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  • Vince Cable – Progress still to be made on all-male boards

    Business Secretary Vince Cable writes to the last seven FTSE 100 firms with all-male boards urging them to increase women in the boardroom.

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

  • Foreign Affairs Council and General Affairs Council

    The Foreign Secretary will attend the Foreign Affairs Council and Foreign Office Minister David Lidington the General Affairs Council.

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

  • New Local Government Network annual conference

    Eric Pickles talks about rising to the challenge of delivering local public services.

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

  • Proposals on how people join the police force launched

    New proposals to allow people to join the police force without starting at constable rank were revealed today by the Home Office.

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

  • Elizabeth Truss speaks at the Policy Exchange on childcare

    Elizabeth Truss sets out the reforms to childcare published in the paper 'More great childcare'.

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

  • New insights added to ground-breaking London 2012 website

    Valuable lessons on how to stage a global event have been added to an innovative and growing service for industry and the public sector.

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  • Burma: Joint support for new education initiative

    The UK will work with Australia to help over 200,000 children in Burma to complete basic education

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

  • Nearly one in three people on incapacity benefits capable of work

    Nearly a third of people on the old incapacity benefits have been found to be capable of some form of work since reassessment began.

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

  • Sale of invasive water plants banned to protect wildlife

    The sale of five invasive non-native aquatic plant species is to be banned in order to protect wildlife Environment Minister Richard Benyon.

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

  • Parents to have more choice of high-quality childcare

    Information on the government initiatives to improve state-funded childcare set out in the report ‘More great childcare’.

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

  • Press briefing - morning 29 January 2013

    The Prime Minister's Spokesperson (PMS) answered questions on Mali, boundary changes and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

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

  • Navy's new carrier receives first massive gas turbine

    The first of the world's most powerful marine gas turbines has been installed in the Royal Navy's new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth at Babcock's Rosyth shipyard in Scotland.

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

  • Carbon Capture project case studies

    The Ferrybridge Carbon Capture Pilot, Renfrew Oxyfuel (Oxycoal 2) Project and China Advanced Power Plant Carbon Capture Options (CAPPCCO).

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  • It’s official: Learning improves career prospects

    New report finds that a third of men and nearly a third of women who participated in further education got a better job as a result.

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

  • Direct sellers - one month to settle tax bills

    People selling directly to customers and who haven’t paid all the tax they owe have one month to come forward and pay up under an HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) campaign.

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  • High speed rail for British jobs and prosperity

    High speed rail is an engine for growth that will help to drive regional regeneration and invigorate our regional economies.

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

  • Hate rising energy costs? Green Deal With It

    The Green Deal launched on Monday 28 January.

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

  • High speed rail

    Announcing the preferred route for consultation north from Birmingham and on to Leeds and Manchester.

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

  • Pre-dinner speech to the Cardiff Business Club

    Speech by Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope, First Sea Lord.

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

  • Energy for Growth - issuing of the Power Purchase Agreement pilot

    The Energy for Growth plan has reached the procurement stage and suppliers are invited to put forward bids.

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