Nationwide will prioritise meeting the everyday needs of businesses as it takes steps to enter the business banking market, says Chief Executive, Joe Garner.

SSE's chief executive Alistair Phillips-Davies writes about embedding sustainability in the European electricity industry, on the day he addresses the Eurelectrics’s Power Summit in Slovenia.

Former Cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell expects a parliamentary vote on Heathrow expansion before the Summer recess and says 'the majority of colleagues across the House want to see Heathrow expand for the benefit of the whole country'.

Tramecia Garner, Associate Director for Housing & Residential Programs at US charity, Swords to Plowshares, shares her experiences of working with Veterans Aid as part of the Transatlantic Practice Exchange.

Dods Monitoring's Connor Smart sets out the current challenges for UK defence and predicts 'the way we look at and deal with defence will change and the debate about capability, funding and the ever-present politics will become a more mainstream agenda'. 

The FCA must deliver cap on “sky-high” lending fees to stop the exploitation of customers, says Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee Chair, Rachel Reeves MP.

Dods Monitoring’s Bruce Reilly assesses the recent Health and Social Care Committee report on childhood obesity and predicts what is likely to be included in the Government’s refreshed childhood obesity plan, expected imminently.

Dods People draws together a list of the last week's appointments in Westminster politics, all the devolved administrations and the public affairs sector.

This Menstrual Hygiene Day, on 28 May, have a public conversation about periods: with a colleague, a friend, your family. We can all do something to break this bloody taboo, says Margaret Batty, Director of Global Policy and Campaign, WaterAid.

Responding to Ian Austin's article for Central Lobby, Chris Williamson MP insists Jeremy Corbyn has reconnected the Labour party with ordinary people..

The truth is that Jeremy Corbyn and the hard left have taken over the Labour Party and want to turn it from a mainstream social democratic party into something very different, says Ian Austin MP. 

Baroness Berridge writes for PoliticsHome ahead of her Oral Question today in the House of Lords on ensuring the Commonwealth Communiqué’s commitment to eradicate forced marriage is realised and assessing its inter-relationship with forced conversion.

Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran, who is the first MP of Palestinian descent, writes: "Before it is too late, the UK Government must officially recognise the State of Palestine and give the Palestinian people back some of the hope that has so tragically dwindled".

Ahead of his Ten Minute Rule Motion on terminal illness today, Bambos Charalambous MP says the Government must ensure equal access to community palliative care services for anyone who is terminally ill​.

With the uncertainty of Brexit looming, the government should be supporting its most productive sectors, not waging a war against them. IPSE will be leading the fight against the IR35 reforms – for the good of the self-employed and the economy says Chris Bryce CEO, IPSE.

The "forgotten war" must be forgotten no longer. We cannot continue to stand by and watch the destruction of a country and the murder of so many innocent civilians, says Keith Vaz MP.

Former Grenadier Guardsman Sir Mike Penning MP writes about the abduction and murder of his former Captain, Robert Nairac GC, who was murdered by the IRA 41 years ago, and whose body has never been found.

Dods People draws together a list of the last week's appointments in Westminster politics, all the devolved administrations and the public affairs sector.

Former Lib Dem leader and Cumbrian MP Tim Farron writes about the appalling rail services his constituents and visitors to the Lake District have endured in recent months with 160 cancellations in April & 72 in the first week of May.

Conservative MP Bob Blackman writes that the foreign policy establishment in the UK and throughout the world should be ready for collective action through punitive sanctions and through support for the Iranian dissidents who want to establish a free, democratic and non-nuclear Iran.

Thousands of nurses, doctors, teachers, public sector contractors and freelancers could be made bankrupt because of the retrospective tax measures contained in the Government’s 2019 Loan Charge, says Lib Dem Work and Pensions Spokesperson Stephen Lloyd MP. 

As part of Mental Health Awareness Week, Paula Sherriff MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Mental Health and Social Care writes on PoliticsHome for the need for greater attention to women and girls mental health.

Mental health is finally being given the significance and attention it rightly deserves. According to new Ipsos MORI research this month, concern about mental health has doubled in the last year alone; almost a third of the public are now concerned about it. And it’s seen as the second most important priority for health care funding.

The Campaign for Fairer Gambling reflects on today's announcement on FOBT stake reduction; the culmination of a five year long campaign.