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18 December 2017

Speech: "If we embrace action. If we quell the conflicts. If we realise the peaceful societies envisaged in SDG 16...we could save 1.2 million lives"
seen at 23:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

Thank you Mr President.

And thank you to our briefer, High Representative Izumi Nakamitsu.

Last year, 560,000 people died at the hands of small arms and light weapons.

That’s more than...

Press release: PM call with President Erdogan of Turkey: 18 December 2017
seen at 22:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

A Downing Street spokesperson said:

This evening the Prime Minister spoke with President Erdogan of Turkey. The leaders reflected on the significant strengthening of ties between our two countries ...

Speech: "I once again reaffirm our strong support for renewed peace negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians as soon as possible"
seen at 22:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

Thank you Mr President,

The United Kingdom voted in favour of the draft resolution before us today because it is in line with previous UN Security Council resolutions - including 242, 476, 478 and 2334...

Guidance: Ecuador immigration policy
seen at 21:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: updated version

In February 2017 a new human migration law was approved. However, it will be implemented over the coming months and will involve changes to visas for foreigners in Ecuador, immigration...
National Statistics: Race and the criminal justice system 2016
seen at 20:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: A revision has been made in Chapter 9 to update the proportion of BAME CPS staff (including off strength staff) from 20% to 21%. This has been corrected in affected commentary and charts plus tables ...

Guidance: Financial sanctions, Zimbabwe
seen at 20:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Updated links to regulation as part of routine site maintenance.

In 2002 the European Union imposed restrictive measures, including among other matters, a freeze on the assets of selective members...

Guidance: Financial sanctions, Republic of Guinea-Bissau
seen at 20:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Updated links to regulation as part of routine site maintenance

In 2012 the European Union imposed restrictive measures, including asset freezes, directed against certain persons threatening the...

Guidance: Financial sanctions, South Sudan
seen at 20:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Updated links to regulation as part of routine site maintenance

In 2014 the European Union imposed restrictive measures, including an asset freeze, on certain persons involved in obstructing the...

Corporate report: FCO diversity and equality report 2017
seen at 20:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

This report is part of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) response to the Equality Act. It provides data on the equality impact of the Foreign Office’s employment practices and activities.

Corporate report: UK National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2014 to 2017: report to Parliament (December 2017)
seen at 20:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

This third and final annual report for the current UK National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security reviews UK progress in delivering our commitments over the past year in addition to looking back ...

Corporate report: Conflict, Stability and Security Fund: annual review for Western Balkans programme 2016 to 2017
seen at 20:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

The Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) annual review summary for the Western Balkans :

summarises programme performance shows what support the UK is providing through the programme summarises...
Policy paper: Investigatory powers regulations
seen at 20:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

The codes of practice were subject to a public consultation earlier in 2017 and the government’s response to that consultation has been published alongside the codes themselves.

In addition to ...

Policy paper: Investigatory powers regulations: explanatory memorandums
seen at 20:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Explanatory memorandums relating to the four sets of regulations under the Investigatory Powers Act that were laid in Parliament in draft on 18 December 2017.

Guidance: Ecuador immigration policy
seen at 20:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: updated version

In February 2017 a new human migration law was approved. However, it will be implemented over the coming months and will involve changes to visas for foreigners in Ecuador, immigration...
News story: Defence Secretary and O2 team up for 2000th signing of Armed Forces Covenant
seen at 20:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

Updated: quote added

The news comes after a record breaking year for the Armed Forces Covenant with more employers signing up in a single year than ever before.

O2 is the latest employer to sign...

Guidance: Individualised Learner Record (ILR): check that data is accurate
seen at 18:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: New version of FIS and data retruns known issues 2017 to 2018 uploaded on 18 December 2017.

Funding Information System (FIS)

FIS is one of a number of software packages freely available to further...

Guidance: Compliance checks: penalties if you don't file Construction Industry Scheme returns on time - CC/FS18b
seen at 18:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Change to working out the amount of the increased penalty percentage at paragraph 'Working out the reductions for the quality of disclosure'.

Factsheets are for guidance only and reflect HM Revenue...

FOI release: A1 Coal House to Metro Centre improvements FOI
seen at 18:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

A request was made under the Freedom of Information Act asking for the name and contact details of the suppliers and sub-contractors working on the A1 Coal House to Metro Centre Improvement Scheme.

Guidance: The Department of Health agreement of balances
seen at 18:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Appendices 2 and 5 have been updated and replaced. 'Agreement of balances 2017 to 2018: quarter 3 update' has been added.

This is practical guidance for the completion of the DH accounting group...

Research and analysis: Intimidation in Public Life: summary of quantitative submissions
seen at 18:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

The Committee is publishing a paper by Esmerelda V. Bon, a PhD student whose work is part-funded by the Committee, which summarises and analyses the quantitative evidence submitted to the Committee’s consultation...

Research and analysis: Innovation finance: new innovation finance products: qualitative research
seen at 18:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

This report undertakes qualitative market research to understand the appetite for different features of publicly financed debt products to support private sector innovation activity. The report undertook interviews...

Research and analysis: Innovation finance: the innovative firm’s journey to finance
seen at 18:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

This report examines the pathways to formal external finance of different types of innovative business and identifies obstructions in those pathways. The study was carried out by BMG Research and the Centre for...

Research and analysis: Innovation finance: scoping pilot and impact evaluations of the new innovation finance products
seen at 18:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

This report scopes the options for evaluating the new innovation finance products (NIFPs) proposed at the 2015 spending review and autumn statement, and for evaluating the subsequent impact of the products. The...

Guidance: How to apply for a Covenant Fund grant
seen at 18:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Updated contact details and guidance documents.

Thank you for your interest in the Covenant Fund. This page contains guidance and forms relating to the Covenant Fund.

Contact us

If you...

Research and analysis: Salmonid and freshwater fisheries statistics
seen at 18:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Revised data in 2016 report: Tables 6.12 and 6.13.

Fisheries statistics report for commercial net and trap fisheries capturing salmon, sea trout, eel, smelt and lamprey. Also includes recreational...

Guidance: Patents Court guide
seen at 18:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Updated guide published

Covers different aspects of handling the case, including:

statements of case case management conferences disclosing documents listing a case skeleton arguments...
Research and analysis: Notifiable diseases: causative agents report for 2017
seen at 18:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Added report for week 50, 2017.

This report compares the current week’s data on statutory notifications of causative agents to that of the previous 5 weeks.

Older weekly NOIDS causative...

Guidance: UK Trade Tariff: document, certificate and authorisation codes
seen at 18:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: New C100 row added and amendments have been made against row U165.

A reference must be entered for harmonised declarations. This should be one of the following:

as quoted on the document...
Guidance: How to submit an application for ACBS approval
seen at 18:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: NHRA ACBS request form added. Updates to information notes and applications for nutritional products and dermatological products.

Information about how to submit an application for the approval...

Form: Developed vetting questionnaire: NSV002
seen at 18:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Replaced form with the latest edition

Information produced by Defence Business Services (DBS) Services National Security Vetting (NSV).

Please print the form out to complete and sign. When...

Guidance: Work Choice provider memos: 2017
seen at 18:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Added Work Choice provider memos 60, 61 and 62.

These memos provide information about changes and updates to the Work Choice provider guidance.

Policy paper: Radicalisation - the counter-narrative and identifying the tipping point: government response
seen at 18:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Home Department by Command of Her Majesty.

Guidance: Pharmaceutical buying groups in the NHS
seen at 18:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust has been added as a new purchasing point.

The document can be filtered in various ways to produce individual purchasing point lists for each buying group currently...

Promotional material: Survey and inspection newsletters
seen at 18:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

These newsletters bring you up to date with the MCA survey and inspection transformation programme and the changes made so far.

Research and analysis: Building Safety Programme: monthly data release - December 2017
seen at 18:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

This data release uses figures current at 24 November 2017 and gives an update on the testing programme for Aluminium Composite Material cladding and progress identifying buildings with unsafe cladding combinations...

Consultation outcome: Anti-money laundering supervisory review
seen at 18:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Response document published

In its response to the call for information on the AML supervisory regime, the government sought further views on its proposals to improve oversight of the regime...

Correspondence: Intimidation in Public Life: letters on publication of report
seen at 18:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

The Committee’s report, Intimidation in Public Life, was published on 13 December 2017.

Following the publication of the report, the Committee has written to various stakeholders to invite response...

Guidance: Proposed new or replacement MOD byelaws undergoing public consultation
seen at 18:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Added Aldershot and District Comms Plan.

The Economic impact assessments for the proposed expansion of the British Underwater Test and Evaluation Centre (BUTEC) has been moved to a new page. Please...

Guidance: Early years foundation stage profile: 2018 handbook
seen at 18:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

The early years foundation stage profile is statutory for the 2017 to 2018 academic year.

This guidance is for early years and key stage 1 practitioners, headteachers and setting managers and local authorities...

National Statistics: Race and the criminal justice system 2016
seen at 18:33, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: A revision has been made in Chapter 9 to update the proportion of BAME CPS staff (including off strength staff) from 20% to 21%. This has been corrected in affected commentary and charts plus tables ...

Guidance: Financial sanctions, Zimbabwe
seen at 18:33, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Updated links to regulation as part of routine site maintenance.

In 2002 the European Union imposed restrictive measures, including among other matters, a freeze on the assets of selective members...

Guidance: Financial sanctions, Republic of Guinea-Bissau
seen at 18:33, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Updated links to regulation as part of routine site maintenance

In 2012 the European Union imposed restrictive measures, including asset freezes, directed against certain persons threatening the...

Guidance: Financial sanctions, Iraq
seen at 18:33, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Updated links to regulation as part of routine site maintenance.

The UN Security Council imposed sanctions against the Republic of Iraq in August 1990 following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait...

Open consultation: Insolvency regime for further education and sixth-form colleges
seen at 18:33, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

The Technical and Further Education Act 2017 sets out the framework for an insolvency regime which applies aspects of existing insolvency law to further education and sixth-form colleges in England and...

Guidance: Financial sanctions, South Sudan
seen at 18:33, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Updated links to regulation as part of routine site maintenance

In 2014 the European Union imposed restrictive measures, including an asset freeze, on certain persons involved in obstructing the...

Guidance: Financial sanctions, Sudan
seen at 18:33, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Updated links to regulations as part of routine site maintenance

In 2014 the earlier Sudan legislation was repealed and replaced by Council Regulation (EU) No. 747/2014 and the Sudan (...

Corporate report: FCO diversity and equality report 2017
seen at 18:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

This report is part of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) response to the Equality Act. It provides data on the equality impact of the Foreign Office’s employment practices and activities.

Corporate report: UK National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2014 to 2017: report to Parliament (December 2017)
seen at 18:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

This third and final annual report for the current UK National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security reviews UK progress in delivering our commitments over the past year in addition to looking back ...

Corporate report: Conflict, Stability and Security Fund: annual review for Western Balkans programme 2016 to 2017
seen at 18:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

The Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) annual review summary for the Western Balkans :

summarises programme performance shows what support the UK is providing through the programme summarises...
Policy paper: Investigatory powers regulations
seen at 18:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

The codes of practice were subject to a public consultation earlier in 2017 and the government’s response to that consultation has been published alongside the codes themselves.

In addition to ...

Policy paper: Investigatory Powers regulations: explanatory memorandums
seen at 18:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Explanatory memorandums relating to the 4 sets of regulations under the Investigatory Powers Act that were laid in Parliament in draft on 18 December 2017.

Speech: Delivering safer and more secure prisons: the roots to rehabilitation
seen at 18:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

Thank you Andrew [Haldenby, Reform] for that introduction – and thank you all for being here today. It’s always slightly frightening to be reminded of how long you have known someone. It goes back to the days...

Speech: "This Council has unanimously, and appropriately, decided to impose the strictest sanctions in a generation upon North Korea."
seen at 18:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

Thank you Mr Foreign Minister for bringing us together for this important meeting under the Japanese presidency of the Security Council.

And thank you too, for the Secretary-General Guterres for your ...

Press release: Plan your A303 journeys ahead of Winter Solstice event at Stonehenge
seen at 18:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

Up to 3,000 people are expected to visit Stonehenge on the morning of Friday, 22 December, and with limited parking on site, English Heritage is once again urging visitors to use public transport or car share...

Statement to Parliament: Grenfell Tower and building safety
seen at 18:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to update the House on the on-going response to June’s tragic fire at Grenfell Tower and our wider review of building safety.

It is now 6 months since the disaster...

Press release: Government commits to increase diversity of all public appointments by 2022
seen at 18:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

The Diversity Action Plan includes a commitment that by 2022, half of all public appointees should be female and 14% should be from ethnic minorities, bringing representation on public boards in line with...

Notice: Current catch limits: over 10 metre non-sector pool
seen at 16:44, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Catch limits updated for non-sector in line with variation added 18 December 2017

Your catch limits are in your vessel licence annexe - Category A, Category A - Islands, Category...

Policy paper: Automatic enrolment review 2017: Maintaining the momentum
seen at 16:44, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

This report follows a review that considered the success of automatic enrolment, and explored ways to develop it further.

We announced the review in December 2016. It was supported by an external...

Research and analysis: Automatic enrolment: review of the earnings trigger and qualifying earnings band for 2018/19
seen at 16:44, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

The automatic enrolment earnings trigger determines at what point an eligible person gets automatically enrolled into a workplace pension.

The qualifying earnings band sets minimum contribution levels...

Correspondence: Making clear which qualifications Ofqual regulates
seen at 16:44, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

It is important for public confidence in the regulated qualifications market that the Register of Regulated Qualifications is an accurate record that users can rely on. Awarding organisations are responsible...

Guidance: Businesses who have signed the Armed Forces Covenant (company names beginning with N to P)
seen at 16:43, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Addition of NHS Western Isles Western Isles Hospital, Noble Electrical Contractors Ltd, Norse Group, Northampton Rugby Football Club, Nps Group, NVC Security, O2, OCS Group UK LTD, Plc Activities Club...

Guidance: Key stage 2 teacher assessment data collection: technical specification
seen at 16:43, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: 2017 to 2018 teacher assessment technical specification added.

This specification will enable schools, local authorities, educational establishments outside of local authority control and software...

Policy paper: Dawlish Warren beach management scheme
seen at 16:43, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: The beach management scheme at Dawlish Warren is complete - page updated with details work carried out.

Work continues to progress on the £14 million Dawlish Warren beach management scheme...

Guidance: Individualised Learner Record (ILR): check that data is accurate
seen at 16:43, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: New version of FIS and data retruns known issues 2017 to 2018 uploaded on 18 December 2017.

Funding Information System (FIS)

FIS is one of a number of software packages freely available to further...

Guidance: Compliance checks: penalties if you don't file Construction Industry Scheme returns on time - CC/FS18b
seen at 16:43, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Change to working out the amount of the increased penalty percentage at paragraph 'Working out the reductions for the quality of disclosure'.

Factsheets are for guidance only and reflect HM Revenue...

FOI release: A1 Coal House to Metro Centre improvements FOI
seen at 16:43, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

A request was made under the Freedom of Information Act asking for the name and contact details of the suppliers and sub-contractors working on the A1 Coal House to Metro Centre Improvement Scheme.

Guidance: Personal Savings Allowance
seen at 16:43, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Reference to notify HMRC of your share of the interest via form BBSI5 removed because it is no longer relevant.

From April 2016 HM Revenue and Customs introduced a tax-free Personal Savings Allowance...

Guidance: The Department of Health agreement of balances
seen at 16:43, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Appendices 2 and 5 have been updated and replaced. 'Agreement of balances 2017 to 2018: quarter 3 update' has been added.

This is practical guidance for the completion of the DH accounting group...

Research and analysis: Intimidation in Public Life: summary of quantitative submissions
seen at 16:43, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

The Committee is publishing a paper by Esmerelda V. Bon, a PhD student whose work is part-funded by the Committee, which summarises and analyses the quantitative evidence submitted to the Committee’s consultation...

Research and analysis: Innovation finance: new innovation finance products: qualitative research
seen at 16:41, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

This report undertakes qualitative market research to understand the appetite for different features of publicly financed debt products to support private sector innovation activity. The report undertook interviews...

Research and analysis: Innovation finance: the innovative firm’s journey to finance
seen at 16:38, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

This report examines the pathways to formal external finance of different types of innovative business and identifies obstructions in those pathways. The study was carried out by BMG Research and the Centre for...

Research and analysis: Innovation finance: scoping pilot and impact evaluations of the new innovation finance products
seen at 16:36, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

This report scopes the options for evaluating the new innovation finance products (NIFPs) proposed at the 2015 spending review and autumn statement, and for evaluating the subsequent impact of the products. The...

Guidance: How to apply for a Covenant Fund grant
seen at 16:36, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Updated contact details and guidance documents.

Thank you for your interest in the Covenant Fund. This page contains guidance and forms relating to the Covenant Fund.

Contact us

If you...

Research and analysis: Salmonid and freshwater fisheries statistics
seen at 16:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Revised data in 2016 report: Tables 6.12 and 6.13.

Fisheries statistics report for commercial net and trap fisheries capturing salmon, sea trout, eel, smelt and lamprey. Also includes recreational...

Guidance: Patents Court guide
seen at 16:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Updated guide published

Covers different aspects of handling the case, including:

statements of case case management conferences disclosing documents listing a case skeleton arguments...
Research and analysis: Notifiable diseases: causative agents report for 2017
seen at 16:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Added report for week 50, 2017.

This report compares the current week’s data on statutory notifications of causative agents to that of the previous 5 weeks.

Older weekly NOIDS causative...

Guidance: UK Trade Tariff: document, certificate and authorisation codes
seen at 16:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: New C100 row added and amendments have been made against row U165.

A reference must be entered for harmonised declarations. This should be one of the following:

as quoted on the document...
Guidance: How to submit an application for ACBS approval
seen at 16:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: NHRA ACBS request form added. Updates to information notes and applications for nutritional products and dermatological products.

Information about how to submit an application for the approval...

Form: Developed vetting questionnaire: NSV002
seen at 16:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Replaced form with the latest edition

Information produced by Defence Business Services (DBS) Services National Security Vetting (NSV).

Please print the form out to complete and sign. When...

Guidance: UK Trade Tariff: suspensions from Customs Duty
seen at 16:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Requests for information on duty suspension should be made to the Department for International Trade using the new email contact details and section headed 'Enquiries concerning scope' has been removed...

Corporate report: HMRC Capacity Building Unit and Tax Expert Unit annual evaluation
seen at 16:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

This corporate report includes:

project background acitivity summaries for the main countries covered by the project a financial review an update about improvements since the review period
Guidance: Work Choice provider memos: 2017
seen at 16:35, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Added Work Choice provider memos 60, 61 and 62.

These memos provide information about changes and updates to the Work Choice provider guidance.

Policy paper: Radicalisation - the counter-narrative and identifying the tipping point: government response
seen at 16:34, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Home Department by Command of Her Majesty.

Guidance: Pharmaceutical buying groups in the NHS
seen at 16:34, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust has been added as a new purchasing point.

The document can be filtered in various ways to produce individual purchasing point lists for each buying group currently...

Promotional material: Survey and inspection newsletters
seen at 16:34, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

These newsletters bring you up to date with the MCA survey and inspection transformation programme and the changes made so far.

Research and analysis: Building Safety Programme: monthly data release - December 2017
seen at 16:34, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

This data release uses figures current at 24 November 2017 and gives an update on the testing programme for Aluminium Composite Material cladding and progress identifying buildings with unsafe cladding combinations...

Consultation outcome: Anti-money laundering supervisory review
seen at 16:34, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Response document published

In its response to the call for information on the AML supervisory regime, the government sought further views on its proposals to improve oversight of the regime...

Correspondence: Intimidation in Public Life: letters on publication of report
seen at 16:34, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

The Committee’s report, Intimidation in Public Life, was published on 13 December 2017.

Following the publication of the report, the Committee has written to various stakeholders to invite response...

Guidance: Proposed new or replacement MOD byelaws undergoing public consultation
seen at 16:34, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Added Aldershot and District Comms Plan.

The Economic impact assessments for the proposed expansion of the British Underwater Test and Evaluation Centre (BUTEC) has been moved to a new page. Please...

Guidance: Early years foundation stage profile: 2018 handbook
seen at 16:34, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

The early years foundation stage profile is statutory for the 2017 to 2018 academic year.

This guidance is for early years and key stage 1 practitioners, headteachers and setting managers and local authorities...

National Statistics: Race and the criminal justice system 2016
seen at 16:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: A revision has been made in Chapter 9 to update the proportion of BAME CPS staff (including off strength staff) from 20% to 21%. This has been corrected in affected commentary and charts plus tables ...

Guidance: Financial sanctions, Belarus
seen at 16:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Updated links to regulations as part of routine site maintenance.

In 2006, the European Union imposed restrictive measures, which included among other matters, a freeze on the funds of President...

Three Appointments Made to UKAD Athlete Committee
seen at 16:31, 18 December in News (Our copy).
Three Appointments Made to UKAD Athlete Committee
Press release: Government publishes ambitious plans to give millions a more financially secure retirement
seen at 16:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

The review, which looks at past, present and future workplace pension saving, confirms that automatic enrolment’s harnessing of inertia has worked, and that the financial behaviour of millions of people has changed...

Press release: Directors of illegal waste operation ordered to pay £13,500
seen at 16:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

On Friday 15 December 2017, Grimsby Magistrates sentenced Ali Al-Ahmad of Rodmarton Street, London, to a fine of £3,500 and Hassan Abdulrazak of Foxhills Road, Scunthorpe, to a fine of £3,...

Press release: Commercial radio given more freedom on content
seen at 16:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

Under the current regulations, analogue radio stations have to play a particular genre of music as part of their licence agreement with Ofcom.

By removing these outdated rules that restrict the growth...

Press release: Extra lanes to open before Christmas on Manchester smart motorway
seen at 16:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

Highways England is opening a permanent fourth lane in each direction between junctions 18 and 20 of the M62 as part of a phased opening of the Manchester smart motorway scheme – increasing capacity on one of...

Press release: Next generation Road Communications Network
seen at 16:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

The Government company has let the contract for the next generation road communications network which will help reduce congestion, make journeys more reliable, and help drivers who get into difficulty.

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Press release: Pig keepers warned not to feed kitchen scraps to pigs due to African swine fever risk
seen at 16:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

The warning comes after the risk level of African swine fever entering the UK was raised over the summer following spread of the disease in Eastern and Central Europe.

There has never been a case of African...

News story: People smuggler from Newport jailed for 5 years
seen at 16:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

Adriano Bettoja-Allen, a British national aged 37, was sentenced at Blackfriars Crown Court on Thursday 14 December after pleading guilty to 2 offences of assisting illegal immigration which happened on 2 October...

Press release: New flood scheme in Rugeley officially opened
seen at 16:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

Members of the Environment Agency, Cannock Chase District Council, the Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), Rugeley Town Council, Staffordshire County Council and the Trent Regional...

News story: Tyne and Wear man fined for waste offences
seen at 16:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

Jonathan Patrick Finn of Flaxtead Grange, Sunderland Road, Newbottle, was charged with illegally storing and treating mixed waste when he appeared before South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court on 12 December 2017.

News story: Defence Secretary and O2 team up for 2000th signing of Armed Forces Covenant
seen at 16:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

Updated: quote added

The news comes after a record breaking year for the Armed Forces Covenant with more employers signing up in a single year than ever before.

O2 is the latest employer to sign...

Statement to Parliament: PM Commons statement on European Council: 18 December 2017
seen at 16:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on last week’s European Council.

Before turning to the progress on our negotiations to leave the EU, let me briefly cover the discussions ...

Transparency data: HM Treasury gender pay gap report 2016 to 2017
seen at 14:56, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Earlier this year, the government introduced world-leading legislation that made it statutory for organisations with 250 or more employees to report annually on their gender pay gap. Government departments are...

Guidance: Search for businesses who have signed the Armed Forces Covenant
seen at 14:56, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Update to the armed forces covenant index listings.

Find out which businesses have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and what they are pledging to do to support defence and the armed forces community...

Guidance: Businesses who have signed the Armed Forces Covenant (company names beginning with A)
seen at 14:55, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Addition of Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce, Acceler8 Training, After the Military, Alcimi, Alford Technologies Ltd, Allan Webb Ltd, Alma Law, Ambassador Protection Ltd, AmmarM, Ant Art, Artrius...

Transparency data: Department of Health: gender pay gap report and data 2017
seen at 14:55, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Gender pay gap legislation introduced in April 2017 requires all employers of 250 or more employees to publish their gender pay gap as of 31 March 2017.

The gender pay gap is the difference between...

Official Statistics: Child Maintenance Group FIU: complex earners investigations, Apr 2016 to Sept 2017
seen at 14:55, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

This ad hoc release provides statistics covering just one part of Child Maintenance Service (CMS) enforcement work: investigations by the FIU into cases of complex earners who are suspected of evading their child...

Transparency data: MHRA gender pay gap report
seen at 14:55, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

The Department of Health has released its gender pay gap figures which also covers the Agency.

From 6 April 2017 employers in Great Britain with more than 250 staff will be required by law to publish...

Notice: Announcement of Opportunity: Call for Ideas, UK Microgravity Experiments
seen at 14:55, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

The UK subscribes to the European Space Agency’s European Exploration Enveloped Programme (E3P). This allows UK scientists to apply for use of microgravity and space environment facilities made available through...

Transparency data: DCLG: gender pay gap report and data 2017
seen at 14:55, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Gender Pay Gap legislation introduced in April 2017 requires all employers of 250 or more employees to publish their gender pay gap as of 31 March 2017. The gender pay gap is the difference between the...

Guidance: Compliance checks: penalties for VAT and excise wrongdoing - CC/FS12
seen at 14:55, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Factsheet updated to include new legislation which restricts the penalty for the timing of the disclosure.

Factsheets are for guidance only and reflect HM Revenue and Customs position at the time...

Guidance: Businesses who have signed the Armed Forces Covenant (company names beginning with B)
seen at 14:54, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Addition of Blackhouse Bakery Ltd, Bodhi360, Boyns Information Systems Ltd, BP Rolls Automotive Limited armed forces covenant pledges.

About the Armed Forces Covenant for businesses

The Armed...

Guidance: Businesses who have signed the Armed Forces Covenant (company names beginning with C)
seen at 14:53, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Addition of C2 Business Solutions Ltd, Capstar, Clifford Chance, Community Veterans Support, Confide Counselling Service, Cornerstone Business Solutions Ltd, Cosworth Group Holdings Limited armed forces...

Guidance: Businesses who have signed the Armed Forces Covenant (company names beginning with D)
seen at 14:53, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Addition of DellEMC, Delt Shared Services Ltd, Derby County Community Trust, Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust, Dignity PLC, Douglas Thornton, Dunfermline Athletic Football Club...

Guidance: Businesses who have signed the Armed Forces Covenant (company names beginning with E)
seen at 14:52, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Addition of EBB Limited, Empire Medals, ES-KO UK Limited armed forces covenant pledges.

About the Armed Forces Covenant for businesses

The Armed Forces Covenant for businesses is a voluntary...

Guidance: Businesses who have signed the Armed Forces Covenant (company names beginning with F)
seen at 14:52, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Addition of Firing Line Ltd, First Medical Training, Forces Compare Limited, Forces Solutions Limited armed forces covenant pledges.

About the Armed Forces Covenant for businesses

The Armed...

Guidance: Businesses who have signed the Armed Forces Covenant (company names beginning with G)
seen at 14:51, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Addition of Gingernut Media and Glasgow Caledonian University armed forces covenant pledges.

About the Armed Forces Covenant for businesses

The Armed Forces Covenant for businesses is a voluntary...

Guidance: Businesses who have signed the Armed Forces Covenant (company names beginning with H to J)
seen at 14:51, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Addition of Hashtag Marketing Ltd, Hatton Traffic Management Ltd, Hendy Group Ltd, Henmore Health Limited, Hughes Driver Training, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust The Bays, Insignia Global Partners...

Guidance: Businesses who have signed the Armed Forces Covenant (company names beginning with K)
seen at 14:50, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Addition of Keele University and Kredo Consulting Ltd armed forces covenant pledges.

About the Armed Forces Covenant for businesses

The Armed Forces Covenant for businesses is a voluntary pledge...

Guidance: CMR Bulletin 33
seen at 14:50, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Claims management regulation (CMR) business bulletin number 33 contains guidance and information about:

General Data Protection Regulations Payment of client fees by instalments Claims for cavity ...
Guidance: Businesses who have signed the Armed Forces Covenant (company names beginning with L)
seen at 14:50, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Addition of Lewisham and Greenwich Hospital NHS Trust, LGM Aviation Consultancy Services Ltd and Licence Trade Consultants Security Limited and Lincolnshire County Council armed forces covenant pledges...

Guidance: Businesses who have signed the Armed Forces Covenant (company names beginning with M)
seen at 14:49, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Addition of Manchester and Cheshire Construction Company Limited, Marine Specialised Technology, Marsh Medical Practice, Mast Security Ltd, McDonald's Restaurants - Braintree, MDO Protection, Military...

Transparency data: DFID gender pay gap report and data 2016-17
seen at 14:49, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: DFID Gender Pay Gap Report 2016/17 published

Gender Pay Gap legislation introduced in April 2017 requires all employers of 250 or more employees to publish their gender pay gap from of 31...

Guidance: Businesses who have signed the Armed Forces Covenant (company names beginning with R)
seen at 14:49, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Addition of Redditch United Football Club, Redmayne Bentley LLP Shrewsbury Office, Renfrewshire Council, RHW Solicitors, Ringway Jacobs, Ryder Architecture armed forces covenant pledges.

Looking...

Guidance: Businesses who have signed the Armed Forces Covenant (company names beginning with S)
seen at 14:48, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Addition of Safe Space Security Solutions, Safonda Limited, Samuel Jones Pearls, Sanctuary Group, Security and Facilities Support UK Ltd, Simply Secure Limited, Soiltechnics Limited, Staffordshire University...

Guidance: Businesses who have signed the Armed Forces Covenant (company names beginning with T)
seen at 14:47, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Addition of Tarmac, Taunton Rugby Football Club, Telkeda Ltd, Tes 2000 Limited, The Countess Mountbatten's Own Legion Of Frontiersmen, The Crucial Group Ltd, The Leeds United Foundation, The Methodist...

Guidance: Businesses who have signed the Armed Forces Covenant (company names with U to Z)
seen at 14:46, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Addition of Universal Solutions 4 Business Ltd, University Of Central Lancashire, University Of Derby, Veterans Network, Vortex Training Solutions, White's Transport, Wills Bros Civil Engineering Limited...

Independent report: Electronic balloting for industrial action: Knight review
seen at 14:45, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

This independent review looks at the electronic and physical security of electronic balloting (e-balloting) for industrial action. The report sets out recommendations and suggests a test phase of e-balloting ...

Consultation outcome: Electronic balloting for industrial action: Knight review - call for evidence
seen at 14:45, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Outcome and final report of the independent review published.

This consultation sets out the background to Sir Ken Knight’s independent review of electronic balloting and calls for evidence in ...

Statutory guidance: Fishing vessel licence variations
seen at 14:45, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Variation dated 18 December 2017 added

Variations occur to reflect changes in quota limits and closures or openings of sea areas.

Check your licence

It is your responsibility to check ...

Guidance: Academy conversion: important dates
seen at 14:45, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Added dates for April to September 2018 academy conversions.

These documents explain the deadlines for schools wanting to open as an academy in a chosen month.

Read more guidance for...

Map: England Coast Path in the east of England
seen at 14:45, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Updated table to show that Bawdsey to Aldeburgh stretch is now at stage 2/3.

The map shows the stretches and provisional timings for improving coastal access in the east of England. Use the links...

Notice: Current catch limits: over 10 metre non-sector pool
seen at 14:45, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Catch limits updated for non-sector in line with variation added 18 December 2017

Your catch limits are in your vessel licence annexe - Category A, Category A - Islands, Category...

Policy paper: Automatic enrolment review 2017: Maintaining the momentum
seen at 14:33, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

This report follows a review that considered the success of automatic enrolment, and explored ways to develop it further.

We announced the review in December 2016. It was supported by an external...

Research and analysis: Automatic enrolment: review of the earnings trigger and qualifying earnings band for 2018/19
seen at 14:33, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

The automatic enrolment earnings trigger determines at what point an eligible person gets automatically enrolled into a workplace pension.

The qualifying earnings band sets minimum contribution levels...

Correspondence: Making clear which qualifications Ofqual regulates
seen at 14:33, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

It is important for public confidence in the regulated qualifications market that the Register of Regulated Qualifications is an accurate record that users can rely on. Awarding organisations are responsible...

Guidance: Businesses who have signed the Armed Forces Covenant (company names beginning with N to P)
seen at 14:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Addition of NHS Western Isles Western Isles Hospital, Noble Electrical Contractors Ltd, Norse Group, Northampton Rugby Football Club, Nps Group, NVC Security, O2, OCS Group UK LTD, Plc Activities Club...

Notice: SY4 1JJ, Shropshire Council: environmental permit application advertisement
seen at 14:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

The Environment Agency consults the public on certain applications for waste operations, mining waste operations, installations, water discharge and groundwater activities. The arrangements are explained in its...

Guidance: Administrative Court judicial review guide
seen at 14:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Welsh version published

Includes guidance on:

starting a claim applying for permission for judicial review substantive hearings remedies case management specific practice points...
Notice: BR8 8LT,Miss Malini Patel: environmental permit application advertisement
seen at 14:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

The Environment Agency consults the public on certain applications for waste operations, mining waste operations, installations, water discharge and groundwater activities. The arrangements are explained in its...

Transparency data: HM Land Registry: gender pay gap report and data 2017
seen at 14:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Gender Pay Gap legislation introduced in April 2017 requires all employers of 250 or more employees to publish their gender pay gap from of 31 March 2017. The gender pay gap is the difference between the...

Confessions of a failed founder: 8 steps from startup conception to seed raise
seen at 14:32, 18 December in Tech City UK – Programmes, Research, Events – Homepage (Our copy).

This article was written by William Despard, twice failed founder, and CEO of Cutter’s Club.

As Tech City UK’s Tech Nation report 2017 highlighted, the tech sector is growing –...

Press release: New floating moorings on River Great Ouse to last 50-plus years
seen at 14:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

The floating moorings replace ones on the relief channels at Stowbridge, Wiggenhall St Mary and the Denver Complex, all in Norfolk.

Expected to last at least 50 years, the new platforms feature non-slip...

Press release: Highways England is ‘gearing up’ to remove miles of roadworks in time for Christmas
seen at 14:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

Almost 400 miles of roadworks across England will be lifted and completed in December, leaving almost 99 per cent of motorways and strategic A roads roadworks-free in time for Christmas.

All roadworks...

News story: Essential maintenance to our online service
seen at 14:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

Updated: Possible disruption to Companies House Service

We’ll be carrying out some planned maintenance on our internal systems from 17:00 to 20:00 on 20 December 2017. CHS may be affected during this time...

News story: Twenty three universities join student visa pilot
seen at 14:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

A pilot which is looking at streamlining the process for international Masters students wanting to study in the UK has been extended to an additional 23 universities, the Immigration Minister announced today.

Press release: Ministers take action to bolster PIP services
seen at 14:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

As part of its ongoing commitment to strengthen its services for disabled people, the government has accepted the recommendations of the second independent review of Personal Independence Payment (PIP).

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News story: 200 suppliers now signing up to Contracts Finder every week
seen at 14:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

Updated: changed image

The Contracts Finder platform now has more than 22,000 registered suppliers, with almost two-thirds of them small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) - a 53% increase since the beginning...

Speech: Immigration Minister: Scotland should be proud of refugee support
seen at 14:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

It’s a pleasure to be here with you all today. The past 2 years of resettlement in Scotland have been a wonderful journey and I’m so pleased to be able to share this celebration with you.

Scotland, along...

News story: UK-China Energy Dialogue
seen at 14:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

The 5th annual UK-China Energy Dialogue took place in Beijing last week (Friday 15 December).

This year’s Energy Dialogue demonstrated the continued importance of secure, affordable and sustainable energy...

News story: Businesses encouraged to bid for transformative innovation funding
seen at 14:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

Innovative businesses with plans to transform UK transport have the opportunity to bid for life-changing funding.

Mobile ticketing via Bluetooth, measures to cut commuting time, and a pilot helping partially...

News story: Preferred candidate chosen for the role of Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council
seen at 14:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

Professor Watt is currently Director of the Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine at King’s College London. Here she leads a team of 80 academic researchers and is internationally recognised in her ...

News story: Could your experiment fly on the International Space Station?
seen at 14:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

There is a growing community of scientists looking to experiment in microgravity – where astronauts and objects float weightlessly. The UK Space Agency will select a number of ideas for development which could...

Speech: Delivering safer and more secure prisons: the roots to rehabilitation
seen at 14:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

Thank you Andrew [Haldenby, Reform] for that introduction – and thank you all for being here today. It’s always slightly frightening to be reminded of how long you have known someone. It goes back to the days...

Press release: UK aid tackling global migration crisis
seen at 14:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt today sets out how UK aid will help tackle the root causes driving people to migrate. This includes a lack of job opportunities, conflict and instability at ...

News story: Defence Secretary and O2 team up for 2000th signing of Armed Forces Covenant
seen at 14:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

The news comes after a record breaking year for the Armed Forces Covenant with more employers signing up in a single year than ever before.

O2 is the latest employer to sign the Armed Forces Covenant, ...

Policy paper: Pension funds and social investment: interim response
seen at 11:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

In November 2016, the government asked the Law Commission to look at how far pension funds may or should consider issues of social impact when making investment decisions.

The Law Commission’s report ...

Consultation outcome: Applying the Financial Assistance Scheme increased cap for long service
seen at 11:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: We published the government response to this consultation on 18 December 2017.

The Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS) is administered by the Pension Protection Fund (PPF). The scheme provides...

Statistical data set: Wholesale fruit and vegetable prices, weekly average
seen at 11:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Regular weekly update.

Weekly publications give the average wholesale prices of selected home-grown horticultural produce. The prices are national averages of the most usual prices charged by ...

Official Statistics: Work and Pensions Select Committee PIP and ESA assessments inquiry: supporting statistics
seen at 11:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Tables 22 and 23 within the data tables pack have been updated to show extra breakdowns by all possible audit performance grades. This is at the request of the first Work and Pensions Select Committee...

Guidance: Defence Commercial Graduate Programme brochure
seen at 11:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Updated brochure and application information.

Many thanks for your interest in the Commercial Graduate Programme. The advert is due to go live in late December 2017 and will close in mid February...

Guidance: Ministry of Defence byelaws consultation process
seen at 11:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Updated Public Consultation Process for Byelaws Review.

The public consultation documents for byelaws review and proposed new or replacement byelaws, provide comprehensive information of the consultation...

Statistical data set: Unclaimed estates list
seen at 11:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Daily update of unclaimed estates list

The Division publishes a list of unclaimed estates which have been recently referred, but not yet administered, and historic cases which have been administered...

Independent report: Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety: interim report
seen at 11:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

The independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety is being led by Dame Judith Hackitt. Its purpose is to make recommendations that will ensure we have a sufficiently robust regulatory system for ...

Corporate report: Armed Forces Covenant annual report 2017
seen at 11:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Presented to Parliament pursuant to section 2 of the Armed Forces Act 2011.

Guidance: Renewables obligation level calculations: 2018/19
seen at 11:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Explanatory note on revising the renewables obligation level for 2018/19 published.

The Renewables Obligation Order 2015 requires the Secretary of State to announce the level of the obligation ...

Guidance: Future Accommodation Model: what you need to know
seen at 11:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Updated guidance and latest updates for this project.

Information about the MOD Future Accommodation Model (FAM), it aims and who if may affect.

Guidance: Hungary – consular fees
seen at 11:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Modified on 18 December 2017.

A full list of consular fees

Guidance: Advice for building owners on external wall systems
seen at 11:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

This advice note is for the attention of anyone responsible for the fire safety of residential buildings over 18 metres in height who are concerned about the fire safety implications of external wall systems.

Open consultation: Draft legislation: The Value Added Tax (Amendment) Regulations 2018
seen at 11:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has published draft regulations, together with a draft explanatory memorandum and draft VAT Notice, for public comment.

The proposed secondary legislation would make changes...

Transparency data: CMA board meeting minutes: 15 November 2017
seen at 11:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

The members of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) board are set out in the ‘Our management’ section of the CMA’s home page.

Promotional material: Floods destroy. Be prepared: campaign material
seen at 11:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: New promotional material added for this year's flood campaign.

The Environment Agency welcomes support from businesses, communities and organisations. You can use the campaign materials online ...

Transparency data: UK Atomic Energy Authority prompt payment data: 2017 to 2018
seen at 11:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Force published: Period 8 added

This shows invoices paid by the UK Atomic Energy Authority within 5, 10 and 30 days of receipt from 2017 to 2018, as part of the government’s commitment to transparency...

Guidance: International search & rescue co-operation data: Passenger ships
seen at 11:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Co-operation plan index updated - correct as at 17/12/2017.

All passenger ships must carry plans for co-operation with search and rescue (SAR) services. Copies of the plans are held by all relevant...

Guidance: Oman – Consular Fees
seen at 11:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Oman Consular Fees update

A full list of Consular fees

Guidance: Business rates relief schemes 2017: rebilling progress
seen at 11:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: List updated.

At the Spring Budget 2017, the Chancellor announced a &pound;435 million package of support for business ratepayers over the next 4 years, following the 2017 business rate...

Guidance: Dartmoor firing times
seen at 11:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Added Dartmoor firing times week commencing 18 December 2017.

The firing times are presented in 2 file formats. The PDF format is web browseable and accessible on mobile devices such as Blackberry...

Guidance: Reservist employers toolkit
seen at 11:32, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Update to REEDs contact details PDF.

The employer toolkit provides information on all aspects of employing reservists. This includes:

an outline of the benefits of employing reservists...
8 steps to take you startup from conception to seed raise
seen at 11:31, 18 December in Tech City UK – Programmes, Research, Events – Homepage (Our copy).

This article was written by William Despard, twice failed founder, and CEO of Cutter’s Club.

As Tech City UK’s Tech Nation report 2017 highlighted, the tech sector is growing –...

The Prince of Wales's and The Duchess of Cornwall's Christmas Card 2017
seen at 11:31, 18 December in (Our copy).
TRH's Christmas Card 2017
Press release: Young people are savvier and more generous when giving to charity at Christmas
seen at 11:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

New research from the Charity Commission and the Fundraising Regulator highlights the generosity of the British public at Christmas – and suggests that younger people are savvier about the charities they donate...

Press release: Wales' prosperity is underpinned by the efforts and aspirations of our Top 300 firms
seen at 11:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

Updated: Welsh translation added

Since 2010 the UK Government has consistently and robustly put in place measures to help rebuild and nurture the UK economy.

We have announced the end of Severn ...

Press release: Interim report into the Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety
seen at 11:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

The Chair of an independent review into building regulations and fire safety has found that a “universal shift in culture” is required to rebuild trust amongst residents of high-rise buildings and significantly...

News story: UK takes delivery of final F-35B Lightning this year
seen at 11:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

Operated jointly by the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force, the F-35 Lightning jets will be able to operate on land or embarked on the UK’s new aircraft carriers. This delivery is a significant milestone for the ...

News story: VIDEO: A historic year at Sellafield.
seen at 11:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

Highlights included cutting holes in the world’s oldest nuclear store and bringing down the site’s tallest chimney.

Thanks to our world-class workforce and supply chain for making 2017 a year to remember...

News story: Want to know more about National Apprenticeship Week 2018?
seen at 11:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

The ‘apprenticeships work’ themed National Apprenticeship Week 2018 (NAW 2018) takes place from 5 to 9 March and will be a week-long celebration of apprenticeships in England - designed to showcase how...

News story: Sellafield contract win for UK firm
seen at 11:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

Cavendish Nuclear will design, manufacture and test glove box systems in two new plants which will treat and manage nuclear materials.

Glove boxes are sealed containers designed so objects can be manipulated...

Press release: Penny Mordaunt: Extra UK aid to help stop “human tragedy” in Yemen and prevent risk of “catastrophic famine”
seen at 11:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

The UK is providing urgent new food and fuel supplies to help keep millions of Yemeni people alive as an escalation in fighting and restrictions on aid access threaten to push Yemen into a catastrophic famine...

Press release: Cardiff University and University of Wales Trinity St. David join Student Visa pilot
seen at 11:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

A pilot which is looking at streamlining the process for international Masters students wanting to study in the UK has been extended to two Welsh universities, the Immigration Minister announced today (Monday...

Press release: Joint Nature Conservation Committee appointed three new independent members
seen at 11:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

The Government has appointed Professor Melanie Austen, Charles Banner and Professor Marian Scott as Independent Members of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee. The appointments took effect from 15 December...

News story: Sign up to attend the Severn Growth Summit in January 2018
seen at 11:30, 18 December in News and communications (Our copy).

The Secretary of State for Wales Alun Cairns has announced that he will host the first cross-border, Severn Growth business summit on 22 January 2018 at the Celtic Manor Resort.

He is calling on local...

Guidance: Joint theatre entry (JDN 1/17)
seen at 10:33, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

The JDN is designed to encourage dialogue, discussion and debate. The JDN is authoritative doctrine as it is based on current practice and established doctrine but is not ratified.

The JDN comprises ...

Guidance: Bulgaria: Local information guide (Burgas)
seen at 10:33, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Welcome to Burgas, the fourth largest city in Bulgaria. The city will enchant you with its gentle breeze, the aromatic scent of the sea, its quietness and romantic atmosphere. For more information, please check...

Guidance: Bulgaria: Local Information Guide (Plovdiv)
seen at 10:33, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Welcome to Plovdiv, the second largest city in Bulgaria. It is one of the oldest cities not only in Bulgaria, but also in Europe. For more information, please check the Official Visitor’s Guide or visit...

Guidance: Bulgaria: Local Information Guide (Sofia)
seen at 10:33, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Welcome to Sofia – the capital of Bulgaria. Sofia has a lot to offer - from various museums to green parks, modern buildings and interesting venues. For more information, please check the Official Visitor’...

Guidance: Bulgaria: Local Information Guide (Varna)
seen at 10:33, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Welcome to Varna, the third largest city in Bulgaria. The region is well known for its sandy beaches, hot mineral springs, rich cultural life and hospitality. For more information, please check the Official...

Research and analysis: Digital railways programme: recommendations to support development and deployment
seen at 10:33, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Recommendations, made to government and Network Rail, include that:

government should publish a clear statement of policy for the delivery of digital signalling government and industry partners should...
Guidance: WebTAG: forthcoming change to wider economic impacts
seen at 10:33, 18 December in Search (Our copy).

Revised guidance, released as a forthcoming change, for wider economic impacts.

The revised guidance includes information on impacts appraisal, investment, employment effects, productivity and modelling...