Conservative peer & former chairman of the National Conservative Convention, Baroness Pidding, writes following her question in the House of Lords on the impact of an increase in the number of penalty points imposed under a fixed-penalty notice, issued to drivers caught using a hand-held mobile phone.

New analysis from the Equality and Human Rights Commission shows that the poorest in society are being hit the hardest and are set to lose 10% of their incomes; whilst the richest will lose barely 1%.

Rachel Reeves MP writes for PoliticsHome off the back of her debate in parliament on tackling loneliness in Britain. 

We must commit to fund a National Rent Deposit Guarantee Scheme and a Help to Rent scheme, says Bob Blackman MP.

Conservative MP, Steve Double urges the Chancellor to show that Britain is both Brexit-ready and open for business by cutting Air Passenger Duty

Ahead of the Budget on 22nd November, UKLPG is calling on the Chancellor to reconsider the Climate Change Levy (CCL) proposals which threaten Scotland’s climate change and energy strategy by stifling rural decarbonisation efforts. 

PoliticsHome looks at this week's local by-elections and predicts who's in, who's out, who's lost the plot.

Dr. Milroy and Canada’s Veterans Ombudsman Guy Parent met first when the former briefed members of Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) and spoke at the country’s first Conference of the Canadian Institute for Military and Veterans Health Research (CIMVHR) in Kingston, Ontario. When Parent attended 9ICOAF  (9th International Conference of Ombuds Institutions for the Armed Forces) in London recently the two men had much to talk about.

An opposition day debate on older people in the House of Lords tomorrow arises not merely from concern and compassion – important as this is – but about their human rights, says Lord Foulkes.

Chris Sanger, Head of Tax Policy at EY, predicts what he expects to see in Hammond’s first Autumn Budget. 

The current system also places a burden on already over-stretched and underfunded local authorities to run an annual canvass, says Jo Stevens MP.

Conservative peer Lord Holmes writes for PoliticsHome ahead his PQ warning that if the Government approaches the fourth industrial revolution from a siloed, departmental specific perspective we will fail and fast.

The Managing Director of SSE Wholesale, Martin Pibworth, urges the Government to consider the advantages of its current Carbon Price Floor mechanism 'to provide certainty into the 2020s, whilst it considers the longer-term options presented in the Helm review for carbon pricing and electricity generation'.

The Campaign for Fairer Gambling comments on the DCMS review into fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs) stake levels and gambling advertising.

Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Miller writes ahead of her Lords Question on the effect of Brexit on UK food prices over the next five years.

PoliticsHome marks International Men’s Day by asking outspoken Labour MP Jess Phillips how men and women can work together to confront sex abuse in Westminster.   

Labour MP Graham Jones, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Venezuela urges politicians everywhere to 'support the Venezuelan opposition as they continue to stand up for these values in the face of intimidation and violence'.

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

Tory MP Kit Malthouse encourages his colleagues to read Dignity in Dying’s new report – The True Cost: How the UK outsources death to Dignitas – launched today, and understand what we, as a society, are turning a blind eye to. 

The practice of lurching from crisis to crisis and using Budgets to sanction one-off cash injections must now come to an end, says Independent Age. 

Speaking to PoliticsHome, Labour’s Margaret Hodge argues that the Paradise Papers showed there is one rule for the super-rich and another for everyone else when it comes to paying tax. 

Improbable as it may seem to modern-day Westminster-watchers, in 2004 the SNP were in a right old state.

On this World Pneumonia Day a countdown begins, says Save the Children. 

PoliticsHome looks at this week's local by-elections and predicts who's in, who's out, who's lost the plot.