What changes next, and what it costs
The deal with the combined authority is the first of its kind in England, but each project will still have to pass the bank's own due diligence and approval before any money is lent or invested.
The annual review of the UK Emissions Trading Scheme shows covered emissions fell 6.9% last year, as the UK and EU aim to finish talks on linking their carbon markets by this month's summit.
SMMT figures show 152,730 new cars registered last month, but the industry body expects battery electric cars to end 2026 at 27.2% of sales against a 33% mandate target.
BT's half-year results show 41% of the premises Openreach can reach with full fibre now take it, with the network at 24.1 million premises and the 25 million target due in March.
Official figures drawn from energy certificates show 34% of new dwellings had a heat pump and 56% had solar panels, with the share built to the 2021 energy rules reaching 79%.
Full price sales rose 8.1% in the third quarter, ahead of the retailer's own guidance, but new EU tariffs on orders shipped from the UK leave its £1,255m profit forecast unchanged.
The government says around 60% of gas account holders would save an average of £45 a year once the daily charge goes, and the same Bill would raise the maximum fine for landlords who ignore energy efficiency rules to £30,000.
A new NHS Group inside the Department of Health and Social Care will take on most of NHS England's national work, while its seven regional teams will be supported by a transitional Special Health Authority.
Regulations laid on Tuesday replace one-off notices with standing reporting duties, ask savers and traders for National Insurance numbers, and are forecast to raise £840m a year by 2031-32.
Longer reads on how a system works, and where it is heading next.
The CMA will look at competition and Ofcom at media plurality, and the government will bring forward legislation so that the review can also cover on-demand programmes.
Sky's proposed takeover of ITV Media & Entertainment Holdings will now go through a formal public interest review. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy issued a public interest intervention notice on Wednesday 4 November, having told both companies on 15 October that she was minded to do so.
From February 2030 the UK's oldest inflation measure will be calculated using the methods behind CPIH. The change is technical, but it will alter payments on pensions, gilts and student loans for years.
The Retail Prices Index has measured the cost of living in the UK since 1947. It is no longer the government's preferred measure of inflation, yet it is still written into contracts, pension rules and government bonds worth hundreds of billions of pounds. In 2030 the…
SMMT figures show 152,730 new cars registered last month, but the industry body expects battery electric cars to end 2026 at 27.2% of sales against a 33% mandate target.
The hubs in Exeter, London, Southampton and Sunderland will work on AI eye scans, cough-analysing apps, head-impact alerts, brain health clinics and a home heart coach, with partners adding £37.5m.
The life and pensions consolidator expects the business, which holds £1.7bn of assets under administration, to generate about £90m of cash over its lifetime, with completion targeted for the first half of 2027.
The Monetary Policy Committee lifted rates by 0.25 percentage points from 3.75%, with Catherine L Mann voting for a half-point rise, and said policy was not on a pre-set path.
The deal with the combined authority is the first of its kind in England, but each project will still have to pass the bank's own due diligence and approval before any money is lent or invested.
Output across UK public services rose 2.0% while inputs grew 1.6%, and revised figures put productivity in 2025 at 2.9% below its 2019 level.
The government says around 60% of gas account holders would save an average of £45 a year once the daily charge goes, and the same Bill would raise the maximum fine for landlords who ignore energy efficiency rules to £30,000.
UKHSA figures for the half-term week show flu still at low levels but above baseline, RSV rising among young children, and flu vaccine uptake among over-65s slightly behind last year.
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