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. […]
Pioneering defence procurement discussions will be held at DPRTE 2016 (on 16 March at Cardiff Motorpoint Arena) as UK Defence Solutions Centre (DSC) joins the DPRTE Innovation Hub. Here, DSC Executive Director of Innovation, Paul Winstanley, tells BiP reporter Domhnall
A new school has become the first of 12 projects to reach financial close after getting the go ahead by Deputy First Minister John Swinney The new £25m Ayr Academy in South Ayrshire, being built under the hub funding model, will now begin construction later this month. Mr Swinney gave the green light for ten […]
Prime Minister David Cameron is set to announce that some of the country’s most run-down housing estates will be replaced with attractive and safe homes. As part of a new line of measures to end poverty and improve the life chances of the most disadvantaged, the UK government will work with 100 housing estates across the […]
A new programme to initially help more than 5,900 people recovering from substance misuse and mental health conditions into employment will be set up in Wales thanks to a multi-million pound EU funding boost. The £7.2m programme, which includes more than £4.8m from the European Social Fund through the Welsh Government, aims to support more […]
The Department for Work and Pensions has strengthened its oversight and management of contracted-out health and disability assessments, but it has not yet achieved value for money according to a report from the National Audit Office. The Department uses health and disability assessments to help decide if people are eligible for benefits or to help […]
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has arrived in Tokyo for important talks on deepening the security and defence partnership between the UK and Japan. North Korea’s recent nuclear test, which has prompted widespread international condemnation and heightened tensions in the Far East, will be top of the agenda. In the second Japan-UK Foreign and Defence Ministerial […]
Leading British businesses, engineers and experts will come together in a new national innovation centre in Wales focussed on compound semiconductors, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced bringing vital investment and jobs to the area. On a visit to Cardiff University ahead of a major speech on the UK and Welsh economies, Mr Osborne […]
