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Green light for ultra-fast electric car charging innovation

A new pioneering technology to ensure a next generation of safer, high-powered electric car batteries can be charged by drivers in ultra-fast time is just one of 12 innovation projects...

Tuesday, 12 June 2018 18:11

Interim National Schools Commissioner appointed

The Department for Education has confirmed that Regional Schools Commissioner Dominic Herrington is to be appointed as the interim National Schools Commissioner...

Tuesday, 12 June 2018 18:07

More police and crime commissioners to be given fire authority voting rights

The Home Office has today announced it will bring forward legislation which will enable more areas to access the benefits of emergency service collaboration...

Tuesday, 12 June 2018 18:03

Counter Terrorism and Border Security Bill 2018: Human Rights Committee calls for evidence

The Joint Committee on Human Rights is calling for evidence on the human rights implications of the Counter Terrorism and Border Security Bill...

Tuesday, 12 June 2018 15:59

Employment rate remains at record high

Britain has a joint record high employment rate of 75.6% with 32.39 million people now in work according to the latest official statistics...

Tuesday, 12 June 2018 13:43

Foreign Secretary statement on US-DPRK summit

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson welcomes the constructive summit in Singapore between US President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un...

Tuesday, 12 June 2018 13:41

UK-India working together to counter extremism - Speech by Home Office Minister Baroness Williams

The British Minister for Countering Extremism Baroness Williams delivered a speech at Observer Research Foundation conference on 'Tackling Insurgent Ideologies'...

Tuesday, 12 June 2018 12:32

The Independent Inspector is sounding the alarm on police numbers - Louise Haigh responds to State of Policing report

Louise Haigh MP, Labour’s Shadow Policing Minister, responding to the State of Policing report and comments by Sir Tom Windsor...

Tuesday, 12 June 2018 12:04

Planning failures in policing risk public safety

Dedication and a sense of duty by hard-working officers is masking a failure by senior leaders to adequately assess current and future demand...

Tuesday, 12 June 2018 11:22

Dr Fox on latest trade figures

International Trade Secretary, Dr Liam Fox praised the growth in UK trade as the latest figures show the trade deficit narrowing for the ninth month in a row...

Tuesday, 12 June 2018 10:40