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unusual facts about UK Government



Bio Products Laboratory

It is owned by Bain Capital (80%) and the UK Government (20%) via holding company Plasma Resources UK Ltd.

Chris Roebuck

After leaving the Army Roebuck used his knowledge of leadership to develop performance improvement initiatives in organisations such as Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Bank of New York, Bank of England, and other financial institutions; Arts Council, legal firms and UK Government.

David Courtley

During this period Fujitsu Services has also entrenched its position as the IT services provider of choice for the UK Government, winning several large outsourcing contracts, including those for the Inland Revenue, MOD and large parts of the NHS.

Leeds Central by-election, 1999

The shortlist for the Labour candidacy included the Chair of Leeds Central Constituency Labour Party, Maggie Giles-Hill, and Shahid Malik, but the selection went to Hilary Benn who had been Special Adviser to David Blunkett, then Secretary of State for Education and Employment.

National Health Service

Each system operates independently, and is politically accountable to the relevant government: the Scottish Government, Welsh Government, the Northern Ireland Executive, and the UK Government which is responsible for England's NHS.

Oxford Farming Conference

Speakers included the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Hilary Benn, and the chief scientist of the UK government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Professor Robert Watson.

Public Sector Transparency Board

The Public Sector Transparency Board was established by the Prime Minister in June 2010 to drive forward the UK Government's transparency agenda.

Ryan Coetzee

Ryan Coetzee (born 8 January 1973) is a South African politician and political strategist, currently serving as a special adviser to Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Nick Clegg.

Thorn EMI Liberator

The Thorn EMI Liberator was a laptop word processor, produced in the United Kingdom by Thorn EMI, primarily intended for use by UK Government civil servants.

Volleyball England

With £3.5million of funding from both the UK Government and the UK National Lottery in the run-up to London 2012, in 2007 Volleyball England signed an agreement to accommodate the National Volleyball Centre within the Kettering Conference Centre.


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120 Squadron SAAF

In July 1964, South Africa placed a development contract with Thomson-CSF for a mobile, all-weather, low-altitude SAM system after a South African order for the Bloodhound SAM system was refused by the UK government.

1981 England riots

According to the Scarman report which was subsequently commissioned by the UK government, the riots were a spontaneous outburst of built-up resentment sparked by particular incidents.

A595 road

Copeland MP Jamie Reed and Cumbria County Council leader Stewart Young have been pressing the UK government for an eastern relief road to take the A595 away from a bottleneck through the town of Whitehaven.

Adoption of free and open-source software by public institutions

As of 29th January, 2014 the UK government is considering switching from Microsoft Office products to open-source alternatives such as OpenOffice and Google Docs.

Anita Asante

Asante studied Politics and English BA at the Business School of Brunel University in London, benefiting from the UK "Government's Talented Athletes Scholarship Scheme" which helps athletes in full-time education.

Applied Satellite Technology

AST have undertaken integrated projects such as satellite tracking services to 800+ UK fishing vessels under contract to DEFRA (UK Government) and also work with the RNLI on the MOB Guardian project.

Barker Review of Housing Supply

The report was authored by economist Kate Barker and presented recommendations to the UK government for securing future housing needs.

Bisher Amin Khalil al-Rawi

On March 29, 2007 UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett announced that the UK Government had negotiated al-Rawi's return from Guantanamo.

Building information modeling

In May 2011 UK Government Chief Construction Adviser Paul Morrell called for BIM adoption on UK government construction projects of £5million and over.

CESP

Community Energy Saving Programme, a UK Government program funding energy efficiency improvements and installation of low and zero carbon heating technologies in income deprived areas.

CHS Inc.

:For the UK government agency also named Cenex, see Centre of Excellence for Low Carbon and Fuel Cell Technologies

Clare Tickell

In July 2010, it was announced that Tickell would be conducting a review for the UK Government in the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework which sets learning and welfare standards for the under fives.

Darren Henley

In 2011, he undertook an independent review of the funding and delivery of music education in England for the Department for Education and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport of the UK government.

Darwin Initiative

The Darwin Initiative was announced by the UK Government in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

Derek Ratcliffe

He was instrumental in persuading the UK government to end the tax advantages available for planting of non-native conifer forests on Scottish peat bogs, which was threatening the internationally important large wetland area of Caithness and Sutherland known as the Flow Country.

Derek Schofield

Chief Justice Schofield has been publicly critical of the Judicial Reforms introduced by the UK Government and Gibraltar Social Democrats administration through the new Constitution of Gibraltar and the Judicial Services Act.

Design history

Although the design industry has been complicit in promoting the heroic view of history, the establishment by the UK government of Creative & Cultural Skills has led to calls for design courses to be made less 'academic' and more attuned to the 'needs' of the industry.

Fritz Kaiser

With many clients in the global offshore markets struggling to find fair solutions for untaxed funds, Kaiser instigated a solution with the UK government known as the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility (LDF).

George Provopoulos

He obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Economics at the University of Athens, and his MA and PhD in Economics at the University of Essex on a UK Government Scholarship.

High-capacity data radio

There is also an export version that incorporates Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption rather than UK Government Type 1 Crypto.

ITV News Lookaround

Two members of the UK Government - Scottish Secretary of State Michael Moore and deputy David Mundell (both MPs in the Border region) - backed ITV's proposal for a Border current affairs programme while the Scottish Government called for STV programming (including Scotland Tonight) to be simulcast.

James Stevenson, 1st Baron Stevenson

Immediately after the First World War he was responsible for the Stevenson Plan, which was an effort by the UK government to stabilise low rubber prices after a world glut of rubber.

Jamil el Banna

On March 29, 2007, UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett announced that the UK Government had negotiated the return from Guantanamo of el-Banna's traveling companion, Bisher al-Rawi, also a legal British resident.

John Drane

It was in that context that some of his most distinctive missional thinking was first conceived, and one of the highlights of that period was an event celebrating the Christian festival of Pentecost at Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988, which attracted a record crowd of more than 48,000 people and for which he received an award from the UK government which is preserved in the archives of Action of Churches Together in Scotland.

Leslie Turnberg, Baron Turnberg

The UK government currently still regards animal testing as necessary, but science minister Lord Sainsbury of Turville said that a "major opportunity" now existed to make progress in improving the welfare of animals used in testing through the three R's.

Martin Mubanga

With the help of UK lawyer Louise Christian, Mubanga is attempting to sue the UK government for its cooperation with American security officials.

Navigable aqueduct

In recent years the building of the Lichfield Canal Aqueduct prompted the UK government to pass legislation preventing a road being built in the path of a canal being renovated without providing a tunnel or aqueduct for it to pass.

North Manchester Jamia Mosque

Scholars of the college include Waqar Azmi, UK Government's former Chief Diversity Adviser, Cabinet Office.

ORCON

Operational Research CONsultancy (ORCON), a UK government initiative to improve ambulance response times

Police Information Technology Organisation

The UK government Police National Computer (PNC) project was evolved in the early 1970s, and was launched in 1974 with Stolen Vehicles as its initial database.

Radio Research Station

The Radio Research Station 1924 - August 31, 1979 at Ditton Park, Buckinghamshire, England was the UK government research laboratory which pioneered the regular observation of the ionosphere by ionosondes in continuous operation since September 20, 1932, and applied the ionosonde technology for the first developments which lead to British Chain Home radar system which was operational at the start of World War II.

Review of the role and effectiveness of non-executive directors

Review of the role and effectiveness of non-executive directors (or the "Higgs review") was a report chaired by Derek Higgs on corporate governance commissioned by the UK government, published on 20 January 2003.

Rydal Penrhos

Mervyn Davies, Baron Davies of Abersoch CBE – Former banker and current UK government minister

Schroders

Schroders played a leading role in the privatisations carried out by the UK Government in the 1980s and was to grow dramatically under Winfried Bischoff.

Scotland Act 2012

The Advocate General for Scotland asked an expert group, chaired by Sir David Edward, to consider this issue and make recommendations, which led to the amendments to the Scotland Bill proposed by the UK Government.

SERPS

State Earnings-Related Pension Scheme, a UK Government pension arrangement from April 6 1978 to April 5 2002

Small Firms Enterprise Development Initiative

SFEDI is the Small Firms Enterprise Development Initiative, a company started and principally funded by the Department of Trade and Industry that worked under contract to the UK government to develop occupational standards for small business managers and advisers, primarily active in the field of National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs).

SS Wairuna

She remained in UK Government ownership but was placed under the management of Houlder, Middleton and Company and renamed Polescar.

The UK Government's Knowledge Network Programme

The UK Government's Knowledge Network, according to the UK Government's e-Government Unit (formerly the Office of the e-Envoy) "is a world first - a government-wide electronic communication tool helping government departments to share knowledge with each other, and work online with colleagues across government."

Tiphook

In light of Tiphook and the Robert Maxwell scandal at the Daily Mirror, the UK Government introduced the earliest stages of legislation covering corporate governance.

Torture

During a House of Commons debate on 7 July 2009, MP David Davis accused the UK government of outsourcing torture, by allowing Rangzieb Ahmed to leave the country (even though they had evidence against him upon which he was later convicted for terrorism) to Pakistan, where it is said the Inter-Services Intelligence was given the go ahead by the British intelligence agencies to torture Ahmed.

Violet Club

In 1953, shortly after the Americans tested a thermonuclear weapon in 1952, followed by the Soviets with Joe 4, and before the UK government took a decision in July 1954 to develop a thermonuclear weapon, the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston was asked about the possibilities for a very large pure fission bomb with a yield of one megaton.

WRc

UK government and regulators such as: the Environment Agency, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), Communities and Local Government, Department for Transport (DfT), Highways Agency and the Office of Water Services (OFWAT).