MPs look to ‘sugar tax’ to fund plan to broaden free school breakfasts

A cross-party group of politicians has urged the Government to extend school breakfast provision to ensure that no child is too hungry to learn. The call comes as the School Breakfast Bill, tabled by Catholic MP Emma Lewell-Buck, has been postponed due to the reduced parliamentary calendar as a result of Covid-19. If successful, it... Read More

Education

breakfasts, free, fund, MPs, plan, school, sugar tax

December 14, 2020

MPs urge public to speak out over loss of church services

MPs have invited the public to submit written evidence on whether they believe their religious freedoms have been compromised by the Government’s restrictive measures to stop the spread of Covid-19. The call comes as part of the Joint Committee on Human Rights’ (JCHR) examination into the impact of lockdown restrictions on human rights and whether... Read More

News – UK and Ireland

Church, COVID-19, lockdown, loss, MPs, public, services

September 24, 2020

50 MPs back call for national day of reflection to remember Covid-19 deaths

Fifty MPs are supporting a charity’s call for a national day of reflection to mark the loss of life during the coronavirus pandemic. Former Conservative cabinet ministers Esther McVey and Stephen Crabb, former Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell, and former Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron are all backing the call, which comes six months on... Read More

News – UK and Ireland

coronavirus, COVID-19, deaths, MPs, national, national day of reflection, reflection, remember

September 8, 2020

Cutting aid budget would be ‘devastatingly backwards step’, MPs say

Cutting the UK’s foreign aid budget would be a ‘devastatingly backwards step’ which would send a ‘worrying message’ to the rest of the world, Boris Johnson has been told. A cross-party group of MPs has written to the Prime Minister, demanding he urgently clarify rumours that spending in this area is to be reduced. Fears... Read More

News – UK and Ireland

aid, Boris Johnson, Budget, foreign aid, MPs

July 27, 2020

Prisoners held in ‘solitary confinement’ conditions during lockdown, MPs told

Prisons introduced conditions that were akin to solitary confinement, MPs were told during an inquiry into the handling of the coronavirus outbreak. The Commons Justice Committee was told that some prisoners in England and Wales were allowed out of their cells for only 30 minutes a day during the lockdown, which was brought in to... Read More

News – UK and Ireland

conditions, Covid, COVID-19, lockdown, MPs, prison, prisoners, solitary confinement

July 24, 2020

Merger of Foreign Office and Dfid must not lead to lack of expertise, warn MPs

MPs have warned that the merger of the Foreign Office and Department for International Development (Dfid) must not lead to a lessening of aid expertise. The Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee insisted creating the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) ‘risks weakening the cultures of each department’. The study said the merger raised ‘the possibility... Read More

News – UK and Ireland

July 23, 2020

Fears bias will see students miss out on right grades

Pupils could miss out on the exam results they deserve this summer as the system risks being ‘unfair’ for disadvantaged students, MPs have warned. The Commons Education Select Committee report said England’s exams regulator’s process for allowing students to appeal their grades if they believe discrimination has occurred is not accessible for all students. With... Read More

Education

A level, A-Level, bias, COVID-19, exam, exams, fears, GCSE, grades, MPs, pandemic, students

June 17, 2020

Activist with Down Syndrome says abortion law makes her feel ‘better off dead’

A young woman with Down Syndrome has presented a petition to Number 10 against an abortion law which makes her feel like she would be “better off dead”. Heidi Crowter, 24, and 18,000 signatories have demanded that MPs do not pass a Bill endorsing regulations that allow the abortion of babies with non-fatal disabilities until... Read More

News – UK and Ireland

Abortion, Carla Lockhart, Down Syndrome, DUP, Heidi Crowter, law, MP, MPs, Northern Ireland, regulations

December 13, 2019

SPUC urges pro-lifers to warn MPs of ‘greatest threat on the political horizon’

Pro-lifers throughout the UK have been urged to contact their newly-elected MPs in order to warn them not to decriminalise abortion. The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) warned that abortion remains the ‘greatest threat on the political horizon’ and has called on all pro-lifers to contact their MPs and ‘raise the alarm’.... Read More

Catholic Times, News – UK and Ireland

General Election, MPs, political, SPUC

November 7, 2019

Bishop calls on public to keep the environment pressure on MPs

Catholics must continue to remind politicians of the responsibility they owe to the world’s most vulnerable, the Bishop for the Environment has said. His call comes as a new survey suggests that more than half of people say climate change will influence the way they vote in the next general election. “The way that people... Read More

Catholic Times, News – UK and Ireland, News – World

Bishop John Arnold, Columban, Dr Edward Echlin, Ellan Teague, environment, General Election, MPs, politicians, pressure

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MPs look to ‘sugar tax’ to fund plan to broaden free school breakfasts

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Prisoners held in ‘solitary confinement’ conditions during lockdown, MPs told

Merger of Foreign Office and Dfid must not lead to lack of expertise, warn MPs

Fears bias will see students miss out on right grades

Activist with Down Syndrome says abortion law makes her feel ‘better off dead’

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