UN and UK sign agreement to promote space sustainability
International efforts to protect future space activity have been given a boost thanks to a new partnership between the UN and the UK government...
Tuesday, 26 January 2021 10:04
Jonathan Reynolds responds to ONS statistics showing record high redundancies and the highest unemployment level in years
Jonathan Reynolds MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, responding to ONS statistics showing record high redundancies and the highest unemployment level in years, said...
Tuesday, 26 January 2021 09:02
Opposition day debate (Commons) on Employment Rights: Government Plans - Jan 25
Andy McDonald (Middlesbrough) (Lab): I beg to move, that this House believes that all existing employment rights and protections must be maintained...
Tuesday, 26 January 2021 08:46
Opposition day debate (Commons) on Council Tax: Government’s Proposed Increase - Jan 25
Steve Reed (Croydon North) (Lab/Co-op): I beg to move, that this House calls on the Prime Minister to drop the Government’s plans to force local councils to increase council tax in the middle of a pandemic...
Tuesday, 26 January 2021 08:44
Oral answers to questions (Commons): Work and Pensions - Jan 25
Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston) (Lab) What steps her Department has taken to provide financial support to disabled people required to shield during the covid-19 lockdown announced in January 2021...
Tuesday, 26 January 2021 08:42
Committee stage (Lords) (day 1) of the Domestic Abuse Bill - Jan 25
Baroness Hamwee (LD) [V]: My Lords, I am very conscious of being the first speaker at this stage of a Bill which has been so widely welcomed, and which so many people, outside and inside the House, are ambitious to amend—or maybe I should say expand...
Tuesday, 26 January 2021 08:37
Oral answer (Lords) on Trees - Jan 25
Lord Carrington asked the Government what guidance they are using to inform their plans to plant 30,000 hectares of trees per year...
Tuesday, 26 January 2021 08:36
Oral answer (Lords) on Covid-19: Integrated Review: New Ships - Jan 25
Lord West of Spithead asked the Government, further to the statement on the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy by the Prime Minister on 19 November 2020 (HC Deb, cols 488–9), how many of the new ships have been ordered...
Tuesday, 26 January 2021 08:34
Oral answer (Lords) on SolarWinds Cyberattack - Jan 25
Lord Clement-Jones asked the Government what assessment they have made of the SolarWinds cyberattack, first reported on 13 December 2020; and what action they are taking in response...
Tuesday, 26 January 2021 08:32
Extract from DWP questions: Covid-19: Careers Advice - Jan 25
Rob Roberts (Delyn) (Con): What steps her Department is taking to help people whose sectors have been particularly affected by the covid-19 outbreak to switch careers...
Tuesday, 26 January 2021 08:29