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22 Mar 21
Recent controversies over Covid-19 contract awards are only the tip of an iceberg – 2002 rule changes raise troubling questions over UK MPs’ relationship with private companies, according to academic...
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11 Sep 19
Public Accounts Committee chair Meg Hillier has thrown her hat in the ring for the role of Commons speaker.
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28 Aug 19
The one-year Spending Round will not deliver the funding answers needed for public services and suspending parliament will mean “important domestic agendas” are put on hold.
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10 May 19
A bill has been laid before parliament proposing the refurbishment of the Palace of Westminster to prevent a Notre-Dame style tragedy.
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1 Mar 19
MPs will receive an inflation-busting pay-rise in the coming year, it has been announced.
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10 Sep 18
Proposed new boundaries to UK electoral constituencies, slashing the number of MPs from 650 to 600, have been submitted to parliament.
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27 Jul 15
A banking scandal on an epic scale, flagrant misuse of public funds, fearless investigators and a grasping Scottish cabal in Westminster. Familiar? It happened 200 years ago.
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10 Jun 15
Parliamentary select committees must take a longer-term approach to scrutiny of government to improve the impact they have on the work of Whitehall, the Institute for Government has said.
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27 May 15
Cities that appoint metro mayors will receive a suite of new powers, while a law will be passed to freeze personal taxes until 2020, the Queen’s Speech has confirmed.