GOV.UK: latest official news
News, press releases, speeches and statements from every UK government department, agency and public body that publishes on GOV.UK.
- Level of power: Level 6, National government
- Read from: gov.uk, last checked 29 October 2026 at 01:30 UK time
Departments and bodies publishing most
HM Treasury (20), Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (10), Ministry of Defence (9), Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street (6), Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (6), Ministry of Justice (5), Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (5), UK Export Finance (5), Home Office (4), Department for Work and Pensions (4), Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (3), Welsh Government (3), Cabinet Office (3), HM Land Registry (3), The Insolvency Service (3), HM Revenue & Customs (3), Department for Transport (2), Scotland Office (2), Wales Office (2), Bank of England (2), National Wealth Fund (2), Environment Agency (2), Regulator of Social Housing (2), Planning Inspectorate (2), Office for Equality and Opportunity (2)
Latest stories
- Lord Chancellor visits United Nations to promote British candidate to UN court
- Government and industry to take on investment bias and workplace culture to support more women in tech
- LPC recommendations take the National Living Wage to £13.21
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- Leeds station set for biggest transformation in a generation as government backs city’s growth with a £303 million upgrade
- UK boosts support to Ukraine with £10 billion package
- Budget 2026 speech
- Government and Rolls-Royce agree £2.5bn to build jet engines in the UK and create tens of thousands of jobs
- Budget 2026 Fact Sheet: Delivering for Every Region
- Further support for Ukraine
- Breathing space for Scottish families and businesses at Budget
- Breathing space for Northern Ireland families and businesses
- Making registration applications easier and more efficient
- 8/2026: Details of the Budget package and the multipliers for 2027/2028
- Increase of UK Export Finance cover limit for Ukraine
- Breathing space for Welsh families and businesses at Budget 2026
- Cutting electric vehicle charging costs
- How we protected the UK and space in September 2026
- British exporters to be given greater access to finance as UKEF strengthens support for Ukraine
- Budget 2026: Breathing space for Welsh families and businesses
- Prime Minister and Chancellor’s call with the President of Ukraine: 28 October 2026
- Budget 2026: Breathing space for today, hope for the future
- Monetary policy remit: Budget 2026
- MOD appoints its first Director General Innovation
- The Chancellor’s Letter to the National Wealth Fund
- Government letter to the British Business Bank
- Remit and recommendations for the Financial Policy Committee: Budget 2026
- Joint statement from Multilateral Defence Mechanism members
- Russia's war against Ukraine is costing more and achieving less: UK statement to the FSC
- Curfew and clean-up order for Cornwall waste criminal
- Lord Chancellor letter to Nick Timothy MP: October 2026
- Change of His Majesty’s Ambassador to Seoul
- Scottish Secretary welcomes apprenticeships at Navantia Fife yard
- 8th UK-Taiwan Energy Dialogue and 21st UK-Taiwan Renewable Energy Conference
- Chancellor abolishes standing charges on gas bills to make payments fairer
- RSH warns council to make fundamental changes for tenants
- UK engineering firm appointed to deliver major decommissioning project at Dungeness A
- Peace cannot be sustainable while half the population is shut out of shaping it: UK statement at the UN Security Council
- More people protected as government acts to make more homes safe
- Introduction of Respect Orders, Youth and Housing Injunctions
- Great North Road Solar and Biodiversity Park development consent decision announced
- Iran must allow the return of IAEA inspectors to all nuclear sites: UK statement at the UN Security Council
- UK sets pace on new undersea sensors to detect threats, as AUKUS partners test advanced kit in San Diego
- Frodsham Solar development consent decision announced
- Government launches first ever misogny prevention fund
- Government launches first ever misogyny prevention fund
- New digital patents services have launched
- Parents who murdered 13-week-old son have sentences increased
- Warm Homes Loan Scheme: Factsheet
- Minister launches new campus for National School of Government
- MMO to strengthen fisheries statistics following accreditation cancellation
- New MHRA research puts needle-free Strep A vaccine within reach
- UK Human Rights Ambassador visits Tanzania ahead of UN review
- MCA and GMB sign Recognition Agreement for Coastguard Rescue Officers
- New consultations launched on future of fees and access to data
- Gwyndod supply chain mobilised to deliver UK’s first SMRs
- UK and Poland strengthen defences on Europe's Eastern flank
- Have your say on the future of Part K of the building regulations
- Churches Conservation Trust: Tuesday 27th October 2026
- PS & B - ESTATE MANAGEMENT LIMITED – winding up orders made
- Ofqual fines Innovate Awarding £185,000 over failures to deal with fraud risks
- RSH publishes annual social housing stocks and rents statistics
- The Princess Royal to visit Cape Town for Commonwealth Agriculture Conference
- Everyday fixes to make life easier for millions of Britons
- The United Kingdom remains committed to working with Iraq, Kuwait, and the Tripartite Commission to provide answers for families of missing loved ones: UK statement at the UN Security Council
- E5 Defence Ministers' Statement: 26 October 2026
- We must protect and build on 30 years of work supporting the protection of children in conflicts: UK statement at the UN Security Council
- Respect Orders launch targeting anti-social behaviour offenders
- Home Secretary announces independent review into the murder of Henry Nowak
- Thousands of young people put down roots in agricultural careers at Jobs Fair
- Investigation launched as dispute risks bringing disability charity to a halt
- £12,000 fine for Cheltenham waste operator for disposal of diesel
- Government welcomes Official Partners for COP31 Pavilion
- SIA non-executive director re-appointed
- Basildon Borough Council: Local Plan intervention letter
- Government unleashes £1.2 billion crackdown as part of anti-fraud drive
- New practice guide on contractual control rights now available
- Four million illegal cigarettes seized in Border Force crackdown
- New panel to give child abuse and exploitation survivors a voice
- London loft and extension company which left unfinished building work shut down
- Contractual Control Agreements
- Statement from the Coalition on Atrocity Prevention and Justice for Sudan: one year on from the 26 October 2025 Atrocity in El Fasher
- Government response to SSAC Occasional Paper 27: The influence of the social security system on educational and vocational decision-making at age 16
- Oil and gas: OPRED communications, 2026
- Series 3 of DBS' safeguarding podcast turns focus to barring
- UK, Ukraine and Latvia extend crackdown on Russian grain theft
- UK sanctions senior commanders implicated in campaign of rape in Sudan and unveils new support for survivors
- Middlesex Regiment soldier laid to rest on the Somme
- Bedfordshire soldiers laid to rest on the Western Front
- Tyneside pizza boss jailed after gambling with money from £150,000 Covid loan fraud
- Reappointment of 22 members to the Parole Board
- Apply to become Ambassador for a Day in Tunisia
- New plans to end carbon dioxide stunning of pigs to prevent suffering
- PM confident every rough sleeper will have route off the street by Christmas as funding doubles
- Joint statement from HM Treasury and Department of Finance Canada
- Joint Press Release on the R4 Ministerial Meeting in Istanbul
- Chancellor unveils Britain’s ambitious plan for AI
- Introducing the AI Biosecurity Lab
- UK-France deepen nuclear defence ties in first joint exercise
- PM call with President Kast of Chile: 23 October 2026
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