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  • UK monitoring with concern recent events in Maldives

    United Kingdom calls on all parties in Maldives to exercise restraint and engage in constructive political dialogue ahead of elections.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Seriously injured veterans to get financial support for life

    A new benefit will mean that seriously injured armed forces veterans will be guaranteed financial support of around £7,000 a year for life.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New rules use government buying power against tax avoidance

    Departments will be able to ban companies and individuals from government contracts if they take part in failed tax avoidance schemes.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Ministers respond to false alarm of fire service ‘privatisation’

    Fire Minister and Minister for the Cabinet Office say attempts to characterise employee-led mutualisation as privatisation are wrong.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • UK government introduces pre-entry tuberculosis screening for long-term UK visas

    The UK Border Agency has today announced the arrangements for the introduction of pre-entry tuberculosis (TB) screening in the Philippines.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • UK nuclear new build supplier day

    The UKTI Energy team in Paris organised a UK nuclear new build supplier day in partnership with EDF Energy and AREVA on 12 February.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • FCO calls for release of Iranian opposition figures

    Alistair Burt calls for release of Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, who have spent two years under house arrest in Iran.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • More powers to local communities as South East regional planning abolished

    Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles announces another major milestone in the transfer of power to local communities.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New social enterprises to receive jump start from government investment

    Wayra UnLtd and Bethnal Green Ventures are the first social enterprises to receive backing from the government’s £10m Social Incubator Fund.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Aspiring mutuals get vital government funding boost

    The Cabinet Office's Mutuals Support Programme is helping more than 20 mutuals spin out from the public sector.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Girls' education key to escape from poverty, HIV and domestic violence

    Nick Clegg: “giving girls a good education is the single most effective thing we can do to break the cycle of poverty”.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Response to Avaaz call to save the Kyoto Protocol

    Response from the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change to Avaaz call for Europe to save the Kyoto Protocol at the UN Climate Change Conference in Doha.

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  • Edward Davey delivers the Dudley Newitt Lecture on the Energy Challenge

    The Secretary of State speaks about the importance of engineering in meeting the challenge

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Countering terrorism overseas

    Foreign Secretary William Hague speaks about countering terrorism overseas.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Faith-based social action: “people who do God do good”

    Speech given by the Rt Hon Baroness Warsi at the launch of the 2012 National Church and Social Action Survey.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Girls & women: New education project to transform lives

    The UK announced a new education project which will help 89,000 girls in Mozambique and Ethiopia gain an education and improve their life chances

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Government's pension reforms will give lower paid bigger incentive to save

    The Government’s reforms to the state pension will work with automatic enrolment to boost pension-saving among low and medium earners.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Bute in horsemeat: statement from Chief Medical Officer

    Regarding bute in horsemeat, Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies has made a statement. “Horsemeat containing phenylbutazone presents a very…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Cold weather alert: lowered to level 1

    Following a level 2 alert issued on 4 February 2013, temperatures have now risen across England and the Cold Weather Plan alert indicator has reverted to level 1.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Extra funding for NHS dentists announced

    The Department of Health is today announcing £30 million funding for NHS dentists. Dental practices can use the funds to put on extra clinics…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government