The UK’s £8 billion-a-year R&D tax credit scheme is facing a major shake-up as the government moves to tackle widespread fraud and error while improving accessibility for genuine claimants. Proposals outlined in a consultation published alongside the Spring Statement suggest that businesses may soon be required to obtain formal pre-approval — or “advance assurance” — for research and development (R&D) ...

Frasers Group has voted to block Boohoo’s attempt to change its holding company name to Debenhams, escalating a long-running feud between the UK retail giants. The move, led by Mike Ashley’s group, which owns a 27 per cent stake in Boohoo, effectively prevented the resolution from passing at a general meeting on Friday. The motion required at least 66 per ...

Technology entrepreneur Tom Adeyoola has been named as the government’s preferred candidate to head Innovate UK, the country’s £1.1 billion-a-year innovation agency, at a pivotal moment for the organisation. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology confirmed that Adeyoola, 47, is in line to replace Indro Mukerjee in the £195,000-a-year role. The appointment comes as Innovate UK faces renewed scrutiny ...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Mark Twain’s famous advice to ‘buy land, they aren’t making it anymore’ couldn’t have found a more receptive audience than President Donald Trump, a real estate man at heart who covets a certain piece of property to our north. Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha traveled to the Island nation ...

As federal judges exceed records with an onslaught of nationwide orders blocking President Donald Trump’s orders, some have revisited how each was confirmed, and whether Republicans could have foreseen their rulings or done anything more to block them.  Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., a member of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee, told Fox News Digital in an interview, ‘This is why ...

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Elon Musk has announced an $80 billion merger of his artificial intelligence venture xAI with social media platform X, formerly Twitter, in a move he claims will “unlock immense potential” by combining AI capabilities with real-time user interaction. The non-cash transaction values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion — or $45 billion when including $12 billion in ...

Apprenticeship and workplace training provider Multiverse has posted a 29 per cent rise in sales to £58.4 million for the year ending March 2024, but its losses also deepened, underscoring the high cost of its rapid expansion. Founded by Euan Blair, son of former Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair, the company reported pre-tax losses of £60.6 million — up from ...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As we learn the full melodrama of the so-called Signal ‘scandal’ of inviting left-wing, Trump-despising, Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg onto a supposedly secure conference list involving top Trump security officials, lots of questions need asking and answering. Most importantly, who had Goldberg’s private number and inserted it, ostensibly by mistake, into the ...