10 minute rule bill
Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer urging her to take decisive action to tackle the soaring legal costs of clinical negligence claims. In the last year alone, the NHS spent more than £800 million on legal fees relating to clinical negligence… Read more »
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education (RE) and collective worship in Northern Ireland are ‘indoctrination’. Alongside mandatory Christian collective worship and a ‘stigmatising’ right of withdrawal, this is therefore discriminatory under human rights law. This ruling will have wide-ranging… Read more »
The Reclaim party MP Andrew Bridgen today proposed a 10 minute rule bill to ban the promotion or discussion of gender transitioning in schools. After listening to Mr Bridgen’s speech, Labour MP Sir Ben Bradshaw responded in a bid to kill the bill at first reading. In the resultant division, MPs rejected Mr Bridgen’s bill by 40… Read more »
The Conservative MP Sir Oliver Heald today proposed a 10 minute rule bill which, if passed, would compel ministers to examine the advantages of offering financial assistance to parents whose children undergo prolonged hospital care. Introducing his bill, Sir Oliver said: “In this bill, I’m asking for a report to be made to parliament by… Read more »
