Plans to help Scotland's education system continue to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic have been published by the Scottish Government. Created with input from across the sector, including young people, the Education Recovery strategy outlines how almost £500 million has been used to support learners and staff across the country.
HMRC urges tax credits and Child Benefits customers with a Post Office card account to update HMRC with their new bank account details by 30 November 2021. From 1 December 2021, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will stop making payments of Child Benefit, Guardian's Allowance and tax credits into Post Office card accounts.
International travel will be simpler with lower testing costs for people who qualify as fully vaccinated. new simplified travel system with a single red list and the rest of the world comes into force from 4 October at 4am fully vaccinated travellers from over 50 countries and territories have simpler, cheaper rules, with just a single post arrival test needed.
The UK's housing crisis hardly requires an introduction. It affects people across the housing spectrum — from leaseholders stuck with flammable cladding to tenants in overcrowded housing.
1,760 new cases of COVID-19 reported. 19,959 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results 9.4% of these were positive.
Over £500 million to support hundreds of thousands of people into jobs announced today (Monday 4 October 2021). Workers leaving the furlough scheme and unemployed people over the age of 50 will be helped back into work Those on the lowest wages will also be helped to progress in their careers and existing schemes targeting young people will be extended into next year Workers leaving the furlough scheme and unemployed people over the age of 50 will be helped back into work as part of more than £500m expansion of the government's Plan for Jobs.
The National Cyber Force was announced by the Prime Minister as part of the Integrated Review in November 2020. The joint MoD and GCHQ partnership is helping keep the country safe as the new home of offensive cyber operations.
Decarbonising transport, including rail services, offers a significant opportunity to contribute to reducing the threat of climate change, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said. Speaking at a formal launch of the £120m Glasgow Queen Street Station today, the First Minister applauded the substantial investment of over £9bn in rail infrastructure since 2007 that sees over 75% of all rail passenger journeys in Scotland made by electric services.
Office of the Chief Economic Adviser, Gary Gillespie, Chief Economist - 4 October 2021. Overview This month's economic brief provides an update on data that begins to show how the economy has been performing during the third quarter of the year.
Package to capitalise on huge boost for British tennis, following unprecedented success for Emma Raducanu, Joe Salisbury, Gordon Reid and Alfie Hewett at this year's US Open Tennis Championships. £22 million committed by the Government, with additional £8.4 million provided by the Lawn Tennis Association.
The latest reconviction statistics for the 2018-19 offender cohort have been published today by Scotland's Chief Statistician. The figures show that reconvictions have increased in the past year, going against the general downwards trend over the past decade.
2,040 new cases of COVID-19 reported. 28,673 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results 7.7% of these were positive.
The first roof beams have been lifted into place at Dounreay's newest shielded radioactive waste store. Seventy six beams, weighing a total of 1,400 tonnes, the equivalent of 116 double decker buses, are needed to complete the mammoth roof structure which will have a total weight of 3,300 tonnes.
Business confidence in Scotland rose five points during September to 39%, the second consecutive month of growth, according to the latest Business Barometer from Bank of Scotland Commercial Banking. Scottish firms reported higher confidence in their own business prospects month-on-month, up 14 points at 39%.
Businesses emerging from the Covid-induced cocoon of furlough payments used to retain their workforce since the pandemic struck are now facing the cold wind of scrutiny as HMRC gears up to claw back any cash that may have been handed over in error, writes Christine Rolland, forensic accounting director at Henderson Loggie. As the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme grant payments come to an end this month, the message from the tax man is clear: volunteer information about any furlough claims that may have been wrongly submitted and repay the amount owed to the taxpayer, or face higher penalties, and possibly prison, if it's found out later that claims have been overstated or made fraudulently.
200 events open to the public across the two weeks during the climate change summit. Tickets will be available shortly for the Green Zone at COP26 in Glasgow Singer Ellie Goulding announced as a COP26 Advocate COP26 will open its doors to the British public throughout the international climate summit, with more than 200 events being hosted in the UK-run Green Zone in Glasgow between Monday 1 November and Friday 12 November.
UK government announces additional measures to help ensure the stability of the UK supply chain. Military tanker drivers to start delivering fuel to forecourts across the country from Monday Almost 200 military personnel undertaking training at haulier sites Additional measures announced to help ensure the stability of the UK supply chain in the run up to Christmas Government working with industry to make HGV sector more attractive and improve conditions Almost 200 Military tanker personnel, 100 of which are drivers, will be deployed from Monday to provide temporary support as part of the government's wider action to further relieve pressure on petrol stations and address the shortage of HGV drivers.
New green paper establishes government's view on how to put in place the regulatory framework needed. The UK will become the first country in the world to detail how it would legislate to ensure the safe and effective rollout of fusion energy, outlined in a Fusion Green Paper launched by Science Minister George Freeman (Friday 1 October).
2,515 new cases of COVID-19 reported. 37,128 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results 7.3% of these were positive.
The Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has temporarily exempted parts of the CO2 industry from competition law to help provide further security of CO2 supplies. Competition laws temporarily suspended for CO2 firms to further ensure supplies to UK businesses and collaborate on a sustainable market-based solution.
