Plans to suspend Sunday Trading Laws during this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games moved a step closer today as the proposed Bill had its first reading in the House of Lords by Lord Sassoon.
The Highways Agency will help keep traffic moving over the Easter bank holiday weekend by suspending or completing more than 90 percent of its roadworks. (Click here for a content-rich version of this news...
The owner of a pallet manufacturing firm has appeared in court after he allowed fires to be repeatedly lit at his premises next to gas storage sites in Carlisle.
The Highways Agency today announced that the £2.2million six weeks of works on the A449 between Coven Heath roundabout and junction 2 of the M54 are now complete. It has thanked road users and local...
The Highways Agency will help keep traffic moving over the Easter bank holiday weekend by suspending or completing more than 90 percent of its roadworks. (Click here for a content-rich version of this news...
The Highways Agency today announced that the £2.2million six weeks of works on the A449 between Coven Heath roundabout and junction 2 of the M54 are now complete. It has thanked road users and local...
With the pollen season fast approaching, pollen forecasts are now available on the Met Office website.
A Department for Business, Innovation and Skills spokesperson commenting on the Higher Education Initial Participation Rate (HEIPR) figures said:
"A degree is a good investment for the long term and an ...
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills today launched a consultation on proposals to make it easier for Trading Standards officers to tackle rogue traders across local authority boundaries.
The Government is today launching an informal consultation to seek views from businesses, local communities and other organisations on how EU Structural Funds, Rural Development Funds and Fisheries Funds can ...
Work to improve the reliability of lighting around a key traffic interchange in Merseyside has been taking place – with a second project starting soon.
A Department for Business, Innovation and Skills spokesperson commenting on the Higher Education Initial Participation Rate (HEIPR) figures said:
"A degree is a good investment for the long term and an ...
The Highways Agency today announced that the £2.2million six weeks of works on the A449 between Coven Heath roundabout and junction 2 of the M54 are now complete. They thanked road users and local residents...
Greenleaf Global Plc (Global) in Twickenham, London has been ordered into provisional liquidation on public interest grounds in the High Court following an investigation by Company Investigations, part of the...
Greenleaf Global Plc (Global) in Twickenham, London has been ordered into provisional liquidation on public interest grounds in the High Court following an investigation by Company Investigations, part of the...
The Highways Agency today announced that the £2.2million six weeks of works on the A449 between Coven Heath roundabout and junction 2 of the M54 are now complete. They thanked road users and local residents...
Greenleaf Global Plc (Global) in Twickenham, London has been ordered into provisional liquidation on public interest grounds in the High Court following an investigation by Company Investigations, part of the...
The government has announced £4 million of funding for businesses to develop cutting-edge ideas to address some of the biggest health problems of our time.
New information that will help put the NHS on the side of patients and improve results for patients has been published today.
Minister for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning John Hayes today welcomed the interim report of the independent review of professionalism in the further education and skills sector.
A Cheshire worker could have been killed when he fell from the top of a chemical storage tank, a court has heard.
Two restaurant owners from Glasgow have been detained on suspicion of failing to pay the right amount of VAT, in an investigation by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
Driving test candidates in the Worcester area are set to benefit from a more convenient service as the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) extends a trial exploring a new approach to test delivery.
Driving test candidates in the Glasgow area are set to benefit from a more convenient service as the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) extends a trial exploring a new approach to test delivery.
Driving test candidates in the Watford area are set to benefit from a more convenient service as the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) extends a trial exploring a new approach to test delivery.
Driving test candidates in the Manchester area are set to benefit from a more convenient service as the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) extends a trial exploring a new approach to test delivery.
Driving test candidates in the Kettering area are set to benefit from a more convenient service as the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) extends a trial exploring a new approach to test delivery.
Driving test candidates across the country are set to benefit from a more convenient service as the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) extends a trial exploring a new approach to test delivery.
From the most digestible fish bait to turbines which generate electricity from river currents, the brains behind the region’s brightest export ideas have been named as finalists in the UK Trade & Investment...
The Highways Agency has today published its business plan, which sets out how it will operate, maintain and improve the 4,300-mile network of motorways and trunk roads in England in the year ahead.
The Minister for Trade and Investment, Lord Stephen Green, visited Gateshead today (27 March) to encourage the region’s business advisers to play their part in improving the North East’s economy by supporting...
The UK Green Investments (UKGI) team from the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, which will manage investment in the UK’s green infrastructure, is seeking expressions of interest from experienced...
The Health and Social Care Bill today gained Royal Assent to become the Health and Social Care Act (2012).
West Midlands plumber David Williams, 53, was today jailed for 12 months for evading £91,000 of income tax and national insurance during 10 years of trading as a self-employed plumber.
One of the UK’s leading printing groups has been fined £112,500 at Peterborough Crown Court today after a maintenance engineer was crushed to death in a printing press.
The Highways Agency has today published its business plan, which sets out how it will operate, maintain and improve the 4,300-mile network of motorways and trunk roads in England in the year ahead.
HM Revenue & Customs is continuing its programme of free half day workshops in Carmarthen in April, May and June. The workshops are aimed at employers, sole traders and those in partnerships, and cover a ...
HM Revenue & Customs is continuing its programme of free half day workshops in Swansea next month. The workshops are aimed at employers, sole traders and those in partnerships, and cover topics ranging from...
HM Revenue & Customs is continuing its programme of free half day workshops in Cardiff next month. The workshops are aimed at employers, sole traders and those in partnerships, and cover a range of topics...
The Government has today launched a consultation on an Above the Line (ATL) Research and Development (R&D) credit. The Government is committed to creating the most competitive tax system in the G20 and R...
Universities and Science Minister David Willetts commenting on the UCAS Admissions Process Review findings and recommendations said:
“The changes UCAS propose to the admissions process will greatly improve...
The EU Foreign Affairs Council met in Defence Ministers formation on 22 March in Brussels. I represented the UK.
The agenda items covered were current and future operations, a discussion on the changing...
Lord Levene published his independent recommendations on the structure and management of the Ministry of Defence in his report on Defence Reform on 27 June 2011. Since then, substantial progress has been made...
Following the comprehensive spending review and the strategic defence and security
review, and in view of the continuing pressure on the defence budget, the Ministry of Defence has carried out a very wide...
Along with the US and France, the UK aims to raise the profile of nuclear security on the international agenda. In the interests of increasing transparency, we have decided to release more information about our...
I am today publishing the reformed statutory framework for the early years foundation stage (EYFS), which will take effect from 1 September 2012.
The new, simpler and clearer EYFS framework is an integral...
As part of the structural reforms set out in the schools White Paper “The Importance of Teaching” (November 2010), I am today announcing that three new executive agencies of the Department for Education...
Further to my statement of 7 July 2010, I would like to update the House on the progress the Government have made in meeting a number of the important commitments set out in that statement.
We have taken...
I am writing to inform you that during recess I will launch the CCS commercialisation programme—the Government’s competition for CCS—and publish our CCS road map.
CCS has the potential...
I regret to inform the House that incomplete information was provided in the answer I gave to parliamentary question 98309 on 6 March, Official Report, column 669W, concerning how many cattle have been culled...
Today I am publishing “Healthy Lives, Healthy People: Towards a workforce strategy for the public health system”.
The consultation document aims to:
set out proposals for a work force ...
My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has today laid before the House a draft of The Police (Collaboration: Specified Function) Order 2012.
This order requires the police service to collaborate in the...
On 15 March I issued a written statement to the House to announce that Tom Winsor had published the final report of his review of remuneration and conditions of service for police officers and staff in England...
I am announcing today that my Department will shortly commence the first triennial review of the Migration Advisory Committee and the
technical advisory board. Triennial reviews of non-departmental public...
I am today publishing proposals for consultation in two key areas of the justice reform agenda: sentences in the community and the shape of probation services that deliver them. These proposals are set out in...
The Government are today publishing the new “Charter for Coroner Services”.
Charter for Coroner Services
The charter sets out for the first time the standards that bereaved family members...
I am pleased to announce the publication of the business plans for the Highways Agency and the Department for Transport’s Motoring Agencies—the Driving Standards Agency (DSA), the Driver and Vehicle...
I attended the first Transport Council under the Danish presidency (the presidency) in Brussels on Thursday 22 March.
The presidency sought agreement to a general approach on a proposal for a regulation...
At the end of this month I will receive HS2 Ltd’s route and station advice for high speed rail lines to Leeds, Manchester and Heathrow. This is an important next step in our aspiration for a truly national...
Last year I asked the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) to consider arrangements for delivering practical car driving tests from premises other than traditional driving test centres such as local authority buildings...
In May 2011, the Department for Work and Pensions commissioned the Social Security Advisory Committee to undertake an independent review of passported benefits and their interaction with universal credit.
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Driving test candidates in the Kettering area are set to benefit from a more convenient service as the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) extends a trial exploring a new approach to test delivery.
Two restaurant owners from Glasgow have been detained on suspicion of failing to pay the right amount of VAT, in an investigation by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
Driving test candidates in the Glasgow area are set to benefit from a more convenient service as the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) extends a trial exploring a new approach to test delivery.
Driving test candidates in the Worcester area are set to benefit from a more convenient service as the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) extends a trial exploring a new approach to test delivery.
Driving test candidates in the Watford area are set to benefit from a more convenient service as the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) extends a trial exploring a new approach to test delivery.
From the most digestible fish bait to turbines which generate electricity from river currents, the brains behind the region’s brightest export ideas have been named as finalists in the UK Trade & Investment...
One of the UK’s leading printing groups has been fined £112,500 at Peterborough Crown Court today after a maintenance engineer was crushed to death in a printing press.
The Minister for Trade and Investment, Lord Stephen Green, visited Gateshead today (27 March) to encourage the region’s business advisers to play their part in improving the North East’s economy by supporting...
New information that will help put the NHS on the side of patients and improve results for patients has been published today.
Minister for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning John Hayes today welcomed the interim report of the independent review of professionalism in the further education and skills sector.
A Cheshire worker could have been killed when he fell from the top of a chemical storage tank, a court has heard.
Two restaurant owners from Glasgow have been detained on suspicion of failing to pay the right amount of VAT, in an investigation by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
Driving test candidates in the Worcester area are set to benefit from a more convenient service as the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) extends a trial exploring a new approach to test delivery.
Driving test candidates in the Glasgow area are set to benefit from a more convenient service as the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) extends a trial exploring a new approach to test delivery.
Driving test candidates in the Watford area are set to benefit from a more convenient service as the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) extends a trial exploring a new approach to test delivery.
Driving test candidates in the Manchester area are set to benefit from a more convenient service as the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) extends a trial exploring a new approach to test delivery.
Driving test candidates in the Kettering area are set to benefit from a more convenient service as the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) extends a trial exploring a new approach to test delivery.
Driving test candidates across the country are set to benefit from a more convenient service as the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) extends a trial exploring a new approach to test delivery.
From the most digestible fish bait to turbines which generate electricity from river currents, the brains behind the region’s brightest export ideas have been named as finalists in the UK Trade & Investment...
The Highways Agency has today published its business plan, which sets out how it will operate, maintain and improve the 4,300-mile network of motorways and trunk roads in England in the year ahead.
The Minister for Trade and Investment, Lord Stephen Green, visited Gateshead today (27 March) to encourage the region’s business advisers to play their part in improving the North East’s economy by supporting...
The UK Green Investments (UKGI) team from the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, which will manage investment in the UK’s green infrastructure, is seeking expressions of interest from experienced...
The Health and Social Care Bill today gained Royal Assent to become the Health and Social Care Act (2012).
West Midlands plumber David Williams, 53, was today jailed for 12 months for evading £91,000 of income tax and national insurance during 10 years of trading as a self-employed plumber.
One of the UK’s leading printing groups has been fined £112,500 at Peterborough Crown Court today after a maintenance engineer was crushed to death in a printing press.
The Highways Agency has today published its business plan, which sets out how it will operate, maintain and improve the 4,300-mile network of motorways and trunk roads in England in the year ahead.
HM Revenue & Customs is continuing its programme of free half day workshops in Carmarthen in April, May and June. The workshops are aimed at employers, sole traders and those in partnerships, and cover a ...
HM Revenue & Customs is continuing its programme of free half day workshops in Swansea next month. The workshops are aimed at employers, sole traders and those in partnerships, and cover topics ranging from...
HM Revenue & Customs is continuing its programme of free half day workshops in Cardiff next month. The workshops are aimed at employers, sole traders and those in partnerships, and cover a range of topics...
The Government has today launched a consultation on an Above the Line (ATL) Research and Development (R&D) credit. The Government is committed to creating the most competitive tax system in the G20 and R...
Universities and Science Minister David Willetts commenting on the UCAS Admissions Process Review findings and recommendations said:
“The changes UCAS propose to the admissions process will greatly improve...
New information that will help put the NHS on the side of patients and improve results for patients has been published today.
Minister for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning John Hayes today welcomed the interim report of the independent review of professionalism in the further education and skills sector.
A Cheshire worker could have been killed when he fell from the top of a chemical storage tank, a court has heard.
Two restaurant owners from Glasgow have been detained on suspicion of failing to pay the right amount of VAT, in an investigation by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
Driving test candidates in the Worcester area are set to benefit from a more convenient service as the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) extends a trial exploring a new approach to test delivery.
Driving test candidates in the Glasgow area are set to benefit from a more convenient service as the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) extends a trial exploring a new approach to test delivery.
Driving test candidates in the Watford area are set to benefit from a more convenient service as the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) extends a trial exploring a new approach to test delivery.
Driving test candidates in the Manchester area are set to benefit from a more convenient service as the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) extends a trial exploring a new approach to test delivery.
Driving test candidates in the Kettering area are set to benefit from a more convenient service as the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) extends a trial exploring a new approach to test delivery.
Driving test candidates across the country are set to benefit from a more convenient service as the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) extends a trial exploring a new approach to test delivery.
From the most digestible fish bait to turbines which generate electricity from river currents, the brains behind the region’s brightest export ideas have been named as finalists in the UK Trade & Investment...
The Highways Agency has today published its business plan, which sets out how it will operate, maintain and improve the 4,300-mile network of motorways and trunk roads in England in the year ahead.
The Minister for Trade and Investment, Lord Stephen Green, visited Gateshead today (27 March) to encourage the region’s business advisers to play their part in improving the North East’s economy by supporting...
The UK Green Investments (UKGI) team from the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, which will manage investment in the UK’s green infrastructure, is seeking expressions of interest from experienced...
The Health and Social Care Bill today gained Royal Assent to become the Health and Social Care Act (2012).
West Midlands plumber David Williams, 53, was today jailed for 12 months for evading £91,000 of income tax and national insurance during 10 years of trading as a self-employed plumber.
One of the UK’s leading printing groups has been fined £112,500 at Peterborough Crown Court today after a maintenance engineer was crushed to death in a printing press.
The Highways Agency has today published its business plan, which sets out how it will operate, maintain and improve the 4,300-mile network of motorways and trunk roads in England in the year ahead.
HM Revenue & Customs is continuing its programme of free half day workshops in Carmarthen in April, May and June. The workshops are aimed at employers, sole traders and those in partnerships, and cover a ...
HM Revenue & Customs is continuing its programme of free half day workshops in Swansea next month. The workshops are aimed at employers, sole traders and those in partnerships, and cover topics ranging from...
HM Revenue & Customs is continuing its programme of free half day workshops in Cardiff next month. The workshops are aimed at employers, sole traders and those in partnerships, and cover a range of topics...
The Government has today launched a consultation on an Above the Line (ATL) Research and Development (R&D) credit. The Government is committed to creating the most competitive tax system in the G20 and R...
Universities and Science Minister David Willetts commenting on the UCAS Admissions Process Review findings and recommendations said:
“The changes UCAS propose to the admissions process will greatly improve...
The Minister for Trade and Investment, Lord Stephen Green, visited Gateshead today (27 March) to encourage the region’s business advisers to play their part in improving the North East��s economy by supporting...
Universities and Science Minister David Willetts commenting on the UCAS Admissions Process Review findings and recommendations said:
“The changes UCAS propose to the admissions process will greatly improve...