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  • Grant Shapps pledges to shut the door to squatters

    Housing Minister Grant Shapps has today pledged to shut the door to squatters by making homeowners as aware of their rights as those looking…

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

  • Shutting the door to squatters

    Making homeowners as aware of their rights as those looking to take over their properties will help shut the door to squatters.

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

  • BIS publishes Business Plan today

    All departments are today publishing Business Plans setting out the Coalition Government's priorities and key deliverables.

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

  • UK-China firms announce deals as Business Secretary opens trade talks

    Business Secretary Vince Cable opened three days of intensive trade talks between the UK and China in Beijing today, as UK and Chinese firms announced deals that will help to cement a partnership for growth between the two countries.

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

  • Opportunities for British and Chinese businesses in science, research and innovation

    It is a pleasure to be here in China representing the United Kingdom. This is the largest ever Government-led business delegation to China. …

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

  • Changes to passport applications for British nationals living abroad

    If you live abroad the way you obtain a passport, and where you need to apply, is changing.

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

  • Prime Minister calls for stronger relationship with China

    UK firms should seek to explore opportunities for expanding their business in China, the world’s second largest economy and the UK ’s ninth largest export market, Prime Minister David Cameron said today.

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

  • CDS: We'll be in Afghanistan as long as it takes

    New Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir David Richards has told the media that we will be in Afghanistan for as long as it takes, although it is entirely practical to be able to meet the 2014-15 timelines for withdrawing …

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

  • Space sector continues exceptional economic growth through the recession

    The report, ‘The Size and Health of the UK Space Industry,’ is the latest update of a biennial survey of British companies involved in the sector…

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

  • Government opens up carbon capture and storage demonstration to gas

    The Government today announced that the carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration programme - the three projects that will follow the first…

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

  • Letter to the Times from members of the UN High-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (AGF)

    Dear Sir In Copenhagen, political leaders committed themselves urgently to combat climate change. As concentrations of greenhouse gases in …

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

  • 18th century British Ambassador's massive silver cistern under threat of permanent posting abroad

    Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on a massive silver wine cistern commissioned by Thomas Wentworth

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

  • Culture Minister defers export of striking historical painting

    Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on a painting by 17th century Dutch artist Jan de Bray.

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

  • Culture Minister defers export of striking historical painting

    Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on the painting David and the Return of the Ark of the Covenant

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

  • 18th century British Ambassador's massive silver cistern under threat of permanent posting abroad

    Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on a massive silver wine cistern commissioned by Thomas Wentworth.

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

  • Tilley Awards recognises crime-cracking initiatives

    An operation which reduced the number of sex workers from 200 to zero topped this year's Home-Office-backed Tilley Awards.

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

  • Controlled Waste Regulations consultation published

    A consultation on proposals to replace or amend the Controlled Waste Regulations (1992) relating to certain non-domestic properties.

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

  • Research reports on bovine tb in badgers published

    Research reports related to the control of bovine tuberculosis in badgers have been made public today.

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

  • New safeguards for chickens

    Two regulations on poultry welfare announced.

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

  • Business secretary welcomes Chinese recognition of Scotch Whisky

    Chinese recognise Scotch Whisky as whisky produced in Scotland, which industry experts estimate will increase sales by tens of millions of pounds a year.

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