Customs Union: EU customs seized over 41 million fake goods at EU borders last year New figures released by the European Commission today show that customs authorities detained more than 41 million fake and counterfeit products at the EU’s external … read more
The MoU establishes cooperation arrangements, including the exchange of information, regarding Central Counterparties (CCPs) which are established and authorised or recognised in India, and which have applied for EU recognition under EMIR. EMIR provides for cooperation arrangements between ESMA and … read more
Gordon Marsden MP, Labour’s Shadow Universities Minister, commenting on the University and College Union (UCU) report into student loan repayments, said:
“The Tories have tripled tuition fees, abolished maintenance grants for poorer students and frozen the repayment threshold, hitting graduates on the lowest incomes. This report confirms yet again that the impact has been deeply unfair and it is getting harder and harder for ordinary young people to access higher education.
“It is professions such as nurses and midwives that are being hit the hardest, and if the NHS can’t recruit the staff it needs then we will all be worse off as a result.
“The Government needs to decide if they think it is fair that the debt burden should fall so heavily on the very people our society relies so heavily on.”
read moreThe Defence Secretary has revealed HMS Glasgow will be the name of the first of eight City class Type 26 frigates as he cut her first piece of steel at Govan shipyard in Scotland today. HMS Glasgow will enter service with the Royal Navy in the mid 2020s. read more
“It is deeply concerning that the size of the Army has fallen yet again on this Government’s watch.
“Since Michael Fallon became Defence Secretary in 2014, the number of fully trained soldiers has fallen by over 7,000. That trend is simply not sustainable and it has very real consequences for the UK’s defence capabilities.
“We know that satisfaction with pay and service life are some of the biggest reasons why servicemen and women are leaving the Armed Forces in their droves.
“If the government was serious about tackling this crisis in recruitment and retention, they would agree to lift the public sector pay cap to give our Armed Forces the pay that they deserve.”
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