The Queen has outlined the Government’s priorities for the coming Parliamentary year in the official state opening of Parliament today.
The two Business Bills which BIS is responsible for are the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill, and the Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill.
The main elements include measures:
- To set the purpose of the UK Green Investment Bank […]
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, announced a vital boost for the capital’s construction industry after he revealed a £103 million funding package to kick-start building projects across London’s boroughs.
As part of the government’s Get Britain Building programme, the funding has the potential to create more than 2,700 homes and thousands of jobs in Barnet, […]
UK unemployment has finally seen its first fall since spring 2011. Unemployment fell by 35,000 to 2.65 million over the December-to-February period, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed.
This is good news for the job market and comes in the same week that recruitment software company Bullhorn has claimed that 9 out of 10 of […]
The TUC, railway unions and transport campaigners have launched a campaign to fight job cuts, service reductions, ticket office closures and fare hikes in the rail industry.
At a meeting with MPs at the House of Commons on Tuesday 20 March, union leaders and representatives from the Campaign for Better Transport raised their concerns about the […]
A £75 million scheme to create 12,000 temporary jobs for young people is to be officially launched by the Welsh Government.
Jobs Growth Wales aims to boost employment opportunities for people aged between 16 and 24 by giving them paid work for a period of six months.
Participants will earn at least the National Minimum Wage for […]
The Japanese Car maker Nissan is to make in excess of 1,000 staff for new jobs new UK jobs in the North East as it confirms to Prime Minister David Cameron that a new model of the car will be built in the UK. It means that over 200 jobs will be direct with Nissan […]
