Their concerns

Parents in England who let their underage children drink alcohol could face prosecution, under proposals from the Home Office.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7429701.stm

Conservative plans to reform the benefits system include getting inmates leaving jail into work to help them avoid re-offending.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7420871.stm

The SNP's flagship policy to cut class sizes for primaries 1 to 3 to 18 are set to cost over £400m, according to the BBC.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7422480.stm

The Chancellor Alistair Darling is planning to increase road tax for older, more polluting cars.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7421171.stm

Labour MP Roberta Blackman-Woods is urging her colleagues in the House of Commons to label lap-dancing clubs as 'sex encounter establishments', taking them out of the current licensing regime in which they are treated like ordinary pubs and clubs.

The change would put lap-dancing clubs in the same category as sex shops and sex cinemas, and would allow local authorities to more easily veto their establishment on grounds of impropriety.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7460302.stm

The Government has announced plans to spend £140m providing free swimming to over 60s and under 16s, becoming available before the 2012 London Olympics.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7439182.stm

As part of a £9m investment, the Scottish Government plan to ban the display of cigarettes in shops.

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2008/05/21134808

Protesting Hauliers are demanding the government reduce fuel duty by 20-25 pence within 7 days, or they will blockade refineries and ports.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7420792.stm