Fisheries Management Plans will help deliver a thriving fishing industry and healthy marine environment following extensive engagement with fishing industry. New plans to help protect and recover key fishing stocks have been published today (Thursday 14 December), seizing on the opportunities of the UK's post-Brexit freedoms to support coastal jobs and protect the marine environment.
The Review delivers on a key commitment made at the Farm to Fork Summit and will support farmers and growers to receive a fair price for their products. A review to improve fairness in the fresh produce supply chain was launched by the Government on 14 December 2023, supporting British farmers and growers to receive a fair price for their products and ensuring customers have access to high-quality fresh British products.
Eleven new production projects helping to place UK at forefront of hydrogen industry and bring progress towards net zero ambitions. Eleven new production projects will invest around £400 million up front over the next 3 years, growing the UK's green economy.
We've received reports from people receiving calls from scammers posing as officials from banks, IT companies, broadband providers and retail outlets. They will claim your account has been compromised or something is wrong with your computer and request access remotely to allow them access to your accounts or personal data.
The Deputy Prime Minister chaired the first meeting of the Economic Security Public-Private Forum on Monday. The Deputy Prime Minister and Business Secretary are co-chairs of the Forum, which will meet quarterly.
Information warfare abounds, and everyone online has been drafted whether they know it or not. Disinformation is deliberately generated misleading content disseminated for selfish or malicious purposes.
The UK's Carrier Strike Group will visit Japan as part of the flagship 2025 Indo-Pacific deployment, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has announced today 14 December 2023. Announcement made at Japan's Yokosuka Naval Base.
The Labour leader Keir Starmer has warned that if his party wins the next UK general election, he will not be able to "turn on the spending taps". Speaking at a thinktank event focused on the stagnation of the UK economy, he said the country was "in a hole" after 13 years of Conservative rule.
Back in 2000, financial publisher Bloomberg blew a reported £1 million on an office party with a "seven deadly sins" theme for its 1,500 British employees. As well as a "lust room" containing a 25-foot-wide bed of purple satin, the party boasted ten bars - one, themed "gluttony", with a trough of truffles and sweets, according to New York magazine.
Inflation is down, but Britain's cost-of-living crisis is still very much with us. The legacy of previous price rises for energy and food are now combining with a new pressure: housing.
Around 8 million eligible households across the UK are set to receive a £299 Cost of Living Payment in February, as the Government unveiled its plans to reward work, reform welfare and grow the economy. Around 8 million households to receive £299 Cost of Living payment between Tuesday 6 February and Thursday 22 February 2023.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency brings The Workboat Code Edition 3 into force. A new workboat code from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) comes into force on 13 December 2023, drawing together regulations into a single document to underpin safety while supporting the industry to advance technology.
The Highland Council's parking enforcement team are reminding drivers that since yesterday (11 December 2023), the Transport (Scotland) Act 2019 has prohibited pavement parking, double parking, and parking at dropped kerbs and anyone caught can face a £100 fine. Chair of the Council's Economy and Infrastructure Committee, Cllr Ken Gowans is also highlighting the dangers that such parking poses to pavement users.
Following a week of very icy and cold wintry weather, the Leader of The Highland Council has acknowledged the difficult conditions that recent adverse weather has created for road and footway users and is encouraging everyone to take extra care and allow additional time for journeys. Councillor Raymond Bremner said: "Ice, thaw and freezing rain sustained over a pro-longed period of time in many areas of the Highlands have meant that our gritting crews have had to take longer getting round all the routes agreed in the Council's Winter Maintenance Policy.
In September to November 2023, the estimated number of vacancies in the UK fell by 45,000 on the quarter to 949,000. Vacancies fell on the quarter for the 17th consecutive period, the longest consecutive run of quarterly falls ever recorded but still above pre-coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic levels.
Experimental monthly estimates of payrolled employees and their pay from HM Revenue and Customs' (HMRC's) Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Real Time Information (RTI) data. This is a joint release between HMRC and the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Total public sector employment increased in September 2023 compared with the previous quarter and the previous year; central government is the main contributor to the rise. There were an estimated 5.90 million employees in the public sector in September 2023, which is 35,000 (0.6%) more than in June 2023 and 135,000 (2.3%) more than in September 2022.
The percentage of Highland pupils achieving the expected Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) levels in both literacy and numeracy has increased for 2022/23. The Scottish Government released the official Achievement of Curriculum for Excellence Levels (ACEL) for literacy (reading, writing, listening & talking) and numeracy.
In 2021, 70.6% of workers in the UK worked in firms with labour productivity below the mean. The dispersion of firm-level productivity across firms has increased; in 2021, workers in firms at the 90th percentile produced around 3.7 times as much output compared with workers in firms at the median of the distribution.
Monthly real gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have shown no growth in the three months to October 2023, compared with the three months to July 2023. Monthly GDP is estimated to have fallen by 0.3% in October 2023, following growth of 0.2% in September 2023.