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Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

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Scrapping appeal rights ''will save millions''
Foreign nationals refused a visa for a short visit to see family members will lose the full right to appeal

Work Programme ''set up without pilots''
But the Department for Work and Pensions should be commended for setting it up so quickly

Regional Growth Fund ''could do better''
The £1.4bn already spent is expected to create around 41,000 jobs but it could have been thousands more

Shatter barriers and boost public services
Britain will struggle to return to sustainable growth and maintain vital public services, says report

SMEs still struggle to get public sector work, says FSB
Small firms across the UK struggling to get work in the public sector, warns the Federation of Small Businesses

LATEST BIS FEATURES

''Home Secretary, quite simply you are wrong''
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Why don't we do what works?
What do managers do when politicians choose to ignore evidence of what works and insist on running with their unproven idea? Blair McPherson considers the options

Helping relations through tourismEU and Russia- building relations through tourism
Tourism between the EU and Russia should be used to effect widespread change and draw back a lingering iron curtain explains the European Tour Operators Association's Nick Greenfield