Useful Information for Businesses – Update 12th June 2020
Within this blog we aim to give you top-line, up-to-date information at a glance with links to relevant sites that explain in more detail the latest news, support, and financial help that we hope will make a difference to your business during the Covid19 Crisis and beyond.
Daily update from GOV.UK.
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Renewables obligation: certificates and generation, February 2020
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Monthly data on the number of certificates issued for generation under the Renewables Obligation.
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9:30am, 11 June 2020
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Experimental statistics on average road fuel sales.
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First published.
Time updated
9:30am, 11 June 2020
Energy Trends: UK oil and oil products
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Data on oil and oil products, including upstream production and UK refinery activity, trade, stocks and demand.
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Latest average road fuel sales table published.
Time updated
9:30am, 11 June 2020
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Data on the UK’s renewables sector, including capacity, electricity generation and liquid biofuels consumption.
Change made
ROCs table updated.
Time updated
9:30am, 11 June 2020
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How to apply for an exemption or compensation for a proportion of the indirect costs of funding the Contracts for Difference, renewables obligation and small scale feed-in tariffs.
Change made
Exemption guidance updated – manufacture of grain milling products added to the list of eligible sectors, and removing the automatic requirement for an Independent Accountant’s Report.
Time updated
12:47pm, 11 June 2020
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Department for Education
Education Secretary accelerates T Level roll-out
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Eighty-eight more providers selected to deliver pioneering qualifications from September 2022 taking the total to over 180 across England.
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9:29am, 11 June 2020
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T Levels are due to be introduced from the academic year 2020 to 2021. Find out what they are and what they mean for you.
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Added 2022 T level providers and updated course titles.
Time updated
9:30am, 11 June 2020
Statistics: school applications
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Statistics on secondary and primary school applications, including details of offers parents receive on National Offer Day.
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Added ‘Secondary and primary school application and offers: 2020’.
Time updated
9:30am, 11 June 2020
Secondary and primary school application and offers: 2020
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Offers made to applicants for secondary and primary school places to start in September 2020, and the number and proportion which received preferred offers.
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First published.
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9:30am, 11 June 2020
Data protection: how we share pupil and workforce data
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How and when we share the pupil, child and workforce data we collect.
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Updated ‘Data sharing and approval panel terms of reference for members’.
Time updated
9:30am, 11 June 2020
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Requests from organisations wishing to access national pupil database data, and regular external DfE data shares supported by agreements.
Change made
Updated ‘National pupil database requests’ and ‘External data shares’ spreadsheets. Updated archived content list and dates in details section.
Time updated
9:30am, 11 June 2020
Supporting early career teachers
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Information for school leaders, early career teachers or newly qualified teachers on the Early Career Framework and the professional development package.
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Updated ‘Rollout of Early Career Framework professional development package’ with details about the PIN (prior information notice).
Time updated
11:05am, 11 June 2020
Subject knowledge enhancement (SKE): course directory
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An overview and directory of subject knowledge enhancement courses for lead schools and initial teacher training (ITT) providers.
Change made
Updated subject knowledge enhancement (SKE) course directory.
Time updated
2:43pm, 11 June 2020
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Information for parents and carers about the wider opening of nurseries, schools and colleges, transport, attendance, free school meals and remote education.
Change made
Updated information about which children do not need to wear face coverings when travelling to school.
Time updated
4:51pm, 11 June 2020
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Department for International Trade
Nottinghamshire business supports production of masks for public
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A Department for International Trade ‘Export Champion’ have refocused their efforts to supply face coverings to the UK public, in response to the outbreak.
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First published.
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10:59am, 11 June 2020
UK maritime technology firm paves the way for greener oceans with ‘micro-bubble carpet’
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London-based Silverstream Technologies has developed a pioneering air-bubble system that reduces fuel consumption by 5-12%.
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First published.
Time updated
11:01am, 11 June 2020
UK tariffs from 1 January 2021
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How to check the tariffs that will apply to goods you import when the UK Global Tariff takes effect on 1 January 2021.
Change made
Added text to explain that some inconsistencies in the UKGT data have been corrected.
Time updated
11:09am, 11 June 2020
UK Statement to the WTO Council for Trade in Goods – Item 7
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The UK’s Ambassador to the WTO and UN in Geneva, Julian Braithwaite, delivered this statement at a meeting of the WTO’s Council for Trade in Goods on 10 June 2020.
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2:07pm, 11 June 2020
UK Statement to the WTO Council for Trade in Goods – Item 9
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The UK’s Ambassador to the WTO and UN in Geneva, Julian Braithwaite, delivered this statement at a meeting of the WTO’s Council for Trade in Goods on 10 June 2020.
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2:12pm, 11 June 2020
UK shows pedal power as bike exports rise
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Exports of bikes, parts and accessories grew by 15% in the year to March 2020, worth £173.2 million.
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First published.
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3:53pm, 11 June 2020