Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Chancellor Philip Hammond will deliver the Spring Statement on Wednesday 13 March 2019, where he will respond to the OBR's latest economic and fiscal forecasts. This will also be an opportunity for him to set out government priorities ahead of the Sp...

Work and Pensions Committee Wednesday 27 February 2019 Meeting starts at 9.30am AGENDA Subject: Universal Credit: ‘natural’ migration Witnesses: David Finch, Senior Research Fellow, Resolution Foundation, Tom Waters, Research Economist, Institut...

UK government must speed up repayments after 20,000 die while potentially owed money The SNP has demanded that Amber Rudd come before Parliament to answer questions on the growing ESA payments scandal - after it emerged as many as 20,000 sick an...

In March 2017, The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) announced a goal of making greater strides in the fight against hunger by expanding food banking service from 6.8 million to 8 million people facing hunger by the end of 2018.  Thanks to the le...

New temporary accommodation to help Horsham District residents facing homelessness moved a step closer to completion this week (week commencing 11 February) with an official topping out ceremony on the site of the new homes. Horsham District Council...

Figures released this morning show that of the 597 homelessness deaths in 2017, Manchester (21) and Birmingham (18) were the cities worst affected, with Bristol, Lambeth and Liverpool (all 17), also registering more than one death a month. Respo...

Approximately eight million people are caught in a debt trap, paying out an average of a quarter of their incomes each month to their lenders.  Consumer credit is a debt that a person incurs when purchasing a good or service. Consumer credit inc...

Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Regina Doherty, T.D., today announced that an information campaign will be launched this weekend to inform workers of new entitlements that will accompany important new employment legislation com...

Estimates from the Labour Force Survey show that, between July to September 2018 and October to December 2018, the number of people in work increased, while the number of unemployed people and the number of people aged from 16 to 64 years not working...

The labour market statistics were published today by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency. Labour Force Survey (LFS) unemployment was unchanged over the quarter and decreased over the year. The latest NI seasonally adjusted unempl...