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Extract from Wales Assembly: Questions to the First Minister - May 22

Caroline Jones AM (Commissioner and Leader of the UKIP Wales Group): Diolch, Llywydd. First Minister, last week, the Police and Crime Commissioner for North Wales...

Wednesday, 23 May 2018 07:51

Poverty compounding health challenges for Palestine refugees – UN agency

Non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, cancer and smoking-related ailments, account for the majority of the chronic health problems confronting Palestine refugees...

Wednesday, 23 May 2018 00:06

Carillion - PAC publishes Government risk assessments

Committee will now hold inquiry into concerns raised by Strategic Supplier papers...

Wednesday, 23 May 2018 00:01

Government’s grammar school funding won’t improve children’s outcomes, say experts

Grammar school pupils do not gain any advantage over children who do not attend a grammar school by age 14, according to a new study from UCL...

Wednesday, 23 May 2018 00:01

May's pet project grammar school expansion fails on its own terms - Angela Rayner

Angela Rayner MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, commenting on the UCL Institute of Education’s report showing the Government’s grammar school funding will not improve children's outcomes, said...

Wednesday, 23 May 2018 00:01

NEU comment on UCL report on grammar schools

Commenting on the UCL Institute of Education report on grammar schools, Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said...

Wednesday, 23 May 2018 00:01

Urgent question (Commons) on Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - May 22t

Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn) (Lab)(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement regarding the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe following the new charges brought against her in Iran...

Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:24

Oral answers to questions (Commons): Treasury - May 22

Sir David Amess (Southend West) (Con): What fiscal steps he is taking to support businesses and entrepreneurs...

Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:21

Urgent question (Commons) on Transport Emissions: Urban Areas - May 22

Neil Parish (Tiverton and Honiton) (Con)(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps his Department will be taking to improve air quality after the Government’s third defeat in the High Court on 21 February this year...

Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:15

Government announces new standards for fire and rescue services

A new Fire Standards Board (FSB) will be overseeing and commissioning professional standards for fire and rescue services across England...

Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:13