To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week 2023, we want to introduce you to some of the amazing individuals taking an apprenticeship in the pensions industry. Since IfATE launched five years ago, there are now over 650 apprenticeships available to train people ...
Julian Jessop, Economics Fellow at free market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs CommentS on the latest ONS public sector finances data
January usually sees the government run an overall surplus, as this is the month when a large chunk of self-assessment receipts are paid.
We are pleased to announce that nominations are now open for our Communications Infrastructure and Services Council, an elected body that sets the strategic direction of our telecoms policy here at techUK.
The aim of this report is to look at some of the key implications of the Scottish Budget for the coming year, and for the longer term.
New official statistics show record numbers of households took up the government support on offer for energy bills.
In November 2022, techUK responded to the call for evidence from the Expert Panel set up by the Health and Social Care Select Committee, evaluating Government progress on digitising the NHS.
The UK's leading progressive thinktank, IPPR, has responded to the announcement that Centrica has made 3.3 billion in profits in 2022 (up 350% since 2021) and announced a new round of share buybacks totalling 300 million.
The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a joint Discussion Paper (DP5/22) on AI/ML within financial services and potential regulatory implementations and considerations within the technology's usage within varying business processes
Following the Government's commitments set out in April 2022 to develop the UK's regulatory approach to crytoassets HM Treasury is running its Open Consultation covering the regime's phased implementation. The aim behind this work is to enhance consumer protection, ensuring cryptoasset promotions are held to equivalent standards as traditional finance - whilst also promoting innovation
A new consultation considers where government should prioritise its efforts across the entire software lifecycle in an enterprise setting to ensure cyber resilience.
The world is entering a more difficult stage of the climate and ecological crisis where its symptoms are drawing attention away from efforts to tackle its root causes, according to a new report published by the IPPR and Chatham House think tanks
techUK has welcomed the new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) announced in last week's reshuffle, which will give the tech sector a clearer and stronger voice in government, and is a good reflection of the UK's aims to build a stronger digital economy and society.
IPPR has responded to new figures from the ONS which show an increase in the turnover and employment estimates for the low carbon and renewable energy economy.
Julian Jessop, Economics Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs Comments on figures showing that inflation fell by 0.4 percentage points to 10.1 per cent in January
Rachelle Earwaker, Senior Economist at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation responds to the news that CPI inflation is once more above 10% for January
Police forces in the UK are shot through with Chinese camera technology, according to a survey by the Office of the Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner.
A Home Office consultation on new powers to help tackle cybercrime is underway (ending on 6 April 2023).
techUK's Financial Services Council is now open for nominations to join its renewed term of office
Private pensions are the biggest component of household wealth in the UK, bigger even than housing. Getting their design right matters enormously. So does taxing them appropriately.
This report gives a new and up-to-date picture of the giving and receiving of significant intergenerational wealth transfers during life, summarising the findings of two research papers.
The UK's leading progressive thinktank, IPPR, has responded to new ONS figures which estimate quarterly GDP growth of zero per cent between October and December last year.
An interview with Kristofer McGhee, General Counsel at the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education Kristofer, General Counsel at IfATE, is a solicitor and senior civil servant leading IfATE's legal and governance functions and supporting the organisation to deliver its objectives in ...
We spoke to Junior Aerospace Engineer, Daisy Richardson about how designing a mini rocket led to a career in the space sector.
Ofcom recently released in a new document its expectations of MNOs over how they handle the sunsetting of the 2G and 3G phone networks.This comes in the context of the switch-off of the old analog phone network, the PSTN, due to be completed by December 2025.
