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The Medical Defence Union (MDU) today welcomed the announcement by the government, in its 2025 Spending Review, that funding for NHS services will increase by 3%. While it is positive that healthcare services have been prioritised in the Spending Review, the MDU emphasises that reform is still urgently needed to ensure this extra funding is… Read more »
New YouGov polls show that both the public and MPs are overwhelmingly in favour of legal recognition of humanist marriages in England and Wales. The data has been released on the eve of a House of Commons debate. It shows that support is consistent across all parties and all religious groups, and underlines Humanists UK’s… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff Dire warning over the complete collapse of the prison system has been sounded as the UK sinks further into recession, prison experts have warned. “The prison system is at a standstill, an achievement given the budget cuts and ever-worsening overcrowding, but a standstill nonetheless,” Andrew Neilson, head of public affairs and policy… Read more »
A Conservative MP is calling on the information commissioner to overrule government attempts to keep the sites of Titan prisons under wraps. John Baron’s original freedom of information request asking for the sites to be specified was rejected by the government. “Ministers want to buy the land for a Titan prison without even telling local… Read more »
