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Both issues of Sunday 27th September 2026: the headline, the bottom line, the week in brief and the week ahead, quoted as sent.

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Issue 01
Sunday 27th September 2026

Westminster and Whitehall; distilled

Employers finally have a timetable for the new employment rights

The bottom line

Employers now have a published timetable for the Plan to Make Work Pay, and it is likely to hold to its own dates. Bereavement leave and pregnancy loss leave are the first new rights, announced on 21st September. Two consultations, on tipping and workplace monitoring, close next week.

The week in brief

  1. 01

    Department for Business and Trade

    The published implementation roadmap will be the timetable employers plan against

  2. 02

    Department for Business and Trade

    The tipping code and workplace monitoring consultations will settle how the programme reaches employers, not whether it does

  3. 03

    Northern Ireland Office

    The Northern Ireland Executive will accept the funding package and agree a budget

Where things stand

Bills in Parliament

  • Railways Bill

    Other House

    Lords committee stage on 16th September.

  • Immigration and Asylum Bill

    Committee

    Committee stage on 15th September.

The week ahead

  • 29Sep

    Consultation on the revised tipping code of practice closes

    Department for Business and Trade

  • 30Sep

    Consultation on workplace monitoring technologies closes

    Department for Business and Trade

  • 20Oct

    New Trader Support Service platform becomes mandatory for goods movements from Great Britain to Northern Ireland

    HM Revenue & Customs

An excerpt. The full issue is a 23-page PDF: the week in brief, where things stand, institution by institution, the week ahead and every source, sent with a short covering email.

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Issue 150
Sunday 27th September 2026

The European Union; distilled

Europe spent the week opening markets and rewriting its rulebook

The bottom line

The European Commission is highly likely to keep opening trade and rewriting its rulebook together. It reached substantial agreement with the Philippines on 22nd September, then proposed releasing €4.2 billion for Hungary. Three consultations close within three days, and the rest run to mid-December.

The week in brief

  1. 01

    European Commission

    The European Union will finish and sign the Philippines trade agreement, and it is sharpening its procurement defences at the same time

  2. 02

    European Commission

    The Commission will keep producing simplification packages through the autumn, each with its own comment window

  3. 03

    European Commission

    Europe's digital, data and crypto rulebook is being rewritten, and the first comment windows close within days

The week ahead

  • 29Sep

    Consultation on the European Health Data Space requirements closes

    European Commission

  • 30Sep

    Evaluation of the EU crypto asset rules closes

    European Commission

  • 15Oct

    Evaluation of the dual-use export control regulation closes

    European Commission

An excerpt. The full issue is a 21-page PDF: the week in brief, where things stand, institution by institution, the week ahead and every source, sent with a short covering email.

Where each one looks.

  1. 01

    Parliament: Commons, Lords and committees

    Bills and where each has reached, debates, written questions and answers, and select committee work.

  2. 02

    Number 10 and the Cabinet Office

    Prime Ministerial statements, Cabinet Office announcements, and machinery of government changes.

  3. 03

    HM Treasury and HMRC

    Fiscal announcements, consultations, and the tax guidance and deadlines that follow them.

  4. 04

    New law

    The regulations made each week, and the date each comes into force.

  5. 05

    Government departments

    Announcements, consultations, guidance and funding from every other department.

  1. 01

    European Commission

    Proposals, decisions and announcements, and every consultation open on Have your say, with its closing date.

  2. 02

    European Parliament

    Plenary votes and debates, committee work, and where each law has reached.

  3. 03

    Council of the EU

    Council decisions and positions as the Commission and Parliament record them. Collection from the Council's own publications is being added.

  4. 04

    European Central Bank

    Governing Council decisions, published speeches, research and supervisory announcements.

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