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gov.uk (styled on the site as GOV.UK) is a United Kingdom public sector information website, created by the Government Digital Service to provide a single point of access to HM Government services. The site launched as a beta on 31 January 2012, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] following on from the AlphaGov project.
The Treasury first published a scoping study for WGA in July 1998. WGA are prepared under Sections 9 to 11 of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 and cover the whole of the UK public sector (central government, local government, health, and public corporations). [2]
The Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) is one of the largest public sector pension schemes in the United Kingdom, with 6.4 million members from 15,000 employers. [1] It is a defined benefit pension plan. Administration is carried out through 89 [2] regional pension funds such as Greater Manchester Pension Fund and London Pensions Fund ...
Policy is a deliberate system of guidelines to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. A policy is a statement of intent and is implemented as a procedure or protocol. Policies are generally adopted by a governance body within an organization. Policies can assist in both subjective and objective decision making.
A public accounts committee (PAC) is a committee within a legislature whose role is to study public audits, invite ministers, permanent secretaries or other ministry officials to the committee for questioning, and report on their findings subsequent to a government budget audit. Typically, the government is required to report back to parliament ...
The government argued that the existing visa options are sufficient for international students in Scotland, and noted that, "Applying different immigration rules to different parts of the UK would complicate the immigration system, harming its integrity, and cause difficulties for employers with a presence in more than one part of the UK."
The Government of the United Kingdom is divided into departments that each have responsibility, according to the government, for putting government policy into practice. [1] There are currently 24 ministerial departments, 20 non-ministerial departments, and 422 agencies and other public bodies, for a total of 465 departments. [2]
The policy of the British Government in England was to establish elected regional assemblies with no legislative powers. The London Assembly was the first of these, established in 2000, following a referendum in 1998, but further plans were abandoned following rejection of a proposal for an elected assembly in North East England in a referendum ...