The Prime Minister has appointed a Minister for Equalities who voted against legislation introducing same-sex marriage for a second time. Gosport MP Caroline Dinenage has been given a dual role
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A new £1m to plan to recruit new primary care support workers to help people diagnosed with dementia has been unveiled as part of a new Welsh Government drive to
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Norman Lamb has confirmed he will be standing for the Lib Dem leadership. Mr Lamb – who became MP for North Norfolk in 2001 and was health and social care
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Simon Hamilton has been named Northern Ireland’s new health minister. The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MLA replaces Jim Wells, who resigned after he made remarks linking gay marriage to child
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As part of the David Cameron’s cabinet reshuffle, Alistair Burt MP has been appointed Minister of State for Care and Support at the Department of Health, while Jeremy Hunt remains
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Children have suffered disproportionately from the Government’s austerity measures, a committee of MPs and peers has found. The committee said there was evidence that specific pieces of legislation “run directly
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The Chancellor received three cheers from business leaders but was accused of offering “short-term bribes” by critics in wildly-differing reaction to his Budget. Terry Scuoler, chief executive of the EEF
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Home Secretary Theresa May will decide by the end of the month whether the inquiry into historic child sex abuse involving a Westminster paedophile ring will investigate allegations from before
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A new four person panel, including Professor Alexis Jay (pictured), has been revealed by Home Secretary Theresa May for the reformed statutory inquiry into child sex abuse. Mrs May said
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A senior Tory has defended the party’s failure to more fully investigate past rumours of child sex abuse by politicians, insisting it was “not the Stasi”. Lord Dobbs, who held
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