- https://www.gov.uk/government/news/members-appointed-to-the-council-for-science-and-technology--4 The Prime Minister today re-appointed 5 members, appointed 4 ex-officio members, and launched the recruitment of up to around 10 new members to the Council for Science and Technology (CST). The appointments will commence on 1 January 2011 when current members’ appointments expire. The CST is the UK Government’s top-level advisory body on science and technology policy issues. It reports directly to the Prime Minister.
- civil service people survey
- https://civilservice.blog.gov.uk/2015/10/13/delivering-the-civil-service-people-survey/
- ********https://privycouncil.independent.gov.uk/royal-charters/list-of-charters-granted/
Ministry of defense
- a chief of staff committee formed in 1923 (idea rejected by david lloyd george in 1921)
- a cabinet level position of minister for coordination was created in 1936 to provide oversight for rearmament in the light of growing nazi aggression
- winston churchill created in 1940 the office of minister of defense (have direct control over cgief of staff committee)
- 1946 ministry of defense act passed by house of commons (labour majority)
- formed in 1964 to coordinate the royal navy (royal marines part of it), british army, royal air force.
- ministry of aviation supply became part of the ministry of defense.
armed forces
- https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/armed-forces-covenant
Navy
- first lord of admiralty created in 1628
- Naval intelligence organization headed by a director of naval intelligence
- 英國白金漢宮的「換崗儀式」一向由皇室的御林軍負責，皇家海軍於周日臨時接替了他們的角色。八十六名來自四十五艘皇家海軍艦艇的水兵，早前花了一個月排練，在白金漢宮整齊地換崗，為海軍三百五十七年來首次。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20171128/00180_036.html
- The Old Royal Naval Collegewas originally the site of Bella Court, built by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and subsequently renamed Palace of Placentiaby Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI, upon its confiscation. Rebuilt by Henry VII, it was thenceforth more commonly known as Greenwich Palace. As such, it was the birthplace of Tudor monarchs Henry VIII, Mary I, and Elizabeth I, and reputedly the favourite palace of Henry VIII. The palace fell into disrepair during the English Civil War. With the exception of the incomplete John Webb building, the palace was finally demolished in 1694.
- The Royal Naval College, Greenwich, was founded by an Order in Council dated 16 January 1873. The Royal Naval War College, which had been established at Portsmouth in November 1900, transferred its activities to the college at Greenwich in 1914.[4]During the First World War the Royal Naval College was requisitioned as a barracks and for scientific experiments. The training of officers was not resumed until 1919.
- !!!chinese link http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2020/08/22/b06-0822.pdf
- ships
- HMS Beagle was a Cherokee-class 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, one of more than 100 ships of this class. The vessel, constructed at a cost of £7,803 (£572,000 in today's currency), was launched on 11 May 1820 from the Woolwich Dockyard on the River Thames. In July of that year she took part in a fleet review celebrating the coronation of King George IV of the United Kingdom, and for that occasion is said to have been the first ship to sail completely under the old London Bridge. There was no immediate need for Beagle so she "lay in ordinary", moored afloat but without masts or rigging. She was then adapted as a survey barque and took part in three survey expeditions.The second voyage of HMS Beagle is notable for carrying the recently graduated naturalist Charles Darwin around the world. While the survey work was carried out, Darwin travelled and researched geology, natural history and ethnology onshore. He gained fame by publishing his diary journal, best known as The Voyage of the Beagle, and his findings played a pivotal role in the formation of his scientific theories on evolution and natural selection.
- Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Zephyr after Zephyrus, the Greek god of the west wind
- HMS Sutherland is a Type 23 frigate of the British Royal Navy. She is the thirteenth ship in the Duke class of frigates and is the third ship to bear the name, more than 200 years since the name was last used. She was launched in 1996 by Lady Christina Walmsley, wife of Sir Robert Walmsley KCB. Before this occasion, Royal Navy ships had always been launched with a bottle of champagne, but Lady Walmsley broke with tradition and used a bottle of Macallan Scotch whisky. There is a keen golfing community on-board, and the crew sometimes use the facilities of their affiliate golf course in the Royal Burgh of Dornoch. other available wikipedia versions: slovenian, finnish, persian
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/13/britain-plots-confrontation-beijing-sending-royal-navy-warship/
HM Treasury
- https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/23/jim-oneill-resigns-treasury-minister-conservative-whip-theresa-may-tensions
- debt management office
- The National Loan Guarantee Scheme (NLGS) was launched on 20 March 2012 to help businesses access cheaper finance by reducing the cost of bank loans under the scheme by 1 percentage point. The NLGS uses government guarantees on unsecured borrowing by banks, enabling them to borrow at a cheaper rate. Participating banks pass on the entire benefit that they receive from the guarantees across the UK through cheaper loans. Over 28,000 loans have been offered under the NLGS by the banks who signed up to the scheme at its launch in 2012. These loans had an overall value of over £5.2bn and each offered small business borrowers cheaper loans as a result of the scheme. On 1 August 2012, the Bank of England and HM Treasury announced the opening of the Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS). The FLS is designed to incentivise banks and building societies to boost their lending to the UK real economy. Current market conditions mean that the FLS is a more favourable option for banks, and banks who have previously offered NLGS loans are now choosing to deliver credit easing to the whole economy through the FLS. The NLGS is not currently open for new guarantees, but in the event that stressed market conditions re-emerge, HM Treasury would consider whether to reopen the scheme.
- https://twitter.com/hashtag/FinTechWeek?src=hash
- 2018 edition https://registration.livegroup.co.uk/internationalfintechconference2018/
- https://www.ft.com/content/825a19b6-8568-11e6-a29c-6e7d9515ad15 The Department for Exiting the EU (Dexeu), headed by David Davis, has already hired 200 staff from within the civil service but needs to scale up as it prepares for detailed negotiations over the form Brexit will take.One person at the new ministry said Dexeu had attracted more than 250 applications for 20 senior job vacancies, despite reports that civil servants were reluctant to work on Brexit. Earlier this month, Sir Jeremy Heywood, the cabinet secretary, told MPs that the two departments created to take Britain out of the EU — Dexeu and the Department for International Trade — had filled four-fifths, or 65, of their senior posts.
英國首相約翰遜前日宣布，把國際發展部和外交部合併成外交、聯邦及發展辦公室。新部門九月開始辦公，並由外相藍韜文主管。前首相卡梅倫則抨擊，有關決定不利英國在國際舞台發展。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20200618/00180_028.html
Department for International Trade
- The Board of Trade is a British government department concerned with commerce and industry, currently within the Department for International Trade. Its full title is The Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations, but is commonly known as the Board of Trade, and formerly known as the Lords of Trade and Plantations or Lords of Trade, is a committee of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. It was first established as a temporary committee of England's Privy Council to advise on colonial (plantation) questions in the early 17th century, when these settlements were initially forming. The Board would evolve gradually into a government department with considerable power and a diverse range of functions,[2] including regulation of domestic and foreign commerce, the development, implementation and interpretation of the Acts of Trade and Navigation, and the review and acceptance of legislation passed in the colonies. Between 1696 and 1782 the Board of Trade, in partnership with the various[3] secretaries of state over that time, held responsible for colonial affairs, particularly in British America. The Home Secretary held colonial responsibility until 1801 when the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies was established. Between 1768 and 1782 while with the Secretary of State for the Colonies, whose secretaryship was held jointly with the presidency of the Board of Trade, the latter position remained largely vacant; this led to a diminished status of the board and it became an adjunct to the new Department and Ministry concerns. Following the loss of the American War of Independence, both the board and the short-lived secretaryship were dismissed by the king on 2 May 1782 and the board was abolished later by the Civil List and Secret Service Money Act 1782 (22 Geo. III, c 82). Following the Treaty of Paris 1783, with the continuing need to regulate trade between its remaining colonies, the independent United States and all other countries, a new Committee of Council on Trade and Plantations (later known as 'the First Committee') was established by William Pitt the Younger. Initially mandated by an order in Council on 5 March 1784, the committee was reconstructed and strengthened by a second order, on 23 August 1786, under which it operated for the rest of its existence. The committee has been known as the Board of Trade since 1786, but this name was only officially adopted by an act of 1861. The new Board's first functions were consultative like earlier iterations, and its concern with plantations, in matters such as the approval of colonial laws, more successfully accomplished. As the industrial revolution expanded, the board's work became increasingly executive and domestic and from the 1840s a succession of acts of parliament gave it regulatory duties, notably concerning railways, merchant shipping, and joint stock companies. This department was merged with the Ministry of Technology in 1970 to form the Department of Trade and Industry. The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (from 2009 Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills) was also President of the Board of Trade. The full Board has met only once since the mid-20th century, during commemorations of the bicentenary of the Board in 1986. In 2016, the role of President of the Board of Trade was transferred to the Secretary of State for International Trade. The Board was reconstituted in October 2017.
- recruitment
- recruit perm sec in Sep2016 thru exec search firm Russell Reynolds Associates
- recruit chief trade negotiation advisor in feb 2017 thru exec search firm Russell Reynolds Associates
- https://www.civilserviceworld.com/articles/news/department-international-trade-recruit-two-%E2%80%8B%C2%A3140k-dgs-exports-and-investment
- https://www.bbc.com/news/business-41586496 The Board of Trade is to be revived as an advisory body to attract more inward investment to the UK and boost exports. The government has given it the aim of spreading the benefits of free trade across the country. The Board's first meeting will be in Bristol on Thursday, with the involvement of "prominent figures" in business and politics.
- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/apprentices-vital-international-trade-policy-dr-liam-fox-mp
- DIT’s new National Trade Academy Programme is running its first ever free residential summer school in July 2018 for students aged 18 plus. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/applications-are-open-for-dits-international-trade-summer-school-2018
- The Department for International Trade will on Thursday confirm the appointment of Mark Slaughter as director general for investment. In this newly created role, the former Citigroup banker will lead cross-governmental efforts to attract foreign investment into the UK. Mr Slaughter is a former Asia-Pacific head of corporate and investment banking for Citigroup.Although he has spent stints working in the US and then Asia, Mr Slaughter has been a UK resident for 20 years. Mr Slaughter is the second banker to be handed a high-profile trade role in the last few months. Former head of Barclays Corporate Bank John Mahon was appointed as director general of exports in April. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-your-money-44383225
- ???? £2.2bn worth of new investment opportunities, which will create new homes and jobs, have been launched today (Thursday 14 March) by the Department for International Trade. Launched at international property event MIPIM, the new projects include an array of development opportunities in England and the government’s first Wales property investment portfolio. Among the new investment opportunities on offer to international investors is a 444-acre ‘experiential’ resort in Oxfordshire and 3 new garden communities in North Essex, set to create more than 43,000 new homes over the next 50 years. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/22-billion-of-new-uk-investment-opportunities-launched
- DIT’s new National Trade Academy Programme is running its first ever free residential summer school in July 2018 for students aged 18 plus. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/applications-are-open-for-dits-international-trade-summer-school-2018
- The Department for International Trade will on Thursday confirm the appointment of Mark Slaughter as director general for investment. In this newly created role, the former Citigroup banker will lead cross-governmental efforts to attract foreign investment into the UK. Mr Slaughter is a former Asia-Pacific head of corporate and investment banking for Citigroup.Although he has spent stints working in the US and then Asia, Mr Slaughter has been a UK resident for 20 years. Mr Slaughter is the second banker to be handed a high-profile trade role in the last few months. Former head of Barclays Corporate Bank John Mahon was appointed as director general of exports in April. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-your-money-44383225
- ???? £2.2bn worth of new investment opportunities, which will create new homes and jobs, have been launched today (Thursday 14 March) by the Department for International Trade. Launched at international property event MIPIM, the new projects include an array of development opportunities in England and the government’s first Wales property investment portfolio. Among the new investment opportunities on offer to international investors is a 444-acre ‘experiential’ resort in Oxfordshire and 3 new garden communities in North Essex, set to create more than 43,000 new homes over the next 50 years. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/22-billion-of-new-uk-investment-opportunities-launched
- trade commissioners
- https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-trade-commissioners-to-lead-uk-trade-and-investment-overseas John Edwards, HMTC for China and Hong Kong
- people
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), formerly known as the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) until September 2020, and commonly called the Foreign Office (which was the formal name of its predecessor until 1968), or British Foreign Office, is a department of the Government of the United Kingdom. In September 2020, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) was formed from the merging with the Department for International Development[2] and the Foreign Secretary's responsibilities merged with that of the Secretary of State for International Development. It is responsible for protecting and promoting British interests worldwide and was created in 1968 by merging the Foreign Office and the Commonwealth Office.
- hk team
- maggie palmer, associate director, healthcare and education
- jacqueline lau, trade and investment adviser
- education
- sophia ip, head of education
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), formerly known as the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) until September 2020, and commonly called the Foreign Office (which was the formal name of its predecessor until 1968), or British Foreign Office, is a department of the Government of the United Kingdom. In September 2020, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) was formed from the merging with the Department for International Development[2] and the Foreign Secretary's responsibilities merged with that of the Secretary of State for International Development. It is responsible for protecting and promoting British interests worldwide and was created in 1968 by merging the Foreign Office and the Commonwealth Office.
- The Foreign Office was formed in March 1782 by combining the Southern and Northern Departments of the Secretary of State, each of which covered both foreign and domestic affairs in their parts of the Kingdom. The two departments' foreign affairs responsibilities became the Foreign Office, whilst their domestic affairs responsibilities were assigned to the Home Office. The Home Office is technically the senior.
- The FCO was formed on 17 October 1968, from the merger of the short-lived Commonwealth Office and the Foreign Office.[10] The Commonwealth Office had been created only in 1966, by the merger of the Commonwealth Relations Office and the Colonial Office, the Commonwealth Relations Office having been formed by the merger of the Dominions Office and the India Office in 1947—with the Dominions Office having been split from the Colonial Office in 1925. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office held responsibility for international development issues between 1970 and 1974, and again between 1979 and 1997.
- Mr Raab has announced a £119m fund to tackle coronavirus and famine to mark the launch of the new, merged department. The money will be targeted in Yemen, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Somalia, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Sudan and West Africa's Sahel region - all places where the outbreak has worsened conditions for people already struggling with extreme hunger, wars and/or climate change.The foreign secretary also confirmed he would be appointing Nick Dyer - a director general at DfID - as the UK's first special envoy for famine prevention and humanitarian affairs.https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-53992500
The Political Intelligence Department was a department of the British Foreign Office during World War II. Established in 1939, its main function was the production of weekly intelligence summaries.[1] It was originally headed by Foreign Office diplomat Rex Leeper. In April 1943, the department was merged with the Royal Institute of International Affairs' Foreign Research and Press Service in Oxford, creating the new Foreign Office Research Department. The 'Political Intelligence Department' name continued to exist until 1946 as a cover for the Political Warfare Executive.
- the foreign research and press service, a british thinktank headed by arnold toynbee, came up with a no of policy papers discussing the reorganisation of central europe along federal lines in 1942-3. For one time the idea was to set up 2 units as the guarantee of a sustainable postwar order, on in east central europe and another on southeast europe, but eventually these plans were dropped as it became increasingly clear that this zone would fall under soviet control
DFID
- history
- “In 1982 the foreign office was really the only external player, but in 1997 we had the floating off of ODA (Official Development Assistance) as DFID (Department for International Development).”https://www.fda.org.uk/home/Newsandmedia/Features/Interview-with-Sir-Simon-McDonald.aspx
- 英媒前日報道，外交大臣藍韜文下令大減二十九億英鎊（約二百八十七億港元）對外援助，包括每年提供予中國多達七千一百六十萬英鎊（約七億一千萬港元）援助。英國國際發展部（DFiD）數據顯示，英國自二○一八年起以直接方式，或透過聯合國、歐盟給予中國援助。款項主要用於培訓小學老師、打擊野生動物交易等。英媒民調亦顯示，百分之九十八受訪者要求政府中止對外援助。藍韜文下令削減今年的對外援助項目，大部分都涉及中國，但他強調仍會將國民總收入的百分之零點七用於國際發展。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20200725/00180_007.html
- ???????SITA
- Despite an enormous untapped potential for trade expansion between India and Africa, data reveal that a limited number of products are currently being traded. India’s trade with Africa is concentrated in certain sectors and countries, and it is dominated by exports of primary commodities. While the potential for export diversification exists, it may not be realized without targeted intervention. India is well-positioned as a partner to improve the productive and export capacities of African partner countries. With the growing importance of South-South cooperation, India’s expertise can be leveraged to build trade capacities in African partner countries through the sharing of knowledge, technology and lessons learnt. In this context, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’s Department for International Development (DFID) mandated the International Trade Centre (ITC) to design and implement a project, called ‘Supporting India’s Trade Preferences for Africa’ (SITA). On 9 March 2014, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between DFID and ITC, marking the start of the project. The project responds to the challenges that selected East African countries – Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania – face in increasing and diversifying exports. It also addresses trade priorities of the beneficiary countries so they can achieve sustainable development.http://www.voicesofsita.com/learn-about-sita/
- https://dfidnews.blog.gov.uk/2017/12/17/mail-on-sunday-on-chinese-investment-in-africa/ Today’s Mail on Sunday misleadingly reports that DFID is supporting a company, which seeks to help Chinese manufacturers move their factories to Africa and to “make profits for Chinese businesses”. Through Invest Africa, DFID has supported a UK-registered company Made in Africa to help create a business environment for much-needed direct foreign investment into underfunded sectors in Africa, creating the jobs and boosting the growth which is lifting millions out of poverty. Invest Africa does not give any preferential treatment to firms from China; it helps facilitate investment irrespective of country of origin. The programmes also does not involve investment in “Chinese takeaways”. DFID has not accepted the Made in Africa workplans referred to in the article and the invoice referenced has not been seen by or submitted to DFID for payment and therefore we have not paid any of the quoted figures. DFID does not give aid to China or Chinese businesses, and we do not fund the Centre for New Structural Economics at Peking University
- The body of Rebecca Dykes, who worked at the British Embassy in the city, was found by a motorway on Saturday.Ms Dykes, who is believed to have been 30, had been working in Beirut as the programme and policy manager for the Department for International Development since January 2017.http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42386721
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Formerly Department for Business, Innovation and Skills )
- http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/38fa850c-f8a2-11e4-be00-00144feab7de.html Scrapping the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is one of those ideas that has been kicked around Whitehall for so long that it enjoys the status of a parlour game. Even the last business secretary mused publicly about dismantling it in 2003 — admittedly some years before taking office. Vince Cable favoured abolition because he thought the ministry “didn’t perform a function”. Mr Cable changed his mind by the time he received the keys to the department after the 2010 election. By modern standards he proved an activist business secretary. Mr Cable sought to give his ministry a mission, reforming higher education, founding a state investment bank, and even rehabilitating the long-despised notion of industrial policy. But the existential question never quite went away. Budgetary pressures on non-protected ministries — of which the business department is one — can only mount as David Cameron’s government wrestles with the task of achieving budgetary balance by 2018-19. Billions in savings will be required beyond the welfare budget. The appointment of the Thatcherite former investment banker, Sajid Javid, to run the department has prompted speculation that it can expect further stinging cuts. Mr Javid comes to the post with a pared down agenda. His first pronouncement concerned the Thatcherite goal of reforming employment laws to make it harder for workers in essential public services to strike. But there are reasons to believe that whatever urge he has to shrink his inheritance may be tempered by reality. First, the scope for slashing the department’s budget further is limited. More than 80 per cent of its £13bn pot goes towards scientific research and higher and further education. These costs are largely set by outside agencies. They could rise sharply in future depending on the level of write-offs from the first rounds of student loans. The government must also find money for its ambitious plan to create 3m apprenticeships — a much-trumpeted Tory election commitment. Second, one of the biggest challenges facing the new government — improving productivity — is one in which the business department has an important role to play. The significance of this goal cannot be overstated. Without increases to Britain’s output, the budgetary challenges Mr Cameron faces are probably insuperable. Mr Javid favours further deregulation, but it is hard to see how simply loosening the labour laws would make a huge difference. The UK’s economy has over the past five years created more than 2m jobs. Mr Javid should be more radical. If there is a case for deregulation it is in the ownership and usage of land. Artificial scarcity acts as a tax on enterprise, driving up costs and slowing the delivery of improved infrastructure.
- https://www.gov.uk/government/news/global-cooperation-feasibility-studies-apply-for-funding UK businesses looking to create international business networks can apply for funding of up to £21,000. This funding is to enable commercial research and innovation partnerships. It will also help businesses explore ideas for future collaboration. Innovate UK is funding this competition. It is open to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The funding will enable SMEs to carry out short feasibility studies and spend time abroad. The competition will encourage UK firms to create long term partnerships with overseas companies. It will also help them gain a better understanding of collaborative opportunities. This new fund comes the day after the Prime Minister held a round table of SMEs and trade associations. The aim of the round table was to discuss how the government can help them seize new opportunities, particularly exports. The Prime Minister has identified SMEs as the backbone of the British economy, helping to build a more productive and balanced economy.
trade and agriculture commission
- Retailers, farming unions, consumer, hospitality and environmental bodies from across the UK have been named as members of the Government’s new Trade and Agriculture Commission. It will be chaired by food safety expert Tim Smith, a former Chief Executive of the Food Standards Agency and Tesco Group Technical Director.The English, Scottish and Welsh branches of the National Farmers Union (NFU) are all represented, as are the Ulster Farmers Union and the Farmers’ Union of Wales. Other members include the British Retail Consortium, UK Hospitality, and the Food and Drink Federation.It will report directly to International Trade Secretary. The scope of the Commission was agreed after close consultation between farming unions, the Department for International Trade and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. It will be set up for six months and submit an advisory report at the end of its work which will be presented to Parliament by the Department for International Trade.https://www.gov.uk/government/news/trade-and-agriculture-commission-membership-announced
UK Export Finance is the operating name of the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD), the United Kingdom's export credit agency and a ministerial department of the UK government. It is, by international type and in its operations (e.g. involvement in Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline), a controversial[1] government department. It has been awarded the best global export credit agency for 2019. ECGD derives its powers from the Export and Investment Guarantees Act 1991 and undertakes its activities in accordance with a specific consent from HM Treasury. ECGD was established in 1919 to promote UK exports lost during the submarine blockade of World War I.
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Trade Remedies Authority
- The UK’s new Trade Remedies Authority will be based in Reading, the Department for International Trade announced today, as it also began recruiting a new Chair to head the organisation.
Bringing high-skilled jobs to the town, the new agency will take on powers from the EU to investigate unfair trade practices and unexpected surges in imports that harm UK industry. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/key-uk-trade-agency-to-be-based-in-reading
Innovate UK is the United Kingdom's innovation agency. It is a non-departmental public bodyoperating at arm's length from the Government as part of the United Kingdom Research and Innovation organisation.Innovate UK has its roots as an advisory body – the Technology Strategy Board – established in 2004 within the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), before becoming an independent body in July 2007 after the reorganisation of the DTI into the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) under Brown's government. In August 2014 the organisation adopted the name Innovate UK, and began a transition to use the new name in all its communications. However, the legal name of the organisation remains as the Technology Strategy Board.
Home office
MI5
- The Security Service, also MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's domesticcounter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and Defence Intelligence (DI). MI5 is directed by the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), and the service is bound by the Security Service Act 1989. The service is directed to protect British parliamentary democracy and economic interests, and counter terrorism and espionage within the UK. Within the civil service community the service is colloquially known as Box 500 (after its official wartime address of PO Box 500; its current address is PO Box 3255, London SW1P 1AE). The service has had a national headquarters at Thames House on Millbank in London since 1995, drawing together personnel from a number of locations into a single HQ facility. Thames House was, until March 2013, shared with the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) and is also home to the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, a subordinate organisation to the Security Service. The service has offices across the United Kingdom including an HQ in Northern Ireland.
MI6
- The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the foreign intelligence agency of the British government. The SIS Chief is held accountable to the Foreign Secretary.[4] SIS is bound by the Intelligence Services Act 1994. SIS is frequently referred to by the name MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6), a name used as a flag of convenience during the First World War when it was known by many names.[5] The existence of the SIS was not officially acknowledged until 1994.[6] It forms a part of the UK's intelligence machinery alongside GCHQ, MI5 andDefence Intelligence.
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/03/mi6-next-mission-not-easy-recruit-agents-minority-groups
UK Export Finance is the operating name of the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD), the United Kingdom's export credit agency and a ministerial department of the UK government. It is, by international type and in its operations (e.g. involvement in Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline), a controversial[1] government department. It has been awarded the best global export credit agency for 2019. ECGD derives its powers from the Export and Investment Guarantees Act 1991 and undertakes its activities in accordance with a specific consent from HM Treasury. ECGD was established in 1919 to promote UK exports lost during the submarine blockade of World War I.
- projects
- https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-backs-uk-firm-to-build-three-hospitals-in-oman UK firm wins contract for the construction of the Salalah, Suwaiq and Khasab hospitals, backed by over £500 million worth of support from UK Export Finance (UKEF).Three hospitals to provide intensive care, emergency services and specialist baby care.International Hospitals Group (IHG) will draw on world-renowned expertise and equipment from the UK supply chain for all three projects.International Hospitals Group has its UK headquarters in Denham, Buckinghamshire and partners with the University of Cambridge, the United Nations and the World Bank to provide health care projects all over the world.UKEF has provided support to help win these major contracts in Oman, and provided a loan, repayable on a commercial basis.
- UK-based solar energy company, Solarcentury, has secured new financing to build two of the largest solar plants in Spain demonstrating the UK’s leadership on climate change. UK Export Finance (UKEF), the UK’s export credit agency, has today (7 January 2019) guaranteed £47.6 million worth of financing for Solarcentury, in a boost to UK solar exports. Together, the developments will generate enough energy to power more than a quarter of a million homes each year with renewable energy. The new banking facilities comprise a £24.7 million trade loan facility from NatWest and a £22.9 million guarantees line from HSBC UK, with both sources of funding supported by UK Export Finance. UKEF’s support will allow Solarcentury to access the working capital and bond support needed to fulfil the contracts.https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-solar-company-secures-funding-to-build-two-major-solar-plants-in-spain
Trade Remedies Authority
- The UK’s new Trade Remedies Authority will be based in Reading, the Department for International Trade announced today, as it also began recruiting a new Chair to head the organisation.
Bringing high-skilled jobs to the town, the new agency will take on powers from the EU to investigate unfair trade practices and unexpected surges in imports that harm UK industry. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/key-uk-trade-agency-to-be-based-in-reading
Innovate UK is the United Kingdom's innovation agency. It is a non-departmental public bodyoperating at arm's length from the Government as part of the United Kingdom Research and Innovation organisation.Innovate UK has its roots as an advisory body – the Technology Strategy Board – established in 2004 within the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), before becoming an independent body in July 2007 after the reorganisation of the DTI into the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) under Brown's government. In August 2014 the organisation adopted the name Innovate UK, and began a transition to use the new name in all its communications. However, the legal name of the organisation remains as the Technology Strategy Board.
In accordance with the Higher Education and Research Act 2017, effective April 2018, Innovate UK ceased to report to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategyand became a council of the newly established United Kingdom Research and Innovationorganisation.
Home office
MI5
- The Security Service, also MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's domesticcounter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and Defence Intelligence (DI). MI5 is directed by the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), and the service is bound by the Security Service Act 1989. The service is directed to protect British parliamentary democracy and economic interests, and counter terrorism and espionage within the UK. Within the civil service community the service is colloquially known as Box 500 (after its official wartime address of PO Box 500; its current address is PO Box 3255, London SW1P 1AE). The service has had a national headquarters at Thames House on Millbank in London since 1995, drawing together personnel from a number of locations into a single HQ facility. Thames House was, until March 2013, shared with the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) and is also home to the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, a subordinate organisation to the Security Service. The service has offices across the United Kingdom including an HQ in Northern Ireland.
MI6
- The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the foreign intelligence agency of the British government. The SIS Chief is held accountable to the Foreign Secretary.[4] SIS is bound by the Intelligence Services Act 1994. SIS is frequently referred to by the name MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6), a name used as a flag of convenience during the First World War when it was known by many names.[5] The existence of the SIS was not officially acknowledged until 1994.[6] It forms a part of the UK's intelligence machinery alongside GCHQ, MI5 andDefence Intelligence.
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/03/mi6-next-mission-not-easy-recruit-agents-minority-groups
gchq
- 英國情報機構向來神秘，過去66年，「政府通信總部」（GCHQ）的倫敦分支竟然一直隱身於市中心的一座不起眼的紅磚大樓內，直到近期該分支搬遷，當局才揭曉秘密。自1953年起，這座位於倫敦帕爾默街（Palmer Street）的紅磚大樓就一直是GCHQ的倫敦分支所在。附近民眾表示，雖然大樓的用途未公開，但對於當地人來說，這個夾在一間星巴克分店和酒吧中間的辦公樓屬於情報機構，已經是一個公開的秘密，只是大家都不怎麼討論而已。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20190406/PDF/a20_screen.pdf
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), formerly and still commonly known as the Metropolitan Police, formally called the Metropolitan Police Force, and informally referred to as the Met, is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement in Greater London, excluding the "square mile" of the City of London, which is the responsibility of the City of London Police.The Met also has significant national responsibilities, such as co-ordinating and leading on UK-wide national counter-terrorism matters, and the protection of the senior members of the British Royal Family, and also members of The Cabinet and other ministerial members of Her Majesty's Government.A number of informal names and abbreviations are applied to the Metropolitan Police Service, the most common being the Met. In colloquial London (or Cockney slang), it is sometimes referred to as the Old Bill.[12] The Met is also referred to by the metonym Scotland Yard after the location of its original headquarters in a road called Great Scotland Yard in Whitehall.[13] The Met's current headquarters is New Scotland Yard, situated on the Victoria Embankment.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the principal public prosecuting agency for conducting criminal prosecutions in England and Wales. It is headed by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). The main responsibilities of CPS are to provide legal advice to the police and other investigative agencies during the course of criminal investigations, to decide whether a suspect should face criminal charges following an investigation, and to conduct prosecutions both in the Magistrates' courts and the Crown Court.Historically in England, with no police forces and no prosecution service, the only route to prosecution was through private prosecutions brought by victims at their own expense or lawyers acting on their behalf. From 1829 onwards, as the police forces were formed, they began to take on the burden of bringing prosecutions against suspected criminals.In 1962 a Royal Commission recommended that police forces set up independent prosecution departments so as to avoid having the same officers investigate and prosecute cases, although technically the prosecuting police officers did so as private citizens. The Royal Commission's recommendation was not implemented by all police forces however, and so in 1978, another Royal Commission was set up, this time headed by Sir Cyril Philips. It reported in 1981, recommending that a single unified Crown Prosecution Service with responsibility for all public prosecutions in England and Wales be set up. A White Paper was released in 1983, becoming the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, which established the CPS under the direction of the Director of Public Prosecutions, consisting of a merger of his old department with the existing police prosecution departments. It started operating in 1986. In 1997, Sir Iain Glidewell was commissioned by the government to investigate a potential reform of the CPS.
Communities and Local Government
- lancashire shale
- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-to-set-up-a-new-government-campaign-website/how-to-set-up-a-new-government-campaign-website
- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/naming-and-registering-government-websites/central-government-naming-and-registering-websites
- people
UKTI
- Export Week http://www.exportweek.ukti.gov.uk/full/index.cfm?fuseaction=social.playlist1, http://www.exportweek.ukti.gov.uk/full/index.cfm?fuseaction=social.flickr
- http://opentoexport.com/#?cam=UKTI01
- https://ukti.blog.gov.uk/
- people
- the first digital mortgage deed was entered into the Land Register. Part of the ‘Sign your mortgage deed’ service, HM Land Registry is building for a future without the need for a witness to watch as the homeowner applies an ink signature to a paper mortgage deed, saving time and providing a more secure service to homeowners, lenders and conveyancers. The registration forms part of HM Land Registry’s plans to transform the conveyancing market through quicker and simpler digital services and improved use of technology, making transactions instantaneous where possible and simplifying the home buying process. The registration of the deed follows months of collaboration and testing with Coventry Building Society and Enact Conveyancing and uses GOV.UK Verify to enable borrowers to securely verify their identity before digitally signing their mortgage deed online.
- https://www.gov.uk/government/news/hm-land-registry-launches-new-digital-local-land-charges-register 11 July 2018, HM Land Registry launches its new digital Local Land Charges (LLC) Register. Warwick District Council’s data will be the first to be available. Anyone requiring local land charge searches in the local authority area of Warwick from today onwards will need to get them from HM Land Registry rather than going to the council.
The Government Property Agency (GPA) delivers property and workplace solutions across government by managing central government property as a strategic asset.https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-property-agency/about
The Office of Government Property (OGP), formerly the Government Property Unit (established in 2010) supports government and the wider public sector to manage their estate more efficiently and effectively, helping to deliver the finest public services and supporting the government’s priorities by unlocking surplus land for housing, and encouraging the creation of public service jobs outside London to support economic growth. OGP builds capacity and capability in the property function across government through leadership of the Government Property Profession and improving use of data for better decision making. https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/office-of-government-property-ogp
The United Kingdom Space Agency (commonly known as the UK Space Agency or UKSA) is an executive agency of the Government of the United Kingdom, responsible for the United Kingdom's civil space programme. It was established on 1 April 2010 to replace the British National Space Centre (BNSC) and took over responsibility for government policy and key budgets for space exploration;[2][3] it represents the United Kingdom in all negotiations on space matters.[4][5] The Agency "[brings] together all UK civil space activities under one single management".[2] It is based at the former BNSC headquarters in Swindon, Wiltshire.
National Health Service
- http://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-news/uk-health-service-in-crisis-red-cross/news-story/c5ee2a86a2b0c4a450678d53e61220c8
- 英國近日計劃將政府醫療服務外判給商業機構管理，引起外界批評政府圖走後門，將公營醫院私有化。著名物理學家霍金和一批醫療專業人員為此告上法庭，法官經過考慮後，同意就相關方案作出全面的司法覆核，最快於三月十四日之後展開，衞生大臣侯俊偉及英國國家衞生事務局將要出席答辯。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180201/00180_019.html- A surgeon who is just one of two head and neck specialists at Nottingham Trust Hospital when there should be four, has revealed he is leaving the NHS for the US. David Grant, who lives in a flat in Nottingham, was 44 when he joined the Queen's Medical Centre at the trust, and now at 50 he says he is exhausted and ready to work under less pressure to meet government targets. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5572531/Surgeon-leaving-NHS-work-US.html#ixzz5BfTeqsxm
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/03/andrew-lansley-bowel-cancer-nhs-money-screening former Conservative health secretary was diagnosed with bowel cancer after his wife nagged him into seeing his GP about his back pain. While his prospects would have been better if it had been caught earlier, things could be worse. He is still fairly optimistic about recovering, and he isn’t asking for your sympathy – although it was classy of the shadow health secretary, Jon Ashworth, to offer Labour’s anyway. What he does seem to want, however, is for his own party to acknowledge that lucky isn’t good enough, either for him or for the millions of over-55s in England and Wales supposed to benefit from a national screening programme to detect and treat bowel cancer early. This was something Lansley himself piloted in office, before finding out the hard way that it hasn’t been delivered as planned.- 英國國家衞生事務局（NHS）面臨七十年來最嚴重財困之際，英媒調查揭發部分NHS高層涉濫用政府提供的採購卡，支付直升機駕駛課程、玩小型賽車、入住五星級酒店及購買其他與公務無關的雜項等費用。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180404/00180_020.html
- 英媒上周四揭露，英國國家衞生事務局（NHS）部分員工及外判商蓄意詐騙，導致NHS每年被騙十二億五千萬英鎊（約一百二十七億港元），金額足以每年聘請多四萬名護士，或購買五千輛救護車。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190210/00180_004.html
Healthcare UK (part of UKTI and Department of Health)
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the principal public prosecuting agency for conducting criminal prosecutions in England and Wales. It is headed by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). The main responsibilities of CPS are to provide legal advice to the police and other investigative agencies during the course of criminal investigations, to decide whether a suspect should face criminal charges following an investigation, and to conduct prosecutions both in the Magistrates' courts and the Crown Court.Historically in England, with no police forces and no prosecution service, the only route to prosecution was through private prosecutions brought by victims at their own expense or lawyers acting on their behalf. From 1829 onwards, as the police forces were formed, they began to take on the burden of bringing prosecutions against suspected criminals.In 1962 a Royal Commission recommended that police forces set up independent prosecution departments so as to avoid having the same officers investigate and prosecute cases, although technically the prosecuting police officers did so as private citizens. The Royal Commission's recommendation was not implemented by all police forces however, and so in 1978, another Royal Commission was set up, this time headed by Sir Cyril Philips. It reported in 1981, recommending that a single unified Crown Prosecution Service with responsibility for all public prosecutions in England and Wales be set up. A White Paper was released in 1983, becoming the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, which established the CPS under the direction of the Director of Public Prosecutions, consisting of a merger of his old department with the existing police prosecution departments. It started operating in 1986. In 1997, Sir Iain Glidewell was commissioned by the government to investigate a potential reform of the CPS.
Communities and Local Government
- lancashire shale
- http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-34938891 The decision to allow shale gas drilling - or fracking - in Lancashire will be made directly by the government, it has emerged. Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Greg Clark informed Lancashire County Council of his intent on Thursday. Energy firm Cuadrilla is appealing against the council's refusal in June to allow fracking on two sites. Most planning appeals are usually decided by a planning inspector. Mr Clark is using the "recovery" procedure which allows the Secretary of State to decide the outcome following the appeal rather a government planning inspector.
- http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-35522919 An energy firm appealing against a decision to refuse fracking said the inquiry was not about the "rights or wrongs" of shale gas extraction. Cuadrilla was refused permission to extract shale gas at the sites in Little Plumpton and Roseacre Wood. Lancashire County Council rejected both planning applications last year on the grounds of noise and traffic impact. Cuadrilla disputed those reasons at the inquiry in Blackpool, but the council said it was "democracy in action".
- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-to-set-up-a-new-government-campaign-website/how-to-set-up-a-new-government-campaign-website
- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/naming-and-registering-government-websites/central-government-naming-and-registering-websites
- people
- https://twitter.com/mancypino Joanna Blackburn@mancypino Head of digital comms @bisgovuk
UKTI
- Export Week http://www.exportweek.ukti.gov.uk/full/index.cfm?fuseaction=social.playlist1, http://www.exportweek.ukti.gov.uk/full/index.cfm?fuseaction=social.flickr
- http://opentoexport.com/#?cam=UKTI01
- https://ukti.blog.gov.uk/
- https://ukti.blog.gov.uk/author/jo-hawley/
- https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hong-kong-round-table-tickets-20805889977
Hong Kong Round Table 9feb16 manchester
- Hket 26mar16 a24 jo hawley interview
- http://www.chinadailyasia.com/business/2016-05/17/content_15433839.html hinese company Huawei Monday signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with UK Trade and Investment (UKTI), which aims to enhance the two sides' cooperation on business development. UKTI is the British government department responsible for encouraging investment in the country by overseas businesses. The agreement, signed at Huawei's UK and Ireland Partner Convention held in London, focuses on identifying the best UK technology partners for Huawei's global supply chain and support Huawei's investment and business development in the UK.
- people
- International Trade Secretary Dr Liam Fox MP appoints Emma Wade-Smith OBE as HM Trade Commissioner for Africa. Emma Wade-Smith joins Simon Penney (Middle East), Richard Burn (China), Jo Crellin (Latin America), Crispin Simon (South Asia), Judith Slater (Eastern Europe and Central Asia) and Antony Phillipson (North America) as HM Trade Commissioners, with those for Europe and Asia-Pacific to be confirmed shortly. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/hm-trade-commissioner-for-africa-appointed
- elizabeth fehnrich, international trade advisor
- email (aliceli314@gmail.com) 31mar16 inviting to join financial business and professional linkedin group
- film related
- philomena chen, richard flood, lee li, catherine lee (drink reception in hk during filmart 2014 (screen international issue 26mar14))
- education related
- heidi cheung 張煦怡, head of education heidi.cheung@fco.gov.uk
Her Majesty's Land Registry is a non-ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom, created in 1862 to register the ownership of land and property in England and Wales.[3] It reports to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy The equivalent office in Scotland is the Registers of Scotland. Land and Property Services maintain records for Northern Ireland.In 1857 the Royal Commission on Registration of Title proposed a system of registration administered by a central registry in London with district offices. The Land Registry Act 1862 was introduced by the then Lord Chancellor, Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury. The Act provided for the registration of freehold and long leasehold estates in land. The system of registration adopted had some differences to that piloted in South Australia by that colony's then Premier Sir Robert Torrens, although both were founded on the 1857 report. Brent Spencer Follett, the first Chief Land Registrar, opened the Land Registry's first offices, at 34 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, on 15 October 1862.
- https://www.gov.uk/government/news/hm-land-registry-launches-new-digital-local-land-charges-register 11 July 2018, HM Land Registry launches its new digital Local Land Charges (LLC) Register. Warwick District Council’s data will be the first to be available. Anyone requiring local land charge searches in the local authority area of Warwick from today onwards will need to get them from HM Land Registry rather than going to the council.
The Government Property Agency (GPA) delivers property and workplace solutions across government by managing central government property as a strategic asset.https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-property-agency/about
The Office of Government Property (OGP), formerly the Government Property Unit (established in 2010) supports government and the wider public sector to manage their estate more efficiently and effectively, helping to deliver the finest public services and supporting the government’s priorities by unlocking surplus land for housing, and encouraging the creation of public service jobs outside London to support economic growth. OGP builds capacity and capability in the property function across government through leadership of the Government Property Profession and improving use of data for better decision making. https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/office-of-government-property-ogp
The United Kingdom Space Agency (commonly known as the UK Space Agency or UKSA) is an executive agency of the Government of the United Kingdom, responsible for the United Kingdom's civil space programme. It was established on 1 April 2010 to replace the British National Space Centre (BNSC) and took over responsibility for government policy and key budgets for space exploration;[2][3] it represents the United Kingdom in all negotiations on space matters.[4][5] The Agency "[brings] together all UK civil space activities under one single management".[2] It is based at the former BNSC headquarters in Swindon, Wiltshire.
National Health Service
- http://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-news/uk-health-service-in-crisis-red-cross/news-story/c5ee2a86a2b0c4a450678d53e61220c8
- 英國近日計劃將政府醫療服務外判給商業機構管理，引起外界批評政府圖走後門，將公營醫院私有化。著名物理學家霍金和一批醫療專業人員為此告上法庭，法官經過考慮後，同意就相關方案作出全面的司法覆核，最快於三月十四日之後展開，衞生大臣侯俊偉及英國國家衞生事務局將要出席答辯。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180201/00180_019.html- A surgeon who is just one of two head and neck specialists at Nottingham Trust Hospital when there should be four, has revealed he is leaving the NHS for the US. David Grant, who lives in a flat in Nottingham, was 44 when he joined the Queen's Medical Centre at the trust, and now at 50 he says he is exhausted and ready to work under less pressure to meet government targets. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5572531/Surgeon-leaving-NHS-work-US.html#ixzz5BfTeqsxm
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/03/andrew-lansley-bowel-cancer-nhs-money-screening former Conservative health secretary was diagnosed with bowel cancer after his wife nagged him into seeing his GP about his back pain. While his prospects would have been better if it had been caught earlier, things could be worse. He is still fairly optimistic about recovering, and he isn’t asking for your sympathy – although it was classy of the shadow health secretary, Jon Ashworth, to offer Labour’s anyway. What he does seem to want, however, is for his own party to acknowledge that lucky isn’t good enough, either for him or for the millions of over-55s in England and Wales supposed to benefit from a national screening programme to detect and treat bowel cancer early. This was something Lansley himself piloted in office, before finding out the hard way that it hasn’t been delivered as planned.
- 英媒上周四揭露，英國國家衞生事務局（NHS）部分員工及外判商蓄意詐騙，導致NHS每年被騙十二億五千萬英鎊（約一百二十七億港元），金額足以每年聘請多四萬名護士，或購買五千輛救護車。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190210/00180_004.html
Healthcare UK (part of UKTI and Department of Health)
- http://www1.hkej.com/dailynews/articlePrint/id/1056527 隨着科技不斷發展，現在連醫療服務也要加強應用科技，數碼醫療保健（digital health）便乘時興起。英國Healthcare UK助理總監克蘭肖（Ian Cranshaw）在香港接受本報訪問時指出，運用資訊科技，提高醫療系統效率，可減低不必要開支。 Healthcare UK現時有四大海外推廣市場，分別是香港與中國、中東、巴西、印度，其中香港與中國是該公司非常看重的部分，去年6月，Healthcare UK在浙江省寧波第二醫院設立「數字醫療展示廳」。 克蘭肖說，中國的中產人口到2020年預計將增至5.2億，屆時中國整體醫療開支將增至1萬億美元，對英國醫療產業來說是極龐大的市場。
英國的英格蘭及威爾斯裁判法院，自一○年起關閉一百六十二間，比例超過一半，令被告、證人、警員、律師、法官等長途跋涉，走到逾八十公里外的法院審訊。亦有超過二百五十間聆訊中心停運，有關物業獲套現達約廿三億八千萬港元。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190130/00180_022.html
The National Archives is the official archive and publisher for the UK government and for England and Wales. It is the guardian of some of our most iconic national documents, dating back over 1,000 years. The National Archives is a non-ministerial department.
http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/
Transport for London
- http://learninglegacy.crossrail.co.uk/
civil service commission
- There have been Civil Service Commissioners since 1855 working under the Royal Prerogative. The Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 established the Civil Service Commission on a statutory basis. The Commission is independent of Government and of the Civil Service. We are an executive Non-Departmental Public Body sponsored by the Cabinet Office.https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/about-the-commission/
civil service
- http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/may/31/senior-civil-servants-salaries-data
- blog https://civilservice.blog.gov.uk/2016/02/12/a-digital-civil-service-a-message-from-matthew-hancock/
- civil service reform
parliament
sharing power with cities administration
- news alerting service http://www.wired-gov.net/wg/home.nsf/nav/home?open&id=BDEX-6ZFKSD
- audit cases
The Water Services Regulation Authority, or Ofwat, is the body responsible for economic regulation of the privatised water and sewerage industry in England and Wales. Ofwat is primarily responsible for setting limits on the prices charged for water and sewerage services, taking into account proposed capital investment schemes (such as building new wastewater treatment works) and expected operational efficiency gains. The most recent review was carried out in 2014; reviews are carried out every five years, and thus the next will take place in 2019. Ofwat consists of a board, plus an office of staff which carries out work delegated to them by the board.
The National Archives is the official archive and publisher for the UK government and for England and Wales. It is the guardian of some of our most iconic national documents, dating back over 1,000 years. The National Archives is a non-ministerial department.
http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/
Transport for London
- http://learninglegacy.crossrail.co.uk/
A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower or puisne court, elected or appointed by means of a commission (letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the same meaning. Depending on the jurisdiction, such justices dispense summary justice or merely deal with local administrative applications in common law jurisdictions. Justices of the peace are appointed or elected from the citizens of the jurisdiction in which they serve, and are (or were) usually not required to have any formal legal education in order to qualify for the office. Some jurisdictions have varying forms of training for JPs.
- In 1195, Richard I ("the Lionheart") of England and his Minister Hubert Walter commissioned certain knights to preserve the peace in unruly areas. They were responsible to the King in ensuring that the law was upheld and preserving the "King's peace". Therefore, they were known as "keepers of the peace".An act of 1327 had referred to "good and lawful men" to be appointed in every county in the land to "guard the peace"; such individuals were first referred to as conservators of the peace,[2] or wardens of the peace. The title justice of the peace derives from 1361,[3] in the reign of Edward III. The "peace" to be guarded is the sovereign's, the maintenance of which is the duty of the Crown under the royal prerogative. Justices of the peace still use the power conferred or re-conferred on them since 1361 to bind over unruly persons "to be of good behaviour". The bind over is not a punishment, but a preventive measure, intended to ensure that people thought likely to offend will not do so. The justices' alternative title of "magistrate" dates from the 16th century, although the word had been in use centuries earlier to describe some legal officials of Roman times.In the centuries from the Tudor period until the onset of the Industrial Revolution, the JPs constituted a major element of the English (later British) governmental system, which in modern times has sometimes been termed a squirearchy (i.e., dominance of the land-owning gentry). For example, historian Tim Blanning notes[5] that while in Britain the royal prerogative was decisively curbed by the Bill of Rights 1689, in practice the central government in London had a greater ability to get its policies implemented in the rural outlying regions than could contemporary absolute monarchies such as France – a paradox due especially to JPs belonging to the same social class as the Members of Parliament and thus having a direct interest in getting laws actually enforced and implemented on the ground.Being an unpaid office, undertaken voluntarily and sometimes more for the sake of renown or to confirm the justice's standing within the community, the justice was typically a member of the gentry. The justices of the peace conducted arraignments in all criminal cases, and tried misdemeanours and infractions of local ordinances and bylaws. Towns and boroughs with enough burdensome judicial business that could not find volunteers for the unpaid role of justice of the peace had to petition the Crown for authority to hire a paid stipendiary magistrate.The Municipal Corporations Act 1835 stripped the power to appoint normal JPs from those municipal corporations that had it. This was replaced by the present system, where the Lord Chancellor nominates candidates with local advice, for appointment by the Crown.Until the introduction of elected county councils in the 19th century, JPs, in quarter sessions, also administered the county at a local level. Their many roles included regulating wages and food supplies, managing roads, bridges, prisons and workhouses and undertook to provide and supervise locally those services mandated by the Crown and Parliament for the welfare of the county. To this end they set the County Rate, where one was set at all.Women were not allowed to become JPs in the United Kingdom until 1919, the first woman being Ada Summers, the Mayor of Stalybridge, who was a JP by virtue of her office. In October 1920 Summers was appointed a JP in her own right, alongside other pioneers including Miriam Lightowler OBE in Halifax.[6] Emily Murphy of Edmonton, Canada, preceded her by some three and a half years.[7][8] Now in the UK, 50% of JPs are women.In special circumstances, a justice of the peace can be the highest governmental representative, so in fact 'gubernatorial', in a colonial entity. This was the case in the Tati Concessions Land, a gold-mining concession (territory) in the Matabele kingdom, until its annexation by the British Bechuanaland protectorate.
- hk
- In Hong Kong, the historical functions of justices of the peace have been replaced by full-time, legally qualified magistrates. Nowadays, justices of the peace are essentially titles of honour given by the Government to community leaders, and to certain officials while they are in their terms of offices. They have no judicial functions, and their main duties include visiting prisons, institutions for young offenders and drug addicts, psychiatric hospitals, remand homes, places of refuge, reception and detention centres,[26] administering statutory declarations, and serving as members of advisory panels.
- jamaica
- A justice of the peace (JP), according to the Ministry of Justice, is a person of unquestionable integrity who seeks to promote and protect the rights of the individual and helps to provide justice to persons in a particular community. Additionally, the JP serves as a justice in petty court sessions, attends juvenile court sessions, issues summonses, considers applications for bail, explains and signs legal documents, sits on licensing panels, and gives counsel/advice. Any Jamaican citizen that can speak and write English is eligible to become a JP. Any club/organisation/citizen can recommend someone to become JP for a community. JPs are chosen under the Governor-General's discretion.
- sri lanka
- In Sri Lanka, Justice of the Peace (JP) is an honorary post, with authorization to witness and sign statutory declarations and affidavits as well as certify documents. Persons appointed as a Justice of the Peace may use the post-nominal JP. Current appointments are made under the Judicature Act No 02 of 1978, by the Minister of Justice at his/her discretion by publishing a list in the Gazette and appointee taking oaths before a high court, district court judge or magistrate with registrar of the supreme court recording it.Senior Attorney at laws are appointed as Justice of the Peace and Unofficial magistrates to preside in the absence of a sitting Magistrate.[31] Any citizen of Sri Lanka can apply to the Ministry of Justice giving his or her credentials to be appointed as a justice of the peace. However, the applicant should be one who has served the public and carries out social service and should be of good standing. These JPs would be appointed with legal authority in all parts of the island or limited to a judicial district. The President of Sri Lanka and his/her officers are ex officio justices of the peace. There about 100,000 JPs in the island.The post was introduced in the island during the British colonial era by the Governor Frederick North in 1801 and was later reformed in 1871.[32] Until 1938, appointments were made by the Governor, after which appointments were made by the Legal Secretary until 1947. After Ceylon gained its independence in 1948, appointments were made by the Governor General and the Minister of Justice. Justice of the Peace had the power to administer oaths and affirmations per the Courts Ordinance No. 1 on 1889 section 84 and they could formally appoint members of the public to act as special police officers in times of turmoil and riots. Since certain government officers were ex-officio justices of the peace, this allowed British colonial officers to appoint special police officers from the European planters in times of crisis such as the 1915 riots.[33] The Village Councils Law (No. 6 of 1964) made the Chairman of the Village Council an ex officio justices of the peace for that village area.
civil service commission
- There have been Civil Service Commissioners since 1855 working under the Royal Prerogative. The Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 established the Civil Service Commission on a statutory basis. The Commission is independent of Government and of the Civil Service. We are an executive Non-Departmental Public Body sponsored by the Cabinet Office.https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/about-the-commission/
civil service
- http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/may/31/senior-civil-servants-salaries-data
- blog https://civilservice.blog.gov.uk/2016/02/12/a-digital-civil-service-a-message-from-matthew-hancock/
- civil service reform
- uk civil service chief needs powers http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f33778d4-337d-11e4-85f1-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3CJUGsWTw
- people advocating the initiative
- pay
- John Alexander Manzoni (born 1960) is a British civil servant and business executive. He was the responsible board member at BP at the time of the Texas City Refinery explosion, and now serves as Chief Executive of the Civil Service and the Permanent Secretary for the Cabinet Office.In February 2014, Manzoni joined the British Civil Service in a senior role as Chief executive of the Major Projects Authority, a role under the remit of the Cabinet Office.[10] His former BP boss John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley, who had also left BP in 2007 and to whom Manzoni had been second-in-command, sat on Manzoni's appointment panel. On 13 October 2014, Manzoni was appointed to be the first chief executive officer of the Civil Service, after the position was split out from that of the Head of The Home Civil Service when Sir Bob Kerslake retired.[12] A number of leading executives who had been approached for the role were reported to have turned it down,[13] with one commenting that the job was "un-doable", and the FT reported a Cabinet Office source saying that the government had drawn up a 'plan B' to appoint Manzoni[14] As of September 2015, Manzoni was paid a salary of between £230,000 and £234,999, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.A part of Manzoni's remit as Chief Executive of the Civil Service is "the digital transformation of public services and the way government works".[16] However, he has been criticised for 'undermining digital progress in Whitehall'[17] and of not 'getting digital',[18] particularly since his leadership has coincided with the departure of two successive Directors of the Government Digital Service within 9 months.
- Matthew John David Hancock (born 2 October 1978) is a British politician serving as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since 2018. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Suffolk since the 2010 United Kingdom general election.Hancock was promoted from his position as a junior minister within the Culture department to the Secretary of State during the cabinet reshuffle of January 2018.[25] he was then promoted further to Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on Monday 9 July 2018. In November 2018 Hancock was criticised after appearing to endorse a mobile phone health app marketed by the subscription health service company Babylon in the Evening Standard. Babylon allegedly sponsored the newspaper article. Justin Madders wrote to Theresa May accusing Hancock of repeatedly endorsing the products of a company that receives NHS funds for patients it treats, which contravenes ministerial guidelines. The ministerial code includes that ministers should not “normally accept invitations to act as patrons of, or otherwise offer support to, pressure groups or organisations dependent in whole or in part on government funding”. Hancock is the first MP to launch his own smartphone app in 2018.[27] The head of privacy rights group Big Brother Watch called the app a "fascinating comedy of errors",[28] after the app was found to collect its users' photographs, friend details, check-ins, and contact information. In April 2019, Hancock, who had previously said the NHS would face "no privatisation on my watch", was criticised for allowing 21 NHS contracts worth £127m to be tendered.
- https://www.ft.com/content/c1b7187a-97b4-11e7-a652-cde3f882dd7b Britain said it would lift a 1 per cent cap on annual pay rises for its public sector workers, ending one of the most contentious austerity measures imposed by the Conservative-led government following the financial crisis. Despite the government’s concession, trade unions dismissed the new pay offers for police and prison officers as “not good enough” in the face of rising inflation. After seven years of the pay controls, the government announced a 2 per cent annual pay rise for the police — half in the form of a one-off bonus — and a 1.7 per cent average pay rise for prison officers. It also signalled more “flexibility” over budgets from next year. But coming on the same day that official statistics showed consumer price inflation rising to 2.9 per cent, the offers were attacked by unions as real-terms pay cuts. Several unions want to plan co-ordinated strikes to maximise pressure on the government. With a sense of momentum behind them, union leaders meeting in Brighton for the annual Trades Union Congress pushed for pay rises of at least 5 per cent for the entire 5m-strong public sector workforce.
- https://civilserviceworld.com/articles/news/hmrc-pay-crisis-admits-perm-sec Jim Harra, the newly-installed interim permanent secretary at HM Revenue and Customs, has revealed plans to overhaul pay in his department, which he said has reached crisis point. Harra said the tax agency had appealed to the Treasury and the Cabinet Office for more funding to reform its pay system, given that employees had gone “many years” without a real-terms pay rise. Unions slammed the department for offering staff a “derisory” 2% average pay rise in August. The award, for the 2019-20 financial year, saw staff wages rise by between 1.86% and 2.08%. The most recent cross-government pay settlementallowed for a increase of up to 2% of departmental pay bills, which departments could divide between staff as they saw fit.
- https://www.civilserviceworld.com/articles/news/cabinet-office-mycsp-sale-%E2%80%98won%E2%80%99t-affect-services-or-benefits%E2%80%99
- https://civilservice.blog.gov.uk/2016/03/23/mutual-respect-and-trust-the-secret-of-successful-job-sharing/ May El Komy and Nerissa Steel are jointly Head of Civil Society Research in the Cabinet Office, a role they have been sharing since November 2015.
The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments is a non-departmental public body in the UK, which was set up in 1975 to provide advice on applications from the most senior Crown servants who wish to take up outside appointments after they leave Crown service. Since 1995 it has also provided advice to former Ministers on their employment in the two years after leaving office. The committee is chaired by Baroness Browning. It was branded "toothless" in April 2017 by the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee.
parliament
- http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1089579/british-mps-accused-lavish-trips-abroad British lawmakers were under fire yesterday for racking up £1.5 million (HK$18.55 million) worth of visits to foreign countries, including Hong Kong, in the last two years paid for by governments, firms and pressure groups. Some 242 members of parliament have declared "fact-finding missions" and visits worth £6,500 on average, The Independent newspaper said in a front-page report on "the full scale of MPs' lavish globetrotting".
- http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1601302/british-parliament-set-debate-hong-kong-and-chief-executive-election According to one source, the Chinese embassy in London and Hong Kong's Economic and Trade Office have been privately informed of the parliamentary debate plans, in a bid to quell potential diplomatic barbs. The timing of the debates is uncertain. One could be held at the end of next month, when Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying is set to visit London. Another possibility is the end of November, just before a delegation of lawmakers leaves for Hong Kong as part of their inquiry into the implementation of the Joint Declaration. But the sessions could be deferred until next year given London's focus on the campaign against Islamic State, Scottish devolution and a pre-budget announcement.
- https://www.facebook.com/singtaodailyeu/photos/pcb.466805680185874/466805150185927/?type=3 中國駐英國大使劉曉明2月1日出席英國議會跨黨派中國小組新春慶祝會。英國商業、創新和技能大臣賈維德、議會跨黨派中國小組主席格雷厄姆等人出席，共同慶祝猴年的來臨。
sharing power with cities administration
- http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21620256-westminster-has-already-begun-giving-more-power-english-cities-devo-manc
- http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21672291-chancellor-announces-grand-devolution-power-all-politics-local GEORGE OSBORNE called it “the biggest transfer of power to local government in living memory”. In a speech on October 5th the chancellor of the exchequer announced the next stage of his plan to boost the English regions and create a “Northern Powerhouse” of cities from Liverpool to Newcastle. He pledged that local councils would be allowed to retain all the money they raise from business rates, a total of £26 billion ($40 billion) a year. Half of that is currently sent to Whitehall. Mr Osborne called it a “devolution revolution”. Britain’s central government raises 95% of taxes, making it the most centralised country in Europe. Seven of the eight biggest cities outside London perform below the national average in terms of GDP per person. Mr Osborne believes the two facts are linked: by devolving power, he hopes to foster growth. Under his plan, cities will be allowed to lower their business rates (a property tax based on rental value). Those cities that agree to have an elected mayor—something the chancellor is keen on, though most city councillors are not—will also be allowed to raise their rates, to pay for infrastructure. In London, which already has such a power, this has helped to fund Crossrail, a train link under construction.
- audit cases
- http://www.legalbusiness.co.uk/index.php/lb-blog-view/6127-freshfields-fee-fallout-government-to-consider-capped-fee-contracts-after-eurostar-controversy the UK government will explore the use of capped fee contracts for legal work following a report into the £2.8m legal fees charged by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer after it advised HM Treasury on the sale of Eurostar International. The firm advised the government during the £585.1m sale of its 40% stake in Eurostar in March last year. The Committee of Public Accounts (CPA) found the government relied heavily on external advisers and its investments sector 'needs to improve its understanding of the costs and value of this work'.
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