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Wages have continued to rise and there are a record number of women in work, thanks to the government’s long-term economic plan.
First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government
Michelle Mone OBE is to lead a major government review on supporting business start-ups in disadvantaged communities.
The benefit cap continues to provide a clear incentive to work.
Today (30 July 2015) Business Minister Nick Boles has named 75 employers who have failed to pay their workers the National Minimum Wage.
Review launched into supporting benefit claimants with addictions and potentially treatable conditions back into work.
The MOD has launched a scheme that allows defence personnel to apply for a loan to meet the cost of a deposit for a rental property.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith hails changing attitudes of UK business towards disabled staff.
Record numbers of people with learning disabilities and mental health conditions are being helped into work by the Access to Work scheme.
The Consular Section at the British Deputy High Commission in Kolkata will be closed from 27 - 31 July 2015.
The committee has published recommendations to help ensure the effective roll-out of the rest of the Universal Credit programme.
Figures released today (15 July 2015) show that real wages have grown again – for the eighth consecutive month.
Today 14 more Jobcentres start offering Universal Credit – the new benefit that makes work always pay.
British Nationals travelling in the Ashanti Region of Ghana
Alan Milburn responds to Iain Duncan Smith's child poverty statement.
Government to introduce a new and strengthened approach to tracking the life chances of Britain’s most disadvantaged children.
Fraudsters are targeting tax credits claimants with scam emails, fake websites and text messages in the run-up to the 31 July renewals deadline, HMRC warned today.
Swansea named the UK’s first Disability Confident city.
Today, 17 more Jobcentres start offering Universal Credit – the new benefit that makes work always pay.
Latest statistic show the percentage of individuals and children in relative low income is at its lowest level since the 1980s.
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