A total of 24 projects from across the country have been awarded funding of £110,000 to promote and showcase quality regional produce. The latest round of the Regional Food Fund (RFF) was launched in April this year to support the development of local food and drink projects with grants of up to £5,000.
Service to be extended to more rural and island communities. Investment of up to £300,000 will help support money and welfare advice services in some of Scotland's most remote locations.
The petition to the UK government failed to get enough signatures to be put forward. Who knew it was even out there.
On 20 July 2022, the Sizewell C Project application has been granted development consent by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The application involves the construction of a new nuclear power station producing reliable, low-carbon electricity to help Britain achieve Net Zero.
NHS medical and dental staff will be awarded a 4.5% pay increase for this year backdated to 1 April 2022. This is for all NHS Scotland medical and dental staff, general medical practitioners and general dental practitioners.
A new £12 millon fund will support regulators and local authorities develop initiatives that help businesses bring innovative products and services to market. New £12 million fund will support regulators and local authorities develop initiatives that help businesses bring innovative products and services to market.
Officers from the MHRA have seized large quantities of illegally traded medicines and medical devices in an Interpol week of action known as "Operation Pangea". Medicines and medical devices valued at over £850,000, totalling more than 285,000 items, have been seized by officers from the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) as part of a global operation to tackle the illegal sale of medical products, with UK seizures estimated to be worth around 9 per cent of the global total.
On 20 July 2022 the government has published legislation confirming that low earners who save through a Net Pay Arrangement (NPA) will get the same level of government top-up as those who use Relief at Source schemes. 1.2 million low earners to see a boost to their take-home pay from 2025.
Legislation to enhance the competitiveness of the UK financial services sector and unlock tens of billions of pounds of investment across the economy was introduced to Parliament on 20 July 2022. Legislation to enhance the competitiveness of UK financial services and unlock growth and investment across the UK was introduced to Parliament today (20th July).
Cost of Living Business Tsar and former Just Eat boss David Buttress agrees deals and discounts with major UK businesses to form part of Help for Household campaign. Cost of Living Business Tsar and former Just Eat boss David Buttress agrees deals and discounts with major UK businesses to form part of Help for Household campaign.
Secured through the Space to Innovate Campaign - Bravo Drop, five innovative organisations have won funding to develop technologies that enhance the UK's ability to safely operate in space. £1 million overall funding allocated to five innovative organisations to develop space technologies.
Main points The Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers' housing costs (CPIH) rose by 8.2% in the 12 months to June 2022, up from 7.9% in May. The largest upward contributions to the annual CPIH inflation rate in June 2022 came from housing and household services (principally from electricity, gas and other fuels, and owner occupiers' housing costs) and transport (principally from motor fuels).
Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England talks about the impact of four recent shocks on our economy. These shocks have pushed inflation up, he says, but we will set monetary policy to bring it back down to our target.
Phone scam reports have fallen by 84 pent cent in Scotland over the last year, new regional data from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has revealed. In the Scotland, 384 phone scams were reported to HMRC in June this year compared to 2432 in June 2021.
Early estimates for June 2022 indicate that the number of payrolled employees rose by 3.0% compared with June 2021, a rise of 874,000 employees. The number of payrolled employees was up by 1.9% since February 2020, a rise of 561,000.
UK average house prices increased by 12.8% over the year to May 2022, up from 11.9% in April 2022. The average UK house price was £283,000 in May 2022, which is £32,000 higher than this time last year.
Why do we have tariffs on bananas? So asked prime minister Boris Johnson last month, first during a 9 June speech in Blackpool and then three weeks later while in Madrid for a Nato summit. By cutting "food tariffs we don't need", the government could put a dent in what was already the highest consumer price inflation in four decades, Johnson claimed, speaking in the Spanish capital a week-and-a-half before his eventual defenestration.
Services Producer Price Index (SPPI) Producer price inflation data Glossary Measuring the data Strengths and limitations Related links Print this statistical bulletin Download as PDF 1.Main points Producer input prices rose by 24.0% in the year to June 2022, up from 22.4% in the year to May 2022; this is the highest the rate has been since records began in January 1985. Producer output (factory gate) prices rose by 16.5% in the year to June 2022, up from 15.8% in the year to May 2022; this is the highest the rate has been since September 1977.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (July 19th) sold 14 Prime Cattle. Prime Bullocks (6) averaged 247.2p per kg (-11.1p) and sold to 254.0p per kg and £1,661.05 gross.
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