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The assessment process for prospective adopters is to be overhauled, the Government announced today. Children's Minister Tim Loughton has asked a group of experts to draw up a new process to recruit, train and assess people as adoptive parents

Business Minister Edwina Hart has welcomed the news that SSE (Scottish and Southern Energy) is opening a new £7m training and operational centre for the renewable energy sector which will create up to 250 highly skilled jobs

The European Commission has unveiled its "Better Airports" package, which is intended to boost capacity and reduce delays in the region

 

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Government investment in technology and innovation will enable Britain’s world leading digital businesses to benefit from future advances in technology and help them bring new products to the marketplace, Business Secretary Vince Cable announced today

 

More cities in England will be offered the chance to agree a bespoke deal with Government to unlock their potential to drive economic growth, Cities Minister Greg Clark announced today in a major speech to the Centre for Cities

 

A rolling programme of strike action is set to hit corporate giant Unilever's UK operations as workers step up action to defend their pension scheme

 

The National Audit Office has commended the early progress being made by the Government in implementing its ICT Strategy but has identified areas where progress has not kept pace with the Government’s ambitions.

 

Ministers from the UK Government and Northern Ireland Executive (NIE) have met today for the first meeting of the Ministerial Working Group on Rebalancing the Northern Ireland Economy

 

The volume of national support to the financial sector actually taken by banks between October 2008 and 31 December 2010 amounted to around €1.6 trillion (13 % of GDP), the European Commission's autumn state aid scoreboard shows

 

Sentiment among UK manufacturers deteriorated in the past three months, as confidence was hit by stagnant output, falling demand and concerns over exports, the CBI said today

 

Commenting on Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech on ‘popular capitalism’, Prof Philip Booth, Editorial Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs, said

 

Political uncertainty in the Eurozone has paralysed the UK recovery, according to the latest quarterly forecast from the Ernst & Young ITEM Club, with UK GDP expected to flatline for the rest of year

 

Fourteen cities across the UK have the chance to become super-connected cities, Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced today

 
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