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Investment in skills and businesses is vital if the UK is not to suffer a debilitating brain drain, say MPs.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is to be broken up into four new departments, the prime minister says.

Rishi Sunak has assembled his cabinet, with Grant Shapps as business secretary and Mel Stride appointed work and pensions secretary.

Prime Minister Liz Truss has assembled her cabinet, naming Chloe Smith as the work and pensions secretary and Jacob Rees-Mogg as business secretary.

Artificial intelligence will be subject to tighter regulation in the UK in future, the government has signalled.

A new regulator will be created to reduce the risk of sudden big company collapses and safeguard jobs, as part...

MPs will examine the challenges faced by workers and employers and what the government and businesses can do support the labour market.

The Green Jobs Delivery Group, with business, industry, union and academia involvement, has been tasked with supporting the delivery of up to 480,000 skilled green jobs by 2030.

Unite threatens Royal Mail with industrial action over what it claims is a ‘fire and rehire’ scheme to replace managers.

The promised “green jobs” boost might never happen if the UK fails to meet its carbon reduction targets, the TUC...

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has joined the Employers’ Initiative on Domestic Abuse (EIDA) as a...

Elements of the government response to key modern slavery inquiry are ‘ludicrous’ and ‘lacking in credulity’, say MPs.

MPs are to consider allegations over work practices at the delivery giant after couriers alleged they had been told they'd lose delivery rounds unless they accept lower pay.

Rishi Sunak confirmed plans for a new campus for ‘critical economic departments’ in Darlington, and the national infrastructure bank in Leeds.

Ahead of the budget, the government has revealed it is to extend the furlough scheme until the end of September.