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The UK government has launched a £1 million fund aimed at improving the health and welfare of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the self-employed.

Working people on Universal Credit in Great Britain will receive a boost in support to their earnings starting this spring. Over 120,000 low-income workers will be the beneficiaries of tailored support, as new regulations that came into effect on January 30 will now make it possible.

The chief executive of NOCN Group, Graham Hasting-Evans, believes that the UK urgently needs a Sustainable Skills System, which is properly funded, agile, and responsive to the needs of the digital and green economy, supporting the implementation of a National Skills Strategy.

Science Minister George Freeman has announced the formal establishment of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), an independent body that aims to create transformational research programs with the potential to create new technological capabilities for the benefit of humanity.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has called on businesses to invest in the UK and promised long-term thinking to make the UK the next Silicon Valley. He outlined a vision to drive for growth as one of the government’s five priorities – doing so by encouraging enterprise, tackling poor productivity, and getting more people into better paid jobs right across the country.

Terence Carvalho, Regional Director of Delivered Social, Portsmouth, has been shortlisted for the Entrepreneur of the Year prize at the 2023 Portsmouth News Business Excellence Awards.

The UK fishing industry is set to benefit from an initial £2 million investment to trial new, greener engines and help create a safer, more sustainable fishing fleet as the latest round of the £100m UK Seafood Fund opens on January 27th, 2022.

The speech below was given by the UK Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Girls' Education, Helen Grant, to the UN on International Day of Education. It highlights the importance of providing girls with 12 years of quality education as a solution to global issues such as poverty, climate change, and inequality.

The UK government has announced £30 million ($41 million) in funding for seven innovative, net-zero road projects across the country, from Lanarkshire to Devon.

On January 20th, UK and Scottish Government ministers, along with council leaders of Orkney, Shetland, and the Outer Hebrides, signed a transformative Islands Growth Deal that aims to invest £100 million in the future economic prosperity of these island groups over a ten-year period.

The United Kingdom's Minister for Development and Africa, Andrew Mitchell, is set to visit Senegal this week to hold discussions with African leaders on the rising issue of food insecurity.

The government has announced today that it is taking strong action against employers who use the controversial practice of ‘fire and rehire’. This practice refers to when an employer dismisses an employee and offers them a new contract on new, often less-favourable terms.

Friday marked a significant milestone in the fight for better cardiac care in schools as the delivery of defibrillators began to all state-funded schools in England that currently do not have a life-saving device.

This week, the British government will be addressing economic crime in the House of Commons. A bill on the topic is set to return to the Commons, with senior backbench Tories expected to push for even stricter laws.