Updated: Updated with revised version of the operational guide.
The documents on this page provide information about schools funding arrangements for 2015 to 2016. This includes how the Department for Education...
The Environment Agency consult the public on certain applications for waste operations, mining waste operations, installations, water discharge and groundwater activities. The arrangements are explained in their...
The Environment Agency consult the public on certain applications for waste operations, mining waste operations, installations, water discharge and groundwater activities. The arrangements are explained in their...
GOV.UK FOI: website visits to Defra, Rural Payments Agency, Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment, Science Advisory Council and UK Co-ordinating Body Information.
A list of UK energy from waste facilities with their R1 scoring under the Waste Framework Directive.
Video conferencing - FOI how many video conferencing systems are in place, the typical monthly usage, the role or person managing the video conferencing and whether video calls take place with external organisations...
This document contains advice and guidance for dental practice staff on Ebola virus disease (EVD), including:
transmission symptoms identifying patients at risk dental care general standards of ...
Updated: Updates to NICE, HEE, HRA and NHS BSA.
This document provides important information about the agencies and public bodies that the department works with.
Updated: Updated with US registries and grouped by region.
The list contains links to the websites of company registries located worldwide.
Data from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey rolling programme (2008 and 2009 to 2011 and 2012) suggest that up to 1 in 4 adults in the UK have a low vitamin D status and are therefore at increased...
Updated: The guidance document has updated information under the heading 'Requirements for pets entering the UK/EU', to clarify the new ‘five day’ rule for pet movements.
This guidance explains changes ...
Updated: Updated version (22 December v5), local health protection team section added.
This document provides guidance on:
precautions to be taken by people carrying out cleaning procedures associated...
Updated: FAQs published on 22 December 2014
All tenders must be completed using the eTendering portal
The invitation to tender (ITT) for 2015 Duty Provider Crime Contracts is now open. ...
Engineers in Edinburgh used to building instruments to look at the atmospheres of stars and distant planets have turned their attention to the atmosphere of Earth. A prototype instrument designed and built at the...
Care homes in Cornwall alive with creativity this Christmas
Athletes have spent over 10,000 days inspiring and engaging the next generation through sport
The largest local authority in the country has been fined after a refuse worker sustained leg injuries when he was trapped against a van by a reversing bin lorry.
An Ebbw Vale packaging company has been has been fined for safety failings after a delivery driver was hit by a forklift truck at its premises.
A plumber from Bude has been fined for carrying out illegal and unsafe gas work that potentially endangered lives. .
Businesses on Fish Island in Tower Hamlets are being offered free training, support and guidance as part of a joint initiative to improve health and safety in the workplace.
Two Northamptonshire firms have been fined after a routine safety inspection revealed serious asbestos-related failings.
Over the festive period, we will be closed to the public from Wednesday 24 December to Saturday 27 December (closing at 17:00 on Tuesday 23 December). We will also be closed on Thursday 1 January.
This meeting, the third in our extractive transparency and governance series, will explore the conditions for successful and equitable management and governance of natural resources in a range of country contexts...
Updated: Updated following lifting of all restrictions on Sunday 21 December 2014.
On 16 November Defra confirmed a case of avian flu (bird flu) in a duck breeding farm in Yorkshire. The strain was identified...
The Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has announced a package of measures to identify and support veterans when entering and leaving prison. This follows the publication of a review into veterans in the criminal...
The 3-year project, launched by the Prime Minister earlier this year, aims to improve diagnosis and treatment for patients with cancer and rare diseases.
The initiative involves collecting and decoding...
The government’s Troubled Families programme has now helped turn around the lives of over 85,000 of the hardest to help households, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles announced today (22 December 2014).
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The International working standards for material measures of length for general use has been updated.
Potential opportunities worth around £191 billion to businesses are published today by Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude. The spending picture released today will help businesses across ...
Employment Relations Minister Jo Swinson has announced today (22 December 2014) the reappointment of 3 Commissioners to the Low Pay Commission, the body responsible for providing advice on the National Minimum...
A new company - Integrated Debt Services Limited - jointly owned by the government and TDX Group, an Equifax company, will provide a single point of access to a wide range of debt management and collection services...
Updated: Update on new EU sanctions imposed on 18th December 2014.
The European Union (EU) sanctions have been implemented in response to Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and interventionist policies...
Updated: Update to timings on the abolition of the counterpart.
From 8 June 2015, the photocard licence counterpart will not be valid and will no longer be issued by DVLA.
What this means for you ...
Mr James Dauris has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and British High Commissioner to the Republic of Maldives in succession to Mr John Rankin, who will...
Communities Minister Stephen Williams on Friday (19 December 2014) heard testimony from project workers about the vital work that a government funded organisation in Bristol is doing to end the practice of female...
From 18 December 2014, if you are a Self Assessment-only customer (that is, you are self-employed with no other source of income, no employees and are not registered for VAT), your new look tax account will make...
The Chancellor George Osborne today (22 December 2014) confirmed that the government will extend the legislation originally put in place to regulate LIBOR to cover seven further financial benchmarks, including...
The Highways Agency project at the roundabout linking the A55 to the A483 near Chester will see traffic lights installed as well as road widening improvements made to parts of the junction.
Mark Mosley...
Titled The Forward View into action: planning for 2015/16, the planning guidance is backed by the recently-announced £1.98 billion of additional funding, with specific allocations for each area...
UK Export Finance (UKEF), the UK’s export credit agency, has appointed David Ludlow as its new Head of International Business Development.
David’s career has spanned both government, in the Diplomatic...
Home Secretary Theresa May has announced the appointment of two new members to the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel.
Professor Rodney Morgan and Samuel Pollock OBE have joined the ongoing review of how...
Motor Fuel Group Limited (MFG) has acquired 228 Murco branded petrol stations and 226 fuel supply contracts for independent dealers from Murco Petroleum Limited.
Pre-acquisition, MFG owned and operated...
The Highways Agency project at the roundabout linking the A55 to the A483 near Chester will see traffic lights installed as well as road widening improvements made to parts of the junction.
Mark Mosley...
The schemes, on structures on the link road between the southbound M6 at junction 8 and the M5, north of Birmingham and at the M6/A38(M) Gravelly Hill Interchange, will involve concrete repairs and associated...
While they prepare to celebrate, the Highways Agency and National Express will be working to ensure they arrive safely and in time to spend the season with their loved ones.
The two organisations signed...
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is changing the way that it registers the birth and death of British Citizens overseas. Registration at British Consulates overseas are being gradually withdrawn throughout...
The Highways Agency is beginning £330,000 of improvements next month around Over Roundabout on the A40 at Gloucester.
The Over Roundabout is located to the northwest of Gloucester and is the...
We published an issues statement on 12 November and have now appointed GfK NOP Ltd to conduct a survey of personal account customers. In the New Year the team will be conducting site visits across the ...
Over-50s jobseekers fighting ageism to get back to work will be given a boost through a world-leading new approach to preventing their talents being wasted, Employment Minister Esther McVey announced today (22...
The UKCN is a forum of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and all the UK regulators that have powers to apply competition law in their sectors concurrently with the CMA. The network aims to encourage...
The government extends a special thanks to the doctors, nurses and health specialists from across the UK who will spend Christmas Day in Sierra Leone helping to treat Ebola patients, Development Secretary Justine...
CICA will be closed between 1pm on Wednesday 24 December and 8.30am on Monday 29 December.
Our helpline will be open from 8.30am to 5pm on 29 and 30 December, and from 10am to 3pm on 31 December.
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Commenting today, the Foreign Secretary said:
I congratulate Beji Caid Essebsi on his victory in Tunisia’s historic first democratic presidential elections.
I commend the Tunisian people’...
Six years on from the financial crisis, whilst conditions are improving, small businesses can still face barriers when borrowing the money they need to grow. Businesses who can’t get the financial help they need...
Updated: Added recipient 181: Mario Di Maio.
The following people were given a Points of Light award in November 2014 (the numbering continues from November’s winners):
166. Vince Knight (Essex...
Thank you Mr President,
I congratulate you and the Chadian Mission on having steered the Council through a busy and compressed month. The two open debates and the Sahel briefing brought the African perspective...
The Highways Agency is carrying out extensive work at the junction in South Gloucestershire as part of the Government’s pinch point programme.
Pinch points provides smaller scale improvements that can...