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Early sight of oral questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions - May 21

Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): What steps he is taking to implement the 2017 Budget changes to universal credit...

Wednesday, 16 May 2018 07:19

MPs sound alarm as green investment plummets to lowest for ten years

Ministers must publish a plan to secure the investment needed to meet the UK’s carbon budgets after a series of Government policy changes have contributed to a collapse in clean energy investment, according to MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee...

Wednesday, 16 May 2018 00:01

AA responds to Environmental Audit Committee alarm call

The AA has reacted with disappointment to the news that investment in green technology is at its lowest for ten years, following the Environmental Audit Committee’s alarm at the ‘dramatic collapse’ in the government’s green investment...

Wednesday, 16 May 2018 00:01

PPO confirms concerns raised by inspection of HMP Nottingham

The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, who investigates deaths and complaints in prisons, echoed the findings of the Chief Inspector of Prisons’ report of an inspection at HMP Nottingham...

Wednesday, 16 May 2018 00:01

National Audit Office report on Investigation: 2017 auction for low-carbon electricity generation contracts

Rule changes made by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (the Department) on its 2017 auction for contracts...

Wednesday, 16 May 2018 00:01

Labour demands new powers for councils to seize tower blocks with dangerous cladding

Labour is demanding today (Wednesday) new back-stop powers for councils to seek court approval for the confiscation of any block which is putting lives at risk because of dangerous cladding, and which the owner is refusing to fix...

Wednesday, 16 May 2018 00:01

Questions in the Commons and Lords about violence on Gaza border violence

Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury) (Lab) Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to make a statement on the violence...

Tuesday, 15 May 2018 19:40

PM statement at press conference with President Erdogan

President Erdogan, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you to Downing Street today...

Tuesday, 15 May 2018 19:17

UK committed to two-state solution, Jerusalem as shared capital, says Ambassador Karen Pierce

Statement by Ambassador Karen Pierce, UK Permanent Representative to the UN, at the Security Council emergency meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question...

Tuesday, 15 May 2018 18:22

Background briefing UK defence industry exports

The House of Commons Library has produced a briefing paper providing an overview of UK defence industry exports covering the three main sources of data on the subject. The paper looks at trends over time, the regions of the world where UK defence exports are going, and the type of goods that are being exported.

Tuesday, 15 May 2018 18:16