National and subnational mid-year population estimates for the UK and its constituent countries by administrative area, age, and sex. The UK population at mid-year 2022 was estimated to be 67.6 million, an increase of 6.8% since 2011.
Holly Bedford, K3 Tax Advisory Managing Director explains why tax planning is so important when selling your business. Holly is a transaction tax specialist advising on corporate sales and acquisitions, MBOs, group reconstructions, private equity-backed corporate finance investments and sales to EOTs.
Over the past 40 years, many health-care systems that were once publicly owned or financed have moved towards privatising their services, primarily through outsourcing to the private sector. But what has the impact been of privatisation on the quality of care? A key aim of this transition is to improve quality of care through increased market competition along with the benefits of a more flexible and patient-centred private sector.
An Ombudsman report into pension age change highlights big lessons for government. The Parliamentary Ombudsman has been looking at whether women were properly informed of the rise in state pension age to bring them into line with men.
Pay for some public sector workers has risen much more than the economy-wide average in recent years. In particular, public sector workers on lower rates of pay have seen substantial, inflation-beating pay rises.
Further details about the actions farmers and crofters will have to take to receive agricultural support payments from 2025 have been unveiled. The new criteria for support will help farmers and crofters meet more of our food needs sustainably, and farm and croft while working to protect nature.
Care experienced children and young people will receive further support to improve attainment, attendance and wellbeing throughout their education and beyond. The Scottish Government will provide £10.5 million to be shared by local authorities across Scotland through the Care Experienced Children and Young People Fund.
Scotland's onshore GDP grew by 0.6% in January 2024, according to statistics announced by the Chief Statistician. This follows unrevised 0.4% growth in December 2023.
Priority remains achieving sustainable growth says Secretary of State, as latest encouraging figures published. Latest figures published this morning, 27 March 2024, show Scotland's onshore GDP is estimated to have grown by 0.6% in January 2024.
Highland and Islands MSP Rhoda Grant has hit out at a lack of engagement by the Scottish Government over planned cuts to UHI. Despite consistent requests for engagement and discussion with Scottish Ministers, there has been no commitment on holding talks.
It's a huge moment in one of the site's most challenging decommissioning programmes. Operators have removed the first zeolite skip from Sellafield's First Generation Magnox Storage Pond.
GAD has built a pension benefit modeller to support the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority as it undertakes a pension reform programme. The Government Actuary's Department (GAD) has supported the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) as it undertakes a pension reform programme.
NRS Dounreay and socio economic partners hosted the second FIRST® LEGO® League Challenge North Highland Tournament in March with local schools taking part. The North Highland tournament took place in March at ETEC on the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) North West and Hebrides Thurso Campus.
It's a key building on the Sellafield site that stores waste from one of our highest hazard legacy waste ponds. The challenge One of our biggest challenges at Sellafield is the need to take waste out of our legacy silos and ponds on the Sellafield site.
Royal Bank of Scotland, as part of NatWest Group, has unveiled a £5 billion lending package to bolster the social housing sector over the next three years. The ambition, spanning from January 2024 to the end of 2026, aims to support local housing authorities and associations in delivering and maintaining affordable homes as well as improve living conditions in existing properties, thus improving the availability and quality of social housing in Scotland.
Applications for medical training posts in Scotland are at record levels with more junior doctors joining the NHS than ever before. Data from NHS Education for Scotland shows that 1,231 posts were advertised throughout 2023 and 94% (1,156) of these filled successfully.
The Royal Air Force airdropped over 10 tonnes of food supplies into Gaza for the first time on Monday (25 March 2024), as part of international efforts to provide life-saving assistance to civilians. The aid, which consists of water, rice, cooking oil, flour, tinned goods and baby formula, will support the people of Gaza.
The Government Property Agency (GPA) published its Biodiversity and Nature Recovery Annex today, detailing how it will protect the natural environment across its extensive estate. A new guidance document was launched on Monday, 25th March 2024, with the aim of tackling biodiversity loss.
Those in frontline roles such as community nurses and physiotherapists will benefit, with organisations receiving funding for the payments in the coming months. Tens of thousands of staff at non-NHS organisations including community nurses, physiotherapists and cleaners will soon receive two one-off payments.
This report presents three-year averaged estimates of the proportion of people, children, working-age adults and pensioners in Scotland living in poverty, and other statistics on household income and income inequality. These estimates are used to monitor progress in reducing poverty, child poverty and income inequality.
