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Housebuilder also cuts land purchases, with it forced to scrap proposals for 3,293 plotsBusiness live updates: ‘Marked slowdown’ in UK housing marketBritain’s largest housebuilder, Barratt Developments, has introduced a hiring freeze and is “significan…
Discovery of stuffed animals from central Africa and recordings from ‘human zoo’ inspires exhibitionIt was when part of a Scarborough museum was being redeveloped more than a decade ago that builders found a blocked-up door. Behind it they discovered b…
Survey of 1,000 factories for campaign group claims many cut rates in pandemic and have not increased them sinceLidl, Zara’s owner Inditex, H&M and Next have been accused of paying garment suppliers in Bangladesh during the pandemic less than the c…
George Eustice says adapted kerosene boilers can run on ‘hydro-treated vegetable oil’ and cut emissions by 88%A proposal to incentivise households in rural areas to run their heating systems on vegetable oil is to be put to parliament.The former enviro…
Fraud and error have left ‘eye-watering’ amount owed to HMRC, says public accounts committeeThe government has been criticised for failing to collect £42bn in unpaid tax from businesses and individuals amid concern over the strain on the public finance…
Exclusive: After the Michelle Mone scandal and PPE questions, National Audit Office says monitoring conflicts of interest is ‘crucial’Peers and MPs should have to declare any links to firms they recommend for contracts even in an emergency such as the …
Opposition day debate seeks to establish committee to investigate reforming tax benefits enjoyed by independent schoolsLabour will attempt to force a binding vote on ending private schools’ tax breaks and use the £1.7bn a year raised from this to drive…
Exclusive: employment strategy aimed at those ‘written off’ by society like young people with mental health issues, says Jonathan AshworthLabour will “put health and wellbeing” at the heart of its employment strategy by embedding career advisers in hea…
Oxfam says its analysis of January 2021 to February 2022 underlines need for UK to stop arming Saudi ArabiaAt least 87 civilians were killed by airstrikes from the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen using weapons supplied by the UK and US between January 202…
Researchers find overall percentage increase from 0.06% in 2000 to 0.11% in 2019 although safety in children not fully established The proportion of children and young people prescribed antipsychotics in England has nearly doubled in just two decades, …