The transport secretary has announced that more than £40 billion will be invested in "transformational transport schemes" over the next two financial years.

Working in partnership with The National Lottery Community Fund, Arts Council England, The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Historic England and UK Community Foundations (UKCF), the government has launched the "Know Your Neighbourhood Fund".
The fund will support local organisations in 24 areas to increase the offer of projects that enrich lives to help improve wellbeing and social connections.

The Scottish Government has capped private rent increases by 3 per cent.
MSPs have also approved measures that will keep restrictions on enforcement of evictions.

Natural England has launched a statutory and public consultation for proposed extensions to the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Local authorities and other interested groups and individuals will be able to comment on the proposed extensions for the next 14 weeks.
The proposal to extend the Surrey Hills AONB is part of a programme of landscape designation and is one of four new designation projects to aimed at delivering on the Government’s commitment to safeguard more of England’s landscapes for future generations.

Recent statistics have shown that in 2020 to 2021, 493 care leavers benefitted from council tax exemption. The figures rose to 646 in 2021 to 2022, 746 in 2022 to 2023, and is set to reach 830 in the coming financial year.
The Welsh Government introduced legislation in April 2019 to exempt care leavers from council tax.
A series of reports commissioned by the Welsh Government has found that care leavers and third-party organisations representing care leavers has found that the exemption has been of "significant benefit" to care leavers.

The Evaluation Taskforce has awarded funding to four new projects to help test and evaluate new approaches within government.
It has been announced that up to £1 billion could be saved through modernisation and automation of services. This project involves the use of phone-bots and reducing paper use.
More than £1.2 million has been awarded to teams tackling issues such as cutting costs through digital transformation and mapping the use of electric vehicles.

The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has found Haringey Council in breach of consumer standards and as a result, there was potential for serious detriment to tenants.

The government has launched a campaign encouraging social tenants to complain to their landlord before escalating to the Housing Ombudsman.
The "Make Things Right" campaign will run across social media platforms including neighbourhood app NextDoor, and on radio stations and streaming platforms like Spotify and will feature images of black mould and leaking ceilings.

The Welsh Government has published a plan explaining how it will ensure that children, young people and workers have skills to be able to work in Net Zero industries that don't exist yet.
The Stronger, Fairer, Greener Wales: Net Zero Skills Plan sets out a long-term vision of how the Welsh Government, businesses and industry, the education and skills sectors and trades unions will work together to upskill the people of Wales to work in the net zero jobs of the future.

A new survey of local authorities in the South East has found that only 18 per cent of those surveyed had consulted with local businesses on an EV charge point strategy, while half had spoken to local residents.
The survey conducted by Cornwall Insight and the Greater South East Net Zero Hub looked at the readiness of local authorities (LAs) for the mass adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in the South East.