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.

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

It is still very unclear if successive governments will be able to fund a steady flow of new ships beyond the initial batch order of five Type 31e, says Dods Monitoring consultant, Arpinder Baryana.

It is clear that the wider the knowledge of first aid, the more likely it is that more lives will be saved, says Peter Aldous MP, ahead of World First Aid Day.

Nigel Jackson, Chief Executive of the Mineral Products Association has written to DCLG Secretary, Sajid Javid MP, asserting the need to continue cutting red tape in the extraction industry, support mineral planning and protect the Managed Aggregate Supply System.

Steve Baker MP, Minister at the Department for Exiting the EU, argues that it is wrong and quite reckless for anyone to mislead the public in this way.

There is an urgent need to make some real progress on Brexit talks, before the closing bell tolls on the Article 50 process, says Jon Hudson, Project Director of Brexit Exchange.

It’s no good banging on about ‘taking back control’ if you only follow that up in word, not deed, says Bob Neill MP.

Lord McConnell argues that Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) should run through all of the UK's development programmes.

Nic Dakin MP argues that the Government 'is not being honest' with the electorate about their fair funding proposals.