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Guidance for organisations when making decisions about the design and operation of enterprise IT services which handle OFFICIAL information.
Ofsted's policy for considering whether to defer or pause an inspection or visit, or whether additional evidence needs to be gathered.
This series brings together documents about places of religious worship and the solemnisation of marriages.
Guidance on the content of a Development Consent Order required for a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project.
How to use a contextual inquiry when developing your digital health product.
What packaged goods are, how they are labelled, units of measurements used and compliance with weights and measures regulation.
Find out about the VAT place of supply rules if your business sells digital services to private consumers.
This guidance provides information about permission in principle - a new planning consent route.
Legally manufacture meters which are of the design originally approved and ensure they are verified to operate within the statutory limits.
Evidence base of long-term trends for UK policy makers, Spring 2021.
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
The Privy Council is how interdepartmental agreement is reached on items of government business which, for historical or other reasons, fall to ministers as privy counsellors rather than as departmental ministers. The Privy Council Office (PCO) provides secretariat services for...
How to know whether the operatives you deploy are employed or self-employed, and what this means for tax and national insurance.
Find out how to use the Trader Dress Rehearsal service to help prepare for using the Customs Declaration Service to make declarations.
As a landlord, find out if the leaseholders in your block have the right to take over management of your building, and the process they must go through to do this
Check if you’re the deemed employer and what your responsibilities are if the off-payroll working rules (IR35) apply.
Follow this guidance to request spend approval when buying or extending facilities management contracts, regardless of their cost.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
Summaries of advice given under the business appointment rules to applicants at SCS2 and SCS1 level and equivalents.
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