Measures will increase transparency and maintain public trust. Proposed legislation to update and strengthen charity law has passed its first parliamentary stage.
Soldiers at five Army barracks are set to benefit from new single living accommodation under a £1.2bn programme to modernise and improve the Army estate. Contracts for 491 new bedspaces have been announced under the Army's Single Living Accommodation (SLA) Programme, which is investing £1.2bn to deliver 8,500 SLA bedspaces over the next 10 years.
Monthly real gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have fallen by 0.3% in March 2023, after showing no growth in February 2023 (unrevised from our previous publication). Looking at the broader picture, GDP grew by 0.1% in the three months to March 2023.
HMRC interest rates for late payments will be revised following the Bank of England interest rate rise to 4.5%. The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee announced on 11 May 2023 to increase the Bank of England base rate to 4.5% from 4.25%.
The value of goods imports decreased by £1.4 billion (2.8%) in March 2023; after removing the effect of inflation, imports of goods fell by £0.8 billion (2.1%). The value of goods exports decreased by £0.7 billion (2.3%) in March 2023; after removing the effect of inflation, exports of goods fell by £0.7 billion (2.7%).
Monthly production output is estimated to have risen by 0.7% in March 2023, the strongest monthly growth to the Index of Production (IoP) since May 2021 (1.4%); this follows falls of 0.1% and 0.3% in February 2023 and January 2023, respectively; both of these months see small upward revisions of 0.1 and 0.2 percentage points, respectively. Looking at the longer-term profile, quarterly production output for Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2023 rose by 0.1%.
On Tuesday 9 May, members of staff from the NDA attended a Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace, the first since the King's coronation. Arun Khuttan, Sustainability Manager, Tim Cook, Major Projects and Programmes Manager, Lucy Austin, Government Relations Manager and Michael Calloway, Head of Programme Nuclear Liabilities Assurance, were among 8,000 guests invited to spend the afternoon in the beautiful gardens of Buckingham Palace.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd, (May, 10th) sold 634 store cattle and 70 OTM cattle. Bullocks (374) averaged 295.9p per kg and sold to 340.0p per kg for a pen of 350kg Charolais crosses from Raitcastle Farm, Nairn and £2,080 gross for a 785kg Limousin cross from 8 Englishtonmuir, Bunchrew.
Call for expressions of interest from local areas. Communities across Scotland are being asked to consider whether their local area could be designated as the country's newest national park.
Zero-emission, hydrogen-powered commercial vehicle innovator, Hydrogen Vehicle Systems (HVS), today invites fleet operators to register expressions of interest in trialling its state-of-the-art, clean-sheet-designed hydrogen-electric Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) prior to purchasing. Supported trials are set to commence in Q4 2025 once the exhaustive pre-production prototyping phase is completed and the HGVs are ready to enter volume production in the UK.
The NorthTick 2023 International Conference on Tick-borne Diseases will take place in Inverness at the end of May. NorthTick is a transnational and multi-disciplinary project which aims to meet the challenges associated with tick and tick-borne diseases by enhancing cooperation between academic institutions, national/regional health authorities, patient organisations, industry.
The latest Fraser of Allander (FAI) Scottish Business Monitor, published in partnership with Addleshaw Goddard. Business sentiment has risen to its highest level since 2021 as signs of optimism begin to emerge among Scottish businesses, according to the latest Addleshaw Goddard Scottish Business Monitor report.
People in seven communities across Scotland are celebrating after they were awarded grants to support a wide range of social enterprises in their local areas. Highland, Moray, Argyll & Bute, East Lothian, and North Ayrshire projects are all set to benefit.
Salmon farmers have welcomed a Scottish Government commitment to consider their call for £10million-a-year in licence fees to help tackle a housing crisis in rural Scotland. Trade body Salmon Scotland launched a campaign last year to overhaul the current system so that the millions sent to Crown Estate Scotland in Edinburgh are instead directly ringfenced for coastal areas where farms operate.
Find out how you can adopt more sustainable practices into your business that will benefit the planet and work wonders for your brand reputation, growth, and sales. What to expect from this webinar from Business Gateway.
Total rate of overpayments has fallen from 4.0% in 2022 to 3.6% in 2023. The Universal Credit overpayment rate decreased by £400 million in a year.
Government to broaden benefits packages for areas that agree to have local onshore wind farms. Communities that wish to host onshore wind infrastructure should benefit directly from it.
New rules will see up to 4,500 more lawyers from diverse backgrounds eligible to become judges under plans announced by the government today (11 May 2023). plans drawn up for up to 4,500 lawyers to apply for a range of judicial roles. move latest step in wider efforts to boost judge numbers and tackle outstanding cases.
It has been happening for years in the US and this year is even more difficult to get agreement on the debt ceiling. The need for agreement is something that could affect the whole world if nothing happens soon.
From The Good Law Project. Due to a tax break from HMRC, private equity fund managers earning vast - seven or eight figure - salaries pay just 28% tax on their income where primary school teachers and nurses pay 40% including National Insurance Contributions (NICs).
