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Magistrates to be able to record their own verdicts in Single Justice cases

Magistrates to be able to record their own verdicts in Single Justice cases

30 October 2023 - 00:00 News Story

HM Courts & Tribunals Service

Magistrates will soon have the option to record case outcomes for themselves when deciding cases using the Single Justic...

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Industry Minister makes historic visit to Mongolia to boost UK critical minerals supply chains

Industry Minister makes historic visit to Mongolia to boost UK critical minerals supply chains

30 October 2023 - 00:00 Press Release

Department for Business and Trade

Industry Minister Nusrat Ghani is in Mongolia in an historic visit to boost the UK's critical minerals supply chains....

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Operational changes to support new legislation

Operational changes to support new legislation

30 October 2023 - 00:00 News Story

Disclosure and Barring Service

Changes to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 implemented by DBS. ...

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Home Secretary joins forces with big tech to fight AI child sex abuse images

Home Secretary joins forces with big tech to fight AI child sex abuse images

30 October 2023 - 00:00 News Story

Home Office

The Home Secretary hosted an event with the Internet Watch Foundation, and committed to clamp down on the spread of AI-g...

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Government updates regulations to help deliver COVID-19 and flu jabs

Government updates regulations to help deliver COVID-19 and flu jabs

30 October 2023 - 00:00 News Story

Department of Health and Social Care

Public consultation supports proposal to update 3 regulations that ensure the safe and effective delivery of COVID-19 an...

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AI to speed up lung cancer diagnosis deployed in NHS hospitals

AI to speed up lung cancer diagnosis deployed in NHS hospitals

30 October 2023 - 00:00 Press Release

Department of Health and Social Care

£21 million is being allocated to 64 NHS trusts across England to roll out AI tools to speed up the diagnosis and treatm...

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Oflog’s permanent chief executive announced as Josh Goodman

Oflog’s permanent chief executive announced as Josh Goodman

30 October 2023 - 00:00 Press Release

Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Josh Goodman, who has been the interim chief executive of Oflog since its launch, has been appointed permanently....

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PM call with Prime Minister Rutte of the Netherlands: 29 October 2023

PM call with Prime Minister Rutte of the Netherlands: 29 October 2023

29 October 2023 - 20:58 Press Release

Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street

The Prime Minister spoke to the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, this evening about the crisis in the Midd...

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PM call with President Macron of France: 29 October 2023

PM call with President Macron of France: 29 October 2023

29 October 2023 - 13:22 Press Release

Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street

The Prime Minister spoke to French President Macron today following the expansion of Israel’s military operation against...

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New £100 million fund to capitalise on AI’s game-changing potential in life sciences and healthcare

New £100 million fund to capitalise on AI’s game-changing potential in life sciences and healthcare

29 October 2023 - 07:00 Press Release

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

A new mission announced by the Prime Minister will accelerate the use of AI in life sciences to tackle the biggest healt...

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Letter to police on AI-enabled facial recognition searches

Letter to police on AI-enabled facial recognition searches

28 October 2023 - 23:00 News Story

Home Office

The policing minister writes to police chiefs to set out the importance of harnessing innovative technologies to support...

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Police urged to double AI-enabled facial recognition searches

Police urged to double AI-enabled facial recognition searches

28 October 2023 - 23:00 News Story

Home Office

Policing minister challenges police to double retrospective facial recognition searches to track down known offenders by...

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Russia’s sourcing of weapons from sanctioned states poses a serious risk to international peace and security: UK statement at the UN Security Council
Nearly 100,000 properties protected from flooding during Storm Babet, but threat remains

Nearly 100,000 properties protected from flooding during Storm Babet, but threat remains

27 October 2023 - 17:46 News Story

Environment Agency

Rolling updates on flooding impacts from Storm Babet in England....

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Japan opens doors to British cooked poultry meat

Japan opens doors to British cooked poultry meat

27 October 2023 - 16:53 Press Release

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

British cooked poultry meat will soon reach Japanese tables thanks to a new market access deal that will benefit UK farm...

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Committee on Standards in Public Life - Lobbying Seminar, Summary Note

Committee on Standards in Public Life - Lobbying Seminar, Summary Note

27 October 2023 - 16:00 News Story

Closed organisation: Committee on Standards in Public Life

The Committee on Standards in Public Life held a seminar on 21 September to explore how the current lobbying rules are w...

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GAD attends key summit

GAD attends key summit

27 October 2023 - 15:03 News Story

Government Actuary's Department

GAD has attended a major pensions summit in London. The event, included organisations from the UK and internationally an...

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UK drives new international rules to claw back ill-gotten gains

UK drives new international rules to claw back ill-gotten gains

27 October 2023 - 15:00 News Story

HM Treasury

The landmark change will mean more criminal proceeds are recovered....

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Overwhelming support for Online Safety Act as rules making UK the safest place in the world to be online become law 

Overwhelming support for Online Safety Act as rules making UK the safest place in the world to be online become law 

27 October 2023 - 14:15 News Story

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Raft of voices below have thrown their support behind Act protecting children from online harm, while empowering adults ...

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Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance and Electron Spin Resonance for Explosives and Drugs Detection

Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance and Electron Spin Resonance for Explosives and Drugs Detection

27 October 2023 - 14:12 News Story

Defence and Security Accelerator

The Defence and Security Accelerator is seeking technological solutions to detect Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Signals w...

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Russia’s continued disregard for human life cannot, and will not, be overlooked: UK statement to the OSCE

Russia’s continued disregard for human life cannot, and will not, be overlooked: UK statement to the OSCE

27 October 2023 - 13:00 Speech

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

UK Counsellor, Ankur Narayan, says that while Russia is sending its poorly equipped soldiers to their deaths, Ukraine is...

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OPSS highlights unsafe Halloween products

OPSS highlights unsafe Halloween products

27 October 2023 - 12:00 News Story

Office for Product Safety and Standards

The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) is highlighting a range of unsafe Halloween products recalled this se...

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Small businesses to benefit from one of the largest shake ups to procurement regulations in UK history

Small businesses to benefit from one of the largest shake ups to procurement regulations in UK history

27 October 2023 - 11:18 Press Release

Cabinet Office

New procurement rules have today become law, following the Royal Assent of the Procurement Act - and is part of the Gove...

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More than £5 billion in student finance payments made at the start of academic year

More than £5 billion in student finance payments made at the start of academic year

27 October 2023 - 11:03 News Story

Student Loans Company

By Jackie Currie, SLC Executive Director, Business Operations ...

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Wiltshire and Dorset groundwater flooding roadshow

Wiltshire and Dorset groundwater flooding roadshow

27 October 2023 - 10:10 Press Release

Environment Agency

Series of events across the two counties to educate the public on this type of flooding....

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Appointments to the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission

Appointments to the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission

27 October 2023 - 09:00 News Story

Northern Ireland Office

The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland invites applications for the appointment of a new member of the Northern Ire...

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Leading frontier AI companies publish safety policies

Leading frontier AI companies publish safety policies

27 October 2023 - 08:47 Press Release

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Top frontier AI firms have outlined their safety policies to boost transparency and encourage the sharing of best practi...

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Strategic Command Operational Honours and Awards List 2023

Strategic Command Operational Honours and Awards List 2023

27 October 2023 - 07:30 News Story

Closed organisation: Strategic Command

Members of Strategic Command have been recognised in the Operational Awards List for their services to Defence....

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South China Sea conference 2023: speech by the UK Minister for the Indo-Pacific

South China Sea conference 2023: speech by the UK Minister for the Indo-Pacific

27 October 2023 - 03:15 Speech

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan gave a keynote speech to South China Sea conference in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam....

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Government urges jobseekers to consider careers in “booming” beauty industry

Government urges jobseekers to consider careers in “booming” beauty industry

26 October 2023 - 23:01 Press Release

Department for Work and Pensions

This week marks British Beauty Week (26th – 30th October) which highlights Britain’s thriving and influential beauty bra...

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