The First Minister of Scotland will convene a roundtable on energy costs with energy supply companies and consumer groups later this month.
The agenda will include how advice and support for people struggling with energy bills can be improved and what collective action can be taken by government, energy companies and the third sector to help businesses and consumers access advice, and get support with debt issues.
Scottish Power, OVO Energy, Centrica, Octopus and E.ON and industry bodies and key consumer and poverty organisations will be in attendance.

Scotland has become the first country in the world to legislate on the right to access free period products.
The law legally requires councils and education providers to make period products available free of charge to anyone who needs them.

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has announced that social housing residents will be able to get training and support to speak up and raise issues with their landlord.
The Resident Opportunities and Empowerment programme aims to empower social housing residents in England to hold their landlord to account and will run from Autumn 2022 to Spring 2025.
The programme will include opportunities for residents to learn how to influence landlord decisions that affect tenants and their community including advice on how to form a residents panel.

The government has announced plans to encourage social tariffs for broadband with the aim of cutting bills for millions of low-income households.
A new service, run by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), will go live next week and will allow internet service providers to verify – with customers’ permission – whether they are in receipt of a relevant benefit and therefore eligible for extra financial support.

Upgrades to the A4119 have begun, promising a boost the local economy, job creation and improved local infrastructure.

Following advice from Counter Terrorism Police, the City of York Council will decide next week whether to approve plans to install permanent protection measures in the city centre to protect against attacks such as those seen in Toronto, London and Nice.

Levelling up secretary Greg Clark has announced £8 million of funding to repair bridges connecting Grimsby and Immingham.
It is hoped the work will boost key local industries and tourism, prevent road closures and secure future jobs for the region.
The funding is to repair damaged bridges on the A180, which connects the region's ports and provides an estimated £2.5 billion a year to the local economy's Seafood Cluster.

One year on from the launch of Operation Pitting and the evacuation of thousands of people from Afghanistan, London Councils is looking at how London has helped the refugees.
According to statistics, around 30 per cent of asylum-seeking children in the UK are in London.
London Councils, a cross-party group has highlighted the local support and resettlement activity organised by London boroughs, which includes enrolling children in schools, translation services and health and care provision.

Chief executives of water companies have met with the environment secretary, George Eustice and environment minister Steve Double to discuss how they plan to protect water supplies over the summer.

1,500 homes have returned to council ownership in London, under the mayor's 'Right to Buy-back' scheme.