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A lack of reliable data about the sector poses difficulties to assess or resolve problems within it, MPs said.

The COVID inquiry is possibly the most sophisticated and wide-ranging blame game that has ever played out in British politics. That said, the great benefit of public inquiries, as opposed to parliamentary scrutiny, is that their breadth allows for an exploration of issues in a way that promotes “cool thinking”…

Councils have spent only around 15% of the money awarded in the first round of the Levelling Up Fund in 2021.

Despite fine acting, Harry Davies’ political thriller about a contaminated water scandal fails to plumb the depths of its characters

PM will announce a new system for awarding oil and gas exploration licences, and new pro-car legislation, sources say

Civil servants are relying on AI to make decisions around welfare, immigration and criminal justice

Exclusive: findings show uncontrolled and potentially discriminatory way technology used in Whitehall and some police forces

Actor and director who played Prince Hal to Orson Welles’s Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight, and triumphed in Sleuth in the West End and on Broadway