Social media has contributed to the steep rise in self-harm among teenage girls, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock has claimed.

Britain is at risk of becoming a “two-speed society" thanks to a string of "alarming backward steps" on the equalities agenda, according to the government’s own watchdog.

IPSE, the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed, strongly supports Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable’s calls for a halt to the roll-out of Universal Credit (UC). To support the self-employed, IPSE particularly backs his calls to take fluctuating income into account and assess earnings not over one month but several.

Several Tory MPs have have backed a fresh bid to make abortion legal in Northern Ireland, piling pressure on the Government.

Liverpool is the fourth most deprived local authority areas in the UK, writes Luciana Berger MP, and it is time to give it the investment it needs in next week's budget. 

Ministers should treat pornography as a major public health issue to combat the harassment and abuse of women, MPs have said.

British Safety Council supports 2018 European Week for Safety and Health at Work

A post-Brexit hard border in Northern Ireland could put lives at risk, ministers have been warned, as new figures revealed that hundreds of emergency vehicles have crossed the frontier in the past two years.

International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt was interrupted by a charity whistleblower today as she hosted a conference on rooting out abuse in the aid sector.

The DUP's backing for Brexit has seen them backed into a constitutional corner, says Andrew McQuillan.

An accusation of bullying made against Labour frontbencher Valerie Vaz was not followed up by the party, it has emerged.

Ministers have been accused of presiding over a “shambles” after it was revealed they owe more than £1bn in back payments to tens of thousands of claimants who were underpaid.

John Bercow is the victim of a "witch-hunt" and should not be removed as Speaker over the Commons bullying row, Ken Clarke has said.

MPs have rejected a bid by Labour to force the Government to reveal its own assessment of the impact of Universal Credit.

John McDonnell has admitted he "longs for a united Ireland" but insisted it should not happen as a result of a botched Brexit.

Local authorities must do more to enable development within our existing communities, says NFB. 

Now is the time to fix these design flaws, so Universal Credit supports rather than punishes the self-employed, says Jordan Marshall, Policy Development Manager at IPSE.

Labour will today try to force ministers to reveal the impact of Universal Credit on benefit claimants' incomes.

Lord Lucas says research around medical treatments for gender dysphoria in children is weak and more needs to be done to understand the "far-reaching and long-lasting consequences."

Commons Speaker John Bercow will stand down next summer, it has been reported, as he faced sharp criticism from MPs following a damning report on bullying in Parliament.

A  jibe about "crossing yourself" by a top Labour official risks losing the party Catholic voters, an MP has warned.

The roll-out of the Government’s troubled welfare policy, Universal Credit, has been delayed once again after a barrage of criticism from influential Tory MPs.

Ageism and misogyny could become hate crimes as part of a major legal shake-up, Sajid Javid will announce today.

Each winter there are over 30,000 ‘excess deaths’, many traceable to poor heating, says Hywel Williams MP, ahead of his Ten Minute Rule Motion today on Cold Weather Payments.