Government appoints Emma Jones CBE as new Small Business Commissioner to help tackle late payments
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Government appoints new Small Business Commissioner as part of efforts to boost SMEs and tackle late payments
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First published.
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9:12am, 17 June 2025
Notice to exporters 2025/16: updated use of special and diacritic characters on the customs declaration service (CDS)
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Updated guidance on the use of special and diacritic characters on the Customs Declaration Service (CDS).
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First published.
Time updated:
12:03pm, 17 June 2025
Notices to exporters
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Notices to exporters published by the Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU).
Change made:
‘Notice to exporters 2025/16: updated use of special and diacritic characters on the customs declaration service (CDS)’ been added to collections.
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12:03pm, 17 June 2025
Privacy notice for the ‘Get help with your export query’ service
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How the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) processes your personal data collected via the ‘Get help with your export query’ service.
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Bullet beginning ‘organisations working…’ added under ‘How we protect and share your data’
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12:18pm, 17 June 2025
Business changes that affect payment of Statutory Neonatal Care Pay
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What happens if you’re an employer and you take over a business, stop trading, become insolvent or make an employee redundant.
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References to ‘child’ removed and replaced with ‘baby’.
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2:42pm, 17 June 2025
UK-Ukraine TechBridge: London Tech Week 2025 Communiqué
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UK-Ukraine TechBridge Investment Accelerator at London Tech Week 2025
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First published.
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4:50pm, 17 June 2025
Innovative Welsh exporter puts Britain at the forefront of global immunisation efforts
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UK Export Finance supports renewable energy tech company Dulas to deliver life-saving vaccine refrigerators to over 80 countries worldwide.
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First published.
Time updated:
12:00am, 18 June 2025
Trade and investment core statistics book
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A monthly snapshot of the UK’s trade and investment position, summarising trade statistics produced by ONS, HMRC, DBT and others.
Change made:
Trade and investment core statistics book updated with latest statistical data.
Time updated:
9:30am, 19 June 2025
UK trade in numbers
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A snapshot of the UK’s latest trade and investment position, summarising statistics produced by ONS, DBT, and UNCTAD.
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Sections 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 have been updated in UK trade in numbers (web version) and corresponding data tables with the latest published data.
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9:30am, 19 June 2025
Trade and investment factsheets (partner names beginning with A or B)
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A snapshot of the UK’s trade and investment positions with individual trading and investment partners overseas, for partners whose name begins with A or B.
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Factsheets updated to reflect the latest data available.
Time updated:
9:30am, 19 June 2025
Trade and investment factsheets (partner names beginning with C to F)
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A snapshot of the UK’s trade and investment positions with individual trading and investment partners overseas, for partners whose name begins with C, D, E or F.
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Factsheets updated to reflect the latest data available.
Time updated:
9:30am, 19 June 2025
Trade and investment factsheets (partner names beginning with W to Z)
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A snapshot of the UK’s trade and investment positions with individual trading and investment partners overseas, for partners whose name begins with W, X, Y or Z.
Change made:
Factsheets updated to reflect the latest data available.
Time updated:
9:30am, 19 June 2025
Trade and investment factsheets (partner names beginning with T to V)
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A snapshot of the UK’s trade and investment positions with individual trading and investment partners overseas, for partners whose name begins with T, U or V.
Change made:
Factsheets updated to reflect the latest data available.
Time updated:
9:30am, 19 June 2025
Trade and investment factsheets (partner names beginning with P to R)
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A snapshot of the UK’s trade and investment positions with individual trading and investment partners overseas, for partners whose name begins with P, Q or R.
Change made:
Factsheets updated to reflect the latest data available.
Time updated:
9:30am, 19 June 2025
Trade and investment factsheets
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A snapshot of the UK’s trade and investment positions with individual trading and investment partners overseas.
Change made:
Factsheets updated to reflect the latest data available.
Time updated:
9:30am, 19 June 2025
Trade and investment factsheets (partner names beginning with J to L)
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A snapshot of the UK’s trade and investment positions with individual trading and investment partners overseas, for partners whose name begins with J, K or L.
Change made:
Factsheets updated to reflect the latest data available.
Time updated:
9:30am, 19 June 2025
Trade and investment factsheets: latest update
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The most up to date snapshot of the UK’s trade and investment positions with trading partners overseas.
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Factsheets updated to reflect the latest data available.
Time updated:
9:30am, 19 June 2025
Trade and investment factsheets (partner names beginning with G to I)
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A snapshot of the UK’s trade and investment positions with individual trading and investment partners overseas, for partners whose name begins with G, H or I.
Change made:
Factsheets updated to reflect the latest data available.
Time updated:
9:30am, 19 June 2025
Trade and investment factsheets (partner names beginning with M to O)
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A snapshot of the UK’s trade and investment positions with individual trading and investment partners overseas, for partners whose name begins with M, N or O.
Change made:
Factsheets updated to reflect the latest data available.
Time updated:
9:30am, 19 June 2025
Trade and investment factsheets (partner names beginning with S)
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A snapshot of the UK’s trade and investment positions with individual trading and investment partners overseas, for partners whose name begins with S.
Change made:
Factsheets updated to reflect the latest data available.
Time updated:
9:30am, 19 June 2025
Rural England Prosperity Fund updated
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Capital grant support for businesses based in Babergh or Mid Suffolk to help them to grow and create new jobs.
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Changed from ‘Rural Business Growth Fund’ to ‘Rural England Prosperity Fund.’
Time updated:
11:39am, 19 June 2025
Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) updated
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A collaborative network and range of resources and events for manufacturers wanting to focus on sustainability.
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Changed name of page to ‘Warwick Manufacturing Group’ from ‘Net Zero Innovation Network.’
Time updated:
11:40am, 19 June 2025
EM on EU legislation concerning digitalisation (COM(25)503 & 504)
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EM on amendments to EU product legislation which set out harmonised rules relating to the design, manufacture, conformity assessment and marketing of products
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First published.
Time updated:
2:04pm, 19 June 2025
Interministerial Group for Business and Industry: communiqués
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Notes of the meetings held by the Interministerial Group for Business and Industry.
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Communiqué for the meeting of 6 May 2025 was added.
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4:30pm, 19 June 2025
UK Trade Tariff: duty suspensions and autonomous tariff quotas
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Temporary duty suspensions and autonomous tariff quotas (ATQs) for importing goods into the UK.
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‘ATQs for fish products’ section updated as stakeholder engagement exercise has now closed.
Time updated:
11:59pm, 19 June 2025
UK sanctions
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Where to find sanctions content, including introductory guidance, statutory guidance, guidance by industry sector, sanctions lists and how to report a breach.
Change made:
Added 4 threat assessment reports for financial, legal, property and high value dealer sectors, produced by Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation during 2025.
Time updated:
12:14pm, 20 June 2025
How different employment types affect Statutory Neonatal Care Pay
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Find out about the different rules that apply to some employment types to decide your employee’s entitlement of Statutory Neonatal Care Pay.
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Guidance about the relevant period has been removed in section ‘Paid by a determination of the directors (not a formal vote)’. Sections ‘One lot of Statutory Neonatal Care Pay’ and ‘Separate lots of Statutory Neonatal Care Pay’ have been updated to clarify when an employee will lose some of their Statutory Neonatal Care Pay, and when they will not. First paragraph under section ‘Employees with more than one employer’ has been changed from 2 lots of Statutory Neonatal Care Pay, to more than one lot of Statutory Neonatal Care Pay, the second paragraph has also been updated to clarify that if you and another employer put together an employee’s individual earnings into one single payment, they will only get one lot of Statutory Neonatal Care Pay.
Time updated:
12:33pm, 20 June 2025
Enterprise programme for young people – UK updated
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The King’s Trust helps young people aged 18 to 30 years who want to set up their own business in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
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‘Enterprise programme for young people’ details updated.
Time updated:
1:23pm, 20 June 2025
UK-Bahrain agree £2bn investment partnership in huge boost for UK economy
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The UK and Bahrain have signed a partnership agreement which will deliver £2 billion of investment into key growth sectors in a huge boost to the economy.
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First published.
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2:39pm, 20 June 2025
UK-US Economic Prosperity Deal (EPD)
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General terms of a new trade deal between the UK and US, and an update on the progress the UK and US have made to implement the general terms since they were agreed on 8 May 2025.
Change made:
‘Update on the UK-US Economic Prosperity Deal (EPD)’ document added to the page. This document provides information on progress the UK and US have made to implement the general terms for the EPD since it was agreed on 8 May 2025.
Time updated:
4:17pm, 20 June 2025
