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Margaret Beckett RSS feedFlats plan for Commonwealth Institute set to be approved
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Major scheme to revamp the former Commonwealth Institute in Holland Park is set to be given the go-ahead tonight2009-09-17T09:10:43ZWould-be Speakers line up for contest
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2009-06-22T06:18:49ZSpeaker rivals pledge (slight) change to restore public trust
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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 scandal2009-06-22T06:10:15ZChoose a Speaker on merit, not politics
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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 Martin2009-06-22T08:01:21ZConservative MPs say they will vote for Beckett to stop Bercow becoming Speaker
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The battle for a new Speaker heated up when Tory MPs indicated they would stand behind Margaret Beckett to stop frontrunner John Bercow2009-06-15T08:41:21ZAnn Widdecombe makes bid to become new Speaker
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Ann Widdecombe has joined the race to be Speaker of the House of Commons, saying she wanted to "clean up the place"2009-06-11T06:19:33ZWe're forced to eat out at restaurants, says Beckett
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Margaret Beckett defended MPs claiming thousands of pounds for food by insisting they have to eat in restaurants2009-05-15T08:25:57ZTaxpayers’ money to buy unsold new homes in £1billion rescue plan
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A £1 billion emergency rescue for the housing market will be in tomorrow’s Budget2009-04-21T08:43:42ZNow Beckett is found to be profiting from three homes cash loophole
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Housing minister Margaret Beckett has become the latest Cabinet minister to be engulfed in the "three homes" row2009-04-06T08:47:44ZGordon can’t ignore our anger over MPs’ perks
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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 right2009-04-06T08:25:19ZHIP rules 'will hit housing recovery'
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Ministers were accused of hampering the ailing housing market's recovery with tougher rules on home information packs, which come into effect on Monday2009-04-03T09:24:18ZDon’t tax fat people who scoff chocs – laugh at them
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2009-03-13T10:33:51ZEnter the bailiffs, stage left
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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 set2009-03-05T11:00:09ZHouse prices are down by 1.3% in just four weeks
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<strong>Property: </strong> House prices fell again in January with properties losing 1.3% of their value over the past four weeks2009-01-29T09:06:52ZA thumbs-up from Zandra but high-rise faces hurdles
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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 station2009-01-23T11:29:17ZFund helps only 1,300 first-time buyers in the capital
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Thousands of first-time buyers are to miss out on a government scheme aimed at helping people onto the housing ladder2008-12-17T09:27:00ZBeckett gives failing HIPs a makeover with new questions
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Housing minister Margaret Beckett has unveiled a major shake-up of home information packs after admitting they were not working2008-12-08T15:06:07ZBig banks: We haven't signed up to Brown's mortgage rescue plan
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Leading banks have denied they had committed themselves to Gordon Brown's flagship mortgage rescue plan2008-12-04T14:23:23ZBeckett doubt on how many homeowners will be helped
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Fresh doubts were raised today over how many homeowners will be saved from repossession by Labour's new mortgage scheme.2008-12-04T09:54:06ZHarman and Beckett refuse to back Martin
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Support for Speaker Michael Martin drained away as two senior ministers refused to express confidence in him2008-12-04T14:48:26ZThe banks must give us relief
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This week has brought new signs of the depth of the recession, not least in the stricken housing market2008-12-04T12:40:24ZBrown puts his 'full confidence' in Martin
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Gordon Brown propped up Speaker Michael Martin today by saying he had "full confidence" in him.2008-12-04T16:32:31ZUniversities back £52m climate change institute
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Leading universities have unveiled plans for a £52million institute dedicated to tackling climate change2008-11-27T08:57:11ZThames national park to be Dickensian idyll
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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.2008-11-27T14:14:37ZThames Gateway 'will miss target for 160,000 homes'
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The Thames Gateway project will fail to meet Labour's target of 160,000 new homes by 2016, the Government's own regeneration chief predicted2008-11-26T08:32:40ZLabour's £200m plan to end rough sleeping
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More than £200million is to be spent on new measures to end all street homelessness by 2012, housing minister Margaret Beckett announced2008-11-18T09:46:17ZCouncil tenants face losing their right to a 'home for life'
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Council tenants may lose their right to a home for life under reforms being considered by ministers2008-11-10T10:48:18ZMinister's doubts on Hips... but they're here to stay
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New housing minister Margaret Beckett has distanced herself from Home Information Packs by admitting they are not working as well as they should2008-10-28T08:59:47ZWorking mothers are still in the doghouse
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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.2008-06-16T13:20:49ZBremner, Blair and Brecht
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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.2007-03-20T13:21:02Z