19/02/2020 - 09:36
Grants, council tax relief and business rate relief have been announced for people and businesses in areas affected by flooding.
19/02/2020 - 09:28
Priti Patel has launched a new points-based immigration system, in a bid to ‘move away’ from relying on ‘cheap labour’ from Europe.
18/02/2020 - 14:56
New research has found that closing a loophole in the UK’s asylum policy could benefit the public purse by millions of pounds each year.
18/02/2020 - 14:43
An opportunity of a lifetime is slipping through our fingers, unless public land is used to provide genuinely affordable homes.
18/02/2020 - 12:01
The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities has warned that the Scottish Government’s Budget will hit vulnerable communities the hardest.
18/02/2020 - 10:30
A scheme is now available to Birmingham residents to install central heating for free into fuel poor and vulnerable homes.
18/02/2020 - 09:53
New research from the Institute of Alcohol Studies has claimed that higher alcohol taxes could benefit disadvantaged groups.
18/02/2020 - 09:45
Just over one per cent of government infrastructure spending in England will go towards flood defences.
18/02/2020 - 09:38
Julie James has announced that a further £24 million is being injected immediately into building more new affordable homes in Wales.
18/02/2020 - 09:34
The government will provide £16.6 million to 75 projects across England to help fund domestic abuse refuge services.
18/02/2020 - 09:06
Kate Forbes has said that the new Scottish National Investment Bank has Scotland’s transition to net-zero carbon emissions at its centre.
17/02/2020 - 10:27
The government is investing £1.2 billion to develop a state-of-the-art supercomputer, which will be used to help more accurately predict storms, select the most suitable locations for flood defences and predict changes to the global climate.
