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03 May 2013

Guidance: Universities in their local communities, enabling economic growth: Witty review terms of reference
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This review aims to investigate how universities can drive growth in their areas and for the benefit of the wider UK and to disseminate knowledge and best practice. The terms of reference provides questions for...

Transparency data: DCLG workforce management information: March 2013
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This spreadsheet contains details of the workforce management data for March 2013.

These figures are not official statistics. They are internal workforce management information published in the interests...

Corporate report: Health and Care Transition Programme Plan
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This plan tracked the milestones of the Department’s Health and Care Transition Programme.

The plan was also known as the “Transition Roadmap”. It provided transition boards with an overview of the implementation...

Transparency data: Ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings with external organisations, October to December 2012
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Ministerial gifts (both received and given), hospitality, travel and meetings with external organisations for ministers within the Cabinet Office.

Transparency data: Special advisers: gifts, hospitality and meetings, October to December 2012
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Cabinet Office special advisers - gifts, hospitality and meetings with newspaper and other media proprietors, editors and senior executives.

Guidance: Learning to read through phonics: information for parents
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Updated: This document has been updated to show when the phonics check will take place in 2013.

Research shows that when phonics is taught in a structured way, starting with the easiest sounds and progressing...

Consultation outcome: Consultation on the Submarine Dismantling Project
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Updated: Added details of next Submarine Dismantling project Advisory Group meeting.

The next Submarine Dismantling Project Advisory Group is to be held in Edinburgh at the Chartered Institute for Housing...

Consultation outcome: Employee Ownership and Share Buy Backs: Consultation on Implementing Nuttall Review Recommendations
seen at 18:32, 3 May in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Added link to the relevant Statutory Instrument: The Companies Act 2006 (Amendment of Part 18) Regulations 2013.

The Nuttall Review on Employee Ownership recommended (recommendation V) that the...

Statistics: Further breakdowns of offences committed by offenders with a previous immediate custodial sentence
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Further details on offending histories can be found in the Criminal Justice Statistics quarterly bulletin which was last published on 21 February 2013 and covered the 12 month period to the end of September 2012...

Statistics: Prison population figures
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Updated: Latest set of statistics added

Latest prison population figures for 2013.

Earlier editions

Prison population 2012

Prison population 2011

Population in ...

Corporate report: Review of the balance of competences: MOJ
seen at 18:32, 3 May in Search (Our copy).

The Government is carrying out an audit of what the EU does and how it affects the UK: the ‘balance of competences’ between the UK and the EU.

The Ministry of Justice has a part to play in this process...

The Duchess of Cornwall visits Middlesbrough
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Middlesbrough visit
Craft Skills Awards 2013
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Craft Skills Awards
Safety and Health Expo 2013 – NEC, Birmingham 14-16 May
seen at 18:30, 3 May in HSE RSS feeds (Our copy).

HSE will be represented at Safety and Health Expo 2013, the annual exhibition for the occupational safety and health industry. The HSE will be situated in Hall 1, stand G20, operational and policy staff, will...

Transparency data: SoS & PUSoS: meetings with external organisations, Oct-Dec 2012
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A list of meetings involving the SoS Michael Moore and/or the PUSoS David Mundell and external organisations between October & December 2012.

Transparency data: BIS workforce management: March 2013
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For workforce numbers, both payroll and non-payroll (contingent labour, including consultants) information is provided, split between full-time equivalents (FTE) and headcount, with payroll staff numbers mapped...

Transparency data: Ministerial gifts, October 2012 to December 2012
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Details of gifts given by Scotland Office Ministers, October to December 2012.

Details of gifts received by Scotland Office Ministers, October to December 2012.

Transparency data: Ministerial overseas travel, October 2012 to December 2012
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Details of overseas travel by Scotland Office Ministers between October 2012 and December 2012.

Transparency data: Ministerial hospitality received, October 2012 to December 2012
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Where there is no report, this indicates that there was no hospitality received by Scotland Office Ministers or Special Advisers for the period concerned. This is indicated on the summary sheet which can be found...

Transparency data: Special Adviser gifts, October 2012 to December 2012
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Details of gifts received by the Scotland Office Special Adviser between October and December 2012.

Correspondence: Duncan Selbie's Friday message: 5 May 2013
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We have appointed four non-executive members to our Advisory Board; we have also appointed an international addiction expert, Dr Thomas McLellan, as our Drugs Recovery Adviser.

This week I met Dr Chris...

Transparency data: Special advisers' gifts and hospitality
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Updated: Add SPADs gifts and hospitality October-December 2012.

MOD special advisers are required to publish details of gifts and hospitality received.

Transparency data: Cabinet Office permanent secretaries’ meetings with external organisations, 2012
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Updated: Added data for October to December 2012

Cabinet Office permanent secretaries’ meetings with external organisations at quarterly intervals.

Transparency data: Special advisers: hospitality received, October to December 2012
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Where there is no report, this indicates that there was no hospitality received by Scotland Office Ministers or Special Advisers for the period concerned. This is indicated on the summary sheet which can be found...

Transparency data: Ministerial Summary: quarter 4 2012
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Quarter 4 - Ministerial Summary

Transparency data: BIS workforce management: April 2012 to March 2013
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Updated: March 2013 data added to spreadsheet

For workforce numbers, both payroll and non-payroll (contingent labour, including consultants) information is provided, split between full-time equivalents (...

Transparency data: Special Advisers Summary: quarter 4, 2012
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Quarter 4 - Special Advisers Summary

Guidance: Guide to the Healthcare System in England
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This guide explains organisations in the healthcare system and how they work together and includes the Statement of NHS Accountability.

The Guide to the Healthcare System in England covers:

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Guidance: Performance of Payment by Results Pilot Areas: April 2012 to February 2013
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The report covers 11 months from the start of the PbR pilots in April 2012 to the latest data available at the end of February 2013. All the data has been produced from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring ...

Transparency data: Hospitality received by HMT Special Advisers: 1 October – 31 December 2012
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The government has committed to publish a record of hospitality valued at over &pound;140 received by Special Advisers.

Transparency data: HMT Ministers' meetings, hospitality, gifts and overseas travel: 1 October to 31 December 2012
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This document contains information about our ministers’ meetings, hospitality, gifts and overseas travel for the period 1 October to 31 December 2012.

Statistics: Farmer intentions survey
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Updated: Added contact details.

This annual publication gives the results of the Farmer Intentions Survey for England. It looks at recent changes in the farm business and at intentions for future changes...

Transparency data: Contracts and tenders transparency data for DCLG: September 2012 to April 2013
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The government has set out the need for greater transparency across its operations to enable the public to hold public bodies and politicians to account. This includes commitments relating to public expenditure...

Transparency data: HMT Permanent Secretaries’ meetings with external organisations: 1 October to 31 December 2012
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In line with Cabinet Office guidance, we’ve published HM Treasury’s most senior officials’ business expenses and hospitality. We’re also publishing information covering meetings HMT Permanent Secretaries have...

Statistics - national statistics: Farm practices survey October 2012 - current farming issues
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Updated: Added spreadsheet of data to accompany the statistics notice.

The Farm Practices Survey (FPS) asks questions about how farming practices in England are affected by current agricultural and environmental...

Statistics: April 2013 farming and food brief
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This monthly paper produced by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) brings together the latest key information relating to agriculture and the wider economy. In particular it highlights...

Transparency data: HMT board expenses: 1 October to 31 December 2012
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In line with Cabinet Office guidance, we’ve published HM Treasury’s most senior officials’ business expenses and hospitality. We’re also publishing information covering meetings HMT Permanent Secretaries have...

Correspondence: Notes on neighbourhood planning: edition 5
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This bulletin from the neighbourhood planning team in the Department for Communities and Local Government provides an update on the latest news and policy developments, how the neighbourhood planning team can...

R v Ben Raftery
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Sentencing remarks of Mr Justice Saunders
Open consultation: Opportunity to comment on Defra's funding review for WRAP
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The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is carrying out a review of its funding for the Waste and Resources Action Programme’s (WRAP) activities in England.

As part of the review...

Open consultation: Consultation on (i) the order for replacing ICT with computing and (ii) the regulations for disapplying aspects of the existing national curriculum
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On 7 February 2013 the Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Education, launched a public consultation on the government’s proposal for the reform of the national curriculum. The consultation closed ...

Transparency data: NHS Injury Costs Recovery scheme: amounts collected April 2013 - March 2014
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The NHS Injury Costs Recovery (ICR) scheme aims to recover the cost of NHS treatment where personal injury compensation is paid, for example after a road traffic accident. The Department of Health publishes monthly...

Guidance: Healthy Lives, Healthy People: A Public Workforce Strategy
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The strategy sets out actions for various partners in the new public health system to support and develop the public health workforce. It will help embed public health capacity within the wider workforce to support...

Transparency data: DWP staff numbers and associated costs: March 2013
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Details of the DWP workforce including numbers of payroll and non-payroll staff and costs: March 2013.

Guidance: Sift criteria for long term capacity options at UK airports
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This is the sift criteria which the Airports Commission will apply to determine which options for additional long term airport capacity submitted by scheme proposers should be taken forward for more detailed ...

Research and analysis: Report on the work of the Habitats and Wild Birds Directives – Marine Evidence Group
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The Marine Evidence Group (‘the Group’) was established in July 2012 to fulfil measures on improving marine data and evidence set out in the Habitats and Wild Birds Directives Implementation Review(‘the Review...

Corporate report: Department for Education analytical review
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On 3 May 2013, the Department for Education published its analytical review, conducted by Dr Ben Goldacre and Roger Plant, Director of So Direct Ltd. The review was commissioned by the Secretary of State, and...

Corporate report: Non-executive Advisory Board members for PHE: biographies
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Public Health England’s Advisory Board includes non-executive members. The Advisory Board and its Chair support and advise the chief executive officer. The Chair and Board are also responsible for reviewing strategy...

Guidance: Interim guidance to Commons Registration Authorities on Section 15C of the Commons Act 2006
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The Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013, which received Royal Assent on 25 April, has made a number of significant changes to the law on registering new town and village greens under the Commons Act 2006. Section...

Consultation outcome: Healthy Lives, Healthy People: Towards a Workforce Strategy for the Public Health System
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Updated: Summary of responses and consultation strategy added.

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 sets out changes to the public health system. Central to this is ensuring that the public health system...

Transparency data: BIS permanent secretary and government chief scientific adviser meetings: October to December 2012
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The BIS permanent secretary and the government chief scientific adviser must publish details of their meetings with external organisations. Covers the period of October to December 2012.

Transparency data: BIS directors general: travel, meetings and hospitality, October to December 2012
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BIS directors general must publish details of travel, meetings and any hospitality received. Covers the period of October to December 2012.

Transparency data: BIS ministerial information: October to December 2012
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BIS ministers must publish details of gifts, meetings with suppliers, overseas travel and hospitality received that’s part of their official duties. Covers the period of October to December 2012.

Transparency data: BIS special advisers: gifts, hospitality and senior media meetings, October to December 2012
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BIS special advisers must publish the details of any gifts and hospitality received and senior media meetings. Covers the period of October to December 2012.

FOI release: Complaints regarding Warm Front, CERT, CESP: FOI 13/0443
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Response to Freedom of Information request for details of complaints made to DECC about the Warm Front scheme and the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target(CERT) and Community Energy Saving Programme (CESP) obligations...

Guidance: Sale of a ramped landing craft (D/DSA/MST2/2013/03570)
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Viewings of the landing craft will take place on Tuesday 21st May 2013.

Policy paper: The housing revenue account self-financing determinations
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Updated: Added the limits on indebtedness determination 2012: amending determination 2013

Under section 173 of the Localism Act 2011, the secretary of state is required to consult representatives...

Transparency data: Senior staff: meetings
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Updated: Added Permanent Secretary's meetings October-December 2012

MOD senior staff are required to publish details of their meetings with external organisations.

Transparency data: DfT Permanent Secretary meetings with external organisations
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Updated: Data for October to December 2012 added.

Information about meetings between the DfT Permanent Secretary and external organisations.

DfT Permanent Secretary meetings with external organisations...
Transparency data: Business expenses and hospitality for senior DfT officials
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Updated: Data added for October to December 2012.

In line with Cabinet Office guidance, the department publishes the business expenses of and hospitality received by its most senior officials (the Permanent...

Transparency data: Special advisers' meetings
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Updated: Added SPADs meetings October-December 2012.

A quarterly updated list of meetings between special advisers, newspaper and other media proprietors, editors and senior executives.

Transparency data: Ministerial transparency data for Department for Transport
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Updated: October to December 2012 data release.

Information about ministerial gifts, hospitality, overseas travel, and meetings with external organisations. This information and data is published quarterly...

Transparency data: Ministerial and special adviser gifts data for Department for Transport
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Updated: October to December 2012 added.

Data about minister and special adviser gifts both given and received. This information and data is published quarterly. Where returns are blank this signifies a...

Transparency data: Ministerial and special adviser meetings data for Department for Transport
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Updated: October to December 2012 data added.

This data concerns ministerial and special adviser meetings with external organisations, including meetings with newspaper and other media proprietors, editors...

Transparency data: Ministerial overseas travel data for Department for Transport
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Updated: October to December 2012 data added.

This data concerns overseas travel for ministers within the Department for Transport. This data is published quarterly.

Data DfT ministerial overseas...
Transparency data: Ministers' gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings
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Updated: Added Oct-Dec 2012 files

A quarterly updated list of gifts and hospitality received by ministers; travel undertaken and meetings between ministers in MOD and external organisations.

Transparency data: Home Office board: hospitality, 2012 to 2013 Q3
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These documents show the hospitality received by members of the Home Office Board in quarter 3 of 2012-13, in PDF, Excel and ODS formats.

Transparency data: Meetings with external organisations: Permanent Secretary, 2012 to 2013 Q3
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These documents show the meetings the Home Office permanent secretary held with external organisations, in PDF, Word and ODT formats.

Guidance: Spotlight on community learning: supplement to the BIS further education and skills newsletter - April 2013
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Explains what community learning is. It looks at how policies support activities funded through the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) community learning budget. It includes case studies from...

Consultation launched on future arrangements for student number controls
seen at 14:31, 3 May in HEFCE news (Our copy).
HEFCE is asking for views on its proposals on controlling student numbers from 2014-15 onwards.
Safety alert – Risks to occupiers from installation of stone fireplace surrounds
seen at 14:30, 3 May in HSE RSS feeds (Our copy).

This alert informs designers, manufacturers and suppliers of stone or artificial stone fireplace surrounds of the need to provide adequate fixings and fixing options as well as detailed instructions on their ...

RR960 – Mobile elevated work platforms (MEWPs): Phase 3
seen at 14:30, 3 May in HSE RSS feeds (Our copy).

The work detailed in this report is the third phase of MEWPs research and has aimed to capture end users knowledge in relation to the key risk factors for entrapment/crushing whilst operating MEWPS, using insights...

The Interim Applications Court of the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court: A guide for litigants in person
seen at 14:30, 3 May in Judicial Office: Home (Our copy).
Updated April 2013
Communicating with the Home Office in Family Proceedings
seen at 14:30, 3 May in Judicial Office: Home (Our copy).
Guidance reissued March 2013
Guide to judicial conduct
seen at 14:30, 3 May in Judicial Office: Home (Our copy).
Foreword by The Lord Chief Justice
Committal for Contempt of Court
seen at 14:30, 3 May in Judicial Office: Home (Our copy).
Committal for Contempt of Court
Bank holiday closure dates
seen at 14:30, 3 May in News Archives - The National Archives (Our copy).
The National Archives, in Kew, will be closed from 17:00 on Friday 3 May until 09:00 on Tuesday 7 May.
Work Programme statistics
seen at 14:30, 3 May in UK Statistics Authority (Our copy).
Monitoring Review evaluating Department for Work and Pensions statistics about the Work Programme and Pre-Work Programme
Transparency data: DWP business plan transparency measures
seen at 11:33, 3 May in Search (Our copy).

Updated: 16. Proportion of new claims to JSA submitted online: Latest data – published for March 2013 (including xls and csv files). 17. The proportion of State Pension claims completed online: Latest data – ...

Wakefield invests in its cultural future
seen at 11:33, 3 May in http://www.artscouncil.org.uk Latest entries (Our copy).
Wakefield invests in its cultural future
UK Sport statement on the passing of para-equestrian dressage rider Joanne Pitt
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Liz Nicholl, CEO of UK Sport provides a statement
Transparency data: Returns for October - December 2012
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Transparency returns for October - December 2012

Transparency data: DFID special advisers business expenses, gifts, hospitality and meetings October to December 2012
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DFID special advisers business expenses, gifts, hospitality and meetings October to December 2012

Research and analysis: Public attitudes tracking survey: technical note
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Updated: Technical note updated to include all waves of the DECC Public Attitudes Tracker series.

The Department for Energy & Climate Change (DECC) has set up a tracking survey to understand and monitor...

Capital Stock, Capital Consumption - Estimation improvement for the consumption of fixed capital May 2013
seen at 09:31, 3 May in Latest UK National Statistics releases (Our copy).
This article details new methodology used in the calculation for the estimation of consumption of fixed capital.
Insolvency Statistics - Quarter 1, 2013
seen at 09:31, 3 May in Latest UK National Statistics releases (Our copy).
Presents statistics on quarterly insolvencies for the UK include headline figures for England and Wales.
Transparency data: Department for Education and executive agency spend via government procurement card (GPC) over £500: financial year 2012 to 2013
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Updated: Updated to include figures for March 2013.

Spend via government procurement cards (GPCs) over &pound;500 for the Department for Education and its executive agencies (EAs) has been made available...

Corporate report: Achieving social impact at scale
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This report aims to open up more information about developments in social investment by showcasing new fund structures: ‘co-mingling’ social investment funds.

These are structures that foundations around...

Guidance: Singapore – Consular Fees
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Updated: Consular fees for May 2013

A full list of Consular fees

Statistical data set: Commodity prices
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Updated: Updated with new banana prices.

Prices for selected agricultural and horticultural produce are published on a weekly or monthly basis in the following spreadsheets. The data source depends on the...

Transparency data: Home Office board: business expenses, 2012 to 2013 Q3
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These documents show the business expenses of members of the Home Office Board in quarter 3 of 2012 to 2013, in both PDF and CSV formats.

Transparency data: Home Office board: hospitality, 2012 to 2013 Q3
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These documents show the hospitality received by members of the Home Office Board in quarter 3 of 2012-13, in CSV, PDF and Word formats.

Transparency data: Meetings with external organisations: Permanent Secretary, 2012 to 2013 Q3
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These documents show the meetings the Home Office permanent secretary held with external organisations.

Temporary export bar on placed rare jewellery linked to 19th century Princess
seen at 09:30, 3 May in http://www.artscouncil.org.uk Latest entries (Our copy).
Temporary export bar on placed rare jewellery linked to 19th century Princess
Family Arts Campaign
seen at 09:30, 3 May in http://www.artscouncil.org.uk Latest entries (Our copy).
Family Arts Campaign
Case 168 – Children not allowed to use a drinking water machine in a children’s centre
seen at 09:30, 3 May in HSE RSS feeds (Our copy).

A drinking water machine in the reception area of a children’s centre has a sign above it stating that children are not allowed to use the dispenser due to health and safety.

Capital Stock, Capital Consumption - Estimation improvement for the consumption of fixed capital May 2013
seen at 02:32, 3 May in Latest UK National Statistics releases (Our copy).
This article details new methodology used in the calculation for the estimation of consumption of fixed capital.
Insolvency Statistics - Quarter 1, 2013
seen at 02:32, 3 May in Latest UK National Statistics releases (Our copy).
Presents statistics on quarterly insolvencies for the UK include headline figures for England and Wales.
Research and analysis: Post adoption support: a rapid response survey of local authorities in England
seen at 02:32, 3 May in Search (Our copy).

The Adoption and Children Act (2002) places a duty on local authorities to maintain an appropriate service for adoption support. The adoption support services regulations require authorities to conduct assessments...