HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has announced today that in its drive to deliver a more effective service to local businesses and individuals, eliminate duplication and improve efficiency, it is closing its office at...
The Royal Navy today unveiled her latest amphibious landing ship, Royal Fleet Auxiliary Largs Bay, which is undergoing sea trails off the south coast prior to entering service later this year.
Many thanks to all of you who sent in questions to Lord Sainsbury. You can read the transcript of the webchat here.
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SPEECH BY ECONOMIC SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY, ED BALLS MP, TO THE BUILDING SOCIETIES ASSOCIATION'S ANNUAL LUNCH
The office of the Schools Adjudicator has published a decision on a request by The Governing Body of Holy Family Catholic School to vary their admission arrangements. The variation was to give top priority to looked...
Education and Skills Secretary of State Alan Johnson has today announced the appointment of Prue Leith OBE as the new Chair of the School Food Trust (SFT). She will take up her post on 15 January 2007.
Accessibility is to improve at 45 more stations in England and Wales, Rail Minister Tom Harris announced today. The stations have been included in the second round of the Department for Transport's Access for All...
Consultation on Draft Proposals to Transpose Directive 2004/107/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council Relating to Arsenic, Cadmium, Mercury, Nickel and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Ambient Air
New proposals to simplify sentencing and better protect the public were unveiled today by Home Secretary John Reid. The measures will strengthen judges' hands in dealing with dangerous offenders and improve the ...
We're holding the latest in our popular series of webchats today with the science minister. Make your voice heard on a subject the PM has said is "vital" to the UK's future.
Teaching continues to be a top choice of career, according to new figures which show close to another 40,000 people are due to begin their initial teacher training this year.
Service families are being urged to take advantage of a free parcels service this Christmas.
The Government today published its response to Paul Roberts' report - Nurturing Creativity in Young People. The response sets out the steps that Government will take, including setting up a Creative and Cultural...
The Minister for Science and Innovation, Lord Sainsbury, confirmed today that the new large facilities council would be called the "Science and Technology Facilities Council".
Planning inquiries for large-scale electricity projects will be overhauled by new rules outlined today by Alistair Darling, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.
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Aberdeenshire Council Performance Inspection Summary Report
Aberdeenshire Council Performance Inspection Report
Report on local taxation in Scotland by the Local Government Finance Review Committee
- 100th new NHS health centre opens its doors under innovative building programme -
Carers across the UK are set to benefit from the right to request flexible working.
The Government have committed themselves to informing Parliament on an annual basis of the sanctions regimes being implemented by the United Kingdom. Currently the United Kingdom implements United Nations sanctions...
The Government are committed to rebalancing the criminal justice system in favour of victims and the law-abiding majority.
It is wrong for convicted criminals to profit from their crimes now or in the future...
I am informing the House of my intention to publish shortly a consultation document entitled "Making Sentencing Clearer". This document meets the commitment I made in July, in the review of the criminal justice...
On 1 August 2005 the Department launched a consultation paper seeking views on the principle of whether foreign registered aircraft based in the UK being used for non-commercial purposes should be required to...
Deficit narrowed to £4.1 bn in Sept
The Claimant in this case is Tewkesbury Borough Council ("the Council"). In this action they seek an injunction pursuant to section 187B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 ("the Act") in relation to the ...
The claimant, Martin Redhead, was born on 24 December 1987. On 2 September 1996, when he was almost 9 years old, he was knocked down by a car driven by the defendant. Martin's injuries were such that he is not...
In about the middle of 1992, the First Defendant, who was a director of Scott Daniel Limited ['SD'], began ordering clothes to be manufactured by a state owned Bulgarian clothing factory, known as Drouzhba Style...
Parents who claim that they were the victims of a miscarriage of justice in previous care proceedings relating to their three older children, and who are now embroiled in care proceedings relating to their fourth...
On 11 August 2006 Colman J ordered an expedited trial of a claim for injunctions to stop the defendants from breaching a Shareholders' Agreement (the SHA) in relation to the listing of shares in a Bulgarian bank...
By a Claim Form, issued on 2 September 2002, the Claimants, who were underwriting Names at Lloyd's at various times during the period 1980 to 1996, claimed against Her Majesty's Government damages for losses incurred...
This is a partnership dispute between two cousins. The Claimant (Mark Broadhurst) is a car dealer from Auckland, New Zealand. At all material times the Defendant's primary business was that of a freight forwarder...
MR JUSTICE SULLIVAN: This is a combined challenge by the claimant consisting of an application under Section 288 and an appeal under section 289 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 ("the Act"). The challenge...
This is an application by Nicholas Hugh O'Reilly the Receiver and Manager of the realisable property of Robert William Briggs-Price for directions to assist him in carrying out his functions as a Receiver, pursuant...
LORD JUSTICE HOOPER: This is a reference by the Attorney General under section 36 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988. We grant the necessary leave. During the course of the oral argument it became clear that Mr...
The appellants in this appeal are the victims of a fraud, and the respondent is a Nigerian bank to which they paid money on the instructions of the fraudsters, for onward transfer to the account of a client of the...
This appeal is about mixed supplies of goods or services for the purpose of value added tax ("VAT"). In some circumstances they will be treated as a single supply but in other circumstances they will be treated...
England's best ever bathing water quality results were announced today (9 November), bringing good news for beach users and the tourism industry.
Energy Minister speaks to Brussels think tank as new report ranks the UK's energy markets the most competitive in the EU and G7