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Government must enforce new tyre regulations

Unite has called on the government to fully enforce new European Union regulations which will improve safety by placing import duties on inferior quality tyres being imported from China. Unite...

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OFTEC calls on new government to be ‘more realistic’

...“Evidence strongly suggests that the government is using the wrong vehicle to encourage people to cut CO2 emissions,” says Jeremy Hawksley, OFTEC’s director general. “A more realistic, pragmatic solution is...

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Ensuring the new government hears FPS members

...to both the industry and customers. “Oil supply and availability, particularly at peak periods, also remains a significant threat. The FPS stock sheet is helping the government understand the issues...
Government misses opportunity to help the logistics sector

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Government misses opportunity to help the logistics sector

...all, recent research by Oxford Economics and Logistics UK identifies that government backing for logistics, including the lifting of barriers that inhibit the sector, could boost annual UK GDP by...
Government grant for new OXCCU jet fuel project

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Government grant for new OXCCU jet fuel project

...A-1 specification. As part of its aim to cement the UK’s status as a world leader in SAF, last month the UK Government announced new measures to support the industry, with...

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OFTEC advise the government to back biofuels in RHI

 Leading oil equipment manufacturers have urged the government to include bioliquids in the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). In a letter to the right honourable Ed Davey MP, the secretary of...

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Government is open for business

Keen to hear from suppliers small and large across the whole of the UK, the government’s professional procurement arm, the Crown Commercial Service (CCS), is gearing up to launch a...

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Banning the internal combustion engine

Last week’s government announcement with respect to an earlier ban on the internal combustion engine met with a variety of responses. Whilst the majority support the government’s ambition to decarbonise,...

Opinion

Industry responds to CCC Sixth Carbon Budget

...and timely response from the UK Government to these proposed timelines from the CCC, so businesses and the public can get on with reaching it. Government should set the right...
George Eustice MP

Interview

In conversation with George Eustice MP

...government wasn’t really up for it, but we found the right approach and got it done.” Why did the Government assume a domestic heat strategy tied to electrification and a...