Blog archive

The Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), the trade agreement between the UK and the EU was ratified by the UK Parliament on 30 December 2020 and the EU Parliament will consider the draft in early 2021...

A post-Brexit trade deal was finally pinned down on Christmas Eve. This will provide some comfort to organisations around data flows...

In light of the ongoing COVID-19 situation, the Government last month announced further extensions of temporary measures under the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 designed to give companies some breathing space...

On 24 December, the UK and the EU reached an agreement on the terms of their future trading relationship before the expiry of the transition period on 31 December 2020.

In my previous blog I discussed the first five points of the new 10-point plan for a transition to net-zero...

Last month the Government released its 10-point plan for a “green industrial revolution”, which it hopes will boost green investments, create 250,000 jobs and offer £12bn of government funding over the next 10 years...

Earlier this month National Data Guardian (NDG), Dame Fiona Caldicott published the outcomes of a consultation that was held in June 2020 about the Caldicott Principles and the role of Caldicott Guardians. You can read our earlier blog post on the consultation here...

A new Court of Protection decision provides helpful guidance on applications for party status – and in this case, the issue of non-disclosure of confidential information...

NHS England and NHS Improvement’s latest publication, Integrating Care – The next steps to building strong and effective integrated care systems across England sets out their thinking about the integration of care and the implications for legislation and NHS structures...

Covid-19 vaccinations and mental capacity. With the roll out of the first Covid-19 vaccinations to care homes underway, care home managers and operators will have been absorbed with the logistics of the programme...

An early Christmas present for some yesterday when the MHCLG announced that the deadlines for the Building Safety Fund were being extended and that there is to be an immediate £30 million fund for building owners to install fire alarms in high rise buildings awaiting remediation...

This week the Cabinet Office published a Green Paper on significant proposed reforms of the public procurement regime, with 10 March 2021 the deadline for responses.