According to the UK National Audit Office, the total cost of The Dome at the liquidation of the New Millennium Experience Company in 2002 was £ 789 million, of which £ 628 million was covered by National Lottery grants and £ 189 million through sales of tickets etc.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts thereafter began issuing land grants in its District of Maine, including the areas that the UK still claimed.

However, after announcing that the UK government had not offered any substantial assistance in either grants or loans, Nanjing Automobile was also reported to have begun negotiations with at least two other potential partners, including " a wealthy San Francisco family ", and, in early November, Nanjing committed to making every effort " to resume production Longbridge at the beginning of 2007 ".

The Fund's mission is by giving grants to organisations, championing charitable causes, advocacy, campaigning and awareness-raising, the Fund works to secure sustainable improvements in the lives of the most disadvantaged people in the UK and around the world.

The name was later changed to the " Prisoners of Conscience Appeal Fund " and is now a separate and independent charity which provides relief and rehabilitation grants to prisoners of conscience in the UK and around the world.

Accountable to the Attorney General, it has jurisdiction over England, Wales and Northern Ireland and assists a number of overseas investigations by obtaining information from UK sources Section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 grants the SFO special compulsory powers to require any person ( or business / bank ) to provide any relevant documents ( including confidential ones ) and answer any relevant questions including ones about confidential matters.

* War Memorials Trust ( UK charity that gives free advice about and grants towards war memorial conservation )

Hatton claims that the faults of his time in office were the result of the policy of the Thatcher Government, and that the UK Labour Party should have supported the Council's demand for the " return " of the £ 30 million " stolen " from the Council as a result of unfairly reduced government rate support grants for Liverpool.

* Energy saving advice and grants for UK consumers

This is frequently the case where the individual ’ s parent / s were born in a country that grants citizenship to children of its citizens, regardless of where the children were born, for example, a child born in Canada to parents who were born in the UK is able to obtain a UK passport ( see British nationality law ).

The JNC's scope extends over all Youth and Community workers employed by UK Government, and all voluntary sector youth services that receive government grants.

** 18 January – The UK Postmaster General grants the BBC a licence to broadcast.

The Millennium Forest project was funded by the UK's Millennium Fund, matched by regeneration funding from the UK government and Europe, grants from the Forestry Commission and many other sources.

Of this over £ 1 billion is spent on research grants and training in UK higher education institutions, forming one element of the UK's dual support system of research funding.

( The other element is provided through block grants provided by the UK Funding Councils for higher education.

Currently, the Foundation provides grants to a large range of US and a few international organisations, including the Willows Foundation in Turket (€ 2. 3 million ), the World Food Programme in Italy (€ 800, 000 ), Marie Stopes International in the UK (€ 571, 000 ); and Grupo de Informacion en Reproduccion Elegida in Mexico (€ 196, 000 ).

They produced several different shows and were occasionally given some financial support in the UK by the Arts Council and other grants.

Additional grants, totalling £ 500, 000, were obtained from Sport England, UK Sport, the DCMS and SEEDA in order to build the lake's finish tower.

After the UK Government tried once again to save the company by agreeing to pour in £ 5million of grants to enable Malaysia's WestStar Corporation to purchase LDV, WestStar failed to secure financing.

* 5 May 1995: British Government grants disposal license to Shell UK.

In the year ending September 2009, AICR awarded approximately £ 10 million in cancer research grants of which about half were outside the UK.

The UK currently grants several levels of licence:

In 2004, 37 Members of the European Parliament ( MEPs ) from the UK, Poland, Denmark and Sweden founded a new European Parliament group called “ Independence and Democracy ” from the old Europe of Democracies and Diversities ( EDD ) group.

The Polaris, a much better weapon system for the UK, was a major " scoop " and has been referred to as “ almost the bargain of the century ” The RAF kept a tactical nuclear capability with the WE. 177 which armed V bombers and later the Panavia Tornado force.

This “ one-two-punch ” by the UK ’ s RAF Bomber Command first ; and then, NATO / SAC second ; was the heart of the nuclear retaliatory attack strategy for the west in the early to mid-Cold War period.

The HPA's position is that “... radio frequency ( RF ) exposures from WiFi are likely to be lower than those from mobile phones .” It also saw “... no reason why schools and others should not use WiFi equipment .” In October 2007, the HPA launched a new “ systematic ” study into the effects of WiFi networks on behalf of the UK government, in order to calm fears that had appeared in the media in a recent period up to that time ".

Outside of the United States, the Premier Drum Company, of London, UK, after experimenting with a variety of aluminum bar instruments more closely related to the glockenspiel that were called variations of “ harpaphone ”, moved to the production of the Schluter vibraphone design.

The dynamic staging was considered to be a radical break with previous UK stagings of the play ( which usually adhered to a single realistically depicted Edwardian drawing room set and a static dialogue-based performance style ) and emphasized the metaphorical elements of the “ inspection ” and the themes of social exclusion and class warfare.

The UK Department of Health said that Grassley ’ s claims were “ just wrong ” and reiterated health service in England provides health care on the basis of clinical need regardless of age or ability to pay.

* The introduction of an “ employment premium ” ( 2002 ), similar to tax credits in the UK and US, providing a state subsidy to low-wage earners.

A second common form of cooperative federation is a cooperative union, whose objective ( according to Gide ) is “ to develop the spirit of solidarity among societies and ... in a word, to exercise the functions of a government whose authority, it is needless to say, is purely moral .” Co-operatives UK and the International Cooperative Alliance are examples of such arrangements.

## The Wiseguys had a # 2 hit in the UK with “ Ooh La La ” in 1998 but their only US hit was “ Start the Commotion ” at # 31 in 2001.

### Ten Years After, not ordinarily classified as a one-hit wonder due to their album sales ( see below ), had their only UK Top 40 hit with “ Love like a Man ” in 1970, but their only US Top 40 hit was “ I ’ d Love to Change the World ”, which peaked at # 40 in 1971.

Hebden Bridge has built a reputation for “ great little shops ” and has an unusually high density of independent shops for a UK town of its size.

Armando Iannucci revealed in late March 2010 that Alan won ’ t be travelling to the USA as the rumours have suggested though: “ At the moment we ’ re just deciding whether we should ( make an Alan Partridge movie ) and the ideas we ’ ve come up with are very much Alan in the UK and his ideas of what he could be.

The law in some countries, such as the UK, draws a distinction between “ equality of provision ” and “ equality of outcome ”, recognising that identical treatment may sometimes act to preserve inequality rather than eliminate it.

Kabbani allegedly thanked UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw in 2005 for the role the UK played in the Middle East, saying: “ We are glad to see changes taking place in the political mechanisms in the Middle East.

Although Michel Barnier, European Union internal market Commissioner, proposed limits on capital requirements for banks that could have hindered the UK ringfencing proposal and indicated support for the French and German position against breaking up banking groups, in November 2011 he announced an “ expert commission ” would “ study the mandatory separation of risky investment banking activities from traditional retail lenders .”

The ICB noted Glass-Steagall had been “ undermined in part by the development of derivatives .” The ICB also argued that the development before 1999 of “ the world ’ s leading investment banks out of the US despite Glass-Steagall in place at the time ” should caution against assuming the “ activity restrictions ” it recommended in its “ ringfencing ” proposal would hinder UK investment banks from competing internationally.

* Using a personal name, such as " Willy " or " Dick " for penis, " Fanny " for " buttocks " ( in America ) or " vulva " ( in UK, Ireland, and Australia )

The band became more open in the ' 90s ; for example, the aforementioned NewOrderStory ( and in particular the longer UK version ) featured extensive personal interviews.

Although personal accounts of taking the cactus had been written by psychologists such as Weir Mitchell in the US and Havelock Ellis in the UK during the 1890s, the German-American Heinrich Kluver was the first to systematically study its psychological effects in a small book called Mescal and Mechanisms of Hallucinations published in 1928.

* Widget UK, a UK based personal electronics distributor

In some countries or regions such as the UK, Australia or Hong Kong, the laundry expenses of working-uniform or clothing can be partially deducted or rebated from the personal income tax, if the organization for which the person works does not have a laundry department or an outsourced commercial laundry.

In September 2007, Glen A. Larson appeared in a personal video for Knightcon 07 in the UK.

Examples of defined contribution pension schemes in other countries are, the UK ’ s personal pensions and proposed National Employment Savings Trust ( NEST ), Germany ’ s Riester plans, Australia ’ s Superannuation system and New Zealand ’ s KiwiSaver scheme.

The term ' John Doe Injunction ' ( or John Doe Order ) is used in the UK to describe an injunction sought against someone whose identity is not known at the time it is issued :" 8. 02 If an unknown person has possession of the confidential personal information and is threatening to disclose it, a ' John Doe ' injunction may be sought against that person.

In reality, Richard's personal interaction with The Beatles occurred over a few days in early 1963, when The Beatles were second bill to Richard at several UK performances.

In the European Union, even if a Member State provides for the possibility of a legal person to be the original rightholder ( such as is possible in the UK ), then the duration of protection is in general the same as the copyright term for a personal copyright: i. e., for a literary or artistic work, 70 years from the death of the human author, or in the case of works of joint authorship, 70 years from the death of the last surviving author.

This caused the element gīsl = " hostage " in many old Germanic personal names, and thus in placenames derived from personal names, for example Isleworth in west London ( UK ) from Anglo-Saxon Gīslheres wyrð (= " enclosure belonging to man called Gīslhere ").

The 1971 release " I Am ... I Said " was a Top 5 hit in both the US and UK, and was his most intensely personal effort to date, taking upwards of four months to complete.

On 13 December, Smolensky and production director Mike Penny resigned as directors of Blackpool Automotive, being replaced by Smolensky UK personal assistant Roger Billinghurst and 25-year-old Austrian Angelco Stamenkov.

In the UK, the Monarch has numerous theoretical personal prerogatives.

Due to the huge popularity of the show when shown in the UK in the late 1980s, the British Prisoner fan club organised successful personal appearance tours for several actresses, including Val Lehman ( Bea Smith ), Carol Burns ( Franky Doyle ), Betty Bobbitt ( Judy Bryant ), Sheila Florance ( Lizzie Birdsworth ), Amanda Muggleton ( Chrissie Latham ) and Judy McBurney ( Pixie Mason ).

As of June 2011, total personal debt in the UK stood at £ 1, 451bn.

After much radio exposure and a successful UK tour with Stone, Bowlly was inundated with demands for personal appearances and gigs — including undertaking a subsequent solo UK tour-but continued to make the bulk of his recordings with Noble.

Her personal charisma, reputation for plain speaking and her fight against a brain tumour led her to be perceived by many as one of the most popular " New Labour " politicians in the UK.

The UK allows a few of these as personal reliefs.

The show was largely responsible for putting the word minder, meaning personal bodyguard, into the UK and Australian popular lexicon.