Farmers 'should reap environmental cash'
News Article 1 April 2005
Farmers should receive extra cash in return for quality, choice and environmentally friendly practices when European subsidies are reformed, MPs have said.
Tube PPPs 'poor value for money'
News Article 31 March 2005
MPs have slammed London Underground's public private partnership as overly complex and unnecessarily expensive.
Committee slams banks over ATM charging
News Article 31 March 2005
MPs have warned banks that they are drinking in the last chance saloon over the charges levied on cash machine withdrawals.
MPs condemn prison education
News Article 31 March 2005
Less than a third of prisoners have access to education, a committee of MPs has found.
MPs slam Darfur failings
Press Review 30 March 2005
A committee of MPs has slammed the West's failure to deal with the crisis in Darfur.
MPs slam 'scandalous' Darfur response
News Article 30 March 2005
The international community's response to the crisis in Darfur has been "scandalously ineffective", the Commons international development committee has said.
A&Es 'short of specialist staff'
News Article 30 March 2005
The situation in NHS accident and emergency wards is "less rosy than it seems", a committee of MPs has concluded.
Food labelling must be mandatory, say MPs
News Article 30 March 2005
Food information should be the responsibility of a single government department, a committee of MPs has said.
Action urged on global warming
News Article 27 March 2005
More action is needed to tackle climate change, a committee of MPs has warned.
Road charging 'should be rolled out'
News Article 24 March 2005
National road charging should be introduced to reduce congestion, a committee of MPs has concluded.
Call for fishing cuts questioned
News Article 24 March 2005
A committee of MPs has rejected the key findings of an influential government strategy unit report on the fishing industry.
MP ejected for accusing minister
News Article 24 March 2005
Tory MP Laurence Robertson was thrown out of the Commons chamber on Thursday for refusing to withdraw his accusation that a government minister had misled the Commons.
Committee calls Iraqi planning into question
Press Review 24 March 2005
The Commons defence committee has highlighted a "series of mistakes and misjudgements" by the UK and its coalition partners since the end of the Iraq war.
Bell backs independent MP group
Press Review 24 March 2005
A new group aiming to support independent parliamentary candidates is being backed by Martin Bell and Richard Taylor.
MPs split over right to choose baby's sex
Press Review 24 March 2005
A committee of MPs are split over their own controversial report which favours allowing fertility treatment parents to choose the sex of their child and rethinking the use of human cloning.
