Dods Political Consultant Ben Nicol predicts that with many key transport policies already underway, there will be few new policy announcements during the party conferences.  

The Environment sector will be looking to the party conferences for clear policy proposals as the Brexit clock continues to countdown, says Dods' Environment Consultant Ben Rayner.

This week, Shadow Environment Minister Holly Lynch has written to the top 20 chain restaurants and bars asking them to join the campaign to ditch drinking straws.

Decision-makers must understand the complexities of aviation regulation so that the hard-cultivated benefits of European co-operation are not lost, says the Royal Aeronautical Society's Head of External Affairs Simon Whalley.

Party conferences should be an opportunity for all political parties to show that they recognise the importance of legal services to our economy, says Andrew Kidd, social mobility ambassador and Treasurer of the Society of Conservative Lawyers.

Heathrow’s CEO John Holland-Kaye publishes his letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer calling for an end to APD on all domestic routes from every UK airport, boosting British businesses and saving passengers up to £225 million a year.

Chair of the APPG on Yemen, Keith Vaz, say that the signatures on the letter highlight there is an unmistakable determination in our country to stop the bombing in Yemen.

The Campaign for Fairer Gambling's latest insight on the debate around fixed odds betting terminals and whether new regulations are now required.

When tighter immigration rules are suggested there have been spikes in applications and this has already been shown since Brexit, says Keith Vaz MP.

Dods Monitoring Consultant Harriet Jones argues that education policy could be a platform for the Prime Minister to reignite her domestic agenda at this year's Conservative party conference.

Dods Monitoring consultant Kerri Blyberg gives an overview of Communities and Housing policy ahead of party conference season.

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

Housing Minister Alok Sharma calls for government and industry to work together to deliver sustainable solutions to the "broken housing market". 

This week the Dods Health team set out for the NHS’s flagship innovation event in Manchester, the NHS Innovation Expo 2017, eager to see the next steps for innovation and the digital strategy in the NHS.

Former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg last night warned senior figures in business and government against complacency in the fight to improve “pernicious” social immobility in Britain.

The Minister of State of Digital, Matt Hancock, addressed the Good Things Foundation summer reception in the House of Lords, calling its work ‘critically important’ for the growth of digital skills in the UK.

The Government should not wait for the inquiry to conclude that water puts out fire, says Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott MP.

A new report by EY reveals that the biggest driver of talent shortage is competition between public sector bodies and infrastructure programmes, with £500bn of projects in the construction pipeline to 2021.

Following the announcement the Government is set to lift the 1% public sector pay cap, Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth calls for the Tories to do more.  

The reduction of the cost of offshore wind in the UK has been impressive, but embracing innovation in areas such as Big Data could bring them down further, says Andy Thompson, Atkins' Market Lead for Offshore Engineering.

Derek Webb of the Campaign for Fairer Gambling explains the changing dynamics of the FOBT and gambling media debate.

Last month the Government commissioned Professor Dieter Helm to review the cost of electricity. He’s tasked with recommending how to keep prices as low as possible and set the UK on a path to having the lowest electricity prices in Europe.

A lack of available small sites and a lack of finance top the list of barriers to SME house builders increasing their delivery of new homes, according to new research by the Federation of Master Builders’ (FMB).

Improving patient outcomes is reliant on a better knowledge and awareness of the symptoms, says Chair of the APPG on Blood Cancer, Henry Smith MP.