Bridgwater Tidal Barrier Scheme gets a more efficient design
The Environment Agency has undertaken a design efficiency review to ensure the Bridgwater Tidal Barrier scheme continues cost-effective delivery without compromising outcomes while maintaining construction progress. The core purpose of the Bridgwater Tidal Barrier scheme, protecting 12,800 homes, businesses, and vital infrastructure from tidal flooding remains unchanged. To date, the design changes are to the tidal barrier superstructure. These changes allow the use of more modern methods of technology and construction, which will reduce costs. The same level of flood risk reduction will be […]
SFO announces investigation in social housing sector
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has today conducted a major operation involving raids and arrests, as it announces a new bribery and fraud investigation into the past management of Home REIT, a listed UK social housing company. The suspected offending has an estimated value of £300 million. SFO investigators carried out searches and made arrests […]
Waiting lists cut three times faster in highest joblessness areas
Trusts part of ‘Further Faster 20’ programme saw backlogs cut dramatically and productivity increased, helping get people back to work Scheme is just one modernisation success story amid the NHS recovery, and comes one year on from the launch of the government’s Elective Reform Plan Specialist NHS teams helped cut waiting lists three times faster than […]
Global interest at mine heat living lab one-year milestone
One year after its launch, the UK’s first mine water heat Living Laboratory in Gateshead is attracting growing international attention, with researchers from Europe and the United States engaging with the project to explore how real-world mine water data could help accelerate low-carbon heat solutions. Working with Leeds University to collect data from our fibre […]
G7 Foreign Ministers’ Statement on Iran
We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union, are gravely concerned by the developments surrounding the ongoing protests in Iran. We strongly oppose the intensification of the Iranian authorities’ brutal repression of the Iranian people, […]
Disability Confident scheme overhauled to boost workplace standards for disabled people
Scheme to help employers recruit and retain disabled people to be reformed – boosting workplace inclusion and living standards as part of Plan for Change. Reforms to previous Government’s Disability Confident scheme include tailored support for SMEs and greater peer-to-peer support for employers. New standards to improve scheme for employer and employees will be shaped […]
Defence Secretary Sweden press conference opening remarks
Thank you for the warm words, thank you for the very warm welcome. Not just for that, but I am pleased to be here today. Sweden is a critical ally of the United Kingdom. We have your back, you have ours. We share, as two nations, the same values. We face the same threats. And […]
Emma Reynolds raises South East Water concerns with Ofwat
Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds has spoken with the Chair of South East Water and visited the most affected town, Tunbridge Wells, following weeks of water supply disruption. Emma Reynolds visited the town to see for herself the conditions local residents were facing, which – along with East Grinstead – has been heavily impacted for over […]
Delivering Northern Powerhouse Rail – GOV.UK
Mr Speaker, I’d like to make a statement on the government’s plans for Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR). I realise I’m not the first minister ever to talk about transforming infrastructure in the North of England. I get why people there are sick to the back teeth of Westminster politicians promising the earth and delivering absolutely nothing. [Political […]
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