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The companies – among 202 named and shamed by the Department for Business and Trade – have been paid for government contracts since 2016, analysts Tussell found

Analysis by the Office for National Statistics found people receiving support from charities were the worst hit (45%), followed by single parents with at least one child (28%) and those on benefits or financial support (21%)

Unions blasted the failure to order companies to record wage differences endured by Black and minority ethnic workers, most of whom earn less on average than their white colleagues

Moonlighting MPs have an average wage of £233 per hour in this Parliament, according to analysis - with the typical rate at 17 times the national average and 22 times higher than the minimum hourly wage

Rishi Sunak will have to explain to 'over a million outraged NHS workers' after yesterday's pay announcement, Royal College of Nursing chief Pat Cullen said

The UK is 'on the cusp' of establishing Europe's first small satellite orbital launch capability, the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee said - but 'disjointed' planning is holding it back

The Prime Minister has approved salary uplifts for millions of public sector workers after accepting recommendations from pay review bodies’ - but do you think it's enough to end industrial action?

The former Culture Secretary hasn't spoken in the Commons for more than a year, and has taken part on just five days in the past 12 months.

The PM has been told to fix his "broken promises" as MPs urge an investigation into missing blood records of nuclear veterans

A bombshell report by the Commons Public Accounts Commitee found that despite ploughing £2billion into the Emergency Services Network (ESN) communication, there is no evidence it will work

The surprising comments came after Tory cabinet member Gillian Keegan said she would "pick them up myself" when asked how she'd get absent children back into school

The analysis comes 10 years after the controversial policy, which restricts the total amount of support a household can receive, was first introduced as part of an austerity drive

Teachers, doctors and nurses deserved to be paid more but they also deserve to work in schools that are not crumbling, hospitals that are not overcrowded, and wards with enough beds and scanners

Teachers, troops, prison officers, police, junior doctors and consultants are being offered pay rises - but critics warned that failing to fully fund the wage increases would mean cuts elsewhere

Paul Routledge on the inexcusable rise of malnutrition in England, and how this all points to a return to Victorian times with cases of illnesses like scurvy and rickets on the up alongside Tory austerity

There are questions being raised about where the money for pay rises will come from, with departments having been told they will have to slash their budgets in order to fund them

Labour's Shadow Deputy Leader made the comments as she outlined her party’s plan for 'a new standards watchdog with tougher rules and stronger enforcement'

Junior doctors have blasted the Government's pay offer as 'derisory' as they insist it equates to just 84p an hour extra for new doctors

Rishi Sunak is under intense pressure to drop the controversial project after top judges last month ruled it was unlawful because the central African nation isn't a safe place to send refugees

The four major teaching unions said they would recommend that their members accept the Government's 6.5% wage offer after a bitter stalemate over pay, funding and working conditions

Millions of police, NHS workers, police and teachers will get their pay rises, but Rishi Sunak is accused of taking a "wrecking ball" to public services and urged to "come clean" over what he'll cut

Labour's Deputy Leader, who received free school meals as a child, said she wanted all primary kids to be eligible for the benefit but said there was 'not an endless supply of money'

Legislation pushed through by former Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has been thrown out by the High Court in a huge victory for unions

While Mr Sunak often looks awkward at events, this melts away around Italian far-right PM Giorgia Meloni, who he appeared relaxed and warm around at the Nato summit in Lithuania this week

Tens of thousands of appointments are expected to be cancelled during the latest industrial action by junior doctors, with NHS bosses claiming the walkout is 'the most disruptive yet'