The Ministry of Defence (MOD) mid year report to Parliament for the period April to September 2013 by Jon Thompson, Permanent Secretary. This report summarises the progress defence has made towards its priorities...
Updated: Updated to add the outcome of the draft National Health Service pension scheme, additional voluntary contributions, compensation for premature retirement and injury benefits (amendment) regulations 2014...
Mela Watts informs New Schools Network (NSN) Director Natalie Evans that NSN has won the bid to provide free schools support.
Updated: Revised title and text for PHE board's name change.
Public Health England’s board includes non-executive members. The board and its chair support and advise the chief executive officer. The chair...
This note explains the different types of codes introduced in the Water Bill and how these may be used to deliver reform in the new water and sewerage markets.
Updated: Title changed to reflect board's name change.
This register of interests records those interests that members of PHE’s board hold outside the agency.
Sentencing remarks of Chief Magistrate Howard Riddle
Following a competitive bidding process, the Department for Education has approved grant funding for New Schools Network (NSN) to provide pre-application support to parents, teachers and community groups and ...
Instructors from Australia, Denmark, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Belgium and Denmark came together with personnel from the RAF’s 904 Expeditionary Air Wing (EAW) to provide coaching in how to safely handle and shoot ...
Senior Foreign Office Minister Baroness Warsi said:
We are aware that Mohammed Asghar, a British national, was yesterday sentenced to death by a court in Rawalpindi in Pakistan. It is the longstanding...
View the full press notice and details of the consultation.
Read the full press notice.
This document provides detail on the 2014 to 2015 capital maintenance and devolved formula capital allocations. This was published by the Department for Education on 24 January 2014. The department is providing...
This consultation sets out the Government’s legislative proposals to change the economic incentives to avoid tax by requiring those using avoidance schemes to pay upfront and give them an incentive to resolve...
Updated: Publication of response document
This consultation makes proposals on two avoidance issues. The first proposes a new set of obligations for high-risk promoters, their intermediaries and users. ...
The 2013 to 2014 Cold Weather Payment season started on 1 November 2013.
There were no triggers for Cold Weather Payments at weather stations between 18 January 2014 and 24 January 2014 and no payments...
Updated: added 'Promoters of tax avoidance schemes, amendment of return to take account of relevant judicial rulings and DOTAS' info
The government has published further draft legislation on Finance Bill...
Updated: New adhoc announced for 28 January 2014 - ESF Support for families with multiple problems: Job outcome rates
This document provides details of upcoming DWP ad hoc statistical releases.
This report shows international travel undertaken by Home Office senior officials at SCS2 (or equivalent) and above between July and September 2013. The report includes bookings made through the department’s ...
This report shows international travel by BIS senior officials at SCS2 (or equivalent) and above. The report includes bookings made through the department’s central booking systems. This will include the majority...
Certain documents within the Volume 5 suite inadvertently omitted some information in a limited number of cases, prior to 13th December 2013. These items were fully updated on GOV.UK and elsewhere as soon as ...
After reviewing the English business survey (EBS) to ensure it continues to meet both the needs of the department and users, BIS has decided to stop the collection of data and publication of statistics from the...
Provides information for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), on:
number of all existing licences for military and dual-use (military and civil use) goods to Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania...
The Information Commissioner and the Secretary of State for Justice have agreed on Memoranda of Understanding on National Security Cases in relation to the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA), the Freedom of Information...
FOI release 1118
Provide a copy of full complaints procedure and a copy of the decision to agree the complaints procedure.
IDBS has recently update their complaints procedure and updated their...
FOI release 1119
On 18 November 2013, I emailed the chief executive asking for a response to an ongoing complaint. I asked her to send me a copy of the Disclosure and Barring Service’s ineligible application...
FOI release 1120
What crimes were flagged on CRB checks on people applying for positions at schools in the BB postcode area, annually for the last three years?
Please state the specific postcode...
The Prince's Trust Leadership reception
UK Sport launch Unity Project with the Rugby Football Union, International Rugby Board and FIRA-AER
A Leeds firm has been fined for safety failings after a trainee technician needed skin grafts after receiving an electric shock while using unsafe testing equipment.
HSE Chair on the importance of allowing children to learn important lessons about life from play.
The Pensions Advisory Service is pleased today, to launch its 2013-14 "Women & Pensions" Survey. The survey is the third of its kind run by the organisation and has attracted a fantastic 1000 responses...
Birmingham airport’s re-development programme, one of the country’s top 40 infrastructure projects, has entered its final stage before completion. Danny Alexander, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury and chair...
Updated: Added links to reshoring content and the PM's speech
The Prime Minister attended the World Economic Forum with a British economy that is growing – faster than any other major European economy...
They will work across the Enforcement or Markets and Mergers Directorates, and also the Office of General Counsel.
The new appointees in the Directorates are:
Peter Barron, Project/Inquiry Director...
The government has submitted an application to the European Commission (EC) for seventeen of the most rural areas in mainland UK to receive an up to 5 pence per litre (ppl) fuel duty discount, Chief Secretary...
Speaking after the bomb attacks in Egypt, the Minister for the Middle East and North Africa, Hugh Robertson, said:
I condemn the terrorist attacks in Cairo this morning, in which a number of people...
The government is changing the economic incentives to avoid tax and promote tax avoidance.
A consultation has been launched on proposals to add to the circumstances when HMRC will seek upfront ...
Housing Minister Kris Hopkins has hailed the impact of Help to Buy in reviving local businesses and creating new jobs.
Visiting the Hanson’s re-opened Claughton Manor brick works near Lancaster...
The number of government apprenticeships available to talented young people across the UK is set to double as applications for 200 places in the Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship scheme open next week.
Grenville joins the Board as the fourth Non-Executive Director for the department in addition to Sara Weller, Stephen Hay and Nick Markham.
Permanent Secretary, Sir Bob ...
The government has published “red lines†for its IT contracts to ensure maximum taxpayer value, the Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude announced today. The new rules have been published to encourage...
Nothing is more critical to our overall health and wellbeing than good mental health. The Global Burden of Disease makes plain that mental illness accounts for more than twenty per cent of the overall burden ...
G-Cloud is a framework that lets providers of cloud-based services like software and platforms supply their services to public sector buyers. If your application to join G-Cloud is successful you can list your...
The Coalition Government is committed to publishing departmental spend over £25,000 as part of its commitment to transparency and open government.
This is the Foreign Office spend in the UK ...
Updated: Attachment added: Schools attended by children funded by Continuity of Education Allowance - 2009 to 2013.
Letter (13 Jan 14) Schools attended by children funded by Continuity of Education Allowance...
Letter (13 Nov 13)
Letter (13 Sept) Letter (25 Oct) GPC Data
This data is for DH senior officials at Senior Civil Servants level 2 (SCS2), director level, or equivalent grades. It includes bookings made through the department’s central booking system. This will include...
Updated: Added summary of responses. Published 24 January 2014.
On 19 July 2013 the government published planning practice guidance for onshore oil and gas. Its intention was to provide clarity on...
This impact assessment assesses the impact of the government’s changes to secondary legislation to make the procedural requirements for oil and gas extraction less onerous. The government’s proposals are:
...
In addition to these statutory categories, HMRC also monitors its workforce with regard to working patterns, religion or belief and sexual orientation.
Updated: Published latest version of the claim form.
Winters from 1997 to 2000 onlyYou may be able to get a Winter Fuel Payment for past winters 1997 to 1998, 1998 to 1999 and 1999 to 2000 if you were...
Updated: Published figures for Incapacity Benefit (IB) recipients reassessed and those moving from IB to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) nationally from September 2012 to November 2012 and updated figures...
Updated: Updated structure chart.
This document sets out the structure of the CMA as at January 2014.
Updated: Updated statutory guidance to include a link to (http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/what-we-do/resources) to the document.
This statutory guidance is for:
local authorities (LAs) chief ...
Updated: Amendment of grant agreement added.
Grant, purpose, schedule of payment and terms of the agreement.
A grant agreement and memorandum of understanding between Department for Environment...
A construction company has been fined after a lift engineer was severely injured when he fell down a lift shaft at a hospital construction site in Cambridge.
Sales assistant informs customer that shoes must be sold with an accompanying box, on the advice of their health and safety man.
A Cheshire cheese manufacturer has been fined for safety failings after a worker injured his leg and ankle when he fell from the forks of a forklift truck during an unsafe loading operation.
Recent research carried out by Aviva has found some interesting trends regarding whether people's retirement income was higher or lower than they expected.
In 2010, 75% of people surveyed...
Please click on the following link to questions and answers in regards to Redundancies.
http://m.aff.org.uk/site/aff_1/redundancy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aff.org.uk%2Farmy_family_life...
Please find posters of activities that are being run by Home Start during the February Half Term.
Click 'Read More' for full information
Safer Internet Day is 11th February. www.saferinternetday.org
SSAFA are looking for amazing volunteers to coach and support military children in BFG who have additional needs and their siblings on an adventure break, this summer.
Please click...
Please find information on the correct way to address BFPO mail from Defence Postal and Courier Services.
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The key challenge for politicians and business leaders in Europe is how we make a success of globalisation.
For years the West has been written off.
People say that we are facing some sort of ...
Updated: Added links to reshoring content and the PM's speech
The Prime Minister is attending the World Economic Forum with a British economy that is growing – faster than any other major European...
The Queen has been pleased to confer a peerage of the United Kingdom for Life on General Sir David Richards GCB CBE DSO ADC Gen upon his retirement as Chief of the Defence Staff.
General Sir David Richards...
Thank you, it’s a pleasure to be here.
What an extraordinary show - bigger and better than ever.
And what progress the march of technology makes.
The last year saw headlines about the...
In November last year, the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve QC MP referred the sentence of Ian McLoughlin to the Court of Appeal under the unduly lenient sentence scheme. The reference took place today in front...
It is now 6 months since the Keogh review which led to 11 hospitals being placed in special measures. Since that time 3 others have also been placed in special measures, taking the total to 14. This process ...
Pakistan national Arfat Hussain, 24, and Bulgarian “bride†Aneta Kaleeva, 25, were arrested by Home Office Immigration Enforcement officers moments before their ceremony was due to take place on 3 January 2013...
This tool should help local authorities identify causes of death that contribute most to their life expectancy gaps and, therefore, enable them to target interventions appropriately. The tool provides charts ...
I’d like to thank John Kershaw, Chairman, Manchester Civic Society, for inviting me here to speak today (24th January 2014).
And it’s a great place to do it.
This is a city built by transport...
Details of consular fees
Updated: Further response published.
Request for information on experimental evidence the effect of increasing CO2 on atmospheric temperature and a response to a request for an internal inquiry into the...
This report analyses staff diversity for, staff in post between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013.
The analysis in this report takes data on:
staff in post grievances and discipline sickness and...
Total Defra spend on contractors in the year 2012
A Darlington man has been given a suspended prison sentence and ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work after he put lives at risk by illegally carrying out gas work at three homes in the town despite specific...
A building contractor has been fined for breaking safety legislation after a young worker plunged five metres through a barn roof onto a concrete floor causing extensive and permanent injuries.
Sir Winfried Bischoff has been appointed as the new Chair of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), Business Secretary Vince Cable announced today (23 January 2014).
Sir Winfried will join the...
Speaking in Addis Ababa at the signing of a Cessation of Hostilities Agreement on 23 January, Ambassador Tim Morris said:
As the Troika, the group of countries representing the support of the international...
Joint letter from Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove and Minister of State for Schools David Laws issued to all state-funded primary school headteachers, about universal free school meals for infants...
Information on reshoring - when UK business operations based overseas return to the UK.
Rothamsted Research has applied to Defra for consent to perform a deliberate release of a genetically modified organism (GMO) for research and development purposes.
Parts A and B of the application are...
Updated: Updated 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 item but includes...
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...
Updated: Latest tables and maps published.
Quarterly sub-regional statistics show the number of installations and total installed capacity by technology type in England, Scotland and Wales at the end the...
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 ...
The Baseline Report brings together and presents a range of datasets related to the roll-out and impact of faster broadband in the UK. These include broadband coverage and take up, productivity growth, business...
Updated: Updated with December data.
The data is broken down by headcount and number of posts (full-time equivalents). It includes the number of ‘non-payroll staff’, and the paybill costs relating to staff...
Updated: Updated advice regarding the need for PEP following occupational injuries resulting from needles, syringes and other sharp instruments contaminated with HIV.
Updated advice regarding the need for...
Updated: Update to guidance published.
This document provides general guidance to electricity companies (holders of an electricity licence) who propose applying to the Secretary of State for the grant of...
Minister of State for Schools David Laws writes to all directors of children’s services about universal free school meals for infants.
The letter also includes an annex listing capital allocations for...
Mental Health Tribunal decision
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
I am pleased to inform the House that I am today inviting applications for petroleum licences for unlicensed seaward blocks, in the 28th new round of offshore petroleum licensing.
The UK oil and gas...
The economy is set to receive a further boost as the Government opens the 28th licensing round. Companies can now apply for new licences to drill for offshore oil and gas in the North Sea. Increasing recovery...
The key challenge for politicians and business leaders in Europe is how we make a success of globalisation.
For years the West has been written off.
People say that we are facing some sort of ...
Updated: Added links to reshoring content and the PM's speech
The Prime Minister is attending the World Economic Forum with a British economy that is growing – faster than any other major European...
Presents a summary of the latest economic and labour market statistics for Wales.
Total installed capacity and the number of installations by tariff band and technology type.
My Hon Friend, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment Relations and Consumer Affairs (Jenny Willott MP), has today made the following statement:
Today the Government is introducing the...
My rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Theresa May) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:
I would like to inform the House that changes have been made to ...
My Rt Hon Friend the Prime Minister has made the following statement to the House of Commons:
This written ministerial statement confirms responsibility for the CANparent trial and associated market development...
My Hon friend, The Minister for Sport, Tourism and Equalities (Helen Grant MP): has made the following statement:
The Government has today published a consultation paper on the future of civil partnership...
My rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Theresa May) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:
I am today laying before the House the tenth paper in the Government...
Today the Government are introducing the Consumer Rights Bill. This Bill is a fundamental reform of consumer legislation so that consumers’ and businesses’ key rights and responsibilities are clear...
The Department has today launched a consultation around proposals to help Land Registry deliver more efficient and modern services.
Land Registry is responsible for keeping and maintaining details of the...
The Government have today published a consultation paper on the future of civil partnership in England and Wales. This is the full public consultation required under section 15 of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples...
It is now over two years since the Syrian conflict began and the situation remains catastrophic. Our estimates are that over 100,000 people have been killed, with more than half of the Syrian population now in...
I would like to inform the House that changes have been made to the arrangements for publishing reports of the independent chief inspector for borders and immigration. The reports prepared by the chief inspector...
I am today laying before the House the 10th paper in the Government’s Scotland analysis programme, “Scotland analysis: Borders and citizenship”. This series of publications is designed to inform...
The Ministry of Justice and the Home Office have prepared the fourth annual report to Parliament on the application of protocols 19 and 21 to the treaty on European Union (TEU) and the treaty on the functioning...
This written ministerial statement confirms responsibility for the CANparent trial and associated market development contract will transfer from the Department for Education to the Department of Health on 1 April...
The Dartford-Thurrock crossing charging scheme account for 2012-13 is published today under section 3(1)(d) of the Trunk Road Charging Schemes (Bridges and Tunnels) (Keeping of Accounts) (England) Regulations...
This Government are committed to tackling high charges in workplace pension schemes, in particular, for those workers who do not exercise any choice, where they are automatically enrolled into a scheme then remain...
Service Request Form for legalisation and notarial services
The Index of Private Housing Rental Prices (IPHRP) measures the change in price of property rented by private landlords. The index is published as a series of price indices covering Great Britain, its constituent...
Malcolm McHaffie, Deputy Head of CPS Special Crime Division said: "The CPS was asked to consider all the evidence in relation to the very sad deaths of Dr David Arnold and his wife Mrs Elizabeth Arnold, to determine...
Baljit Ubhey, Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS London, said: "The CPS has today authorised the Metropolitan Police Service to charge Peter Nunn, 33, from Bristol, under section 127 of the Communications Act (2003) ...
Simon Orme, specialist lawyer in the CPS Special Crime decision, said: "I have been asked to consider evidence in relation to six former or serving Staffordshire police officers to determine whether or not they ...
Attractions and events to visit in the local area - January/February 2014
updated 24/01/2014
Presents a summary of the latest economic and labour market statistics for Wales.
Total installed capacity and the number of installations by tariff band and technology type.
The strategy update sets out plans to provide practical support to exporters and inward investors over the next 2 years.
The Forth Bridge carrying the railway connecting Edinburgh with Fife has been put forward today by Culture Secretary Maria Miller as the UK’s latest nomination for World Heritage site status.
If successful...
UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) has joined forces with the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) to launch Reshore UK, a new 1-stop-shop service to help companies bring production back to the UK.
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