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Tomorrow at 10am, I'll be questioning officials from the British Medical Association, the Royal College of Nursing, UNISON, and Care England on how effective the Government was in supplying their frontline health and social care workers at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Watch the full hearing from 10am…

Good news this week with the approval of a COVID-19 vaccine.

But there's still a long way between the approval of a vaccine and its roll-out, with plenty of logistical challenges. I'll continue pressing the Government to ensure it gets this right and, crucially, provides more detail about the logistics so…

Due to the economic uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chancellor abandoned plans for a long-term Comprehensive Spending Review (which would have allocated departmental spending for the next three years) in favour on a one-year spending review, allocating funding to government departments for the year from March 2021. The…

It's been a busy week with the Chancellor's Spending Review at the heart of it. This allocated funding to government departments for the year from March 2021.

I challenged the Chancellor over local government funding and the decision to finance hard-hit local authorities largely through increases in council tax (see here). There…

After a decade of austerity, it’s easy for the Chancellor to say local authorities are receiving more cash than last year. 

Councils are often at the frontline of providing vital services – the Government needs to step up and support hard-pressed councils.