Government to take action on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals
Gambling Minister Tracey Crouch launches 12-week consultation on stake reduction to better protect consumers and communities...
Tuesday, 31 October 2017 08:32
Ministers have squandered a real opportunity to curb highly addictive Fixed Odds Betting Terminals - Tom Watson MP
Tom Watson MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, responding to the Government’s review into gambling stakes and prizes and social responsibility measures, said...
Tuesday, 31 October 2017 08:30
Oral answers to questions: Communities and Local Government - Oct 30
Ministers from the Department for Communities and Local Government were taking questions in the Commons...
Tuesday, 31 October 2017 08:25
Commons statement on the Balfour Declaration - Oct 30
The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Boris Johnson): With permission, Mr Speaker, I will make a statement on the Balfour declaration—issued on 2 November 1917 by my predecessor as Foreign Secretary, Lord Balfour—and its legacy today...
Tuesday, 31 October 2017 08:23
Statement (Commons and Lords) on Independent Review: Deaths in Police Custody - Oct 30
The Minister for Policing and the Fire Service (Mr Nick Hurd): With permission, Mr Speaker, I will make a statement to the House on the publication of Dame Elish Angiolini’s independent review of deaths and serious incidents in police custody and this Government’s substantive response to the report and its recommendations.
Tuesday, 31 October 2017 08:19
Committee stage (Lords) (day 1) of the Data Protection Bill - Oct 30
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (Lab): My Lords, in moving Amendment 1 in my name I shall speak also to Amendment 4A, which I hope the Government will agree is consequential...
Tuesday, 31 October 2017 08:17
Oral answer (Lords) on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services - Oct 30
Baroness Walmsley asked the Government what action they are taking to ensure that children and young people can obtain timely access to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services...
Tuesday, 31 October 2017 08:15
Oral answer (Lords) on Benefit Rate Freeze - Oct 30
Baroness Lister of Burtersett asked the Government what is their assessment of the impact of the benefit rate freeze, in the light of the higher rate of inflation than that anticipated in the original impact assessment...
Tuesday, 31 October 2017 08:14
Extract from Second reading (Commons) of the Armed Forces (Flexible Working) Bill - Oct 30
Mr Paul J. Sweeney (Glasgow North East) (Lab/Co-op):...My hon. Friend makes an excellent point about skills, particularly in critical areas such as nuclear engineering...
Tuesday, 31 October 2017 08:07
Extracts from Parliamentary Proceedings - Oct 30
The Minister of State, Home Office (Baroness Williams of Trafford) (Con):...The noble Lord, Lord Rosser, also asked why the Government dropped plans to bring NHS commissioning into police custody...
Tuesday, 31 October 2017 08:03