A collection of new £2 coins also honouring Jane Austen have been produced by the Royal Mint .
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Consultation on changing legal gender to be launched 25 July 2017
The UK government is considering plans to make the process of changing legal gender easier, according to a report by BBC News .
Currently, people must be diagnosed with gender dysphoria, a condition where a person's biological sex and identity does not match.
The equalities minister says she wants to reform the 2004 Gender Recognition Act to make the process less intrusive. LGBT campaign group Stonewall says the current system is "demeaning and broken".
The 2004 law says people wanting a change of gender to be legally recognised in the UK need to apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate. This is issued by the Gender Recognition Panel, a judicial body which legally determines what gender an individual defines as.
As well as a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, the person applying must provide evidence that they have been in transition for at least two years.
The most recent figures, for the three months between January and March 2017 , show that 112 people applied to change their gender, with 88% of those being granted the certificate.
The consultation on the 2004 Gender Recognition Act will begin in the autumn.
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Government to announce end of the diesel and petrol car 27 July 2017
Earlier in the month we reported that the future of company cars is electric and hybrid if the UK follows France and according to a report in The Times , it has.
Apparently the government is to announce that sales of new diesel and petrol cars and vans will be banned from 2040 and that new hybrid vehicles that have an electric motor and a petrol or diesel engine will also end.
A similar pledge made by President Macron of France earlier this month in that the sale of vehicles that use an internal combustion engine will be outlawed in France from 2040 as part of a shift towards electric cars. At that time Volvo said that it planned to build only electric and hybrid vehicles from 2019 and the report is also saying that BMW has now announced that its new electric Mini would be assembled in Britain, going into production in 2019.
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Money Laundering Regulations 2017 4 August 2017
Terrorists and criminals will find it harder to move money through the UK financial system thanks to new rules which came into force on 26 June 2017.
The Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 implement the EU 4th Money Laundering Directive and complement work across government to strengthen UK defences and deliver on the 2016 Action Plan for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist finance.
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