News story: Fast Track applications closed

The Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship window is closed, our next window will open in Spring 2018.

If you would like us to contact you closer to the time to give you the exact date of when you can apply, please register your interest by emailing fasttrack.events@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk and we will add you to our list and contact you closer to the time.




News story: Apply to register a trade mark

As part of our ongoing work to improve our digital services, we are implementing changes to the Apply to register a trade mark service.

As part of our ongoing work to improve our digital services, we are implementing changes to the Apply to register a trade mark service.

Apply to register a trade mark will function the same but with improvements to the look and style of the service.

If you have a draft application saved in progress (saved for later), then you must submit it by 14 June 2017. Following this date, any draft applications saved on the current version of this service will no longer be available.

The change will take effect on 15 June 2017 and the first screen will resemble the following;

We would welcome further feedback to continue to improve this service going forward.




Labour to ‘Turbocharge Immigration’ by calling in 100’s of thousands unskilled immigrants threatening working class wages and jobs

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“The leaked Labour document makes it crystal clear that Labour has no intention of controlling immigration; in fact Labour wants to turbocharge it, encouraging millions of immigrants to come to the UK, especially unskilled ones”, said John Bickley, the UKIP immigration spokesman.

“Labour simply doesn’t care about the impact 100’s of thousands of unskilled migrants will have on working class jobs, wages, school places, hospital beds, GP appointments and social cohesion. Labour no longer represents the working class of this country; it’s more interested in farming and nurturing votes from ethnic communities who they believe to be a Labour client state. Labour sees electoral advantage in encouraging mass immigration as the majority of migrants that eventually gain voting rights have tended to vote Labour. Since 1997 Labour has been engaged in an exercise of ‘rigging’ the population to gain votes.




Nick Clegg: May is snatching lunches from 250,000 children living in poverty

The figures, which have been broken down by constituency and local authority, show 260 children living in poverty are set to lose out in Theresa May’s constituency of Maidenhead.

It comes as Nick Clegg is set to unveil a new, hard-hitting poster attacking Theresa May’s decision to scrap free school lunches.

The Liberal Democrats have also calculated that under Conservative costings of just under 7p per child’s breakfast, each child could expect to receive either half a boiled egg, one slice of bread with 12 baked beans or 37.5 cornflakes and 100ml of semi-skimmed milk.

Commenting on the figures, Nick Clegg said:

“Theresa May’s cruel and illogical decision to take away free, hot lunches for all infants will hurt hundreds of thousands of Britain’s poorest children.

“It’s clear that the reintroduction of means-testing for school lunches will mean many children losing out on what could be the only hot, nutritious meal that they receive each day.

“Theresa May is not only risking the health of some of our youngest children, but she will also create terrible inequality in the classroom.

“The Conservatives’ cynical promise of a free breakfast is clearly not designed to reach all children because they have set aside a meagre 7p per breakfast per child. That’s the price of half a boiled egg or just one slice of bread with 12 baked beans.

“Theresa May insists she wants to govern for everyone. But her regressive cutting of free school lunches is clear evidence she is prepared to ignore some of the poorest and most vulnerable children in our society.

“Just because the youngest don’t vote, it doesn’t mean that Theresa May should simply cast them aside.”




News story: Searching for a trade mark

As part of our ongoing work to improve our digital services, we are implementing changes to the current trade mark search service.

There are three trade mark search services:

  • search by number
  • search by owner
  • search by word, phrase and/or image

The three search options will function the same but with changes to the look and style of the service, in particular the search by word, phrase and/or image.

Tabs have been introduced to categorise content, however based on customer feedback, you can also ‘display content without tabs’.

The change will take effect on 31 May 2017.

We would welcome further feedback to continue to improve this service going forward.