Scotland Secretary Alister Jack arrives at Downing Street for a Cabinet meeting. Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images
The Queen’s Speech promises more investment directly to Scottish communities, as well as measures to boost global trading opportunities for Scotland’s exporters.
In total, the UK Government aims to pass 30 bills which will help us to build back better from the pandemic in Scotland. As the long process of recovery begins, we are committed to levelling up right across the UK, ensuring that no communities are left behind in the months and years ahead.
Scotland’s unrivalled reputation for innovation and scientific expertise will be enhanced by increased support to our world-leading research and development programmes, through the creation of a £800 million Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA).
Gordon Brown s plan to save the Union is doomed to failure
There s a real problem in condemning Johnson s muscular unionism while wanting yet more powers for Holyrood
13 May 2021 • 1:46pm
Following the Scottish Parliament elections, the battle lines have been drawn. No, not between nationalists and pro-UK politicians, but between the different factions of Unionism.
As night follows day and as summer follows spring, so Gordon Brown was all over the airwaves following the elections to the Scottish Parliament. To be fair to the former prime minister, his intervention this week was more nuanced and thoughtful than some of his earlier ones. Brown has been known, since leaving elected office, to pop up regularly to talk of the virtues of a federal UK (a proposal which earned the wonderfully derisive response from former Scottish Conservative leader, Ruth Davidson, along the lines of “What a pity he was never in government, otherwise he could have tried it”).
Ideas are being sought for community economic renewal projects
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Organisations with fresh ideas to help boost Devon’s economy and help those people and businesses hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic are being urged to submit their bids into a new national fund.
The one-year Community Renewal Fund pilot could be worth up to £24million across Devon this year and is a trial for the government’s Shared Prosperity Fund.
The aim of the fund is to encourage innovative schemes to help kickstart the local economy by investing in skills, helping people into employment, supporting local businesses to grow and develop, and helping local communities become more resilient and sustainable.
All the new laws Boris Johnson s government plans for the next 12 months revealed in Queen s Speech
Boris Johnson wants to make us fitter by banning junk food adverts, to build more homes and improve animal welfare
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Boris Johnson s Government has set out its proposals for the year ahead - including an emergency plan to clear a backlog of almost five million patients requiring NHS treatment.
North of Tyne Mayor urges Boris Johnson to give real firepower to local leaders
The Government has set out its plans for the year ahead including proposals for a Levelling Up White Paper
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North of Tyne Mayor Jamie Driscoll is calling on Whitehall to hand over real firepower to local leaders following the Queen s Speech.