Leaked Department of Health documents seen by the Liberal Democrats suggest that delays to the promised National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme are likely to cost hundreds of lives in the East Midlands.
In the week that controversial new NHS dental contracts come into force across England and Wales, new figures published by the Liberal Democrats reveal that since 1997 there has been a 13% drop in the number of adults registered with an NHS dentist in England.
Today, Gordon Brown delivered his tenth budget as Chancellor of the Exchequer. But with more and more people feeling let down by New Labour, the Liberal Democrats are asking where all the money has gone over the years Labour has been in power.
Paul Holmes MP has today accused the Government of stealing educational opportunity from Derbyshire's adults, in response to the Learning and Skills Council's indication that funding for Derbyshire's Adult Community Education Service will be slashed by more than £1 million in 2006/07.
During a debate in the House of Commons today, Paul Holmes MP challenged the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to meet face to face with the hard working Chesterfield constituents who are facing financial ruin following the collapse of their occupational pensions.
The Parliamentary Ombudsman, Ann Abraham, has today told the Government to compensate 85,000 people who have lost all or part of their company pensions. She made the ruling after finding the Department for Work & Pensions guilty of maladministration. She said official guidance on company pension schemes had been "inaccurate, incomplete, unclear and inconsistent".
