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By Peter Wozniak Some of the funding for the school sports partnership will be spared from cuts, education secretary Michael Gove has announced. Ministers had previously branded the programme, which co-ordinates action at different levels of the schools system, to encourage more participation in sport, wasteful and a “complete failure”. But a concerted campaign on… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff A key committee vote to determine support for the government’s controversial plans on housing benefit may stand or fall on Labour’s attempt to persuade a Liberal Democrat backbencher. The committee is voting today on its judgment of the proposals. With ten coalition MPs and eight opposition and unionist MPs likely to vote… Read more »