HM Treasury has announced that Nina Hingorani-Crain has been reappointed as a non-executive director to the Board of NS&I.

Haringey Council is introducing measures to tackle the abuse faced by Civil Enforcement Officers (CEOs) while at work.

Communities and businesses across Scotland are to be given support and tools to help tackle the unavoidable impacts of climate change as part of the Scottish National Adaptation Plan 2024-2029 (SNAP3).
The plan sets out a comprehensive suite of more than 200 actions and proposals for managing the current and future impacts of climate change in Scotland.
It includes how sectors including agriculture, transport and health as well as businesses and communities will prepare for more extreme weather events, such as flooding, water scarcity and extreme periods of heat.

£100 million of Scottish Government funding will be used to support the construction of 2,800 mid-market rent homes.
The funding was announced as part of the 2024-25 Programme for Government.
The cash will be used alongside institutional investment – such as pension funds - to grow to at least £500 million.
The investment will build on the success of the Thriving Investments model which has grown an initial £47.5 million investment from the Scottish Government to £222.5 million to deliver up to 1,200 mid-market homes across Scotland.

The transport secretary has reaffirmed Labour's manifesto commitment to fix up to one million more potholes a year.
Louise Haigh met with road workers and councillors on a visit to Blackpool to see the work being carried out to fix potholes and learn about high-definition imagery, which is being used to spot defects and speed up repairs.
The Project Amber scheme in Blackpool, uses an advanced imagery system that takes high-definition images of roads to detect potholes and compile data on areas most in need of repair.

The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has published regulatory judgements for ten social housing landlords.
The judgement found that Harlow District Council failed to meet the new consumer standards. Harlow has received a C3 grade which means that there are serious failings and it needs to make significant improvements.
RSH began an investigation into Harlow Council after reviewing its Tenant Satisfaction Measure results. It was found that the council had carried out fire risk assessments for only 20 per cent of buildings that it should have done.

GB Energy is one of the government's key energy pledges from the general election and they plan to invest £8.3 billion of funding into the publicly owned green power company.

The first report from Skills England, the government’s new body for the skills system, has been published.

The government has announced it will test its free breakfast club pledge by inviting schools to become early adopters.

All Scottish new build homes will feature faster broadband from January 2025.
Legislation amending building standards will require developers to ensure all new build homes have the physical infrastructure as well as a gigabit-capable connection, (subject to a £2,000 cost cap per dwelling).
If this is not possible, new builds should have the next fastest broadband connection within the cost cap.