Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) in Scotland is looking to Budget 2016 for evidence of the Prime Minister’s promised “…all-out assault on poverty.”  With relative child poverty projected to rise by 50% during this Parli...

Ahead of the U.K. budget announcement on Wednesday, Brian Norton, the CEO of Europe’s largest private student lending startup, Future Finance, called on the government to extend public subsidies to fintech businesses. In an interview on Bloombe...

Following the publication of the House of Common’s Work and Pensions Committee report on Communication of the State Pension Age Changes, Mhairi Black MP, who played a key role in securing the recommendation that the UK government should introdu...

DWP Select Committee Monday 14 March 2016 Meeting starts at 2.30pm Q1. What assessment he has made of the effect of his Department's welfare reforms on low and middle-income households since 2010. (904050)  Peter Grant MP (Glenrothes, Scot...

The US economy has been doing quite well ad todays labor market figues should show if the trent is continuing. In United States, the employment rate measures the number of people who have a job as a percentage of the working age population.

What exactly happens when someone applies for asylum in the EU? Find out the definition of an asylum seeker, what their rights and obligations are, and what the process is like.  According to the UN Refugee Agency the terms asylum-seeker and ref...

Live replay of the EP Plenary session - Debate with Stefan LÖFVEN, Swedish Prime Minister on the current situation in the European Union.  Kjell Stefan Löfven born 21 July 1957) is a Swedish politician who has been...

The government’s attempt to let shops trade for longer than six hours each Sunday was voted down after 26 Tory backbenchers teamed up with Labour and the SNP. Commenting on the government defeat on Sunday Trading, SNP Deputy Leader an...

Work and Pensions Select Committee For immediate release:  THE FUTURE OF JOBCENTRE PLUS: NEW COMMITTEE INQUIRY The Commons Work and Pensions Committee has launched a new inquiry into the future of Jobcentre Plus (JCP), the public emplo...

Plaid Cymru leader calls for Budget rethink on women’s pension changes “Women must not lose out”: Leanne Wood Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood has written to the Chancellor calling on him to use next week’s Budget to phase...