Access Key Details UK Parliament for details of Bills (proposed law) and Hansard (debates). | OPSI for UK Acts (statute law). I like to read the little bits to be found in most modern laws which are often very interesting and rarely commented on.
Revenue and Customs || Office of Fair Trading ||
UK DirectGov || UK Dept for Transport | |
UK DCLG (odd new department)
Office of the Public Guardian re Powers of Attorney, mental capacity, and the Court of Protection.
UK Government News Network index of Government
press releases
If you want brief UK company info, go directly to the Company Search page of Companies House (closed Sundays.). Search for disqualified directors. For help with queries about what a Limited Company is and how it is supposed to work, they have lots of info in HTML and PDF format at Guidance booklets
The Official U K Statistics | Available from this Office (free and online, as PDF files) are: the UK 2005 Yearbook - as well as previous years issues. Also, Living in Britain. Plus a very wide variety of Cost of Living indices.
UK House Price Indices from the Government - it is also worth checking the HBOS stats as they use different methodology.
Regretably many- especially young men- now face the wrong side of our criminal justice system. One way or another most folk will find themselves as witness, juror, victim or defendant. There is a super web site by CJS Online with lots of information for everyone. Also the Home Office have a web site on crime (their website is in the process of a rebuild). Community Legal Service is an official UK body which has info on common none-criminal legal problems including discrimination. Centre for Crime and Justice Studies has interesting comment and research articles.
SAD -UK website about Seasonal Affective Disorder- the
Winter Blues.
A list of health symptoms and what to do can be found at NHS Direct- UK telephone support line 0845 4647. More patient information is available from a commercial body that supplies leaflets for GP surgeries- Patient.co.uk.