Space for more than 250,000 new homes in London with better brownfield use says Policy Exchange report
1,220 sites across London covering 43 Hyde Parks can between them accommodate between 250,000 and 300,000 new homes alongside workplaces, according to new analysis carried out by Create Streets for Policy Exchange...
Thursday, 10 May 2018 12:51
New environment law to deliver a green Brexit
A new Environmental Principles and Governance Bill will ensure environmental protections will not be weakened as we leave the EU, the government has confirmed...
Thursday, 10 May 2018 12:00
MPs launch future of high streets inquiry – what will our high streets and town centres look like in 2030?
The Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) Committee has launched a new inquiry looking at the future of England’s high streets and town centres in 2030...
Thursday, 10 May 2018 11:49
Digital rail revolution will reduce overcrowding and cut delays
Trains will become faster, more frequent, more punctual and safer through the introduction of new digital technology on the rail network...
Thursday, 10 May 2018 10:16
Government calls on technology firms to help tackle the UK’s biggest challenges
The government is launching competitions for tech firms to develop solutions to tackle the major social challenges of our modern age...
Thursday, 10 May 2018 10:15
Committee stage (Lords) (day 1) of the Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill - May 9
Baroness Randerson (LD): My Lords, I am very pleased to see that we have, after several weeks’ delay, reached the Committee stage of this Bill...
Thursday, 10 May 2018 10:04
End of day adjournment debate on Universal Credit and Terminal Illness - May 9
Drew Hendry (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) (SNP): When I was elected in 2015, I had an early meeting with the Macmillan citizens advice bureau...
Thursday, 10 May 2018 10:02
Commons debate on a motion to annul regulations relating to Education (Student Support) - May 9
Angela Rayner (Ashton-under-Lyne) (Lab): I beg to move, that an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, praying that the Education (Student Support) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2018 (S.I., 2018, No. 443), dated 28 March 2018, a copy of which was laid before this House on 28 March, be annulled.
Thursday, 10 May 2018 09:59
Commons consideration of Lords amendments to the Data Protection Bill - May 9
The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Matt Hancock): The Data Protection Bill sets out a full new data protection regime for Britain, giving people more control over their data...
Thursday, 10 May 2018 09:56
Extract from Delegated Legislation committee debate to consider several Draft Double Taxation Relief Orders
Anneliese Dodds (Oxford East) (Lab/Co-op):...My first question is, why did Britain decide to exclude some of its double tax agreements from the list of countries mentioned in its adoption document...
Thursday, 10 May 2018 09:29