National Audit Office report on UK Research and Innovation's management of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund
A National Audit Office report has found that UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) have worked well to generate interest from industry and academia in the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund...
Friday, 5 February 2021 00:01
PAC: DfE “surprisingly unconcerned” about whether free school meals contractor was “profiting at taxpayers’ expense” after “serious problems” in supermarket voucher scheme
At the start of the first UK Covid lockdown in March 2020 the Department for Education (DfE) set up a national food voucher scheme...
Friday, 5 February 2021 00:01
Benefit claims up and council tax revenues down most in London and deprived parts of England, shows new IFS report
The COVID-19 crisis has hit employment and incomes across the UK, which in turn has affected some households’ ability to pay major bills such as council tax...
Friday, 5 February 2021 00:01
ASCL responds to PAC report on free school meals voucher scheme
Responding to the report of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee on the national food voucher scheme, Geoff Barton, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said...
Friday, 5 February 2021 00:01
NAHT comments on Edenred free school meals voucher scheme
Paul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders’ union NAHT, said: “The delivery of free school meals vouchers via Edenred was a particularly stressful and difficult point in the Covid crisis for schools..
Friday, 5 February 2021 00:01
First phase of school transformation launched
Tens of thousands of pupils are set to benefit from new, modern, energy efficient school buildings as 50 schools are confirmed for the first wave of the Prime Minister’s ten-year rebuilding programme, to level up opportunities for all...
Friday, 5 February 2021 00:01
ASCL comment on school rebuilding programme
Commenting on the first wave of the school rebuilding programme, Geoff Barton, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said...
Friday, 5 February 2021 00:01
Government confirms mandatory hotel quarantine to be introduced from 15 February
Building on existing tough measures, the Department for Health and Social Care has confirmed that from the 15 February anyone travelling to the UK from a country on the UK’s travel ban list...
Thursday, 4 February 2021 22:30
DCMS committee continues hearing evidence on the economics of music streaming
The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee today continued its hearing into the economics of music streaming, taking evidence from...
Thursday, 4 February 2021 19:06
Final local government finance settlement: England, 2021 to 2022
This collection brings together all documents relating to the final local government finance settlement: England, 2021 to 2022...
Thursday, 4 February 2021 16:39