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Charity regulator serves Calderdale Council with an Official Warning

Charity regulator serves Calderdale Council with an Official Warning

01 September 2024 - 23:01 Press Release

The Charity Commission

Charity Commission issues first ever Official Warning to a local authority over failing to properly manage 13 charities....

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Single headline Ofsted grades scrapped in landmark school reform

Single headline Ofsted grades scrapped in landmark school reform

01 September 2024 - 23:01 Press Release

Department for Education

Government pushes ahead with reform agenda by scrapping single headline Ofsted judgements for schools with immediate eff...

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UK suspends around 30 arms export licences to Israel for use in Gaza over International Humanitarian Law concerns

UK suspends around 30 arms export licences to Israel for use in Gaza over International Humanitarian Law concerns

01 September 2024 - 23:00 Press Release

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

The government has taken the decision that the UK will suspend arms export licences to Israel for use in military operat...

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Interim CCO Freya Grimwood at Cambridge International Symposium

Interim CCO Freya Grimwood at Cambridge International Symposium

01 September 2024 - 23:00 Speech

Serious Fraud Office

The SFO's interim Chief Capability Officer, Freya Grimwood, delivered a keynote speech at the Cambridge International Sy...

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MHRA approves Spikevax JN.1 COVID-19 vaccines for adults and children from infancy

MHRA approves Spikevax JN.1 COVID-19 vaccines for adults and children from infancy

01 September 2024 - 23:00 News Story

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

The MHRA has approved an adapted Moderna COVID-19 vaccine (Spikevax) that targets the JN.1 COVID-19 subvariant....

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Companies promoting ‘corporate rescue’ scheme shut down after undermining insolvency regime

Companies promoting ‘corporate rescue’ scheme shut down after undermining insolvency regime

01 September 2024 - 23:00 Press Release

The Insolvency Service

Seven companies have been wound-up following Insolvency Service investigations. ...

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The AAIB has sent a team of inspectors to Derbyshire

The AAIB has sent a team of inspectors to Derbyshire

01 September 2024 - 13:18 News Story

Air Accidents Investigation Branch

A team of inspectors has been sent to begin investigating an accident which occurred on 1 September 2024...

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Decades of defence and international experience added to review team

Decades of defence and international experience added to review team

01 September 2024 - 08:00 Press Release

Ministry of Defence

Six leading figures with extensive experience across defence, security, and wider government will support the Strategic ...

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UK-Ukraine digital trade set to grow

UK-Ukraine digital trade set to grow

01 September 2024 - 07:00 Press Release

Department for Business and Trade

The UK-Ukraine Digital Trade Agreement (DTA) enters into force today, allowing businesses on both sides to benefit from ...

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“You could get Pension Credit” – Week of Action to drive take up

“You could get Pension Credit” – Week of Action to drive take up

31 August 2024 - 23:00 Press Release

Department for Work and Pensions

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to launch Pension Credit Week of Action to boost take-up of vital benefit...

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Bluetongue virus restricted zones declared

Bluetongue virus restricted zones declared

31 August 2024 - 09:38 News Story

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

A bluetongue restricted zone has been declared in regions in England...

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How we're fixing the foundations of the country

How we're fixing the foundations of the country

31 August 2024 - 09:00 News Story

Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street

Here are some of the things we are doing to fix the foundations of this country. ...

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UK to receive earlier flood and drought warnings using high-tech sensors and real time monitoring

UK to receive earlier flood and drought warnings using high-tech sensors and real time monitoring

31 August 2024 - 08:30 Press Release

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Researchers across the UK to use latest tech and major data bank to provide better flood and drought warnings....

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Vindi Banga reappointed as Chair of UK Government Investments

Vindi Banga reappointed as Chair of UK Government Investments

30 August 2024 - 15:52 Press Release

HM Treasury

Vindi Banga has been reappointed as Chair of UK Government Investments (UKGI) for a second three-year term, commencing i...

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International Investment Summit Adviser appointed

International Investment Summit Adviser appointed

30 August 2024 - 14:38 Press Release

HM Treasury

Ian Corfield has been appointed as an unpaid International Investment Summit Adviser by the Chancellor of the Exchequer....

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Applications open soon for scheme to develop the Civil Service’s future leaders

Applications open soon for scheme to develop the Civil Service’s future leaders

30 August 2024 - 13:52 News Story

Government Skills

The Future Leaders Scheme offers a fast track to senior leadership roles....

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Painting owned by the first Prime Minister of Great Britain at risk of export

Painting owned by the first Prime Minister of Great Britain at risk of export

30 August 2024 - 13:00 Press Release

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

A temporary export bar has been placed on Le Rêve de L’Artiste by Jean-Antoine Watteau ...

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Government funded childcare offer to kick in from next week

Government funded childcare offer to kick in from next week

30 August 2024 - 12:20 Press Release

Department for Education

Hundreds of thousands of parents of children from nine months old take up new 15 government funded hours of early educat...

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What really matters in the workplace and how to measure it

What really matters in the workplace and how to measure it

30 August 2024 - 10:05 News Story

Government Property Agency

The GPA's Customer Insights Lead Claire Storey sets the scene ahead of her panel discussion at the Smarter Working Live...

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Change to Plan 1 student loan interest rate announcement

Change to Plan 1 student loan interest rate announcement

30 August 2024 - 08:30 News Story

Student Loans Company

The Department for Education (DfE), the Welsh Government and the Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland (DfE NI)...

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Campaigns underway for ambitious new UKRI CEO and Innovate UK Chair to drive cutting-edge discoveries and grow the economy

Campaigns underway for ambitious new UKRI CEO and Innovate UK Chair to drive cutting-edge discoveries and grow the economy

30 August 2024 - 08:18 Press Release

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

The campaigns to recruit the next UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) chief executive, and Innovate UK Executive Chair, ha...

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Harriet Kemp joins NDA Board as a Non-Executive Board Member

Harriet Kemp joins NDA Board as a Non-Executive Board Member

30 August 2024 - 08:00 News Story

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announces the appointment of Harriet Kemp as a Non-executive Board member....

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Scottish SME lands £1.1 million export contract through UK government scheme

Scottish SME lands £1.1 million export contract through UK government scheme

29 August 2024 - 23:00 Press Release

UK Export Finance

UK Export Finance helps smaller businesses like RAM Engineering to build relationships with lenders and fulfil their exp...

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UK statement in response to IDF military operation in the Occupied West Bank, August 2024

UK statement in response to IDF military operation in the Occupied West Bank, August 2024

29 August 2024 - 23:00 News Story

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Statement from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) on the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) military opera...

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Over 130,000 people to benefit from life-saving health checks

Over 130,000 people to benefit from life-saving health checks

29 August 2024 - 23:00 Press Release

Department of Health and Social Care

More than 130,000 people across the country will be better protected from diseases such as heart disease, kidney disease...

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Government to end badger cull with new TB eradication strategy

Government to end badger cull with new TB eradication strategy

29 August 2024 - 23:00 Press Release

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

First Bovine TB strategy in a decade to end the badger cull and drive down TB rates to protect farmers' livelihoods...

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Russian disinformation will not deter the UK from supporting Ukraine: UK statement at the UN Security Council

Russian disinformation will not deter the UK from supporting Ukraine: UK statement at the UN Security Council

29 August 2024 - 23:00 Speech

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Statement by Fergus Eckersley, Minister Counsellor, at the Security Council meeting on Ukraine....

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Appointments of four MHRA Non-Executive Directors extended until 31 August 2025

Appointments of four MHRA Non-Executive Directors extended until 31 August 2025

29 August 2024 - 16:53 News Story

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

Dr Junaid Bajwa, Professor Graham Cooke, Dr Paul Goldsmith and Rajakumari Long have had their appointments as Non-Ex...

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Gang members sentenced in sham marriage documents scam

Gang members sentenced in sham marriage documents scam

29 August 2024 - 16:09 News Story

Home Office

Members of an organised crime group have today been jailed for forging more than 2,000 marriage certificates to allow pe...

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People smuggler who crammed 7 migrants into lorry convicted

People smuggler who crammed 7 migrants into lorry convicted

29 August 2024 - 16:09 News Story

Home Office

A people smuggler who left 7 migrants requiring urgent hospital treatment after cramming them into a boiling lorry has b...

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