Introduction

My first weeks working in the Civil Service have revealed that it might be more pertinent to write this blog entirely in acronyms, but while I’ll save you the trip to the Acronym Buster page...

GAD’s analysis supports government’s pension reforms

Nuclear safeguards and the NPT: AUKUS Side Event, July 2024

As a GCP Inspector at the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), I thought it would be useful to inform you that Annex 2 of the International Council for Harmonisation (ICH) E6 Good Clinical...

Consultation on the International Council for Harmonisation ICH E6 (R3) Guideline for Good Clinical Practice Annex-2

Commander UKStratCom Commendations 2024

Lord Collins appointed Special Representative on PSVI

Vets Market Investigation update from the Inquiry Chair

GAD Annual Report and Accounts for 2023 to 2024

£100m Falkirk and Grangemouth Growth Deal signed

New export guarantee champions UK engineering and design services

Archbishop of Canterbury appointment process

UK pledges Ksh 660 million to Kenya to boost weather and information services

Reporting an air accident or serious incident

HHGL Limited and Hampden Group Limited – trading as Homebase - in administration: information for employees and creditors

November is a great month for a night of stargazing; you can see the planets of our Solar System, meteor showers, and the most distant object we can see with the naked eye, the Andromeda Galaxy.

We may...

HMPPS Annual Report on the IPP Sentence 2023 to 24

FSA workforce management information September 2024

Independent Assessors’ Annual Report 2023/24

Memorandum of Understanding between the UK and Poland on cooperation in criminal justice matters

MHRA approves adapted Nuvaxovid JN.1 COVID-19 vaccines for adults and children aged 12 plus

Monetary policy remit: Mansion House 2024

Recommendations for the Prudential Regulation Committee: November 2024

Recommendations for the Financial Conduct Authority: November 2024

Remit and recommendations for the Financial Policy Committee: November 2024

Recommendations on payments regulation for the Financial Conduct Authority and Payment Systems Regulator: November 2024

UK backs clean power innovation to speed up global energy transition

News story: Exciting opportunities in the nuclear industry

The new Pharmacy First scheme enables your local pharmacy to treat some common conditions with prescription-only medicines, without you visiting your GP. Find out everything you need to know.

Press release: Security guard with fake licence jailed after stealing from hospital

Graves of Lost Korean War Soldiers Identified

NWS CEO Corhyn Parr to step down in March 2025

Apply for parole if you're a young offender

Consumer Vulnerability Strategy Refresh 2024: CFP response to Ofgem consultation

VAT on private school fees

The government are committed to building 1.5 million new homes over the next five years, but we have also been clear that increasing housebuilding rates cannot mean units at any cost. We want exemplary development...

I have previously updated this House that this Government is committed to resetting the relationship between local and regional government, and to establish partnerships built on mutual respect, genuine collaboration...

The independent Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of England (“the Bank”) decided at its meeting ending on 3 February 2022 to reduce the stocks of UK government bonds and sterling non-financial...

Our water system urgently needs fixing. There have been repeated failures for the public and record levels of sewage polluting our rivers, lakes and seas. This must be stopped. Fundamental reform of the water...

On Tuesday 12 November at the 29th UNFCCC conference of the parties (COP29) in Baku, the Prime Minister will announce the UK’s 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris...

This government is committed to getting Britain working. Completing the implementation of Universal Credit will support this mission. Universal Credit provides greater support and incentives to get people into...

I have today laid before the House of Commons a Departmental Minute concerning a new uncapped contingent liability for the Home Office. The liability relates to Home Office approved accommodation for use by individuals...

I am today laying before both Houses a Departmental Minute on the use of a contingent liability by the Department for Education to provide a Local Government Pension Scheme guarantee to Further Education providers...

The Government extends its deepest sympathies to the citizens of Valencia and more widely across Spain, where recent floods have had devastating impacts on communities including the tragic loss of more than 200...

As part of the Government’s aim to halve knife crime within a decade, we have a manifesto commitment to ban Ninja swords and we will be making the relevant changes in secondary legislation. In preparation...

As part of this Government’s aim to halve knife crime within a decade, the Government has a manifesto commitment to establish personal liability measures on senior executives of online platforms and marketplaces...

Introduction

Today, I am pleased to have laid a Departmental Minute setting out the details of a series of contingent liabilities associated with the Carbon Capture Usage and Storage Track-1 clusters. Carbon...

East West Rail supports this Government’s mission to kickstart economic growth and productivity right across the Oxford-Cambridge region by providing easier and faster regional connectivity, opening up ...

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has today (14 November) published the final report of the independent review, led by Jeff Halliwell and an expert panel, into the NATS Technical IT Failure of 28 August 2023...

The United Kingdom delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is as follows:

Full Representatives

The Rt. Hon. the Lord Touhig (Leader of the UK delegation and...

Alongside my hon Friend the Minister for Employment Rights, Competition and Markets, I am today publishing the Labour Market Enforcement Annual Strategy for 2024-25, submitted by the DLME Margaret Beels OBE. ...

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development (FCDO) officials have regular contact with diplomatic missions and international organisations in the UK about outstanding National Non-Domestic Rates (NNDR) payments, ...

In 2023, nine serious and significant offences allegedly committed by people entitled to diplomatic or international organisation-related immunity in the United Kingdom were drawn to the attention of the Foreign...

Today, I am announcing the Government’s response to the Criminal Legal Aid Crime Lower consultation which was launched in January of this year. Crime Lower covers work carried out by legal aid providers...

Firstly, I would like to give thanks to the hundreds of thousands of workers across the United Kingdom who have dedicated themselves to the coal extraction industry that helped power the industrial revolution...

Draft proposals to underline the important role of legal services regulators in tackling economic crime have been published today by the Legal Services Board (LSB). This follows a new legal duty being placed ...

In 2002, I lost my Internet company. With a new baby and a mortgage to pay, I took a temporary job teaching in a prison, never imagining I would still be in that role 21 years later. But one thing kept me there...

Voluntary carbon and nature market integrity: UK government principles