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Pubs Code and Pubs Code Adjudicator: statutory review, 2016 to 2019

Report setting out the findings of the first statutory review of the Pubs Code and Pubs Code Adjudicator...

Tuesday, 3 November 2020 13:24

HS2 costs heading for £170 bn, with Crossrail 2 'paused', will parts of HS2 be next?

HS2 – a drip feed of bad news for the Treasury as Phase 1 and 2A costs reach £88bn...

Tuesday, 3 November 2020 13:07

Anneliese Dodds asks Urgent Question on economic support available to individuals and businesses during lockdown

Anneliese Dodds MP, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, asking an Urgent Question on economic support being made available to individuals and business during lockdown, said...

Tuesday, 3 November 2020 13:04

Environment Bill resumes passage through Parliament

The landmark and world-leading legislation which will transform how we protect and enhance our environment has returned to Parliament...

Tuesday, 3 November 2020 12:40

IFS briefing: Self-employment income support and the second national lockdown

In the first national lockdown, the government provided Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) grants and suspended the ‘Minimum Income Floor’ (MIF) rule in Universal Credit (UC), with the effect of boosting entitlements for low income self-employed workers...

Tuesday, 3 November 2020 12:37

Climate change space project awarded to Airbus UK

Airbus has been awarded a new landmark climate change space contract...

Tuesday, 3 November 2020 12:36

Minister ignores Labour calls for Horizon inquiry to have power to compel evidence and witnesses

The Government has dismissed calls from Labour and affected sub postmasters to give the Inquiry into the Horizon scandal statutory powers...

Tuesday, 3 November 2020 11:28

Written statement on The Insolvency Service Performance Targets 2020-21 - Nov 3

Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) Paul Scully MP: My Right Honourable friend Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Climate Change and Corporate Responsibility (Lord Callanan) has today made the following statement...

Tuesday, 3 November 2020 11:26

New inquiry: Work and Pensions Committee to examine disability employment gap

The Work and Pensions Committee is to investigate the gap between the employment rates of disabled and non-disabled people...

Tuesday, 3 November 2020 11:20

Caught on camera – 10,000 tailgaters spotted in just two weeks

Almost 10,000 vehicles were caught tailgating in the first two weeks of new cameras being tested to clamp down on the offence...

Tuesday, 3 November 2020 11:17