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Labour estimates over half a million children have become eligible for free school meals during the pandemic, as party calls for free school meals extension over half-term and summer holidays
New Labour analysis estimates that over half a million children became eligible for free school meals during the first year of the pandemic, as the Party calls on the Government to extend free school meals over the May half-term and summer holidays.
Government data shows that from March to October 2020 over 11,000 children became eligible for free school meals each week as the Conservatives failed to support all families through the first phase of the pandemic. Combined with Labour FOI data this suggests over 418,000 children became eligible for free school meals from March â December 2020.
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Labour today publishes a detailed Green Paper on how to end the epidemic of violence against women and girls.
The unusual move for an Opposition party comes after the Governmentâs failure to take sufficient action in either its Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill or the Queenâs Speech, and amid public concern that not enough is being done.
The plans would make misogyny a hate crime, toughen existing sentences for perpetrators of rape and stalking, create new specific offences for street sexual harassment and the practice of landlords asking for sex in lieu of rent, as well as introducing bold measures to reverse record low conviction rates for rape.
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⢠Labourâs Shadow Care Minister calls on Government to make transforming social care an economic priority in the same way as fixing infrastructure, such as the roads and railways.
⢠In her first major speech as Shadow Care Minister, Kendall will set out the priorities for a social care system under a future Labour Government that puts âhome firstâ citing President Bidenâs approach in the USA.
⢠âIf you neglect your countryâs physical infrastructure you get roads full of potholes, and buckling bridges, which prevent your economy functioning properly. The same is true if you fail to invest in social infrastructure.â
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Labour has today called on the Government to step up efforts to support India as the domestic crisis becomes âa global emergencyâ.
Shadow Foreign Secretary, Lisa Nandy MP, used an Urgent Question to press the Government to provide additional support to the Indian authorities as they battle against rapidly rising infection rates. Citing her own Indian heritage, the Shadow Foreign Secretary said:
âFor many of us in Britain, our ties to India are personal. My father came to this country from India, and being half Indian is an important part of who I am. Family ties between our countries are woven into the fabric of this nation. For the more than one million British Indians of different generations, this is a moment of fear and anxiety.â
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Labour will force a vote in the House of Commons tomorrow to establish a full, transparent, Parliament-run inquiry into the Greensill scandal, with Rachel Revees MP saying that the Government cannot be allowed to simply âmark its own homeworkâ.
Labour will table a binding motion that would establish a new select committee to investigate the Greensill lobbying scandal, which would have the power to ask witnesses to give evidence and face questioning.
The remit of the select committee would include:
⢠that those caught up in the Greensill scandal â including Rishi Sunak, Matt Hancock and former Prime Minister David Cameron â should come before Parliament to provide full transparency and publish key evidence.