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Supporting the move to electric vehicles

Supporting the move to electric vehicles

09 September 2024 - 08:00 News Story

Closed organisation: Strategic Command

In a pan-Defence collaboration, trials of hydrogen fuelled charging facilities to power the electric vehicle fleet have ...

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UK-Chile agreement paves way for green hydrogen exports

UK-Chile agreement paves way for green hydrogen exports

08 September 2024 - 23:00 Press Release

UK Export Finance

UK Export Finance and CORFO announce partnership in London on Chile Day....

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Change of British High Commissioner to Cameroon: Matt Woods

Change of British High Commissioner to Cameroon: Matt Woods

08 September 2024 - 23:00 Press Release

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Matt Woods has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of Cameroon and His Majesty’s non-resident Ambas...

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Transport Secretary sets the wheels in motion on

Transport Secretary sets the wheels in motion on "biggest overhaul to buses in a generation"

08 September 2024 - 23:00 Press Release

Department for Transport

The new Buses Bill will put power over bus services back in the hands of local leaders....

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Insolvency Service warns people to be on their guard against fraudsters impersonating the agency and its staff

Insolvency Service warns people to be on their guard against fraudsters impersonating the agency and its staff

08 September 2024 - 23:00 Press Release

The Insolvency Service

The Insolvency Service has seen an increase in fraudsters targeting people who have previously suffered a loss on an inv...

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Illegal waste site in Surrey closed down by Environment Agency

Illegal waste site in Surrey closed down by Environment Agency

08 September 2024 - 23:00 Press Release

Environment Agency

Investigators obtain court order to block access to site blighted by waste as probe to find out who dumped it continues....

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GAD actuary on Bank's new panel

GAD actuary on Bank's new panel

08 September 2024 - 23:00 News Story

Government Actuary's Department

A GAD actuary has been appointed to a new financial panel. The cost benefit analysis panel was set up by the Bank of Eng...

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Barratt Developments, Homes England and Lloyds Banking Group launch joint venture, MADE Partnership

Barratt Developments, Homes England and Lloyds Banking Group launch joint venture, MADE Partnership

08 September 2024 - 23:00 Press Release

Homes England

MADE Partnership will act as master developer for large scale regeneration and new garden villages across England ...

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Foreign Secretary launches expert reviews to strengthen UK’s global impact and expertise

Foreign Secretary launches expert reviews to strengthen UK’s global impact and expertise

08 September 2024 - 23:00 Press Release

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Three new reviews launched to enhance the UK’s global impact, support growth and maximise the diplomatic and development...

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PM meeting with Taoiseach Harris of Ireland: 7 September 2024

PM meeting with Taoiseach Harris of Ireland: 7 September 2024

07 September 2024 - 16:33 Press Release

Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street

The Prime Minister met Taoiseach Simon Harris at Farmleigh House in Dublin this afternoon. ...

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Secretary of State: A new chapter in the UK-Ireland relationship

Secretary of State: A new chapter in the UK-Ireland relationship

07 September 2024 - 11:59 News Story

Northern Ireland Office

The Secretary of State signalled the new approach in a keynote speech at the annual British-Irish Association Conference...

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer to visit Dublin in historic moment for UK-Ireland relations

Prime Minister Keir Starmer to visit Dublin in historic moment for UK-Ireland relations

06 September 2024 - 23:02 Press Release

Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street

Prime Minister Keir Starmer will travel to Dublin today [7 September 2024] to meet the Taoiseach, Simon Harris, in his f...

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UK National Memorial to Queen Elizabeth II to be located in St James's Park, London

UK National Memorial to Queen Elizabeth II to be located in St James's Park, London

06 September 2024 - 23:01 Press Release

The Queen Elizabeth Memorial Committee

The site for the new national Queen Elizabeth II Memorial has been announced as St James’s Park, London...

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Joint Statement following meeting between UK Foreign Secretary The Rt Hon David Lammy MP and UAE Foreign Minister H.H Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed

Joint Statement following meeting between UK Foreign Secretary The Rt Hon David Lammy MP and UAE Foreign Minister H.H Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed

06 September 2024 - 23:00 News Story

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Foreign Secretary David Lammy and UAE Foreign Minister H.H. Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed have given a joint statement follo...

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People smuggler who left 7 migrants screaming for help jailed

People smuggler who left 7 migrants screaming for help jailed

06 September 2024 - 16:16 News Story

Home Office

A people smuggler who left 7 migrants screaming for help after cramming them into a tiny concealment in the back of his ...

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Our plan to clean up the water sector

Our plan to clean up the water sector

06 September 2024 - 15:34 News Story

Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street

We’re taking action to clean up our rivers, lakes and seas.  ...

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Paul Corrigan appointed by the government to help shape health plans

Paul Corrigan appointed by the government to help shape health plans

06 September 2024 - 14:30 News Story

Department of Health and Social Care

Paul Corrigan brings extensive sector experience and will work on emerging policy to support the government on successfu...

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NASA brings space leaders to London to shape future of microgravity research

NASA brings space leaders to London to shape future of microgravity research

06 September 2024 - 14:15 News Story

UK Space Agency

Leading space experts from around the world gathered at the Royal Institution today to discuss the future of microgravit...

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2 prosecuted for running illegal waste tyre site

2 prosecuted for running illegal waste tyre site

06 September 2024 - 13:43 Press Release

Environment Agency

2 people have been sentenced after pleading guilty to running an illegal waste tyre site in Daventry, Northamptonshire, ...

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Firm and Director guilty of illegal catalytic converter trading

Firm and Director guilty of illegal catalytic converter trading

06 September 2024 - 12:36 Press Release

Environment Agency

Platinum Group Metals Recycling Ltd and its only director, Edvars Stancik, have been found guilty of illegally trading i...

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Schools urged to capitalise on Paralympic success

Schools urged to capitalise on Paralympic success

06 September 2024 - 12:04 Press Release

Department for Education

Government reminds schools to ensure all children have equal access to PE and school sport with support from the Inclusi...

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Regulator announces inquiry into Eldonian charity

Regulator announces inquiry into Eldonian charity

06 September 2024 - 12:02 Press Release

The Charity Commission

The Charity Commission, the regulator of charities for England and Wales, has opened a statutory inquiry into Eldonian C...

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Wrasse and seabream views vital

Wrasse and seabream views vital

06 September 2024 - 10:11 News Story

Marine Management Organisation

Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is encouraging sea anglers and commercial fishers to share their views on the futur...

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CMA wins drug market sharing appeal

CMA wins drug market sharing appeal

06 September 2024 - 09:17 Press Release

Competition and Markets Authority

The Court of Appeal has upheld the CMA’s finding of cartel infringement relating to an illegal market sharing agreement ...

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CMA objects to Google’s ad tech practices in bid to help UK advertisers and publishers

CMA objects to Google’s ad tech practices in bid to help UK advertisers and publishers

06 September 2024 - 09:01 Press Release

Competition and Markets Authority

Statement of objections sets out how Google may have broken competition law by using its dominance to favour its own ad ...

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Jonathan Powell appointed as Special Envoy for BIOT negotiations

Jonathan Powell appointed as Special Envoy for BIOT negotiations

06 September 2024 - 08:34 News Story

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Jonathan Powell appointed as the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for negotiations between the UK and Mauritius on the exe...

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Environment Agency prepares for winter at flood awareness event

Environment Agency prepares for winter at flood awareness event

06 September 2024 - 06:45 Press Release

Environment Agency

The Environment Agency’s flood resilience team is hosting a drop-in event in Guildford to help raise awareness of local ...

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75 years of the modern Commonwealth: Foreign Secretary's speech

75 years of the modern Commonwealth: Foreign Secretary's speech

06 September 2024 - 06:17 Speech

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

David Lammy hosted a reception marking 75 years of the modern Commonwealth and looked ahead to this year’s Commonwealth ...

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Home Secretary  sets out 'moral imperative' to stop smuggling gangs

Home Secretary sets out 'moral imperative' to stop smuggling gangs

05 September 2024 - 23:01 News Story

Home Office

The Home Secretary convenes ministers and law enforcement partners to destroy the gangs that undermine border security a...

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People smuggler jailed for stashing migrants inside motorhome

People smuggler jailed for stashing migrants inside motorhome

05 September 2024 - 23:00 News Story

Home Office

A British national who attempted to smuggle 5 migrants, including a 5-year-old child, has been sentenced following a Hom...

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