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Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
This Spend Control ceased as a requirement on 1st February 2023. Other Cabinet Office Spending Controls remain operational.
Check if you’re paying a worker the National Minimum Wage, the National Living Wage or if you owe them payments for the previous year.
Follow this guidance to ensure approval requirements are met for all proposed contingent labour spend with day rates of £1000 and above.
Check if your pay matches the National Minimum Wage, the National Living Wage or if your employer owes you payments from the previous year.
Minimum wage rates for different types of paid employment - time work, output work, unmeasured work, salaried hours work.
How to work out the balancing charge when you dispose or sell plant or machinery after claiming full expensing or 50% first year allowances for them.
How to calculate your employee's Statutory Sick Pay if you cannot use the GOV.UK calculator.
Find out how to work out VAT on supplies of staff including supplies made by staff bureaux.
Find out what steps you need to take before you calculate how much you can claim for furloughed and flexibly furloughed employees.
Use this guidance if your payroll software or Basic PAYE tool does not calculate your employees' payments.
As a public sector employer, you must report and publish information on facility time for your employees who are trade union representatives.
Apply for a UK Expansion Worker visa to set up a branch of an overseas business - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, switch or update, bring your partner and children.
Apply for a Temporary Work - Creative Worker visa to work in the UK in the creative industry - eligibility, extend, bring your family.
Statistics on Employment Schemes, New Enterprise Allowance, pre-Work Programme mandatory programmes, Youth Offer, Youth Contract and Get Britain Working.
Working time directive and maximum weekly working hours including how to calculate your weekly working hours and working time limits if you're a young worker.
Centrally approved spending for property, advertising, consultancy, technology and recruitment.
Apply for a Temporary Work – International Agreement visa if you're working under international law (including diplomatic households) - extend or switch, family members
How to claim R&D expenditure credit (RDEC) for Corporation Tax relief on your company's R&D, if you’re a large company or small and medium-sized enterprise.
An explanation of the types of work and the working hours for which you must pay the minimum wage.
Centrally approved new spending on contingent labour.
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