Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Over Half of Investigations Against Councils Upheld Last Year By the Ombudsman.  The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman’s annual report has revealed that 57 per cent of the investigations into complaints against councils were uphel...

SNP Spends Just Under £400m Plugging Westminster Welfare Cuts    Tory welfare cuts since 2010 dwarf entire Scottish social security budget   SNP MSP Clare Adamson has said that Scotland is “tackling poverty with one hand ti...

Housing and Regeneration Minister Rebecca Evans has written to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to warn about the impact Universal Credit is having on some of the most vulnerable people in Wales. Rebecca Evans said:  “Foodbank...

There were 27,388 individual insolvencies in Q1 2018, consisting of 16,676 individual voluntary arrangements (IVAs, 61% of the total), 6,524 debt relief orders (DROs, 24%) and 4,188 bankruptcies (15%). Individual insolvencies increased this quarter,...

Early day motion Session: 2017-19 Date tabled: 10.07.2018 Primary sponsor: Godsiff, Roger Sponsors: That this House views with concern the problems currently experienced by many vulnerable universal credit (UC) applicants, particularly...

New analysis from the Office for National Statistics published today shows that there are over half a million people in the UK experiencing the poorest levels of personal well-being. This means they have poor ratings across all four personal well-bei...

A young apprentice’s career has lift-off thanks to the loan of a moped to help him get to work. Scott Redmond, a management apprentice at the Golden Glider Café at Lasham Airfield, had been struggling to get to work but can now keep his...

Theresa May has now lost almost a third of her Cabinet in the past nine months. Brexiteer backbenchers probably have the 48 Tory MPs they need to trigger a confidence vote in her leadership, but not the 159 required to force her from office. Followin...

Graduates interested in developing a career in the thriving IT sector are being offered the opportunity to participate in Deloitte’s Cloud Academy. The ten week pre-employment training programme, backed by the Department for the Economy provide...

Base closure threat signals more pain for Scottish communities   The Ministry of Defence has cut 2,000 military and civilian jobs in Scotland since 2012, with communities the length and breadth of the country bearing the cost of misguided Tory p...