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20 stories · Last updated: 6 Apr 2026, 9:18am
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Whistleblowing guidance for employers
Get an overview of whistleblowing policies and procedures as an employer, to support your organisation’s commitment to handling wrongdoing in the workplace.  
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Manually calculate an employee's Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay
Use this guidance if your payroll software or Basic PAYE tool does not calculate your employee's payments.
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Manually calculate a Northern Ireland based employee's Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay
Use this guidance if your payroll software or Basic PAYE tool does not calculate your Northern Ireland based employee's payments for claims relating to a child death or miscarriage which happened on …
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How different employment types affect what you pay in Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay
Find out about the different rules that apply to employment types like agency workers, directors and educational workers when deciding entitlement to Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay.
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Employee circumstances that affect payment of Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay
What to do when an employee leaves, is reinstated, has a break in employment, works for someone else, is sick or goes abroad.
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Statutory Bereaved Partner’s Paternity Leave: employer guide
Employer guide to Bereaved Partner’s Paternity leave: entitlement, eligibility and notice periods for claiming or changing leave.
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Bereaved Partner’s Paternity Leave
Employee guide to unpaid paternity leave for bereaved partners: what you're entitled to, eligibility, how to claim, how to cancel and other help available.
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NHS patients and British businesses to benefit from historic changes to medicines access following pharmaceutical partnership with USA
New partnership accelerates NHS patients' access to new medicines and will see UK benefit from greater life sciences industry investment
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Official Statistics: Preference utilisation of UK trade in goods, 2024
This statistics release will provide data and analysis of the extent to which UK goods imports and exports utilised tariff preferences under preferential trade agreements (PTAs) in 2024, including th…
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Decision: UK's steel trade measure from 1 July 2026
Details about a new steel trade measure from 1 July 2026, which will limit tariff-free steel import quota volumes.
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Guidance: Overseas companies in the UK: registration and filing obligations
Registration and filing obligations of an overseas company that opens an establishment in the UK.
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Form: Directors’ identity verification for an overseas company (OS VS01)
Use this form to give identity verification details for a current director of an overseas company.
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Consultation on the implementation of the new subscription contracts regime
We are seeking views on our legislative proposals for subscription contracts between traders and consumers. This consultation will inform secondary legislation.
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Correspondence: Keep Britain Working Review updates
Updates on the independent review of the role of employers in tackling health based economic inactivity and promoting healthy and inclusive workplaces.
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Consumers to save around £400 million every year from government crackdown on costly subscription traps
Hard working Brits will keep more of their cash under a new government crackdown on unwanted and misleading subscriptions
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Notice: Notice to exporters 2026/08: general trade licence Russia sanctions – sectoral software and technology
The Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU) has updated the general trade licence Russia sanctions for sectoral software and technology.
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Guidance: General trade licence Russia sanctions: sectoral software and technology
This is a general trade licence in relation to prohibitions under Chapter 4N of the Russia Sanctions regulations on business enterprise software and technology.
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Form: Contracts for Difference, renewables obligation and small scale feed-in tariffs: apply for an exemption or compensation
How to apply for an exemption or compensation for a proportion of the indirect costs of funding the Contracts for Difference, renewables obligation and small scale feed-in tariffs.
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Guidance: Technical interface specifications for Companies House software
Technical specifications for developing software to send information to Companies House digitally.
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