The Government has launched a six-week consultation setting out its proposals to make coercive conversion therapy illegal.

The proposals would target talking therapies that seek to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

There were 36,000 fewer referrals from schools in the year to March, according to data from the Government.

The taper rate will be cut by 8% ‘within weeks’, bringing it down from 63% to 55%, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced.

A third of motorists told the Office for National Statistics they were unable to buy fuel over the past two weeks because it was not available.

Hundreds of current and retired medical professionals have written to Health Secretary Sajid Javid expressing ‘great concern’ over the proposed Bill.

Some 666 deaths registered in the week ending October 8 mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Some 36.7% of care home residents were self-funding their care between 2019-20, according to experimental statistics.