A report conducted by MPs on the Culture Media and Sport Committee has called on BT to increase its investment in the business and improve services.

The Local Government Association (LGA) has called on residents to support the vulnerable or elderly people within their families as temperatures sore.

Core Cities UK has warned that they must have a voice in EU negotiations if they are to close the £66 billion productivity gap.

Entrepreneur Emma Jones has been appointed as Small Business Crown Representative.
Jones will be working with government departments and the Crown Commercial Service to help smaller businesses in the UK bid for and win important government contracts.
The Crown Representative for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) aims is to support the government’s target of one third of procurement spend flowing directly or indirectly to SMEs. This includes ensuring that small firms understand the changes government is making, so that bidding for and winning opportunities is easier.

A new report by the YoundMinds charity has found that services are inadvertently re-traumatising vulnerable children.

Since local councils took control of public health from the NHS three years ago, the fight against obesity has cost over £500 million.
The Local Government Association (LGA) has said that local authorities anticipate having spent £505 million tackling obesity in adults and children, following the transfer of public health responsibility in April 2013.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for greater devolution of powers to London in order to protect ‘jobs, wealth and prosperity’, in the wake of Brexit.

According to research by the Confederation of British Industry and the Centre for Economics and Business Research, Londoners living in social housing contributed £15 billion to the capital’s economy, in the year 2015.

The Home Affairs Select Committee has called on the government to create a new law making it an offence to refuse to hand over money and assets derived from crime.

The Electoral Commission has maintained that while the move to individual registration has produced more accurate voter records, there has been a slight decrease in their completeness.