Thank you, Mr Vice-President, We welcome progress made in El Salvador since its 2019 review, including improving access to education for low-income families, and investments in public healthcare systems. The launch of programmes aimed at empowering women and reducing gender inequality, including educational initiatives and support services for survivors of gender-based violence, are an important … Read more
Public sector workers are being held back by archaic technology – crippling productivity and slashing public satisfaction in services, according to a new report set to be published on Tuesday. Inheritance from previous government shows an overreliance on contractors sending costs rocketing and how outages and cyber-attacks are putting NHS and public services in jeopardy. … Read more
Wales’s Life Sciences industry is crucial to delivering sustained economic growth, Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens has told leaders from the industry. The growing sector already contributes more than £2.6 billion to the Welsh economy each year and supports more than 12,000 jobs across more than 250 companies, according to Life Sciences Hub Wales. Life Sciences … Read more
Delivered on: 15 January 2024 Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is a severe, highly contagious viral disease of livestock that as we know can have a significant economic impact and a truly devastating effect on farming and rural communities when outbreaks occur, as we know from past history. Now I can assure the House The … Read more
Location: UCL East Delivered on: 13 January 2025 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered) The defining opportunity of our generation Deb Kelly is a prison officer and a PE instructor. Two years ago, this month… She got up on a Saturday morning… And collapsed on the floor. Her whole face had completely … Read more
The Secretary of State for Business and Trade has accepted the Trade Remedies Authority’s (TRA) final recommendation to impose a new anti-dumping measure on low-priced imports of Suspension Poly(vinyl chloride) (S-PVC) from the USA. A new duty of 38.43%-56.01% on imports of US-made S-PVC will now come into effect, with the cooperating US exporter that submitted … Read more
UK leading contribution with over 2600 personnel and 730 vehicles deploying to NATO’s eastern flank. First deployment under new NATO Allied Reaction Force. Deployment demonstrates UK’s unshakeable commitment to NATO and European Security. Thousands of UK personnel will continue to deploy to Europe in the next two months to spearhead a major NATO exercise. Leading … Read more
Sotatercept is used, in combination with other medicines to treat PAH, in adults with moderate or marked limitations of physical activity, to improve exercise capacity. Patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension have high blood pressure in the blood vessels that supply the lungs (pulmonary arteries). It’s a rare and serious condition that can damage the right … Read more
In a significant move towards fostering economic growth and collaboration, a new partnership was officially launched on 18 December 2024, marked by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between three prominent Chambers of Commerce; The UK Cameroon Chamber of Commerce (UKCCC), the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) and the European Chamber of Commerce … Read more
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Secretary David Lammy said: On Christmas Eve, the Hong Kong police once again targeted individuals for exercising their right to freedom of expression, including British National Overseas (BNO) passport holders living in the UK. We will not tolerate any attempts by foreign Governments to coerce, intimidate, harass, or harm their critics … Read more
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