£3.5-million investment for smarter missile systems
The Defence Science Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has been awarded £3.5 million to develop innovative new missile systems...
Thursday, 1 July 2021 13:41
UKHSA launches long term action plan to reduce tuberculosis in England
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), working with NHS England (NHSE), has launched a 5-year action plan to drive down tuberculosis (TB) cases in England...
Thursday, 1 July 2021 13:20
New water saving measures to safeguard supplies
Plans to help households across England use water more efficiently, part of an ambitious agenda to build back greener from the pandemic, have been announced by the Environment Secretary...
Thursday, 1 July 2021 13:19
Safe return of international travel? Government Response to the Committee’s Seventh Report of Session 2019–21
On 22 April 2021, the Transport Committee published its Seventh Report of Session 2019–21, Safe return of international travel?
Thursday, 1 July 2021 11:38
Labour responds to data showing free school meals pupils were 1.3 times more likely to be off school in the Autumn Term
Kate Green MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, responding to new data showing pupils on free school meals were 1.3 times more likely to be off school in the Autumn Term than their peers, said...
Thursday, 1 July 2021 11:34
Unite: Government steel U-turn buys ‘breathing space’ for industry but long-term solutions needed
Commenting on the government’s U-turn on retaining safeguards to prevent cheap steel flooding the UK market, Unite assistant general secretary for manufacturing, Steve Turner, said...
Thursday, 1 July 2021 10:59
Change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Angola: Roger Stringer
Mr Roger Stringer MBE has been appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Angola in succession to Mrs Jessica Hand...
Thursday, 1 July 2021 10:03
Chancellor sets out how UK financial services can create prosperity at home and project values abroad in first Mansion House speech
Plans to make the UK the world’s most advanced and exciting financial services hub to create prosperity at home and help the UK project its values abroad, were set out by the Chancellor in a speech at Mansion House today (1 July)...
Thursday, 1 July 2021 09:57
CBI responds to Nissan gigafactory announcement
Responding to the Gigafactory announcement, Tony Danker, CBI Director-General, said...
Thursday, 1 July 2021 09:45
Numbers on furlough halve in three months
More than one million workers came off furlough in the four weeks between the end of April and the end of May alone...
Thursday, 1 July 2021 09:43