IPCC: Former South Wales Police officer charged with rape – (IPCC calls for lessons to be learnt on grooming following murder of Breck Bednar ~ The IPCC has found no issue with the way Essex Police handled a rape investigation in 2011 ~ IPCC publishes report into Northampton nightclub deaths ~ IPCC finds no case to answer for misconduct for a senior GMP Office for failing to declare a potential conflict of interest ~ IPCC announces independent investigation into historic sexual assault complaint handling)
HO: Government sets out case for joining Prüm – (New psychoactive substance banned under temporary power)
Cabinet Office: First Parliamentary Counsel appointed: Elizabeth Gardiner
ICO: Nuisance call crackdown continues with letters to 1,000 companies trading names and numbers – (PPI claims firm fined £80,000 for sending 1.3m spam texts ~ ICO issues fines totalling £170,000 to cold call blocking companies)
Surveillance Camera Commissioner’s speech to the National Taxi Association AGM
HMRC: Net closes in on offshore tax cheats
MOJ: Prisons announcement
Ofgem: BES to pay £980,000 for failures in customer service following Ofgem investigation
YJB responds to HMIP inspection of Feltham A Young Offender Institution
Environment Agency: Married couple & company must pay £130,000 for waste crime – (EA: Suffolk slurry pollution leads to fine)
ScotGov: £1.8m support for prisoners’ families – (ScotGov: Justice Secretary comments on IOCCO findings ~
ScotGov: Simplifying property law)
WAG: Landmark landlord licensing scheme hailed as UK first – (WAG: Welsh Government moves to block UK Trade Union Bill ~ WAG: New law to reform regulation & inspection of social care in Wales passed)
CMA reviews Performing Right Society undertakings – (CMA publishes issues statement for FirstGroup review ~ Petrol station merger has chance to avoid in-depth investigation)
FCA publishes Call for Inputs on Big Data – (FCA: Call for Inputs - Big Data in retail general insurance ~ FCA: Occasional Paper No. 11 - Methods for analysing mortgage markets ~ FCA: Update on FCA activities on pensions & retirement income ~ FCA consults on changes to PPI complaint handling rules ~ FCA fines Barclays £72m for poor handling of financial crime risks ~ FCA seeks views on its approach to small businesses)
FRC: Audit Committee Chairs believe audit is improving – (FRC: Making dividends disclosures more relevant for investors ~ FRC has called on the IASB to reconsider its proposed Conceptual Framework)
National Crime Agency: Cyber crime partnership results in two arrests – (NCA: Family-run crime group to pay back more than £2m for drug & money laundering offences ~ Gang used bogus companies to launder £35m ~
Dark web gun fantasist who wanted to be an NCA officer)
TUC welcomes Scottish Government’s opposition to the Trade Union Bill
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