The fall in new social rented homes is a result of seven years of Tory failure on housing - John Healey
John
Healey MP, Labour’s
Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, commenting on new Government
statistics showing a 98 per cent fall in new social rented homes, said:
“After
seven years of Tory failure on housing, homelessness has doubled,
home-ownership has fallen to a 30-year low and the number of new genuinely
Angela Rayner comment on Social Mobility Commission State of the Nation Report
Angela Rayner MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, commenting on the Social Mobility Commission’s State of the Nation Report 2017, said:
“In every area the Commission has highlighted, the Tories’ record is one of failure. Under the Tories, Sure Start funding has been cut by half, nurseries are in crisis, there are...Read More »
Brexit impact assessments should have been shared in full without redaction - Starmer
Keir Starmer MP, Labour’s Shadow Brexit Secretary, responding to reports about the release of the Brexit impact assessments to the Select Committee for Exiting the European Union, said:
“Parliament was very clear in its instruction to ministers. All 58 impact assessments should have been shared with the select committee in full,...Read More »
Labour urge ministers to meet deadline for releasing Brexit impact studies
Keir
Starmer, Labour’s Shadow Brexit Secretary, has urged ministers
to meet the deadline for handing over the 58 Brexit impact studies to MPs tomorrow
[Tuesday 28 November] or risk being held in
contempt of Parliament.
Earlier
this month, MPs unanimously backed a Labour motion for the economic impact
studies to be...Read More »
Government's Industrial Strategy is just re-announced policies & old spending commitments - Rebecca Long-Bailey
Rebecca Long-Bailey MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, responding to the publication of the Government’s Industrial Strategy, said:
“This is a White Paper made up of re-announced policies and old spending commitments, showing once again that this is a Government short on details and new ideas.
“Nothing in...Read More »