Business Secretary, Alok Sharma, writes for City AM outlining the benefits of the new points-based immigration system for businesses.

The new system takes effect from 1 January 2021.

UK Home Secretary Priti Patel will today launch a new points-based immigration system, ensuring that the UK continues to attract the brightest and the best from around the world, including India.

Grants to fund lifeboats and kit for volunteer search teams.

Jobcentres across the UK are to benefit from a boost of up to £3 million to support homeless people, Minister for Welfare Delivery Will Quince said today.

Torbay’s MP Kevin Foster has welcomed today’s (Monday 23rd December 2019) news of an allocation of £612,974 of Government Funding to Torbay Council for work to tackle homelessness in our bay in 2020/21.

Four local charities received a Christmas bonus totaling £1,500 to support their work, after the latest round of donations from Foster’s Fund, a scheme set up by Torbay’s MP Kevin Foster.

After the result was announced, Kevin said,

"I am honoured to be re-elected as Torbay's MP with a 17,749 majority and am humbled at the level of support received from my fellow residents.

A Conservative majority government will give Ofsted greater powers and more money to improve discipline in classrooms and bolster school standards, under new plans revealed today.

Official figures show that the Conservative’s strong management of the economy means that the number of children in working households has reached a record high – and increased by 262,000 since last year. The proportion of children in a home with at least one adult in work is 91%.

On the 100th anniversary of the first female MP taking her seat in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has celebrated the contribution of female MPs to our society and political debate.