Wellington, May 18 NZPA - National MPs will take the biggest hit of any politicians if budget announcements making multiple property ownership less financially appealing are implemented in the budget as Finance Minister Bill English has indicated.

Wellington, May 5 NZPA - The Government was tonight called on to take the lead in nuclear non-proliferation negotiations when Parliament held a debate that coincided with the review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) that is taking place in New York.

Wellington, Nov 18 NZPA - Parliament's health select committee is going to hold an inquiry into child immunisation rates. It said today New Zealand's immunisation rates were far lower than in many other developed and under-developed countries.

Wellington, Sept 23 NZPA - Hundreds of men are unnecessarily dying of prostate cancer every year because doctors refuse to test them, a parliamentary select committee has been told.

Wellington, Sept 22 NZPA - National MP Paul Hutchison was caught reading while driving, and now his colleagues are being warned off the practice.

Auckland, Sept 22 NZPA - A National MP dobbed in after being caught reading while driving on an Auckland motorway has apologised and suggested he should be sentenced to picking up rubbish.

Wellington, Sept 11 NZPA - The benefits of compulsory student union membership will be revealed when a select committee examines a proposal to scrap compulsion, says Labour.

By Rory MacKinnon for NZPA Wellington, Sept 11 NZPA - National has made its first public show of support for a bill to dismantle compulsory student unions.