Former Conservative MEP Stanley Johnson, Co-Chairman of Environmentalists for Europe, writes about how the UK will maintain environmental standards once it has formally left the European Union.

A new high profile report has revealed patients can be motivated to lose weight after GPs instigate a 30 second conversation about their size.

Dods Monitoring consultant Rob Micklewright provides an overview of the energy sector following the party conferences and the merger of DECC & BIS into the new department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

Ahead of his debate on funding for Wales after Brexit, Labour MP Stephen Kinnock lays out his demands for the Government. 

The Campaign for Fairer Gambling welcomes the decision by DCMS to finally announce a 'Review of Gaming Machines and Social Responsibility Measures'.

Which?’s Director of Campaigns & Communications writes to mark the Prime Minister’s first 100 days in office and calls on her to ensure that consumers are ‘put right at the heart’ of the Brexit negotiations.

Liberal Democrat MP Tom Brake urges the Government to show a “robust and consistent” response to Russia. 

Former Conservative minister John Penrose writes for PoliticsHome lays out the opportunities for the UK following Brexit. 

Ahead of her debate, Labour MP Seema Malhotra calls for a direct rail link between Feltham and Heathrow Airport with a new station en route at Bedfont.

The Campaign for Fairer Gambling responds to some of the claims about the fixed odds betting terminals found in high street betting shops.

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and the British Veterinary Association have written to Theresa May to set out their concerns about Brexit

Labour MP Wes Streeting writes for PoliticsHome about his response to the Home Affairs Select Committee report into anti-semitism. 

Stoptober, the hugely successful stop smoking campaign from Public Health England, launched on 1 October and Slimming World has become a partner for this year’s campaign, urging smokers to quit without putting on weight.

North Cornwall MP Scott Mann wants 'the EU's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) torn up the day that our Article 50 negotiations are concluded'.

The UK needs a long-term strategic approach to infrastructure provision, which is able to cope with future demands on services, according to the National Needs Assessment of UK infrastructure which is launched today.

Leading veterinary organisations including the British Veterinary Association (BVA) have published advice to make sure hibernating pets have a healthy rest this winter.

Home Office Minister Sarah Newton writes for PoliticsHome to mark Anti-Slavery Day, announcing "a £8.5 million investment to transform the operational response to this complex crime."

Richard Beresford, chief executive of the National Federation of Builders (NFB), explains why the Government should take more time before triggering Article 50 and start negotiations to leave the European Union. 

Labour MP Keith Vaz writes about the "forgotten war in Yemen" ahead of his debate on the humanitarian situation in the country.

Conservative MP John Baron writes for PoliticsHome ahead of his debate on earlier cancer diagnosis and NHS finances 

Welsh Labour MP Madeleine Moon MP writes ahead of her debate today on ‘Policies, strategies and funding for environmental protection’ in light of the EU referendum.

Gender inequality, combined with "crushing workloads and attacks on pay" are threatening to drive women out of the profession, a women's conference organised by the NASUWT, the largest teachers’ union in the UK, has heard.

Rico Wojtulewicz of the House Builders Association calls for the Neighbourhood Planning Bill to recognise the critical role of SMEs in ensuring the delivery of the homes we need.  

 It is critical that the Autumn Statement concentrates on measures to support industry, economic growth and productivity, says the Mineral Product Association.