The £1.13billion Glasgow and Clyde Valley City Deal will deliver tens of thousands of jobs over the next few decades, but also a great deal of community benefit, and a series of free events will give businesses involved or interested in City Deal contracts more detail. The next of these will take place on 25 […]
Projects valued at £75 million which are funded by government and industry are set to create high-skilled jobs in the auto sector. Five new innovative projects to develop new low carbon and energy efficient technology in the automotive sector have been awarded £75 million of joint government and industry funding to boost jobs and growth […]
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has cleared BT’s anticipated acquisition of EE in a £12.5 billion acquisition that brings together the UK’s largest fixed telecoms business and the UK’s largest mobile telecoms business. BT Group plc (BT) and EE Limited (EE) operate largely in separate areas with BT strong in supplying fixed communications services (voice, broadband and pay TV), EE strong in […]
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has selected the second round of winners of the Defence Growth Partnership (DGP) Innovation Challenge, including 16 contracts with small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In the largest ever Centre for Defence Enterprise-run funding competition, 24 projects have been selected that aim to address the challenges associated with using autonomy and big data […]
Figures published by the European Investment Bank (EIB) show that investment by the EIB in the UK increased to €7.77 billion in 2015, up 10.8% on the previous year’s lending. EIB loans fund vital infrastructure upgrade projects such as important transport links, and new hospitals and schools, as well as boosting UK-based research and development work that contributes […]
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) announces that following a review of its status, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) will continue to remain an Executive Agency of the MOD, but its Trading Fund status will be revoked from April 2017. Since its creation in 2001, Dstl has been at the forefront of national security, working with international […]
Updata Infrastructure, part of Capita IT Enterprise Services, has been awarded a five year contract for the provision of a managed wide area network (WAN) service by Northumbria Police. The contract – which will run until 2021 – will see Updata deliver improved network connectivity and faster access to key applications for police staff across […]
The Trafford-based regeneration consortium Procure Plus is helping North West social housing providers improve the energy efficiency of their homes via a series of photovoltaics (PV) projects totalling £10 million. They are working with a number of housing providers including South Liverpool Homes, Two Castles Housing Association and Northwards Housing to achieve their fuel poverty […]
Finance and Government Business Minister Jane Hutt has welcomed the news that a Welsh company has been awarded €420,000 from the European Commission to bring its expertise to an international project aimed at developing technology that could change the way cancer is treated. The project aims to make a technological breakthrough by developing software to […]
Almost a billion pounds of investment, targeted at support for new mums and the first ever waiting time targets for teenagers with eating disorders, will all be announced by the Prime Minister as he plans to use a keynote speech to take on the taboo of poor mental health and transform services across the country. […]
