Author: J. Daybell
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137006064
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the development of the English vernacular letter before Charles I's postal reforms in 1635, one that witnessed a significant extension of letter-writing skills throughout society.
The Material Letter in Early Modern England
Author: J. Daybell
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137006064
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the development of the English vernacular letter before Charles I's postal reforms in 1635, one that witnessed a significant extension of letter-writing skills throughout society.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137006064
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the development of the English vernacular letter before Charles I's postal reforms in 1635, one that witnessed a significant extension of letter-writing skills throughout society.
To Amend Merchant Marine Act of 1920
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 1282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 1282
Book Description
British Waterways
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215521330
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
In its 7th report of session 2006-07 (HC 345-I, ISBN 9780215521330) on British Waterways (BW), the Committee pressed for adequate funding of the waterways network and expressed concern at the poor relations that existed at the time between the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and BW. This further report was prompted by BW's decision in February 2008 to withdraw from the partnership to restore the Cotswold Canals in order to fund urgent repairs to the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal. The report focuses on BW's regeneration and restoration work, but also looks at how Defra and BW are working together and the Committee is encouraged by an improvement in the relationship and communication between the two bodies. Restoration of canals produces little if any direct benefit to BW and BW has often carried all the financial risk in such projects. Canal restoration schemes can be of great value to the areas where the canals are restored, producing knock-on benefits such as more jobs and visitor income. The BW Board is charged primarily with maintaining the existing waterways network and cannot be expected to take on substantial risk from restoration projects, especially in present economic conditions. If the public sector wishes to obtain external benefits from canal restoration schemes, the bodies responsible for obtaining those benefits should bear the risk. Defra, with British Waterways and other interested bodies, should develop a mechanism to score and prioritise public investment in canal restoration according to the external benefits that would be created, and should agree how the financial risks of such projects should be borne.
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215521330
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
In its 7th report of session 2006-07 (HC 345-I, ISBN 9780215521330) on British Waterways (BW), the Committee pressed for adequate funding of the waterways network and expressed concern at the poor relations that existed at the time between the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and BW. This further report was prompted by BW's decision in February 2008 to withdraw from the partnership to restore the Cotswold Canals in order to fund urgent repairs to the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal. The report focuses on BW's regeneration and restoration work, but also looks at how Defra and BW are working together and the Committee is encouraged by an improvement in the relationship and communication between the two bodies. Restoration of canals produces little if any direct benefit to BW and BW has often carried all the financial risk in such projects. Canal restoration schemes can be of great value to the areas where the canals are restored, producing knock-on benefits such as more jobs and visitor income. The BW Board is charged primarily with maintaining the existing waterways network and cannot be expected to take on substantial risk from restoration projects, especially in present economic conditions. If the public sector wishes to obtain external benefits from canal restoration schemes, the bodies responsible for obtaining those benefits should bear the risk. Defra, with British Waterways and other interested bodies, should develop a mechanism to score and prioritise public investment in canal restoration according to the external benefits that would be created, and should agree how the financial risks of such projects should be borne.
Life in the United Kingdom
Author: Great Britain. "Life in the United Kingdom" Advisory Group
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 0113413025
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
This compendium of information aims primarily to assist teachers of English as a second language, mentors and others helping immigrants to integrate.
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 0113413025
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
This compendium of information aims primarily to assist teachers of English as a second language, mentors and others helping immigrants to integrate.
Media, Margins and Civic Agency
Author: Heather Savigny
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137512644
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This collection brings together new research on contemporary media, politics and power. It explores ways and means through which media can and do empower or dis-empower citizens at the margins that is, how they act as vehicles of, or obstacles to, civic agency and social change.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137512644
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This collection brings together new research on contemporary media, politics and power. It explores ways and means through which media can and do empower or dis-empower citizens at the margins that is, how they act as vehicles of, or obstacles to, civic agency and social change.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
British Broadcasting Commission
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215051110
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
On Saturday 10 November 2012, the BBC Director General George Entwistle agreed to resign after just 54 days in the job. In order to secure his quick departure, the BBC Trust agreed to a pay-off that included 12 months' salary of £450,000, twice what he was contractually entitled to. The BBC Trust also agreed to give the former Director General 12 months' private medical cover and contribute to the cost of legal fees and public relations advice connected with his departure and his participation in the ongoing inquiries into Newsnight and Sir Jimmy Savile. The Comptroller and Auditor General offered to carry out an immediate and independent audit examination of the package, in time to inform the deliberations of this Committee but the BBC Trust refused to take that offer up. This inhibited Parliament's ability to hold the Trust to account for its use of public money and Entwistle's severance package could only be considered on the basis of information publicly available. Furthermore, since November 2010 the BBC has made severance payments to 10 other senior managers at a total cost of more than £4 million. These payments are excessive and completely out of keeping with public expectations about how their licence fee money is spent. It also emerged that 422 senior BBC managers received private medical cover worth £667,489 as part of their remuneration packages in 2012. The Comptroller and Auditor General has been asked to examine severance payments and benefits for senior managers as part of his future programme of work on the BBC
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215051110
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
On Saturday 10 November 2012, the BBC Director General George Entwistle agreed to resign after just 54 days in the job. In order to secure his quick departure, the BBC Trust agreed to a pay-off that included 12 months' salary of £450,000, twice what he was contractually entitled to. The BBC Trust also agreed to give the former Director General 12 months' private medical cover and contribute to the cost of legal fees and public relations advice connected with his departure and his participation in the ongoing inquiries into Newsnight and Sir Jimmy Savile. The Comptroller and Auditor General offered to carry out an immediate and independent audit examination of the package, in time to inform the deliberations of this Committee but the BBC Trust refused to take that offer up. This inhibited Parliament's ability to hold the Trust to account for its use of public money and Entwistle's severance package could only be considered on the basis of information publicly available. Furthermore, since November 2010 the BBC has made severance payments to 10 other senior managers at a total cost of more than £4 million. These payments are excessive and completely out of keeping with public expectations about how their licence fee money is spent. It also emerged that 422 senior BBC managers received private medical cover worth £667,489 as part of their remuneration packages in 2012. The Comptroller and Auditor General has been asked to examine severance payments and benefits for senior managers as part of his future programme of work on the BBC
Dairy Farmers of Britain
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215545121
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The demise on 3 June 2009 of Dairy Farmers of Britain (DFB) resulted in substantial losses for its 1,813 farmer members. It also resulted in more than a thousand job losses. A market crash was avoided, thanks to the positive response of - among others - the receivers, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Welsh Assembly Government, and, in general the dairy industry itself. The Committee believes the way in which DFB pursued its vertical integration strategy was over-ambitious. No single factor caused the demise of the DFB although the purchase of Associated Cooperatives Creameries (ACC) for a total of £81 million in 2004 had lasting repercussions. They are satisfied that DFB did not fail because it was a co-operative. However, its failure draws attention to a number of ways in which UK dairy co-operatives could be strengthened. Defra should be offering advice and assistance and they are urged to set up a task force comprising the Financial Services Authority, members of the banking community and industry representatives to investigate ways to overcome constraints on capitalising agricultural co-operatives. Defra must also raise with the Treasury the need to ensure that farmers are not taxed on money that is only notionally paid out to them and actually retained by their co-operative. They also recommend that Defra produce a report examining governance and capital raising arrangements in successful co-operatives overseas. The collapse of DFB also draws attention to the urgent need to update insolvency legislation as it applies to co-operatives.
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215545121
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The demise on 3 June 2009 of Dairy Farmers of Britain (DFB) resulted in substantial losses for its 1,813 farmer members. It also resulted in more than a thousand job losses. A market crash was avoided, thanks to the positive response of - among others - the receivers, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Welsh Assembly Government, and, in general the dairy industry itself. The Committee believes the way in which DFB pursued its vertical integration strategy was over-ambitious. No single factor caused the demise of the DFB although the purchase of Associated Cooperatives Creameries (ACC) for a total of £81 million in 2004 had lasting repercussions. They are satisfied that DFB did not fail because it was a co-operative. However, its failure draws attention to a number of ways in which UK dairy co-operatives could be strengthened. Defra should be offering advice and assistance and they are urged to set up a task force comprising the Financial Services Authority, members of the banking community and industry representatives to investigate ways to overcome constraints on capitalising agricultural co-operatives. Defra must also raise with the Treasury the need to ensure that farmers are not taxed on money that is only notionally paid out to them and actually retained by their co-operative. They also recommend that Defra produce a report examining governance and capital raising arrangements in successful co-operatives overseas. The collapse of DFB also draws attention to the urgent need to update insolvency legislation as it applies to co-operatives.
The governance of Britain
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the Constitution
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 0104011262
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
governance of Britain : 7th report of Session 2006-07
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 0104011262
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
governance of Britain : 7th report of Session 2006-07
Federal Register
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description