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MPs voice concerns over concerns over Universal Credit delays and lack of clarity
03 February 2016 | News
Public Accounts Committee Report - Universal Credit: progress update.
The report summary says:
“We acknowledge that Universal Credit has stabilised and made progress since the previous Committee of Public Accounts first reported on the programme in 2013.
Government defers changes to DSA
26 March 2015 | News
We are glad that the Minister for Business Innovation and Skills has listened to the concerns ...
Disability Confident roadshow tours Britain
20 November 2013 | News
... launched by the Prime Minister in July, when he told 300 business leaders of FTSE 100 companies and SMEs that it is ...
Personal Budgets: The right social care support
15 April 2025 | Resource
The Care Act introduces new functions upon councils to focus on promoting wellbeing and prevention including offering personal budgets, establishing information services, and arranging independent advocacy services.
Long Covid and illness drives 400,000 more people from the workforce
04 May 2022 | News
... are dependable problem solvers and assets to the workforce. Businesses need to change not just their views about ...
Apprenticeship reforms are failing to deliver
10 June 2019 | News
According a recent Public Accounts Committee report on apprenticeship reforms, The Department for Education has failed to make the progress that it predicted when it reformed the apprenticeships programme in spring 2017. The number of apprenticeship starts fell by 26% after the apprenticeship levy was introduced and, although the level is now recovering, the government will not meet its target of 3 million starts by March 2020.
Adult social care funding: a local or national responsibility?
26 March 2018 | News
... from 2020, meaning councils will depend on council tax and business rates for the vast majority of their general ...
MPs call for action on unacceptable level of UK financial exclusion
30 March 2017 | News
The Select Committee on Financial Exclusion calls on the Financial Conduct Authority and Banks to give greater priority to tackling financial exclusion in the UK.
Victoria tube station to be step-free in early 2018
16 January 2017 | News
Major milestone in Victoria Station upgrade project as new ticket hall and entrance open.
Disability hate crime prosecutions in last 7 years
05 January 2015 | News
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd) asked the Attorney General, how many people have been charged with disability hate crimes in each of the last 10 years
Answered by: Mr Robert Buckland on 5 January 2015