The Treasury’s estimate of the cost of the UK’s ‘divorce’ from the European Union is reasonable but liable to prove too low, the National Audit Office has said.
A third of academy leaders believe autonomy from local government has made no difference, while almost one in five think its effect has been negative, according to a survey released today.
Charities can no longer expect the public to give them the benefit of the doubt, new Charity Commission chair Baroness Stowell warned in her first major speech in the role.
The UK government has pledged £23.5m to help Asian regions better forecast natural disasters, the Department for International Development announced yesterday.
UK overseas aid will be diverted away from “governments who can afford to, yet choose not to, invest in their own people”, international development secretary Penny Mordaunt has said.
