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  • Key appointments at Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    Professor Adrian Smith has been appointed to the new post of Director General, Knowledge and Innovation and Tera Allas has been appointed Director…

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

  • Government announces joint venture and confirms UK’s Daresbury Laboratory a principal international science and innovation location

    Twenty-year joint venture will attract national and international inward investment. 6,000 knowledge-based jobs to be created in science and…

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

  • Lord Heseltine encourages the South West to go for growth

    At the first of a series of road shows taking place across the country, Lord Heseltine will meet potential bidders to advise them on the application…

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

  • Scottish Variable Rate of tax no longer available

    The main tax raising power voted for by the Scottish people in the 1997 Devolution Referendum is currently not available to MSPs.

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

  • Government spending data published

    The government has today published detailed spending data allowing the public to see for the first time how money is spent.

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

  • Damian Green takes first trip to US as Immigration Minister

    Damian Green visited the US this week to see UK and US immigration controls in action and discuss joint work to tackle illegal immigration.

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

  • £40,000 worth of cocaine found in birthday card

    Drug with a street value of up to £40,000 were found in a birthday card by UK Border Agency officers on 18 November.

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

  • Haiti: the crisis in context

    The devastation wreaked by the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti is the third time this Caribbean nation has suffered at the hands of natural disasters in a little over two years.

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

  • Britain to reinforce humanitarian support in Haiti

    Cholera is spreading at an alarming rate across Haiti. One thousand, one hundred people have already died from the disease, thousands of people are infected and the number continues to rise steeply.

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

  • Encouraging meeting on sheep EID

    Discussing a range of issues facing the industry in implementing EU rules on individually tracing sheep.

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

  • Cornish floods – Caroline Spelman statement

    Following a visit to Cornwall yesterday to see the devastation caused by the floods, the Secretary Of State Caroline Spelman has given the following written statement to the House of Commons.

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

  • Defra spending over £25,000 published

    The UK Government portal for transparency, data.gov.uk, gives the public and developers easy access to data from all levels of government.

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

  • Equalities Minister gives support to Transgender Day of Remembrance

    Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone today lent her support to Transgender Day of Remembrance, which takes place on 20 November.

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

  • 'Time for clarity on budget' business tells Paterson

    Owen Paterson MP addressed business leaders at the Enterprise NI conference in Belfast.

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

  • PM visits flood-hit Cornish towns

    Prime Minister David Cameron has visited Cornwall to meet people affected by this week's flooding

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

  • Knighthood for Peter Jackson QC

    His Honour Judge Peter Arthur Brian Jackson QC is to receive a knighthood.

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

  • Knighthood for Keith Lindblom QC

    The Queen has been pleased to approve that the honour of Knighthood be conferred upon His Honour Judge Keith John Lindblom QC on his appointment as a Justice of the High Court.

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

  • Latest peerages announced

    A list of the latest peerages bestowed by the Queen.

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

  • Number 10 Press Briefing - Morning From 19 November 2010

    From the Prime Minister's spokesperson on: Lord Young and Peers.

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

  • Government spending data published

    The government has today published detailed spending data allowing the public to see for the first time how money is spent and hold politicians to account

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