The Committee on Standards is one component within a complex system of standards.

Palliative care is care that improves the quality of life for people living with advanced illnesses.

The debate about economic growth continues to dominate the political agenda ahead of the Spring Statement. As part of this, there has been a focus on Cash ISAs and the role they play in supporting the mortgage market and financial resilience.

I spent the first 15 years of my working life as a secondary school maths teacher.

Decarbonising virtually all oil heated homes through heat pumps may be a noble ambition for the government, but the evidence for this approach doesn’t stack up. It’s undeniable the technology has a central role to play, but there are limits, both financial and logistical, to how widely heat pumps can realistically be deployed off the gas grid. That’s why we need renewable liquid fuels.

We undoubtedly live in a volatile, unstable world. The existential threat of climate change is affecting each and every one of us at varying levels. We live in a global economy stacked in the favour of the few, at the expense of the many, and the cost of living crisis has not gone away.

Lamar Mohsen gave evidence to the Education Committee last month on her experiences of care. She called for changes to help siblings keep in touch, to keep placements as local as possible and better support for those turning 18. This is an edited version of her testimony

Since taking weight loss medication, I have lost six stone – so far – reaching my first goal of no longer being clinically obese. I know that I am not alone amongst my colleagues in taking this kind of drug, and yet there is still such a stigma around it.

‘If the UK chemical industry is to thrive through the transition to a green economy, it will need to employ the right people with the right skills’ was one of the important conclusions of the Green Alliance report on policy barriers to greening the chemical industry.

Impersonations of delivery companies. Bogus investment schemes promising life-changing returns. Fictitious items for sale on online marketplaces. Fake WhatsApp messages from ‘children’ in a bid to extract money from unwitting parents. Messages purportedly from the government claiming you are entitled to free money.

The Finance Committee oversees expenditure of the House of Commons Administration, covering everything from Chamber services to the Education Centre, and from the Catering Services to the running of multi-million pound construction projects.

In an occasional series, Professor Philip Cowley offers a political science lesson for The House’s readers. This week: trust

I’m delighted to be back for the sixth year of The House magazine’s Women in Westminster: The 100.

General Manager at Sanofi UK and Ireland, Rippon Ubhi, and Jim Shannon MP discuss the burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) on patients and the NHS, and the healthcare professional and patient advocate-led ideas for how this could be alleviated.

Ensuring our education system is equipping future generations with the essential skills for tomorrow’s workforce

The moving story of one family’s attempt to rescue hundreds of artists from the Taliban during the fall of Kabul in 2021, this powerful documentary captures the horror of those final days

Shifting money from the aid budget to defence is a grave mistake that will only exacerbate wider security challenges

Dementia is the UK’s biggest killer but people living with the condition constantly tell me that they struggle to get the right support. Now is the time for accountability and integration at national level, writes Professor Fiona Carragher

The second reading of Dr Scott Arthur MP’s Rare Cancers Bill will take place in Parliament this Friday 14 March and could be a truly transformative moment in the UK’s approach to research for rare and less common cancers.

Britain's universities tend to figure in the public imagination these days as political playthings, seen first and foremost as fodder for the culture wars.

Resolving the modern care dilemma means putting family at the heart of the economy, writes Miriam Cates. But the challenges to implementing this conservative plan for care come from all sides – including the ‘ultra-online right’

Guarantee high-quality outdoor learning and fieldwork for all and reap the many rewards

With more people dying prematurely from cardiovascular disease than at any point in the last decade, Britain is facing a heart health crisis. Now, a new report produced by experts at The University of Manchester has set out a bold plan to prevent thousands of deaths, ease pressure on the NHS, and tackle the hidden factors that make heart disease the nation’s biggest killer.

An assisted dying bill fit for the 21st century must break with its dangerous historic roots.