institute of Directors report findings on Brexit preparedness
Ed Miliband MP, Labour’s Shadow Business Secretary, commenting on an Institute of Directors survey which found half of respondents are not yet prepared for the end of the transition period, said...
Friday, 16 October 2020 00:01
Liz Kendall responds to Care Quality Commission's 'State of Care' report
Liz Kendall MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Social Care, commenting on Care Quality Commission’s ‘State of Care 2019/20’ report, said...
Friday, 16 October 2020 00:01
LGA responds to CQC "State of Care" report
Responding to the Care Quality Commission’s annual State of Care report, Cllr Ian Hudspeth, Chairman of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board, said...
Friday, 16 October 2020 00:01
CQC: COVID-19 is magnifying inequalities and “risks turning fault lines into chasms” – focus now must be on shaping a health and care system that delivers for everyone
The Care Quality Commission’s (CQC’s) annual assessment of the state of health and social care in England looks at the quality of care over the past year...
Friday, 16 October 2020 00:01