The Prime Minister's Office announced plans to legally require employers to publish salaries in job adverts, citing estimates that fewer than half of employers always list salary ranges. The announcement also highlighted a Siemens Mobility work experience programme.
The UK medicines regulator has published a four-year plan to involve patients and the public earlier in its work, from safety reviews to guidance on artificial intelligence and medical devices.
The Disclosure and Barring Service is supporting National Safeguarding Week Wales 2026, which runs from 9 to 13 November, contributing expertise to sessions organised by regional safeguarding boards across Wales.
The Disclosure and Barring Service is contributing expertise to Regional Safeguarding Board sessions during Wales National Safeguarding Week, running 9 to 13 November 2026, covering checks, regulated activity and referral duties.
Potential Sciences, a British startup using physics-based AI models to design chemicals and medicines, has secured backing from the UK Government's Sovereign AI fund as part of an eight-figure fundraise announced on 5 November 2026.
At Papua New Guinea's Universal Periodic Review in Geneva, the UK welcomed progress on children's and disability rights and the abolition of the death penalty, and set out three recommendations.
Licence conditions introduced on 1 November require larger mesh sizes and more selective gear in the Celtic Sea, English Channel and Irish Sea, coming into force on 26 November under a UK-EU agreement.
The Office for Investment brought investors, nature projects and local and national government together in Bristol on 5 November 2026, as a new report found the UK natural capital market remains too fragmented to attract capital at scale.
At the 53rd Universal Periodic Review in Geneva, the United Kingdom welcomed Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' engagement and efforts on gender-based violence, and made three recommendations on the death penalty, anti-discrimination protections and statelessness.
The Groceries Code Adjudicator says its latest round of meetings with retailers focused on Code compliance, cost price increase requests and supplier confidence, with a supplier survey planned to open on 11 January and close on 21 February.
A UK-Jamaica government-to-government partnership, agreed at CHOGM in Antigua and Barbuda, aims to speed up reconstruction a year after Hurricane Melissa, starting with a £10 million one-year programme split evenly between the two governments.
Baroness Harriet Harman and a Romanian parliamentary delegation agreed at an October 2026 meeting to work together on women's rights, including tackling violence and boosting political and economic participation.
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