The Chancellor will kick off the first ever Regional Investment Summit with a blitz on business bureaucracy announcing further cuts to red tape and promising to save UK firms nearly £6 billion per year by the end of Parliament. Rachel Reeves set to announce blitz on business bureaucracy, slashing red tape and regulations to save UK businesses nearly £6 billion per year by the end of the Parliament and drive economic growth.
Victims and direct witnesses of crime who sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) will no longer be gagged from speaking out under new plans (from Monday 20 October). Government clampdown on misuse of NDAs as "gagging orders" to conceal crime.
The Scottish Health Survey 2024 results, published today, provide information on the health, and factors relating to health, of adults and children in Scotland. Half of all adults now have at least one long-term condition, continuing the upward trend.
Draft plan to increase reuse and recycling whilst growing the economy. Proposals aimed at creating new jobs and driving economic growth by keeping materials and goods in use for as long as possible have been published for consultation.
Scotland's world-renowned universities are facing the most acute financial strain in decades, with deficits, job cuts, and a rising tide of industrial unrest threatening to upend the country's higher education model. Once viewed as a global benchmark for publicly funded, tuition-free study, Scotland's university sector now finds itself squeezed between soaring costs and stagnant government funding forcing radical budget cuts, restructuring, and strike threats across campuses from Dundee to Edinburgh.
Billions will be unlocked to build affordable homes, power communities and connect the countryside, as the Chancellor joins forces with pension providers and insurers to drive growth in every region. 20 of Britain's largest pension providers and insurers set to launch Sterling 20 group at first-ever Regional Investment Summit on Tuesday 21 October 2025.
The failure of Amazon Web services has impacted on more than 1,000 companies, and could cost businesses and retailers $billions in lost revenue and service disruption, says the home delivery specialist Parcelhero. Today's outage of Amazon Web Services disrupted access to banks, airlines, social media platforms and delivery apps.
Delays in when people get their first job have driven a rise in the proportion of young people who have never worked, according to new Resolution Foundation research published later this week that will examine what is driving the number of young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET). The report finds that for those born between 1981-1985, just 38 per cent had never worked by age 17.
The IMF is issuing a clear, urgent alert: public debt worldwide has soared to levels not seen since the aftermath of World War II, and governments will need to act now if they want to preserve fiscal flexibility and economic resilience. For countries like the UK, the United States, France and Japan, where debt‐to‐GDP ratios already exceed or approach 100 %, the implications are especially acute.
For most Brits, January 8 2025 was an uneventful Wednesday, albeit slightly cold. But these low temperatures, coupled with a significant drop in wind speed, contributed to a spike in the real-time electricity price to over seven times the 2024-25 winter average.
MAST Upgrade, the UK's national fusion experiment, has demonstrated multiple world-first breakthroughs during its fourth scientific campaign. For the first time in a spherical tokamak, small magnetic coils have been used to stabilise instabilities in fusion plasmas.
Australia is rapidly shifting from raw-material supplier to strategic processor in the global race for rare-earth elements (REEs). Fuelled by government finance, tax incentives and geopolitical demand for "trusted" supply chains, Canberra is backing a clutch of mines and downstream plants that, if successful, would loosen China's long-running grip on the sector.
Local authorities will exist in the same perpetual state of financial uncertainty as they did in the 2010s. There are signs that many are still in danger of collapse - without substantial funding increases, warns a new Institute for Government paper.
In the grand pantheon of British national debates—tea or coffee, football or rugby rain or more rain there lurks a lesser-known yet profoundly important question to cake or not to cake?. Not merely a philosophical inquiry, this is a matter of tax law, national pride, and digestive strategy.
Greater Manchester, West Midlands and Glasgow City Region backed with £50m each to support local innovation priorities, plus £30m life sci investment unlocked. Greater Manchester, West Midlands and Glasgow City Region backed to the tune of £50m each to support local innovation priorities from life-saving medicines to clean fuels that can cut bills.
Clean energy will bring 400,000 extra jobs by 2030, with high demand for roles including plumbers, electricians and welders. Government publishes first ever national plan to recruit workers needed for clean energy mission, with over 400,000 extra jobs by 2030.
Polls show that immigration is topping the list for voters concerns. Let's take a look at the economic consequences of immigration and asylum policies across the main UK political parties -Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrats, Reform UK, and the Green Party.
The Chancellor Rachel Reeves has publicly mentioned changing disability or health-related benefits especially in recent months. Rachel Reeves has made multiple public comments or been quoted in the media at least four distinct times recently regarding changes to benefits for people with disabilities, long-term sickness or health-related support.
UK Trade Envoy Matt Western MP visits Cambodia to strengthen trade and investment ties and support Cambodia's sustainable economic development. The UK Prime Minister's Trade Envoy to Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos, Matt Western MP, is visiting Cambodia to reaffirm the United Kingdom’s commitment to strengthening trade and investment ties and supporting Cambodia’s sustainable economic development.
In a boost for our great British boozers, rural pubs across the UK will benefit from new government funding to help them provide extra services for local communities. Rural pubs to receive funding to help broaden their services.
