THE Government should create a new honours order that is dedicated to entrepreneurs who start fast-growing businesses, a think tank has suggested. Under plans drawn up by the Entrepreneurs Network, more than 200 start-up founders each year would join a new “Elizabethan Order” and be handed medals featuring an owl…
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The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has introduced a remedies package aimed at improving competition in the insurance market, while ensuring that existing customers do not pay more than new ones. Under the new rules, insurers will be required to offer renewing customers a price that is no higher than they…
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A North Somerset arts organisation has received a grant worth more than £65,000 from the second round of the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund. Theatre Orchard received £67,037 from the £1.57billion recovery fund to help support the work of the organisation this spring as lockdown measures are eased. The funding will enable Theatre…
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Conservative John Penrose, the Prime Minister’s anti-corruption champion, said he would not support Labour’s motion but made suggestions for reforms on lobbying. He highlighted the importance of disclosures of who ministers have met, adding in the Commons: “Those disclosures don’t happen fast enough, they aren’t complete enough, they aren’t mutually comprehensible…
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