Housing Minister Mark Prisk recently unlock a multi-million pound government fund to deliver up to 15,000 extra affordable homes. Affordable housing providers in England will be able to bid for a share of up to £225 million to deliver the additional new homes. Last week (27 February 2013) Mr Prisk launched a bidding guidance for the [...]
Ofcom has awarded the licence to run the local TV service in Preston on digital terrestrial TV (DTT), completing the first phase of local TV licensing. The award follows legislation enabling Ofcom to issue local TV licences. The channels will broadcast on a specific ‘multiplex’, a discrete amount of spectrum reserved for local TV broadcasting [...]
Offshore wind innovation has today been given a real boost with the announcement of the first three winners under the second call of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the Technology Strategy Board’s (TSB) Offshore Wind Component Technologies Development and Demonstration scheme, and the launch of a fourth round of this competition. [...]
Council websites are falling in standards, with visitors decreasingly satisfied at a time when the public sector is striving to push services online, a report has warned. In central government ministers are pushing forward a digital by default agenda, with digital transactions up to 50 times cheaper to run. But Socitm, the society for IT managers, [...]
Hundreds of millions of pounds will be saved through a new independently run shared service centre that could eventually see private and public sectors share back office services in order to cut costs, ministers have announced. The move is expected to help create a faster and smaller civil service. Governments had for decades failed in [...]
The future of the college is secured as Capita take over the world class training facility. Fire Minister Brandon Lewis recently announced the completion of the sale of the Fire Service College to Capita. The minister said that the college has at long last been given the best possible chance to fully realise the huge [...]
Communities across Scotland now have the chance to become more active thanks to the latest grants announced by the Big Lottery Fund (BIG) through their 2014 Communities programme. 2014 Communities funds projects which can introduce all to a wide range of activities and healthier lifestyles in the run up to the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. [...]
Responding to Michael Gove’s announcement today of £4 billion for school capital funding, Cllr David Simmonds, Chair of the Local Government Association’s Children and Young People Board, said: “It’s right that Government acknowledges the pressures councils are facing in providing new and good quality school places but we need to be clear that this announcement [...]
Around 41 per cent of local authorities in England are set to defy the government and increase their council tax rates, according to research from the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountability (CIPFA). Despite the government offering a £450m grant to make a rise unnecessary, it is said that councils don’t want to take [...]
HMRC have produced a number of videos that have been released on YouTube to help new and growing businesses with tax and employment issues. The YouTube videos cover subjects like PAYE, VAT, Corporation Tax, record keeping, registering as an employer, payroll systems, and trading overseas, with case studies from real businesses offered. The department has [...]
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