In a letter to Thurrock council this week, Simon Hoare, minister forlocal government, said he understood the “strength of feeling in the local community”. But he argued that a best value inspection report published last year, together with ongoing government oversight, was the most effective w...
The UK Government criteria for a “decent” broadband service is generally described as having a download speed of at least 10 Mbps and an upload speed of at least 1Mbps. This is what you usually get with a standard broadband package, and enables you to carry out tasks like browsing the ...
Figure 3 below provides a breakdown by count of FTTP take-up by ISP in each government region. Using weighted data from 725 respondents that do subscribe to a ‘perceived’ FTTP service, the chart below underscores that operators still have some way to go in gaining significant traction. More...
significant but variable progress has been made since the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) sponsored research (Webb et al., 2017) reflecting recent evidence presented in the report to the UK Government Committee on Climate Change on local authorities and the Sixth Carbon Budget (Evans, 2020). ...
Complementing value-for-money assessments with a cross-subsidy ratio presents a simple and effective substitute for a budget constraint. One of its great advantages is that it allows government to monitor tradeoffs for any particular group – from small businesses to third-sector organisations or ...
As regards umbrella companies, the government announced in its October 2024 Budget the introduction of new legislation effective from April 2026, aimed at making agencies liable for tax non-compliance of umbrella companies. This will undoubtedly make agencies more cautious about rely...
Labour would also accept free movement of people, payments into the EU budget andthe jurisdiction of the European Court of Justiceduring the transition. This is a considerably "softer" version of Brexit than the one advocated by the government, but there are still divisions within the party abou...
A spokeswoman for the Scottish government adds that the way in which the levy has been implemented does not reflect the “long-established and well-founded system we have in place for apprenticeships and other training opportunities”. The levy and Wales The Welsh government delivers its apprentices...
The Labour government dreams of kick-starting a housebuilding boom, but the construction sector relies heavily on migrants to plug a skills gap Thursday, 12 December, 2024 UK Statistics Authority Fallout from breakdown of UK labour force survey spreads ...
Spending during a fiscal year can sometimes overshoot earlier expectations and should normally be managed as part of the routine work of the Treasury, said Thomas Pope of the Institute for Government. However, with the exception of the Home Office — which has regularly drawn on the government’...