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Ambitious quantum computing mission officially funded as part of the Industrial Strategy
techUK
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 16:25

Mission one of the quantum missions has officially been funded, announced in the Digital and Technology Sector Plan as part of the Industrial Strategy, and following the official announcement of the National Quantum Missions last year.

techUK | Official News Release
Ambitious quantum computing mission officially funded as part of the Industrial Strategy
Association for Project Management news
APPG for Project Delivery - Opportunities for APM Corporate Partners to get involved and have their say
Association for Project Management
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 16:20

As part of a series of webinars for APM corporate partners and affiliates, Andrew Baldwin, APM’s Head of Policy and Public Affairs, hosted a session focusing on the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Project Delivery which launched in February. 

Association for Project Management | Official News Release
APPG for Project Delivery - Opportunities for APM Corporate Partners to get involved and have their say
RUSI news
NATO’s High-Stakes Summit: Buying Time to Fill the Gaps
RUSI
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 16:15

NATO’s summit in the Hague will set an historic target of 5% of GDP on defence. Allies hope this can buy enough time to fill current capability gaps, deter an aggressive Russia, and keep Donald Trump committed to the transatlantic alliance and the defence of Europe.

RUSI | Official News Release
NATO’s High-Stakes Summit: Buying Time to Fill the Gaps
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero news
Fusion energy powers UK’s Industrial Strategy
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 16:10

Government’s Industrial Strategy, announced yesterday, puts fusion energy at the heart of driving innovation, economic growth and energy security.

Department for Energy Security & Net Zero | Official News Release
Fusion energy powers UK’s Industrial Strategy
WiredGov Newswire (news from other organisations) news
TUC Cymru - Industrial Strategy marks a pivotal moment for Wales
WiredGov Newswire (news from other organisations)
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 16:05

TUC Cymru has today welcomed the UK Government’s new 10-year Industrial Strategy, which includes £4 billion for advanced manufacturing, a semiconductor centre in Swansea, a Welsh Defence Growth Cluster, and support worth £30 million for innovation in Wales.

WiredGov Newswire (news from other organisations) | Official News Release
TUC Cymru - Industrial Strategy marks a pivotal moment for Wales
Environment Agency news
David Mitchell convicted for covering road with potatoes and silt
Environment Agency
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 15:25

Huge loss of soil from potato field costs farmer over £40,000 for polluting river, with potatoes and silt escaping into the road.

Environment Agency | Official News Release
David Mitchell convicted for covering road with potatoes and silt
Health and Safety Executive news
Building firm fined after house collapse injures four
Health and Safety Executive
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 15:20

A London construction company has been fined £50,000 after four men were injured – two seriously – when the first floor of a house collapsed during building works.

Health and Safety Executive | Official News Release
Building firm fined after house collapse injures four
10 Downing Street news
Front line drone technology to fuel UK - Ukraine partnership
10 Downing Street
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 15:15

A landmark agreement between the UK and Ukraine to share battlefield technology was reached yesterday, boosting Ukraine’s drone production and linking up the UK’s defence industry with the cutting-edge technology being developed on the front lines in Ukraine.

10 Downing Street | Official News Release
Front line drone technology to fuel UK - Ukraine partnership
Department for Business & Trade news
Business leaders welcome the government’s modern Industrial Strategy
Department for Business & Trade
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 15:10

Business leaders have welcomed the government’s modern Industrial Strategy - a 10-year plan to promote growth.

Department for Business & Trade | Official News Release
Business leaders welcome the government’s modern Industrial Strategy
Scottish Government news
Local Government 2024-25 Provisional Outturn and 2025-26 Budget Estimates
Scottish Government
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 15:05

The Chief Statistician has released figures on 2024-25 provisional outturn and 2025-26 budget estimates for revenue and capital expenditure on services provided by local authorities.

Scottish Government | Official News Release
Local Government 2024-25 Provisional Outturn and 2025-26 Budget Estimates
RUSI news
RUSI Experts React to US Strikes on Iran's Nuclear Facilities
RUSI
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 14:25

Our experts comment on the US strikes of three Iranian nuclear facilities at Isfahan, Natanz and Fordow.

RUSI | Official News Release
RUSI Experts React to US Strikes on Iran's Nuclear Facilities
Department of Health and Social Care news
Health and Social Care Secretary speech at RCOG World Congress
Department of Health and Social Care
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 14:20

Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting yesterday spoke at RCOG World Congress, announcing a national investigation into maternity and neonatal services.

Department of Health and Social Care | Official News Release
Health and Social Care Secretary speech at RCOG World Congress
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) news
Harnessing digital innovation for children's mental health
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 14:15

Learn how NICE healthtech guidance helped East London NHS Foundation Trust tackle rising demand for children's mental health services.

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) | Official News Release
Harnessing digital innovation for children's mental health
Food Standards Agency news
Food Standards Agency and College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise Launch Pancake Reformulation Technical Guidance
Food Standards Agency
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 14:10

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) in Northern Ireland and College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE), have launched guidance to help businesses produce pancakes lower in sugar and salt.

Food Standards Agency | Official News Release
Food Standards Agency and College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise Launch Pancake Reformulation Technical Guidance
Welsh Government news
Welsh Government and Pride Cymru partner for grassroots Pride events
Welsh Government
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 14:05

The Welsh Government yesterday announced a new partnership with Pride Cymru to administer the successful Grassroots Pride fund for 2025 to 2026, ensuring LGBTQ+ communities in towns and villages across Wales continue to benefit from local celebrations.

Welsh Government | Official News Release
Welsh Government and Pride Cymru partner for grassroots Pride events
Environment Agency news
New study looks for ways to help River Itchen salmon reach sea
Environment Agency
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 13:25

The Environment Agency and partners are looking for ways to improve fish passage past barriers and restore the lower River Itchen by Southampton.

Environment Agency | Official News Release
New study looks for ways to help River Itchen salmon reach sea
10 Downing Street news
UK to deliver on 5% NATO pledge as Government drives greater security for working people
10 Downing Street
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 13:20

Working people will be more secure as the Prime Minister will make a historic commitment at the NATO Summit to spend 5% of GDP on national security.  

10 Downing Street | Official News Release
UK to deliver on 5% NATO pledge as Government drives greater security for working people
Met Office news
What does the weather have in store for this year's Glastonbury Festival?
Met Office
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 13:15

Festivalgoers heading to Worthy Farm this week can expect a typically British mix of weather, although for the most part the forecast suggests it could be a very pleasant event where weather is concerned.

 

Met Office | Official News Release
What does the weather have in store for this year's Glastonbury Festival?
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs news
Greater security delivered for the British people with record billion-pound investment in new national biosecurity centre
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 13:10
Science and Technology Facilities Council news
UK gets front-row seats for groundbreaking movie of the cosmos
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 13:05

The decade-long wait for UK astronomers ends as the National Science Foundation-Department of Energy Vera C Rubin Observatory reveals dazzling first images.

Science and Technology Facilities Council | Official News Release
UK gets front-row seats for groundbreaking movie of the cosmos
Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC - formerly IPCC) news
Findings issued from investigation into West Mercia Police contact prior to murder of Alfie Steele
Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC - formerly IPCC)
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 12:25

An Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) investigation into how West Mercia Police (WMP) responded to incidents concerning Alfie Steele found no indication that any officers had breached professional standards, but that the force did not sufficiently train frontline officers to identify child abuse.

Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC - formerly IPCC) | Official News Release
Findings issued from investigation into West Mercia Police contact prior to murder of Alfie Steele
Cabinet Office news
Foster + Partners to design national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II
Cabinet Office
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 12:20

Foster + Partners is the winner out of five finalists in a competition to design the national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II in St James' Park

Cabinet Office | Official News Release
Foster + Partners to design national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II
WiredGov Newswire (news from other organisations) news
Companies House celebrates 10 years of open data
WiredGov Newswire (news from other organisations)
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 12:15

The ground-breaking Find and update company information service was launched 10 years ago. 

WiredGov Newswire (news from other organisations) | Official News Release
Companies House celebrates 10 years of open data
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology news
Tech innovators backed to set up and scale up in Britain through Industrial Strategy
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 12:10

Ambitious Digital and Technologies Sector Plan to help deliver government’s modern Industrial Strategy to drive national renewal and our Plan for Change.

Department for Science, Innovation & Technology | Official News Release
Tech innovators backed to set up and scale up in Britain through Industrial Strategy
Scottish Government news
Free school meals expansion
Scottish Government
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 12:05

Thousands more young people to benefit from August.

Scottish Government | Official News Release
Free school meals expansion
techUK news
Why a successful UK industrial strategy depends on the convergence of the creative and digital sectors
techUK
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 11:25

The UK faces a challenge: productivity growth has stagnated for nearly two decades, with real wages growing just 0.5% since 2007 despite the country ranking fifth globally for innovation.

techUK | Official News Release
Why a successful UK industrial strategy depends on the convergence of the creative and digital sectors
Department for Business & Trade news
UK's key business groups back government's modern Industrial Strategy
Department for Business & Trade
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 11:20

Joint statement from business groups in support of the Industrial Strategy (23 June 2025).

Department for Business & Trade | Official News Release
UK's key business groups back government's modern Industrial Strategy
National Crime Agency news
Men caught in cocaine boat following 28-mile chase are convicted
National Crime Agency
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 11:15

Three men who tried to outrun pursuing officers for around 28 miles at sea after their cocaine-laden boat was spotted have been convicted of importing Class A drugs.

National Crime Agency | Official News Release
Men caught in cocaine boat following 28-mile chase are convicted
Homeless Link news
Theatre as an approach to participation and catalyst for change
Homeless Link
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 11:10

Michael Chandler, chief executive of Groundswell tells us how, at Groundswell, they believe that the people closest to the issues are best placed to shape the solutions.

 

Homeless Link | Official News Release
Theatre as an approach to participation and catalyst for change
Welsh Government news
Statement from the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning: UK Government Industrial Strategy
Welsh Government
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 11:05

Statement given yesterday from the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning: UK Government Industrial Strategy.

Welsh Government | Official News Release
Statement from the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning: UK Government Industrial Strategy
Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office news
Now is the time for de-escalation and a return to diplomacy: UK statement at the UN Security Council
Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 10:25

Statement given recently (22 June 2025) by Ambassador Barbara Woodward, UK Permanent Representative to the UN, at the emergency UN Security Council meeting on Iran.

Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office | Official News Release
Now is the time for de-escalation and a return to diplomacy: UK statement at the UN Security Council
Association for Project Management news
Honouring military-grade project management this Armed Forces Week
Association for Project Management
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 10:20
Ofcom news
Driving change together: Celebrating two years of the Women in Tech pledge
Ofcom
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 10:15

Yesterday (23 June 2025) marked two years since Ofcom and some of the UK’s largest telecoms and technology organisations signed a pledge to attract, retain and promote women in tech-based roles.

Ofcom | Official News Release
Driving change together: Celebrating two years of the Women in Tech pledge
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero news
Clean energy future to be 'built in Britain'
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 10:10

Government publishes its Clean Energy Industries Sector Plan to ensure the clean energy revolution is built in Britain.

Department for Energy Security & Net Zero | Official News Release
Clean energy future to be 'built in Britain'
Scottish Government news
Council Tax Reduction supports over 450,000 households
Scottish Government
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 10:05

Scotland’s Chief Statistician yesterday released the latest annual Council Tax Reduction statistics.

Scottish Government | Official News Release
Council Tax Reduction supports over 450,000 households
Scottish Government news
Delivering sustainable finances
Scottish Government
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 10:05

Strategy to be published after ‘disappointing’ UK Spending Review settlement.

Scottish Government | Official News Release
Delivering sustainable finances
RUSI news
RUSI's Trench Gascoigne Essay Prize is Now Open to Entries for 2025
RUSI
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 09:25

The Trench Gascoigne Essay Prize is RUSI's annual competition for original writing on contemporary issues of national and international defence and security.

RUSI | Official News Release
RUSI's Trench Gascoigne Essay Prize is Now Open to Entries for 2025
Crown Prosecution Service news
CPS authorises charges following investigation into child sexual exploitation at former children’s centre
Crown Prosecution Service
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 09:20

Two men have been charged following an investigation into non-recent child sexual exploitation in Monmouthshire. 

Crown Prosecution Service | Official News Release
CPS authorises charges following investigation into child sexual exploitation at former children’s centre
NHS England news
National maternity investigation launched to drive improvements
NHS England
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 09:15

The rapid national investigation into NHS maternity and neonatal services will provide truth to families suffering harm and urgently improve care and safety.

NHS England | Official News Release
National maternity investigation launched to drive improvements
Government Actuary's Department news
GAD’s first Public Service Pensions conference
Government Actuary's Department
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 09:10

Pensions professionals from across the public sector networked, and contributed to discussions, at GAD’s first pensions conference.

Government Actuary's Department | Official News Release
GAD’s first Public Service Pensions conference
Welsh Government news
Upgrading Wales’ ambulances
Welsh Government
Tuesday 24 June 2025 @ 09:05

Modern ambulances will be responding to emergency 999 calls across Wales, thanks to £22.45 million investment by the Welsh Government.

Welsh Government | Official News Release
Upgrading Wales’ ambulances

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