Westminster Hall
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 »
Conservative MP Mark Garnier today led a Westminster hall debate on government policy on tackling rogue builders. He asked the minister: “The really important point is will his department, … work with us to find a solution once and for all to this problem, to stop the scourge of rogue builders?”
The SNP MP Lisa Cameron today initiated a Westminster Hall debate on the regulation of cryptocurrency. She said in the debate: “We heard in our report the need for this joined up coordinated approach across all government departments. And we’ve set out that government might also consider the appointment of a crypto tsar who could… Read more »
