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Oral answer (Lords) on Transport: Buses - Oct 24

Baroness Randerson asked the Government what plans they have to encourage more people to travel by bus...

Friday, 25 October 2019 08:24

Extracts from Parliamentary Proceedings - Oct 24

Deidre Brock (Edinburgh North and Leith) (SNP): What steps he is taking to improve transport sustainability...

Friday, 25 October 2019 08:21

HCLG Committee: Oral evidence: Long-term delivery of social and affordable rented housing (CPRE giving evidence) - Oct 21

The HCLG select committee continued their inquiry into the Long-term delivery of social and affordable rented housing...

Friday, 25 October 2019 08:07

National Audit Office report on Investigation into pre-school vaccinations

In its report published today, the NAO finds NHS England has missed the Department of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) performance standard for the uptake of nearly all pre-school vaccinations in England in 2018-19...

Friday, 25 October 2019 00:01

Remarkable reversal in Government’s “defensive, dismissive and trite” position on link between Universal Credit delays and survival sex “very welcome”—but must be matched by action

“Survival sex” is when people—overwhelmingly but not exclusively, women—have to turn to sex work to meet their basic survival needs, including money, food, shelter or, as one witness told the inquiry, even laundry – clean clothes...

Friday, 25 October 2019 00:01

‘Citizens’ army’ needed to tackle biosecurity risk from invasive non-native species, say MPs

Government must triple its funding to tackle national threat...

Friday, 25 October 2019 00:01

Health Committee responds to pre-school vaccination report

In its report published today, the National Audit Office (NAO) finds that NHS England has missed the Department of Health and Social Care’s performance standard for the uptake of nearly all pre-school vaccinations in England in 2018-19...

Friday, 25 October 2019 00:01

Charity reveals extent of bus funding cuts, and how new funding settlement could reverse the decline

Funding for buses in England is almost £400 million a year lower than it was ten years ago, Campaign for Better Transport has revealed today, 25 October 2019...

Friday, 25 October 2019 00:01

LGA responds to bus funding report

Responding to a report by the Campaign for Better Transport, which has found funding for buses in England is almost £400 million a year lower than it was 10 years ago...

Friday, 25 October 2019 00:01

REA comments on Labour's Thirty by 2030 report

Amy MacConnachie, Head of External Affairs at the REA said...

Thursday, 24 October 2019 14:24