Global Travel Taskforce<\/a>, with an ambition to develop a framework that can facilitate greater inbound and outbound travel as soon as the time is right, while still managing the risk from imported cases and variants. It will report on 12 April.<\/ins><\/p> <\/p>"}
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The Government is committed to tackling consumer rip-offs and bad business practices, including profiteering. Under competition law, responsibility for investigating individual and market-wide competition issues falls to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK\u2019s competition authority.<\/del><\/p> <\/p>
The Government has ensured that the CMA has significant powers and expertise to investigate anti-competitive practices. Consumers and businesses can report concerns regarding competition issues to the CMA.<\/del><\/p> <\/p>
The Government continues to work with the CMA and other consumer and retail organisations to monitor the extent of profiteering, and will update the law if it is proportionate to do so.<\/del><\/p>The Government is committed to tackling consumer rip-offs and bad business practices. The Government has ensured that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has significant powers and expertise to investigate such issues.<\/ins><\/p> <\/ins><\/p>Under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008, it is a criminal offence to provide consumers with misleading information or omit important details about a product they are purchasing. <\/ins><\/p> <\/ins><\/p>Under competition law, the CMA is responsible for investigating individual and market-wide competition issues. Consumers and businesses should report concerns about competition issues to the CMA.<\/ins><\/p>"}
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HM Government has not been able to negotiate trade deals with our friends around the world for almost fifty years. Now that we have control of our independent trade policy, the Department for International Trade is actively pursuing agreements with our trading partners, under an ambitious programme of work \u2013 including with the United States, Australia and New Zealand \u2013 as well as seeking accession to the Trans-Pacific Partnership.<\/p>
The United Kingdom and the Maldives already have a strong bilateral relationship. Trade in goods and services was worth £151<\/del>201<\/ins>m in 2019. In that context, we are working with the Maldivian Government to explore ways to increase trade and investment across a range of sectors of mutual interest, including food and drink, defence, education, fitness and health, and in environmental science and sustainable development.<\/p>"}
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The FCDO monitors UNRWA's self-learning material via different tools including programme monitoring and annual assessments to assess UNRWA's implementation of the curriculum framework.\u202f This ensures lessons taught with UNRWA self-learning materials are in line with UN values.<\/ins><\/p> <\/p>"}
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The UK remains concerned about the situation in Kashmir and we continue to follow developments there closely. The Foreign Secretary raised Kashmir with his counterpart, External Affairs Minister Dr Jaishankar, during his visit to India in December 2020. Officials at the British High Commission in New Delhi engage regularly with human rights organisations on the situation. Any allegation of human rights abuses is deeply concerning and must be investigated thoroughly, promptly and transparently. The UK's position remains that it is for India and Pakistan to identify a lasting political resolution to the situation, one that takes into account the wishes of the Kashmiri people.<\/ins><\/p>
<\/ins><\/p>The UK condemns the state of emergency imposed in Myanmar, and the arbitrary detention of democratically elected politicians and civil society by the military. It is essential that Aung San Suu Kyi, and all those arbitrarily detained, are released. Under the Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime and the Myanmar Sanctions Regime the UK had already sanctioned 16 individuals, responsible for human rights violations in Myanmar. In July 2020, we sanctioned the Commander-in-Chief and his Deputy, in our first tranche of sanctions under the Global Human Rights Sanctions regime. We are working closely with international partners to consider next steps with the aim of ensuring that democratic wishes of Myanmar's people are respected and politicians and civil society leaders are released.<\/del><\/p> <\/p>
<\/p>
<\/p>
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The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is closely following other countries' plans to roll out vaccines. We are keeping British Nationals updated on what healthcare options are available to them and how they can receive a vaccine locally through Travel Advice pages and 'Living In' guides on gov.uk. In addition, the UK is playing a leading international role to ensure global access to vaccines, including by contributing the equivalent of £330m a year, totalling £1.65bn, for the next five years to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance that provides equitable access to safe and effective vaccines for 190 economies.<\/ins>There are no plans to roll out the UK's NHS COVID-19 vaccination programme to British Nationals living abroad. We are closely following other countries' plans to roll out vaccines. We are providing information through Travel Advice pages and 'Living In' guides on gov.uk to inform British Nationals of healthcare options available to them and how they can receive a vaccine locally. The UK is playing a leading international role to ensure global access to vaccines. For example we are contributing the equivalent of £330m a year, totalling £1.65bn, for the next five years to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance that provides equitable access to safe and effective vaccines for 190 economies.<\/del><\/p>"}
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As of May 2020, the Government included unpaid carers in its list of essential workers and those prioritised for COVID-19 testing in England. If they have symptoms of COVID-19, unpaid carers can book a test directly online and access testing themselves or for members of their household who are experiencing symptoms.
<\/ins><\/p>The family leave guidance published by NHS Employers in October 2020 sets out what an employer may consider should a member of staff who is currently on family leave -maternity, adoption, or shared parental leave - indicate that they would like to return to work early or for a period of time to support the National Health Service during the pandemic.<\/del><\/p>Employers will need to carry out a risk assessment and provide appropriate facilities in accordance with the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 for any employee returning from a period of maternity leave, in particular mothers who are breastfeeding.<\/del><\/p>"}
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On 19 November 2020, the government announced a £300 million Sports Winter Survival Package (SWSP) to provide a lifeline to organisations that would otherwise not survive the winter as a result of the restriction on spectators announced from 1 October. A provisional allocation of £25 million was made to support the National League, covering steps one to six, aiming to protect the immediate future of non-league football in England. A further announcement on 27 January 2021 confirmed that Steps 3-6 of the National League system will receive up to £10 million of grant support from the Package to protect the immediate future of approximately 850 clubs over the winter period. Sport England and the Independent Board are currently finalising the details of this support, which will include any support for National League clubs in Slough, should they be eligible. <\/ins><\/p> <\/strong><\/ins><\/p>The SWSP support is in addition to the £10 million emergency package we facilitated for the National League from the National Lottery, in October last year, has benefitted the 66 clubs in the steps 1 and 2, and has enabled them to continue playing behind closed doors after the return of fans was paused last autumn.<\/ins><\/p> <\/strong><\/ins><\/p>The support packages that have been available to the National League are in addition to the multi-billion pound package of cross-sector business support from the Government that has enabled many sports clubs and leisure businesses to survive, including the furlough scheme and business interruption loan scheme. Sports have accessed many hundreds of millions of pounds of support through this.<\/ins><\/p> <\/strong><\/ins><\/p>The Government remains committed to engaging across the sector to maintain a complete picture of the financial impact of Covid-19 to ensure sports venues survive this difficult period wherever possible.<\/ins><\/p> <\/p>
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MHCLG works with other government departments to ensure local authorities are fully supported to deliver their vital role in the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In total, we have allocated over £8 billion so far to support local authorities during the pandemic. This includes £7.5 billion allocated directly to councils to address expenditure pressures, and over £500 million of payments from the first round of our sales, fees and charges compensation scheme. This does not include the £3 billion of additional financial support committed to councils for the COVID-19 response in 2021-22.<\/p>
<\/p>
A full breakdown of the funding we have captured in this assessment is set out below:<\/p>
<\/p>
Fund Name<\/strong><\/p><\/td>Funding (£m)<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr>COVID-19 2020/21 emergency unringfenced funding for LAs (Tranches 1-4)<\/p><\/td> | 4,607<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | Contain Outbreak Management Fund<\/p><\/td> | 978<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | Infection Control Fund<\/p><\/td> | 1,146<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | Adult Social Care Rapid Testing Fund<\/p><\/td> | 149<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | Workforce Capacity Fund for Adult Social Care<\/p><\/td> | 120<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | Local authority compliance and enforcement grant<\/p><\/td> | 30<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | Funding to support the Clinically Extremely Vulnerable<\/p><\/td> | 33<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | Reopening High Streets Safely Fund<\/p><\/td> | 50<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | Next Steps Accommodation Programme<\/p><\/td> | 92<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | Emergency Support for Rough Sleepers<\/p><\/td> | 3<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | Local Authority Emergency Assistance Grant for Food and Essential Supplies<\/p><\/td> | 63<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | Additional Funding for Home to School Travel<\/p><\/td> | 71<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | COVID Winter Grant Scheme<\/p><\/td> | 170<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | SFC Compensation Scheme (first round)<\/p><\/td> | 528<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | Total<\/strong><\/p><\/td>8,040<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> Attached is a breakdown of this £8 billion of funding by region and by local authority. This reflects the department\u2019s current best understanding and further payments will be made to local authorities this financial year in due course including: additional funding from further rounds of the sales, fees and charges scheme; and additional funding that will be provided through the Contain Outbreak Management Fund to tackle the spread of the virus \u2013 worth over £225 million a month during the national lockdown.<\/p> Also attached is a breakdown in relation to England\u2019s ceremonial counties. For this, the following caveats apply:<\/p> - Ceremonial counties do not necessarily cover the same area as county councils. The area covered by a ceremonial county will include all local authorities within that historical definition of the county. It will include the county council and shire districts, as well as any additional single-tier councils within the area.<\/li><\/ul>
- A small number of standalone fire and rescue authorities cross ceremonial county borders. In these cases, funding is apportioned between the ceremonial counties covered by the fire authority according to population.<\/li><\/ul>
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