IFS: Difficult choices for higher education finance ducked by main parties’ manifestos, as the freeze in the tuition fee cap increasingly bites
The storm clouds are gathering over English higher education providers’ finances: a long-running cash-terms freeze to tuition fees and tighter restrictions on international student visas are creating a difficult funding outlook...
Saturday, 22 June 2024 00:01
Labour pledges to put water companies under “special measures” as over 10,000 hospitalised for waterborne diseases under Tory rule
The number of people admitted to hospital for water-borne diseases has skyrocketed under Tory rule as record levels of sewage pollute Britain’s rivers, lakes and seas...
Friday, 21 June 2024 22:30
Conservatives’ boost to night-time economy
The Conservatives are today (Saturday 22nd June) setting out a clear plan to boost the night-time economy and secure the future of Britain’s pubs, bars, restaurants and music venues...
Friday, 21 June 2024 22:30
‘World cannot afford Lebanon to become another Gaza’: Guterres
The UN Secretary-General on Friday voiced profound concern over escalating violence and “bellicose rhetoric” between Israel and Hezbollah militants across the frontier with Lebanon, warning that one false move could trigger a catastrophe for the whole region and beyond...
Friday, 21 June 2024 16:31
Guidance and Regulations published on Tyre and exhaust centres, MOT centres and vehicle repair workshops and garages
This publication is intended for Valuation Officers. It may contain links to internal resources that are not available through this version...
Friday, 21 June 2024 12:50
BRC: Warmer May helps retail sales
Responding to the latest ONS Retail Sales Index figures, which showed sales up 2.1% by value, and up 1.2% by volume, Kris Hamer, Director of Insight at the British Retail Consortium, said...
Friday, 21 June 2024 09:33
ONS: Retail Sales; Great Britain: May 2024
A first estimate of retail sales in volume and value terms, seasonally and non-seasonally adjusted...
Friday, 21 June 2024 08:33
IFS: Cuts to council services likely unless cost pressures abate – even with the biggest council tax increases for 20 years
Despite the evident pressures facing councils, the main parties’ manifestos were almost silent on English local government funding (local government funding is a devolved matter in the rest of the UK)...
Friday, 21 June 2024 00:01
Labour announces new ten-year research and development budgets to ‘deliver the kind of jobs we want for our kids in the industries of the future’ - Angela Rayner
Labour will today (Friday) announce that new ten-year budgets for British research and development will deliver high-quality jobs in engineering, research and construction, and the sectors that will unlock wealth creation and economic growth for Britain...
Thursday, 20 June 2024 22:30
Written Statement (Wales): Review of non-domestic rates reliefs - Jun 20
Rebecca Evans MS, Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office: In 2022, I made a statement setting out a programme of non-domestic rates reform for the current Senedd term...
Thursday, 20 June 2024 15:30