We must make sure all our children are returning to school healthy and well-nourished, says Ruth Smeeth MP.

The Child Maintenance Service is not working for parents and especially isn’t working for children who are supposed to be the main beneficiaries of its service, says Marion Fellows MP.

MPs have called on the Government to urgently reform the "pointlessly cruel" regime of sanctions introduced as part of the Universal Credit system.

Today the Government published the Universal Credit (Managed Migration) Regulations 2018.  

Today the Government published the Universal Credit (Managed Migration) Regulations 2018.  

The NFB is not yet convinced that the Labour Party or the Conservative Party understand how homes get built. 

Dominic Raab has urged Theresa May to insist the UK must be able to pull out of any backstop deal on the Irish border after three months, it has been reported.

Allegations of Islamophobia against the Conservative party by a prominent Muslim group are politically motivated, a top Tory claimed today - earning her an angry rebuke from a Labour MP.

A Labour branch meeting rejected a motion condemning the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre because it contained references to anti-Semitism, a senior party official has claimed.

DUP leader Arlene Foster has said a Brexit breakthrough on the Northern Irish border could be ‘close’, following a meeting with Dominic Raab in Belfast today.

A row about fish may seem an unlikely hook for journalists to reel in their readers - but furious debate over seafood after Brexit has opened up a whole new angle for newsrooms.

Yesterday the Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his 2018 Budget claiming the “era of austerity is finally coming to an end”. Today, the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) provides its reaction to the announcements affecting construction and the wider economy.

Philip Hammond delivered a tax windfall to the richest households in Britain in his set-piece Budget yesterday, while the poorest continue to face benefit cuts, a damning report has revealed.

Philip Hammond today caved to pressure from angry Conservatives MPs and ploughed extra money into the under-fire Universal Credit system.

Here are the new measures Philip Hammond just announced in his Autumn Budget. 

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has challenged Conservative MPs to vote down Monday's Budget if Philip Hammond does not use it to halt the rollout of Universal Credit.

Retail tycoon Sir Philip Green has torn into Labour peer Lord Hain for using Parliamentary privilege to reveal claims of sexual and racial harassment against him.

A top Labour peer will today urge the Scottish branch of the party to "get off the fence" and back a second Brexit referendum, piling pressure on Jeremy Corbyn.

Jeremy Corbyn will today call on ministers to boost funding for children's services in Monday's Budget with a warning that cuts are putting children’s lives in danger.

Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has revealed that she has given birth to a boy.

Labour peer Lord Hain has defended his decision to out Topshop boss Sir Philip Green as the business mogul at the centre of an alleged harassment cover-up. 

IPSE, the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed, has today joined Tracy Brabin – Labour’s Shadow Minister for Early Years and MP for Batley and Spen – in calling for Shared Parental Leave (SPL) to be extended to the self-employed.

MPs on a powerful committee have accused the Government of ignoring the "unacceptable hardship" suffered by benefit claimants switching to the controversial Universal Credit system.

The debate over Universal Credit has been rumbling on for years with the pressure on Philip Hammond now at breaking point. But what is the debate all about? PoliticsHome explains.