Notice: DL7 9RW, Mr Stephen Tweddle: environmental permit issued
View the permit issued for First Fairholme Farm, Northallerton under the Industrial Emissions Directive. read more
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Notice: NG15 0RS, Autofil Yarns Limited: environmental permit issued
View the permit issued for Sherwood Park Dyehouse, Nottingham under the Industrial Emissions Directive. read more
Press release: Cross government fraud landscape annual report
Government has increased the amount of fraud it has prevented and detected since 2014, a report published by the Cabinet Office says.
The Fraud Landscape Report, which examines how government is tackling fraud against the public sector, shows progress has been made since a number of initiatives were put in place in 2013 to identify fraud.
Government has detected fraud loss of £73.6 million, recovered £18.4 million and prevented fraud loss of £33 million.
Government is tackling fraud by:
- Increasing its capability by launching the Counter Fraud Profession
- Setting government-wide standards to improve consistency across the public sector
- Actively increasing the use of data sharing and analytics to prevent and detect fraud
- Delivering an internal Fraud Initiative which bans public sector employees dismissed for fraud from working in the public sector for five years.
Minister for the Constitution Chris Skidmore said:
The rise in the amount of fraud that has been detected and prevented has been due to the hard work of public sector workers, but there is always more we can do to tackle this scourge which takes money away from hard-working taxpayers.
Before 2010, government departments were reporting much lower levels of fraud and this is something we should be wary of. Fraud is a hidden crime and from 2010, with the government strengthening activity to look for, identify and report fraud we have seen more of it uncovered.
The government is coming together to increase its capability to detect and deal with fraud through ground-breaking initiatives such as the creation and adoption of standards and the launch of the government Counter Fraud Profession. These actions demonstrate our strong commitment to successfully tackling fraud.
News story: Consultation on proposal to resolve fertiliser merger concerns
The CMA is consulting on Origin’s proposal to maintain competition in fertiliser supply in Scotland, following its merger with Bunn.
Origin and Bunn are 2 of the 3 main suppliers of fertilisers in the central/eastern region of Scotland, supplying farmers and farmers’ merchants from their sites in Montrose.
In its initial investigation, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) found that bringing the 2 firms together could see prices rise or result in a reduction in the choice of fertiliser available to customers.
Following this decision, Origin has now offered to sell Bunn’s Montrose business to Glasson Grain Limited to prevent any negative impact on competition from the merger.
The CMA is opening a 15 day consultation on this proposal. The CMA will review responses to its consultation and will then determine whether to accept or reject Origin’s proposal. Should this proposal be rejected, the case would be referred for a further in-depth investigation.
All information relating to this investigation can be found on the case page.
News story: Collision between passenger train and equipment near Clapham
Collision between passenger train and loaded trollies near Clapham, North Yorkshire, 24 August 2017.
At around 09:24 hrs on Friday 25 August 2017, a passenger train struck three stationary engineering trolleys loaded with wooden sleepers at 34 mph (55 km/h). The collision caused damage to the train, the trolleys, the sleepers and the track.
We have undertaken a preliminary examination into the circumstances surrounding this incident. Having assessed the evidence which has been gathered to date, we have decided to publish a safety digest.
The safety digest will shortly be made available on our website.