Updated: Added information about about changes made in 2013
An overview of the history of:
The Highway Code, which was launched in 1931 the driving test which became compulsory in Great Britain ...
The Cavendish Review was announced in February 2013 to look at the recruitment, training, management,development and support of healthcare and care assistants.
Updated: The new guidance on the Consumer Rights (Payment Surcharges) Regulations 2012 and their requirements has now been added.
Proposals to limit payment surchargesSome businesses add a charge to...
Updated: Incorrect publication type.
This spreadsheet provides the numbers of individuals in receipt of NHS continuing healthcare on a quarterly basis from 2009/10 to date. The table has been updated to...
This week's update includes news and results from Basketball, Boxing, Cycling, Curling, Disability Table Tennis and Gymnastics
The owner of a Herne Bay hair salon has been fined for failing to provide legally required insurance cover that enables employees to claim damages should they be injured at work.
A Northamptonshire grain firm has been fined after an employee lost three fingers and a thumb on the blades of a running mixer.
Changes to criminal records checks will protect public while ensuring that employers no longer have access to irrelevant cautions and convictions
Five men jailed for setting up a laboratory to make amphetamine
Explains UK nuclear industry ambitions over the next 40 years to ensure the development of a vibrant UK nuclear sector and to position the UK as a strong player in the expanding global nuclear market, yielding...
The Ad Hoc Nuclear Research and Development (R&D) Advisory Board was established in March 2012 with the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir John Beddington, as chairman. It formed part of government...
Input indicators show what is being ‘bought’ with public money, i.e. the resources being invested into delivering the results that we and our partners are aiming to achieve.
Impact indicators give information...
All Standard Terms and Conditions of contracts for goods and services contain provision so that:
DCMS will pay a correctly submitted invoice within 30 days of receipt for contracted work that has been ...
The Secretary of State has responded to Professor Malcolm Grant, Chair of the NHS Commissioning Board, to agree to his request for the NHS Commissioning Board to adopt the name ‘NHS England’.
The change...
The schedule showing the end dates of current rail franchises and the proposed start dates of the new rail franchises for which the Department for Transport is the responsible franchising authority.
Related...
The Green Deal Guidance for the Property Industry in Great Britain is of interest to people selling, letting (social or private rented sector) or transferring a property other than through sale or letting, as...
A guide for Service families about the education system in England and across the devolved administrations.
Related information Children’s Education Advisory Service Directorate Children ...
The Nuclear Industrial Strategy identifies priorities that government and industry will work on together in a long-term partnership. It aims to provide more opportunities for economic growth and creating jobs...
The prior information notice (PIN) for the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) declaring new competitions offered by the Department for Transport in relation to the franchising of passenger rail services...
Updated: Consultation response added.
This consultation gives the industry an opportunity to comment on a revised statement of policy on the exercise of the Secretary of State’s power under section 26...
Updated: New Practitioner guide added
A list of the practitioner guides issued by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) in 2012.
Please note that ‘PG02/12: authorising engineer standard...
Statistical release: Provisional UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) tables 2012
Statistical release: Provisional UK Official Development Assistance as a proportion of Gross National Income 2012’
OFFA and the Higher Education Funding Council for England are developing a national strategy for access and student success and are keen to maximise sector input.
As part of our work to gather...
UK Border Agency is to be split into two separate entities in a package of reforms
Parliament has given the CCC the responsibility to constantly monitor the science upon which we depend to guide our responses to the threat of climate change. Like all scientists, we always take a sceptical stance...
The prior information notice (PIN) for the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) declaring new competitions offered by the Department for Transport in relation to the franchising of passenger rail services...
The new health and care system becomes fully operational from 1 April to deliver the ambitions set out in the Health and Social Care Act. The NHS Commissioning Board, Public Health England, the NHS Trust Development...
This guide aims to explain the legal and prison system to British Nationals who are imprisoned. You can also read about how to apply for a transfer back to a UK prison
The following list of English speaking lawyers and translators/interpreters has been prepared for the convenience of British Nationals who require legal advice
This consultation seeks views on moving the date of the local elections in England from 1 May 2014, so that they take place on the same day as the European Parliamentary elections in that year. It invites the...
This document sets out the government’s initial response to Robert Francis QC’s report on the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust public inquiry.
It details actions to ensure that patients are the ...
A quick guide explaining how the Green Deal and Feed-In Tariffs work together
As a country, we spend £32 billion a year on heating. It accounts for around a third of our greenhouse gas emissions. Without changing the way we produce and consume heat, we will not meet our long...
The schedule showing the end dates of current rail franchises and the proposed start dates of the new rail franchises for which the Department for Transport is the responsible franchising authority.
Related...
Updated: Consultation response added.
This consultation gives the industry an opportunity to comment on a revised statement of policy on the exercise of the Secretary of State’s power under section 26...
Updated: The UK’s Small Emitter and Hospital Opt-out Scheme document updated with latest version.
Policy and process for eligible UK installation operators to apply for exclusion from Phase III (2013-2020...
Updated: Added updated NHS Constitution and updated Handbook to the NHS Constitution.
The constitution sets out rights for patients, public and staff. It outlines NHS commitments to patients and staff, ...
Updated: Added consultation response.
The NHS, patients and the public are being asked to comment on proposals to improve the NHS Constitution.
The main changes proposed cover:
a new responsibility...
Updated: New datasets added
Details of the workforce management data for Ministry of Defence. These figures are not official statistics. They are internal workforce management information published in the...
Updated: Government response to this consultation published.
The government wants your views on its proposals to cut up to 25% of all data returns commissioned by the Department of Health and its arms length...
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A private landlord has been fined for a series of safety breaches that left a Sheffield family at serious risk from a dangerous boiler fitted by an unregistered gas fitter.
A local council has banned dog classes, training sessions and dog shows from being held in their community halls on the grounds of health and safety.
The government has published its annual report on work to protect the UK from terrorism
Sentencing remarks of His Honour Judge Martin Rudland
John Guy, author of The Children of Henry VIII, will give a talk at The National Archives on Tuesday 16 April at 14:00 as part of our Writer of the Month series.
On Monday 25 March, Caribbean elders from across Hackney, Lambeth and Haringey came together for a 'Caribbean history mash up' at The National Archives, Kew. Elders from the communities shared their interpretations...
The report assesses the terrorist threat to the UK and its interests overseas. It summarises key achievements since the publication of the UK’s counter-terrorism strategy, CONTEST, in July 2011.
It also...
This report contains the total amount of charitable giving received by DCMS-funded cultural institutions, and also presents this charitable giving as a ratio of grant-in-aid. These are DCMS impact and input indicators...
How the Child Maintenance Service investigates parentage disputes, and what happens during the investigation. Find out more about child maintenance.
The fire and rescue bulletin for March 2013 is issued for the immediate attention of fire and rescue authorities.
It highlights the publication of the government’s response to the consultation ...
Updated: New version added
The White Book Commonwealth Defence Liaison Staffs and Foreign Service Attachés accredited to LondonThis publication is no longer publicly available.
Previous users...
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Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) judgment.
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) judgment.
Explains UK nuclear industry ambitions over the next 40 years to ensure the development of a vibrant UK nuclear sector and to position the UK as a strong player in the expanding global nuclear market, yielding...
This review was overseen by the Ad-Hoc Nuclear Research and Development (R&D) Advisory Board, established in March 2012 and chaired by Sir John Beddington. It looks at the complete civil nuclear R&D landscape...
The Ad Hoc Nuclear Research and Development (R&D) Advisory Board was established in March 2012 with the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir John Beddington, as chairman. It formed part of government...
Updated: January 2013 data added.
Government procurement card (GPC) transactions above £500 for the Department for Transport (DfT) and transport agencies.
Department for Transport and transport...
Multimillion pound investment will flow into Northampton over the next 12 months, with West Northamptonshire Development Corporation completing its town centre regeneration plans.
Today, WNDC has...
IT COULD BE YOU ® …
Arrangements have been put into place at a primary school to encourage children to cycle or travel by scooter to school. However parents have been advised that children will not be permitted to cycle or scoot...
Presents data on learner numbers in post-16 education and training for Wales .
Provides an annual update on the statistical relationship between the eligibility for Free School Meals (FSM) and academic achievement.Â
This Statistical Release presents data on the arrangements for transfer of patients to a more appropriate care setting in Wales
Monthly death figures provide counts of the number of deaths registered by area of usual residence, England and Wales
Weekly death figures provide provisional counts of the number of deaths registered in England and Wales in the latest eight weeks for which data are available.
2011 Census statistics provide a rich source of information about the number, distribution and characteristics of the population in England and Wales. The statistics are used to understand similarities and differences...
2011 Census statistics provide a rich source of information about the number, distribution and characteristics of the population in England and Wales. The statistics are used to understand similarities and differences...
2011 Census statistics provide a rich source of information about the number, distribution and characteristics of the population in England and Wales. The statistics are used to understand similarities and differences...
This release provides information on NHS General Dental Services (GDS) registrations and on the participation (contact with an NHS dentist) of these registered patients.
Quarterly summary of inpatient, day case and outpatient activity and beds statistics for NHSScotland. Emergency Admissions for patients aged 65+: Summary of emergency admissions and bed days data for patients aged...
A range of statistics that will vary each quarter, also includes data updated annually. Until December 2011 this publication was split as individual titles -Dispenser renumeration -Drugs indicated in the treatment...
This report reviews perinatal mortality over a variety of time periods (from 33 years to 15 years), depending on the dataset and describes some of the changes since data collection started. The data is collected...
Information on new individuals that are presenting for specialist assessment from the Scottish Drug Misuse Database. Specifically looking at the profile of new individuals with a specalist assessment ranging from...
Weekly prices of unleaded petrol and diesel
My honourable friend the Minister of State for Employment Relations and Consumers Affairs (Jo Swinson) has today made the following Statement.
I have today published the Insolvency Service's performance...
In January 2012, the Government announced the establishment of a Commission to consider how the House of Commons might deal with legislation which affects only part of the United Kingdom, following the devolution...
The strategic defence and security review (SDSR), announced in October 2010, marked the start of the process of transforming defence and identified the need for rationalisation of the defence estate. This included...
The UK’s chemical protection programme is designed to protect against the use of chemical weapons. The programme is permitted by the chemical weapons convention, with which the United Kingdom is fully compliant...
I wish to inform the House that with effect from 31 March 2013, Service Children’s Education (SCE) will cease to have the status of an Executive agency within the Ministry of Defence (MOD).
SCE was...
I wish to inform the House that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, together with the Ministry of Defence and the Department for International Development, is today publishing the 25th progress report on developments...
Following the announcement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 20 October 2010, Official Report,column 962 that from 2013 BBC Monitoring will be funded from the TV Licence fee, I can confirm that I will ...
FCO Services operates as a trading fund of the FCO. I have set the following performance targets for 2013-14:
An in-year surplus before interest and tax producing a net margin of between 1 and 5%.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office will shortly commence a triennial review of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission (MACC), to Cabinet Office guidelines. As part of the coalition agreement, all Government...
I am pleased to announce the recruitment of Mr Douglas Bain as the new appointed person for the United Kingdom, who will fulfil the requirement under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 to be an independent overseer...
I am today commencing subsections 4 to 8 of section 117 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, which provides for important enhanced
safeguards for terrorist suspects in police detention. This implements...
We will shortly commence a triennial review of the British Transport Police Authority (BTPA). The BTPA oversees the operation of the British transport police, set its targets, and allocates funding for its budget...
Following consultation with the Mayor of London, I have today determined the GLA transport grant for 2013-14 at £1.988 billion.
This grant is provided by the Government to Transport for London to deliver...
Quantifies the potential economic impacts associated with developing the capabilities of the UK’s nuclear supply chain, based upon direct industry consultation. It:
reviews current UK’s supply chain capabilities...
The government believes that nuclear energy has an important role to play to deliver our long term objective of a secure, low carbon, affordable, energy future. For nuclear energy to reach its full potential, ...
This report contains the total amount of charitable giving received by DCMS-funded cultural institutions, and also presents this charitable giving as a ratio of grant-in-aid. These are DCMS impact and input indicators...
The schedule showing the end dates of current rail franchises and the proposed start dates of the new rail franchises for which the Department for Transport is the responsible franchising authority.
Related...
Describes the purpose of triennial reviews, explains how the review was carried out, and presents findings based on feedback from stakeholders. It draws on this evidence to make recommendations about the future...
Sets out research and development (R&D) activities and illustrative timelines which would support implementation of a number of future nuclear technology pathways:
Baseline Pathway: no new build, operating...
The Nuclear Industrial Strategy identifies priorities that government and industry will work on together in a long-term partnership. It aims to provide more opportunities for economic growth and creating jobs...
The prior information notice (PIN) for the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) declaring new competitions offered by the Department for Transport in relation to the franchising of passenger rail services...
The Ad Hoc Nuclear Research and Development (R&D) Advisory Board was established in March 2012 with the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir John Beddington, as chairman. It formed part of government...
Updated: Added summary of responses and equality statement.
This statutory consultation seeks views on the proposed increase in employee contribution rates from 1 April 2013 for members of the Firefighters...
Updated: Latest update published.
Table last updated on 26 March 2013.
Weekly fuel pricesMS Excel Spreadsheet, 223KB
This ...
WADA has issued a statement alerting the athlete community to the risks associated with prohibited substance GW501516.
Employment Tribunals judgment