Business and Other Briefings (Archive)

BEIS:  Business Secretary & Ministers hold meeting with leading retailers – (BEIS:  £229m of industrial strategy investment in science, research & innovation ~ BEIS:  New electricity connection to France gets go-ahead)

DExEU:  Walker praises Britain’s booming fashion industry

HMT:  Taxpayer’s stake in Lloyds now below 4%

CLG:  Business rates revaluation: the facts – (CLG:  £191m cash boost for the South West to help create local jobs & growth)

DWP:  New initiative to boost disadvantaged groups in work

DWP:  Defined benefit green paper to look at the security & sustainability of the sector ~ CBI: Pensions Green Paper 'a sensible start to a complex conversation'

DfT:  New legal powers could send UK scientists into space to research vaccines and medicines – (DfT:  New measures set out autonomous vehicle insurance and electric car infrastructure)

Defra:  Environment Secretary speaks at NFU conference – (Defra:  Environment Secretary announces bridging payments for Basic Payment Scheme 2016 ~ Defra:  Record exports support Global Britain drive ~ Defra:  New measures to protect against Avian Flu)

DfE:  Network established to encourage diversity in apprenticeships – (DfE encourages more businesses to offer apprenticeships)

ScotGov:  Strengthening academic links with Japan – (ScotGov:  Housing improvements in south Glasgow ~ ScotGov:  Scottish rural funding confirmed ~ ScotGov:  Investing in fisheries ~ ScotGov:  Commitment to regeneration ~ ScotGov:  Finding the future workforce ~ ScotGov:  Avian influenza ~ ScotGov:  More young people into Work)

ScotGov:  Support for business ~ CBI: Companies across Scotland are struggling with burden from business rates

WAG:  Mark Drakeford announces details of High Street Rates Relief Scheme – (WAG:  New innovation fund launched ~ WAG:  HRH The Duke of York brings Pitch@Palace On Tour to Wales ~ WAG:  Applications now open for the Welsh Enterprise Zone Business Rates Scheme ~ WAG:  New EU project to help grow the fisheries industry in Wales and Ireland ~ WAG:  Ebbw Vale Enterprise Zone expands to include three new sites ~ WAG:  EU funding to extend financial services graduate programme in Wales)

Office of the Secretary of State for Wales:  Employers named & shamed for underpaying more than 15,500 workers

FRC responds to Green Paper on Corporate Governance Reforms ~ New diet needed for corporate ‘Fat Cats’ – CIPD & High Pay Centre

Insolvency Service newsletter: winter 2017

BCS:  UK's future success outside the EU underpinned by choices on major digital issues - BCS Brexit Report

Food Standards Agency:  Setting the record straight on meat inspection

techUK:  CETA is a boost European Tech, with lessons for the UK post-Brexit  - (techUK:  Startup Report Cites Learnings from UK to create successful innovation ~ techUK:  Open Banking - public access websites for developers ~ techUK:  Ministers urged to ease trade barriers for products that incorporate encryption)

Launch UK brings together UK commercial space sector

Land Registry:  Business customers now receive fewer online documents

IPPR:  Skills gap threat to post-Brexit economy – UK employers spend £6bn less on skills than Euro average – (IPPR:  Regional disparities will be widened by new government apprenticeship levy)

NCFE:  Devolution Road – marking the milestone in employment & skills

People in multiple jobs missing out on a workplace pension, reveals Citizens Advice

CBI: Order books at two-year high, but prices expected to rise – (CBI/PwC: UK strengthens position as largest G20 investor in India ~ CBI: Retail sales rebound slightly in the year to February ~ CBI: It's time for plain speaking on immigration)

TUC: Government must ‘up its game’ to stamp out gender pay gap – (TUC: Annual decline of 1.5% in business investment requires response in budget ~ TUC criticises plan to stop injured workers reclaiming legal costs ~ TUC: Workers in the UK put in £33.6bn worth of unpaid overtime a year)

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