The ICO has fined a PPI claims management company £120,000 for sending unlawful spam texts about its services.
Link: ICO fines PPI claims company £120,000 for millions of nuisance texts
Source: ICO .org.uk
Press release: £7m beach nourishment scheme to protect thousands of homes in Lincolnshire
£7m beach nourishment scheme to start next week to protect thousands of properties and businesses in Lincolnshire
Link: Press release: £7m beach nourishment scheme to protect thousands of homes in Lincolnshire
Source: Gov Press Releases
The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2019
These Regulations amend the Heathy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3262) (“the principal Regulations”) which establish a scheme to improve nutrition in pregnant women, mothers and young children by providing vouchers for certain basic foods and vitamins. These Regulations apply in England and Wales.
Link: The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2019
Source: Legislation .gov.uk
Press release: Suffragan Bishop of Stepney: 7 May 2019
The Queen has approved the nomination of the Venerable Dr Joanne Woolway Grenfell to the Suffragan See of Stepney.
Link: Press release: Suffragan Bishop of Stepney: 7 May 2019
Source: Gov Press Releases
Press release: Suffragan Bishop of Huntingdon: 7 May 2019
The Queen has approved the nomination of the Reverend Canon Dagmar Winter to the Suffragan See of Huntingdon.
Link: Press release: Suffragan Bishop of Huntingdon: 7 May 2019
Source: Gov Press Releases
Press release: Estuary wildlife of the River Tees gets increased protection
Natural England has confirmed Teesmouth and Cleveland Coast as a new Site of Special Scientific Interest to protect the wildlife of the Tees Estuary.
Link: Press release: Estuary wildlife of the River Tees gets increased protection
Source: Gov Press Releases
Press release: Suffragan Bishop of Shrewsbury: 7 May 2019
The Queen has approved the nomination of The Venerable Sarah Ruth Bullock to the Suffragan See of Shrewsbury.
Link: Press release: Suffragan Bishop of Shrewsbury: 7 May 2019
Source: Gov Press Releases
The Houses in Multiple Occupation (Specified Educational Establishments) (England) Regulations 2019
Schedule 14 to the Housing Act 2004 (“the Act”) lists types of building that are not houses in multiple occupation (“HMOs”) for the purposes of the Act (excluding Part 1, which deals with housing conditions). HMOs are defined in section 254 of the Act. Paragraph 4 of Schedule 14 to the Act refers to any building which is occupied solely or principally by persons who occupy it for the purpose of undertaking a full-time course of further or higher education at a specified educational establishment, or at an educational establishment of a specified description, and where the person managing or controlling the building is the educational establishment in question, or a specified person, or a person of a specified description.
Link: The Houses in Multiple Occupation (Specified Educational Establishments) (England) Regulations 2019
Source: Legislation .gov.uk
The Housing (Approval of Codes of Management Practice) (Student Accommodation) (England) Order 2019
This Order applies in relation to premises in England only. Article 2 of this Order approves two codes of practice laying down standards of conduct and practice to be followed with regard to the management of living accommodation comprised in buildings that fall within paragraph 4 of Schedule 14 to the Housing Act 2004 (“the 2004 Act”).
Link: The Housing (Approval of Codes of Management Practice) (Student Accommodation) (England) Order 2019
Source: Legislation .gov.uk
Press release: Planning Inspectorate launches inspector recruitment campaign
The Planning Inspectorate has launched a recruitment campaign to take on 20 additional planning inspectors at the most senior levels.
Link: Press release: Planning Inspectorate launches inspector recruitment campaign
Source: Gov Press Releases