The government has announced a £133m funding packaged for artificial intelligence and gene-based therapies to treat diseases such as cancer, dementia and Parkinson’s.
The value of Kent County Council’s pension scheme investment in the troubled Woodford fund has fallen by £36m, figures from the local authority have revealed.
The assignation of almost £6bn in VAT revenues to the Scottish Government could be undermined by the “disappointing” failure of HMRC to produce timely data, Scotland’s official forecaster has warned.
The communities secretary has postponed implementation of changes to local government funding following the Fair Funding Review and to business rates retention.
New chancellor Sajid Javid outlined the government’s plans for education funding as he “turned the page on austerity” in his Spending Round, although Labour criticised his commitments as “meaningless...
Ambiguity over the future of European structural funding post-Brexit has left economic development in Scotland, which benefits to the tune of €872m across the seven-year EU budget period, in an...
The prime minister’s £3.5m package for councils, expected to be announced in this week’s Spending Round, would be a “very welcome contribution” if it is not money that has already been announced.
Lawyers from an environmental charity are writing to 100 councils in England to remind them of their legal obligations to include carbon reduction targets in their Local Plans.
