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  • Elizabeth Truss calls for a renaissance in maths

    The Education Minister calls for a renaissance in maths to help meet the demand of UK employers, and announces the removal of calculators from key stage 2 tests.

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

  • Government bans calculators in tests for 11-year-olds

    On 9 November 2012, Education and Childcare Minister Elizabeth Truss announced that calculators would be banned in maths tests for 11-year-olds from 2014.

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

  • New members appointed to the School Teachers’ Review Body

    Peter Batley, Debbie Meech and Jonathan Crossley-Holland have been appointed to serve as members of the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) for three years from 1 November 2012.

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

  • Gove calls for more adopters to help find homes for more than 4,200 children ready for adoption

    Information about Michael Gove's reponse to current adoption waiting-list figures.

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

  • Archbishop of Canterbury

    Justin Welby appointed 105th Archbishop of Canterbury

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

  • PM statement on appointment of Justin Welby as new Archbishop of Canterbury

    "I look forward to working with the Archbishop and I wish him success in his new role"

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

  • Asset Purchase Facility - cash management operations

    Letters exchanged between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Governor of the Bank of England on the cash management operations of the Asset Purchase Facility.

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

  • Changes to cash management operations

    The Government agreed with the Bank of England to transfer to the Exchequer the excess cash held in the Bank's Quantitative Easing facility.

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

  • Speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon George Osborne MP, to the Royal Society

    Speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

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

  • Nick Clegg message for Remembrance Day 2012

    The Deputy Prime Minister speaks of wearing "our poppies with gratitude and with pride" in a video message to mark Remembrance Day.

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

  • New headquarters for rail accident investigators

    Rail Accident Investigation Branch enters new premises.

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

  • Baroness Warsi calls on mosques to encourage hate crime reporting

    Baroness Warsi is to call on mosques to encourage victims of anti-Muslim hate crime to come forward.

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

  • Changes to the Audit Commission Board

    The Department for Communities and Local Government has launched a recruitment process to find 3 new board commissioners.

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

  • Biofuels: the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation, progress on adoption and the next generation

    Speech by Norman Baker MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport.

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

  • 146/2012 - A fresh start for Britain’s Reserves

    Measures to overhaul Britain’s Reserve Forces, to create a fully integrated Armed Forces, were unveiled today as part of a wide-ranging consultation published by the Defence Secretary Philip Hammond.

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

  • Checking in with the Joint Air Mounting Centre

    A good start to a journey is a boon for troops going on tour writes Ian Carr who visited the Joint Air Mounting Centre (JAMC).

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

  • Navy Lynx crews train in US for Afghanistan ops

    After months of meticulous preparation, 847 Naval Air Squadron (NAS) has deployed to the US Naval Air Facility at El Centro in California for the final stages of their training before deploying to Afghanistan in January 2013.

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

  • MOD scientists use flower power to detect toxic substances

    New research by the MOD's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory has found that plants could be used to detect nerve agents similar to those used in the sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway in 1995.

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

  • Consultation launched on the future of Britain's Reserve Forces

    Measures to overhaul Britain's Reserve Forces to create a fully integrated Armed Forces were unveiled today as part of a wide-ranging consultation published by the Defence Secretary Philip Hammond.

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

  • Hugo Swire saddened by Guatemala death toll

    FCO Minister for Latin America, Hugo Swire said he is deeply saddened to hear of the loss of life as a result of yesterday's earthquake in Guatemala

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