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Councils will be freed to generate greater levels of income, encouraged to support local firms and jobs and be well placed to reap the rewards of success, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said today, as he confirmed that Government will introduce major reforms enabling councils to keep a share of business rates they collect rather than [...]
The £1 billion boost to the Regional Growth Fund announced in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement last week is expected to enable the fund to support around half a million jobs in total. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will visit the North West today where he will set out further details on the boost to fund, [...]
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, and the Business Secretary, Vince Cable, announced a wide-ranging package of more than 140 reforms to build a stronger and more balanced economy. These measures include actions from the second phase of the Government’s Growth Review Phase II and the National Infrastructure Plan. These measures are supported by [...]
As part of the Government’s commitment to delivering world-class digital products, the Minister for Cabinet Office Francis Maude announced the Identity Assurance programme would be receiving an extra £10 million in funding. The Identity Assurance programme deals with the way a service provider can be assured that the customer or user is who they say [...]
The European Commission has today tabled a plan which will fund €50 billion worth of investment to improve Europe’s transport, energy and digital networks. Targeted investments in key infrastructures will help to create jobs and boost Europe’s competitiveness at a time when Europe needs this most. The “Connecting Europe Facility” will finance projects which fill [...]
The European Commission has proposed to spend almost €9.2 billion from 2014 to 2020 on pan-European projects to give EU citizens and businesses access to high-speed broadband networks and the services that run on them. The funding, part of the proposed Connecting Europe Facility, would take the form of both equity and debt instruments and [...]
The £80 million Community First fund, which will provide small grants to community groups and local social action projects, was opened today by Nick Hurd Minister for Civil Society.This comes in the same week that the first of 5,000 people to be trained as Community Organisers took up post. These are two flagship Big Society [...]
The Social Action Fund which is designed to support the creation of new social action opportunities opened for applications. Worth over £20million, the fund will offer grants of £100,000 and more to projects across England that will expand volunteering and giving of time, money, knowledge and assets. The Fund is open to proposals relevant to [...]
Chancellor George Osborne announced pledges for funding for e-infrastructure and high performance computing along with a seperate fund to extend mobile coverage for “up to six million people” ensuring 99 per cent of the UK is covered by a mobile signal. E-infrastructure and High Performance Computing The Chancellor said, “We will invest £145 million in [...]
Plans to roll-out superfast broadband across Suffolk and Rutland have been given the go-ahead, Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced. Speaking at the Royal Television Society, Mr Hunt announced that work to take superfast broadband across the counties can begin after their local broadband plans were approved. Mr Hunt said: “Superfast broadband is essential for economic [...]
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