One in twenty civil servants will be an apprentice by 2025 under new plans that will diversify the pipeline of talent into government.

Steve Rotheram has unveiled a multi-billion pound plan to supercharge the Liverpool City Region’s innovation powerhouse credentials.
The metro mayor said that the city region is aiming to invest five per cent of its economy on Research and Development (R&D) by 2030 – nearly double the government’s UK target. Achieving this would add an estimated £41.7 billion to the city region’s economy and create 44,000 jobs.

The Trussell Trust network provided more than 2.1 million parcels to people facing financial hardship across the country in the space of a year.

Shelter says that every seven minutes a private renter in England is handed a Section 21 no-fault eviction notice by their landlord.

MPs have said that the government was ‘complacent in preventing fraud’ in the 100 per cent taxpayer-guaranteed Bounceback Loan Scheme.

The Cabinet Office has published guidance which will inform departments how to review their public bodies over the next five years.
Arm’s length bodies now spend over £220 billion a year and employ over 300,000 people. The Public Bodies Review Programme delivers on commitments made in the Declaration on Government Reform to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of public bodies and will look to identify a minimum of five per cent savings for each organisation.

Voices from a number of sectors have joined forces to call for e-scooters to be legalised across the UK to dramatically improve safety.

Sir Keir Starmer has said that his party is calling for an emergency budget to bring forward more measures to tackle the cost of living crisis.

A Nuffield Health survey has indicated that as many as one in three adults believe their mental health has deteriorated over the past year.
The poll shows that 37 per cent of adults in the UK are more concerned about their mental health due to coronavirus, and 40 per cent are worried about their physical state.