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His Majesty's Government Communications Centre (HMGCC) is an organisation which provides electronics and software to support the communication needs of the Government of the United Kingdom. Based at Hanslope Park , near Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire , it is closely linked with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the British ...
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 non-metropolitan district of Milton Keynes and its council were created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, by the merger of Bletchley Urban District, Newport Pagnell Urban District, Wolverton Urban District, Newport Pagnell Rural District and that part of Winslow Rural District within the designated area for the new town of Milton Keynes.
Civil penalties occupy a strange place in some legal systems - because they are not criminal penalties, the state need not meet a high burden of proof, such as "beyond a reasonable doubt"; but because the action is brought by the government, and some civil penalties can run into very large sums, it would be uncomfortable to subject citizens to ...
In the financial year 2023/24, 51% of revenue expenditure is expected to come from UK Government grants, 31% from council tax and 15% from retained business rates. [ 27 ] Local government can also receive some money from fees and charges for the use of services, returns and interest from investments , commercial income, fixed penalty notices ...
The offence carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. It is confined to those who are public office holders, and is committed when the office holder acts (or neglects to act) in a way that constitutes a breach of the duties of that office. Case law has established a broad definition of "public office holder" for this purpose that does not ...
His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (commonly HM Revenue and Customs, or HMRC) [4] [5] is a non-ministerial department of the UK government responsible for the collection of taxes, the payment of some forms of state support, the administration of other regulatory regimes including the national minimum wage and the issuance of national insurance numbers.
This category contains articles about the ministries of the Government of the United Kingdom, which are known as departments. For articles about other bodies controlled by the UK government see: Category:Executive agencies of the United Kingdom government; Category:Public bodies and task forces of the United Kingdom government