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30 Aug 2010
EMBARGOED UNTIL 00:01 MONDAY 30 AUGUST 2010 With two years until the start of the Paralympics, Ministers today urged companies to see improving disability access as a way of becoming more profitable as well as more socially responsible.
26 Aug 2010
Further Education and Skills Minister John Hayes is in Sunderland today to help celebrate the production launch of the Nissan Juke.
25 Aug 2010
Skills Minister John Hayes today called on all UK businesses to promote informal learning at work, following pledges from sixty-four innovative companies to increase informal workplace training for their staff.
24 Aug 2010
A long held wish to drive an Aston Martin comes true for Business Secretary Vince Cable when he visits the test track facilities at Gaydon near Warwick today (Tuesday 24 August).
19 Aug 2010
Secretary of State for Business, Vince Cable, has today welcomed the appointment of Lord Brittan as trade adviser to the Prime Minister.
19 Aug 2010
Universities and Science Minister David Willetts said:
18 Aug 2010
Embargoed until 00:01 on the 18 August 2010 Commenting on the results from the National Student Survey 2010, Universities and Science Minister David Willetts said:
13 Aug 2010
Embargoed until 00:01, Friday 13 August 2010 Commenting on The Push National Student Debt Survey 2010, Universities and Science Minister David Willetts said:
12 Aug 2010
Minister for Communications, Ed Vaizey today welcomed new guidance from the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) on business rates for broadband networks.
11 Aug 2010
John Hayes has today launched a consultation on the future of the right to request time to train.
11 Aug 2010
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has today confirmed that a review of the Local Better Regulation Office (LBRO) will be carried out.
6 Aug 2010
• Lord Davies of Abersoch to report on how Government can remove obstacles to women making it to the board • Government announces new aspiration, by the end of the Parliament at least half of all new appointees being made to the boards of public bodies will be women
6 Aug 2010
EMBARGOED UNTIL 00:01 6 AUGUST 2010 Commenting on the Regulatory Policy Committee’s first report, Sir Don Curry, Non-Executive Chair of the Better Regulation Executive, said:
5 Aug 2010
Business Secretary Vince Cable will visit the North East today to see how investment in low carbon technology is creating jobs and promoting growth in the region.
5 Aug 2010
The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, today announced a comprehensive package of measures to support the Government’s drive to tackle unnecessary government interference and red tape.
5 Aug 2010
Universities and Science Minister David Willetts said:
3 Aug 2010
Farmers, suppliers and supermarkets are one step closer to having supply disputes investigated by a Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA).
2 Aug 2010
The Government has today launched a consultation on how best to ensure that corporate narrative reporting consistently provides clear, coherent and relevant information - enabling a good understanding of the performance and prospects of a business.
31 Jul 2010
Commenting on the report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and Internocracy on unpaid internships, Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts said:
30 Jul 2010
The Government has published two command papers today setting out its response to reports published during the previous Parliament by the Commons Science and Technology Select Committee on Impact of spending cuts on science and scientific research and the Lords Science and Technology Select Committee on Setting priorities for publicly funded research.
30 Jul 2010
The Hearing Aid Council (HAC) will close its doors formally as a Non-departmental Public Body on 1 August 2010.
30 Jul 2010
Two former modelling agency Directors have been banned from running an employment agency for a total of twelve years following action taken by the Employment Agency Standards inspectorate (EAS).
30 Jul 2010
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Vince Cable today announced the appointment of Sir John Savill as Chief Executive and Deputy Chair of the Medical Research Council (MRC).
29 Jul 2010
Today, the Prime Minister David Cameron and Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh agreed to the extension of the successful UK India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI), which has already created almost 600 new partnerships between UK and Indian institutions at all levels of the education system. The new programme will be funded by both Governments.
29 Jul 2010
Business Secretary Dr. Vince Cable has welcomed a series of multi-million pound deals that were announced on Thursday morning in New Delhi between UK and Indian firms. The deals will support hundreds of jobs in the UK.