The UK medicines regulator is posed to license one of the coronavirus vaccines for emergency use within days as the Armed Forces and the NHS urgently start preparing for its distribution at around 10 ‘vaccine hubs’. Military personnel are transforming locations including the mothballed Nightingale hospital at London’s ExCel centre, Epsom racecourse in Surrey, and … Read more
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has asked the UK’s drugs regulator to ‘understand the data’ coming out of Oxford’s coronavirus vaccine trial as it decides whether to approve the jab for public use. Government officials last night asked the MHRA to consider giving emergency approval for the jab so that it could be given out from … Read more
Britons could get the Pfizer vaccine before Americans as the regulator prepares to make a rapid decision and the NHS readies its staff for a roll-out on December 1. The UK watchdog will soon open its formal appraisal into the Covid-19 jab produced by the US drugs giant Pfizer Inc. and German biotech firm BionNTech … Read more
Rip-off exit fees for investors switching between investment platforms could be here to stay, after financial regulator ditched proposals to ban them By Rachel Rickard Straus, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 21 November 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 21 November 2020 Rip-off exit fees for investors switching between investment platforms could be here … Read more
Blow for loyal savers as plan for minimum interest rates is scrapped by banking regulator Plans to protect loyal savers with a minimum interest rate have been shelved FCA announced earlier this year that it planned to shake up the savings market Move would have required every bank and building society to pay a blanket … Read more
An advert for a coronavirus ‘passport’ app featuring Zara Tindall having an antibody test has been referred to the medical regulator. The V-Health Passport system developed by VST Enterprises sees people take a test with the results then uploaded by a health administrator onto the user’s app. But an advert promoting it shows the Queen’s … Read more
Wales should scrap GCSE exams next summer and instead award grades on pupils’ coursework and assessments, a testing regulator has said. Qualifications Wales said A-Level students should continue to be graded as normal, but younger pupils should face a relaxed system. It comes after the summer’s exam season turned into a fiasco as tests were … Read more
The Civil Aviation Authority has been forced to extend its review of how airlines deal with customer complaints after critics slammed the body for failing to tell consumer bodies its plans. In July, the CAA published a consultation paper proposing how to improve the current Alternative Dispute Resolution system – a scheme used to ensure passengers are … Read more
National Trust ‘facing questions over its purpose’ as Charity Commission warns an inquiry could be looming Trust sparked a woke row after tweeting details about buildings’ links to slavery Dozens vowed to cancel their membership because of charity ‘virtue signalling’ Regulator now looking at whether the Trust has breached its charitable objects By Tom Pyman … Read more
Energy regulator hands SSE £2m fine for power plant error By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:24 BST, 3 September 2020 | Updated: 22:24 BST, 3 September 2020 Ofgem has fined SSE £2m fine for a power plant error. The energy regulator punished the provider for failing to publish information that is likely … Read more