A UK Science and Innovation Network (SIN) impact story covering support for semiconductors in Japan. Following on from the establishment of the UK-Japan Digital Partnership in December 2022 and making the most of the opportunity and focus on Japan offered by Japan's G7 presidency, SIN Japan played a key supporting role in establishing the UK-Japan Semiconductors Partnership.
The United Kingdom is facing an unprecedented skilled labor crisis, with a 330,000-worker shortfall in critical sectors. Brexit, once championed as a way to prioritize British jobs for British workers, has instead created a shrinking labor market and a troubling exodus of skilled talent.
Ambitious new Green Industrial Partnership will see enhanced cooperation across a range of sectors, including future clean energy innovations. Ambitious new Green Industrial Partnership will see enhanced cooperation across a range of sectors, including future clean energy innovations.
The UK has updated its trade mark legislation to allow for partial replacement of domestic trade marks with international registrations under the Madrid System. The Trade Marks (International Registration) Order 2008 has been amended to implement changes to Rule 21 of the Madrid Protocol Regulations.
Three-quarters of Earth's land has become drier since 1990. Droughts come and go - more often and more extreme with the incessant rise of greenhouse gas emissions over the last three decades - but burning fossil fuels is transforming our blue planet.
£100 million funding in the 2025-26 Budget to tackle delayed discharge will make Hospital at Home the ‘biggest hospital in the country', if approved by Parliament The service, which offers a safe alternative to admission to an acute hospital, will grow to 2,000 beds by December 2026, alleviating pressure on health and social care settings. The money will also ensure all A&E departments in Scotland have frailty units directly linked to community care settings, with an increased focus on collaborative working to identify ways to improve patient experience.
The Scottish Government Budget will prioritise patients and drive improvements to the NHS, Health Secretary Neil Gray has said. If approved by parliament, the 2025/26 Budget will deliver record health and social care funding of £21 billion to ensure faster, more accessible care by improving capacity and tackling systemic challenges like delayed discharge.
The value of goods imports increased by £2.6 billion (5.8%) in October 2024, with both EU and non-EU imports rising. The value of goods exports fell slightly by £0.1 billion (0.4%) in October 2024, with a fall in exports to non-EU countries largely offset by a rise in exports to the EU.
The largest single long-term fiscal cost of successful decarbonisation is the loss of revenue from motoring taxes as the vehicle stock moves from petrol and diesel engine vehicles to battery powered electric vehicles (EVs), which pay no fuel duty or vehicle excise duty (VED).a Efficiency gains in fossil-fuel vehicles and the shift to hybrids have already had modest effects on receipts. But the shift to fully electric vehicles now appears to be progressing more quickly than we had anticipated.
The UK has today officially joined CPTPP as a fully-fledged member, potentially boosting the UK economy by £2 billion a year in the long run. UK today becomes first European nation to accede to CPTPP, a major trade bloc in the Indo-Pacific which includes countries like Japan, Vietnam, Peru, Chile and Malaysia.
Members of The Highland Council and NHS Highland Joint Monitoring Committee have agreed proposed changes to the Model of Integration. The changes considered are in response to draft amendments to the National Care Service (NCS) Bill - which is currently paused - however is a driver for reviewing integration arrangements in Highland and the possible creation of new Local Care Boards.
Up to 100% non-domestic rates relief for hospitality businesses on Scotland's islands and specified remote areas will continue in 2025-26, subject to the Budget passing. A new 40% relief will also be introduced for mainland hospitality premises, including grassroots music venues with a capacity of up to 1,500, with a rateable value up to and including £51,000, capped at £110,000 per business.
This report was issued in December 2024 and covers the time period 1 November 2024 to 30 November 2024 inclusive. November saw a decrease in collision alerts compared to October.
Monthly real gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have fallen by 0.1% in October 2024, largely because of a decline in production output; this follows a fall of 0.1% in September 2024. Real GDP is estimated to have grown by 0.1% in the three months to October 2024, compared with the three months to July 2024, with growth in the services and construction sectors in this period.
A comparison between Irish and UK economy. Looking beyond misleading GDP stats.
Have you ever planned a walk along a public footpath only to find the farmer has left a thicket of thistles in your way?. If so, you don't need to be told: rights with no bite aren't rights at all.
The latest figures for the UK's GDP suggest that growth is flatlining, and the problem with that for Rachel Reeves is that everything Labour said it would do is predicated on growth happening. So, what now, Rachel Reeves?.
The government has extended the existing Home Building Fund beyond March next year for England. Government-backed fund extended to deliver an extra 12,000 new homes.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (December 11th) had a catalogued entry of 155 M.V. Accredited Pedigree Females at its annual Highland Ladies show and sale.
Members have considered an update on the Council's medium term financial plan and the impact of the UK and Scottish Governments’ budgets on the coming year’s funding settlement. The position is currently looking more positive than initially planned for, however more detail needs to be worked through.
