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Ministers are to reduce the rising cost of funding special educational needs provision through their overhaul of the system, as they faced calls to explain how…

Ministers have been warned that Britain could face a looming gas supply crisis by the end of the decade and should draw up plans to guard…

Repeated failures by Tory ministers and top welfare officials pushed hundreds of thousands of unpaid carers into debt and distress, and led to hundreds of millions…

Prison governors in England have been summoned to an urgent meeting with ministers as the government comes under pressure over the wrongful release of two more…

Ministers were warned by a watchdog that prisoners were “falling through the cracks” of chaotic release procedures at the jail that mistakenly freed a convicted child…

Grooming gang victims have accused the UK government of attempting to manipulate them into broadening a national inquiry to include other forms of sexual abuse, despite…

Lucy Powell urged ministers to reconsider costly legal proceedings against a property development firm in her constituency founded by a Labour donor, in a move that…

Government ministers met representatives from the fossil fuel industry more than 500 times during their first year in power – equivalent to twice every working day,…

Cabinet ministers have been told they will not be able to use the Treasury reserve to fund public sector pay rises and cannot access it unless…

Rachel Reeves is set to announce a round of planning changes before the budget as a way to kickstart Britain’s sluggish economic growth, but ministers are…