College lecturers give notice of further national strike action in pursuit of long overdue pay award
The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) has given notice to all of Scotland’s Further Education colleges of a further programme of escalating strike action in a long running dispute over pay....
Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:25
Change of His Majesty’s Ambassador to Tajikistan
Katherine Smitton has been appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Tajikistan, in succession to Timothy Marschall Jones...
Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:23
Northern Ireland: Minister takes action on single use vapes
Northern Ireland is set to ban the sale and supply of single use vapes by April 2025, in a bid to stop five million single use vapes being thrown away or littered every week across the UK...
Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:10
Scottish Government: Protecting fans from ticket touts - Views sought on EURO 2028 legislation
Proposals which will help to protect people against the threat of ticket touts at UEFA EURO 2028 are the focus of a new consultation launched today...
Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:07
Darren Jones responds to the OECD downgrading UK economic growth forecasts
Darren Jones MP, Labour's Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, responding to the OECD downgrading UK economic growth forecasts, said...
Thursday, 2 May 2024 09:39
Lords Communications Committee publishes government response to Large Language Model report – more action needed on copyright and market competition
Baroness Stowell, Chair of the House of Lords Communications Committee, has today written to Michelle Donelan MP, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology...
Thursday, 2 May 2024 09:23
Shell “can’t be trusted” to invest profits in renewables, says IPPR
The UK’s leading progressive thinktank, IPPR, has responded to the announcement that Shell profits have risen to £6.2 billion ($7.7 billion) in the first quarter of 2024...
Thursday, 2 May 2024 08:39
Report stage and third reading (Commons) of the Automated Vehicles Bill - May 1
Wera Hobhouse (Bath) (LD): I have tabled three amendments that seek to strengthen the provisions made for data protection in the Bill...
Thursday, 2 May 2024 08:35
Ten minute rule motion on Road Traffic (Testing of Blood) - May 1
Jonathan Gullis (Stoke-on-Trent North) (Con): I beg to move, that leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend section 7A of the Road Traffic Act 1988 to provide that a specimen of blood may be subjected to a laboratory test without the permission of the person from whom it was taken...
Thursday, 2 May 2024 08:32
Commons statement on UK Trade Performance - May 1
The Secretary of State for Business and Trade (Kemi Badenoch): With permission, I would like to make a statement on the UK’s trade performance...
Thursday, 2 May 2024 08:29