Notice: Police Rowing Champs: river restriction notice

River Thames restriction information for Friday 21 September 2018.



Guidance: High Speed 2 (HS2) rail – impacts on woodland management activity: operations note 47

7 page summary providing information on:

  • HS2 – Glossary, and phases of work
  • Legislation
  • HS2 – Has permission to fell trees (Phase 1)
  • Landowner – Has a felling licence to fell trees
  • Landowner – Restocking conditions after felling
  • Landowner – Applying for a felling licence
  • Landowner – Has grant agreement for woodland creation
  • Landowner – Plans new woodland creation
  • HS2 – Plans new woodland creation
  • HS2 Phases route map


Guidance: Assessment of potential wildfire risk resulting from planned deforestation to open habitat: operations note 40

26 page summary offering:

  • Purpose
  • Background
  • Context – Policy and regulation
  • Planning for wildfire
  • Preparing a Wildfire Management Plan (WMP)
  • FC review of wildfire planning
  • Contacting Fire and Rescue authorities
  • Sources of further advice
  • Wildfire management plan – minimum requirements
  • Wildfire risk assessment template
  • Wildfire risk and hazard checklist
  • Example wildfire risk assessment
  • Stakeholders for wildfire planning
  • Template letter to Fire and Rescue Service


Press release: Michael Spurr leaving role as Chief Executive of HMPPS

Richard Heaton, Permanent Secretary, said:

Michael is an exceptional public servant. His commitment to the organisation he leads, and to a humane and effective offender management system, has been unflinching, through a period when the system has faced extraordinary pressures, challenges and constraints.

Michael’s leadership has been exemplary. But we now need to look ahead, building on Michael’s work and developing a strategy for the next decade. I have therefore decided that April 2019 is the right time to ask a new chief executive to take on this important role.”

Rt Hon David Gauke MP, Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor, said:

I am extremely grateful to Michael Spurr for his leadership of HMPPS. His focus has been unwavering on doing the best for his staff and for victims of crime, on discipline in the prison estate and on caring for and rehabilitating offenders. He is an example of the very best of public service and civil service leadership. I look forward to continuing to work closely with Michael into the New Year.

The formal process to appoint Michael Spurr’s successor will start in October this year.

Meanwhile, Michael Spurr remains chief executive of HMPPS, and will be a part of the team that will manage this transition safely and well.

Notes to editors:

  • The Permanent Secretary is taking this opportunity to review the top management structure for HMPPS.
  • Michael Spurr will remain in post as Chief Executive of HMPPS until the end of March 2019 and Michael will contribute to this work over the next 6 months.


Official Statistics: RHI deployment data: August 2018

Monthly statistics for the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) programme present the number of applications and accredited installations on the non-domestic and domestic schemes so far.