Visit to Barnardo's
Updated: Ad hoc statistical release about the review of the automatic enrolment earnings trigger and qualifying earnings band announced for 17 December 2013.
This document provides details of upcoming DWP...
This table sets out the similarities and differences between civil partnership, which is available only to same sex couples, and marriage as it applies to same sex couples.
Section 231 of the Banking Act 2009 requires the Treasury to prepare reports about arrangements entered into which involve or may require reliance on section 228(1) of the Act.
Updated: Added: detailed local authority level homelessness figures, July to September 2013
Live tablesFigures for individual local authorities are given in tables 784, 784a, 792 and 793.
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CoRWM met with RWMD to discuss RWMD’s
role, organisation, capability and key priorities generic designs and safety cases and their planned evolution through the siting process work with waste producers...
The Capital Requirements (country-by-country) Reporting Regulations 2013 (“the regulationsâ€) implement Article 89 of the Capital Requirements Directive 4 (CRD4). Broadly speaking, they impose reporting obligations...
Updated: added outcome and link to final guidance
The government has carefully considered all of the responses to the original Capital Requirements Directive 4: country-by-country reporting consultation...
Request for information on the release of Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Review Editors’ reports.
Updated: Easyread version of the code added.
Other resourcesAudio version of the code of practice
The Code of Practice for Victims of Crime forms...
The Human Tissue Authority (HTA) has announced its fees for 2014/15.
The consolidated ACOP text and guidance have been clarified, simplified, streamlined and restructured to help the reader. The content has been updated in light of changes to European and domestic legislation, ...
A report detailing HSE’s regulatory role in onshore gas and hydraulic fracking has now been added to the resources section of the shale gas site.
Updated: Consultation response information added
On 20 March 2013 the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that the government would further consider the case for Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) ...
Sets out the activities of the Department for Work and Pensions and its expenditure over the period 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2013.
Updated: Added draft regulations – removal of family members
Part 1 of the Bill, and schedules 1 and 2, contain:
powers to enable the removal of persons unlawfully in the UK enforcement powers ...
This table presents the uptake of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in England for 2012 to 2013 in year 8 girls by primary care trust (PCT) and strategic health authority (SHA) for comparison with previous years...
Updated: Update to consumer credit licence fees section
BackgroundTransferring responsibility for the regulation of consumer credit from the OFT to the new FCA in April 2014.
The consultation...
Updated: Added the document Inheritance Tax: Simplification of trust charges – the next stage. Summary of Responses December 2013
The consultation sets out options on how IHT periodic and exit charges on...
Updated: Daily update of the list
The Division publishes a list of unclaimed estates which have been recently referred, but not yet administered, and historic cases which have not yet been claimed by entitled...
Later life newsletter 50 (December 2013) has the latest news on policy changes, good practice and initiatives and their impact on older people.
To subscribe to the later life newsletter, email: simon...
Stronger than steel, but only one atom thick - latest research using the 2D miracle material graphene could be the key to unlocking the mysteries around the structure and behaviour of proteins in the very near future...
10th December 2013 - The Harwell Oxford Campus has received a double boost with the UK Government announcing a £7m investment in a new innovation hub and the European Space Agency commencing building a...
Midlands museums receive national accreditation
Arts projects put health and wellbeing on centre stage
First speakers announced for No Boundaries 2014
Work starts on new arts complex for Southampton
Cornish heritage project success for museums and schools partnership
A Dorset-based property developer has been told to pay a total of £97,681 after residents living near one of its construction sites in Essex were evacuated when a 45 metre crane jib collapsed.
Five pieces of health and safety guidance have been combined to help employers more quickly and easily understand how to protect their workers from dangerous substances and explosive atmospheres.
A building worker suffered life-changing injuries in a fall after a colleague loosened a scaffolding guardrail which later gave way, a court has heard today (9 Dec). Â
A Manchester firm has been ordered to pay nearly £90,000 in fines and costs after an employee was crushed by a giant fish tank that toppled off a forklift truck.
High Court of Justice (Family Division)
Sentencing remarks by Mr Justice Singh
The PARAs 10 is regarded as the ultimate ten mile endurance race and is managed by the Parachute Regiment Charity and serving soldiers of the Parac...
On Wednesday 11th September the 1st XV set off to represent the Army U18s in a memorial game against Sexey's School. It was held in honour of Capta...
On Friday the 4th October, Ma'am Lloyd, Mr Shooter, 12 Biology students and I all gathered on the parade square eager to depart for the Cranedale F...
On Wednesday 20th November 2013, the UVI Royal Air Force and RAF affiliated students left Welbeck for a service visit to RAF Coningsby, Waddington ...
After four weeks of building, Mr Burgess was strapped in to the car, seatbelt done up tight and a look of pure fear through the visor of his helmet...
On Thursday 5th December 25 DESG students from Welbeck were privileged enough to be invited to visit the Main Building of the Ministry of Defence ...
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For further photographs from the evening please find the link to Pimography, where more of Pim Hogben's photos can be viewed. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/m5zh1dqt76gmp8o/yTz2faE-xP&...
Robert Browning School will be holding their Christmas Fayre on Sun 15 Dec from 11am to 2pm.
This report details the harms associated with the misuse of ketamine, an anaesthetic and analgesic.
The ACMD recommends that ketamine be controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 as a Class B substance...
This leaflet contains information about organisations that victims of crime can contact for free advice, practical information or emotional support.
Relief from stamp duty and stamp duty reserve tax: securities traded on recognised growth marketsThe government is planning to relieve from stamp taxes, purchases in shares quoted on growth markets. This document...
Updated: Added Withdrawing relief for interest on loans to purchase life annuities Summary of Responses 10 December 2013
At Budget 2013 the Government announced that it would consult on the impact of ...
Updated: Added Office of Tax Simplification: review of unapproved share schemes Summary of Responses 2013
The Government is consulting on 5 of the recommendations made by the OTS in its review of non tax...
Updated: Added Pensions Tax Relief – Individual Protection from the Lifetime Allowance Charge Summary of Responses Publication date: December 2013
The Government announced on 5 December 2012 that to support...
Updated: Added Modernising the taxation of corporate debt and derivative contracts Summary of Responses December 2013
At Budget 2013, the Government announced a review of the rules governing the taxation...
Updated: Updated email address on 'Primary school application to convert to academy status' form.
These forms and checklists are designed to guide schools and special schools through the main stages of ...
This table presents the uptake of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in England for 2012 to 2013 in year 8 girls by primary care trust (PCT) and area team.
Guidance FOI: information about guidance on handling FOIA/EIR requests and publishing FOIA/EIR releases, together with a copy of the latest round robin list.
Updated: Added 'The Teachers' Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2014' document.
Fair Deal is a non-statutory policy, issued by Her Majesty’s Treasury (HMT), setting out how pensions are to be dealt with ...
Request for information on the DECC spending item “Drive ambitious action on climate change at home and abroad†between 2008 and 2013.
Updated: Updated to include summary of responses
The bank levy was introduced by Schedule 19 of the Finance Act 2011, with effect from 1 January 2011.
The Government announced when it introduced...
A letter from Peter Mucklow to all Education Funding Agency post-16 funded providers covering:
national funding formula funding rates formula protection funding mathematics and English traineeships...
Request for information on Departmental expenditure on Christmas and New Year in December 2012.
Finance Bill 2014 Tax Information and Impact Notes.
A summary of progress against the Government Digital Strategy.
The Government Digital Strategy published in 2012 committed each government department to carrying out 14 actions.
This document provides a summary of what Attorney General’s Office is doing and...
Action 15 of the 2013 Government Digital Strategy is ‘Collaborate with partners across public, private and voluntary sectors to help people go online’.
This document contains details of what government...
A summary of progress against the Government Digital Strategy.
The Government Digital Strategy published in 2012 committed each government department to carrying out 14 actions.
This document provides a summary of what Cabinet Office is doing and plans to do for...
The Government Digital Strategy published in 2012 committed each government department to carrying out 14 actions.
This document provides a summary of what Business Innovation and Skills is doing and...
The Government Digital Strategy published in 2012 committed each government department to carrying out 14 actions.
This document provides a summary of what Department for Culture Media and Sport is doing...
The Government Digital Strategy published in 2012 committed each government department to carrying out 14 actions.
This document provides a summary of what Department for Education is doing and plans...
The Government Digital Strategy published in 2012 committed each government department to carrying out 14 actions.
This document provides a summary of what Department for Energy and Climate Change is...
The Government Digital Strategy published in 2012 committed each government department to carrying out 14 actions.
This document provides a summary of what Department of Health is doing and plans...
The Government Digital Strategy published in 2012 committed each government department to carrying out 14 actions.
This document provides a summary of what Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs...
The Government Digital Strategy published in 2012 committed each government department to carrying out 14 actions.
This document provides a summary of what Department for International Development...
The Government Digital Strategy published in 2012 committed each government department to carrying out 14 actions.
This document provides a summary of what Department for Work and Pensions is ...
The Government Digital Strategy published in 2012 committed each government department to carrying out 14 actions.
This document provides a summary of what Department for Transport is doing and...
The Government Digital Strategy published in 2012 committed each government department to carrying out 14 actions.
This document provides a summary of what HM Revenue & Customs is doing and...
The Government Digital Strategy published in 2012 committed each government department to carrying out 14 actions.
This document provides a summary of what Foreign and Commonwealth Office is doing...
The Government Digital Strategy published in 2012 committed each government department to carrying out 14 actions.
This document provides a summary of what HM Treasury is doing and plans to do...
The Government Digital Strategy published in 2012 committed each government department to carrying out 14 actions.
This document provides a summary of what Home Office is doing and plans to do...
The Government Digital Strategy published in 2012 committed each government department to carrying out 14 actions.
This document provides a summary of what Ministry of Justice is doing and plans...
The Government Digital Strategy published in 2012 committed each government department to carrying out 14 actions.
This document provides a summary of what Ministry of Defence is doing and plans...
Action 16 of the 2013 Government Digital Strategy is ‘Help third party organisations create new services and better information access for their own users by opening up government data and transactions...
Updated: Actions 15 and 16 added to Government Digital Strategy and text amended throughout to reflect this. Links added where appropriate to the Civil Services Capabilities plan, the Digital Services Framework...
This issue contains information about:
Universal Credit Local Support Services Framework fairer charging the Autumn Statement Housing Benefit Matching Service
Updated: Addition of an easy read version of the charter.
The Witness Charter has been developed to tell you how, as a witness, you can expect to be treated by the police if you are a witness to a crime...
Sustaining Great Art: Julie’s Bicycle Year 1 report
Following his recent ECAP graduation, we talked coaching with British Cycling's Jon Norfolk and his mentor Shane Sutton
Since 1950, two years after the adoption by the UN’s General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 10 December has been celebrated annually as International Human Rights Day.
The Insurance Brokers known as BFG Insurance with outlets located at Herford, , Bielefeld (Catterick Bks) and Gütersloh (PRB) and Paderborn are undergoing changes from 1st January 2014.
Taking the following precautions will help you protect your SFA from the effects of cold weather
HEATING:
DO NOT turn heating off! Set the main thermostat to...
Updated: The Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies has published its response on the CIC consultation on the dividend and interest caps
In 2009 the Regulator of Community Interest Companies...
Updated: Latest road fuel prices published.
Table last updated on 10 December 2013.
Weekly fuel pricesMS Excel Spreadsheet, 233KB
...
The government has published draft secondary legislation, where this will give substantive effect to the Finance Bill clause.
The aim of this consultation process is to ensure the legislation works as...
The aim of this consultation process is to ensure the legislation works as intended. If you wish to comment on any of the draft legislation, please use the contact details provided at the end of each explanatory...
The aim of this consultation process is to ensure the legislation works as intended. If you wish to comment on any of the draft legislation, please use the contact details provided at the end of each explanatory...
The aim of this consultation process is to ensure the legislation works as intended. If you wish to comment on any of the draft legislation, please use the contact details provided at the end of each explanatory...
The aim of this consultation process is to ensure the legislation works as intended. If you wish to comment on any of the draft legislation, please use the contact details provided at the end of each explanatory...
The aim of this consultation process is to ensure the legislation works as intended. If you wish to comment on any of the draft legislation, please use the contact details provided at the end of each explanatory...
Purpose of consultationThe government is committed to confirming the majority of Finance Bill measures at least three months prior to introduction, including the publication of draft legislation where possible...
Updated: added response document
As announced at Budget 2013, the government has published a consultation paper on proposals for a tax regime for shale gas. The shale gas industry is in its early...
Updated: Summary of responses published 10/12/2013
At Budget 2013 the government announced that it would introduce a new tax relief for private investment in social enterprise from 2014, and would consult...
Updated: Summary of responses published 10/12/2013
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...
Updated: Added data for Boundary Commission
Staff numbers are expressed as full-time equivalents (ie 0.5FTE = 2.5 days per week)
The following groups of staff are included:
all staff loaned...
Updated: Summary of responses published 10/12/2013
At Budget 2013, the government announced that it would provide £50 million annually from 2014-15 to support employee-ownership models ...
Updated: Consultation response published
The government is today publishing a technical consultation on particular types of share buy-backs used by Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs).
As set out at <...
There is evidence that some companies and employment businesses are using employment intermediaries to disguise the employment of their workers as self employment, primarily to avoid paying employers National...
Updated: Updated to include summary of responses and changes to the detailed policy design the government has made as a result of the feedback it received.
At Budget 2013, the Chancellor announced that ...
Updated: Updated to included summary of responses and outcome
This consultation invites views on proposals for HMRC to increase the scope for the department to share non-identifying information (that is...
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...
Updated: New guidance launched in line with the new code of practice for victims of crime.
The Victim Personal Statement (VPS) is important and gives victims a voice in the criminal justice process by helping...
Updated: Updated in line with the new code of practice for victims of crime.
The Witness Charter has been developed to tell you how, as a witness, you can expect to be treated by the police if you are a...
Updated: New code of practice comes in to force
Other resourcesAudio version of the code of practice
The Code of Practice for Victims of Crime forms...
The next phase of the exciting Moat Lane Regeneration Project was marked by a symbolic ground breaking ceremony in Towcester today.
When complete, the MoatLane scheme will house new council offices...
Visitors gather in Durham for Lumiere festival
Online statements will be available to view on 17 January 2014 and paper statements will be posted second class on 17 January 2014. Payments will be made between 12 and 22 February 2014.
UK Trade is a major component of two other key economic statistics – UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the UK Balance of Payments. This means that there is a threefold potential for UK Trade statistics to inform...
This conference aims to draw academics, policy makers, diplomats/international practitioners and religious actors into dialogue about the best interface between religion, policy and development.
Recently...
My rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Theresa May) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:
The Government keeps visa regimes under constant review to ensure...
This consultation seeks views on a proposal to improve the gas and Electricity Regulated Providers (Redress Scheme) Order 2008, a measure agreed under the Red Tape Challenge.
The Gas and Electricity Regulated...
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) collects the UK’s international trade in goods data, which are published as two National Statistics series - the ‘Overseas Trade Statistics (OTS)’ and the ‘Regional Trade Statistics...
Statistics for young people not in education, employment, or training (NEET) in England, between July and September 2013 (quarter 3). This brief is made up of data from the Department for Education 16 to 18 ...
New Enterprise Allowance (NEA) aims to help unemployed people claiming out of work benefits who wish to start up their own business. Participants in NEA work with a business mentor to develop their business idea...
Updated: Added summary of responses
This consultation sought your views on our proposals to amend the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 to introduce a number of measures, namely...
Updated: Latest quarterly rural economic bulletin released today
The five indicators currently used are:
claimant count – proportion of working age population claiming unemployment benefits...
Updated: Latest road fuel prices published.
Table last updated on 10 December 2013.
Weekly fuel pricesMS Excel Spreadsheet, 232KB
...
Parties FOI: details of how much was spent on departmental Christmas and New Year parties in 2012, i.e. parties hosted by staff or ministers at the department. To include: a detailed breakdown of what the money...
The Let Property Campaign is an opportunity for landlords who owe tax through letting out residential property, in the UK or abroad, to get up to date with their tax affairs in a simple, straightforward way and...
This consultation seeks views on draft regulations that:
set out the records that public service pension schemes covered by the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 will be required to keep from April...
More information on the Let Property campaign including how to make a disclosure.
This is a guide for secure access approvers in schools, academies and local authorities. Approvers can create and administer secure access accounts for users in their organisations.
Secure access...
Updated: .
We are now calling for concept notes for the Arab Partnership Participation Fund for Morocco for the 2014-2015 financial year (1st April 2014 until 31st March 2015). 2014-2015 is the final year...
Updated: November 2013 info added
January 2013 - 90.61% February 2013 - 90.42% March 2013 - 88.24% April 2013 - 84.51% May 2013 - 88.21% June 2013 - 84.95% July 2013 - 82.04% August 2013 - 84...
One of the UK’s leading developers will deliver a pivotal office scheme in the Northampton Waterside Enterprise Zone. Kier Property has been selected by WNDC as the preferred developer for the 20,000 ...
The Pensions Regulator has today published for consultation a draft code of practice providing practical guidance to help public service pension schemes to meet governance and administration requirements set out...
UK Trade is a major component of two other key economic statistics – UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the UK Balance of Payments. This means that there is a threefold potential for UK Trade statistics to inform...
The Statistical Bulletin includes information by road class, motorway, A trunk and country roads.
This statistical bulletin presents one-year and five-year age-standardised net survival estimates for the 25 NHS England Area Teams.
This statistical bulletin presents a cancer survival index for all cancers combined, and for breast, colorectal and lung cancers combined. A one-year survival index is presented for Clinical Commissioning Groups...
Latest monthly statistics on trade in goods classified according to Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) as well as monthly estimates for total trade in services.
National population projections by age and sex for the UK and constituent countries. Includes information on additional variant (alternative scenario) projections for each country together with details of the fertility...
Measures the volume of production at base year prices for the manufacturing, mining and quarrying and energy supply industries. These are seasonally adjusted figures on the index of output of the production industries...
Pension Trends provides a statistical backdrop for the debate on pensions. It looks at changes in pension provision over time in the context of social and economic developments and changes in the policy environment...
Weekly death figures provide provisional counts of the number of deaths registered in England and Wales in the latest eight weeks for which data are available.
This publication provides details of the overseas trade in goods statistics (OTS) of the United Kingdom (UK) which are published as National Statistics by HM Revenue and Customs. The OTS are a detailed dataset...
Contains Personal Social Services current expenditure (gross expenditure; net expenditure; income from sales, fees and charges) data reported by councils in England.
Weekly prices of unleaded petrol and diesel
Enrolments at grant-aided primary and post-primary schools.
The Government are increasingly concerned about the deteriorating security situation and growing humanitarian crisis in the Central African Republic. We are working with international partners, and through international...
Preferred bidders in the Government’s £1 billion carbon capture and storage (CCS) commercialisation programme were announced in March 2013. Since then, my Department has taken forward detailed negotiations...
I would like to update the House on recent appointments and renewals of mandates to the General Court and the
Court of Justice of the European Union, and the appointment of an Advocate-General of the Court...
On 29 October 2013, Official Report, column 752, during oral questions to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the right hon. Member for Leicester East (Keith Vaz) asked me about the number of British businesspeople...
I would like to inform the House that the framework agreement between the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has been updated, in line with Cabinet Office...
The Government keep visa regimes under constant review to ensure that the UK has the right visa requirements set in the right places, aligned to risk. Today I am laying changes to the immigration rules to provide...
I am pleased to announce the proposed social security benefits rates for 2014, which are set out in the table below. The annual uprating of benefits will take place for state pensions and most other benefits ...
Updated: Updated Calculating the NMW added
The government is strengthening minimum wage enforcement. In future all employers who are found not to comply with national minimum wage rules will be publicly...
Updated: The Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies has published its response on the CIC consultation on the dividend and interest caps
In 2009 the Regulator of Community Interest Companies...
The third annual Improving Outcomes: A Strategy for Cancer report, in partnership with NHS England and Public Health England, reports on:
significant developments in cancer screening - particularly on the...
Constant price seasonally adjusted indices and growth rates for Production and component industries for October 2013
This statistical bulletin presents one-year and five-year age-standardised net survival estimates for the 25 NHS England Area Teams.
This statistical bulletin presents one-year and five-year age-standardised net survival estimates to each 211 Clinical Commissioning Groups
This bulletin includes data on survival for all children (aged 0–14 years) diagnosed with cancer in England during 1990-2006, followed up to 31 December 2011. Five-year survival estimates are presented for all cancers...
Since 1950, two years after the adoption by the UN’s General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 10 December has been celebrated annually as International Human Rights Day.
The Statistical Bulletin includes information by road class, motorway, A trunk and country roads.
This statistical bulletin presents one-year and five-year age-standardised net survival estimates for the 25 NHS England Area Teams.
This statistical bulletin presents a cancer survival index for all cancers combined, and for breast, colorectal and lung cancers combined. A one-year survival index is presented for Clinical Commissioning Groups...
Latest monthly statistics on trade in goods classified according to Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) as well as monthly estimates for total trade in services.
National population projections by age and sex for the UK and constituent countries. Includes information on additional variant (alternative scenario) projections for each country together with details of the fertility...
Measures the volume of production at base year prices for the manufacturing, mining and quarrying and energy supply industries. These are seasonally adjusted figures on the index of output of the production industries...
Pension Trends provides a statistical backdrop for the debate on pensions. It looks at changes in pension provision over time in the context of social and economic developments and changes in the policy environment...
Weekly death figures provide provisional counts of the number of deaths registered in England and Wales in the latest eight weeks for which data are available.
This publication provides details of the overseas trade in goods statistics (OTS) of the United Kingdom (UK) which are published as National Statistics by HM Revenue and Customs. The OTS are a detailed dataset...
Contains Personal Social Services current expenditure (gross expenditure; net expenditure; income from sales, fees and charges) data reported by councils in England.
Weekly prices of unleaded petrol and diesel
Enrolments at grant-aided primary and post-primary schools.