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Over the past thirty years, there has been significant progress in tackling globally.

But despite the progress that is being made 1.2 million people die each year as a result of the virus. Global infection rates are also alarmingly high: at the end of 2015, 37 million people – includin…

This morning I spoke about the work of the Public Accounts Committee at the Centre for Public Scrutiny's (CfPS) annual conference; Democracy, governance and the truth.

See my speech in full below.

Thank you to Lord Kerslake and the Centre for Public Scrutiny for asking me to speak today on…

This week Ofcom announced plans to formally separate Openreach from BT, after BT failed to offer voluntary proposals that address competition concerns.

Openreach is the division of BT Group that develops and maintains the UK’s main telecoms network used by providers such as Sky, TalkTalk, Vodafone and others.

The move…

The Government has made many promises about delivering superfast broadband but we need to be clearer about whether this latest pledge will work any better than previous pledges.

The reality is that many businesses, in particular, need high speeds and wide bandwidths now. It is incredible that there are not…

This week I met Target Ovarian Cancer at the launch of their state-of-the-nation Pathfinder study.

Women with ovarian cancer are left stranded without vital support at every turn, from diagnostic tests to access to nurses, according to Pathfinder.

Pathfinder 2016 found that:

¢ Just one in five UK women (20 per…