During February, there was one new detention of foreign flagged vessels in a UK port, six vessels remained under detention from previous months. A total of four vessels remain under detention at the end of February. In response to one of the recommen… read more
Penny Mordaunt at the Safeguarding Summit. Picture: Jo Harrison/DFID At a landmark Safeguarding Summit today (Monday 5 March 2018), co-hosted by the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Charity Commission, Penny Mordaunt challenged… read more
Foreign Office Minister of State Lord Tariq Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Prime Minister’s Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict, visited Turkey and Iraq between 1 and 4 March 2018 to mark the recent launch of the UK’s National Ac… read more
Everyone remembers their childhood home. Mine was the flat above the family shop. With my parents – who had come to Britain from Pakistan with almost nothing – and my 4 brothers. Nothing fancy, but an important rung on the ladder for our family. I won… read more
Highways England is predicting a smarter generation of motorway road users following a law change allowing learner drivers about to take their driving test to get their first taste of motorway driving. In the past learner drivers’ first experience of … read more