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Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill to be introduced today

The Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill will be introduced to Parliament (Commons) today...

Thursday, 13 June 2019 07:15

National Audit Office report on Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme – progress review

The Help to Buy Scheme has increased home ownership and housing supply. However, many of those using the scheme would have been able to buy a home anyway, according to today’s report by the National Audit Office...

Thursday, 13 June 2019 00:01

HEPI: Second consecutive year of students reporting better value for money

The 2019 Student Academic Experience Survey (SAES) of over 14,000 full-time undergraduate students from Advance HE and the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), shows rising value-for-money perceptions...

Thursday, 13 June 2019 00:01

Food waste: major UK supermarkets and organisations sign world-leading government pledge to help halve food waste

More than 100 of the biggest players in food, including all of the UK’s major supermarkets, have signed a pledge to take ground-breaking action to drive down food waste following a call to action from the government...

Thursday, 13 June 2019 00:01

Report "confirms fundamental flaws in government's Help to Buy scheme" says Labour

John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Housing Secretary, commenting on an NAO report that shows Help to Buy is failing to provide assistance to those who need it, said...

Thursday, 13 June 2019 00:01

UK holds more foreign investment than Germany and France combined

Figures released today by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) show despite the increasingly uncertain global economic environment...

Wednesday, 12 June 2019 20:05

Embracing AI and technology to improve patient outcomes - speech by Baroness Blackwood

Baroness Blackwood, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health, spoke at CogX, the festival of artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technology...

Wednesday, 12 June 2019 18:08

Research and analysis - Tyre ageing: its effect on material properties and structural integrity

This study provides scientific advice on the effect of age on the performance of the various elements of a tyre that are critical to its mechanical integrity...

Wednesday, 12 June 2019 17:47

Bovine TB: authorisation for supplementary badger control in 2019

Authorisation for supplementary badger control in Gloucestershire and Somerset...

Wednesday, 12 June 2019 17:40

Businesses to pay rates bills that better reflect current property values

Business rates payers in England will have bills that more accurately reflect current property values under new legislation introduced by ministers today...

Wednesday, 12 June 2019 17:37