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Scottish Retail Returns To Pre-Pandemic Levels

During the pandemic much of retail bounced between being open and closed, significantly impacting sales and changing consumer behaviours...

Wednesday, 20 April 2022 00:01

Higher degree classes are associated with substantially higher earnings, says IFS research

New research at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), commissioned by the Department for Education, examines the financial benefit associated with different degree classifications...

Wednesday, 20 April 2022 00:01

Major new report from UK Music outlines plan to harness the power of music to transform health, wellbeing and communities

Music for Dementia and UK Music have joined forces to publish a new report which outlines a blueprint to use music to help improve the nation’s health and wellbeing...

Wednesday, 20 April 2022 00:01

Labour reveals Government failing on fraud in every region of England and Wales

Ahead of May’s local elections, the Labour Party has published new figures revealing that government enforcement against online and telephone fraudsters has fallen in every region of England and Wales...

Tuesday, 19 April 2022 22:30

New rules to protect consumers' hard earned cash

Reforms to shield the public from rip-offs and boost competition have been announced by the government today...

Tuesday, 19 April 2022 22:30

Online Safety Bill: supporting documents

Supporting documentation for legislation to establish a new regulatory framework to tackle harmful content online, and make reforms to the criminal law...

Tuesday, 19 April 2022 18:41

Labour responds to IMF economic forecasts

Rachel Reeves MP, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, responding to the IMF economic outlook showing that the UK is forecast to have the slowest growth in the G7, along with the highest inflation in the G7 next year, said...

Tuesday, 19 April 2022 16:02

Labour responds to comments by Scottish Power chief executive Keith Anderson, that increase in energy bills in October is going to be ‘truly horrific’

Ed Miliband MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State of Climate Change and Net Zero, responding to Keith Anderson, chief executive of Scottish Power, saying that the increase in energy bills in October is going to be 'truly horrific' and will hit the vulnerable hardest, said...

Tuesday, 19 April 2022 16:01

Ties with major Asian economy boosted through new agreement

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has today launched a major new agreement with Indonesia, to turbocharge trade, tech and security ties...

Tuesday, 19 April 2022 15:15

ASCL comment on school attendance figures

Commenting on the school attendance statistics published today by the Department for Education, Geoff Barton, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said...

Tuesday, 19 April 2022 13:21