Hawaii-based telescope on offer. Prospectus issued for the world class James Clerk Maxwell Telescope.
Snowdonia National Park Authority is pleased to announce that it is sponsoring two popular events in Snowdonia during the coming weeks.
Updated: Further detail added around policy objectives and the problem under consideration.
The rehabilitation programme will transform the way offenders are managed in the community to achieve a reduction...
HRH visits Marie Curie and Fisher House
Historic ‘trods' have been damaged by a 4X4 vehicle for the second time in six months.
Commitment to wildlife and nature by a north Cumbrian reserve has been recognised by a leading national awards scheme.
Volunteer Training Days for people interested in joining Moors for the Future Partnership's new Community Science project are to be held in the Peak District National Park.
A Scottish health board has been fined for safety failings that led to several workers and contractors being potentially exposed to deadly asbestos fibres.
A Wellingborough firm has been fined for safety breaches after a worker’s hand was crushed in an unguarded laminating machine.
The latest stage of the Government’s commitment to debunking health and safety myths and slashing burdensome rules has been announced.
HSE have published revised guidance for employers with health and safety responsibilities for young people, and in particular those on work experience. The simplified guidance provides clarity, particularly in...
A group of residents have transformed their street into a green garden which had been applauded by the council several times. However, the residents have now been told by the same authority that they must remove...
FOI request response regarding Oil Pollution Emergency Plans (OPEPs) for the Trent and Indie platforms and the OPPC Permit for the Kilmar platform.
The statement records the decision of the UK national contact point to accept for further consideration a complaint from a non-governmental organisation that a UK company supplying surveillance equipment to police...
Updated: Updated weekly banana and cereal 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 Wednesday, the Home Secretary led a discussion on gang and youth violence with Professor Kevin Fenton, Professor Mark Bellis and me, along with Professor Steve Field, NHS England’s lead director on inequalities...
Updated: Updated to include the government response.
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 ...
Updated: Added the Welsh Version of DBS News
Read the June 2013 edition of DBS News.
This month’s edition includes:
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Steve Cram MBE is to step-down as Chairman of the EIS after more than 10 years as the head of the organisation
Two men wanted in connection with a major Home Office Immigration Enforcement investigation into suspected people smuggling gangs have been arrested and brought back to the UK.
The pair, 37-year-old Jayakody...
Sentencing remarks of HHJ Lawson QC
Speech by The Hon. Sir Charles Haddon-Cave
Oliver Morley, Chief Executive and Keeper, The National Archives, will be on hand to answer your questions on three separate occasions in July. This is your opportunity to ask about the management and future...
The Sussex schoolteacher who fled to France with one of his pupils has today (Friday 21 June) pleaded guilty to an additional five charges of sexual activity with a child.
Asked whether police were investigations allegations of a cover up by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the PMS said that this would be a matter for the police. More widely, he made the point that it was absolutely...
The government has launched a call for evidence into ways of significantly reducing the costs of the Local Government Pension Scheme by increasing fund co-operation, transparency and accountability to taxpayers...
HM Treasury requires that all central government departments publish details of their spending for transactions over £25,000.
UK Export Finance publishes details of invoices on a monthly basis...
Updated: Uploaded Police performance data document
View statistics showing how the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) has performed against its targets.
If you are a recent graduate or final year BA/BSc level, Masters or Research degree student with entrepreneurial ambitions, now is the time to grab an exclusive place at the Entrepreneur Festival. Whether you...
The UK Government has published details of more than 200 bodies that currently serve people and businesses in Scotland and which may need to be replicated in a new independent Scottish state.
The publication...
What advice is given to someone that is denied benefits to stop them falling into poverty and beyond.
This request relates to the following 3 regulations (statutory instruments): One: S.I.: 1994/470: The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Amendment) Regulations 1994 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994...
Guidance on what is required to be considered as ‘habitually resident’ in the UK.
This document outlines the responsibilities and constitutional makeup of the Domestic Homicide Review Quality Assurance Panel.
Breakdown of the weekly costs used to determine the applicable amount used when calculating benefit claims.
Can jobseekers protest against new changes made to Crisis Loan rules and is there any legislation made about this?
Settlement letter regarding ‘Local support to replace Community Care Grants and Crisis Loans for living expenses in England’.
Updated: Added the government response to part (ii) of this consultation.
On 7 February 2013 the Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Education, launched a public consultation on the government...
Representatives from UK Sport met with performance leads from football and cricket to discuss best practice
Speech by The Hon. Sir Charles Haddon-Cave
Gregor McGill, a senior lawyer with the Crown Prosecution Service, whose team handles CPS decision making and potential prosecutions in relation to the ongoing phone hacking investigations and other related matters...
On 20 March 2013 the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that employers that help their employees to return to work after periods of sickness will get new support through the tax system.
This announcement...
Updated: Updated figures on the incidents of confirmed M. bovis infection in domestic and companion animals and wild deer in GB.
This data set includes a range of other statistics relevant to the incidence...
The Home Secretary has announced the creation of an independent panel, which will be responsible for overseeing the release of documents related to the 1989 Hillsborough football disaster.
An expert team has been appointed to the Hillsborough Independent Panel, Home Secretary Alan Johnson announced today.
Theresa May confirms that the panel has full government support to continue in its role overseeing publication of all publicly-held documents.
Panel affirms its independence of government
Panel affirms its independence of government
The Household Electricity Use Survey monitored a total of 250 owner-occupier households across England from 2010 to 2011.
This report presents findings from our preliminary analysis of the data, including...
Updated: update for may
The public sector finances statistical bulletin is published jointly by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and HM Treasury on a monthly basis and provides the latest available...
Updated: Summary of responses and government response published 21 June 2013.
To help speed up planning decisions for the most complex projects and to increase choice for developers, the government proposes...
Updated: Prison population figures for 21 June 2013 published.
Latest prison population figures for 2013.
Earlier editions
Updated: Replaced barring document
View statistics showing how the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) has performed against its targets.
The rotavirus vaccination programme, recruitment of a chair and members of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) and changes to the routine childhood immunisation schedule are featured in...
On Tuesday 18 June over 900 entrepreneurs, investors and representatives of support networks came together to Oxfordshire's annual business creation event- Venturefest 2013.
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) judgment
The price survey on food, beverages, and tobacco was conducted in 2012 and forms an important component of the Eurostat-OECD Purchasing Power Parities Programme.
This release contains quarterly net investment data arising from financial transactions (investments) made by insurance companies, self-administered pension funds, investment trusts, unit trusts and property unit...
Upcoming improvements to the estimation of gross fixed capital formation, as part of the programme of continuous improvement to the UK National Accounts.
Latest data on the Public Sector Net Borrowing, Net debt and the cash requirement.
Provides general information on all HMRC taxes, including tax receipts, the number of taxpayers, personal tax credits, child benefit and estimates of the cost of tax expenditures and structural relief.
Provides monthly and quarterly information on all HMRC taxes, including tax receipts, the number of taxpayers, personal tax credits, child benefit and estimates of the cost of tax expenditures and structural relief...
Monthly statistics on clearances of cigarettes & tobacco products and duty receipts for the UK.
Provides details of the quantities of products that have had UK excise duty paid on them and revenue receipts.
Bulletins provide a full historic series of data detailing amounts of goods cleared and amount of duty collected.
Total installed capacity and the number of installations by tariff band and technology type.
My Rt. Hon Friend the Attorney General has made the following written ministerial statement:
Director of Public Prosecutions has today published his final guidelines for prosecuting cases involving communications...
My Rt. Hon Friend, the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (Dr Vince Cable), has today made the following statement.
The EU Foreign Affairs Council (Trade) took place in Luxembourg on...
My right hon Friend the Home Secretary (Theresa May) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:
On 16 April 2013, I informed the House that the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) had...
The Director of Public Prosecutions has today published his final guidelines for prosecuting cases involving communications sent via social media. This follows an earlier public consultation exercise on the interim...
The EU Foreign Affairs Council (Trade) took place in Luxembourg on 14 June 2013. I and Sir John Cunliffe represented the UK on all the issues discussed at the meeting. A summary of those discussions follows.
A meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council will be held in Luxembourg on 21 June 2013. The following items are on the agenda to be discussed.
Contribution to the European Council meeting on...
The rented sector has become increasingly important in meeting people’s housing needs over the last decade. On 6 September 2012, the Government announced the housing guarantees schemes as part of a package...
With the expiry of the call-out order made on 29 June 2012, a new order has been made under section 56(l)(a) of the Reserve Forces Act 1996 to enable reservists to continue to be called out into permanent service...
On 16 April 2013, I informed the House that the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) had identified an error in the way in which they had captured and reported the number of outgoing (part 3) European arrest...
The Government stated in their response to the 12th report of the Justice Committee in the 2010-12 Session on presumption of death (Cm 8377, published July 2012) that the Ministry of Justice would discuss with...
The Presumption of Death Act 2013 received Royal Assent on 26 March 2013. Sections 9 and 15(4) of and schedule 1 to the Act (so far as they confer a power to make rules or regulations) and sections 17 to 24 (...
The Department for Transport is committed to delivering better quality and better value motoring services to the public and business. I am therefore pleased to announce today that a new single agency will bring...
A full list of Consular fees
Updated: Updated list as of 24 Jun
A full list of Consular fees
This information has been released by the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
The government is committed to setting new standards for transparency so the public can more easily see how and where taxpayers’ money is being spent and hold politicians, government departments and public bodies...
Updated: new datasets
OSCAR: publishing data from the databaseThe 4th set of in-year data recorded on the OSCAR reporting system covers all 12 months of 2012 to 2013 (April to March). This dataset, ...
From 27 October 2008, existing benefits paid on grounds of incapacity, that is Incapacity Benefit (IB), Severe Disablement Allowance (SDA) and Income Support (IS) on the grounds of incapacity, were replaced with...
Updated: Latest table published.
The MCS and ROOFiT pipeline statistics show the number of installations each month that are registered on the Microgeneration Certification Scheme - MCS Installation ...
Updated: Latest table published.
Statistics presented in the monthly table below show the number of installations and capacity installed by technology type and tariff band that are confirmed on the Central...
As part of an ongoing review of its Trustee toolkit e-learning programme, the take-up of which has surged during the last year, The Pensions Regulator has today updated the toolkits defined benefit (DB) modules...
The PSF Statistical Bulletin, is published jointly by ONS and HM Treasury on a monthly basis, and provides the latest available measures for key public sector financial statistics such as Public Sector Current ...
This release presents information about the investment choices of insurance companies, self-administered pension funds, investment trusts, unit trusts and property unit trusts. Reported in this release are quarterly...
Upcoming improvements to the estimation of gross fixed capital formation, as part of the programme of continuous improvement to the UK National Accounts.
Latest data on the Public Sector Net Borrowing, Net debt and the cash requirement.
This release contains quarterly net investment data arising from financial transactions (investments) made by insurance companies, self-administered pension funds, investment trusts, unit trusts and property unit...
Provides general information on all HMRC taxes, including tax receipts, the number of taxpayers, personal tax credits, child benefit and estimates of the cost of tax expenditures and structural relief.
Provides monthly and quarterly information on all HMRC taxes, including tax receipts, the number of taxpayers, personal tax credits, child benefit and estimates of the cost of tax expenditures and structural relief...
Monthly statistics on clearances of cigarettes & tobacco products and duty receipts for the UK.
Provides details of the quantities of products that have had UK excise duty paid on them and revenue receipts.
Bulletins provide a full historic series of data detailing amounts of goods cleared and amount of duty collected.
Total installed capacity and the number of installations by tariff band and technology type.
The National Archives, in partnership with the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, CyMAL: Museums Archives and Libraries Wales, Scottish Council on Archives, the Archives and Records Association and the Institute...
The National Archives has today released its tenth and final tranche of UFO files, containing 4,400 pages of UFO policy, correspondence and UFO sighting reports covering the final two years of the Ministry...