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Government is presiding over a crisis in teacher recruitment and retention - Rayner

Angela Rayner MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, responding to a new Public Accounts Committee report which shows there is a growing crisis in schools over teacher retention, said...

Wednesday, 31 January 2018 00:01

Labour to force binding Commons vote on publishing economic assessments of different Brexit end states

Labour will force a binding vote in the House of Commons tomorrow (Wednesday 31 January) requiring Ministers to publish the Government’s economic assessments of different Brexit end states...

Tuesday, 30 January 2018 22:00

UKEF helps GE Global Services UK secure landmark turbine contract in Iraq

Baroness Fairhead has announced $210.8 million in support from UK Export Finance for the second project agreed under the UK-Iraq infrastructure Memorandum of Understanding...

Tuesday, 30 January 2018 21:10

Urgent question (commons) on PIP Back Payments - Jan 30

Marsha De Cordova (Battersea) (Lab): (Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to make a statement on the process and timetable for the personal independence payment back payments...

Tuesday, 30 January 2018 16:45

Extract from DBEIS questions: Electric Vehicle Charge Points - Jan 30

Mark Pawsey (Rugby) (Con): What steps the Government have taken to improve electric vehicle charge point infrastructure...

Tuesday, 30 January 2018 16:43

Oral answers to questions: Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Jan 30

Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (DBEIS) ministers were answering questions in the Commons today...

Tuesday, 30 January 2018 16:41

Intelligent cat’s eyes to improve road safety

Intelligent cat’s eyes, which light up in response to changing traffic lights, are to be used for the first time at a motorway junction to improve safety...

Tuesday, 30 January 2018 15:54

Anderson calls for release of Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi

Sinn Féin MEP Martina Anderson has called for the immediate release of Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi who will turn 17 in an Israeli prison tomorrow...

Tuesday, 30 January 2018 14:56

Sharon Hodgson MP calls for electric vehicles bill to be "A leap to a Leaf"

Last night, during the passing of the Automated and Electrics Vehicles Bill in the House of Commons, Sharon Hodgson, MP for Washington and Sunderland West, called for the Bill to be “a leap to a Leaf”...

Tuesday, 30 January 2018 14:30

NPCC: Police stop nearly 100,000 vehicles as part of Christmas drink and drug driving crackdown

In the lead up to and throughout Christmas police forces across the country took part in annual operational activity to stop people from driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol...

Tuesday, 30 January 2018 13:53