Since being elected last year, improving cancer care in the UK has been a key priority of mine. But to sufficiently improve the quality and availability of care for cancer patients, the Government must tackle the systemic issues affecting the NHS workforce
The Government’s recent announcement of £80 million in additional support for children’s hospices over the next three years is a welcome step forward. It follows sustained calls from the children’s hospice sector and from my Liberal Democrat colleagues for greater security and
Cement quite literally holds up our country. Virtually every hospital, school, bridge and home is built using cement. We can only achieve the renewal our nation needs, and the 1.5 million homes the Government has committed to build, if we have a
This week, Parliament News held two well attended events in the House of Lords. The first talk, in the beautiful Committee Room Four overlooking the river, sponsored by Lord Jackson of Peterborough, pulled together an expert panel, Marco Forgione, Lord Graham Evans,
Protecting the environment is a noble cause and one that we should all support. But it must be done with pragmatism, common sense and respect for local communities. The approach should not be ideological, inflexible and dictated from the top down by
As the UK prepares to put the clocks back this weekend, a Labour MP has called for a new approach to time proposing a shift to Double British Summer Time, dubbed “Churchill Time.” Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions this week (Wednesday 22
