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Written Statement (Wales): Written Statement: World Health Organisation Event: Reimagining an Economy for Resilient and Healthier Societies that Leave No One Behind

Eluned Morgan MS, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: I am pleased to update members about my attendance at a recent event in Venice to mark the 20th anniversary of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) European Office for Investment for Health and Development...

Thursday, 2 May 2024 11:17

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