Advent Parliamentary Update
The Catholic Union has updated MPs and peers on our recent work in Westminster and beyond. The email update features our change in President, ‘scrap… Read More »Advent Parliamentary Update
The Catholic Union has updated MPs and peers on our recent work in Westminster and beyond. The email update features our change in President, ‘scrap… Read More »Advent Parliamentary Update
The Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has carried out a major reshuffle of his ministerial team. The Catholic Union looks at some of the key changes… Read More »Catholic Union reviews recent reshuffle
Catholic Union Deputy Director, James Somerville-Meikle, writes: The Department for Education is a strange building. The offices on Great Smith Street are known as the… Read More »Seeking sanctuary
Catholic Union Deputy Director James Somerville-Meikle, writes: The return of Parliament and schools from the summer break was always going to make this a busy… Read More »Back to school
The Catholic Union has updated MPs and peers on our recent work in Westminster and beyond. The email update features our ‘scrap the cap’ campaign,… Read More »Summer Parliamentary Update
Following Catholic emancipation, one of the first bodies to be set up was the Catholic Education Service (CES) in 1847. Education has always been vital… Read More »Securing the future of Catholic education
The Catholic Union has joined forces with the Catholic Bishops to urge Chancellor Rishi Sunak to abolish the two-child limit on benefits as part of next month’s Budget.
In a letter congratulating Mr Sunak on his recent appointment, Nigel Parker (Director of the Catholic Union) and Bishop Richard Moth (Chair of the Bishops’ Conference Department for Social Justice), called on the Chancellor to help more than half a million children by abolishing the two-child limit for Universal Credit and Child Tax Credit in his forthcoming budget, scheduled for next month.
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The Catholic Union has welcomed the decision by the Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, to scrap the High Income Child Benefit Charge as part of his Budget… Read More »Major Budget win for Catholic Union
The Catholic Union and Caritas Social Action Network (CSAN) have called for children and families to be the focus of the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement on… Read More »Catholic Union and CSAN call for benefit changes
Catholic Union Deputy Director, James Somerville-Meikle, writes: Rishi Sunak mentioned “family” 17 times in his speech at the Conservative Party Conference this week. He was… Read More »Deeds and words on family life