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Business and Other Briefings (Archive)

ScotGov: Jobs Taskforce first meeting – (North Sea job matching action planned)
HMT: Record funding for 36 seaside towns that will kick-start jobs & apprenticeships
CBI: Getting the most out of skills - sharing skills between businesses and universities – (CBI: Examples of business & universities working together to share skills, research & innovation ~ Practical ways to make sure that research and innovation benefit both businesses and university)
CMA seeks information on commercial use of consumer data
WAG: Good news for print workers who lost their jobs when MWL went into liquidation last year
WO: Welsh businesses win Great Faces of British Business competition
DECC: Shale developments to be banned in all UK national parks, SSSIs & AONBs
DWP: Major companies waking up to employment talents of disabled people – (DWP: Avoid regional accent discrimination when recruiting)
Money laundering: company owner lists to fight tax crime & terrorist financing
Politicians shouldn’t focus on regulation to make our labour market work better, says CIPD ~ Employment Regulation and the Labour Market
£24m National Biosample Centre will allow researchers to find treatments for conditions such as dementia & diabetes
Innovate UK: Launch of Smart Cities initiative – (Innovate UK: High-value manufacturing - £1m to boost project readiness)

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