Select Committe on the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 take evidence on Tuesday 29 October 2019
Link: Academics questioned on Government voter ID plans and election challenges
Source: Parliamentary News
Petitions Committee Chair writes to Culture Secretary about online abuse of disabled people
Petitions Committee Chair writes to Culture Secretary about online abuse of disabled people
Link: Petitions Committee Chair writes to Culture Secretary about online abuse of disabled people
Source: Parliamentary News
Committee question Chair of Government rail review
Questions to focus on the review’s conclusions and expectations, and how the review has worked
Link: Committee question Chair of Government rail review
Source: Parliamentary News
Barclays’ customers can continue to withdraw cash from post offices
Mel Stride welcomes Barclays’ U-turn on allowing its customers to withdraw cash from post offices
Link: Barclays’ customers can continue to withdraw cash from post offices
Source: Parliamentary News
Tay projects backed by £3m UK Government funding
Innerpeffray Library in Perthshire, Scotland’s oldest free lending library, is one of four projects which will benefit from a UK Government funding boost.
Link: Tay projects backed by £3m UK Government funding
Source: Gov Press Releases
Brexit workshops get small businesses ready to trade
Workshops led by the Department for International Trade’s regional network prepare small businesses for trade post-Brexit.
Link: Brexit workshops get small businesses ready to trade
Source: Gov Press Releases
Elections (Candidates’ Expenditure and Nominations)
A Bill to make provision for the regulation of election expenditure by candidates and political parties; to provide for the regulation of nominations as a parliamentary candidate and the abolition of deposits; to confer powers on the Electoral Commission; and for connected purposes.
Link: Elections (Candidates’ Expenditure and Nominations)
Source: Public Bills
Access to Palliative Care and Treatment of Children
A Bill to make provision for NHS service commissioners to ensure that persons for whom they have responsibility for commissioning physical and mental health services have access to specialist and generalist palliative care and support services; and to make provision for treatment of children with a life-limiting illness.
Link: Access to Palliative Care and Treatment of Children
Source: Public Bills
Remembrance Sunday Service, Singapore
The British High Commission in partnership with the Singapore Armed Forces Veterans’ League will hold the annual Remembrance Day service at Kranji War Cemetery on Sunday, 10 November 2019.
Link: Remembrance Sunday Service, Singapore
Source: Gov Press Releases
Separated migrant children given better access to legal aid
Immigration matters for separated migrant children brought into scope of legal aid.
Link: Separated migrant children given better access to legal aid
Source: Gov Press Releases