The Department for Culture Media & Sport (DCMS) has announced new measures to support Britain’s world-leading AI sector as part of a Digital Strategy, due to published on 1 March, to boost growth and deliver a ‘thriving, outward-looking digital economy that works for everyone’.

The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has launched an advertising campaign to raise lowest paid workers’ knowledge of their rights ahead of the National Minimum and National Living Wage (NLW) rates rise on 1 April.
The national advertising campaign will be carried out in a range of public places, including public transport and shopping centres.
The news comes as a poll conducted for the government has shown that many people in low paid work are confused about when they should be paid and what deductions from their pay packets can legally be made.

A House of Lords report has claimed that successive governments have failed to encourage enough fresh power capacity in the UK.

The Electoral Commission will investigate the spending returns of the Stronger In and Vote Leave campaigns from 2016’s EU referendum.

Plans to create less polluted cities need to go further if targets to reduce increasing levels of harmful pollutants are to be met.

Only seven per cent of the British public have been inspired by the Olympic games to take up sport, according to a new YouGov survey.
Commissioned for Pro Bono Economics, of the remaining 93 per cent: 18 per cent cited their busy lifestyle for their failure to get active; 17 per cent quoted the expensive cost of playing sport as being the main reason stopping them; 12 per cent suggested that a lack of local facilities stunted their uptake; while, a further 12 per cent highlighted a lack of confidence to participate in sport.

The Labour party has lost the Copeland by-election by over 2,000 votes to the Conservative party, losing a seat it has held for over 80 years.
Conservative candidate Trudy Harrison received 13,748 votes, as opposed to Labour's Gillian Troughton's 11,601, heralding a ‘truly historic event’, with the win representing the first by-election gain by a governing party since 1982.

Net migration to the UK has reduced by 49,000 with 273,000 people migrating to the UK in the year to September, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have shown.

New data reveals that the number of new build homes that have started to be built have continued to rise to the highest level since 2007.

Communities Secretary Sajid Javid has announced a government cash boost of £191 million for the South West to help create jobs, support businesses and encourage growth.