Scottish budget: what it means for older people
The Scottish Government has set out its budget plans for the year ahead. You can read a summary here.
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Thames Valley police funding
Today we heard of the police financial settlement for 2018-19. The Thames Valley force will receive an extra £12.7m in cash for next year, which is needed to help maintain services.
The government also announced a £50m increase in national money for counter terrorism and a general strengthening of budgets to tackle cyber crime.
Delivering superfast broadband for all homes and businesses in Scotland
Below is a statement given by Fergus Ewing to the Scottish Parliament on how the Scottish Government will invest £600 million to deliver superfast broadband to every home and business in Scotland.
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ESMA updates MiFID II trading halts procedure
The reporting template has been amended with the main objective to reduce, to the extent possible, fields with free text and replace those fields with hard-coded input. This is to facilitate extraction, computation and ultimately the analysis of the files.
ESMA understands that certain trading venues may already have started to calibrate the reporting of their parameters based on the July 2017 template. ESMA therefore considers it appropriate to publish, together with the revised template, a revised procedure postponing by six months the delivery of the first report to ESMA.
The first reports were meant to be received by ESMA by end of January 2018 and the revised instructions now clarify that this report should be sent to ESMA by end of June 2018.
ESMA updates MiFID II trading halts procedure
The reporting template has been amended with the main objective to reduce, to the extent possible, fields with free text and replace those fields with hard-coded input. This is to facilitate extraction, computation and ultimately the analysis of the files.
ESMA understands that certain trading venues may already have started to calibrate the reporting of their parameters based on the July 2017 template. ESMA therefore considers it appropriate to publish, together with the revised template, a revised procedure postponing by six months the delivery of the first report to ESMA.
The first reports were meant to be received by ESMA by end of January 2018 and the revised instructions now clarify that this report should be sent to ESMA by end of June 2018.