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Wednesday 10th March, 2010 at 11:13
<p>The danger and cost of climate change to the health of Europeans is at the forefront of the debate as the fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health begins today in Parma, Italy.</p>
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Wednesday 10th March, 2010 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p>
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Wednesday 10th March, 2010 at 01:01
<p>A new iPhone app that helps people to stop smoking was launched today by Public Health Minister Gillian Merron.<br /></p>
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Wednesday 10th March, 2010 at 01:01
<p>Smokers are today (10 March) being urged to quit their habit or realise its danger, as statistics reveal that a third of those who die in accidental house fires, die in fires started by cigarettes.<em><font style="font-size: 8px;">1</font></em></p>
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Tuesday 9th March, 2010 at 13:36
<p>Communities Minister Shahid Malik today met with Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, President of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia.</p>
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Tuesday 9th March, 2010 at 12:28
<p>Expert job advice will be available in community centres and GP surgeries in some of the most deprived housing estates across Britain to help thousands more people into jobs, Work and Pensions Minister Helen Goodman announced today.</p>
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Tuesday 9th March, 2010 at 12:20
<p>New health inequalities tool allows local NHS to focus their resources</p>
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Tuesday 9th March, 2010 at 11:51
<p>Britons who saved the lives of Jews and other persecuted groups during the Holocaust are to be honoured for their actions.</p>
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Tuesday 9th March, 2010 at 11:23
<p>Employers across the social care sector can access a huge recruitment pool as record numbers of candidates are looking for a career in social care this month, new figures reveal.</p>
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Tuesday 9th March, 2010 at 11:21
<p>- Progress by councils using eco-town standards for future development -</p>
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Tuesday 9th March, 2010 at 11:12
<p>Public Health Observatories mark 10<sup>th</sup> anniversary</p>
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Monday 8th March, 2010 at 13:36
<p>Housing Minister John Healey has today announced £83 million to get building over 5,700 new and affordable homes stalled by the recession back on track.</p>
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Monday 8th March, 2010 at 12:22
<p>A new pilot scheme ? Jobs First ? will support people with learning disabilities to find paid jobs Care Services Minister Phil Hope announced today.<br /></p>
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Monday 8th March, 2010 at 11:21
<p>Holiday hosts urged to help visiting relatives avoid costly mistake</p>
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Monday 8th March, 2010 at 10:46
<p style="text-align: center;"><b>Nine out of ten support new rights on waiting times</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Department of Health to work with Marie Curie on right to choose to die at home</b></p>
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Monday 8th March, 2010 at 01:01
<p>Local NHS organisations will receive £8 million to fund campaigns that improve early diagnosis of cancer, Health Minister Ann Keen announced today.</p>
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Friday 5th March, 2010 at 11:38
<p style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><p>People with offshore investments who have notified HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) that they want to use the New Disclosure Opportunity (NDO) have just one week to make their disclosures online and to pay all tax, duties, interest and penalties owed in full.</p>
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Friday 5th March, 2010 at 10:58
<p>Val Davison, has been appointed Head of the National Healthcare Science School of Genetics, Chief Scientific Officer Professor Sue Hill announced today. </p>
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Friday 5th March, 2010 at 01:01
<p>Frank discussions about the importance of being tested for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) such as chlamydia are an important indicator of a lasting relationship, according to a surprising new survey out today.<br /></p>
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Thursday 4th March, 2010 at 17:03
<p>New cases of pandemic H1N1 (2009) Influenza in communities in England remain at around their lowest level since the disease first appeared in the United Kingdom. Patients continue to be hospitalised and admitted to critical care facilities, though in declining numbers.</p>
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Thursday 4th March, 2010 at 13:43
<p>A package of planning system reforms saving developers time and money to help them complete building projects during the recovery have now been approved by parliament, Planning Minister John Healey confirmed today.<br /></p>
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Thursday 4th March, 2010 at 13:33
<p>Housing Minister John Healey has pledged to give his full support to a new vision published today for the future of the iconic Byker estate.<br /></p>
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Thursday 4th March, 2010 at 11:02
<p>A package of tough new actions to ensure that NHS patients can get the medicines they need was agreed at a summit to discuss concerns about current difficulties with the supply of medicines, hosted by Health Secretary Andy Burnham and Health Minister Mike O?Brien yesterday.</p>
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Thursday 4th March, 2010 at 10:36
<p>Patients will have the chance to choose the best GP practice for them under new plans in a consultation published today by Health Secretary Andy Burnham.</p>
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Thursday 4th March, 2010 at 10:30
<p>A new team of specially trained coaches are being deployed to help children become more active - setting them on the path to a healthier future.<br /></p>
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Thursday 4th March, 2010 at 10:30
<p>Ambitious new targets to help more people with mental health conditions and learning disabilities in the workplace, are announced today by Minister for Disabled People Jonathan Shaw.</p>
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Wednesday 3rd March, 2010 at 18:34
<p>Housing Minister John Healey has today announced plans for tenants with a new job offer to get Government help to find a new home.</p>
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Wednesday 3rd March, 2010 at 18:05
<p>Housing Minister John Healey has today announced plans for tenants with a new job offer to get Government help to find a new home.</p>
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Wednesday 3rd March, 2010 at 14:58
<p>Taxpayers and companies who deliberately evade taxes face having their name, address and details of their evasion made public after new legislation was put into force today.</p>
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Wednesday 3rd March, 2010 at 13:18
<p>HM Revenue & Customs' Business Payment Support Service (BPSS) has helped over 160,000 businesses reschedule more than £5billion of tax in its first 15 months, new figures reveal today.</p>
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Wednesday 3rd March, 2010 at 13:18
<p>New guidance has been produced to help GPs identify symptoms and diagnose young women with cervical cancer early, Health Minister Ann Keen announced today.</p>
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Wednesday 3rd March, 2010 at 01:01
<p>The first strategy to help adults with autism in England live independently in a society that understands them, was launched today by Care Services Minister Phil Hope.</p>
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Wednesday 3rd March, 2010 at 01:01
<p>When it comes to our health and wellbeing, Britain is a nation of ?<i>all talk and no action</i>? according to a survey for new online service <b>NHS MidLifeCheck</b> (<a href="http://www.nhs.uk/midlifecheck">www.nhs.uk/midlifecheck</a>).</p>
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Tuesday 2nd March, 2010 at 11:10
<p>An unprecedented investment in cycling has improved the public?s health in six Cycling Demonstration Towns ? and has had a positive impact on its most inactive citizens according to new statistics published today.<br /><br />More people get on their bikes thanks to investment in cycling</p>
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Tuesday 2nd March, 2010 at 11:00
<p>Prime Minister?s Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery in England sets out the way forward for the future of the professions.</p>
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Tuesday 2nd March, 2010 at 01:01
<p>Sir Terry Wogan, Amir Khan and 'Corrie sisters' amongst celebs that pledge to promote fire safety.</p>
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Monday 1st March, 2010 at 12:06
<p>HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has launched its first ever ?Super Podcast?, to alert businesses to major changes in the way they file and pay VAT, PAYE and corporation tax.</p>
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Monday 1st March, 2010 at 11:42
<p>Planning Minister John Healey today (1 March 2010) heralded the start of the new planning regime for major infrastructure as it begins receiving applications for energy projects that have the potential to provide up to £50bn worth of international investment and supply electricity to 22m homes.</p>
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Monday 1st March, 2010 at 11:30
<p>Over half say they don?t know how to help</p>
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Monday 1st March, 2010 at 10:51
<p>But pressure to drink could be all in the mind<br /></p>
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Saturday 27th February, 2010 at 01:01
<p>People all over the country are being invited to body pop and foxtrot for free at thousands of dance classes next weekend as part of the new Let?s Dance campaign.<br /></p>
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Friday 26th February, 2010 at 12:05
<p>Agreed settlement between Department of Health and Kent Pharmaceuticals Limited.</p>
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Friday 26th February, 2010 at 11:30
<p>Agents were reminded by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) today that there is one month to go before the deadlines for re-claiming tax change.</p>
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Friday 26th February, 2010 at 10:56
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:<b></b></p>
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Friday 26th February, 2010 at 10:55
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p>
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Friday 26th February, 2010 at 10:30
<p>New proposals on the access of foreign nationals? to the NHS, aimed at preventing health tourism were set out today by the Department of Health.<br /></p>
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Friday 26th February, 2010 at 10:30
<p>Main Points This Month</p>
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Friday 26th February, 2010 at 10:11
<p>21st Century Careers for 21st Century Scientists<br /></p>
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Thursday 25th February, 2010 at 12:43
<p>DWP/034/10<br /></p><p>People suffering from mesothelioma will be given more financial help, the Government announced today.</p>
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Thursday 25th February, 2010 at 12:01
<p>This release presents updated estimates of key public spending outturn series against two frameworks. The budgeting framework (used in Tables 1 to 7) deals with spending within central government departmental budgets, which is how the Government plans and controls public spending. This budgeting framework is largely based on resource accounting principles. <br /></p>
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Thursday 25th February, 2010 at 11:22
<p>The health sector has exceeded its aim to recruit 5,000 public sector apprentices, Health Secretary Andy Burnham announced today.<br /></p>
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Thursday 25th February, 2010 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p>
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Thursday 25th February, 2010 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p><p><b>Patient Experience </b><b>PSA</b><b> scores update based on data up to and including 2009 patient surveys. </b></p>
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Thursday 25th February, 2010 at 01:01
<p>People across the country are being urged to help make a real difference to the lives of older and disabled people, as the first national Dignity Action Day is held today.</p>
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Thursday 25th February, 2010 at 01:01
<p>DWP/033/10<br /><br />The next step in a radical shake-up of the way disabled people use state funding took place today, as Jonathan Shaw, Minister for Disabled People, named the Trailblazer areas which will test the Right to Control.</p>
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Wednesday 24th February, 2010 at 14:18
<p>The Government has accepted all the recommendations of the Independent Inquiry into Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, Health Secretary Andy Burnham announced today.</p>
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Wednesday 24th February, 2010 at 13:13
<p>Leading voices from dementia research will meet for the first time today to drive up the volume, quality and impact of work in the field. The ministerial group which is chaired by Care Services Minister Phil Hope, brings together charities, scientists, research bodies and government officials.<br /></p>
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Wednesday 24th February, 2010 at 13:08
<p>Older people needing care and support will benefit from new and refreshed local housing strategies that promote dignity, respect and choice, Care Services Minister Phil Hope said today.</p>
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Wednesday 24th February, 2010 at 09:47
<p>An important milestone has been reached in Northern Rock?s return to independent, commercial strength with notice given today for the end of the special guarantee for the bank?s retail deposits.</p>
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Wednesday 24th February, 2010 at 09:00
<p>An important milestone has been reached in Northern Rock?s return to independent, commercial strength with notice given today for the end of the special guarantee for the bank?s retail deposits.</p>
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Tuesday 23rd February, 2010 at 17:20
<p>The spring Supplementary Estimates, presented to the House of Commons today as HC 257, seek authority for expenditure by government departments of £11.5 billion in resources and £8.1 billion in cash. The Estimates seek parliamentary authority for increased resources and cash both for existing services and for any necessary new services.</p>
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Tuesday 23rd February, 2010 at 15:31
<p>Charities and campaigning organisations are today being urged to push for change through their local council.</p>
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Tuesday 23rd February, 2010 at 12:10
<p>The NHS National Leadership Council has today launched <i>The Healthy NHS Board: Principles for Good Governance</i>, highlighting the critical role boards play in ensuring that quality, centred on patient safety, effective care and patient experience, is at the heart of the NHS. </p>
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Tuesday 23rd February, 2010 at 11:29
<p><b>Comments from Ann Keen and Barry Cockcroft on the NHS Information Centre:</b></p>
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Tuesday 23rd February, 2010 at 10:56
<p>Patients, staff and stakeholders are being invited to share their views on a strategy to tackle the growing problem of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in England published by the Department of Health today.</p><p> </p>
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Monday 22nd February, 2010 at 15:31
<p>DWP/030/10<br /><br />New laws to improve the safety of tower cranes on construction sites were laid before Parliament today, paving the way for the start of a statutory registration scheme.</p>
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Monday 22nd February, 2010 at 12:00
<p>The Government today published a draft Tax Framework for business. Developed in discussion with the Business-Government Forum on Tax and Globalisation, the document is intended to provide greater certainty for large businesses about the Government's approach to the development of tax policy.</p>
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Friday 19th February, 2010 at 12:00
<p>Kate Barker will step down from the Monetary Policy Committee when her current term expires on 31 May 2010. The Chancellor said:</p>
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Friday 19th February, 2010 at 11:35
<p>DWP/029/10<br /></p><p>People off work sick will get the support they need to get back to work earlier, as new guidance is launched today.</p>
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Friday 19th February, 2010 at 11:17
<p>Housing Minister John Healey and Rural Affairs Minister Lord Davies have today named 36 rural councils that will benefit from expert support to help design and plan up to 10,000 new homes. A large proportion of these homes will be affordable for local people, giving a boost to rural businesses and helping village schools, shops and pubs stay open.</p>
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Thursday 18th February, 2010 at 17:40
<p>New cases of pandemic H1N1 (2009) influenza in communities in England remain at around their lowest level since the disease first appeared in the United Kingdom. Patients continue to be hospitalised and admitted to critical care facilities, though in declining numbers. There have been eleven further confirmed deaths in England attributable to pandemic H1N1 (2009) since our last bulletin. A substantial number of deaths from the last few months are still being investigated.</p>
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Thursday 18th February, 2010 at 12:52
<p>A new TV series ? ?The Business Inspector? - has been sponsored by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). The programme will raise awareness among small businesses that they need to keep good records.</p>
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Thursday 18th February, 2010 at 11:09
<p>Stephen Shaw CBE has been appointed as the first chief executive of the Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator (OHPA), the Department of Health announced today.</p>
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Thursday 18th February, 2010 at 10:30
<p><strong>Main Points</strong></p>
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Thursday 18th February, 2010 at 01:01
<p>Measures to shape NHS services around individual patients were set out today by Health Secretary Andy Burnham.</p>
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Wednesday 17th February, 2010 at 18:59
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Wednesday 17th February, 2010 at 10:30
<p>Vital Signs monitoring statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p>
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Wednesday 17th February, 2010 at 10:27
<p>DWP/028/10<br /><br />The Government today welcomed the fall in ILO unemployment and youth unemployment, but said the overall figures also showed continued support was needed to secure the recovery. Ministers warned that further rises in unemployment were expected before the summer, and announced more help to get people back to work.</p>
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Wednesday 17th February, 2010 at 01:01
<p>More than one million mums already making healthier choices with Change4Life<br /></p>
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Wednesday 17th February, 2010 at 01:01
<p>Extraordinary Scientists, Extraordinary Careers, Extraordinary You</p>
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Tuesday 16th February, 2010 at 12:09
<p>HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has announced dates for its spring and summer Business Advice Open Days.</p>
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Tuesday 16th February, 2010 at 10:15
<p>Care for people with diabetes has continued to improve according to a report published today by the Department of Health.</p>
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Monday 15th February, 2010 at 15:42
<p>DWP/027/10<br /><br />Today, following an open competition the Department for Work and Pensions awarded their IT Desktop Services Contract to Fujitsu. The new contract starts on 1 September 2010 following a phased take on.</p>
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Monday 15th February, 2010 at 11:19
<p>Latest data shows 85 per cent of drinks not labelled properly<br /></p>
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Friday 12th February, 2010 at 13:00
<p>"Positioning Scotland for Economic Recovery & Growth" In Edinburgh, 12 February 2010</p>
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Friday 12th February, 2010 at 10:54
<p>A new group has been set up to oversee the implementation of the Steele Review recommendations to improve dental services for patients.</p>
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Friday 12th February, 2010 at 10:30
<p><i>The key points from the latest release are:</i></p>
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Friday 12th February, 2010 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p>
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Thursday 11th February, 2010 at 18:01
<p>As part of the Government?s alignment project, announced in the Green Paper ?The Governance of Britain?, changes are being made to the budgeting framework in order to more closely align Budgets, Resource Accounts and Supply estimates. This will simplify the Government?s financial reporting to Parliament by ensuring it reports in a more consistent fashion.</p>
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Thursday 11th February, 2010 at 15:46
<p>Check against delivery</p>
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Thursday 11th February, 2010 at 14:34
<p>Local people are far more satisfied with where they live following major changes brought about by a Government regeneration programme to transform areas of deprivation, according to a new report published today.</p>
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Thursday 11th February, 2010 at 13:59
<p>High Holborn, London WC1, Monday 18 January 2010</p>
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Thursday 11th February, 2010 at 11:09
<p>Housing Minister John Healey today said that Government will keep help in place for struggling homeowners as new figures published today showed that repossessions court activity has dropped by over a third compared with 2008.</p>
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Thursday 11th February, 2010 at 10:35
<p>Thousands of lone parents will get extra help to get training and work experience while their children are at nursery school. They will also be able to keep £50 of their wages before losing any benefit if they get jobs for less than 16 hours a week, Yvette Cooper said today.</p>
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Thursday 11th February, 2010 at 01:01
<p>Health Secretary welcomes goals for the next decade</p>
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Wednesday 10th February, 2010 at 15:56
<p>The unique skills and community benefits of the third sector must not be overlooked by councils looking to improve local public services, Communities Secretary John Denham said today.<br /></p>
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Wednesday 10th February, 2010 at 14:49
<p>Local Government Minister Rosie Winterton today announced the Government's final decisions on unitary proposals for Exeter, Norwich, Ipswich, Norfolk, Devon and Suffolk.<br /></p>
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Wednesday 10th February, 2010 at 11:58
<p>HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has issued an urgent alert to employers ? important PAYE changes are coming this spring, so make sure you?re prepared for them.</p>
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Wednesday 10th February, 2010 at 11:44
<p>DWP/024/10<br /><br />Thousands of people with serious industrial diseases who miss out because they cannot trace their employers? insurance records should be able to claim compensation following Government proposals announced today.</p>
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Wednesday 10th February, 2010 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p>
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Wednesday 10th February, 2010 at 01:01
<p>Coronation Street star Michelle Keegan (who plays feisty Tina McIntyre in the popular soap) is fronting the 'Ordinary People, Extraordinary Careers' campaign (<a href="http://www.direct.gov.uk/extraordinary">www.direct.gov.uk/extraordinary</a>) to raise awareness among young girls aged 14 - 16 of a career in the Fire & Rescue Service.</p>
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Tuesday 9th February, 2010 at 16:02
<p dir="ltr">Minister for Health, Mike O'Brien said:</p>
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Tuesday 9th February, 2010 at 13:02
<p>At the NAPF Corporate Governance Seminar, <br />Cheapside, London EC2, Tuesday 09 February 2010</p>
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Tuesday 9th February, 2010 at 12:32
<p>Communities Secretary John Denham today issued a rallying call for an army of community champions to challenge anti-social behaviour in their neighbourhoods.<u></u></p>
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Tuesday 9th February, 2010 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p>
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Tuesday 9th February, 2010 at 01:01
<p>A new TV advertising campaign that shows how rewarding a career in social care can be and urges individuals to consider this as a career option, kicks off this week.<br /></p>
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Monday 8th February, 2010 at 11:07
<p>Housing Minister John Healey has today backed the country's biggest ever green home building programme, with four areas sharing £60m cash to build over 600 new homes to the toughest ever environmental standards.</p>
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Thursday 4th February, 2010 at 17:52
<p>The UK Government today welcomed the call by Zimbabwean Finance Minister Tendai Biti for the restoration of Zimbabwe?s voting rights at the IMF.</p>
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Thursday 4th February, 2010 at 16:43
<p>Swine flu cases remain near their lowest level since the early stages of the disease in the United Kingdom, according to a statistical bulletin from the Chief Medical Officer for England, published today.</p>
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Thursday 4th February, 2010 at 14:51
<p>GPs providing out of hours care in England will be subject to tighter controls and more robust skills and knowledge testing, Health Minister Mike O?Brien announced today.<br /></p>
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Thursday 4th February, 2010 at 12:22
<p>A report into GP Out-Of-Hours care that makes a number of recommendations for improving the system was published by the Department of Health today.</p>
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Thursday 4th February, 2010 at 12:11
<p>A sensor that switches on the lights when you get out of bed, a temperature detector to stop your house getting too hot or too cold and a flood detector are just some of the assistive technologies on display at a state of the art ?wise home? that Phil Hope Care Services Minister visited today in Harrogate.</p>
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Thursday 4th February, 2010 at 10:41
<p>There is one month left to respond to HM Revenue and Customs? consultation Working with Tax Agents.</p>
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Wednesday 3rd February, 2010 at 17:10
<p>Housing Minister John Healey today announced new practical help and protection for tenants in privately rented homes. The moves will help tenants find safer and better homes for rent and offer extra support if they face problems with their landlords or accommodation.</p>
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Wednesday 3rd February, 2010 at 15:57
<p>The Government today published a consultation document on the role the Private Rented Sector should play in supporting the economic recovery and increasing supply in the housing market. <br /></p>
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Tuesday 2nd February, 2010 at 12:34
<p>Over £700 million of affordable and easy to access funding from the European Investment Bank (EIB) has been approved for nearly 3,000 small businesses across the UK, through participating national banks.</p>
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Tuesday 2nd February, 2010 at 11:41
<p>Personalised, seamless care services for local people are at the heart of a new nation-wide community to drive up quality of care, share knowledge and shape policy, Health Minister Mike O?Brien and Care Services Minister Phil Hope announced today.</p>
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Monday 1st February, 2010 at 13:24
<p>A record number of taxpayers filed their Self Assessment tax returns online this year, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) revealed today.</p>
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Monday 1st February, 2010 at 01:01
<p>An ambitious new strategy will halve the number of smokers, from 21 to 10 per cent of the population by 2020,<b> </b>Secretary of State for Health Andy Burnham announced today.</p>
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Sunday 31st January, 2010 at 10:00
<p>NAT 07/10</p><p>Taxpayers should not respond to any email promising a tax repayment HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has warned.</p>
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Sunday 31st January, 2010 at 01:01
<p>Up to four million could benefit from protection.</p>
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Friday 29th January, 2010 at 10:47
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p>
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Thursday 28th January, 2010 at 16:22
<p>Markets Minister Rosie Winterton congratulated the nation's favourite markets who were recognised at a prestigious awards ceremony today.</p>
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Thursday 28th January, 2010 at 13:18
<p>DWP/021/10<br /><br />The UK will officially recognise Workers Memorial Day to commemorate thousands of people who have died, been seriously injured or made ill through their work, Yvette Cooper announced today.</p>
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Thursday 28th January, 2010 at 11:04
<p style="text-align: center;"><b>More than half of drinkers think only binge drinking harms their health</b></p>
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Wednesday 27th January, 2010 at 16:30
<p>Oil companies operating in the most difficult to exploit areas of the UK Continental Shelf are to receive a boost under planned legislation from the Government. The measure could provide up to £160 million worth of tax relief for each gas field in the West of Shetland region that qualifies for the support.</p>
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Wednesday 27th January, 2010 at 15:46
<p>Councils should consider the unique skills and benefits the third sector has to offer when improving local public services, Communities Secretary John Denham said today.</p>
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Wednesday 27th January, 2010 at 15:18
<p>Council taxpayers will be intolerant if told front lines services are being cut back when their local authority hasn?t made every effort to be as efficient as possible, Communities Secretary John Denham warned today.</p>
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Wednesday 27th January, 2010 at 10:56
<p>Britain?s Got Talent winners Diversity, are joining forces with the Department of Health to launch a Government campaign to get kids boogying for a healthier future across the country.</p>
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Tuesday 26th January, 2010 at 14:06
<p>The Government today published a discussion document on proposals for reforming the UK tax treatment of controlled foreign companies (CFCs).</p>
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Tuesday 26th January, 2010 at 11:50
<p>DWP018/10<br /><br />Today, Mr Lawrence Churchill was appointed as the Chair of the NEST Corporation. He will start as Chair Designate from 1st February 2010 and take on the full responsibilities as Chair on 5th July 2010, when the NEST Corporation is established. He will start by participating in the recruitment of other trustee members of the NEST Corporation.</p>
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Tuesday 26th January, 2010 at 11:03
<p>Over 3,000 doctors will test out a new system of strengthened appraisal that will improve the quality and safety of patient care, Health Secretary Andy Burnham announced today.</p>
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Tuesday 26th January, 2010 at 09:06
<p>A scheme that encourages families to ditch the car and walk their children to school at least once a week will receive an £800,000 boost from the Government, Public Health Minister Gillian Merron will announce today.<br /></p>
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Tuesday 26th January, 2010 at 01:01
<p>From cradle to grave; have your say ? Local Involvement Networks</p><p>Find you nearest LINk by visiting <a href="http://www.nhs.uk/links">www.nhs.uk/links</a></p>
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Monday 25th January, 2010 at 17:59
<p>Communities Secretary John Denham welcomed today?s decision by the Audit Commission to carry out a corporate governance inspection of Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council.</p>
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Monday 25th January, 2010 at 12:15
<p>The Government today welcomes the European Commission?s (EC) approval of restructuring plans for Bradford & Bingley plc (B&B) and Dunfermline Building Society.</p>
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Monday 25th January, 2010 at 11:56
<p>Employers across Britain will get £1,000 for taking on a young person who is struggling to find work.</p>
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Monday 25th January, 2010 at 11:28
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Monday 25th January, 2010 at 10:31
<p>DWP/017/10<br /><br />From today every young person who is unemployed for six months will be guaranteed the offer of a job, training or work experience, supported by up to 470,000 opportunities over the next 15 months through the Government?s Young Person?s Guarantee.</p>
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Saturday 23rd January, 2010 at 10:30
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;">Professor Alistair Burns has been appointed as the new National Clinical Director for Dementia, the Department of Health announced today.</p>
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Saturday 23rd January, 2010 at 10:30
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Professor David Oliver has been appointed as the new National Clinical Director for Older People, the Department of Health announced today.</p>
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Friday 22nd January, 2010 at 11:21
<p>Young people from fifteen deprived neighbourhoods have started working on local community projects designed to help them raise their ambitions, broaden their horizons, and unlock their talents, Local Government Minister Rosie Winterton announced today.</p>
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Thursday 21st January, 2010 at 15:42
<p>A new statistical bulletin from the Chief Medical Officer for England, published today, shows that swine flu cases are down, but deaths and serious illness remain a concern.</p>
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Thursday 21st January, 2010 at 13:21
<p>A new advisory panel has been set up to give cancer patients from black and minority ethnic backgrounds a greater voice in their care, the National Cancer Action Team announced today. </p>
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Thursday 21st January, 2010 at 12:35
<p>DWP013/10<br /><br />The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Yvette Cooper, announced today that she has appointed Partha Dasgupta as the new Chairman of The Pensions Advisory Service. The appointment takes effect from 4 January 2010 and will be for three years.</p>
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Thursday 21st January, 2010 at 12:27
<p>DWP012/10<br /><br />Thousands of people who lost pensions when their employers went bust will get at least 90 per cent of their pensions guaranteed, as the final phase of the Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS) regulations are put before Parliament. The Government will pay out £3.5 billion to around 150,000 people.</p>
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Thursday 21st January, 2010 at 11:44
<p>The Treasury has introduced measures in Parliament to support Islamic finance and the issuance of corporate sukuk within the UK.</p>
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Thursday 21st January, 2010 at 10:30
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Thursday 21st January, 2010 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p><p>GUMAMM for month ending 30th November 2009.</p>
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Thursday 21st January, 2010 at 10:30
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Wednesday 20th January, 2010 at 15:03
<p>More tenants across the country will have a greater say over where they want to live and what housing options are available to them after Housing Minister John Healey today announced over half a million pounds extra funding to create more choice based lettings schemes across the country and expand several others already in place.</p>
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Wednesday 20th January, 2010 at 14:52
<p>The Social Security Advisory Committee is pleased to announce that the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Yvette Cooper, has appointed Ms Nicola Smith, as a member of the SSAC for a term of three years from 1<sup>st</sup> January 2010.</p>
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Wednesday 20th January, 2010 at 10:53
<p>The government today welcomed the drop in the December unemployment and youth unemployment figures but warned that the jobless total was still expected to rise again before the summer. <br /></p>
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Tuesday 19th January, 2010 at 15:06
<p>Housing and Planning Minister John Healey today published new, independent research that shows inappropriate building on back gardens is not a widespread, national problem and is often linked to councils? failure to have local policies in place.</p>
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Tuesday 19th January, 2010 at 14:55
<p>DWP009/10<br /><br />A new test which focuses on what people can do rather than what they can't is keeping more people seeking work, new figures show today. Thousands of people are now moving towards work rather than being left to claim sickness benefit.</p>
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Tuesday 19th January, 2010 at 11:52
<p>All cancer survivors will get the personalised care they need to lead as healthy and active a life as possible under plans published today in the National Cancer Survivorship Initiative vision.</p>
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Tuesday 19th January, 2010 at 11:23
<p>A new programme in thirty areas of the country will support the health service and local public sector organisations to work together to reduce inequalities by tackling local challenges.</p>
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Tuesday 19th January, 2010 at 10:42
<p>The most vulnerable people in society will be better protected by local agencies such as councils, the police and the NHS, Care Services Minister Phil Hope announced today.</p>
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Tuesday 19th January, 2010 at 10:42
<p>NAT 06/10</p><p>The 31 January Self Assessment tax return deadline isn?t far away, so if you haven?t yet sent your return to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), you need to act quickly to avoid a £100 penalty.</p>
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Tuesday 19th January, 2010 at 10:30
<p>From today, all NHS organisations will be legally obliged to take account of the rights and pledges set out in the NHS Constitution.</p>
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Tuesday 19th January, 2010 at 01:01
<p><strong>Protection against scepticaemia and pneumococcal meningitis will be boosted from 7 to 13 strains of pneumococcal bacteria.</strong><br /></p>
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Monday 18th January, 2010 at 12:02
<p>DWP008/10<br /><br />Those wanting to make a difference to the employment opportunities of ethnic minorities and influence Government policy are being urged to apply for membership of the Ethnic Minority Advisory Group (EMAG).</p>
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Friday 15th January, 2010 at 16:06
<p>Robin Williams ACA has been appointed Chair of the newly formed NHS Professionals (NHSP) Limited.</p>
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Friday 15th January, 2010 at 11:13
<p>Free phone calls for most people using their mobiles to claim benefits and pensions are announced by the Department of Work and Pensions today. From next week, six of the biggest mobile phone network companies will no longer charge their customers for calls to the Department?s 0800 Benefit Claim lines. Currently 12% of UK households use only mobile phones and do not have a land line.</p>
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Friday 15th January, 2010 at 10:30
<p>Dr Martin Lombard has been appointed the first National Clinical Director for Liver Disease the Department of Health announced today.</p>
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Thursday 14th January, 2010 at 17:38
<p>DWP006/10<br /><br />Asda, British Airways, Macmillan Cancer Support and Microsoft are just some of the organisations that have thrown their weight behind the Backing Young Britain campaign to create new opportunities for thousands of young people during the recession.</p>
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Thursday 14th January, 2010 at 13:47
<p>Mike O?Brien (Minister of State, Department of Health):<b> </b></p>
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Thursday 14th January, 2010 at 13:43
<p>Strengthened delivery arrangements and more local planning responsibility will drive regeneration in London and Thurrock Thames Gateways and West Northamptonshire following a review of Urban Development Corporations (UDC), Communities Ministers Shahid Malik and Ian Austin announced today.</p>
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Thursday 14th January, 2010 at 12:15
<p>Communities Secretary John Denham today re-affirmed the Governments steadfast commitment to tackling race inequality and set out plans to build on the significant achievements by pledging to tackle inequality wherever it exists.</p>
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Wednesday 13th January, 2010 at 18:08
<p>The Chancellor of the Exchequer has this day appointed Iris Robinson to be Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern.<br /></p>
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Wednesday 13th January, 2010 at 11:47
<p>Nearly 20,000 people living in sheltered housing will be switched on to the internet under £2.9m plans being developed by the Government to boost the number of silver surfers, Communities Minister Lord McKenzie and Minister for Pensions and the Ageing Society Angela Eagle announced today.<br /><br /></p>
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Wednesday 13th January, 2010 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p>
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Wednesday 13th January, 2010 at 01:01
<p>Andy Burnham will today call for tanning salons to be banned from allowing under 18s to use sunbeds.<br /></p>
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Tuesday 12th January, 2010 at 15:10
<p>DWP004/10<br /><br />Millions of workers today moved a step closer to getting a workplace pension for the first time as the final rules for the Government?s pensions reform were put before Parliament today.</p>
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Tuesday 12th January, 2010 at 13:23
<p>DWP003/10<br /><br />Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Yvette Cooper, has re-appointed Ian Russell as Non Executive Chair of Remploy. Remploy is one of the UK?s leading providers of specialist employment services for disabled people and those experiencing complex barriers to work.</p>
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Tuesday 12th January, 2010 at 13:13
<p>The new Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator (OHPA) today announced the appointment of Professor Dame Janet Finch, DBE as their third non-executive director.</p>
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Tuesday 12th January, 2010 at 10:20
<p>Work to increase options for UK businesses in need of non-bank finance is the subject of a discussion document released by the Treasury today. The document seeks views on the barriers to more diverse financing for firms with the intention to introduce proposals for reform later in the year.</p>
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Tuesday 12th January, 2010 at 01:01
<p>Sir Michael Parkinson calls for out of date stereotypes of older people to be banished and for dignity to be at the heart of care in a personal account of his year as the nation?s Dignity Ambassador published today.</p>
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Monday 11th January, 2010 at 13:14
<p>With the largest council house building programme for nearly two decades already underway, Housing Minister John Healey has today doubled Government cash for new council homes.</p>
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Monday 11th January, 2010 at 12:04
<p>Armed forces personnel with the most serious injuries will have a customised health care plan before they leave the Services that will continue to be tailored to meet their individual needs for the rest of their life, Health Minister Mike O'Brien and Veterans Minister Kevan Jones announced today.</p>
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Sunday 10th January, 2010 at 10:00
<p>Medical professionals are being encouraged under a new Tax Health Plan to tell HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) if they have understated income.</p>
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Friday 8th January, 2010 at 01:01
<p>New campaign encourages under-25s to say ?yes? to chlamydia tests</p>
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Thursday 7th January, 2010 at 17:19
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:<b></b></p>
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Thursday 7th January, 2010 at 16:50
<p>Fire Minister opens West Yorkshire?s national rescue training centre</p>
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Thursday 7th January, 2010 at 12:53
<p>Treasury Minister Stephen Timms called offshore tax evasion "morally unacceptable" today as HM Revenue and Customs' announced that some 10,000 people had notified their intention to disclose previously undeclared offshore income and gains. Those who came forward under the new disclosure opportunity before the 4<sup>th</sup> January deadline now have to disclose and pay any unpaid tax, interest and a ten per cent penalty.</p>
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Wednesday 6th January, 2010 at 13:24
<p>To encourage a deeper and broader relationship between Government and faith communities, Communities Secretary John Denham today announced the appointment of 13 new faith advisers who will act as a ?sounding board? to advise on effective engagement with faith communities, and the impact of Communities and Local Government policy on faith communities.</p>
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Wednesday 6th January, 2010 at 11:02
<p>The Planning Portal is starting 2010 with a series of free events aimed at planning agents and applicants to promote the benefits of submitting planning applications online.</p>
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Tuesday 5th January, 2010 at 16:54
<p>Charles Gutteridge has been appointed as the first national clinical director for informatics, the Department of Health announced today.</p>
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Tuesday 5th January, 2010 at 15:00
<p>The Met Office is predicting that the current cold spell will continue across the county with heavy snowfall expected across parts of central and southern England later today and on Wednesday. Cold weather warnings are in place across the country and the significant accumulations of snow expected could lead to major transport problems in affected areas.<br /></p>
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Tuesday 5th January, 2010 at 13:31
<p>NAT 03/10</p><p>New ways to stop people from entering the hidden economy and to help people out of it will be examined by a newly formed group of experts. </p>
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Tuesday 5th January, 2010 at 11:02
<p>Proposals that would allow the dispensing of generic medicines instead of branded medicines in primary care, resulting in long term savings for the NHS, were set out today by the Department of Health.</p>
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Monday 4th January, 2010 at 14:37
<p>Communities Secretary John Denham today called on councils to sign community contracts with local residents as a way to drive up the standard of local services ? including providing redress when things go wrong - and announced support to help them to do it.</p>
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Monday 4th January, 2010 at 13:59
<p>Housing Minister John Healey has hailed the start of the biggest council house building programme in nearly two decades as work began today on the first of over two thousand new homes to help tackle waiting list pressures.</p>
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Monday 4th January, 2010 at 12:55
<p>NAT 02/10</p><p>The value of goods that travellers can personally bring into the UK from a non-EU country, or receive through the post without needing to pay customs duty, has increased.</p>
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Monday 4th January, 2010 at 11:04
<p>HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is issuing a timely reminder to anyone who hasn?t yet submitted their 2008-09 Self Assessment tax return ? do it online, by the end of January, or you could risk a penalty.</p>
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Friday 1st January, 2010 at 01:01
<p>New campaign launches to give families a healthier Start4Life<br /><br /></p>
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Thursday 31st December, 2009 at 11:29
<p>DWP078/09<br /><br />Next year there will be 12,000 people aged 100 or over in the UK. In 10 years time this will have nearly doubled to 22,000.</p>
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Thursday 31st December, 2009 at 10:30
<p>Billions of pounds of public money will be subject to increased scrutiny by citizens and councils, Communities Secretary John Denham announced today</p>
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Thursday 31st December, 2009 at 01:01
<p>Average drinker thinks a unit of wine is twice what it actually is.</p>
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Thursday 31st December, 2009 at 01:01
<p>With many older people living alone and more than 180,000 saying they have gone for a whole week without speaking to friends, family or neighbours, Care Service Minister Phil Hope is asking the public to make a New Year?s resolution to visit older neighbours more often.</p>
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Wednesday 30th December, 2009 at 14:46
<p>Housing Minister John Healey today said Government funding for housebuilding has hit £2billion since June as he announced a further £278m for an extra 5,000 affordable homes across the country.</p>
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Wednesday 30th December, 2009 at 01:01
<p>As the New Year approaches, people who are worried about debt, housing and employment will get practical and emotional support from a new NHS helpline launched today by Phil Hope, Care Services Minister.</p>
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Tuesday 29th December, 2009 at 11:19
<p>A consultation to provide fairer hospital car parking to patients was launched today by the Department of Health.</p>
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Monday 28th December, 2009 at 10:00
<p>Taxpayers with undisclosed offshore investments have just one more week to come forward under the New Disclosure Opportunity (NDO).</p>
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Thursday 24th December, 2009 at 01:01
<p><b>EMBARGOED UNTIL 0001 THURSDAY </b><b>24 DECEMBER 2009</b><b></b></p><p>A wide range of services are available over the Christmas and New Year holiday for people needing to access NHS care in England, Health Minister Gillian Merron said today. </p>
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Wednesday 23rd December, 2009 at 15:13
<p>Details of a £20m three-year pilot scheme to explore a more personalised way of meeting the health needs of Thalidomide survivors have been announced today by Health Minister Mike O?Brien.</p>
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Wednesday 23rd December, 2009 at 14:51
<p>Following a competitive process, on 22 December 2009, an independent Appointment Panel appointed Ian Burns, head of Smith & Williamson?s transaction services and valuations practices, as independent valuer for the purposes of the compensation arrangements put in place following the resolution of Dunfermline Building Society.</p>
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Wednesday 23rd December, 2009 at 10:36
<p>New measures to help people get fairer treatment when building work goes wrong were published today as part of a consultation on boosting the professional standards for builders and tradesmen in approved competent person schemes.<br /></p>
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Wednesday 23rd December, 2009 at 10:30
<p>An innovative free Quit Kit which gives smokers the right tools to successfully stop smoking is launched today as new research shows that almost half of smokers (44%) in England have resolved to quit this New Year.</p>
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Wednesday 23rd December, 2009 at 01:01
<p>STRICTLY EMBARGOED NOT FOR BROADCAST OR PUBLICATION UNTIL 0001 WEDNESDAY 23 DECEMBER<br /><br />Housing Minister John Healey today announced that communities across the North and Midlands will share £311m next year to boost work already underway to transform homes and regenerate communities.<br /></p>
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Tuesday 22nd December, 2009 at 12:56
<p>Councils must give their area an 'economic healthcheck' to work out what needs to be done to get them on the road to recovery, Local Government Minister Rosie Winterton announced today.</p>
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Tuesday 22nd December, 2009 at 11:00
<p><strong>? look in on your older neighbours, around half a million spend Christmas Day alone</strong></p>
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Monday 21st December, 2009 at 14:27
<p>A new Civic Health report that will take the pulse of modern England and allow people to see how voting patterns, social habits and feelings of belonging vary across the country is being developed by Government.</p>
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Monday 21st December, 2009 at 12:57
<p>Families Urged to Bring Back the Christmas Day Walk</p>
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Monday 21st December, 2009 at 12:19
<p>New bodies that combine the expertise of industry, health and education have been formed to promote innovation in the NHS, Health Minister Ann Keen announced today.</p>
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Friday 18th December, 2009 at 12:15
<p>A new free three-digit number ? 111 - making it easier for patients to access non-emergency healthcare wherever they are, 24 hours a day, was given the go ahead by Telecoms regulator Ofcom today.</p>
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Friday 18th December, 2009 at 12:07
<p>Professor Matthew Cooke has been appointed as the new National Clinical Director for Urgent and Emergency Care, the Department of Health announced today.</p>
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Friday 18th December, 2009 at 09:00
<p>New rules to compel local authorities to fully disclose the pay and perks of top posts and name those earning more than £150,000 were set in law today, announced Communities Secretary John Denham.</p>
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Thursday 17th December, 2009 at 10:50
<p>Following the Met Office?s cold weather warnings issued for the next few days The Department of Health is urging people to be aware of the risks faced during this period of cold weather.</p>
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Thursday 17th December, 2009 at 10:30
<p>STATISTICAL PRESS NOTICE - NHS REFERRAL TO TREATMENT (RTT) TIMES DATA - October 2009</p>
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Thursday 17th December, 2009 at 10:30
<p>STATISTICAL PRESS NOTICE - DIRECT ACCESS AUDIOLOGY - REFERRAL TO TREATMENT (RTT) WAITING TIMES DATA - OCTOBER 2009<br /></p>
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Thursday 17th December, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p>
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Thursday 17th December, 2009 at 10:30
<p>Today Ipsos-MORI have published the results of the first two quarterly collections of the 2009-10 GP Patient Survey which they are carrying out on behalf of the Department of Health</p>
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Thursday 17th December, 2009 at 01:01
<p>Region to become low carbon economic area<br /><br />A groundbreaking agreement between the 10 Greater Manchester local authorities and the Government will be signed on Friday.<br /></p>
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Thursday 17th December, 2009 at 01:01
<p>Chief Medical Officer publishes final guidance on alcohol and children</p>
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Wednesday 16th December, 2009 at 17:18
<p>Housing and Planning Minister John Healey has today launched proposals for a more consumer-friendly green rating for homes that will help green-proof properties and reduce future utility bills by up to nearly £1,500 a year in the most energy efficient homes.</p>
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Wednesday 16th December, 2009 at 12:35
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Wednesday 16th December, 2009 at 11:24
<p>The Treasury has today published proposals to strengthen the UK's ability to deal with any future failure of an investment bank. The proposals will enhance the UK's reputation as one of the world's leading centres for conducting investment business.<br /></p>
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Wednesday 16th December, 2009 at 10:45
<p>The Government welcomed news that the number of people claiming unemployment benefit - Jobseeker?s Allowance (JSA) - has fallen for the first time in 21 months.</p>
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Tuesday 15th December, 2009 at 16:32
<p>England?s Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, will step down in May 2010 after 12 years of service, the longest serving Chief Medical Officer of modern times.</p>
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Tuesday 15th December, 2009 at 16:03
<p>More key decision-makers for the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) were appointed today, Tuesday 15 December.<br /></p>
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Tuesday 15th December, 2009 at 11:54
<p>Housing Minister John Healey has today extended free advice for families facing the threat of repossession, with an extra £4million to ensure this vital lifeline continues into the New Year.<br /></p>
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Tuesday 15th December, 2009 at 11:28
<p>New online toolkit will improve quality and speed of stem cell research</p>
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Tuesday 15th December, 2009 at 11:04
<p>The NHS is on track to virtually eliminate mixed-sex accommodation from hospitals across England, announced Health Minister Ann Keen today.</p>
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Monday 14th December, 2009 at 16:03
<p>The Cabinet Office?s report into HM Revenue & Customs? (HMRC) capability has been published.</p>
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Monday 14th December, 2009 at 12:29
<p>The Government has today welcomed the European Commission's approval of the restructuring of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and State Aid approval for the Asset Protection Scheme (APS).</p>
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Monday 14th December, 2009 at 12:22
<p>A new funding model designed to broaden and strengthen investment in volunteering in health and social care was unveiled today by Care Services Minister, Phil Hope.</p>
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Monday 14th December, 2009 at 11:51
<p>The Department of Health has today published an update on progress made in kidney care since the National Service Framework was developed five years ago. It shows that the NHS has significantly improved diagnosis of kidney disease and treatment for those living with it.</p>
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Monday 14th December, 2009 at 10:21
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Friday 11th December, 2009 at 14:13
<p>A consultation on strengthening the existing arrangements for National Commissioning in England ? which commissions services for extremely rare conditions on a national level ? was launched today by the Department of Health.<br /></p>
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Friday 11th December, 2009 at 11:11
<p>A new MRSA objective will focus progress on Trusts that need to improve the most, Health Minister Ann Keen announced today.</p>
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Thursday 10th December, 2009 at 12:32
<p>The Treasury has today published a discussion document on possible international options to reduce the cost to taxpayers of financial sector failures.</p>
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Thursday 10th December, 2009 at 11:30
<p>Communities Secretary John Denham and Housing Minister John Healey have welcomed the Pre-Budget Report as a fair outcome for local government ? but one that sets it a clear challenge to protect frontline services in the future.<br />John Denham said that councils will benefit from a very positive financial settlement next year but tough decisions lay ahead to further drive down inefficiencies and help reduce the public deficit, while safeguarding the services that matter most to people.</p>
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Thursday 10th December, 2009 at 11:00
<p>Health Secretary Andy Burnham today set out his strategy for the NHS to put patients first and improve the quality of care as it enters an unprecedented era of reform.</p>
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Thursday 10th December, 2009 at 10:30
<p>NAT 89/09<br /><br />UK Regional Trade in Goods estimates are released today, for the third quarter of 2009.<br /></p>
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Thursday 10th December, 2009 at 10:30
<p>New report backs evidence that rise in child obesity has levelled off</p>
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Wednesday 9th December, 2009 at 14:33
<p>Housing Minister John Healey today welcomed the extension of support to 220,000 struggling homeowners announced by the Chancellor earlier. They will now continue to receive much needed help with their mortgage interest payments and help them stay in their homes.<br /></p>
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Wednesday 9th December, 2009 at 14:20
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Wednesday 9th December, 2009 at 14:20
<p>The Government is today announcing details of the Fiscal Responsibility Bill which is being introduced to Parliament alongside the 2009 Pre-Budget Report.</p>
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Wednesday 9th December, 2009 at 11:51
<p>A powerful new tool giving local people unprecedented information about the standard of public services in their area was today welcomed by Communities Secretary John Denham.</p>
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Wednesday 9th December, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The Department of Health today is taking forward its commitment to tackling Respiratory disease by recruiting joint National Clinical Directors for the Respiratory Programme.</p>
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Wednesday 9th December, 2009 at 10:30
<p>This release provides updated information on key public expenditure series that are compiled and published by HM Treasury as National Statistics. Updated estimates are being released for five series:</p>
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Wednesday 9th December, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p>
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Tuesday 8th December, 2009 at 15:29
<p>Children between the ages of six months and five years will start to be vaccinated against swine flu in the run up to Christmas, Health Secretary Andy Burnham announced today.</p>
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Tuesday 8th December, 2009 at 13:44
<p>Housing Minister John Healey today announced a full scale assessment of the government?s drive to improve England?s social housing stock. He called the Decent Homes programme launched in 2001 a "massive national refurbishment of unprecedented scale" with over £33 billion invested already to make sure council and housing association tenants live in homes with decent heating, wiring, windows, doors insulation, kitchen and bathrooms. But he said that the poorest performing councils appeared to be going backwards and he wanted to make they were not letting their tenants down and are getting the benefits of the lessons learned by the best.</p>
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Tuesday 8th December, 2009 at 12:53
<p>Communities Secretary John Denham today re-affirmed the importance of the Government supported Prevent programme and set out measures to further improve its effectiveness.<br /></p>
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Tuesday 8th December, 2009 at 12:53
<p>The NHS has built on a strong start to 2009/10 by sustaining delivery on key priorities such as reducing waiting times and healthcare associated infections (HCAIs), increasing access to primary care and maintaining good financial health, the Department of Health announced today.<br /></p>
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Tuesday 8th December, 2009 at 12:43
<p>GPs believe Practice Based Commissioning is improving its impact on the patient experience and their local community by bringing care closer to patients, according to a newly revised survey published today.</p>
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Tuesday 8th December, 2009 at 11:55
<p>The first cross-government strategy specifically designed to break the link between poor health and youth crime was launched today by Care Services Minister Phil Hope.</p>
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Tuesday 8th December, 2009 at 11:17
<p>The restructure of Northern Rock will take place on 1 January 2010, the Treasury has confirmed today. The Northern Rock plc Transfer Order 2009 was made by the Treasury and laid before Parliament this morning.</p>
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Tuesday 8th December, 2009 at 10:30
<p>This is the first Wave of research for the new Practice Based Commissioning survey, conducted between October and November 2009.</p>
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Monday 7th December, 2009 at 17:35
<p>Communities Secretary John Denham today hailed Putting the frontline first: Smarter Government for its radical vision to streamline Government and transform frontline services to put local people first.<br /></p>
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Monday 7th December, 2009 at 12:05
<p>The Treasury has today published its final agreement with the Royal Bank of Scotland on the bank?s participation in the Asset Protection Scheme, along with further detail of the scheme?s operation and the assets it covers. </p><p>The Treasury has also announced the launch of the Asset Protection Agency that will administer the scheme in order to protect the taxpayer?s interest.<br /><br />Financial Services Secretary to the Treasury Paul Myners said:<br /><br />"The Government?s decisive action to stabilise the financial system has succeeded in protecting the savings of British families. We have strived throughout our interventions to ensure maximum value for the taxpayer, charging commercial rates for our support for the banks and making supported firms pick up the tab for extra operating costs.<br /><br />"The agreement we have reached with RBS follows this approach. This final agreement sees a much-improved position for the taxpayer compared to the initial deal announced in February. RBS will bear a much greater share of the burden, with the first loss increasing by £18bn. The bank will also pay the full operational costs of the Asset Protection Agency.<br /><br />"Together with the exit of Lloyds from the APS, taxpayer exposure to bank losses has been markedly reduced. With this agreement entering into force with State Aid approval expected soon, our focus can turn to reforming the financial system for the future, both with greater competition on the High Street, and stronger global and domestic regulation."</p>
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Monday 7th December, 2009 at 11:30
<p>New specialist coordinators and dedicated advice lines for small businesses are part of a radical overhaul of support for people with mental health conditions.</p>
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Monday 7th December, 2009 at 11:30
<p>New specialist coordinators and dedicated advice lines for small businesses are part of a radical overhaul of support for people with mental health conditions.</p>
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Monday 7th December, 2009 at 10:00
<p>DWP067/09<br /><br />Thousands of carers are set to benefit from improved employment support from today, giving them the chance to combine paid work with caring and help reduce financial hardship.</p>
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Friday 4th December, 2009 at 16:05
<p style="text-align: center;"><b>Global meeting in London looks ahead in public health</b></p>
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Friday 4th December, 2009 at 15:21
<p>The latest fire statistics for England covering the 12-month period up to 31 March 2009 continue to show a fall in the total number of primary fires - down 10 per cent on 2007-08.</p>
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Friday 4th December, 2009 at 11:44
<p>Housing Minister John Healey has today given councils more flexibility in how they manage their waiting lists. He also called on councils to do more to tackle the myths and misunderstandings about housing waiting lists, so local people can have confidence that the system is fair.</p>
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Thursday 3rd December, 2009 at 16:48
<p>Housing Minister John Healey has today thanked some of the 110 staff at Birmingham?s National Debtline, working to provide advice and support to help homeowners avoid repossession during the downturn.</p>
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Thursday 3rd December, 2009 at 12:40
<p>NAT 88.09</p><p>As many full-time students prepare to find temporary work over the Christmas period, they may find that they are in line for tax free income.</p>
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Thursday 3rd December, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The latest annual update on infant mortality rates, with data updated to 2006-08, was released on 3 December 2009 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.</p>
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Wednesday 2nd December, 2009 at 11:46
<p>NAT 87/09</p><p>VAT-registered businesses are being urged to get ready now for major changes to VAT return filing and payment coming in next April.</p>
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Tuesday 1st December, 2009 at 14:00
<p>DWP066/09<br /><br />Top Premier League clubs are set to provide hundreds of unique training opportunities to boost the confidence of jobseekers and prepare them for the workplace.</p>
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Tuesday 1st December, 2009 at 10:37
<p>NAT 86.09</p><p>HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is issuing a reminder to anyone who hasn?t yet submitted their 2008-09 Self Assessment tax return ? don?t forget, your return must be both on time <i>and</i> online.</p>
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Tuesday 1st December, 2009 at 01:01
<p>A new mobile phone application that helps people to keep track of their drinking during the festive period was launched today by Public Health Minister Gillian Merron.</p>
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Tuesday 1st December, 2009 at 01:01
<p>The Cancer Reform Strategy?s second annual report highlights regional variation in cancer outcomes and services</p>
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Monday 30th November, 2009 at 16:50
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Monday 30th November, 2009 at 13:18
<p>Housing Minister John Healey has today launched the first-ever national crackdown on tenancy cheats to recover up to 10,000 council and housing association homes fraudulently sublet, and release them to those in real need.<br /></p>
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Monday 30th November, 2009 at 01:01
<p>A new campaign will help young people to make more informed choices about contraception, look after their sexual health and avoid unwanted pregnancies.</p>
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Saturday 28th November, 2009 at 01:01
<p>A pilot to help patients get innovative new drugs not currently available on the NHS is being launched for consultation today by Health Minister Mike O?Brien and Science and Innovation Minister Lord Drayson.</p>
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Friday 27th November, 2009 at 16:17
<p>NAT 85.09<br /><br />Three members of a family have been jailed for a total of seven and a half years today following an investigation by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) into a tax fraud that stole over £3/4 million from the public purse. A fourth family member received a suspended prison sentence.</p>
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Friday 27th November, 2009 at 13:55
<p>One year on from the launch of the ?No One Left Out? strategy to end rough sleeping further action to stem the flow of new rough sleepers coming onto the street and reach entrenched rough sleepers is well underway, according to a progress report published today.<br /></p>
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Friday 27th November, 2009 at 12:52
<p>Health Secretary previews new Change4Life Campaign at the Royal College of Midwives conference</p>
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Friday 27th November, 2009 at 10:58
<p>NAT 84/09</p><p>HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is giving taxpayers with offshore investments more time to come forward under the New Disclosure Opportunity (NDO).</p>
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Friday 27th November, 2009 at 10:33
<p>NAT 83/09</p><p>HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has a special Helpline for anyone affected by the recent floods, where fast, practical help and advice is available.</p>
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Friday 27th November, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:<b></b></p>
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Friday 27th November, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p>
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Thursday 26th November, 2009 at 12:59
<p>Professor Hamid Ghodse will be the inaugural Chair of the International Health Advisory Board.</p>
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Thursday 26th November, 2009 at 12:37
<p>Housing Minister John Healey and Rural Minister Dan Norris today backed councils with cash and support to kickstart plans to build homes people can afford where they want to live, and develop rural areas to meet the needs of local people.<br /><br /></p>
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Thursday 26th November, 2009 at 11:07
<p>Statistics released for the first time today show that in one year alone (2008/09), 130,000 households in England were prevented from becoming homeless or helped to find alternative accommodation by their local council.</p>
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Thursday 26th November, 2009 at 01:01
<p>The Government will move quickly to implement the reforms of bank pay and governance proposed today by Sir David Walker.</p><p>Sir David?s review was commissioned by the Government earlier this year to explore failures of corporate governance and management of banks. His final report suggests a series of reforms to strengthen the role of shareholders, improve the quality of bank boards, and to increase transparency of pay and bonus policies.</p>
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Thursday 26th November, 2009 at 01:01
<p>Know Your Limits campaign warns of hidden damage from alcohol</p>
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Wednesday 25th November, 2009 at 15:57
<p>The Bill that will help individuals with the highest care needs remain independent for longer, was introduced in Parliament today by Health Secretary Andy Burnham.</p>
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Wednesday 25th November, 2009 at 13:15
<p>Health should be at the centre of our fight against climate change, Health Secretary, Andy Burnham will say today (Wednesday) at the launch of a new report on Health and Climate Change.<br /><br /><br /></p>
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Wednesday 25th November, 2009 at 13:05
<p>The Planning Portal has today launched a series of visual guides for the most common home improvement projects - extensions, loft conversions and porches.</p>
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Wednesday 25th November, 2009 at 10:15
<p>The protections enjoyed by UK mortgages borrowers are to be strengthened under new proposals published by the Treasury today.<br /></p>
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Tuesday 24th November, 2009 at 16:25
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Winter Supplementary Estimates, presented to the House of Commons today as HC 24, seek authority for expenditure by government departments of £6.6 billion in resources and £24.0 billion in cash. The Estimates seek parliamentary authority for increased resources and cash both for existing services and for any necessary new services.</p>
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Tuesday 24th November, 2009 at 16:16
<p>A Vote on Account for £217,908 million resources and £218,765 million cash for central government was presented to the House of Commons today as HC 33.</p><p>The purpose of the Vote on Account is to provide funds for spending on existing services during the period from the start of the new financial year on 1 April until Parliament has approved the 2010-11 Main Estimates, which will be given legislative force in the summer Appropriation Act (usually passed in mid July).</p>
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Tuesday 24th November, 2009 at 16:05
<p>- FIRMING UP THE COUNTRY?S GREEN CREDENTIALS AHEAD OF COPENHAGEN -<br /></p>
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Tuesday 24th November, 2009 at 10:59
<p>The Planning Portal has today launched a series of visual guides for the most common home improvement projects - extensions, loft conversions and porches. </p><p> </p>
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Tuesday 24th November, 2009 at 10:34
<p>Exciting new developments by scientists including those working in the NHS field of regenerative medicine and diagnostics which have the potential to bring life-changing benefits to patients will be considered at , the Chief Scientific Officer?s officer annual conference.</p>
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Monday 23rd November, 2009 at 17:21
<p>To prepare health and social care services for new anti-age discrimination laws, the Government is calling for peoples? views on the likely implications.</p>
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Monday 23rd November, 2009 at 10:26
<p>Preventative measures will help keep NHS Staff fit and well</p>
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Saturday 21st November, 2009 at 01:01
<p>· Man U fans top the Smokefree United League while Chelsea lags behind<br />· Andy Townsend calls for football fans to kick it together by signing for Smokefree United<br /></p>
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Friday 20th November, 2009 at 15:14
<p>A Department of Health spokesperson said:</p>
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Friday 20th November, 2009 at 11:04
<p>Millions of people across the country will get extra help to tackle anti-social behaviour with up to ten thousand front-line staff and community champions receiving training and support to use tough powers and solve local problems, Communities Secretary John Denham and Housing Minister John Healey announced today.</p>
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Thursday 19th November, 2009 at 16:45
<p>Twenty innovative new projects, designed by frontline NHS staff to transform patient care were today announced by Care Services Minister Phil Hope on Social Enterprise Day.</p>
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Thursday 19th November, 2009 at 16:23
<p>In a step closer towards updating and building new healthcare facilities, NHS Cumbria has become the first Primary Care Trust to establish a LIFT (Local Improvement Finance Trust) company procured through the faster and more cost-effective Express LIFT framework (Thursday 19 November).</p>
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Thursday 19th November, 2009 at 14:43
<p><strong>Children over six months and under five years will be offered vaccine<br /></strong></p>
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Thursday 19th November, 2009 at 12:50
<p>NAT 82/09</p><p>The Corporation Tax Bill and the Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Bill introduced in Parliament by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, the Rt. Hon. Stephen Timms MP, are published today.</p>
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Thursday 19th November, 2009 at 12:29
<p>The Government has today introduced the Financial Services Bill to Parliament. The Bill delivers significant reforms that will provide greater rights and information for consumers, in addition to stronger financial regulation to make banks safer and more robust in the future.</p>
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Thursday 19th November, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p>
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Thursday 19th November, 2009 at 10:30
<p><strong>Statistical press notice<br /></strong></p>
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Thursday 19th November, 2009 at 10:30
<p>Statistical press notice</p>
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Wednesday 18th November, 2009 at 14:07
<p>Fire Minister Shahid Malik today said that the Fire and Rescue Service has a central role to play in tackling inequality, promoting opportunity and improving fire safety to bring down accidental fires in all communities.</p>
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Wednesday 18th November, 2009 at 12:59
<p>The Government has today welcomed the European Commission's state aid approval for the restructuring of Lloyds Banking Group.</p>
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Wednesday 18th November, 2009 at 11:47
<p>Please see the following statement release by the Department of Health:</p>
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Tuesday 17th November, 2009 at 16:27
<p>- MAKING PUBLIC DATA PUBLIC -</p><p>The Prime Minister and Communities Secretary John Denham will today announce that the public will have more access to Ordnance Survey maps from next year, as part of a Government drive to open up data to improve transparency. </p>
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Tuesday 17th November, 2009 at 13:47
<p>The majority of business rate bills - one million in total - will fall next year as a result of revaluation, the Government confirmed today.</p>
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Tuesday 17th November, 2009 at 12:05
<p>A cross-government action plan to improve the health of offenders in prison and in the community, was launched today by Care Services Minister Phil Hope.</p>
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Tuesday 17th November, 2009 at 10:36
<p>Housing and Planning Minister John Healey has today launched measures to cut carbon emissions by overhauling the planning system.</p>
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Monday 16th November, 2009 at 11:16
<p>Jonathan Taylor has been appointed to the post of Managing Director, Financial Services. Mr Taylor will take up this post in early January.</p>
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Monday 16th November, 2009 at 01:01
<p><b></b></p><p><b>EMBARGOED UNTIL 00.01 </b><b>MONDAY 16<sup>TH</sup> NOVEMBER 2009<br /></b><br />Summary Care Records containing key medical information which will be accessible wherever patients are treated are being rolled out across London, the Department of Health announced today. The scheme is taking off across England over the next year as part of a national roll-out of the programme. </p>
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Friday 13th November, 2009 at 16:43
<p>HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is taking steps to ensure that customers who invested in Keydata ISA products will not be out of pocket as a result of the company selling ISAs that are not compliant with the law.</p>
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Friday 13th November, 2009 at 12:47
<p>Councils will have new powers to engineer economic recovery locally, following the Royal Assent of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill.<br /><br /></p>
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Friday 13th November, 2009 at 12:22
<p><strong>Ministers remind courts of the tough penalties for vandalism and desecration<br /></strong><br />There are up to 100,000 war memorials in the UK, often central features in town and village life and cherished by the local community. At the time of Remembrance this week, the Government is reaffirming its commitment to their protection.<br /></p>
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Friday 13th November, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:<b></b></p>
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Friday 13th November, 2009 at 10:30
<p>STATISITICAL PRESS NOTICE</p>
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Friday 13th November, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health.</p>
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Thursday 12th November, 2009 at 18:56
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Thursday 12th November, 2009 at 17:57
<p>A new law that will help to protect children and young people from the harms of tobacco received Royal Assent today.</p>
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Thursday 12th November, 2009 at 12:51
<p>Grandparents and their representative organisations will today attend a cross-Government summit to explore the changing role of grandparents in society and talk to Ministers about how the Government can support them.</p>
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Thursday 12th November, 2009 at 11:18
<p>A new Charter setting out what individuals, businesses and other groups dealing with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) can expect from the department, as well as what it expects from them, was launched today.</p>
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Thursday 12th November, 2009 at 10:43
<p>A tough new action plan to tackle the over prescribing of antipsychotic drugs to people with dementia was today announced by Care Services Minister Phil Hope.</p>
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Thursday 12th November, 2009 at 10:42
<p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Degree level education will raise quality of patient care</u></b></p>
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Wednesday 11th November, 2009 at 17:59
<p>Her Majesty The Queen has been pleased to approve, under the Bank of England Act 1998, as amended by the Banking Act 2009, the appointment of John Morrison Stewart as a new Director of the Court of the Bank of England. This appointment is for a period of three years, starting on 1st December 2009.</p>
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Wednesday 11th November, 2009 at 10:30
<p><strong>Every care home to get dignity training</strong></p>
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Wednesday 11th November, 2009 at 10:27
<p>DWP060/09<br /><br />The Government welcomed the news that the number of people in work has risen this quarter by 6,000 according to figures published by the Office for National Statistics today.</p>
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Tuesday 10th November, 2009 at 17:33
<p>This notice constitutes advice issued by HM Treasury about risks posed by unsatisfactory money laundering controls in a number of jurisdictions. The Money Laundering Regulations 2007 require firms to put in place policies, procedures or systems in order to prevent money laundering or terrorist financing.</p>
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Tuesday 10th November, 2009 at 13:30
<p>Three UK-based banks will start offering new loans to eligible onshore wind farms today. Wind farm developers and the banks will have an opportunity to start brokering the deals at a forum in the city hosted by Ed Miliband and Chancellor Alistair Darling.</p>
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Tuesday 10th November, 2009 at 11:25
<p><strong>Consultation launched on legal rights to waiting times and NHS Health Checks for patients<br /><br /></strong>Patients will have legal rights to maximum waiting times for elective procedures and urgent cancer referrals and to an NHS Health Check every five years for those aged 40-74, if proposals published today are taken forward.</p>
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Monday 9th November, 2009 at 14:44
<p>The NHS is this week running the first national Self Care Week to raise awareness of the improvements everyone can make to their health by taking a more active role in their own health and wellbeing. Self Care Week will run from 9-15 November 2009.</p>
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Monday 9th November, 2009 at 11:44
<p>NAT 79/09</p><p>Pensioners who?ve overpaid tax on their interest from savings could be eligible for a tax windfall, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) announced today. </p>
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Monday 9th November, 2009 at 11:00
<p>Two new toolkits to help agents avoid common errors when filing clients? returns were launched today by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).</p>
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Monday 9th November, 2009 at 01:01
<p><b><u>Embargoed 00.01 </u></b><b><u>Monday 9 November 2009<br /></u></b><br />The Department of Health?s Act F.A.S.T. campaign has led to an increase of more than half (55.5%) in stroke calls to 999*. </p>
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Friday 6th November, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p>
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Thursday 5th November, 2009 at 15:15
<p>Scientists in the field of dementia research will get more help to access funding thanks to a new ministerial group, which will drive forward research into the causes, cure and care of dementia, Care Services Minister Phil Hope announced today.</p>
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Thursday 5th November, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The latest annual update on life expectancy data and all age all cause mortality rates, with data updated to 2006-08, was released on 5th November 2009 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority. </p>
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Thursday 5th November, 2009 at 06:01
<p>-Majority of UK doctors rate quality of care as continually improving-</p>
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Wednesday 4th November, 2009 at 16:42
<p align="justify">The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, Sarah McCarthy-Fry MP, has today released the annual Child Trust Fund statistics showing a high awareness and strong take-up of Child Trust Funds. She has also written individually to all MPs informing them of CTF performance in their constituencies and encouraging them to promote the CTF amongst parents.</p><p align="justify">The statistics show that:<br /><br />· The average contribution paid into Child Trust Funds by family, friends and others was £289 per year (around £24 per month) in 2008/09, a £10 increase on the previous year<br /><br />· Around three-quarters of parents have opened accounts for their children within the first year<br /><br />· £2bn currently being held in Child Trust fund accounts overall</p>
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Wednesday 4th November, 2009 at 16:23
<p>Fire Minister Shahid Malik today appealed to the public to be careful with bonfires and fireworks.</p>
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Wednesday 4th November, 2009 at 15:55
<p>A businessman who admitted breaking an arms embargo by selling military vehicles to Sudan without a licence was jailed for two years and eight months today at Southwark Crown Court, following an investigation by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).</p>
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Wednesday 4th November, 2009 at 13:49
<p>Communities Secretary John Denham today announced plans to recruit 175 green-fingered apprentices to get parks and gardens growing in some of the country?s most deprived areas.</p>
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Wednesday 4th November, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p>
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Wednesday 4th November, 2009 at 01:01
<p>The Department of Health is today publishing new guidance to help the NHS improve the care provided for premature and sick babies during their first days.</p>
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Tuesday 3rd November, 2009 at 17:55
<p>Pubs, clubs, restaurants and other retail businesses remaining open past midnight on New Year?s Eve will be allowed to continue charging VAT at 15% on their sales until they close or until 6am on 1 January 2010, whichever is the earlier, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury confirmed today.</p>
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Tuesday 3rd November, 2009 at 17:01
<p>A multi-million pound proposal for a regeneration scheme to transform the heart of Purfleet in the Thames Gateway was set out today. </p>
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Tuesday 3rd November, 2009 at 13:16
<p>The Department of Health is today publishing new guidance to help the NHS improve the care provided for premature and sick babies during their first days.</p>
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Tuesday 3rd November, 2009 at 12:05
<p>British Asians are amongst those who are most worried about how they will care for elderly parents in old age, a new Big Care Debate poll has found.</p>
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Tuesday 3rd November, 2009 at 12:03
<p>Black Britons are under-estimating how much care in old age could cost them, according to a new Big Care Debate poll.</p>
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Tuesday 3rd November, 2009 at 10:30
<p>Two weeks to go before Big Care Debate closes - <a href="http://www.careandsupport.direct.gov.uk">www.careandsupport.direct.gov.uk</a></p>
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Tuesday 3rd November, 2009 at 10:30
<p dir="ltr">The Seventeenth Annual Report of the National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit (NCJDSU) was published today.</p>
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Tuesday 3rd November, 2009 at 08:18
<p>The Government is today announcing the conclusion of discussions with Lloyds Banking Group (Lloyds) and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) regarding their participation in the Government's Asset Protection Scheme (APS).</p>
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Tuesday 3rd November, 2009 at 01:01
<p>New data shows progress on obesity as Healthy Towns help communities Change4Life</p>
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Monday 2nd November, 2009 at 13:02
<p>More than 200,000 working families will gain about £1000 a year, thanks to new rules around Housing and Council Tax Benefits, making them an average of £20 a week better off.</p>
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Monday 2nd November, 2009 at 10:31
<p>Offshore tax dodgers are being warned they have one final chance to come clean, or face the consequences, in a hard-hitting YouTube video launched today by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).</p>
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Monday 2nd November, 2009 at 01:01
<p>Press information: Embargoed until 00.01 hrs Monday 2<sup>nd</sup> November 2009<br /><br />New research released today has revealed that, after the understandable flurry in the first eight weeks of motherhood, the period when first-time mums have the most questions about their babies? development can be pin-pointed to <b>five months and one week<a href="https://nds.coi.gov.uk/backstage/contentmanagement/OtherAreas/ReleaseUI.aspx?NewsAreaID=2&ReleaseID=408073&ClientID=46&LocaleID=2&attmtType=0#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1"><b>[1]</b></a></b> after they have given birth.</p>
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Friday 30th October, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The key points from the latest release are:</p>
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Thursday 29th October, 2009 at 16:09
<p>A new toolkit to help employers boost their businesses by releasing staff to be on-call firefighters, was announced today by Fire Minister Shahid Malik.<br /></p>
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Thursday 29th October, 2009 at 13:41
<p>The requirements which health and adult social care providers must meet in order to operate under the new registration system, have been published today by the Department of Health. </p>
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Thursday 29th October, 2009 at 12:40
<p>New advice on storing breast milk and the best medicines to take during pregnancy are some of the updates the Department of Health has made to its popular <i>Pregnancy</i> and <i>Birth to Five</i> books being relaunched today.</p>
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Thursday 29th October, 2009 at 10:58
<p>Michael Foot has today published his independent review of British offshore financial centres.</p>
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Wednesday 28th October, 2009 at 13:01
<p>The Government has today welcomed the European Commission?s (EC) approval of the legal and capital restructure of Northern Rock. </p><p>The restructure will strengthen Northern Rock?s capital position and enable the bank to return to the mortgage market and support the economic recovery as by proposed by the Government in February. Under the restructure, the back book of mortgages will be managed separately to Northern Rock?s other businesses.</p><p>The Government has made clear that it wants to see a well functioning mortgage market with responsible lending and access to a wide range of affordable mortgages. The approach towards Northern Rock is part of meeting these aims.</p>
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Tuesday 27th October, 2009 at 16:36
<p>NAT 74/09</p><p>In the largest cigarette seizure ever in the UK and Ireland, over 120 million smuggled cigarettes have been uncovered in a multi-agency cross border operation today. </p>
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Tuesday 27th October, 2009 at 14:55
<p>NAT 73/09<b> </b></p><p>Two men from Southport have been jailed for a total of 31 years after importing a consignment of bacon as a cover for 63 kilos of heroin with a street value of £3 million. </p>
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Tuesday 27th October, 2009 at 13:10
<p>A new single technical guidance website for providers of healthcare facilities was announced today by the Department of Health and the three UK health organisations ? Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety for Northern Ireland, Health Facilities Scotland, and Welsh Health Estates.</p>
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Monday 26th October, 2009 at 11:02
<p align="center"><strong>New Consultation on Personal Health Budgets Launched <br /><br /></strong>Direct payments for healthcare moved a step closer today with a new consultation launched by Care Services Minister Phil Hope.</p>
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Friday 23rd October, 2009 at 13:39
<p>NAT 72/09<br /><br />The leader of a gang of duty free shoppers, who never even boarded their international flights, was jailed for 15 months on 22 October. He bought cheap air tickets so that the gang members could gain access to lounges at UK airports where they bought thousands of duty free cigarettes and then either left the airport or boarded domestic flights.</p>
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Friday 23rd October, 2009 at 10:54
<p>The Department of Health, the General Medical Council (GMC) and the General Optical Council (GOC) today welcomed the appointments of Andrew Colquhoun and Pamela Charlwood as the first two non-executive directors of the new Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator (OHPA).</p>
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Thursday 22nd October, 2009 at 11:44
<p align="center"><b><u>Prime Minister?s Commission hold national event </u></b></p>
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Thursday 22nd October, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p>
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Wednesday 21st October, 2009 at 22:00
<p><h1><u><font style="font-size: 10px">Check against delivery </font></u></h1></p><p><font style="font-size: 10px"> </font><font style="font-size: 12px"></font></p><p><h1><font style="font-size: 10px">Introduction</font></h1></p><p>Since the collapse of Lehman Brothers thirteen months ago, we have learned that what happens in the City matters for our economy, for the jobs of millions of people and for our public finances. We know that excessive and poorly understood risks were taken on by banks and not properly understood by regulators and central banks around the world. Shareholders failed to act to exercise effective control of the banks they owned. Boards failed to restrain egregious remuneration policies that rewarded behaviours that lead to personal enrichment in the good times, leaving the tax payer to foot the bill when, to quote the Governor of the Bank of England?s remarks yesterday evening, a ?financial firestorm? engulfed world markets.</p>
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Wednesday 21st October, 2009 at 17:54
<p>NAT 71/09</p><p>Three financial advisers were amongst eight people jailed today for their part in a VAT fraud amounting to almost £2million. The eight were part of a gang of eleven who had set up fictitious companies claiming to be trading in animal feeds, children?s clothing and fruit and vegetables. They also created business expenses associated with the non-existent companies to evade paying VAT to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). </p>
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Wednesday 21st October, 2009 at 15:59
<p>An innovative Primary Care sector holds the key to the success of the NHS in the difficult times ahead Health Minister Mike O?Brien said today.</p>
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Wednesday 21st October, 2009 at 13:39
<p><h1><u>Check Against Delivery </u></h1></p><p> </p><p>A year ago, the world banking system and the global economy were staring into the abyss. </p><p> </p><p>Today, the financial system is more stable.</p><p> </p><p>Confidence is returning across the world economy, in a way few would have thought possible at the beginning of this year. </p><p> </p><p>The past year has shown that, even in a globalised world, governments can make a real difference.</p><p> </p>
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Wednesday 21st October, 2009 at 01:01
<p>More than 11 million people in England will be offered it first<br /></p>
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Tuesday 20th October, 2009 at 14:07
<p> The Chancellor today announced the appointment of Mick McAteer, Brian Pomeroy, Andrew Scott & James Strachan as non-executive directors (NEDs) of the Financial Services Authority (FSA).</p>
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Tuesday 20th October, 2009 at 12:23
<p>The Department of Health today is taking forward its commitment to tackling liver disease by recruiting a new National Clinical Director to lead the development of a National Strategy for Liver Disease.</p>
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Tuesday 20th October, 2009 at 12:13
<p align="center"><b><u>Chief Nursing Officer showcases </u></b><b><u>England</u></b><b><u>?s mandatory surveillance to world experts on infections</u></b></p><p align="center"><b> </b></p>
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Tuesday 20th October, 2009 at 11:54
<p> The Government and the Financial Inclusion Taskforce are pleased to announce today that the shared goal to halve the number of adults living in households without access to a bank account has been achieved.</p><p>The shared goal was agreed in December 2004 between the Government and the banks. The latest report on access to banking by the Financial Inclusion Taskforce shows that the number has fallen from 2 million in 2003/04 to less than 900,000 in 2007/08.</p>
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Monday 19th October, 2009 at 19:29
<p>Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Ian Pearson MP, welcomed an agreement today on repayment to the UK and Netherlands of payments made following the collapse of Landsbanki.</p>
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Monday 19th October, 2009 at 12:21
<p>New research published today by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), shows that racial discrimination in recruitment still exists towards ethnic minority people.</p>
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Monday 19th October, 2009 at 10:35
<p>NAT 70/09</p><p>If you?re planning on filing your 2008/09 tax return on paper this year, there are just a few days left to send it to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) by the 31 October deadline.</p>
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Friday 16th October, 2009 at 17:31
<p>A man who traded in ivory from endangered species on eBay was sentenced to 10 months in prison today at Luton Crown Court following an international investigation by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). Elephants? tusks and whales? teeth had been carved into billiard balls or used to make corkscrews before being sold on the commercial website.</p>
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Thursday 15th October, 2009 at 12:32
<p>NAT 68/09</p><p>A record 83,000 scam emails offering fake tax refunds were reported to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in September. The online attacks, known as ?phishing?, have continued this month, with an unprecedented 10,000 reports of the fraud made to HMRC on one day alone.</p>
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Thursday 15th October, 2009 at 12:26
<p>· The ?Improving Access to Audiology Services in England? document in March 2007 stated that:</p><p>?<i>Improving Access to Audiology Services in </i><i>England</i><i> sets out a simple aspiration: for local health systems to transform the experience of the audiology service for all their patients. This requires a radical reduction in waiting?no local health system will be credible in claiming success on 18 weeks if it does not make excellent progress in tackling long waiting times affecting large numbers of its local population ?</i></p>
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Thursday 15th October, 2009 at 11:48
<p>A new report showing how communities have been inspired and helped to improve the health of all their residents is published today.</p>
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Thursday 15th October, 2009 at 10:30
<p>STATISTICAL PRESS NOTICE - NHS REFERRAL TO TREATMENT (RTT) TIMES DATA - August 2009<br /><br /></p>
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Thursday 15th October, 2009 at 01:01
<p>Campaign aims to get 100,000 more active through dance</p>
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Thursday 15th October, 2009 at 01:01
<p align="center"><b>STRICTLY EMBARGOED: NOT FOR PUBLICATION, BROADCAST OR PRINT BEFORE </b><b>00:01</b><b> </b><b>THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER 2009<br /></b><b>CARE</b><b> QUALITY COMMISSION NHS RATINGS 2008/09 ? DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH RESPONSE<br /><br /></b></p>
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Wednesday 14th October, 2009 at 17:05
<p>The UK subsidiaries and branches of leading overseas banks have agreed to support the implementation of reforms to bank pay agreed by the G20 in Pittsburgh, the Financial Services Secretary, Lord Myners, announced today. </p><p>Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs International, JP Morgan Securities Ltd, Morgan Stanley, Nomura and UBS have confirmed their commitment to the FSA Rule and supporting Code on remuneration practices, which was published in August and comes into force on 1 January 2010, and their full support for the G20 agreement, which sets global standards for the implementation of the Financial Stability Board?s remuneration principles. </p><p>EU banks with major London branches, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank and Société Générale confirmed that they will implement the G20 agreement in accordance with their home regulator and would seek to voluntarily comply with the FSA Rule on Remuneration for their UK based employees.</p>
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Wednesday 14th October, 2009 at 14:01
<p>Sir Ian Kennedy today set out the areas he will consider in his review of NHS services for children, looking at how to build on recent progress and ensure lasting improvements in quality and outcomes for children.</p>
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Wednesday 14th October, 2009 at 12:46
<p>NAT 67/09<br /><br />Over 468,000 mums-to-be have benefited from the new Heath in Pregnancy Grant ? worth £190 ? since it was launched in April 2009.</p>
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Wednesday 14th October, 2009 at 10:58
<p align="center"><b>Another Step Closer to a Smoke Free Future</b></p>
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Wednesday 14th October, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The latest annual update on mortality rates, with data updated to 2006-08, which are used to monitor progress against Department of Health mortality targets for cancer, circulatory diseases, suicide and injury of undetermined intent, and accidents in England, were released on 14th October 2009 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.</p>
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Wednesday 14th October, 2009 at 01:01
<p align="left">EMBARGOED UNTIL 00:01 14 OCTOBER 2009<br /><br />Patients can now rate and compare GP practices on a new online comparison service launched today by Health Minister Mike O?Brien. </p>
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Tuesday 13th October, 2009 at 19:00
<p><b> </b><b>EMBARGOED 18.00 Tuesday 13 October<br /></b><br />Proposals to improve access to childcare, introduce part time training and improve career guidance have been outlined in a report published today as some of the key ways to help improve the future career prospects of women doctors. <br /><br /></p>
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Tuesday 13th October, 2009 at 10:30
<p align="center"><b>One month to go before Big Care Debate closes -<br /> </b><a href="http://www.careandsupport.direct.gov.uk/">www.careandsupport.direct.gov.uk</a><br /><b><br /><br /></b></p>
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Monday 12th October, 2009 at 16:58
<p>Councils are to be given new legislative powers to establish mutual insurance companies in light of the recent London Authorities Mutual Limited (LAML) court judgement, Local Government Minister Rosie Winterton announced today.</p>
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Monday 12th October, 2009 at 12:46
<p>Children and vulnerable adults are to be better protected from today with the start of the new Vetting and Barring Scheme (VBS).<br /><br /><br /></p>
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Monday 12th October, 2009 at 11:37
<p>For the first time the Government is taking on the role of protecting the traditional market in the face of increasing pressures threatening its long term survival, announced Local Government Minister Rosie Winterton today.</p>
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Saturday 10th October, 2009 at 01:01
<p>More than 100,000 people will benefit from a new wave of talking therapy services going live across the country from today, World Mental Health Day, Care Services Minister Phil Hope has announced.</p>
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Friday 9th October, 2009 at 16:11
<p>HM Treasury has today published a call for evidence on the Money Laundering Regulations 2007 and of the UK's anti-money laundering policies and procedures under them. The Call is designed to help inform a review of the Regulations, and look at how effective and proportionate the UK's anti-money laundering rules are.</p>
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Friday 9th October, 2009 at 11:45
<p>New funding is to be given to the charity My New Hair to help cancer survivors, hairdressers and NHS staff work together during hair re-growth following treatment, Secretary of State for Health Andy Burnham announced today.<br /><br /></p>
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Friday 9th October, 2009 at 10:30
<p>This year?s annual seasonal flu vaccination campaign was launched today by the Department of Health.<br /><br /><br /></p>
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Thursday 8th October, 2009 at 11:27
<p>Cancer charities will today join Gordon Brown to highlight the lifesaving importance of breast cancer screening.<br /><br /></p>
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Thursday 8th October, 2009 at 10:40
<p>Twenty sites across England have been selected to participate in a study to identify the benefits of Personal Budgets for health and the patient groups who will benefit most from them, Health Minister Phil Hope announced today.</p>
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Thursday 8th October, 2009 at 01:01
<p>Almost a million more people registered to become organ donors in the last year and hundreds more lives were saved in the UK through organ transplants according to a new report, launched by Health Secretary Andy Burnham today.<br /><br /></p>
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Thursday 8th October, 2009 at 01:01
<p>Today, football legends John Barnes, Ian Wright, Gianfranco Zola and teams from the Premier League have teamed up with the NHS to launch Smokefree United, a virtual club of quitters that provides coaching and support to help football fans and players to stop smoking.</p>
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Wednesday 7th October, 2009 at 14:36
<p>Michael Ellam has been appointed Managing Director, International and Europe, in succession to Stephen Pickford. Mr Ellam will take on this role when Mr Pickford steps down at the end of this year. In the meantime, Mr Ellam will work alongside Mr Pickford and support the work of the Treasury's International Finance Directorate.<br /></p>
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Wednesday 7th October, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health.</p>
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Tuesday 6th October, 2009 at 17:26
<p>HM Treasury announces the appointment of Alastair Clark as Senior Adviser on financial stability issues. Alastair has had a long and distinguished career at the Bank of England, including seven years as Executive Director (Financial Stability), and as adviser to the Governor on financial sector issues.</p>
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Monday 5th October, 2009 at 11:12
<p>Many people who are entitled to a cash increase in their income are missing out simply because they assume they are not entitled to Working Tax Credit (WTC), HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) said today.</p>
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Friday 2nd October, 2009 at 15:14
<p>The completion of a series of reforms, to strengthen the focus on public protection in the regulation of health professionals including nurses, midwives and dentists, was announced by the Department of Health today.</p>
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Friday 2nd October, 2009 at 14:40
<p>Prime Minister?s Commission sets out its vision for the future.</p>
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Friday 2nd October, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p>
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Thursday 1st October, 2009 at 14:20
<p>A major counterfeit vodka manufacturing and bottling plant has been smashed in Leicestershire, in a two day operation, following raids by HM Revenue & Customs officers.</p>
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Thursday 1st October, 2009 at 14:04
<p>HMRC?s offshore disclosure scheme goes online from 1 October making it easier than ever to settle unpaid offshore tax on beneficial terms.</p>
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Thursday 1st October, 2009 at 01:01
<p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 comes into force on Thursday 1 October ? ensuring the UK remains at the forefront of developments in treatment and research.<br /><br /><br /></p>
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Thursday 1st October, 2009 at 01:01
<p>The Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) is open for business from today to advise developers of new large infrastructure projects vital to the country?s future - such as power stations, roads, railways and airports - in preparation for the major planning applications the IPC will consider from March 2010.</p>
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Wednesday 30th September, 2009 at 18:33
<p>The UK's top five banks have committed to leading the way in implementing reforms to bank remuneration agreed by the G20 in Pittsburgh, Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling announced today.</p>
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Wednesday 30th September, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p><p>Bed Availability and occupancy- Year Ending 31 March 2009</p>
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Wednesday 30th September, 2009 at 10:30
<p>This is the eighth quarterly practice survey for 2009, covering a sample of practices from each primary care trust (PCT), conducted between June and August 2009.</p>
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Saturday 26th September, 2009 at 01:01
<p><u>Strictly Embargoed: not for publication, broadcast or print before 00:01 on Saturday 26 September 2009</u></p><p>New pilot scheme will use football to promote awareness of cancer symptoms in men</p>
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Friday 25th September, 2009 at 11:44
<p>HM Treasury today announces the appointment of Stephan Wilcke as Chief Executive of the Asset Protection Agency (APA) with effect from 28 September 2009. Stephan Wilcke joins from credit asset manager Cairn Capital where he was a senior advisor, having previously held partnership positions at private equity firm Apax Partners and financial services consultancy Oliver Wyman. He will be taking over from Jeremy Bennett who has been integrally involved with HM Treasury in the creation of the Asset Protection Scheme and who had agreed to act as Chief Executive up to the point of the establishment of the Agency. </p>
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Friday 25th September, 2009 at 11:23
<p align="center"><b>Second round of Healthcare Scientist Research Fellowships announced </b></p><p>Healthcare Scientists are encouraged to apply for a second round of funding for research grants to improve the quality of patient care, Chief Scientific Officer Sue Hill announced today. </p>
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Thursday 24th September, 2009 at 14:00
<p>Employers will be having their say on some of the key elements of the Government?s auto-enrolment reforms as the consultation on the second batch of regulations was launched today.<br /><br />Employers to have their say on pension reform</p>
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Thursday 24th September, 2009 at 13:49
<p>HM Treasury has signed a contract with Fujitsu to provide information and communication technology services. The services will be delivered as part of the Cabinet Office Public Sector Flex shared service framework; a shared services solution which offers benefits and economies of scale across Government.</p>
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Thursday 24th September, 2009 at 12:50
<p>New figures showing the continued success of the Government?s film tax relief were released today. In 2008/09 over £100m of support has been provided for the production of over 170 UK films.</p>
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Thursday 24th September, 2009 at 12:02
<p>NAT 63/09<br /></p><p>You can now use the internet to report to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) any individuals or businesses that you believe may be evading their tax at <a href="http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/tax-evasion">www.hmrc.gov.uk/tax-evasion</a>.</p>
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Thursday 24th September, 2009 at 10:30
<p>GUMAMM for month ending July 2009.</p>
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Wednesday 23rd September, 2009 at 14:57
<p><b>Department of Health response to Care Quality Commission report on mental health inpatients</b></p><p> </p>
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Wednesday 23rd September, 2009 at 11:00
<p>Young first time mothers are being helped to improve the life chances of their babies and fathers are more involved in the early years of their children?s lives thanks to the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) programme, independent research published today has found.<br /><br /></p>
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Tuesday 22nd September, 2009 at 01:01
<p align="center"><strong>70,000 lives saved by NHS Stop Smoking Services<br /></strong></p><p>At least 70,000 lives have been saved by NHS Stop Smoking Services in the ten years since they were established, according to new figures released today. </p>
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Friday 18th September, 2009 at 18:09
<p>Civil servant John Brian Agdomar and an accomplice, Olanekan Omatayo Ogunmekan, are today behind bars after being caught out by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) investigators. Between them the pair fabricated more than 1,400 fictitious children, hijacked hundreds of identities and illegally claimed more than £1.2m in tax credits.</p>
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Friday 18th September, 2009 at 15:25
<p><strong> Speech by Paul Myners, Financial Services Secretary, <br /> Developing a new financial architecture: <br /> lessons learned from the crisis<br /> at the Financial Times Global Finance Forum<br /> Friday 18 September 2009</strong></p>
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Thursday 17th September, 2009 at 16:59
<p>NAT 61/09</p><p align="left">Fifty HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) officers were involved in dawn raids which lead to 5 people being detained, potentially saving the taxpayer millions of pounds in fraudulent tax credit claims relating to fictitious children.</p>
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Thursday 17th September, 2009 at 11:48
<p>Data published today by the Department of Health shows that the waiting times for patients with hearing difficulties to receive a digital hearing aid has reached an all time low. <br /><br /><br /></p>
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Thursday 17th September, 2009 at 10:30
<p>· The ?Improving Access to Audiology Services in England? document in March 2007 stated that:</p><p> ?<i>Improving Access to Audiology Services in </i><i>England</i><i> sets out a simple aspiration: for local health systems to transform the experience of the audiology service for all their patients. This requires a radical reduction in waiting?no local health system will be credible in claiming success on 18 weeks if it does not make excellent progress in tackling long waiting times affecting large numbers of its local population ?<br /><br />· Data to monitor this aspiration are today being published with respect to July 2009.<br /><br /><br /></i></p>
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Thursday 17th September, 2009 at 10:30
<p>Data is being published on Referral to Treatment (RTT) times for patients whose 18 week clock stopped during July 2009.<br /><br /><br /></p>
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Wednesday 16th September, 2009 at 18:23
<p>Following the most comprehensive review of operational guidance for the Fire and Rescue Service for ten years, the first of over 40 topics are now available.</p>
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Wednesday 16th September, 2009 at 11:30
<p><img border="0" name="inlineImage" alt="Healthy Schools Logo" align="middle" src="https://nds.coi.gov.uk/ImageLibrary/DisplayMedia.ashx?MediaDetailsID=609&SizeId=3" /></p><p>The government?s flagship scheme to make healthy living an integral part of a child?s school life is to be expanded following a decade of success, Public Health Minister Gillian Merron announced today.</p>
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Wednesday 16th September, 2009 at 11:16
<p align="center"> Grants to improve NHS services through the promotion of partnership working between the NHS and trade unions have been awarded to 18 NHS organisations, Andy Burnham Secretary of State for Health announced today. <br /><br /></p>
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Tuesday 15th September, 2009 at 01:01
<p>A consultation seeking views on how students studying to be nurses, midwives and doctors should be funded in their studies was launched by Health Minister Ann Keen today.</p>
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Monday 14th September, 2009 at 19:11
<p>The upcoming swine flu vaccination programme will be administered by GPs following successful negotiations between the Department of Health, General Practitioners Committee (GPC) of the British Medical Association (BMA) and NHS Employers, Andy Burnham announced today.</p>
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Monday 14th September, 2009 at 01:01
<p>The use of phone numbers that charge the public or patients a premium rate to contact the NHS are to be banned in England, Health Minister Mike O?Brien announced today.</p>
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Monday 14th September, 2009 at 01:01
<p>A new ?Smokefree Generation? of children say that they will never try a cigarette, think that smoking is really uncool and are increasingly worried about the health of smoking parents according to new research conducted on behalf of NHS Stop Smoking Services.</p>
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Saturday 12th September, 2009 at 01:01
<p>Minister announces Swim4Life competition winner and makes a splash at Great North swim</p>
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Friday 11th September, 2009 at 11:14
<p>Health and public sector professionals are being asked for their views on how the NHS can improve its services for women and girls who have been victims of violence and sexual assault, Health Minister Ann Keen announced today.<br /><br /></p>
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Thursday 10th September, 2009 at 16:15
<p>The Department of Health today launched a consultation on whether there is a need to make temporary changes to the Mental Health Act 1983 should exceptional circumstances arise during pandemic flu. The contingency legislation would enable mental health patients to continue to get the treatment they need in the event of severe staff absences.</p>
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Thursday 10th September, 2009 at 15:11
<p>The NHS has started 2009/10 in a strong position by sustaining delivery on key priorities such as reducing waiting times and healthcare associated infections (HCAIs), increasing access to primary care and maintaining good financial health, the Department of Health announced today.</p>
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Thursday 10th September, 2009 at 09:59
<p>UK Regional Trade in Goods estimates are released today, for the second quarter of 2009.</p>
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Wednesday 9th September, 2009 at 13:23
<p><strong>NAT 59/09<br /><br /></p><p>21 people were arrested today in dawn raids by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) officers investigating a multi million pound construction industry fraud. </p></strong></p>
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Wednesday 9th September, 2009 at 10:30
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Wednesday 9th September, 2009 at 10:30
<p>Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling and Exchequer Secretary Sarah McCarthy-Fry today welcomed a group of school children to an event at 11 Downing Street to celebrate the first ever Child Trust Fund payments for seven-year olds.</p>
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Wednesday 9th September, 2009 at 01:01
<p>Embargoed for 00.01 Wednesday 9th September 2009 -<br /><br />Troubled teens reveal social divide</p>
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Tuesday 8th September, 2009 at 13:45
<p>By the Chancellor of the Exchequer<br />Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP<br />08 September 2009<br />Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff</p>
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Monday 7th September, 2009 at 13:39
<p>A Protocol delivering comprehensive exchange of information up to OECD and international tax standards between Switzerland and the UK, which covers UK taxes of all kinds, was signed in London today by The Financial Secretary to the Treasury, the Right Honourable Stephen Timms MP and the Swiss Ambassador to the UK, His Excellency Alexis P Lautenberg.</p>
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Thursday 3rd September, 2009 at 21:30
<p>Speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP at the CBI Scotland Annual Dinner, Glasgow, 03 September 2009<br /> <strong></strong></p>
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Wednesday 2nd September, 2009 at 13:03
<p>NAT 57/09<br /></p><p>Full time students pay income tax just like everybody else but research from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) reveals that<b> </b>more than half of the UK?s 2.3 million university students don?t realise this. </p>
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Wednesday 2nd September, 2009 at 10:58
<p>NAT 56/09</p><p>With schools across the country getting ready for the new school year, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is urging teachers to log onto its new, free online resource for teachers ? Tax Matters.</p>
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Tuesday 1st September, 2009 at 12:12
<p>A common approach to filing company accounts online was announced today in a joint statement by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and Companies House.</p>
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Friday 28th August, 2009 at 13:42
<p>Local authorities will receive a £7.5m funding boost to tackle Al-Qaeda influenced extremism, Communities Secretary John Denham announced today. The new funding will give them greater flexibility to support a broader range of activities to improve the effectiveness of the Prevent programme. </p>
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Friday 28th August, 2009 at 12:41
<p>NAT 54.09</p><p>The United Kingdom signed a Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) with Gibraltar yesterday, which will help to ensure that those liable to tax in the UK pay the right tax on investments in Gibraltar and on supplies of goods and services into and out of the UK. </p>
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Friday 28th August, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p><p><b>NHS inpatient and outpatient waiting times figures, </b><b>31 July 2009</b><b></b></p>
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Friday 28th August, 2009 at 01:01
<p>English drinkers vow to cut back after holiday boozing</p>
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Thursday 27th August, 2009 at 13:10
<p>Respect for the law, tolerance and politeness towards others top the list of values people think are important to living in Britain, new figures published today (27 August) show.</p>
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Thursday 27th August, 2009 at 10:30
<p>GPs and health professionals working in maternity, obstetrics, gynaecology, and sexual health are today being asked to take part in new study into Female Genital Mutilation in a bid to better ensure that services to protect women and girls are as effective as possible.<br /><br /></p>
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Wednesday 26th August, 2009 at 12:58
<p>Communities Secretary John Denham today announced a review to examine how Town Hall chief officers are being allowed to walk off with big pay-offs after falling out with the council?s political leadership.</p>
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Wednesday 26th August, 2009 at 10:30
<p>Direct Access Audiology referral to treatment times (RTT) data June 2009</p>
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Tuesday 25th August, 2009 at 11:56
<p>Anyone with undeclared offshore tax liabilities who fails to come forward under the New Disclosure Opportunity (NDO) faces an increased risk of prosecution, HMRC?s Permanent Secretary for Tax, Dave Hartnett, warns in a new podcast launched today.</p>
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Monday 24th August, 2009 at 12:07
<p>Fourteen projects costing £2.25 million have been fast tracked by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) on behalf of the Department of Health for urgent national swine flu research. The priority studies will be launched this week and will provide vital clinical and scientific evidence that will inform the Government?s response to the virus in the coming months.</p>
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Monday 24th August, 2009 at 01:01
<p>Thousands of people with mental health problems will get extra support managing their condition to remain in the workplace, Jim Knight, Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform announced today.</p>
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Friday 21st August, 2009 at 10:08
<p>New best practice guidance published to improve quality and safety of chemotherapy.</p><p>Experts have recommended that all hospitals with an A&E department should provide acute oncology services to ensure the correct treatment of emergency cancer patients and those who suffer severe side effects from chemotherapy, Health Minister Ann Keen announced today.<br /></p>
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Thursday 20th August, 2009 at 12:20
<p>The Government has secured the long-term future of a tax break designed to help small, high-growth companies to recruit and retain highly skilled employees by gaining State Aid approval from the European Commission. </p><p>The Government convinced the European Commission that the Enterprise Management Incentives (EMI), which provide a tax break on share options offered by small and medium sized companies to their employees, play a crucial role in enabling small firms to recruit and retain the highly skilled employees they need to thrive.</p><p>The Government is also widening the eligibility criteria so that companies based in the UK which carry out considerable overseas activity can use EMI to recruit key UK-based staff.</p><p> The certainty provided by the granting of European Commission approval ? which lasts until 2018 ? together with the new eligibility criteria will provide a boost to the 9,000 companies that currently offer share options to their employees under EMI, and is likely to encourage take-up amongst the high growth small firms that will play a vital role in the return to growth in the UK economy.</p>
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Thursday 20th August, 2009 at 12:08
<p>NAT 52.09</p><p>HMRC is writing to half a million companies and tax agents this month, to alert them to important changes to Corporation Tax (CT) filing.</p>
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Thursday 20th August, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p>
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Wednesday 19th August, 2009 at 15:30
<p>HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) officers investigating a £38 million suspected VAT fraud swooped in early morning raids today. The suspected fraud involved the trading of emissions allowances (often called ?carbon credits?). Seven people were arrested in the Gravesend and Greater London areas and twenty seven properties, both business and residential, were searched. Further arrests are likely and the investigation continues. </p>
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Wednesday 19th August, 2009 at 01:01
<p>Survey shows over half of drinkers unaware of link between alcohol and sleep problems</p>
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Tuesday 18th August, 2009 at 12:19
<p>Better value for money and millions of pounds of savings could be
achieved by Fire and Rescue Authorities (FRAs) joining up to buy goods
and services, says a new procurement strategy published today by the
Department for Communities and Local Government. <br /></p>
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Tuesday 18th August, 2009 at 10:56
<p>England has taken its first steps to providing an advanced form of radiotherapy to patients, Health Minister Ann Keen announced today.<br /><br /><br /></p>
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Monday 17th August, 2009 at 15:29
<p>Chancellor Alistair Darling will today visit the hub of the HMRC Business Payment Support Service (BPSS) in Cumbernauld, Glasgow to see how the 7-day a week service is performing in its work to support struggling businesses across the UK. </p><p>Launched in November 2008, the service has helped over 185,000 UK businesses to spread tax payments totalling £3.3b over a timetable they can afford. In Scotland alone, the service has helped 12,000 businesses to spread tax payments of £214m, including 1,470 businesses in Glasgow and 1,230 in Edinburgh<br /><br />The service is staffed by 300 HMRC payment advisers and open seven days a week for businesses who need more time to pay HMRC taxes - including VAT, Corporation Tax, Income Tax and National Insurance Contributions (PAYE).</p>
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Friday 14th August, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:<b></b></p>
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Thursday 13th August, 2009 at 18:25
<p align="center">More than 11 million people in England will be targeted first</p>
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Thursday 13th August, 2009 at 12:13
<p>The UK must move from "relegation candidates to play-off contenders" in the international physical activity league tables to improve health and cut costs ? that?s the message from Health Secretary Andy Burnham today as he set out his vision for a fitter England.</p>
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Thursday 13th August, 2009 at 10:30
<p><strong>Main Points<br /><br /></strong></p>
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Wednesday 12th August, 2009 at 17:50
<p>The Tax Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal have today ordered over 300 banks to give details to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) about their customers who hold offshore accounts.</p>
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Wednesday 12th August, 2009 at 11:38
<p>The Government vowed to keep helping people into jobs as new figures published by the Office for National Statistics are released today. Figures show that while unemployment continues to rise, the ILO count, which is the overall number of people who are unemployed and looking for work, has risen by 220,000 on the quarter to June 2009 which is less than the previous month.</p>
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Tuesday 11th August, 2009 at 11:27
<p>A new online service that allows patients to rate and compare hospitals on issues such as car parking and waiting times was launched today by Health Secretary Andy Burnham.<br /></p>
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Tuesday 11th August, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p><p>GP extended opening hours for month ending July 2009.</p>
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Tuesday 11th August, 2009 at 09:37
<p>Two ground breaking tax agreements between the Government of Liechtenstein and the UK signed today will result in off shore investments in Liechtenstein made by UK residents being properly taxed and represent the commitment of Liechtenstein to increased tax transparency. </p>
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Monday 10th August, 2009 at 01:01
<p align="center"><b><i>FREE</i></b><b><i> ONLINE SERVICE HELPS FIRST-TIME PARENTS </i></b></p><p align="center"><b><a href="http://www.babylifecheck.co.uk">www.babylifecheck.co.uk</a><br /><br /><img alt="Baby Lifecheck" src="https://nds.coi.gov.uk/ImageLibrary/DisplayMedia.ashx?MediaDetailsID=470&SizeId=3" align="middle" border="0" /><br /><br /></b></p>
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Thursday 6th August, 2009 at 18:29
<p>Communities and Local Government Secretary John Denham today welcomed the publication of Sir Ken Knight?s report into issues emerging from the Camberwell fire.</p>
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Thursday 6th August, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p>
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Thursday 6th August, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p>
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Wednesday 5th August, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p>
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Tuesday 4th August, 2009 at 12:43
<p>Housing Minister John Healey and Transport Minister Sadiq Khan have today announced £30 million for transport projects to support the thousands of extra homes being built across the country over the coming months. </p>
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Tuesday 4th August, 2009 at 11:23
<p>Successful projects sharing a multi million fund to help young people from poorer communities to unlock their talents are named today by Local Government Minister Rosie Winterton and Minister for Women and Equality Harriet Harman.</p>
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Monday 3rd August, 2009 at 11:50
<p>A consultation on whether, and if so, how, practitioners of acupuncture, herbal medicine and traditional Chinese medicine should be regulated was launched today by the Department of Health.</p><p><br /></p>
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Monday 3rd August, 2009 at 10:30
<p>Call for lay members to join the council <br />A new Equality and Diversity Council that will strengthen the national focus on improving quality in the National Health Service, was announced by the Department of Health today.</p>
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Friday 31st July, 2009 at 13:04
<p>Housing Minister John Healey has today taken steps to give people confidence that councils allocate housing in their area fairly.</p>
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Friday 31st July, 2009 at 11:35
<p>Measles vaccination rates are still far lower than levels needed to protect the population. This is despite the finding of a new Department of Health survey that over 90 per cent of parents are aware it is the best way to protect their child.</p>
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Friday 31st July, 2009 at 11:34
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Friday 31st July, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p>
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Friday 31st July, 2009 at 01:01
<p>An independent report to clarify the rules on organ transplants for NHS patients and non-UK EU residents was published today by Elisabeth Buggins, former Chair of the Organ Donation Taskforce.</p>
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Thursday 30th July, 2009 at 18:20
<p>The UK Government today introduced legislation to remove VAT from supplies of emissions allowances (also known as carbon credits) traded within the UK, in order to prevent the risk of VAT fraud, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Stephen Timms announced today.</p>
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Thursday 30th July, 2009 at 12:47
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Thursday 30th July, 2009 at 12:03
<p>A new education programme has been developed to provide enhanced training in genetic technologies and clinical applications for healthcare scientists working in laboratory genetics, Health Minister Ann Keen announced today.</p>
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Thursday 30th July, 2009 at 11:43
<p>The future use of Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs) in the NHS, will be fairer and on the same terms as other providers of NHS services, Health Minister Mike O?Brien announced today.</p>
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Thursday 30th July, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The Appointments Commission and the Department of Health have today published guidance to help Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) with their governance arrangements for Provider Committees. </p>
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Wednesday 29th July, 2009 at 16:00
<p>A new minimum interest rate on tax repayments of 0.5% means that in future interest will still be payable even when the Bank of England base rate falls below 1.5% HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) announced today.</p>
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Tuesday 28th July, 2009 at 12:01
<p>Sir David Cooksey has been appointed as Chairman of UK Financial Investments Limited (UKFI), the company set up to manage the Government?s stakes in the banks, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling announced today.</p>
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Tuesday 28th July, 2009 at 11:00
<p>HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has confirmed the details of a new disclosure initiative that will allow people with unpaid taxes linked to offshore accounts or assets to settle their tax liabilities at a favourable penalty rate.</p>
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Tuesday 28th July, 2009 at 10:30
<p>Corner shops nationwide will get help from Change4Life to sell fruit and veg ? this will mean more people will get their 5 a day and shops will see an increase in profits, Secretary of State for Health Andy Burnham said today.</p>
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Monday 27th July, 2009 at 13:21
<p>The latest in a series of online, bite-sized videos for new and small businesses is now available to download free.</p>
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Monday 27th July, 2009 at 11:12
<p>£25 million announced to more than treble the number of NHS apprenticeships.</p>
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Monday 27th July, 2009 at 09:51
<p>Housing Minister John Healey today announced that 270 stalled development projects across the country have been shortlisted for a share of £925m which could help get building work on 22,400 homes back on track and create 20,000 jobs.</p>
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Monday 27th July, 2009 at 01:01
<p>Embargoed until 00.01 Monday 27th 2009</p><p>The Insurance Industry Working Group (IIWG) today published its report into the medium and long-term challenges facing the insurance industry.</p>
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Friday 24th July, 2009 at 14:38
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Friday 24th July, 2009 at 13:46
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Friday 24th July, 2009 at 12:03
<p>Are your kids bored of breaststroke? Fed-up of front crawl? Think they can do better than backstroke and butterfly?</p>
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Friday 24th July, 2009 at 11:31
<p>Are your kids bored of breaststroke? Fed-up of front crawl? Think they can do better than backstroke and butterfly?<br /><br /><br /> </p>
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Thursday 23rd July, 2009 at 15:30
<p>Log on to <a href="http://www.direct.gov.uk/pandemicflu">www.direct.gov.uk/pandemicflu</a> or call 0800 1 513 100 or 0800 1 513 200 (Textphone)</p>
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Thursday 23rd July, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p><p>GUMAMM for month ending May 2009.</p>
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Thursday 23rd July, 2009 at 01:01
<p>New vision to make mental health everyone?s business</p>
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Wednesday 22nd July, 2009 at 18:10
<p>A £9million Tackling Race Inequality Fund (TRIF) to address discrimination and underachievement has been announced by Communities Secretary John Denham today.</p>
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Wednesday 22nd July, 2009 at 13:00
<p>Criminal gangs are targeting taxpayers with thousands of scam emails offering bogus tax refunds. The online attacks, known as ?phishing?, have peaked during July leading to increased reports of fraud to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).</p>
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Wednesday 22nd July, 2009 at 11:12
<p>The United Kingdom welcomes Guernsey?s progress in signing Tax Information Exchange Agreements, which strengthen its reputation as a jurisdiction committed to good governance in tax matters. </p>
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Wednesday 22nd July, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The ?Improving Access to Audiology Services in England?, document in March 2007 stated that:</p>
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Wednesday 22nd July, 2009 at 10:25
<p>Simple measures such as good footcare, sight tests and light exercise can help older people live better, Care Service Minister Phil Hope said today as he launched the Older People?s Prevention Package.<br /></p>
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Tuesday 21st July, 2009 at 14:51
<p>Communities and Local Government Secretary John Denham today announced the reappointment of Michael O?Higgins as Chairman of the Audit Commission.</p>
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Tuesday 21st July, 2009 at 14:40
<p>Housing Minister John Healey today unveiled plans to dismantle the current council housing finance system and replace it with a clearer, more transparent system that puts councils firmly in control and better able to respond to the needs of local tenants and residents. <br /><br /></p>
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Tuesday 21st July, 2009 at 11:17
<p>The Government is today launching a consultation on legislation that would protect 40 of the world?s poorest, most heavily indebted countries from the behaviour of a minority of commercial creditors, such as so-called ?vulture funds?.</p>
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Tuesday 21st July, 2009 at 11:10
<p>Learning from the failings identified at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, Health Secretary Andy Burnham today announced a package of measures to tackle exceptional failures in Foundation Trusts. <br /><br /></p>
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Tuesday 21st July, 2009 at 11:06
<p>Communities Secretary John Denham today heralded the biggest single transfer of power to local government in a generation.</p>
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Tuesday 21st July, 2009 at 01:01
<p>Department of Health and Medical Research Council (MRC) host event at Royal Society</p>
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Monday 20th July, 2009 at 17:57
<p>HM Revenue & Customs has supported more businesses and individuals in the past year than ever before, the HMRC Departmental report published today shows.</p>
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Monday 20th July, 2009 at 11:40
<p>Coastal communities will get new planning powers to help their local economy and tourist industry, Housing and Planning Minister John Healey announced today.</p>
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Monday 20th July, 2009 at 10:41
<p><b>- Department of Health and Home Office publish joint review findings- <br /></b></p><p align="center"><b><br /><br /> </b></p>
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Friday 17th July, 2009 at 10:52
<p>Housing Minister John Healey today announced the release of funding to build 11,200 new homes, regenerate ten of the most deprived areas of the country and create 20,000 jobs in the building industry.</p>
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Thursday 16th July, 2009 at 16:13
<p>Housing Minister Ian Austin today congratulated the innovative projects recognised at this year?s Housing Design Awards for delivering high quality homes to high environmental standards.</p>
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Thursday 16th July, 2009 at 15:49
<p>The Treasury today published the Public Expenditure Outturn White Paper (Cm 7606) showing provisional outturn for Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) and Annually Managed Expenditure (AME) in 2008-09 including information on individual Estimates, near-cash and administration budget limits.</p>
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Thursday 16th July, 2009 at 15:14
<p>The Government has announced today that further changes will be made to strengthen the safety regime for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) bulk installations, following the publication of the inquiry report into the explosion at ICL Plastics which killed nine people and seriously injured 33 people in Glasgow in 2004.</p>
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Thursday 16th July, 2009 at 12:24
<p>After 13 years of activity, the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) Tax Law Rewrite Project is to end next year. The project is responsible for rewriting direct tax legislation, to make it clearer and easier for users to understand.</p>
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Thursday 16th July, 2009 at 11:25
<p>The Department of Health and the Wellcome Trust today invited proposals from organisations and research groups seeking to draw on funding from the Health Innovation Challenge Fund to further the development of innovative healthcare products<br /><br /><br /><br /></p>
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Thursday 16th July, 2009 at 11:18
<p align="center"><b> </b></p><p>New alternatives to statutory regulation for currently unregulated health and occupational professions have been proposed by a specialist working group, Health Minister Ann Keen announced today.</p>
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Thursday 16th July, 2009 at 11:15
<p>The Government strongly welcomes Sir David Walker?s proposals for the reform of the corporate governance of UK banks and other financial institutions.</p><p> </p>
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Thursday 16th July, 2009 at 10:30
<p>Statistical press notice - NHS Referral to Treatment (RTT) times data - May 2009</p>
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Thursday 16th July, 2009 at 10:30
<p>This release provides updated information on key public expenditure series that are compiled and published by HM Treasury as National Statistics. Provisional outturn figures for 2008-09 are being released for the first time as National Statistics. Figures for earlier years update those published in the Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) National Statistics release on 29 May 2009.</p>
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Thursday 16th July, 2009 at 01:01
<p><u>EMBARGOED UNTIL 12.00hrs 16 JULY 2009</u><br /><br />Health Minister Lord Darzi, has praised the dedication and hard work all of those bidding to be amongst the very first to pilot the new Personal Budgets for health, when he addressed the bidding sites for the first time at an event in London today</p>
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Thursday 16th July, 2009 at 01:01
<p>STRICTLY EMBARGOED IN PRINT AND ONLINE UNTIL 0001 16/07/09</p><p>NHS clinical teams will have access to data showing their performance against a set of more than 200 indicators of high quality care in the NHS in one place. It is the next phase in the drive to help NHS professionals improve the quality of care they deliver to patients, and will also support providers and commissioners of NHS services. </p>
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Wednesday 15th July, 2009 at 17:43
<p><u>OPERATIONAL NOTE: NOT FOR PUBLICATION OR BROADCAST</u></p>
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Wednesday 15th July, 2009 at 16:31
<p>New hi-tech digital radios have been installed in over two-thirds of England?s Fire and Rescue Service vehicles and are on track to be fitted in all vehicles by spring 2010, but more time will be required to deliver FiReControl, Fire Minister Shahid Malik announced today.</p>
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Wednesday 15th July, 2009 at 13:29
<p>The Prime Minister?s Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery is today holding a listening event at the City of Manchester Stadium.</p>
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Wednesday 15th July, 2009 at 13:28
<p align="center"><b>£16 million demonstrator sites for breaks, healthchecks and better support from the NHS</b><b></b></p>
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Wednesday 15th July, 2009 at 12:46
<p>Tomorrow (Thursday 16 July 2009) Housing Minister John Healey will announce the first batch of sites that could become the UK?s first eco-towns.</p>
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Wednesday 15th July, 2009 at 12:28
<p>SPEC 13/09<br /><br /><br />With the 31 July deadline for renewing tax credits claims only a few days away, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has issued a final reminder ? fail to renew and your payments will stop.<br /><br /><br /></p>
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Wednesday 15th July, 2009 at 12:23
<p>Councils that have proved they can help businesses in their local area grow will get a share of an extra £100 million from government, announced Local Government Minister Rosie Winterton today.</p>
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Tuesday 14th July, 2009 at 17:00
<p>Housing and Planning Minister John Healey today announced a detailed timetable for the implementation of the new planning regime for major infrastructure projects.</p>
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Tuesday 14th July, 2009 at 13:23
<p>A new Blueprint to put innovation at the heart of healthcare delivery was launched by Lord Drayson and Lord Darzi at Imperial College London today</p>
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Tuesday 14th July, 2009 at 11:25
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Tuesday 14th July, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p>
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Monday 13th July, 2009 at 15:48
<p>The Rt Hon Lord Rooker has been appointed chair of the Food Standards Agency, Secretary of State for Health Andy Burnham announced today.</p>
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Monday 13th July, 2009 at 15:06
<p align="center"><u>OPERATIONAL NOTE: Not for publication or broadcast</u></p><p align="center">Tuesday 14<sup>th</sup> July</p>
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Monday 13th July, 2009 at 13:16
<p>The Government is today launching a strategy ?Building A Society For All Ages?, to help Britain prepare for our ageing society.</p>
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Friday 10th July, 2009 at 15:36
<p>John Denham today visited Portsmouth to hear from local residents and workers about their views on the government's new policy plan, Building Britain's Future.<br /></p>
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Friday 10th July, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The number of suicides in England are at an all-time low, Care Services Minister Phil Hope announced today as he published the latest annual report on suicide prevention.</p>
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Thursday 9th July, 2009 at 14:18
<p>Two consultation documents on modernising HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) powers, deterrents and safeguards are published today.</p>
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Thursday 9th July, 2009 at 11:57
<p>A consultation on a new national three-digit number ? 111 ? that will make it easier for patients to access urgent care wherever they are was launched by Ofcom today.</p>
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Thursday 9th July, 2009 at 11:19
<p>A £70m Migration Impacts Fund, financed by a levy on migrants, will be used to tackle illegal working practices and reduce local pressure on public services, Communities Secretary John Denham announced today.</p>
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Thursday 9th July, 2009 at 01:01
<p>People with dementia and their families will get more support throughout the course of the illness as the first dementia advisors start work from today.<br /><br /><br /></p>
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Wednesday 8th July, 2009 at 17:20
<p><u><br />Swine flu Press Conference ? Technical Briefing<br />OPERATIONAL NOTE: NOT FOR PUBLICATION OR BROADCAST</u></p>
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Wednesday 8th July, 2009 at 13:50
<p>The Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling has today published 'Reforming Financial Markets', a document setting out the Government?s proposals for the reform of the financial system.</p>
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Wednesday 8th July, 2009 at 10:46
<p>A £5million package of measures is being rolled out to help improve services for children and young people with communication problems. A new Communication Champion is also being recruited to raise the profile of these issues, Children?s Secretary, Ed Balls and Care Services Minister Phil Hope announced today. </p>
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Wednesday 8th July, 2009 at 10:30
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Wednesday 8th July, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health</p>
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Tuesday 7th July, 2009 at 14:54
<p>Top architects and specialists including Sir Richard MacCormac and Professor Anne Power are amongst those recruited to take on the challenge of making sure homes of the future meet the needs of our ageing population.</p>
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Tuesday 7th July, 2009 at 11:24
<p><u>OPERATIONAL NOTE: NOT FOR PUBLICATION OR BROADCAST</u></p><p>Care Services Minister Phil Hope will launch 40 new Dementia Demonstrator Sites that will pilot vital services for people with dementia, at the Croydon Memory Clinic on <b>Wednesday 8 July</b>.</p>
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Tuesday 7th July, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The Department of Health has appointed Roy Taylor as the new<b> </b>National Director for Social Care Flu Resilience, Care Services Minister Phil Hope announced today.</p>
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Monday 6th July, 2009 at 17:23
<p>A new independent report has found that a Government programme to provide housing support to vulnerable and homeless people has led to significant savings in the cost of other services.</p>
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Monday 6th July, 2009 at 13:48
<p>Communities Secretary John Denham today instructed the Government?s Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser, Sir Ken Knight, to report back to him urgently on any emerging findings from the various investigations into last Friday?s fatal fire in South London.</p>
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Monday 6th July, 2009 at 12:19
<p align="center"><b>New centre in </b><b>Colchester</b><b> will see patients </b><b>8am-10pm</b><b>, seven days a week <br /><br /><br /><br /></b></p>
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Monday 6th July, 2009 at 10:30
<p><strong>The Government?s Planning Portal is aiming to forge greater links with the English local planning authorities (LPAs) by providing them with the tools that will see them save time, money and effort when <br />dealing with daily planning enquiries.<br /><br /><br /></strong></p>
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Monday 6th July, 2009 at 01:01
<p>NHS sites scored as ?excellent? for hospital environment, food and privacy and dignity are at their highest ever levels according to figures published today by the National Patient Safety Agency.<br /><br /><br /></p>
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Friday 3rd July, 2009 at 11:26
<p>Councils have been given a real boost to help secure the long-term economic prosperity of their communities with last night?s Royal Assent of the Business Rate Supplements Act.<br /><br /><br /></p>
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Thursday 2nd July, 2009 at 16:32
<p>A refreshed offer for voters is needed if we are going to restore trust and confidence in politics Communities Secretary John Denham said today.</p>
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Wednesday 1st July, 2009 at 17:27
<p><br /><br />OPERATIONAL NOTE: NOT FOR PUBLICATION OR BROADCAST</p>
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Wednesday 1st July, 2009 at 11:58
<p>SPEC 12/09<br /><br /><br />Families and individuals currently receiving tax credits are being reminded that they need to renew their claims by 31 July ? otherwise their payments could stop.<br /></p>
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Wednesday 1st July, 2009 at 11:30
<p>The Met Office has raised the heatwave warning alert again today on behalf of the Department of Health.</p>
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Wednesday 1st July, 2009 at 01:01
<p>People in Leeds will get the chance to question Care Services Minister Phil Hope as well as representatives from UNISON and Age Concern/Help the Aged about dignity in care at a Question Time style event hosted by Sir Michael Parkinson in Leeds today.<br /><br /><br /></p>
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Tuesday 30th June, 2009 at 18:53
<p>Councils will be able to keep all their rental income and gain the freedom to manage their housing to meet local need under plans unveiled by John Healey today.</p>
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Tuesday 30th June, 2009 at 13:37
<p>Jim Easton has been appointed NHS National Director for Improvement and Efficiency, the Department of Health announced today.</p>
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Tuesday 30th June, 2009 at 12:07
<p>Being given enough time with a GP and feeling that their problems are taken seriously are the most important factor in patients? satisfaction with their local surgery, according to new data out today. </p>
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Tuesday 30th June, 2009 at 11:33
<p>The Department of Health, the General Medical Council and the General Optical Council today welcome the appointment of Walter Merricks, CBE as the first Chair of the new Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator (OHPA).<br /><br /><br /></p>
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Tuesday 30th June, 2009 at 11:11
<p>Health Profiles 2009 launched</p>
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Tuesday 30th June, 2009 at 11:11
<p>Plans to scrap some centrally driven targets and proposals for giving doctors and nurses control of their budgets were announced by Health Minister Lord Darzi today.<br /><br /><br /></p>
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Tuesday 30th June, 2009 at 10:30
<p>Today Ipsos-MORI have published the results of the 2008-09 GP Patient Survey which they carried out on behalf of the Department of Health.</p>
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Monday 29th June, 2009 at 18:46
<p>As part of the Government?s Building Britain?s Future plans, Housing Minister John Healey has said that construction of thousands of extra homes will begin in a matter of months, thanks to the £1.5 billion pound housing investment announced earlier by the Prime Minister.</p>
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Monday 29th June, 2009 at 10:47
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Friday 26th June, 2009 at 14:48
<p>The Met Office is triggering the Heatwave Plan ? alert level 2 - today on behalf of the Department of Health.</p>
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Friday 26th June, 2009 at 11:44
<p>The United Kingdom welcomes Jersey?s progress in signing Tax Information Exchange Agreements, which strengthen its reputation as a jurisdiction committed to good governance in tax matters.</p>
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Friday 26th June, 2009 at 10:47
<p>The Appointments Commission has agreed to appoint Mr Robert Nicholls CBE as Chair of the General Pharmaceutical Council, the new independent regulator for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy premises from 2010, Health Minister Ann Keen will announce today.</p>
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Friday 26th June, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The key points from the latest release are:</p>
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Thursday 25th June, 2009 at 17:47
<p>The overwhelming majority of all junior doctor rotas will be compliant with the requirements of the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) by 1<sup>st </sup>August 2009, Health Secretary Andy Burnham announced today. </p>
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Thursday 25th June, 2009 at 15:40
<p>The Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson and the All Party Parliamentary Thrombosis Group are today holding a leadership summit on venous thromboembolism (VTE) in the NHS.</p>
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Thursday 25th June, 2009 at 14:19
<p>Responsive and effective local councils will be key to giving taxpayers real value for money, Communities and Local Government Secretary John Denham will tell local authorities today.</p>
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Thursday 25th June, 2009 at 10:30
<p>The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:</p>
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Sunday 14th June, 2009 at 02:01
Concerns about health and looks are driving thousands to cut back on booze
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Friday 12th June, 2009 at 12:46
The public is broadly sympathetic towards people with mental health problems, according to a Department of Health survey published today.
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Friday 12th June, 2009 at 11:30
The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:
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Thursday 11th June, 2009 at 18:36
Check Against Delivery
Chairman, Lord Mayor, Sheriff, Ladies and Gentlemen.
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Thursday 11th June, 2009 at 16:54
A new era in the National Health Service that builds on targets achieved and prioritises quality of care was set out by new Health Secretary Andy Burnham today.
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Thursday 11th June, 2009 at 12:22
Statistical Press Notice
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Thursday 11th June, 2009 at 12:18
Social enterprises which improve the quality of health and social care for local communities can now apply for loans and grants from the Department of Health's Social Enterprise Investment Fund, Care Services Minister Phil Hope announced today.
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Thursday 11th June, 2009 at 11:59
A national consultation that could dramatically change the way every disabled person lives their life is being launched today by Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Yvette Cooper.
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Thursday 11th June, 2009 at 11:30
UK Regional Trade in Goods estimates are released today, for the first quarter of 2009.
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Thursday 11th June, 2009 at 11:30
The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:
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Wednesday 10th June, 2009 at 18:59
New Communities and Local Government Secretary John Denham today pledged to re-examine the relationship between central and local government as part of the Government's drive to renew Britain's democracy and restore trust in the political system at every level.
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Wednesday 10th June, 2009 at 13:55
Efforts to improve workplace safety at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have been recognised by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), with DWP winning a silver Occupational Health and Safety Award 2009.
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Wednesday 10th June, 2009 at 11:30
The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:
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Wednesday 10th June, 2009 at 11:30
Annex 1
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Wednesday 10th June, 2009 at 11:30
www.teenlifecheck.co.uk
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Wednesday 10th June, 2009 at 11:15
Carers Strategy One Year On - More Help For Carers
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Wednesday 10th June, 2009 at 02:01
Councils in England will share a Department of Health grant of £2.5 million to help smokers quit, Public Health Minister Gillian Merron announced today.
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Tuesday 9th June, 2009 at 18:27
A number of employers received special recognition by the Government today for the good work they are doing in getting unemployed people back to work.
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Tuesday 9th June, 2009 at 11:30
The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:
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Monday 8th June, 2009 at 14:42
The UK has today ratified an international treaty that enshrines the human rights of disabled people, Jonathan Shaw, Minister for Disabled People has announced.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is a powerful and explicit statement, which states that disabled people must be able to enjoy, on an equal basis, the same human rights as others.
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Friday 5th June, 2009 at 13:13
The NHS met a number of key commitments on healthcare priorities at the end of the last financial year and continues to show strong financial management, the Department of Health announced today.
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Friday 5th June, 2009 at 13:13
The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:
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Friday 5th June, 2009 at 13:13
STATISTICAL PRESS NOTICE
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Thursday 4th June, 2009 at 15:14
Three men were jailed for a total of ten years for their part in a plot to supply military equipment to keep Iranian F-14 'Tomcat' fighter jets airborne and combat ready in contravention of an embargo on military exports to Iran.
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Tuesday 2nd June, 2009 at 18:42
The Government today laid before Parliament secondary legislation to bring sale and rent back agreements within the scope of Financial Services Authority (FSA) regulation. The Government also published a summary of responses to its consultation on the sale and rent back market, which closed on 1 May 2009. The FSA will publish shortly details of its regulatory regime, which will take effect on 1 July 2009 subject to Parliamentary approval.
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Tuesday 2nd June, 2009 at 12:17
The Department of Health is rolling out a new systems-based approach to improve stop smoking interventions in primary care. This new approach has increased referrals to local NHS Stop Smoking services by up to 49% in pilot areas.
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Tuesday 2nd June, 2009 at 11:30
A new contract that will help improve the use of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), which support the NHS to collect patient feedback on the success of their operations, was today awarded to the Royal College of Surgeons and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
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Monday 1st June, 2009 at 18:22
Local communities will be the driving force behind the UK's recovery from global downturn, Communities Secretary Hazel Blears said today.
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Monday 1st June, 2009 at 14:01
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, James Purnell, today announced the appointments of Isabel Hudson and Bruce Rigby as non-executive directors of the Pensions Regulator. The appointments start from today and will last for a period of four years.
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Monday 1st June, 2009 at 13:35
Mums currently receiving tax credits are being urged to renew their claim by 31 July, otherwise their payments could stop.
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Monday 1st June, 2009 at 13:09
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has issued an important reminder to tax credits claimants - make sure you renew your claim by 31 July, otherwise your payments could stop.
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Friday 29th May, 2009 at 17:05
Her Majesty The Queen has been pleased to approve, under the Bank of England Act 1998 as amended by the Banking Act 2009, the appointment of the following as directors of the Bank of England, starting on 1 June 2009.
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Friday 29th May, 2009 at 16:43
From 1 June 2009, HbA1c (long term blood glucose levels) in all people with diabetes will be measured in millimoles per mol as well as by percentage, the Department of Health said today.
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Friday 29th May, 2009 at 12:59
NHS staff and those involved in health or social care innovation were today urged by Health Minister Lord Darzi to sign up to attend the first NHS Innovation Expo which will take place at London's Excel Exhibition centre on 18-19 June.
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Friday 29th May, 2009 at 12:52
NHS cancer waiting times figures, January to March 2009
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Friday 29th May, 2009 at 11:30
The 2009 Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) National Statistics First Release is published at 9.30am today. This is an annual publication of statistical data on public expenditure outturn from 2003-04 to 2007-08.
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Thursday 28th May, 2009 at 18:37
Tim Cooper has been appointed new Director at the Office for Disability Issues.
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Thursday 28th May, 2009 at 12:38
A new medical 'fit note' to replace the current 'sick note' and help more people stay in work rather than drift into long term sickness is unveiled today along with a twelve week consultation on its design.
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Thursday 28th May, 2009 at 11:37
A new medical 'fit note' to replace the current 'sick note' and help more people stay in work rather than drift into long term sickness is unveiled today along with a twelve week consultation on its design.
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Thursday 28th May, 2009 at 11:30
The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:
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Thursday 28th May, 2009 at 11:30
Main Points
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Wednesday 27th May, 2009 at 12:20
First Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) Research Fellowships announced
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Monday 25th May, 2009 at 02:01
FIRE SERVICES OFFERING FREE BOAT RISK CHECKS
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Thursday 21st May, 2009 at 19:42
A Lancashire businessman was charged today 21 May 2009 with the importation of 21.3 million counterfeit cigarettes at Southampton Container Terminal. This is the biggest detection of its type in the city.
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Thursday 21st May, 2009 at 12:18
A review into the quality of training for junior doctors in the light of the implementation of the European Working Time Directive was announced by Health Secretary Alan Johnson today.
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Thursday 21st May, 2009 at 11:29
The following National Statistics were released today by the Department of Health:
Abortion Statistics, England & Wales: 2008 Main findings:
In 2008, for women resident in England and Wales:
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Wednesday 20th May, 2009 at 17:02
NHS Chief Executive David Nicholson today thanked NHS staff for their hard work improving care for patients this year, including reducing healthcare associated infections and waiting times, and extending GP opening hours.
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Wednesday 20th May, 2009 at 13:30
The Government today responded to the independent inquiry into contaminated blood supplies in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Tuesday 19th May, 2009 at 17:46
On the third day of his official visit to Saudi Arabia, Cohesion Minister Sadiq Khan met a group of British students and senior deans at the Islamic University of Medina where they discussed the needs of Muslim communities and the importance of standing up to violent extremism. He also made a pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca (Umrah), the first western Government Minister to do so.
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Tuesday 19th May, 2009 at 14:14
New advice to help people with respiratory problems cope in a heatwave is published today by the Department of Health.
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Tuesday 19th May, 2009 at 14:10
Practical action to prepare for a potential heatwave is the central theme of the 2009 Heatwave Plan published by the Department of Health today. The plan urges everyone to be aware of the health risks faced by elderly friends and relatives during a heatwave.
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Tuesday 19th May, 2009 at 12:19
HMRC has today published National Statistics on finalised tax credit awards for 2007-08.
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Monday 18th May, 2009 at 18:24
The first Western Minister to make a pilgrimage to Mecca (Umrah)
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Friday 15th May, 2009 at 17:29
New figures published today show A&E departments in England have met the operational standard for 98% of patients to be treated within four hours of arrival at A&E over the last year.
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Friday 15th May, 2009 at 12:46
Agreements have been signed between the UK Government and vaccine manufacturers to secure supplies of up to 90 million doses of pre-pandemic H1N1 vaccine before a pandemic begins, the Department of Health announced today.
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Friday 15th May, 2009 at 12:21
A list of more than 200 indicators of high quality care in the NHS is being published for the first time to help clinicians drive up the quality of care they deliver to patients, the Department of Health and The NHS Information Centre announced today.
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Friday 15th May, 2009 at 11:29
The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:
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Thursday 14th May, 2009 at 14:11
The DWP is writing to 200,000 pensioners who get Pension Credit to encourage them to contact their local council to check if they are entitled to help with their Council Tax or housing costs.
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Wednesday 13th May, 2009 at 17:36
Councils must be 'fully focused' on providing job creation programmes said Local Government Minister John Healey and Employment Minister Tony McNulty in response to a key economic report.
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Wednesday 13th May, 2009 at 16:01
Local Government Minister John Healey has today confirmed that the Government will take action to tackle excessive council tax increases set this year by two police authorities.
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Wednesday 13th May, 2009 at 15:19
All new homes will feature inbuilt protection from hot water scalding in baths and will use water more efficiently under measures announced by Housing Minister Iain Wright today.
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Wednesday 13th May, 2009 at 14:11
Working with young people to reduce arson and attacks on firefighters, raising fire safety awareness among migrant workers, and encouraging minority groups to consider a career in the service were just some of the initiatives praised in the annual Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) Equality and Diversity Awards.
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Wednesday 13th May, 2009 at 13:57
Businesses, charities, voluntary groups and local authorities who have not already contributed to the Government's new race equality consultation are asked to come forward and make their views known.
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Wednesday 13th May, 2009 at 13:53
A major new package of measures to strengthen consumer protections for tenants living in private rented accommodation is being announced today by Housing Minister Margaret Beckett.
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Wednesday 13th May, 2009 at 13:09
A new taskforce of health professionals working together to spot early signs of violence and abuse against women and girls, investigate the scale of the problem and ensure victims across the NHS get the support they need was announced today by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and Health Secretary Alan Johnson.
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Wednesday 13th May, 2009 at 12:31
A major UN treaty that will enshrine the human rights of disabled people will soon be ratified by the UK, Jonathan Shaw, Minister for Disabled People, announced today.
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Wednesday 13th May, 2009 at 11:29
Context
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Wednesday 13th May, 2009 at 11:29
This data shows the NHS' progress in tackling the waiting times for diagnostic tests like scans. The monthly data published today gives the waiting times for 15 key diagnostic tests carried out in the NHS.
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Tuesday 12th May, 2009 at 20:01
Employment figures, published today by the UK Statistics Authority, show another rise in unemployment though almost 300,000 people left the claimant count last month.
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Tuesday 12th May, 2009 at 17:35
A new Government-funded report into levels of racism experienced by members of the UK Chinese community should start a national debate on how best to tackle the problem, Cohesion Minister Sadiq Khan said today.
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Tuesday 12th May, 2009 at 16:22
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears and Culture Secretary Andy Burnham are today urging councils and developers to put good planning, local character and high quality design at the heart of development.
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Tuesday 12th May, 2009 at 13:02
Park and mobile home residents will get more protection from rogue site owners and get easier access to justice if they have a dispute with their site owner under new proposals published today by Housing Minister Iain Wright.
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Tuesday 12th May, 2009 at 12:31
NEXT STAGE IN PERSONAL HEALTHCARE BUDGETS ANNOUNCED
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Tuesday 12th May, 2009 at 11:29
The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:
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Tuesday 12th May, 2009 at 11:29
The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:
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Monday 11th May, 2009 at 17:16
The Department of Health is inviting applications for partnerships between health, social care, education and business sectors to become Health Innovation and Education Clusters (HIECs) , which will deliver high quality care to patients, it announced today.
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Monday 11th May, 2009 at 13:22
Financial Services Secretary Paul Myners today published a report setting out the Government's initial thinking on reforms to strengthen the UK's ability to deal with the failure of an investment bank.
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Friday 8th May, 2009 at 20:11
The outstanding bravery of firefighters was recognised at the Firefighters' Charity 'Spirit of Fire Awards 2009'.
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Friday 8th May, 2009 at 13:22
The latest fire statistics for the UK covering the 12-month period up to 30 June 2008 continue to show a fall in the total number of primary fires - down 11 per cent and now at their lowest total since 1981.
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Friday 8th May, 2009 at 12:57
The first step towards producing a European prototype of a swine flu vaccine has been achieved by the Health Protection Agency (HPA), Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced today.
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Thursday 7th May, 2009 at 16:25
Two new Chief Executives were today appointed to lead the West Midlands and Yorkshire and Humber Strategic Health Authorities. Ian Cumming will lead West Midlands SHA and Bill McCarthy will lead Yorkshire and Humber SHA.
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Thursday 7th May, 2009 at 15:38
Bar and restaurant workers have today been given a helping hand by the Court of Appeal in their fight for fair pay. The court ruled in HM Revenue & Customs' favour by upholding current national minimum wage legislation relating to tips, gratuities and discretionary service charges in the case of Annabel's restaurant and night club and others.
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Thursday 7th May, 2009 at 13:36
Commercial and procurement skills across the NHS will receive a major boost to help deliver high quality, personalised care for patients, following the publication of a new Commercial Operating Model by the Department of Health today.
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Thursday 7th May, 2009 at 13:08
Over two hundred representatives from businesses, charities, voluntary groups and local authorities will have the chance to have their say on how Government develops its future approach to race equality at a listening event in London today.
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Thursday 7th May, 2009 at 12:59
Local health agencies and schools must improve the management of childhood asthma to help children lead full and healthy lives, Alan Johnson, Secretary of State for Health urged today.
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Thursday 7th May, 2009 at 12:32
A reformed financial services sector will play an important role in Britain's economic recovery, according to a report published today by the Financial Services Global Competitiveness Group, co-chaired by the Chancellor Alistair Darling and former Citi Chairman Sir Win Bischoff.
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Thursday 7th May, 2009 at 12:12
The latest Households Below Average Income figures were published today. The statistics cover the UK income distribution in 2007/08, including the latest figures for the number and percentage of children, pensioners and working-age people in the UK living in relative and absolute poverty.
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Thursday 7th May, 2009 at 11:30
The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:
Report on the National Patient Choice Survey, December 2008, England
The main findings of the December survey are:
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Wednesday 6th May, 2009 at 14:19
HMRC has launched a new teaching resource for secondary schools - Tax Matters.
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Wednesday 6th May, 2009 at 14:01
Councils must listen to the views of local people to work smarter and make greater efficiency savings, Communities Secretary Hazel Blears said today.
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Wednesday 6th May, 2009 at 12:39
A strategy for delivering the new homes, jobs and infrastructure the South East needs until 2026 was announced by Communities Minister Sadiq Khan today.
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Wednesday 6th May, 2009 at 11:30
New growth charts launched for National Breastfeeding Awareness Week
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Wednesday 6th May, 2009 at 11:21
The Department of Health is to provide £1.6 million to Macmillan to improve services and support for those living with and beyond cancer, Health Minister, Ann Keen announced today.
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Tuesday 5th May, 2009 at 18:15
Ian Dalton has been appointed the new National Director for NHS Flu Resilience at the Department of Health, Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced today.
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Tuesday 5th May, 2009 at 16:25
A new planning policy setting out a comprehensive approach for planning for sustainable economic growth in all parts of the country has been published for consultation by Housing and Planning Minister Margaret Beckett today.
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Tuesday 5th May, 2009 at 12:29
Scott Watkin named as the Department of Health's new Co-National Director for Learning Disabilities
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Tuesday 5th May, 2009 at 11:44
The 19 May deadline for Employer Annual Returns is fast approaching and HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is issuing a final reminder to employers - file on time, or you could face a late-filing penalty.
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Tuesday 5th May, 2009 at 02:01
Building work to continue the progress made and finally eliminate mixed-sex accommodation in hospitals across England has started with over 700 projects planned across 200 organisations, Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced today.
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Sunday 3rd May, 2009 at 13:50
30,000 lone NHS workers are to receive personal security alarms from today, following a commitment made by Health Secretary Alan Johnson to improve the safety and security of staff.
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Friday 1st May, 2009 at 13:31
OVER £220 MILLION ALSO ANNOUNCED THIS WEEK TO BOOST NHS INNOVATION
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Thursday 30th April, 2009 at 15:36
- Chief Nursing Officer approves immediate steps to boost patient care -
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Thursday 30th April, 2009 at 13:38
- Chief Nursing Officer approves immediate steps to boost patient care -
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Thursday 30th April, 2009 at 12:34
The Government has today published its response to Lord Bradley's report on people with mental health problems and learning difficulties in the Criminal Justice System.
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Thursday 30th April, 2009 at 11:40
Today, the Department for Work and Pensions will sign a historic arrangement with five other countries to enhance cooperation on tackling benefit fraud. This costs the UK taxpayer £800 million a year.
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Wednesday 29th April, 2009 at 14:50
The UK's three tax-based Venture Capital Schemes (the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS); Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) and the Corporate Venturing Scheme (CVS)), have each received formal state aid approval from the European Commission. This allows the Government to provide certainty to the venture capital industry, investors and small companies over the future of the schemes.
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Wednesday 29th April, 2009 at 02:01
Minister receives first responses to Autism consultation in person
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Tuesday 28th April, 2009 at 19:50
Health Minister, Ann Keen today chaired the first meeting of the Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery.
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Tuesday 28th April, 2009 at 13:39
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears has today unveiled a series of measures to back a people's revolution to recycle buildings by putting real power in the hands of locals to support communities during the downturn and beyond.
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Tuesday 28th April, 2009 at 13:03
A comprehensive strategy for accelerating the pace of delivery for the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) and introducing additional supplier capacity was outlined by the Department of Health's Director General for Informatics today.
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Tuesday 28th April, 2009 at 11:43
The Government today challenged councils, charities and other organisations to submit innovative bids for funding for new jobs from the £1bn Future Jobs Fund which will create 150,000 new jobs.
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Tuesday 28th April, 2009 at 02:01
The Government announced today that they are looking at officially recognising Workers Memorial Day, to commemorate the thousands of people who have been killed, seriously injured or made ill through work. It would also provide an annual focal point for the importance of healthy and safe workplaces.
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Monday 27th April, 2009 at 16:28
The task of fitting all fire appliances in England with new digital - Firelink - radios is well underway as one third of fire appliances in England have now been done. This is 3,000 vehicles.
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Monday 27th April, 2009 at 15:00
A £220 million fund will be made available to encourage innovation within the NHS, Health Minister Lord Darzi announced today, during an event at the Science Museum in London to mark the launch of 'Innovation for a Healthier Future', a series of initiatives to nurture and reward innovation within the NHS.
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Monday 27th April, 2009 at 14:08
London's health and crime experts held a summit today to collaborate in the fight against violent crime. Senior clinicians from the capital's Accident and Emergency departments, and representatives from the Police, showcased the work of six London NHS Trusts who have been piloting a data sharing scheme to crack down on violent crime.
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Monday 27th April, 2009 at 11:30
The North West, the second busiest region in the country for 999 calls to the fire and rescue service took a step nearer today to being a part of a new national network of Fire Control Centres when Fire Minister Sadiq Khan officially handed over a new regional centre to the fire authorities.
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Monday 27th April, 2009 at 02:01
A drug treatment referral scheme to get drug users off benefits and back into work starts operating across England today, announced Employment and Welfare Reform Minister Tony McNulty.
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Sunday 26th April, 2009 at 02:01
Fire Minister Sadiq Khan today paid tribute to the work of firefighters throughout the country at an inaugural thanksgiving service.
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Saturday 25th April, 2009 at 02:01
Thousands of lives saved thanks to vaccine success
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Friday 24th April, 2009 at 16:36
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears is encouraging everyone to show their community spirit and get involved in making preparations for the BIG LUNCH - a national event, taking place on 19th July, which is hoping to see millions of people across Britain get together with their neighbours to share food, drink and conversation.
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Friday 24th April, 2009 at 11:48
New Change4Life advert to get the nation moving
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Friday 24th April, 2009 at 11:30
The Department for Work and Pensions has extended its successful benefit cheats hotline to the Costa del Sol and Canary Islands following its launch in Alicante in September 2008.
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Thursday 23rd April, 2009 at 15:54
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears and Health Secretary Alan Johnson will visit Sunderland today to hear first hand how local leaders are making use of devolved powers in responding to pressures facing their communities, explain what government is doing to provide real and practical support and find out what further help authorities need to get on with the job.
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Thursday 23rd April, 2009 at 14:23
£75 million to get 50,000 unemployed into social care work
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Thursday 23rd April, 2009 at 14:09
In his Budget statement yesterday the Chancellor announced further help for businesses facing difficulties in paying their tax. From 22 April 2009, any viable business anticipating making a trading loss in the current tax year will be able to have the anticipated loss taken into account as part of any rescheduling of its Corporation Tax or Income Tax payments.
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Thursday 23rd April, 2009 at 13:37
Cohesion Minister Sadiq Khan has called on communities to use St George's Day to celebrate the best of British values.
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Thursday 23rd April, 2009 at 13:07
In line with the government's commitment to support a robust and stable carbon market, HM Treasury today published the Community Emission Trading Scheme (Auctioning of Allowances) Scheme 2009. This replaces the Community Emission Trading Scheme (Allocation of Allowances for Payment) Scheme 2008. The Scheme sets out how the UK will conduct auctions of carbon allowances and the terms governing participation in auctions during Phase II of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
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Thursday 23rd April, 2009 at 12:47
A series of reforms aimed at creating simpler and easier access to geographical data were announced by Housing Minister Iain Wright today.
The Government has published a new strategy for the Ordnance Survey, the business responsible for the national mapping of Great Britain, which will improve ease of access to geographic data and services for both commercial and non-commercial use.
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Thursday 23rd April, 2009 at 12:26
The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:
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Thursday 23rd April, 2009 at 11:30
Main Points
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Wednesday 22nd April, 2009 at 19:10
Today's Budget delivered an extra £3.1bn to help people looking for work. This includes a guaranteed offer of work or training to every 18-24 year old in Britain at risk of becoming long-term unemployed. More than £1bn will be invested in young people, and others at disadvantage in the labour market, to make sure a generation is not written off.
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Wednesday 22nd April, 2009 at 16:03
The Department of Health is contributing £2.3bn in additional savings, as part of £5bn efficiencies in spending across the public sector in 2010/11, announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer today.
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Wednesday 22nd April, 2009 at 15:32
Check against delivery
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Wednesday 22nd April, 2009 at 15:26
2009-10 rates and allowances for VAT, Income tax, Capital Gains tax, Inheritance tax, Corporation tax on profits, National Insurance Contributions, the Working and Child Tax Credit, Guardian's Allowance, stamp taxes and duties, transfers of shares and stocks, tobacco and alcohol duties, gambling tax, fuel duties, vehicle excise duties and tax relief for business expenditure on cars are set out below.
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Wednesday 22nd April, 2009 at 15:22
The Government's economic objective is to build a strong economy and a fair society, where there is opportunity and security for all. Budget 2009, Building's Britain's Future, presents updated assessments and forecasts of the economy and public finances and reports on how in the face of a steep and synchronised global downturn, the Government is delivering a comprehensive and coherent package of targeted support to continue to help households and businesses, while implementing a strategy to support a strong and sustainable recovery.
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Wednesday 22nd April, 2009 at 15:22
Today the Chancellor announces a series of measures to protect the tax system from abuse and ensure that all individuals and businesses pay their fair share of tax.
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Wednesday 22nd April, 2009 at 11:41
People who lose their jobs are getting real help to find their way back into work said Employment Minister Tony McNulty today.
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Wednesday 22nd April, 2009 at 11:33
This release provides new estimates of financial year outturn for some key public expenditure series that are compiled and published by HM Treasury as National Statistics. Updates are provided for 2007-08 and earlier years.
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Wednesday 22nd April, 2009 at 11:30
A new support team to tackle infant mortality was launched today by Public Health Minister Dawn Primarolo, who said it would help turn the tide on health inequalities.
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Tuesday 21st April, 2009 at 16:17
The findings of the Operational Efficiency Programme (OEP), a year-long programme examining operational spending in the public sector, are published today showing scope for £15 billion of efficiency savings.
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Tuesday 21st April, 2009 at 13:33
Efforts to get families back home following the 2007 Summer floods continue at pace with almost 40 families returning home each week and many councils predicting that everyone in their area will be back in the next couple of months Floods Recovery Minister John Healey said today.
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Tuesday 21st April, 2009 at 12:30
New support to help homeowners remain in their homes if they fall on difficult times will be available from today, announced Housing Minister Margaret Beckett.
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Monday 20th April, 2009 at 18:51
Five people across Merseyside have today been sentenced in relation to tax credit fraud totalling over £150,000.
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Monday 20th April, 2009 at 16:34
Third sector leaders join Health Minister to launch New Programme
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Monday 20th April, 2009 at 15:53
The Government has today taken another significant step in the fight against tobacco smuggling as Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, Angela Eagle today signed anti-smuggling agreements with two international tobacco manufacturers.
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Monday 20th April, 2009 at 15:28
The Government has today taken another significant step in the fight against tobacco smuggling as Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, Angela Eagle today signed anti-smuggling agreements with two international tobacco manufacturers.
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Monday 20th April, 2009 at 11:30
Peter Housden, Permanent Secretary has announced the appointment of two new non-executive members of the Board of Communities and Local Government.
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Friday 17th April, 2009 at 19:18
Her Majesty The Queen has been pleased to approve, under the Bank of England Act 1998, the appointment of Sir David Lees to succeed Sir John Parker as the new Chair of the Court of the Bank of England. This appointment is for a period of three years starting in June 2009.
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Friday 17th April, 2009 at 13:30
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has issued a timely reminder to Scotland's 85,000 employers - file your Employer Annual Return by the 19 May deadline, or you could end up with a late-filing penalty.
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Friday 17th April, 2009 at 12:27
New stats reveal England's calorific alcohol intake
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Thursday 16th April, 2009 at 12:51
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has issued a timely reminder to employers - file your Employer Annual Return by the 19 May deadline, or you could end up with a late-filing penalty.
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Thursday 16th April, 2009 at 12:51
Over 40 leading figures from healthcare, business and the public sector will today become part of the National Leadership Council (NLC) for the NHS.
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Wednesday 15th April, 2009 at 16:15
Nestor Healthcare Group, the Royal Mail, Poundland and Dunelm Mill are just a few of the 142 national companies working with Jobcentre Plus to discuss take up of the Government's recruitment subsidy, which will help unemployed people of six months or more into employment.
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Wednesday 15th April, 2009 at 14:59
Thousands of miners suffering from Osteoarthritis of the knee, commonly known as 'Miners' Knee' will be able to claim help from the Government, it was announced today.
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Wednesday 15th April, 2009 at 12:11
Statistical Press notice: GP Extended Opening Hours - monthly update
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Tuesday 14th April, 2009 at 15:19
Just as families suffering from drug addiction are being helped to conquer their problems, so the benefits system can better help alcoholics get sober and back to work, said Secretary of State for Work and Pensions James Purnell today.
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Tuesday 14th April, 2009 at 14:37
A new website to support partnerships between NHS staff and trade unions was announced by Health Minister, Ann Keen today.
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Tuesday 14th April, 2009 at 13:28
HM Treasury and the Financial Services Authority (FSA) today launched Moneymadeclear, a service offering practical and impartial help and information on money matters for people in the North East and North West of England. The new service aims to help people tackle their money worries and make informed financial decisions with confidence, whether it's avoiding debt problems, coping with a change in circumstances, or preparing for the future.
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Tuesday 14th April, 2009 at 12:35
Temporarily converting empty shops into social enterprises, local art displays or learning centres will help innovative communities prevent high streets declining said Communities Secretary Hazel Blears today.
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Sunday 12th April, 2009 at 02:01
The millions of people who suffer from or might face mental illness at some point in their lives will be the focus of a new strategy, Care Services Minister Phil Hope announced today.
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Thursday 9th April, 2009 at 11:46
Ex-servicemen and women who are seriously injured are to be given priority for specially adapted social homes, announced Housing Minister Iain Wright today.
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Thursday 9th April, 2009 at 11:30
- Dentists and their teams invited to engagement events countrywide -
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Wednesday 8th April, 2009 at 14:00
Local authorities that join up their services for the elderly can improve their own efficiency and bring real benefits to older people. This was one of the conclusions of a series of pilot schemes run in eight local authorities across England and Wales.
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Wednesday 8th April, 2009 at 11:30
STATISTICAL PRESS NOTICE
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Wednesday 8th April, 2009 at 11:30
Young people will get extra encouragement to unlock their talents as part of a £10m Inspiring Communities initiative, Communities Secretary Hazel Blears announced today.
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Wednesday 8th April, 2009 at 11:30
The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:
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Tuesday 7th April, 2009 at 19:41
On the second day of his visit to Pakistan, Cohesion Minister Sadiq Khan met with the country's Prime Minister, held a debate with university students and went to visit a project funded by donations from the British Public.
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Monday 6th April, 2009 at 18:39
The Government's Cohesion Minister Sadiq Khan is visiting Pakistan this week, meeting senior members of the Pakistan Government, to build on work to prevent violent extremism in the UK and Pakistan.
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Monday 6th April, 2009 at 17:02
Interactive consultation on planning applications are just one of the innovative ways ten councils around the country are making it easier for people to get information about their local council services, Communities Secretary Hazel Blears announced today (Monday, 6 April).
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Monday 6th April, 2009 at 14:19
Mothers-to-be can now claim a tax-free cash bonus of £190.
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Monday 6th April, 2009 at 14:17
Eighteen major catering companies, including many high street brands, will introduce calorie information on their menus for the first time.
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Monday 6th April, 2009 at 10:56
The Government is today [Monday 6 April 2009] implementing tax cuts and increasing benefits to provide help for families and individuals in dealing with the effects of the global economic downturn. A number of important changes for families and individuals will come into effect with the start of the new tax year today
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Monday 6th April, 2009 at 10:56
Mothers-to-be can now claim a tax-free cash bonus of £190.
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Monday 6th April, 2009 at 10:56
The weekly full basic State Pension will rise by five per cent from £90.70 to £95.25 from today - almost an extra £5 a week.
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Monday 6th April, 2009 at 10:56
From today businesses will be able to take advantage of up to £2500 recruitment and 'on the job' training subsidies, as an incentive to take on people who've been looking for work for six months or more. The subsidy is worth £1000 and the company can, depending on location, access up to £1500 worth of in-work training.
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Friday 3rd April, 2009 at 16:42
The creation of a statutory tower crane registration scheme to improve tower crane safety and public confidence in their safety is announced today.
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Friday 3rd April, 2009 at 14:43
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears today kicked off the first in a series of regional events which will hear views from the public about Government's plans for a new race equality strategy and how we can make society stronger and fairer for everyone.
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Friday 3rd April, 2009 at 12:16
A new tax deadline calendar for 2009/10 has been produced by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) especially for small businesses.
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Thursday 2nd April, 2009 at 12:20
Guidance on the new tax appeals and review system has been published today by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
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Thursday 2nd April, 2009 at 11:29
Senior representatives of the Liechtenstein Government and HM Revenue & Customs met on 1 April to discuss how to take forward increased tax transparency between the UK and Liechtenstein following publication of the Liechtenstein Declaration on 12 March.
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Thursday 2nd April, 2009 at 02:01
New guidance for NHS and Local authority staff
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Wednesday 1st April, 2009 at 18:26
Patient feedback on operations and the start of the new NHS and Social care complaints system are two of the measures that will come into force today, marking a major milestone, that will ensure quality of patient care is at the centre of everything the NHS does, the Department of Health announced today.
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Wednesday 1st April, 2009 at 15:42
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears announces today successful third sector organisations - charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises - which are to share multi million funding for projects helping to give people a real say in their communities.
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Wednesday 1st April, 2009 at 13:28
A new national network to target tobacco and alcohol smuggling was launched today.
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Wednesday 1st April, 2009 at 12:33
Mike Taylor begins his re-appointment as the Health and Social Care Commissioner for the North West and West Midlands at the Appointments Commission today.
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Wednesday 1st April, 2009 at 11:31
Patients in 16 pilot sites will benefit from a trial to see how health and social care services can join together to increase quality of care, Health Minister Ben Bradshaw and Care Services Minister Phil Hope announced today.
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Wednesday 1st April, 2009 at 11:30
Some of the most vulnerable people in society will be better protected against abuse and poor care as a result of new legislation coming into force today.
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Wednesday 1st April, 2009 at 02:01
Patient feedback on operations and the start of the new NHS and Social care complaints system are two of the measures that will come into force today, marking a major milestone, that will ensure quality of patient care is at the centre of everything the NHS does, the Department of Health announced.
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Wednesday 1st April, 2009 at 02:01
Patient feedback on operations and the start of the new NHS and Social care complaints system are two of the measures that will come into force today, marking a major milestone, that will ensure quality of patient care is at the centre of everything the NHS does, the Department of Health announced today.
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Tuesday 31st March, 2009 at 19:07
Fire safety regulations for sub-surface and underground railway stations have been published today.
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Tuesday 31st March, 2009 at 18:37
Businesses will be able spread payment of this year's inflation up-rating to Business Rates over three years, under new legislation announced by the Government today.
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Tuesday 31st March, 2009 at 13:57
A host of regional events aimed specifically at helping Black-led voluntary and community sector organisations kicked off today in London.
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Monday 30th March, 2009 at 18:10
Sir Michael Pitt was announced as the chair of new Infrastructure Planning Commission today.
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Monday 30th March, 2009 at 17:14
New proposals for the full disclosure of senior staff pay and perks at local councils were announced by Local Government Minister John Healey today.
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Monday 30th March, 2009 at 16:01
A bumper package of measures to increase consistency and streamline how business, agents and other customers work with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) will be introduced in April.
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Monday 30th March, 2009 at 12:18
A new framework to regulate the safety and quality of health and social care services was published today by the Department of Health, ahead of the new Care Quality Commission coming into effect on 1 April 2009.
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Monday 30th March, 2009 at 12:15
A consortium headed up by University College London has been chosen by the Department of Health to head up a nationally accredited training system for NHS Stop Smoking practitioners.
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Monday 30th March, 2009 at 11:20
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Governor of the Bank of England have today announced a resolution for the Dunfermline Building Society that protects depositors, and provides a more stable and secure future for the society's members.
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Monday 30th March, 2009 at 10:11
Today sees the start of a roll out of new uniform for the Fire and Rescue Service that has been specifically designed for a modern diverse workforce.
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Sunday 29th March, 2009 at 14:43
NHS Health Checks, which could prevent 1600 heart attacks and strokes each year and help save 650 lives will begin from April this year, announced Health Secretary Alan Johnson today.
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Sunday 29th March, 2009 at 11:30
NHS Health Checks, which could prevent 1600 heart attacks and strokes each year and help save 650 lives will begin from April this year, announced Health Secretary Alan Johnson today.
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Friday 27th March, 2009 at 16:42
The source of up to 50,000 litres of laundered green diesel seized at the Port of Holyhead earlier this week is being investigated by officers from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
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Friday 27th March, 2009 at 12:13
£170 million of funding is today being allocated to 29 transport projects that will support the development of new housing, announced Housing Minister Margaret Beckett and Transport Minister Paul Clark.
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Friday 27th March, 2009 at 10:39
This is the 1st quarterly practice survey for 2009, covering a sample of practices from each primary care trust (PCT). The aims of the survey are to get feedback from practices on their perception of the support offered by their PCT and on the clinical and financial engagement of practices with Practice Based Commissioning (PBC). The survey is part of a group of indicators that will be assessed together to give a picture of PBC implementation.
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Friday 27th March, 2009 at 10:30
Main Points This Month
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Thursday 26th March, 2009 at 14:25
The average rise in council tax per household next year will be the lowest ever, Local Government Minister John Healey announced today.
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Thursday 26th March, 2009 at 12:42
More lives have been saved and fires prevented thanks to the success of firefighters carrying out Home Fire Risk Safety Checks says an independent report published today.
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Thursday 26th March, 2009 at 12:09
£22 million of new European cash will be used to increase employment opportunities and develop people's work skills, Employment Minister Tony McNulty announced today.
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Thursday 26th March, 2009 at 11:52
The NHS is celebrating the shortest waits since its records began, Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced today. New data shows that across England the NHS has met its target to treat patients within a maximum of 18 weeks from referral by their GP - an achievement that was unimaginable 12 years ago. The average wait for treatment for admitted patients is now just 8.6 weeks.
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Thursday 26th March, 2009 at 10:30
STATISTICAL PRESS NOTICE
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Thursday 26th March, 2009 at 01:01
-Free EHIC card would give travellers peace of mind-
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Wednesday 25th March, 2009 at 12:48
The Government and the Church of England today published 'Churches and Faith Buildings: Realising the Potential', to help all faith groups find resources to make faith buildings more sustainable by enhancing the facilities and services they offer to local communities.
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Wednesday 25th March, 2009 at 10:35
The Government today set out its proposals for helping rural communities to thrive in the 21st Century by providing more affordable housing and greater freedom to develop strong local economies.
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Wednesday 25th March, 2009 at 10:00
Care Services Minister Phil Hope today underlined the benefits of a career in social work while promoting a nationwide recruitment campaign.
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Wednesday 25th March, 2009 at 01:01
A record number of improvements in the 2008 annual NHS staff survey, including best ever results for infection control, was welcomed by Health Minister Ann Keen today.
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Tuesday 24th March, 2009 at 13:45
A football match involving people from different faiths is just one of the activities that could take place in England's first-ever 'Inter Faith Week', Communities and Local Government Secretary Hazel Blears announced today.
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Tuesday 24th March, 2009 at 13:13
A £1 million fund to recruit a new generation of green-fingered apprentices to keep England's parks and green spaces growing has been announced today by Housing Minister Margaret Beckett.
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Tuesday 24th March, 2009 at 11:23
Small employers are being urged to file their 2008/09 Employer Annual Return online this year, and get a £75 tax-free payment in the process.
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Monday 23rd March, 2009 at 12:22
Following a Whitehall-wide competition the Prime Minister, on the recommendation of the Chancellor, has appointed Tom Scholar as Second Permanent Secretary, International and Finance directorate, HM Treasury.
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Friday 20th March, 2009 at 11:40
Measurements to improve the regulation and governance of healthcare professionals, providing greater reassurances for the public and professionals, were today set out in two reports published today by the Department of Health.
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Friday 20th March, 2009 at 01:01
* Carrying Condoms no longer taboo as women today twice as likely to carry condoms than their mother's generation
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Thursday 19th March, 2009 at 17:37
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears and Home Secretary Jacqui Smith today (Thursday, 19 March) announced details of a new multi million pound fund to support communities in managing local pressures from migration.
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Thursday 19th March, 2009 at 15:10
More than £1 million will help disabled groups run their own organisations and help people to live full and independent lives, Care Services Minister, Phil Hope announced today.
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Thursday 19th March, 2009 at 14:15
The Chancellor of the Exchequer today announced that David Miles has been appointed to succeed David Blanchflower as an external member on the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). The appointment, which was made in accordance with the new process for external MPC appointments announced by the Chancellor in June 2008, will take effect on 1 June 2009.
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Thursday 19th March, 2009 at 11:19
Delivering the best possible care for patients will be at the heart of changes to the GP quality incentive scheme, the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), Health Minister Ben Bradshaw announced today.
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Thursday 19th March, 2009 at 11:08
UK residents visiting the Channel Islands must ensure they have adequate travel insurance from 1 April. The recommendation comes from the Department of Health as the healthcare arrangements for UK visitors to the Islands are due to change.
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Thursday 19th March, 2009 at 11:08
UK travellers facing hefty medical bills for treatment in Europe
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Wednesday 18th March, 2009 at 16:46
Housing Minister Margaret Beckett today met one of the first people in the country to benefit from the Government's new HomeBuy Direct scheme.
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Wednesday 18th March, 2009 at 13:45
Speaking today in the House of Commons the Health Secretary Alan Johnson said:
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Wednesday 18th March, 2009 at 12:11
20,000 severely visually impaired people will be entitled to receive the higher rate mobility component of Disability Living Allowance, James Purnell, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, announced in the House of Commons yesterday.
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Wednesday 18th March, 2009 at 11:24
Help, support and advice will continue to be available for everyone who loses their job in the current global recession, pledged Employment Minister Tony McNulty today.
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Tuesday 17th March, 2009 at 18:43
Jean-Christophe Gray, currently a senior civil servant in HM Treasury's International Finance Directorate, has been appointed Head of Press at HM Treasury and becomes the Chancellor's principal spokesperson on all economic and policy issues.
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Tuesday 17th March, 2009 at 14:42
A new agency to ensure national mental health policies bring about real improvements for patients and carers will start work on 1 April, Care Services Minister Phil Hope announced today.
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Tuesday 17th March, 2009 at 14:02
The Department of Health today responded to the Healthcare Commission investigation at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.
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Tuesday 17th March, 2009 at 14:02
The Department of Health today responded to the Healthcare Commission investigation at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.
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Tuesday 17th March, 2009 at 13:54
£1,000 each for newly qualified adult social workers and their supervisors for extra support in the first year of practice
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Tuesday 17th March, 2009 at 13:49
An additional £8 million to help disabled people remain in work will be made available this year through the highly successful Access to Work programme, announced Minister for Disabled People Jonathan Shaw today.
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Tuesday 17th March, 2009 at 12:23
Cohesion Minister Sadiq Khan today announced the names and details of 32 projects across the country which will share in money from the Preventing Violent Extremism Community Leadership Fund (CLF).
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Monday 16th March, 2009 at 16:44
The 2012 Olympics should be promoted as part of a series of "festival events" in order to involve as many people as possible and to leave a lasting legacy, a team of experts from Canterbury Christ Church University in Kent have concluded.
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Monday 16th March, 2009 at 13:45
The Professional Services Global Competitivnesss Group (PSGC) has today published its report into the medium and long-term challenges facing professional services in the UK.
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Monday 16th March, 2009 at 13:12
Lay and expert members appointed to National Quality Board
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Monday 16th March, 2009 at 12:11
Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer, today published his 2008 Annual Report, in which he called for society to recognise the effect of 'passive drinking' on society. He wants to see a shift in public opinion on alcohol similar to the move to smoke-free public places, so that being drunk is no longer an aim of drinking nor socially acceptable.
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Friday 13th March, 2009 at 12:20
Two new e-learning packages to help agents and taxpayers understand the new framework for compliance checks and penalties that come into effect in April, are now available.
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Friday 13th March, 2009 at 11:53
Local Government Minister John Healey has today announced an additional £750,000 cash injection to help provide practical advice to people in coalfield communities on getting through these tough economic times.
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Friday 13th March, 2009 at 11:21
The list of successful bidders for the Express LIFT (Local Improvement Finance Trust) framework, which will reduce the time and cost in appointing LIFT partners for Primary Care Trusts and local authorities, has been published today by the Department of Health.
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Friday 13th March, 2009 at 10:44
A panel of experts is to carry out an evidence review to determine whether women under the age of 25 should be routinely screened for cervical cancer, Health Minister Ann Keen announced today.
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Friday 13th March, 2009 at 10:39
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) announce today their interest rates charged on late payments and paid on overpayments.
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Thursday 12th March, 2009 at 15:00
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has appointed Judy Clements as the Adjudicator. She takes over from Dame Barbara Mills.
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Thursday 12th March, 2009 at 14:17
Today's announcement by the Liechtenstein Government of its intention to sign up to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD) standards of transparency and exchange of information is the culmination of many years of internationally co-ordinated work on the part of the UK tax authorities working in partnership with colleagues in the OECD and recent collaboration between HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), the UK embassy in Berne and the Liechtenstein Government.
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Thursday 12th March, 2009 at 13:01
National figures released today show that the number of vulnerable young 16 and 17 year olds being housed in bed and breakfast accommodation has fallen by 40 per cent over the last year.
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Thursday 12th March, 2009 at 10:30
UK Regional Trade in Goods estimates are released today, for the fourth quarter of 2008.
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Thursday 12th March, 2009 at 10:30
Plans for delivering the new homes, jobs and infrastructure the East Midlands needs up to 2026 were announced by Communities Minister Sadiq Khan today.
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Wednesday 11th March, 2009 at 16:26
Important:
This notice constitutes advice issued by HM Treasury about serious threats posed to the integrity of the international financial system. The Money Laundering Regulations 2007 require firms to put in place policies, procedures or systems in order to prevent money laundering or terrorist financing. Regulated businesses are also required to apply enhanced customer due diligence and enhanced ongoing monitoring on a risk-sensitive basis in certain defined situations and in "any other situation which by its nature can present a higher risk of money laundering or terrorist financing".
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Wednesday 11th March, 2009 at 15:41
The world of politics is to be opened up to young people as new opportunities to become a young mayor with a real mandate and a real budget are announced today (Wednesday, 11 March) by Communities Secretary Hazel Blears.
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Wednesday 11th March, 2009 at 10:32
A review to clarify the rules on organ transplants for NHS patients and non- UK EU residents, was announced by Health Secretary Alan Johnson today.
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Wednesday 11th March, 2009 at 10:30
The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:
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Wednesday 11th March, 2009 at 10:30
STATISTICAL PRESS NOTICE
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Tuesday 10th March, 2009 at 15:40
Housing Minister Margaret Beckett has today named Sir Michael Pitt as the preferred candidate for the post of Chair of the new Infrastructure Planning Commission and announced it will be located in Bristol.
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Tuesday 10th March, 2009 at 15:22
New recruitment targets for the Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) have today been announced as a report from Communities and Local Government shows that representation and promotion rates for women and people from minority ethnic groups are still too low.
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Tuesday 10th March, 2009 at 14:40
The Treasury is inviting applications for the position of independent valuer to assess any compensation that may be payable to former holders of the shares in Bradford & Bingley plc that were transferred to the Treasury in September last year (and others affected by the transfer).
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Tuesday 10th March, 2009 at 13:27
Housing Minister Margaret Beckett has today announced new support to help councils cut their planned rent increases for tenants in the current economic climate.
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Tuesday 10th March, 2009 at 12:44
The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:
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Tuesday 10th March, 2009 at 12:20
Councils are being given more support to help them bring empty homes back in to use in the current economic climate, announced Housing Minister Margaret Beckett today.
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Tuesday 10th March, 2009 at 12:20
Jersey is to join other Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories as a signatory to a Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) with the UK. TIEAs play a vital role in HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) drive against offshore avoidance and evasion.
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Tuesday 10th March, 2009 at 09:45
A new Commission of experts to advise the Government on the future role of nurses and midwives will be announced by the Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Health Secretary Alan Johnson today (10 March 2009).
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Monday 9th March, 2009 at 18:10
The appointment of Hugh Stevenson as the chairman of the FSA's committee of non-executive directors (NEDCo) was announced today.
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Monday 9th March, 2009 at 13:51
Health Secretary Alan Johnson today announced the successful Academic Health Science Centres (AHSCs) following peer review by an international panel of experts.
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Monday 9th March, 2009 at 12:07
More funding to help improve the emergency centres that help victims of sexual assault, was announced by Health Minister Ann Keen today.
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Monday 9th March, 2009 at 11:04
The Muslim Women's Advisory group have today kicked off a project to get more Muslim Women' involved in politics.
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Sunday 8th March, 2009 at 07:00
A package of measures to help unemployed people who are experiencing depression or anxiety to get back to work were announced today by Health Secretary Alan Johnson and Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell, including greater provision of talking therapies and a new network of employment support workers.
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Friday 6th March, 2009 at 13:34
Housing Minister Margaret Beckett has today announced new support to help councils cut their planned rent increases for tenants in the current economic climate.
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Thursday 5th March, 2009 at 12:34
The local government watchdog - the Standards Board for England - has signed up its newest board member today, appointed by Hazel Blears, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.
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Thursday 5th March, 2009 at 11:48
Employers are being reminded by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) that they must use the new A4 version of form P45 from 6 April 2009.
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Thursday 5th March, 2009 at 11:42
From 1st April changes will be made to prescription charges and some dental treatments in England. The value of optical vouchers will also increase by an overall 2 per cent.
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Thursday 5th March, 2009 at 11:32
The Government has acted to protect the public from potential service cuts or council tax increases that could result from local authority investments in Icelandic banks while efforts continue to recover the money.
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Wednesday 4th March, 2009 at 12:45
The NHS met a number of key commitments on healthcare priorities at the end of last year and continues to show strong financial management, the Department of Health announced today.
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Wednesday 4th March, 2009 at 12:45
Top health and social care researchers were today recognised for their outstanding contribution to research and research leadership by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
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Wednesday 4th March, 2009 at 11:45
The appointment of a new Chair for the board of the Health Protection Agency was announced today by Public Health Minister, Dawn Primarolo.
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Wednesday 4th March, 2009 at 10:43
A renewed vision for Practice Based Commissioning (PBC), and how it relates to World Class Commissioning, was unveiled today at a special event hosted by the King's Fund and the Department of Health.
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Tuesday 3rd March, 2009 at 17:43
Retail investors are to be offered an opportunity to invest in a new Vaccine Investment ISA that aims to raise £50 million to vaccinate children in the world's poorest countries.
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Tuesday 3rd March, 2009 at 14:01
Modernising the UK's direct tax law took another step forward today, as two new draft bills rewriting corporation tax and international tax legislation were published by the Tax Law Rewrite project.
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Tuesday 3rd March, 2009 at 13:51
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Yvette Cooper, today announced Government action to ensure vital PFI infrastructure projects will go forward as planned despite the current financial market conditions.
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Tuesday 3rd March, 2009 at 13:38
Agents need to get ready for the new aligned compliance checks framework that comes into effect next month, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) warned today.
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Tuesday 3rd March, 2009 at 13:12
Charities need to get ready for the new aligned compliance checks framework that comes into effect next month, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) warned today.
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Tuesday 3rd March, 2009 at 12:21
Local Government Minister John Healey has today announced more support for councils to deliver equal pay for thousands of workers, and end years of unfairness.
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Tuesday 3rd March, 2009 at 12:16
Businesses need to get ready for the new aligned compliance checks framework that comes into effect next month, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) warned today.
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Tuesday 3rd March, 2009 at 10:30
A package of measures designed to speed up access to new drugs and treatments for NHS patients, was announced by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and Health Minister Lord Darzi today.
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Monday 2nd March, 2009 at 12:45
Ministers today welcomed a new report setting out practical measures to support councils' efforts to boost employment in their areas.
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Monday 2nd March, 2009 at 11:25
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has issued an alert to employers with 50 or more employees - important PAYE changes come into effect in April, so make sure you're ready for them.
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Friday 27th February, 2009 at 10:30
Main Points This Month
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Friday 27th February, 2009 at 10:30
The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:
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Friday 27th February, 2009 at 10:30
The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health.
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Thursday 26th February, 2009 at 16:35
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears will today visit Southport and Bootle (Sefton Borough Council ) where she will see for herself how the local area is responding to the current economic downturn and hear how local leaders are using new devolved powers to respond to new challenges.
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Thursday 26th February, 2009 at 16:02
Local residents are to be given more time to respond to the Government's second eco-towns public consultation after Housing Minister Margaret Beckett today extended the deadline for responses.
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Thursday 26th February, 2009 at 12:11
More overseas junior doctors will be able to take up a two-year training placement in the NHS, Health Minister Ann Keen announced today.
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Thursday 26th February, 2009 at 11:19
£20.5m package to promote contraception Call for action to areas with high teenage pregnancy rates
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Thursday 26th February, 2009 at 10:57
Phil Hope hails encouraging results of new research
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Thursday 26th February, 2009 at 10:30
Main Points
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Thursday 26th February, 2009 at 09:21
The Government is today making two important announcements to further enhance financial stability and support increased lending to homeowners and businesses. Firstly, the Treasury is announcing the details of the Asset Protection Scheme, which aims to remove continuing uncertainty about the value of banks' past investments, cleaning up banks' balance sheets and providing them with greater confidence to rebuild and restructure their operations and increase lending in the economy. Secondly, the Treasury is announcing an agreement in principle with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to participate in the Scheme and other financial support to meet its objectives of economic and financial stability.
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Thursday 26th February, 2009 at 09:09
Introduction
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Wednesday 25th February, 2009 at 18:14
The Prime Minister, on the recommendation of the Chancellor, has appointed Andrew Hudson as Managing Director (Public Services and Growth Directorate), HM Treasury.
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Wednesday 25th February, 2009 at 15:11
The fight against Healthcare Associated Infections must continue on all fronts Health Minister, Ann Keen today told NHS staff today as she toured an exhibition showcasing that latest high tech products designed to beat infections such as MRSA and C.difficile
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Tuesday 24th February, 2009 at 12:05
A wide-reaching consultation on improving opportunities for Black, Asian and minority ethnic people was announced today by Communities Secretary Hazel Blears.
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Monday 23rd February, 2009 at 13:18
A series of online, bite-sized video guides for new and small businesses has been launched today by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
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Monday 23rd February, 2009 at 12:06
Push to promote Dignity Award and raise care standards
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Monday 23rd February, 2009 at 11:50
Northern Rock will increase mortgage lending by up to £14 billion over the next two years in plans announced today.
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Friday 20th February, 2009 at 13:59
The latest fire statistics for the UK covering the 12-month period up to 31 March 2008 continue to show a fall in the total number of primary fires - down 10 per cent and now at their lowest total since 1981.
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Friday 20th February, 2009 at 12:44
As announced in the 2008 pre-Budget report HM Treasury, working closely with the Northern Ireland Executive, is conducting a review of the legislative framework for credit unions and industrial and provident societies in Northern Ireland.
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Friday 20th February, 2009 at 12:44
The Department of Health is today giving Ambulance Services more choice over how they answer 999 calls. An alternative system for 999 operators called NHS Pathways has been approved for use in ambulance control rooms allowing staff to make immediate referrals to urgent care services for patients who don't need an ambulance. The system has been used successfully in the North East for over two years and safely handled over 1 million calls.
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Thursday 19th February, 2009 at 13:18
In the current economy local authorities need to deliver vital services even more efficiently - and the Roots Review has shown millions more can be saved through improved procurement, the Local Government Minister said today.
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Thursday 19th February, 2009 at 12:39
Councils can make even greater savings through improved procurement processes and give council taxpayers even greater value for money finds the independent Roots Review published today.
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Thursday 19th February, 2009 at 01:01
A hard-hitting new Smokefree campaign - 'Worried' - launches today. The ads, aimed at parents who smoke, communicate an uncomfortable message to viewers - that teenage children worry about their parents' future due to the harmful health effects of smoking.
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Thursday 19th February, 2009 at 01:01
Calls for interest in pilots announced
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Wednesday 18th February, 2009 at 10:54
Contributions from landfill operators to the Landfill Communities Fund (LCF) hit £1bn today.
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Tuesday 17th February, 2009 at 16:21
Over 100,000 people have been helped back into work through the Government's pioneering Local Employment Partnerships (LEPs), Minister for Employment Tony McNulty will announce today.
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Tuesday 17th February, 2009 at 13:17
The Government today announced changes in the bonus rates for the Save As You Earn (SAYE) Sharesave scheme that will maintain them in line with other interest rates.
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Tuesday 17th February, 2009 at 11:46
The Government today launched a consultation document on secondary legislation to establish a UK dormant accounts scheme. Subject to responses, the Government will introduce the secondary legislation in Parliament later this year.
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Tuesday 17th February, 2009 at 11:02
Interest rates charged on late payments and paid on overpayments for corporation tax quarterly instalment payments (QIPs) and also early payments of corporation tax not due by instalments have now been cut, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) confirm.
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Tuesday 17th February, 2009 at 01:02
Government launches campaign in fight against infections
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Monday 16th February, 2009 at 15:35
The Fire Minister Sadiq Khan and the Fire & Rescue Service's associations and unions joined forces today urging all Fire and Rescue Services to sign up to the Stonewall Diversity Champions Programme.
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Monday 16th February, 2009 at 12:42
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has today launched a podcast on the new compliance checks regime, which comes into effect in April 2009.
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Monday 16th February, 2009 at 12:21
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, James Purnell, today announced the reappointment of Alan Pickering and Chris Swinson as non-executive directors of the Pensions Regulator.
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Monday 16th February, 2009 at 01:01
STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL 00.01 MONDAY 16 FEBRUARY
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Friday 13th February, 2009 at 11:18
Today the Government has announced its intention to allow a group of Turner and Newall (T&N) workers with asbestos related diseases to keep their full Government compensation alongside that paid by the company.
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Friday 13th February, 2009 at 10:30
The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:
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Thursday 12th February, 2009 at 13:44
Plans for the new independent National Tenant Voice (NTV), which will give tenants a say on the housing issues affecting them, were published this week and have been accepted by Ministers.
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Thursday 12th February, 2009 at 12:48
Over 60,000 businesses have agreed time to pay tax arrangements with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) totalling more than one billion pounds.
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Thursday 12th February, 2009 at 12:32
The Chief Executive of Marie Curie Cancer Care, Thomas Hughes-Hallett, will head up the expert panel on end of life care, Care Services Minister Phil Hope announced today.
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Thursday 12th February, 2009 at 11:52
The Young Muslims Advisory Group (YMAG) will hold their first formal meeting with Communities Secretary Hazel Blears and Children, Schools and Families Secretary Ed Balls today.
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Thursday 12th February, 2009 at 11:04
The Fire Minister Sadiq Khan today welcomed the Audit Commission's report that shows that the majority 37 (82 per cent) of the fire and rescue services are rated as improving well or strongly.
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Thursday 12th February, 2009 at 09:25
RECORD LEVELS OF INVESTMENT IN SERVICES FOR DISABLED CHILDREN
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Wednesday 11th February, 2009 at 11:16
STATISTICAL PRESS NOTICE
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Wednesday 11th February, 2009 at 10:55
Corrected Version
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Wednesday 11th February, 2009 at 10:36
Some of the UK's leading employers today pledged their support to get people back in work at the first meeting of the National Employment Partnership (NEP), hosted by the Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions James Purnell.
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Wednesday 11th February, 2009 at 01:01
New physical activity plan to curb our couch potato culture
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Tuesday 10th February, 2009 at 18:05
Local Government Minister John Healey has today introduced legislation to give help to businesses facing unexpected backdated business rate bills during the current economic downturn.
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Tuesday 10th February, 2009 at 13:24
Fire Minister Sadiq Khan will today meet representatives of the Asian Fire Service Association (AFSA) to see what more can be done to raise the representation of minority ethnic groups in the Fire and Rescue Service in England.
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Tuesday 10th February, 2009 at 11:04
The Government yesterday laid before Parliament regulations to implement the EU Payment Services Directive (PSD) into UK legislation. These regulations are due to enter into force on 2 March 2009, and the PSD regulatory regime will be in place on 1 November 2009. The Government committed to early implementation in order to help firms consider the incoming requirements and prepare for compliance.
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Tuesday 10th February, 2009 at 10:30
Statistical Press notice: GP Extended Opening Hours - monthly update.
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Monday 9th February, 2009 at 13:16
A new podcast explaining forthcoming PAYE changes for large employers has been launched by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
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Monday 9th February, 2009 at 11:54
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and the Financial Services Secretary to the Treasury today announced a review to recommend measures to improve the corporate governance of UK banks, particularly with regard to risk management.
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Monday 9th February, 2009 at 11:54
The new General Chiropractic Council, the third new council set up this year in a series of reforms to professional regulators, takes effect today.
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Monday 9th February, 2009 at 11:54
- Think 'FAST' to identify signs of stroke -
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Monday 9th February, 2009 at 11:54
- Think 'FAST' to identify signs of stroke -
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Friday 6th February, 2009 at 13:45
The Government is today launching a consultation document on strengthening protection for vulnerable homeowners. The Government is proposing that companies offering sale and rent back agreements, which may target homeowners facing repossession, should be brought within the scope of Financial Services Authority (FSA) regulation. The consultation sets out the details of the proposed legislation and will close on 1 May 2009. The FSA has published a separate consultation alongside on the detail of its proposed new regime, available at: www.fsa.gov.uk/Pages/Library/Policy/CP/index.shtml.
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Friday 6th February, 2009 at 10:30
- New guidance to support collection of patient reported outcome measures from April 2009 -
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Thursday 5th February, 2009 at 12:57
Most people who save for their future can expect to benefit from saving under the Government's pension reform according to research published today by the Department for Work and Pensions.
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Thursday 5th February, 2009 at 10:31
The rights and responsibilities of individuals and businesses dealing with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) have been published in a draft consultation document.
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Wednesday 4th February, 2009 at 09:59
Disabled people will have the opportunity to take their case to the UN if they feel their rights have been breached, Jonathan Shaw, Minister for Disabled People said today.
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Tuesday 3rd February, 2009 at 11:48
A new scheme to provide safe accommodation for people at serious risk of violence associated with gang or weapon crime will begin this month in Southwark.
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Tuesday 3rd February, 2009 at 11:34
Landmark Strategy to Transform Dementia Services
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Tuesday 3rd February, 2009 at 11:30
Older people are to have a bigger say in developing central, regional and local Government policies announced Rt Hon Rosie Winterton, Minister for Pensions and the Ageing Society today, in response to John Elbourne's review of older people's engagement with Government.
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Tuesday 3rd February, 2009 at 10:30
National Patient Choice Survey latest results
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Sunday 1st February, 2009 at 13:24
A record number of taxpayers filed their self assessment tax returns online this year, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) revealed today.
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Friday 30th January, 2009 at 17:13
Dr Boorman, Director of Corporate Responsibility and Chief Medical Adviser to the Royal Mail Group, will be leading the joint Department and NHS review of the health and wellbeing of the NHS workforce, the Department of Health announced today.
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Friday 30th January, 2009 at 13:59
The Parkinson report rightly recognises the credit crunch's impact on regeneration but it also says with the right long term vision and support, like Government's action to bring forward funding, it can come through the downturn, Local Government Minister John Healey said today.
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Friday 30th January, 2009 at 13:32
The impact of the credit crunch on regeneration is serious but with the right sort of long term leadership and resources it can come through the downturn, finds the Parkinson report published today.
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Friday 30th January, 2009 at 11:59
Change4Life launches largest ever children's health survey
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Friday 30th January, 2009 at 11:48
A new Centre of Excellence that will help local NHS organisations deliver better and more efficient workforce planning, was announced by the Department of Health today.
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Friday 30th January, 2009 at 11:14
Main Points This Month
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Thursday 29th January, 2009 at 17:05
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears today welcomed the Prime Minister's commitment to councils providing pivotal support to communities through the global economic downturn.
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Thursday 29th January, 2009 at 13:36
The UK today awarded contracts to double emergency supplies of flu drugs to treat everyone who is predicted to fall ill in a pandemic, making the UK one of the most prepared countries in the world.
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Thursday 29th January, 2009 at 13:26
People feel their local area is a place where individuals from different backgrounds get on well together, new figures published today show (29 January).
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Thursday 29th January, 2009 at 13:02
For the first time, young people and their parents will have clear medical guidance on alcohol consumption. The guidance, will be announced today by Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, to be published for consultation. It will recommend that young people up to the age of 15 should avoid alcohol altogether.
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Thursday 29th January, 2009 at 12:54
Older people are living longer, healthier lives than they did ten years ago, according to a report published today.
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Thursday 29th January, 2009 at 12:45
Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service is the latest FRS in Great Britain to complete installing new digital radio communications equipment - Firelink - helping to save lives.
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Thursday 29th January, 2009 at 10:37
Main Points
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Wednesday 28th January, 2009 at 12:21
Health and Science Ministers today announced the appointment of a new Chair and five new members to the Human Genetics Commission (HGC).
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Wednesday 28th January, 2009 at 12:20
From next year hospitals that treat patients in mixed sex accommodation will not be paid for their care, Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced today. These tough new penalties are part of a package of measures being introduced in a new drive to virtually eliminate mixed sex accommodation and ensure it doesn't reappear.
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Wednesday 28th January, 2009 at 10:37
The Government today set out plans to make sure every child gets the best start in life by tackling child poverty which can unfairly hold children back and prevent them from reaching their full potential.
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Wednesday 28th January, 2009 at 10:30
Personal health budgets in England moved a step closer today with the Department of Health inviting expressions of interest for a new pilot programme.
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Tuesday 27th January, 2009 at 18:29
Marriott, BUPA, McDonalds, Asda, Marks & Spencer and Royal Mail are among the UK employers which have made it onto the shortlist for the Regional and Country Local Employment Partnership (LEP) Awards 2009.
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Tuesday 27th January, 2009 at 11:06
We're living longer, but many challenges remain
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Tuesday 27th January, 2009 at 10:31
The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:
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Tuesday 27th January, 2009 at 01:02
The NHS will today pledge to become one of England's leading sustainable and low carbon organisations and to meet the Government's target of an 80 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2050.
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Monday 26th January, 2009 at 15:55
Holiday bargain hunters travelling in Europe are being urged to check their European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) expiry date before they travel to avoid them having to pay out unnecessarily for medical costs that could be covered by a valid EHIC.
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Monday 26th January, 2009 at 13:37
The influence of the global economic downturn on the tax avoidance industry was one of the key issues for leaders of the Joint International Tax Shelter Information Centre (JITSIC) in Kyoto.
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Monday 26th January, 2009 at 12:12
New survey finds a third of people don't know the risks
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Monday 26th January, 2009 at 11:31
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears today begins a series of visits across the country to see first hand how local leaders are making use of devolved powers in responding to pressures facing their communities, explain what government is doing to provide real and practical support and find out how they can further help authorities to get on with the job.
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Thursday 22nd January, 2009 at 10:51
A podcast looking at how the new tax tribunal system will affect agents is now available to download free from http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/podcasts.
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Wednesday 21st January, 2009 at 18:42
Consultation begins on how best to improve information sharing across health, social care and wider community support services
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Wednesday 21st January, 2009 at 15:03
Professor Keith Willett has been appointed the new National Clinical Director for Trauma Care at the Department of Health, Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced today.
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Wednesday 21st January, 2009 at 11:43
New centre in Bedford sees patients 8am-8pm, seven days a week
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Wednesday 21st January, 2009 at 11:14
£73.1bn for English councils next year guaranteeing a 4.2 per cent funding increase, despite the economic downturn, demonstrates the Government's commitment to vital council services Local Government Minister John Healey announced to today.
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Wednesday 21st January, 2009 at 10:51
Councils may soon have greater freedom to build more homes under plans going out to consultation today.
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Wednesday 21st January, 2009 at 10:47
An historic signing ceremony to mark the launch of the NHS Constitution for England took place at Downing Street today. The Constitution, the first of its kind in the world, was signed by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Health Secretary Alan Johnson and NHS Chief Executive David Nicholson.
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Wednesday 21st January, 2009 at 10:35
New figures out today show there are still over half a million vacancies across the country, and that despite unprecedented global economic challenges causing UK unemployment to rise, the Government is helping people with real support to get back into work as quickly as possible.
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Tuesday 20th January, 2009 at 15:35
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) announce a cut in the interest rates charged on late payments and paid on overpayments.
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Tuesday 20th January, 2009 at 14:14
A new tax information exchange agreement between the governments of the United Kingdom and Guernsey was signed in London on 20 January 2009 by Lord Bach, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice, and Lyndon Trott, Chief Minister of Guernsey. The governments have also agreed to amend the provisions of the 1952 arrangement between the two governments for the avoidance of double taxation with respect to taxes on income, notably to add provisions on the taxation of income from pensions and a mutual agreement procedure.
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Tuesday 20th January, 2009 at 11:43
Mums-to-be, with babies due on or after 6 April 2009, are being urged to apply now for the new £190 Health in Pregnancy Grant.
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Tuesday 20th January, 2009 at 11:34
- National Leadership Council takes shape; recruitment begins -
- New Talent & Leadership guidance launched -
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Tuesday 20th January, 2009 at 01:01
People being treated for cancer will be eligible for free prescriptions from 1st April and can apply for free prescriptions from today.
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Monday 19th January, 2009 at 11:38
-New guidance helps commissioners to put patients in the driving seat-
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Monday 19th January, 2009 at 11:00
People with learning disabilities will be supported in every aspect of their lives, from housing and health to employment, Secretary of State for Health, Alan Johnson announced today.
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Monday 19th January, 2009 at 10:22
As part of a a comprehensive package designed to reinforce the stability of the financial system, to increase confidence and capacity to lend, and in turn to support the recovery of the economy the Government is today announcing its intention to offer protection on those assets most affected by the current economic conditions. The Asset Protection Scheme is designed to protect financial institutions against exposure to exceptional fut |
