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Flats plan for Commonwealth Institute set to be approved

17.09.09
Major scheme to revamp the former Commonwealth Institute in Holland Park is set to be given the go-ahead tonight... more

Would-be Speakers line up for contest

22.06.09
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Speaker rivals pledge (slight) change to restore public trust

22.06.09
A sombre House of Commons accepted the need for cautious reform as MPs gathered to choose a new Speaker in the wake of the expenses scandal... more

Choose a Speaker on merit, not politics

22.06.09
The election of a new Commons Speaker today is meant to be the chance for MPs to redeem themselves after the expenses debacle and to choose someone more competent than its last holder, Michael Martin... more

Conservative MPs say they will vote for Beckett to stop Bercow becoming Speaker

15.06.09
The battle for a new Speaker heated up when Tory MPs indicated they would stand behind Margaret Beckett to stop frontrunner John Bercow... more

Ann Widdecombe makes bid to become new Speaker

11.06.09
Ann Widdecombe has joined the race to be Speaker of the House of Commons, saying she wanted to "clean up the place"... more

We're forced to eat out at restaurants, says Beckett

15.05.09
Margaret Beckett defended MPs claiming thousands of pounds for food by insisting they have to eat in restaurants... more

Taxpayers’ money to buy unsold new homes in £1billion rescue plan

21.04.09
A £1 billion emergency rescue for the housing market will be in tomorrow’s Budget... more

Now Beckett is found to be profiting from three homes cash loophole

06.04.09
Housing minister Margaret Beckett has become the latest Cabinet minister to be engulfed in the "three homes" row... more

Gordon can’t ignore our anger over MPs’ perks

06.04.09
Gordon Brown suggested yesterday that he had more important issues than MPs’ expenses to deal with, such as the G20 and saving the globe, and in one way he is right... more

HIP rules 'will hit housing recovery'

03.04.09
Ministers were accused of hampering the ailing housing market's recovery with tougher rules on home information packs, which come into effect on Monday... more

Don’t tax fat people who scoff chocs – laugh at them

13.03.09
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Enter the bailiffs, stage left

05.03.09
A play being watched by housing and planning minister Margaret Beckett and a former aide to Prince Charles was almost called off when bailiffs mistakenly started dismantling the set... more

House prices are down by 1.3% in just four weeks

29.01.09
Property: House prices fell again in January with properties losing 1.3% of their value over the past four weeks... more

A thumbs-up from Zandra but high-rise faces hurdles

23.01.09
Zandra Rhodes has rather spoiled the surprise planned by the developers of the Shard of Glass, Irvine Sellar and his son James. The pair will reveal designs next month for three residential towers to the south of the 310-metre Shard, which is to be built at London Bridge station... more

Fund helps only 1,300 first-time buyers in the capital

17.12.08
Thousands of first-time buyers are to miss out on a government scheme aimed at helping people onto the housing ladder... more

Beckett gives failing HIPs a makeover with new questions

08.12.08
Housing minister Margaret Beckett has unveiled a major shake-up of home information packs after admitting they were not working... more

Big banks: We haven't signed up to Brown's mortgage rescue plan

04.12.08
Leading banks have denied they had committed themselves to Gordon Brown's flagship mortgage rescue plan... more

Beckett doubt on how many homeowners will be helped

04.12.08
Fresh doubts were raised today over how many homeowners will be saved from repossession by Labour's new mortgage scheme.... more

Harman and Beckett refuse to back Martin

04.12.08
Support for Speaker Michael Martin drained away as two senior ministers refused to express confidence in him... more

The banks must give us relief

04.12.08
This week has brought new signs of the depth of the recession, not least in the stricken housing market... more

Brown puts his 'full confidence' in Martin

04.12.08
Gordon Brown propped up Speaker Michael Martin today by saying he had "full confidence" in him.... more

Universities back £52m climate change institute

27.11.08
Leading universities have unveiled plans for a £52million institute dedicated to tackling climate change... more

Thames national park to be Dickensian idyll

27.11.08
Plans for a Thames Estuary national park returning 50 miles of Kent and Essex wetlands to the state of wilderness immortalised by Charles Dickens were unveiled today.... more

Thames Gateway 'will miss target for 160,000 homes'

26.11.08
The Thames Gateway project will fail to meet Labour's target of 160,000 new homes by 2016, the Government's own regeneration chief predicted... more

Labour's £200m plan to end rough sleeping

18.11.08
More than £200million is to be spent on new measures to end all street homelessness by 2012, housing minister Margaret Beckett announced... more

Council tenants face losing their right to a 'home for life'

10.11.08
Council tenants may lose their right to a home for life under reforms being considered by ministers... more

Minister's doubts on Hips... but they're here to stay

28.10.08
New housing minister Margaret Beckett has distanced herself from Home Information Packs by admitting they are not working as well as they should... more

Working mothers are still in the doghouse

16.06.08
I think the managing editor of this paper would take a dim view if I tried to claim childcare on expenses but then he wouldn't be very happy if I stung him for half of John Lewis's kitchen department either.... more

Bremner, Blair and Brecht

20.03.07
Britain's favourite satirist says he's given up on the Prime Minister, taken up translating for the stage and is not sorry that he made a fool of Margaret Beckett.... more

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