Members at the meeting of Highland Council's Climate Change Committee on 16 March 2023 agreed to extend a benchmarking exercise which has been assessing the local authority’s energy performance across its estate. Benchmarking energy performance is a process that compares the energy use of a building with other similar structures.
Medical device consultancy, iDE8, has leased two laboratories and an office in the facility from Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). The company was formed in 2017 and currently employs seven people.
Paul Johnson, Director of the IFS, said:"Once again Jeremy Hunt can be grateful that the Office for Budget Responsibility is more optimistic than the Bank of England. It handed him some room for manoeuvre.
A summary of the budget and what it means for Scotland from the Fraser of Allender Institute After the frenzied Autumn 2022 of UK Budget Statement chaos, we all expected a much calmer outing for the UK Chancellor today. However, it wouldn't be a UK Budget without few big announcements.
Jeremy Hunt's 2023 spring budget covers employment, energy, enterprise and much more besides. The plan has already been dubbed his "back to work budget", although he has called it a "budget for growth".
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has published a response to the budget changes. This applies to England only and the Scottish Government must decide what to do with the money flowing from the Barnet Consequential amounts.
There were almost 16,000 more deaths than births registered in Scotland in 2022, according to a new report. Provisional National Records of Scotland (NRS) figures show there were 62,942 deaths and 46,959 births last year.
GMB Scotland has responded to the Chancellor's budget announcement that spirits duties will rise in line with inflation from August. Louise Gilmour, GMB Scotland Secretary, said, "It’s yet another unhelpful political measure for Scotland’s whisky and spirits sector, following hard on the back of Holyrood proposals for an alcohol advertising ban.
Scottish salmon made up more than half of all fish and seafood exports from Scotland last year, new HMRC data has revealed today. The statistics on national and regional trade also show that fresh and chilled Scottish salmon made up 33 per cent of the UK-wide fish and seafood total.
GMB members accept latest NHS Scotland pay offer by three-fifths majority. Following the close of GMB's consultative ballot of NHS Scotland and the Scottish Ambulance Service staff on the Scottish Government’s latest offer for Agenda for Change (AfC) staff pay and conditions.
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology will play an essential role in helping deliver commitments made by the Chancellor in Wednesday's Budget. Around £1 billion of government funding pledged for the next generation of supercomputing and AI research to establish the UK as a science and technology superpower.
The Chancellor announced an impressively broad suite of policies to encourage more people into work, but Britain's economy remains stuck in a deep funk - with people supported into work but getting poorer, and paying more tax but seeing public services cut, the Resolution Foundation said on Thursday 16 March 2023 in its overnight analysis. The Foundation’s Budget analysis report – We’re going on a growth Hunt – examines the economic backdrop to Budget 2023, and assesses whether the Chancellor has successfully delivered on his central objective of boosting growth through higher employment and business investment.
A £27 billion tax cut for business and a trio of freezes to help families with the cost-of-living headlined the Chancellor's Spring Budget. A £27 billion tax cut for business through radical ‘full expensing' policy and capital allowances reform which will drive investment and growth.
Scientists and engineers at Rolls-Royce are working on the Micro-Reactor programme to develop technology that will provide power needed for humans to live and work on the Moon. All space missions depend on a power source, to support systems for communications, life-support and science experiments.
Millions of British workers are being monitored by managers using cloud based software to ensure they stay productive while working remotely. Cloud based systems have soared in popularity since the pandemic with thousands of UK companies now keeping tabs on their workforces using the logging information provided by these software solutions.
Millions of people will benefit from specific support to look for work, acquire new skills and progress into better-paid jobs. Interventions focus on removing barriers to work for people at any age and career stage.
Latest data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) on scarlet fever and invasive group A streptococcus cases. The latest data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) shows that scarlet fever infections and invasive group A streptococcus (iGAS) infections remain high, although they have significantly reduced since the peak in December 2022.
The Budget sets out key measures to support households with energy bills and strengthen the UK's energy security. Measures to support households with their bills and increase the country's energy security and independence are at the heart of the Budget announced by the Chancellor.
Madam Deputy Speaker, in the face of enormous challenges I report today on a British economy which is proving the doubters wrong. In the autumn we took difficult decisions to deliver stability and sound money.
New fitness-to-work testing regime to qualify for health-related benefits. Funding for up to 50,000 places on new voluntary employment scheme for disabled people, called Universal Support Tougher requirements to look for work and increased job support for lead child carers on universal credit More places on "skills boot camps" to encourage over-50s who have left their jobs to return to the workplace.
