Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

The NHS and MPs have today joined forces to honour some of the biggest achievements in health and social care from across the country, honouring individuals and teams in the prestigious NHS Parliamentary Awards supported by FUJIFILM. Among those scoo...

The Independent newspaper - May Bulman Social Affairs Correspondent, has recently reported that DWP staff have been cut by 21% since the Universal Credit rollout began, figures show. This is leading to more errors say claimants. There have...

Boris Johnson uses his Daily Telegraph column this morning to call for more funding for apprenticeships, and to 'recognise' the 'immense value to society and to the individual' of practical and technical education. In 2017/18, there were 81...

Social services experts came out this week with fears the huge tax cut bill will start a countdown to a vastly less fair Australia. It's the final tranche of the three-stage tax plan say the, Australian Fabian Society which has experts worried, with...

The SNP has called Tory government to launch an independent inquiry into deaths linked with welfare reforms after it was revealed that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) hid documents linking the department’s fit-for-work test to the deaths o...

Essex Trading Standards are at the forefront of publishing consumer related product recalls to inform you about important safety matters. There has been a recent safety notice issued for iCandy Orange pushchairs. A few iCandy Orange bumper bars are m...

The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Regina Doherty, T.D., has welcomed the latest statistics published by the CSO today which show that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for June 2019 was 4.5%, down from 5.9% twelve mon...

Recent data from the Bank of England (BoE) found that British consumers owe a total of £72.9 billion in credit card debt. This has stemmed from relatively low-interest rates driving families in Britain to borrow more than ever, after the financi...

Statement by Will Quince MP, DWP Junior Minster There are no plans to extend or maintain the Benefit Freeze.There are no plans to extend or maintain the Benefit Freezeafter March 2020. Specific decisions on how to uprate the Local Housing Allowance f...

Calling all those on the frontline of food poverty! Join the team during the End Hunger UK Week of Action 2019. End Hunger UK will be raising awareness of hunger in the UK and telling the government that they must take action to ensure that everyone...