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Free care for 280,000 elderly and disabled

18.11.09
Care for the elderly was put at the heart of Labour’s re-election bid today with a pledge to give free help to those in most need... more

Andy Burnham: Polyclinics won’t be cut

20.10.09
Every Londoner will have a polyclinic in their borough before the Olympics, the Health Secretary claimed today... more

We'll scrap hospital car parking charges says Burnham

30.09.09
Hospital car parking charges will be axed for people visiting inpatients, Andy Burnham announced, but the NHS has to make savings of £20 billion... more

Ageing population facing healthcare 'timebomb'

18.09.09
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Patients to choose their GP surgery

17.09.09
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Ending TV ban on product placement is sensible move

16.09.09
Media analysis: What a great wheeze it must have seemed to the Government to solve the problems of commercial TV companies and advertisers by suggesting the ban on product placement could be lifted... more

Richer pensioners face care bill 'tax'

27.08.09
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Taking the medicine

21.08.09
How swine flu advice has changed over the summer. ... more

Labour has failed to get us exercising, says minister

13.08.09
Decade of Labour initiatives and targets on healthy lifestyles have failed to get Britons to take part in exercise, Health Secretary Andy Burnham admitted... more

Calls to keep schools closed over swine flu fears

21.07.09
Ministers asked to consider closing schools this autumn to help curb the number of swine flu infections... more

100,000 new swine flu cases every day ‘by next month’

02.07.09
New cases of swine flu could reach 100,000 a day by next month, the Government warned... more

Spread of swine flu speeds up

12.06.09
Health Secretary Andy Burnham admitted there has been a "significant increase" in the number of people suffering from swine flu in parts of the UK... more

Can soccer go socialist?

08.05.09
The Culture Secretary wants English football's Big Four to share their wealth - but he will have his work cut out to realise his ambition... more

'Pay these expenses or my wife will divorce me'

08.05.09
Culture Secretary Andy Burnham joked he could be divorced unless the Commons authorities paid him thousands of pounds they had ruled improper... more

At last media chiefs agree they must act to save local journalism from crisis

29.04.09
The “local media summit” held in the House of Commons revealed a welcome trend towards co-operation, says Roy Greenslade... more

Minister Andy Burnham leaves his ‘restricted’ papers on train

21.04.09
Culture Secretary Andy Burnham has apologised for leaving a briefcase containing confidential documents on a train... more

Burnham in TV cricket boost

23.01.09
Cricket could return to terrestrial television after it emerged that Andy Burnham, the Culture Secretary, favours the game being protected... more

Extra £29m for London 2012 to help reduce funding gap

02.12.08
The Government have moved to limit the damage of a funding gap for Olympic sports by coming up with an extra £29million... more

You just don't have The X Factor, minister

12.11.08
How dare Andy Burnham use up precious parliamentary time to interfere with The X Factor?... more

£79m funding gap 'will doom British hockey to failure at 2012 Games'

05.11.08
British hockey has become the latest sport to warn that it may flop at the London Olympics if the Government fails to plug a £79million black hole in funding... more

£30m drive to encourage more children to play sport

16.10.08
Millions of children are still not taking part in competitive sport at school, figures will show... more

Cricket may return to free live television

26.09.08
Cricket is at the top of a list of sports that may return to terrestrial television as part of a review into which events should be free to watch... more

1m free tickets to lure young into theatres

23.09.08
£2.5 million free tickets scheme to get more young people into theatres is being unveiled... more

£9m shortfall threatens free swimming scheme

15.09.08
A scheme to provide free swimming was thrown into doubt by an apparent £9 million shortfall... more

'Broadcasters need to show more women's events on TV'

10.09.08
Andy Burnham criticised broadcasters for failing to show enough women's sports on television, including all-female football matches... more

Minister: I will get one million more people taking part in competitive sports

10.09.08
Culture Secretary Andy Burnham has taken personal responsibility for delivering a proper sporting legacy from the 2012 Olympics... more

Six ministers, 13 departments but no single leader

04.09.08
The chaos hampering London's 2012 sporting legacy is revealed today. No single individual is dedicated to realising the promised Olympics sports legacy and there are growing fears that the ambitious scheme will end up mired in bureaucracy... more

Children to get five hours' sport a week in new Olympic era

29.08.08
Culture Secretary Andy Burnham vowed that the young would benefit from Britain's new "Olympic era" as he set out plans to offer all children five hours of sport a week... more

Culture Secretary defends the grassroots legacy of 2012

18.08.08
Culture Secretary Andy Burnham has hit back at fresh claims that the Government is not on track to deliver a lasting legacy from the 2012 Olympics... more

Creative Britannia ... costume college and 5,000 arts apprentices

22.02.08
Thousands of "cultural" apprenticeships will be created as part of plans to bring Britain's creative industries into the mainstream... more

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