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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