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Guides councils in how to assess their housing needs.
How to apply VAT rules to supplies, imports and export of gold and investment gold.
Provides clarity on the need for sustainability appraisal and strategic environmental assessment in relation to plan development.
Guidance for organisations when making decisions about the design and operation of enterprise IT services which handle OFFICIAL information.
Find out about which goods and services for disabled people and people aged 60 or over that you should apply zero or reduced rate VAT.
Guidance on the planning for mineral extraction in plan making and the application process.
A patent registers your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.
Build a service that’s simple, intuitive and comprehensible. And test it with users to make sure it works for them.
What qualifies as ordinary commuting and private travel for tax purposes.
Lists of standards that businesses can use to show their products, services or processes comply with essential requirements of legislation.
What packaged goods are, how they are labelled, units of measurements used and compliance with weights and measures regulation.
Class and permitted use of passenger ships, cargo ships, tankers, tugs, tenders, fishing boats, yachts, commercial vessels, and the required certificates.
Employers guide to assessing fitness to work, including asking for medical evidence, fit notes, and dealing with long term or frequent absences.
This document sets out the government’s 2024 definition of extremism, along with details of behaviours that could constitute extremist acts and further context.
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
Guidance on Defence and Security Accelerator terms and conditions for funding, contracts and intellectual property rights.
How to label spirit drinks that you plan to sell in the UK.
Helping public health practitioners conducting evaluations – using process evaluations to explain how complex interventions work.
Explains requirements of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017.
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