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The Cabinet Office is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for supporting the prime minister and Cabinet . [ 3 ] It is composed of various units that support Cabinet committees and coordinate the delivery of government objectives via other departments.
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine Wiltshire with Gloucestershire as a sub-region of the South West Region, with the creation of the cross-county boundary constituency of South Cotswolds, resulting in a major reconfiguration of Chippenham.
The service was called the Wiltshire Record Office until 1997 and thereafter the Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office, but in 2006 the broader title of Wiltshire and Swindon Archives was adopted. The aim of the Archives Service is to collect, preserve and give access to the historic archives of the County and Borough.
Swindon Borough Council is the local authority of the Borough of Swindon in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, England. It was founded in 1974 as Thamesdown Borough Council , and was a lower-tier district council until 1997.
NASA says job cuts for probationary employees will be “performance-based or voluntary.” Here, the space agency's headquarters are pictured in Washington, DC, in 2023. - Celal Gunes/Anadolu ...
In 1982, International Time Recorders was acquired by Blick Industries of Swindon, England, who were themselves later absorbed by Stanley Security Systems. The first punched-card system to be linked to a Z80 microprocessor was developed by Kronos Incorporated in the late 1970s and introduced as a product in 1979.
Swindon is a railway town, and until the latter part of the 20th century the related works were the primary employer. [5] Today, Swindon is the home of a number of large companies: examples specific to South Swindon include Intel's European headquarters, [6] Nationwide's headquarters [7] and Zurich Financial Services' UK headquarters.
Teams at the Vickers-Armstrongs works included a football team and a rugby team, who continue today under altered names: Swindon Supermarine F.C. and Supermarine RFC. [21] Since the 1980s they have shared facilities at Hunts Copse just north of South Marston, alongside other sports, a bowls club and the Supermarine Sports & Social Club.