Your weekly update on the latest developments and debates in Parliament and across Whitehall. This week: record courts ...

Sentencing should be brought back under democratic control by abolishing the Sentencing Council, Conservative former minister Esther McVey has said. In the Commons, Ms McVey drew comparisons to the ...

The Oxford chancellor said the government was wrong to water down proposals by Labour MP Josh MacAlister to introduce ...

How Give Your Best aims to solve clothing poverty in the UK The council’s chief said ... the subject of detailed consultation with the Lord Chancellor,” Lord Justice Davis said.

The UK is in regulatory reduction mode. The Chancellor of the Exchequer ... support innovation as opposed to creating obstacles. Lord Willetts will Chair the Regulatory Innovation Office ...

In a letter to the independent body, the Lord Chancellor said she “must make ... be made by the Sentencing Council and what role MPs should play. “For that reason, I will be reviewing the ...

MPs have demanded. It comes after thetech giant announced last month that it would no longer offer UK customers its most advanced, end-to-end security encryption feature for cloud data storage ...

More than 100 Labour MPs ... general Lord George Robertson and chairman of the Commons Defence Committee Tan Dhesi. The group said financial institutions can “do more” to help the UK defence ...

Ms Mahmood said she was considering whether policy decisions such as this should be made by the Sentencing Council and what role MPs should play. But Lord Justice Davis replied that the Sentencing ...

More than 100 Labour MPs and peers have urged British banks and fund managers to stop viewing all defence investments as “unethical”, as they seek to boost the UK’s domestic arms industry. Their open ...