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Housing activist Kwajo Tweneboa told MPs he went to one home where there was 'about an inch and a half deep of raw sewage' - as MPs grill the housing regulator about the death of Awaab Ishak that was caused by poisonous mould

A cross-party group of MPs said new Government powers in relation to the Electoral Commission could damage public confidence.

Awaab Ishak was living in a Rochdale apartment block when he died

Commnons Committee chairman and Labour MP Clive Betts said the Government 'deserves credit' for attempting reform but that the Government has only 'come close' to rescuing social care, with a long way to go.

A cash injection and a long-term plan is needed to help the sector meet immediate cost pressures and become sustainable, LUHC committee said.

Cross-party group warns of increasingly ‘appalling’ conditions in England’s social housing stock

Ben Harris-Shaw, of Sheffield, has spent years planning the holiday of a lifetime for his family and three children but their trip to Spain's Costa del Sol is now at risk

Ministers urged to act to stop ‘eye-watering’ sums of public money going to unscrupulous providers

Local authorities are unaware of where vulnerable refugee children head to post-arrival because they are 'with family', officials close to the scheme told MPs.