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Harriet Harman has today put forward an amendment to the Government’s Hereditary Peers Bill which aims to end the automatic right of Church of England bishops to sit in the House of Lords. The amendment has been tabled with the support of Humanists UK and it is expected that it will be cosponsored by crossbench… Read more »
Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Munira Wilson MP has tabled an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to keep the 50% cap on faith-based admissions in new religious schools. Since 2011 all new state schools have had to be free schools and they have been subject to such a cap. But the Schools Bill is set… Read more »
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The NHS has terminated its contract with IT provider Fujitsu Services in a major blow to its efforts to transfer much of its work online. Fujitsu Services was the local service provider for the southern cluster of NHS trusts, providing the IT services which the government hopes will reform the way the NHS works. Today,… Read more »
NHS financial managers sought to avoid another heavy spending surplus by recommending rushed equipment purchases before the end of the tax year, a newspaper has claimed. The Times reports many trusts were told to make the purchases “as long as they could be invoiced before March”. Final figures for the last tax year are yet… Read more »
