Annual Reports
DfT: The number of rogue drivers on Britain's roads has dropped significantly, the results of a joint police and Government operation has indicated. Compared with a similar operation in 2006, fewer motorists were found to be driving without a valid licence, insurance or MOT.
52 police forces participated in Operation V79, in which 6,689 vehicles were stopped randomly over a 24-hour period on 18 March 2008.
CSPL: The Committee on Standards in Public Life has published the results from their third biennial national survey of public attitudes on standards of conduct in public life. The research uses information gathered from face-to-face interviews with a random sample of over 2,000 people across the UK. It offers an opportunity to assess public attitudes, expectations & perceptions about the behaviour of those in public life against the previous surveys conducted in 2004 and 2006.
Commenting on the new research, Chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, Sir Christopher Kelly said: "As in previous years, the public continue to show high levels of confidence in front line professionals such as doctors and teachers. National politicians whether MPs or Ministers continue to languish near the bottom of the league tables, ranked alongside estate agents and tabloid journalists”.
DH / NCJDSU: The Sixteenth Annual Report of the National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit (NCJDSU) has been published. The report looks back over the period from May 1990 (when the Unit was set up) to 31 December 2007. The report outlines the Unit's work in the clinical surveillance of variant (vCJD), sporadic and iatrogenic CJD.
In addition, the Unit's scientific report has been published, which provides details of the current & planned future scientific research being undertaken by staff at the NCJDSU, in the context of the Unit's previous research and its on-going background surveillance.
