Sentences with phrase «pilot scheme»

A pilot scheme is a small trial or test run of a new project or idea before implementing it on a larger scale. It helps assess if something will be successful or effective before committing fully to it. Full definition
The move follows the conclusion of a successful pilot scheme in its dispute resolution practice.
But the roll - out has been delayed three times and is now only available under a small number of pilot schemes.
It is a six - month pilot scheme and applicants will be asked not to respond to the messages.
The post's due to be advertised in the next few weeks, and will run as a five - year pilot scheme when more farming minister positions will be created if necessary.
Pilot schemes offering psychological assessments to patients with physical health problems cut hospital admissions by 75 per cent, early results show.
It was a defamation claim proceeding under the defamation costs pilot scheme.
The first pilot schemes in the rollout of the coalition's benefit reforms are beginning today, but are facing criticism for not testing the way families will be affected.
The prime minister is launching the search for 11,000 teenagers to take part in 12 pilot schemes across the country.
Hundreds of schools will be given a single point of contact for help with pupils with mental health problems in a # 3.2 m pilot scheme announced by the government.
These challenges are daunting and it will take time to develop new strategies, governance arrangements and pilot schemes so as to evaluate the costs and benefits of each option.
That was the action where the claimant substantially exceeded the approved budget in a defamation pilot scheme case.
Postal voters in the scandal - hit London borough of Tower Hamlets are to be closely monitored as part of new pilot schemes designed to stamp out electoral fraud, a government minister has said.
The costs budgeting pilot scheme run by HHJ Simon Brown QC in the Birmingham Mercantile Court and Technology and Construction Court (TCC) since 2009 was extended to all TCC and Mercantile Courts from October 2011 (see Practice Direction 51G).
As a result, Chan stated that he and the head of the PBOC Shenzhen Central Sub-Branch, Xing Yujing, both agreed that mainland China and Hong Kong should «consider embarking on pilot schemes» in order to assist with «the process of the nation's reform and opening - up.»
Three year - long pilot schemes allowing Department of Justice lawyers to volunteer at legal clinics in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario have received official approval.
A new 12 - month pilot scheme aims to speed up processing patent applications in the UK and the US.
Several countries now provide take - home naloxone (THN) to opioid users for emergency use, but mostly as pilot schemes and without formal evaluation.
The three pilot schemes took place in southern England, Greater Manchester, and Glasgow and East Ayrshire.
Three year - long pilot schemes allowing Department of Justice lawyers to volunteer at legal clinics in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario received official approval in March.
After piloting this scheme, it's being rolled out to include summer associates too.
The culture, media and sport secretary told Conservative delegates in Birmingham pilot schemes would take place next year before the first finals take place in the Olympic Park.
After a successful pilot scheme involving local authorities in Newham, Durham and Wolverhampton, the decision was made to allocate # 2.30 per pupil per meal, # 150 million in capital funding and transitional funding of # 22.5 million to roll out the scheme nationwide.
As His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC, who has already piloted the scheme in Birmingham, has said: «judges seek the Holy Grail that will give them just 10 key documents in any case and not require them to find the proverbial needle in a haystack.»
These fellowships follow our successful Pilot scheme in the North West and are generously supported by Arts Council England.
Philanthropists back pilot scheme launched by the Art Fund with Thomas Dane Gallery to share artists» films with the nation.
The shortcomings of the original US pilot scheme suggest further problems, such as effects on motivation and increasing financial instability, they argue.
Modelled on what the pair claim is a weak US pilot scheme, the plan, known as the commissioning for quality and innovation framework (CQUIN), is being tested in the NHS North West region, where hospitals in the top two performing quartiles are offered four per cent and two per cent increases in tariff payments.
Longer - term spending cuts The government is also reviewing all spending decisions and pilot schemes approved since the start of the year, including a number of school building and transport projects.
The CFO of mobile payments firm Square has explained why the company launched a bitcoin pilot scheme.
# 28m in three new housing pilot schemes — in the West Midlands, Manchester and Liverpool — to halve rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminate it by 2027.
Children under - 18 whose claims for asylum have been refused could be sent back to their country of origin under a new Home Office pilot scheme.
Dr Tim Pearce reflects on the success of the first 12 months of the SRA's alternative working pilot scheme
A two - year pilot scheme starting from Oct 1 will extend wage support to workers switching to careers not already covered by the Professional Conversion Programme.
Churches involved in the August pilot scheme have not yet been selected.
During the summer, contactless payment terminals were passed around with traditional collection plates at approximately 40 Church of England congregations, as part of a separate pilot scheme.
Other actions include introducing a funeral bond pilot scheme to assist savers, publishing guidance on funeral costs by December 2018, and strengthening consumer protection on funeral plans.
Tesco has been selected to pilot the scheme despite being at the centre of the horse meat scandal just four years ago, in which burgers being sold as «beef» actually contained mince made from horses.
He said that the Rawlings administration even piloted the scheme in some districts but was not able to fully implement the policy because it lost the 2000 elections.
These range from a cultural disconnect between political servants at all levels and the public, a failure to set up proper pilot schemes and talk to those tasked with implementation, group - think, pre-judgements and unquestioned assumptions.
Initially more than # 14 million was awarded to ten areas for initial pilot schemes; Bristol, Cambridge, Durham, Manchester, Shrewsbury, Tyne and Wear and the West Midlands.
The secretary of state for transport Douglas Alexander explains where the government stands so far on road pricing, ahead of local government pilot schemes.
The Department for Transport worked with local authorities across England on road pricing pilot schemes, the intention being to use evidence from these as the basis of any national decision.
Defra will fund # 1.5 million over three years to support pilot schemes, but local authorities must meet the start - up costs - estimated at # 100,000 to # 200,000 a year - and running costs of # 500,000 a year.
Scottish education secretary Fiona Hyslop announced today pilot schemes involving 35,000 children aged between five and seven years had been a success, increasing overall uptake of meals from 53 per cent to 75 per cent.
But in the ABC4Trust pilot scheme, each child is issued with a «deck» of digital certificates that validate information like their enrollment status, their date of birth and so on.
A small technical pilot scheme has been planned in Trondheim, as well as a larger demonstration project next year involving 200 electric cars on the road between Oslo and Kongsberg.
Now an international research consortium is planning a similar pilot scheme for Pompeii.
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