After a tumultuous fortnight in politics, senior MPs, peers and others met in the House of Lords to seek refuge from the ever changing world outside, and to celebrate an anniversary. 

Local authorities need to show more imagination in utilising their cash reserves to mitigate the devastating impact of six-years of austerity cuts on council services, Unite, the country’s largest union, said today (Tuesday 12 July).

The Bar’s representative body, the Bar Council, has responded to today’s ‘Woman at the Bar’ report from the profession’s regulator, the Bar Standards Board (BSB).

Forget designer bathrooms and showpiece kitchens, what home owners in the UK really crave today is simply more space, according to new research from the Federation of Master Builders (FMB).

The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has made progress in setting up its new programme to release enough public sector land for 160,000 homes by 2020, but so far only land with capacity for an estimated 8,580 homes has been disposed of.

The Comptroller and Auditor General, Amyas Morse, has qualified his audit opinion on the regularity of the 2015-16 accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions. This is owing to the unacceptably high level of fraud and error in benefit expenditure, other than State Pension where the level of fraud and error is lower.

Former cabinet minister Maria Miller speaks to PoliticsHome about the need for a vigorous shake up of online abuse laws ahead of a tabled debate.

Calls for a ‘national renaissance’ in council house building should be heeded in the wake of current economic uncertainty, according to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB).

Writing for PoliticsHome's Central Lobby, former shadow pensions minister Rachel Reeves says automatically providing impartial pensions advice would "drastically cut" the risk of fraudsters targetting pensioners' savings.

On Friday 1 July, Glasgow Central MP Alison Thewliss visited the national charity Turn2us to learn first hand about its work to fight UK poverty.

A barrister giving evidence to the National Assembly’s CLA Committee gave a “D minus” to the current Wales Bill. Welsh Assembly Committee Chair, the former Labour MP and Minister Huw Irranca-Davies AM explains why.

The Institution of Civil Engineers recommends in its report, State of the Nation: Devolution, published today, that devolution settlements should include flexible but prudential approaches to attracting investment for infrastructure.

The Government must ensure that our new system of immigration provides the construction sector with enough skilled workers to build the homes and infrastructure projects we need, the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has warned. 

Ministry has chance to learn from mistakes on Immigration & Asylum Tribunal, says the Bar Council.

A group of the investment and savings industries' biggest institutions has come together to launch a new project aimed at solving poor levels of industry diversity once and for all.

Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly have come out in support of a new campaign aimed at raising awareness of unclaimed welfare benefits. 

New figures show progress for commercial and domestic customers

New research by the national charity Turn2us has found that almost three-quarters (73%) of low income households claiming means-tested benefits are worried about future changes to the welfare system. 

Local authorities in England have maintained their overall capital spending levels, according to the National Audit Office, but face pressure to meet debt servicing costs and to maintain investment levels in their existing asset bases.

New research by the national charity Turn2us has found that almost three-quarters (73%) of low income households claiming means-tested benefits are worried about future changes to the welfare system. 

The latest Scottish housing stats underline the severity of the challenge that the new Government faces if it is to tackle the country’s housing crisis, the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) Scotland has warned.

The HVM Catapult explains the work it is doing in adapting and integrating technology into the medical industry, which could lead to countless lives being saved.

Labour MP Ruth Cadbury tells PoliticsHome that Government ministers are too focussed on their “Middle England” constituencies continue to subsidise the wealthy while making London unliveable for ordinary people.