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By the 1830s, the Westminster system of government (or cabinet government) had emerged. The prime minister had become primus inter pares (' first among equals ') in the Cabinet and the head of government in the United Kingdom. It became increasingly seen as an affront to the constitution for the monarch to interfere directly with the business ...
The UK tax system including: Direct, indirect, business, property, and personal taxation; European and other international tax issues; Customs and VAT at the border; The Finance Bill and the National Insurance Bill; Departmental Minister for HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the Valuation Office Agency, and the Government's Actuary's Department ...
The response was the Web Continuity programme, [3] which provides automatic redirection to the UKGWA of links from UK Government web sites, in cases where the linked material has been retired. Web Continuity required UK Government website managers to work with the UKGWA to capture copies of any material about to be removed.
[5] [6] Organisationally, it will be small, independent of UKRI (the main UK government funding body), with autonomy to operate at speed innovate funding, (for instance with X-Prize type inducements around research goals), rapid "seed" funding, with successful seeds entering a much smaller tier of large-grants, and bonuses for accomplishing ...
Obesity in the United Kingdom is a significant contemporary health concern, with authorities stating that it is one of the leading preventable causes of death.In February 2016, former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt described rising rates of childhood obesity as a "national emergency". [1]
The UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) is a British state-owned development bank.It is intended to help with the UK Government's plan to reach net-zero carbon by 2050 and to support economic growth in regional and local sectors across the United Kingdom. [1]
The UK Government G-Cloud is an initiative targeted at easing procurement by public-sector bodies in the United Kingdom of commodity information technology services that use cloud computing. [1] The G-Cloud consists of:
Directgov was the British government's digital service portal which from 2004 provided a single point of access to public sector information and services. The site's portal was replaced (along with the Business Link portal) by the new GOV.UK website on 17 October 2012, although migration of all services to GOV.UK branding took several years.