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12 month extension to Government trading plan selling shares in NatWest Group

The government’s trading plan selling part of its shareholding in NatWest Group (formerly the Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc) has today (22 June 2022) been extended for another 12 months...

Wednesday, 22 June 2022 07:55

Chancellor responds to May inflation statistics

Chancellor Rishi Sunak responded to the ONS inflation statistics for May 2022...

Wednesday, 22 June 2022 07:54

New Centre for Excellence in Agriculture and Food Integrity launched

The Centre for Excellence in Agriculture and Food Integrity is a strategic partnership between Queen’s University Belfast and the NML at LGC...

Wednesday, 22 June 2022 07:51

Early sight of questions to the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on June 27

John Penrose (Weston-super-Mare): What steps his Department is taking to increase housebuilding through densification of urban areas using local authority-approved building codes that pre-approve buildings...

Wednesday, 22 June 2022 07:25

National Audit Office report published on the energy supplier market

Customers will need to pay an estimated £2.7 billion to cover the costs of 28 energy suppliers failing since June 2021, in addition to the cost of running Bulb Energy...

Wednesday, 22 June 2022 00:01

"10 years on Child Maintenance Service “achieving no more” than discredited Child Support Agency it replaced" says Public Accounts committee

Ten years after the “discredited” Child Support Agency was replaced and billions of pounds of unpaid child maintenance debt remaining from CSA schemes written off...

Wednesday, 22 June 2022 00:01

Lockdown disproves nanny state alcohol policies, finds new IEA report

Neither the total closure of pubs nor the drastic reduction in alcohol marketing had any beneficial effect on alcohol-related harm, according to new IEA research...

Wednesday, 22 June 2022 00:01

NHS patients to have access to cutting-edge mRNA vaccines as Moderna set to open global research and manufacturing centre in UK

NHS patients will have access to the next generation of vaccines and treatments following an agreement between the government and Moderna to build a state-of-the-art manufacturing and research and development centre in the UK...

Wednesday, 22 June 2022 00:01

Risk preparedness plans published for the electricity sector

The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has published national risk preparedness plans for the electricity sector establishing a common framework to prevent, prepare for and manage electricity crises.

Tuesday, 21 June 2022 23:39

Labour: Government admits PM's housing policy won't help "most" people

The government has admitted that “most” people will not benefit from the housing policy announced by Boris Johnson earlier this month to boost homeownership...

Tuesday, 21 June 2022 22:30