Apr112017
Updated: New report published: Rainfall and river flow, 10 to 16 October 2018.
These reports collect information from the Environment Agency, the Met Office and water companies to report on the:
Apr112017
Safety Recommendation documents have been published for the following aircraft accidents.
Where responses are yet to be received, this may be because addressees have 90 days to respond to a Safety Recommendation.
The AAIB will keep open Safety Recommendations where it expects to receive responses from the addressee. If no further response is expected the recommendation is Closed.
A Closed status does not mean the actions for a Safety Recommendation are complete, nor that the Safety Issue has been addressed.
A ‘Not adequate’ assessment means that the response does not address the intent of the Safety Recommendation nor does it address the safety issue concerned.
A ‘Partially adequate’ assessment means the response goes someway to meeting the intent of the Safety Recommendation and the action will address the safety issue to a certain extent, but further action would be required to fully address the issue identified.
An ‘Adequate’ assessment means that the response fully meets the intent of the Safety Recommendation and the action will address the safety issue.
Apr112017
Sharon
Hodgson MP, Shadow Minister for Public Health, commenting on
the Scottish Medicines Consortium’s decision to provide Kadcyla and PrEP on the
NHS, said:
“It
is welcoming to see that both Kadcyla and PrEP will now be funded by the NHS in
Scotland, after the concerted campaigning of different organisations and
individuals who will benefit directly by these drugs now being made
accessible.
“These
decisions are game-changing. Not only in the fact that they will help the many
people in Scotland who rely upon these drugs, but also by highlighting a
failure to act here in England, where Kadcyla has been provisionally rejected
by NICE and is now under review and PrEP, which faced a long, drawn-out court
battle, is going through yet another trial.
“These
announcements must make NHS England and Jeremy Hunt sit up and listen. We need
concerted action to ensure we don’t see disparities in the drug treatments on
offer in Scotland and England. The Tory Government should be doing all they can
to provide access to these treatments for those who need them.”
Apr112017
Updated: List of local authority statements of intent updated.
Under the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) Help to Heat flexible eligibility, obligated energy suppliers will be able to use the ‘flexible eligibility’ mechanism for up to 10% of their ECO Affordable Warmth obligation by installing energy saving measures in premises that have been declared eligible by local authorities.
Participating local authorities will have to ensure these are households in private tenure living either in fuel poverty or living on a low income and who are particularly vulnerable to the effects of living in the cold. In addition some non-fuel poor homes will be allowed for solid wall insulation projects, as long as a proportion of the households in the project are in fuel poverty or living in the cold.
This guidance is aimed at local authorities and provides templates for the local authorities’ statement of intent and declarations, as well as guidance on the targeting of households.
The last document on this page is a list of links to ECO Flexible Eligibility Statements of Intent that have been published on Local Authority websites. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of published Statements of Intent.
If there are any missing, please contact beisecoteam@beis.gov.uk with the link to the published SOI.
We will update the list periodically.
Apr112017
Libor rigging – schools, hospitals, local councils
all potential victims – Shadow Chancellor demands compensation for public
bodies
Local councils, NHS hospitals and schools engaged with PFI contracts,
derivatives linked to Libor and day-to-day borrowing could be large scale
victims of Libor rigging.
Yesterday, Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell MP, called for the Chancellor to
establish a public inquiry into the scandal. He is today demanding an
independent assessment of the losses to public bodies and that where losses are
identified as a result of Libor rigging, they must be made good by the banks.
Revelations by the BBC’s Panorama programme concerning the involvement of the
Bank of England and senior officials from major banks in the rigging of the
Libor index raise urgent questions for the Bank of England and the Government:
– Did senior Bank of England officials, in allegedly applying pressure to banks
to lowball their reported borrowing rates, act with or without the knowledge of
Treasury officials and ministers?
– Was the Bank or Treasury aware of the potential costs to public authorities
as a result of lowballing?
– How many public bodies have losses arising from their purchase of
Libor-linked derivative products, and what are the scale of those losses?
John McDonnell MP said:
“This is now a matter of utmost concern that gets to the heart of failings
in our banking system. Did senior officials at the Bank of England, with or
without government encouragement, knowingly cause public bodies like NHS
hospitals, schools and local councils to suffer potentially major losses?
"My concern is that local councils, NHS hospitals, and schools could have
paid a huge cost for the Libor rigging scandal. We need to know exactly what
went on, what was the impact on public finances and who was responsible. Above
all else if local councils and other public bodies suffered losses then the
institutions responsible should pay them back for those losses.”