https://www.dailyoracles.com/tb-notifications-level-in-2025/Daily Oracles en2026-10-30T11:40:00+01:00 TB notifications in England level at 5,449 in 2025, with 2026 running 8.2% lower so farhttps://www.dailyoracles.com/residential-sales-september-hmrc/Daily Oracles en2026-10-30T11:00:00+01:00 UK home sales ease to 94,800 in September, 4% down on a year earlierhttps://www.dailyoracles.com/scale-uk-connect-pilot-200-firms/Daily Oracles en2026-10-30T10:15:00+01:00 £3.4m Scale UK Connect pilot opens to 200 high-growth firmshttps://www.dailyoracles.com/defence-offset-rules-from-april-2027/Daily Oracles en2026-10-30T09:20:00+01:00 Overseas winners of UK defence contracts of £50m or more to be considered for offsets from April 2027https://www.dailyoracles.com/bp-third-quarter-profit-8-46bn/Daily Oracles en2026-10-30T08:10:00+01:00 BP third-quarter underlying profit rises to $8.46bn as net debt falls to $13.9bnhttps://www.dailyoracles.com/firms-expect-higher-prices-bank-survey/Daily Oracles en2026-10-30T07:05:00+01:00 68% of firms expect to raise prices in response to the recent energy shock, Bank of England survey findshttps://www.dailyoracles.com/uk-vehicle-production-september-smmt/Daily Oracles en2026-10-30T06:30:00+01:00 UK vehicle output rises 36.3% to 74,031 in September, compared with a disrupted month last yearhttps://www.dailyoracles.com/civil-service-outside-london-grows-places-for-growth/Daily Oracles en2026-10-29T11:20:00+01:00 Civil service posts outside London rose by 6,500 in the year to March, Cabinet Office figures showhttps://www.dailyoracles.com/mod-names-first-director-general-innovation/Daily Oracles en2026-10-29T10:30:00+01:00 MoD names its first Director General Innovation to run a £3.7bn technology budgethttps://www.dailyoracles.com/mortgage-approvals-september-bank-of-england/Daily Oracles en2026-10-29T09:45:00+01:00 Mortgage approvals for house purchases fall to 53,400 as remortgaging jumpshttps://www.dailyoracles.com/lloyds-nine-month-profit-rises-to-6-6bn/Daily Oracles en2026-10-29T08:20:00+01:00 Lloyds nine-month profit rises 42% to £6.63bn, with a November rate rise in its base casehttps://www.dailyoracles.com/national-living-wage-to-rise-to-13-21/Daily Oracles en2026-10-29T07:50:00+01:00 National Living Wage to rise 50p to £13.21 an hour from April 2027https://www.dailyoracles.com/business-rates-multipliers-set-for-2027-28/Daily Oracles en2026-10-29T07:15:00+01:00 Business rates multipliers for 2027-28 set at 49.7p standard and 44.7p for small businesseshttps://www.dailyoracles.com/scotland-economy-shrinks-0-1-per-cent-in-august/Daily Oracles en2026-10-29T06:40:00+01:00 Scotland's economy shrank 0.1% in August after a revised fall in Julyhttps://www.dailyoracles.com/scotland-hospital-waits-over-two-years-fall/Daily Oracles en2026-10-28T11:10:00+01:00 Two-year hospital waits in Scotland fall again as fewer patients are seen within 12 weekshttps://www.dailyoracles.com/bus-improvement-fund-evaluation-finds-medium-high-value/Daily Oracles en2026-10-28T10:20:00+01:00 Bus improvement funding cut delays by a fifth and added 4% more passengers, DfT evaluation findshttps://www.dailyoracles.com/mod-spent-34bn-with-uk-industry-in-2025-26/Daily Oracles en2026-10-28T09:30:00+01:00 MoD spent £34.1bn with UK industry in 2025-26, with the South East and South West taking 44%https://www.dailyoracles.com/scotland-adds-fewest-new-homes-since-2014-15/Daily Oracles en2026-10-28T08:50:00+01:00 Scotland added 18,028 homes in 2025-26, the fewest since 2014-15https://www.dailyoracles.com/standard-chartered-raises-income-guidance/Daily Oracles en2026-10-28T08:15:00+01:00 Standard Chartered lifts its 2026 income forecast as third-quarter profit rises 27%https://www.dailyoracles.com/record-738000-firms-in-significant-distress/Daily Oracles en2026-10-28T07:40:00+01:00 Record 738,000 UK businesses in significant financial distress, BTG report findshttps://www.dailyoracles.com/dungeness-a-boiler-removal-contract-190m/Daily Oracles en2026-10-28T07:05:00+01:00 Aureos wins contract worth up to £190m to remove the Dungeness A boilershttps://www.dailyoracles.com/great-north-road-solar-park-gets-consent/Daily Oracles en2026-10-28T06:20:00+01:00 800MW solar and battery park near Newark granted development consent