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Burnham calls for more investment and powers as new report highlights North - South divide

The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has called for more investment and devolution for the North as a new report showed the scale of the North - South divide...

Wednesday, 5 December 2018 00:01

National Audit Office report on the Government's handling of the Windrush situation

The Home Office did not deliberately deny the Windrush generation of their legal rights to be in the UK...

Wednesday, 5 December 2018 00:01

Diane Abbott responds to NAO report on Windrush situation

Diane Abbott MP, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary, responding to the National Audit Office’s report on the Government’s handling of the Windrush situation, said...

Wednesday, 5 December 2018 00:01

Appalling rise in homelessness since 2010 is a direct result of decisions made by Conservative Ministers - Healey comment on Shelter analysis

John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Housing Secretary, commenting on new analysis by Shelter showing that 131,000 children will be homeless this Christmas, said...

Wednesday, 5 December 2018 00:01

£1.3 billion industry-government investment in UK economy and new partnership driving early disease detection

Tens of thousands of lives could be saved by pioneering research to detect deadly diseases before symptoms even appear, thanks to a new collaboration between the Government and the Life Sciences Industry...

Wednesday, 5 December 2018 00:01

International Trade Secretary meets leading UK private equity investors

Today, the International Trade Secretary, the Rt Hon Liam Fox MP hosted senior representatives from some of the largest domestic and international private equity investors...

Tuesday, 4 December 2018 21:31

Foreign Secretary announces new UK Embassy in Maldives

Today Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced that the UK will open a new Embassy in Malé, Maldives...

Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:36

Mentoring schemes and top scholarships for children in care

Children in care could receive mentoring or scholarships from some of the country’s top independent schools as part of a wider drive to raise outcomes and ambitions...

Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:30

Overseas investment into the UK at highest ever level

Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show stocks from across Asia have increased by more than 33% in 2017 to £128 billion...

Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:21

The Water (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

The Water (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 ensure that water legislation will continue to be operable in the United Kingdom after the UK leaves the EU...

Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:19