The regulators provided their respective updates, mainly reporting on progress made toward removing references to or reliance upon credit ratings from government regulations.

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Actually, you've probably got better things to do, but the Treasury promised today that it was assessing the Silk commission's recommendations and "will be reporting on progress in due course".

BBC: What does George Osborne's Budget mean for Wales?

Commissioners will be responsible for appointing the chief constable of their force, setting out local policing priorities, reporting annually on progress, and setting out the force budget and community safety grants.

BBC: Police on jacket

In his role as PCC, Mr Lloyd will replace the Greater Manchester Police Authority and be responsible for appointing the chief constable of the region's force, setting local policing priorities, reporting annually on progress, and setting out the force budget and community safety grants.

BBC: Tony Lloyd

Since the World Education Forum in Dakar (2000) UNESCO has been publishing the annual Global Monitoring Report for EFA. While the Report has an annual agenda for reporting progress on each of the six EFA goals, each edition also adopts a particular theme, chosen because of its central importance to the EFA process.

UNESCO: Education For All

Report regularly and contribute to reporting by the Office on progress of activities for which he is responsible, in accordance with established procedures.

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The lack of progress on reforms and the reporting of price-sensitive information from companies like San Miguel through the media rather than the stock exchange is likely to deter all but the most courageous of investors.

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While the idea of reporting on CSR initiatives and housing all the reports on one online portal has the dual promise of benchmarking progress by providing transparent and comparative data, as well as spurring competitive participation, making the exercise mandatory simply pushes reluctant conglomerates into a numbers game.

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