Sustainable Gov

A package of new support to give as many people as possible the opportunity to build their own homes was announced today at England’s most famous address by Housing Minister Grant Shapps.

The UK will provide £70m a year to fund the Afghan National Security Forces after British combat operations end in Afghanistan in 2014, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has announced.

Members of the Armed Forces stationed overseas will enjoy the same access to online goods and services as they do at home in the UK thanks to the introduction of new online postcodes this month.

Police recorded data for the 12 months to December 2011 shows overall crime is down three per cent when compared with the previous 12 months.

A new publication by the Audit Commission highlights a major cause of dispute between those who commission NHS services and those who provide them – how to classify a patient who stays in hospital for less than 24 hours.

Leicestershire County Council have breached the Data Protection Act (DPA), following the theft of a briefcase containing sensitive personal data from a social worker’s home, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today.

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has begun detailed discussions with the four private sector organisations competing for the first of its four regional facilities management contracts developed under the Next Generation Estate Contracts (NGEC) programme.

Welsh Government funding to train lip reading tutors will help reduce social isolation for many of Wales’ deaf and hard of hearing people.

New rules published today will put an end to excluded pupils winning the right to come back to school against the headteacher’s wishes.

The Audit Commission has today announced the reduced scale audit fees it will charge individual councils, health and other public bodies for five years from 2012/13.