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Britain could start buying trains instead of routinely leasing them. Great British Railways will compare ownership and financing models for future fleets as ministers seek greater coordination across trains, depots, maintenance, and infrastructure.
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Avanti West Coast will enter public ownership on 7 March. The transfer is being paired with maintenance, station, timetable, and connectivity investment as ministers seek to improve reliability across the West Coast Main Line.
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Government procurement changes target jobs, skills, shipbuilding, and insourcing nationwide. Utilities face stronger expectations over domestic employment, while civil ship procurement and decisions about outsourced central-government services will come under more coordinated oversight.
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Cornwall lithium investment adds domestic capacity to critical supply chains. Geothermal Engineering plans a £43m extraction facility backed by an offer in principle of almost £10m through DRIVE35, with commercial production scheduled for 2029.
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Amaiz has launched local-network payments across ninety-six international markets today. The service targets SMEs paying overseas suppliers and contractors, offering an alternative to relying exclusively on SWIFT for routine cross-border transactions.
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A £190m charging scheme has entered formal subsidy scrutiny today. The proposed government programme would fund electricity-network upgrades at motorway service areas where connection costs are constraining open-access electric vehicle charging.
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Government modelling shows how supply chain shocks can spread systemically. A new technical annex explains the network stress-testing behind an existing UK foresight report, including how indirect dependencies and bottlenecks can amplify disruption between connected businesses.
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Bentley has completed £350m of investment at its Crewe plant. The programme prepares the factory for its first fully electric model, supports around 4,000 jobs, and forms part of more than £1bn in recent UK automotive investment announcements.
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UK-ASEAN trade reached £62bn as both sides deepened cooperation further. The updated partnership covers digital trade, financial services, supply chains, regulation, skills, and investment.
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A £20m programme will build four UK regulatory science centres. The five-year initiative will focus on AI, personalised healthcare, novel technologies, and new evidence methods.