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Early sight of oral questions to the Secretary of State for Defence - January 15

Mary Creagh (Wakefield): Whether he has plans to strengthen the Armed Forces Covenant...

Wednesday, 10 January 2018 06:47

BCC Quarterly Economic Survey: Skills shortage biggest risk for business

The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) today (Wednesday) publishes its Quarterly Economic Survey – the UK’s largest and most authoritative private-sector business survey...

Wednesday, 10 January 2018 00:01

RAC: More than half of police forces have seen an increase in thefts from vehicles with nearly quarter of a million broken into in 2016

Nearly a quarter of a million vehicles were broken into in 2016, with 26 police forces – more than half of all those in England, Scotland and Wales – seeing more thefts from cars than the previous year, according to data seen by RAC Insurance...

Wednesday, 10 January 2018 00:01

National Audit Office report on the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern rail franchise

The National Audit Office has today concluded that high levels of disruption for passengers mean that, to date, the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern rail franchise has not delivered value for money...

Wednesday, 10 January 2018 00:01

Labour to demand answers from Chris Grayling on Virgin/Stagecoach bailout

Labour’s Shadow Transport Secretary Andy McDonald will today demand that the Secretary of State, Chris Grayling, detail the cost to the public purse of the recent taxpayer bailout of Virgin/Stagecoach on the East Coast...

Wednesday, 10 January 2018 00:01

Chancellor and DExEU Secretary of State joint op-ed for Frankfurter Allgemeine

Today we’re both in Germany to highlight the important relationship that exists between our countries...

Wednesday, 10 January 2018 00:01

Keir Starmer responds to Government’s amendments to the EU withdrawal bill

Keir Starmer MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, responding to the Government’s recent amendments to the EU withdrawal bill, said...

Tuesday, 9 January 2018 19:42

Ministerial appointments: January 2018 - Government in full

A reshuffle has taken place and the Prime Minister has announced new ministerial appointments...

Tuesday, 9 January 2018 19:29

Government gears up for next stage of EU (Withdrawal) Bill

The Government has today tabled amendments to improve its landmark Withdrawal Bill following close discussion with MPs across the House...

Tuesday, 9 January 2018 17:27

Sajid Javid’s speech to LGA Local Government Finance Conference 2018

Sajid Javid discusses some of the key measures in the local government finance settlement...

Tuesday, 9 January 2018 16:49