Two weeks before the new UK National Living Wage comes into force, Scotland Office Minister Andrew Dunlop has urged Scotland’s top business influencers to help spread the word among the Scottish business community. Hundreds of thousands of Scottish workers are set to benefit from the increase on 1 April, which will see the current minimum […]
Three sports facilities in North Wales will be upgraded following a successful application for the £5m Welsh Government Sport Facilities Capital Loan Scheme. Eirias Parc in Conwy, the Waterworld Leisure Activity Centre and the Chirk Leisure Activity Centre, Wrexham will benefit from almost £2million interest free loan to update and modernise their facilities – including […]
Seventeen projects in urban, rural and island communities are receiving a share of a £300,000 fund aimed at giving people a say on how their area can be improved. Increased funding for the Charrette Mainstreaming Programme will go to eight community-led and nine local authority schemes in areas including Tiree, Erskine, Peterhead and Arbroath. Charrettes […]
The Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, Matt Hancock, has confirmed on 18 March that the UK’s new national cyber centre, announced by the Chancellor in November, will be called the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The NCSC will be based in London and will open in October. Ciaran Martin, currently Director General Cyber […]
The UK Budget 2016 saw a continuation of the Conservative Government’s commitment to austerity, with a further £3.5bn of efficiencies forecast to be made by 2020. However the Chancellor also outlined measures to boost business growth; here BiP Solutions reporter
An extra £25.6m is being provided to help maintain and repair roads in North Yorkshire and stop potholes developing, taking local roads investment in the region to more than £150m up to 2021. The funding will ensure rural roads can benefit from resurfacing work over the next 5 years thanks to funding which is being […]
On 18 March, the Minister for Economy, Science and Transport, Edwina Hart will visit Pendine Resort, Carmarthenshire, to announce a new EU funding package for tourism in Wales with a potential total value £85m – the single biggest EU investment made in the sector. Tourism Attractor Destinations, backed with £27.7m from the European Regional Development […]
In this week’s budget, the government announced funding of over £10m for the ground-breaking project that will modernise the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to produce more innovative, precise and timely statistics. This will be part of an overall £17m investment, which includes additional ONS funding. Based at ONS in Newport, the new Data Science Campus and Economics Centre of Excellence […]
£50m of Scottish Government investment in charitable bonds over the next two years will provide support for almost 1,000 new homes. Four housing associations will benefit from this year’s £25m bonds – Kingdom in Fife, Eildon in the Borders, Orkney and Ayrshire. A further £25m is earmarked for 2016-17. The bonds, issued by Allia, a […]
A new state-of-the-art community hub in Cardiff will provide free internet access, a new library, and housing, benefit and employment advice, all under one roof. This was the message from Communities and Tackling Poverty Minister, Lesley Griffiths, as she officially opened Grangetown Community Hub today. The Hub forms part of a wider regeneration programme in […]
