Police forces across England and Wales can now seek the backing of the College of Policing to test innovative ideas in tackling crime under a new scheme.

Sometimes it is difficult to make the case for promoting human rights abroad. But a new report by the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission shows why we must not stay silent about Russia, writes MP Fiona Bruce

Philip Hammond may no longer have to raise taxes to help pump extra cash into the NHS after being handed a £13bn windfall in the public finances.

96% of respondents to recent poll backed calls for tougher penalties for crimes against older people. Given this strong public backing, and the very real need for this change, Giles Watling MP is using his Adjournment Debate to call for elder abuse to become an aggravated offence.

SNP MP Ronnie Cowan writes ahead of his Westminster Hall debate on Drugs policy: ‘the UKs drug policy should be a health issue not a criminal justice one’.

Paisley and Renfrewshire North SNP MP Gavin Newlands writes ahead of his Westminster Hall debate on 'Home Energy and Lifestyle Management Systems and the Green Deal'.

UKLPG, the trade association for the LPG industry in the UK, has responded to the Government’s ‘Energy Performance Certificates in Buildings Call for Evidence’ with two key recommendations to improve the effectiveness of EPCs, particularly regarding properties located off the gas grid.

The story of Alfie Dingley forced ministers to sit up and take notice. But there is more to do to get the use of medicinal cannabis widely and legally available, writes Lord Bassam 

Ahead of his oral question in the House of Lords tomorrow, Lord Balfe calls for a system whereby no one can send totally anonymous messages online.

Dods People draws together a list of appointments in Westminster politics, the devolved administrations and the public affairs sector in the last week.

The difference between what was offered by Brexiteers and what is achievable has widened into an unbridgeable gulf. We must put the deal to the people, writes Lord Hain 

Whether they are in Belfast, Bangor or Bath, women deserve modern, humane and properly regulated access to abortion, writes Diana Johnson 

Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson on Immigration, Baroness Hamwee, writes about the Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill, which has its report stage in the House of Lords today and which Labour & the Liberal Democrats seek to amend.

More than a dozen ministers and some 40 Tory backbenchers have urged the Government to pump more cash into the under-fire Universal Credit system, it has been reported.

An unknown campaign has spent over £250,000 urging voters to lobby their MPs to "chuck Chequers", a report by a Parliamentary select committee claims.

This is the briefing from the Equality and Human Rights Commission in contribution to the Second Reading of the Voyeurism (Offences) (No.2) Bill in the House of Lords that will take place on 23 October 2018.

The news that knife crime is again at an all-time high is ‘deeply depressing’, according to the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW), not least because so much more could be done to tackle it.

Keep up with the all the latest Commons action LIVE as Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn face off at midday. Watch the whole thing below the blog window.

Just over 100 police officers, special constables and staff had to be placed on the new Police Barred List in the first months following its introduction, figures from the College of Policing show.

The UK cannot address cyber threats on its own. A global, solutions-based approach is required to tackle the scale and complexity of the challenge we face, writes Lord Waverley

MPs have hit out at a "misguided" strategy aimed at curbing dangerous dog attacks.

Self-employed workers are mostly financially secure and happy in the present, but concerned about the future, a new report by IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) and Sherpa has found. 

Ageism and misogyny could become hate crimes as part of a major legal shake-up, Sajid Javid will announce today.