19 December 2017 Guidelines and Technical standards MiFID – Secondary Markets The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today the official translations of its Guidelines on the management body of market operators and data reporting services providers under the Markets … read more
The European Securities and Market Authority (ESMA) will publish a register of administrators and third country benchmarks, in accordance with Article 36 of the Benchmarks Regulation. ESMA will start publishing this list of Administrators and third country benchmarks as of 3 … read more
19 December 2017 Guidelines and Technical standards MiFID – Secondary Markets The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today the official translations of its Guidelines on the management body of market operators and data reporting services providers under the Markets … read more
Today, Minister for Children and Families, Robert Goodwill bowed to campaigning pressure and committed to including foster children in the 30 hours offer from September 2018.
Labour MP Tracy Brabin has been campaigning against the unfair exclusion of foster children from the flagship government policy.
Tracy Brabin, Shadow Early Years Minister, commenting on the policy concession, said:
“The exclusion of foster children from the 30 hours policy was clearly cruel and wrong to everyone apart from Conservative Ministers.
“I’m glad those Ministers have adopted Labour’s position and committed to include foster children from next year. It’s clear they wouldn’t have taken this step if it wasn’t for the pressure they faced from us, from foster parents, and from all others who cared about righting this wrong.
“Foster children are some of the most vulnerable in our society and it’ll be welcome news to foster carers that they’ll now have the same right to access funded childcare as their peers.”
read morePeter Dowd MP, Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury responding to the Government voting down Labour’s amendments to the Finance Bill:
“This Conservative Government has once again demonstrated that it favours tax dodgers over tax payers, bankers over single mothers and large multinationals over public sector workers.
“This evening’s votes saw the Government block Labour’s amendments which would have required the Minister to publish an equalities impact assessment on all economic policies and forced ministers to review the tax gap.
“The next Labour Government is committed to ensuring that all our policies have equality impact assessments, and we will implement thorough measures to crack down on tax dodging under our Tax Transparency and Enforcement Programme. Unlike the Conservatives, we will create a country and an economy that works for the many and not just a privileged few.”
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