Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Love working with people in a highly rewarding customer-driven environment? If so, Houses of Parliament would like to meet you at our Recruitment Open Day on Thursday 23 February 2017. There are jobs to suit everyone at Parliament and members of staf...

Work and Pensions Committee Monday 30 January 2017 Meeting starts at 3.45pm Witnesses: Damian Hinds MP, Minister for Employment, Department for Work and Pensions, and Sarah Newton MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Vulnerability, Saf...

We have launched our crowd funding campaign this morning on Crowd Funder. Goal: To take our student team to the Houses of Parliament as guests of our Colchester MP Will Quince.   We will be commenting more on this as we go. 

One in ten centres in England, Wales and Scotland will shut, union officials have said; the Department for Work and Pensions claimed the number of redundancies would be small Jobcentres are due to close under reforms to deal with “under-used&rd...

Unilever’s underlying sales were up 3.7%, and net profits grew 5.5% to €5.5bn (£4.7bn) – although currency changes meant revenues fell 1% to €52.7bn (£44.8bn). Polman was asked on a conference call this morning wheth...

A disabled person on the DWP’s Work Programme was three times as likely to be sanctioned as to be found a job, according to evidence given to the Scottish Parliament’s Social Security Committee by Inclusion Scotland.   New powers wil...

Child Maintenance Service and Child Support Agency opening hours will change from 6 February 2017. To allow staff to better respond at peak times, telephone lines will close 30 minutes earlier each evening, when fewer calls are received. The new open...

The Committee today publishes correspondence between Rt Hon Frank Field MP and Caroline Nokes MP, Minister for Welfare Delivery, regarding call charges on telephone services provided by DWP and third-sector partner organisations. The Committee is con...

Ambulance services are finding it increasingly difficult to cope with rising demand for urgent and emergency services, per the National Audit Office. Demand for ambulance services continues to grow rapidly. Contributing factors may include the increa...

Commenting on the Government response to the Committee’s report on Intergenerational Fairness, Committee Chair Rt Hon Frank Field MP said:   “We will continue to press for cross-party consensus on the replacement of the triple lock a...