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Spring Statement 2019: National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage: Low Pay Commission remit 2019

The government’s remit to the Low Pay Commission (LPC) outlining the areas they should consider when recommending the 2020 National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates....

Wednesday, 13 March 2019 13:22

Farmers advised to apply early for this year’s funding schemes

Farmers and land managers applying for BPS and claiming for CS and ES payments are urged to do so in good time ahead of the 15 May deadline...

Wednesday, 13 March 2019 13:10

Vodafone & IBM Spurn 'Funky Handoffs' for Enterprise Partnership

Vodafone's new enterprise cloud partnership with IBM is a collision between cloud and connectivity...

Wednesday, 13 March 2019 12:28

European Parliament: UK-EU mobility will continue under Erasmus+ in the event of no-deal Brexit

On Wednesday, the Parliament voted on measures to continue financing all current Erasmus+ learning mobility activities, in the event of a no-deal Brexit...

Wednesday, 13 March 2019 11:31

A new and robust inspection regime for secure training centres

Ofsted has published a new joint inspection framework for secure training centres (STCs) that promises to focus even more closely on those are judged inadequate...

Wednesday, 13 March 2019 10:22

CMA welcomes Furman Review recommendations

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has welcomed the report submitted today by the Digital Competition Expert Panel to the government...

Wednesday, 13 March 2019 10:21

Temporary tariff regime for no deal Brexit published

Government has published details of the UK’s temporary tariff regime for no deal, designed to minimise costs to business and consumers while protecting vulnerable industries...

Wednesday, 13 March 2019 10:18

Business in the Commons and Lords relating to Brexit - Mar 12

The Attorney General (Mr Geoffrey Cox): With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement about my legal opinion on the joint instrument and unilateral declaration concerning the withdrawal agreement published last night....

Wednesday, 13 March 2019 09:00

Lords consideration of regulations relating to Aviation - Mar 12

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Transport (Baroness Sugg) (Con): My Lords, this draft instrument will be made using powers in the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and will be needed if the UK leaves the European Union in March without a deal...

Wednesday, 13 March 2019 08:57

Report stage (Lords) of the Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill - Mar 12

Baroness Thornton (Lab): My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 1 and speak to consequential Amendments 2, 12, 13, 14, 45, 46 and 47...

Wednesday, 13 March 2019 08:55