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  • Budget 2015: some of the things we've announced

    The Chancellor has presented his Budget to Parliament - here's a summary of what was announced.

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

  • Supreme Court finds in favour of benefit cap

    Judges in the country’s highest court have declared that the benefit cap is lawful.

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

  • Duncan Smith: Record employment rate shows we were right to reform

    The employment rate has now hit an all time record high in the UK, after growing faster than any major economy over the past year.

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

  • Mexico and Impunity

    A case study from the 2014 Human Rights and Democracy Report.

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  • PM call with Donald Tusk, 17 March 2015

    David Cameron spoke with Donald Tusk, President of the European Council this evening to discuss this week's European Council.

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

  • Secretary of State for Defence accepts SSRO’s recommended profit rate

    Single Source Regulations Office baseline profit rate and capital servicing allowance for 2015 recommendation accepted by the Defence Secretary.

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  • "We must not lose sight of how far Afghanistan has come in the past year."

    Statement by Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant of the UK Mission to the UN at the Security Council Debate on Afghanistan

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

  • Tunisian women, democratic transition and economic empowerment

    British Embassy in Tunis and the British Council organised a round table to discuss Women’s economic empowerment

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

  • New legislation opens up UK Government business to Wales as £11.4billion spent with SMEs

    Further reforms offer opportunity for Welsh firms as over a quarter of UK government procurement now with small and medium businesses.…

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

  • St Patrick's Day Washington speech

    Theresa Villiers briefs a US audience on the current political situation in NI, focusing on the importance of the Stormont House Agreement and the consequences of failing to implement it.

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

  • A wide-ranging review into business rates

    Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, on launching the most-wide ranging review of national business rates in a generation.

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

  • Government paves the way for reform of business rates

    The review will examine the structure of the current system which is paid annually on 1.8 million properties in England.

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

  • Speech by Ambassador Brummell at Forum on Romania’s competitiveness

    'In the greatest changes that the EU has experienced over the last 40 years, the UK played a central role. We pushed to create a real Single Market. We pushed for the Eastwards expansion of the EU to countries like Roman…

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

  • Ministers back plan for better local services

    Ministers have backed proposals to extend the approach of the successful Troubled Families programme into other local services.

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

  • Pension freedoms to be extended to people with annuities

    Chancellor announces government will extend pension freedoms to around 5 million people who have already bought an annuity.

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  • Private rented sector

    Written ministerial statement by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on the private rented sector.

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

  • Strong British delegation at Sharm el-Sheikh led by Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond

    Ambassador John Casson: “The British are coming in strength”

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

  • Speech given at BAE Systems by Prime Minister David Cameron

    The Prime Minister spoke to workers at the site in Warton, Lancashire, as part of National Apprenticeship Week

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

  • Millions more saving thanks to automatic enrolment

    Nearly 5.2 million workers have been enrolled into a workplace pension scheme through automatic enrolment.

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

  • Minister for Europe meets Cyprus Foreign Minister

    Minister for Europe David Lidington welcomes the strength of the UK-Cyprus partnership

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