UK Technology Minister Ian Murray returned from Canada today with a bold promise: artificial intelligence will save taxpayers ...

Record numbers of Scots children are being admitted to hospital with flu as the country grapples with levels of infection not ...

Health Minister Ashley Dalton said there is no evidence the XFG 'Stratus' variant causes more severe disease, as flu and RSV ...

The 'Stratus' variant was behind a spike in Covid cases in October this year, where more than 3,000 cases were reported in ...

The majority of legal obligations to wear face coverings were removed in July 2021 as England progressed to 'Step 4' of its ...

Fraud and error linked to financial support programmes during the coronavirus pandemic cost UK taxpayers £10.9bn (€12.5bn), a report has found. The authors warned that only £1.8bn has been recovered ...

Covid-19 fraud cost taxpayers £10.9bn but ‘much beyond recovery’, report finds - The final report by the Covid counter fraud commissioner, Tom Hayhoe, found that many schemes were rolled out quickly ...

Pandemic support programmes such as furlough, bounce-back loans, support grants and Eat Out to Help Out led to £10.9bn in ...

Physician and science communicator Kristen Panthagani talks about why public trust in vaccines has fallen since the COVID-19 ...

Councils played a crucial role in delivering targeted economic support to businesses during the covid-19 pandemic.

Planning for any future pandemics must include the impact on the economy, a former Stormont minister has said.

The huge outlay by Whitehall comes on top of the near-£200million cost of the probe itself - a figure that is expected to ...