Rhys Taylor-Brown

Danny W Poole [DWP] & Sons has refreshed its fleet of vehicles with a New Generation DAF XG+ provided by Motus Commercials, a dealership based in the company’s home city of Stoke-on-Trent.

Downing Street has announced that prime minister Rishi Sunak will not travel to the COP27 climate summit in Egypt in November “due to other pressing domestic commitments.”

Read the latest news concerning some of our very own Leaders Council of Great Britain & Northern Ireland member businesses and organisations.

Last week, the Environment Agency’s chief executive, Sir James Bevan, spoke at the London Climate Technology Show about climate change and the role green finance has to play in delivering on the nation’s sustainable goals.

The British Embassy in Asuncion, Paraguay, and the local MSF [Sustainable Finances Roundtable in English] recently signed a new Memorandum of Understanding supporting sustainable finance.

Transport secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan confirmed this week that the Transport Bill would be delayed, after the DfT had “lost the opportunity” to take it to the Commons in the current parliamentary session.

Clive Maxwell has this week been appointed as the second permanent secretary at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy [BEIS].

The General Medical Council’s [GMC] most recent workforce report has highlighted major imbalances in the NHS workforce.

Independent quality assessor RDB Star Rating recently sponsored the ‘Game Changer Award’ at the 2022 edition of the Sussex Chamber Business Awards.

Now that the UK has entered the autumn and we are already feeling the bite of colder weather, BioSURE has advised on how we can protect ourselves from common illnesses.

US secretary of state Antony Blinken has said that China is moving “on a much faster timeline” in its plans to unify with the island of Taiwan.

Science minister Nusrat Ghani has announced that £15 million of funding will be provided by the UK Space Agency for businesses to develop new satellite communications technologies.

The government has this week announced that more than £800 million of funding will be allocated to special health and care research facilities, which will be distributed through the National Institute for Health and Care Research [NIHR].

As Birmingham Tech Week came to a close on Friday (October 14), tech minister Damian Collins revealed that a new UK Telecommunications Lab will be established in nearby Solihull.

Mel Stride, chair of the Commons Treasury Select Committee, has warned chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng that he will need to win cross-party support if he is to get his mini-Budget measures through Parliament.