Plans to extend the controversial cap on Universal Credit payments to families with more than two chilren have been ditched after Amber Rudd won a cash battle with Philip Hammond.

Theresa May has been urged to appoint a dedicated 'Minister for Hunger' as MPs accused the Government of letting efforts to tackle malnutrition slip "between the cracks".

This is a bold and interesting move and although I applaud the intent I have concerns about its application, says Dr. Hugh Milroy, CEO Veterans Aid.

Senior ministers have discussed the prospect of the break-up of the United Kingdom if there is a no-deal Brexit, PoliticsHome has learned.

Alex Salmond has won his legal case against the Scottish government after it admitted that officials had mishandled sexual harassment claims against him.

Former Conservative ministers are among an independent panel demanding that more than three million new social homes are built in a bid to tackle Britain’s housing crisis.

IPSE, the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed, has welcomed the decision to halt the further roll-out of Universal Credit, while also urging the Government to reform the parts of the policy that punish the self-employed.

Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has delayed the next phase of the Universal Credit welfare overhaul amid mounting concern about its impact on claimants.

The Government is set for a showdown with local councils over fracking after one of the country's biggest combined authorities outlined proposals to ban it.

The Government’s benefit cap is overwhelmingly affecting single mothers, according to new analysis from Labour.

A former Labour mayor has been criticised after sharing a Facebook post about Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust.

Transgender people are not getting access to basic healthcare services, according to a senior Conservative MP.

A new partnership is turning the tide on inactivity by creating a nation of swimmers.

Philip Hammond has been warned by a Cabinet colleague that councils may not have the money they need to prepare Britain for a no-deal Brexit.

Only five percent of new homes funded under a government scheme will be of the most affordable kind, it has been revealed.

The Government has to ask itself whether it should shoulder the blame for the shocking increase in rough sleeping, a Cabinet minister has said.

Universal Credit is failing parents who are trying to get into work because they are unable to afford the childcare fees up-front, MPs have revealed.

Labour has said it will scrap a nineteenth century law that criminalises rough sleepers if it wins the next election.

A controversial Labour MP has been forced to apologise after giving his support to a musician accused of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.

Jeremy Corbyn has accused "most of the media" of failing to cover homelessness as he doubled down on his description of the Conservatives as "stupid".

MPs today blasted the Government after it was revealed the number of deaths among people forced to sleep rough has jumped by a quarter in five years.

We have built around two million too few homes across the country resulting in high prices, high rents, many fewer social homes and serious difficulties for younger people wanting to buy their own home, says Lord Shipley.

IPSE agrees with the Work and Pensions Select Committee’s sensible recommendation that there should be a ‘wait and see approach’ before rolling out UC for all disabled self-employed people.

The rollout of the controversial Universal Credit system could face further delays as the Government boosts protections for vulnerable claimants, Amber Rudd revealed today.