UK Export Finance launches new debt solution to help developing countries with climate shocks
- Announced on Finance Day at COP27, UK Export Finance (UKEF) will become the first export credit agency in the world to offer Climate Resilient Debt Clauses (CRDC) in its direct sovereign lending.
- The clauses will offer low-income countries and small island developing states the ability to defer debt repayments in the...Read More »
Rugby League World Cup No10 Reception speech
Hi everyone, thank you very much for having me here. I want to start by saying a huge thank you to the Elmbridge Eagles for their amazing display. I don’t think anything like this has happened before in No10, and I’m sure you can all go home knowing you’ve smashed...Read More »
UK and Estonia commit to closer defence cooperation
- UK Apache and Chinook helicopters to deploy to Estonia periodically from January 2023.
- Exercise Spring Storm will take place in Estonia in May next year – part of more regular deployments high readiness forces.
- UK to support development of Estonia’s warfighting Division and provide a Brigadier to lead the enhanced Forward Presence...Read More »
Joint Statement between the UK MOD and the Estonian MOD
The UK’s Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace and Estonia’s Minister of Defence Hanno Pevkur met in London on 8 November 2022 and committed to ever stronger ties between our two countries.
The excellent defence and security relationship that Estonia and the UK share is built on the solid foundations...Read More »
Government ministers visit spaceport ahead of first UK launch
Science Minister, George Freeman, and Transport Technology Minister, Jesse Norman, joined representatives from the UK Space Agency to meet those behind the mission and saw Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket and its carrier aircraft, Cosmic Girl – which will launch from Spaceport Cornwall – up close.
Ministers also toured the spaceport’s new...Read More »