Dundee City Council and the Dundee Partnership have announced the approval of almost £2 million of EU money from the European Social Fund, to support jobless people into work. The funds will be used to support people looking for work, who have been unemployed for some time, or never worked and will help them not […]
Conditions for the UK’s small and medium-sized (SME) businesses stabilised over the past quarter, according to the latest CBI Quarterly SME trends survey, after deteriorating in the previous quarter. The survey of 441 firms reported that total new orders and new domestic orders edged up slightly in the three months to April, while export orders […]
Today sees the first tenants to access housing through Grampian Housing Association’s new choice based lettings system, at Osprey Heights, Inverurie. The Association joined Homehunt North East Scotland (NES) in March to give applicants more choice about where they would like to live. The properties are also the first to be supplied in the North […]
On 3 May APHA and Defra will issue an Official Journal of the European Union notice inviting tenders for a range of animal health and technical support services. Agricultural valuers, poultry catchers, drovers, herders, slaughtermen, marksmen, dart gun operators, carcase disposal and ADR transport services, general transport/haulage providers, incineration and rendering providers and others are […]
More than 10,800 Basildon Council tenants will receive a more efficient and improved service after the Council signed a long-term contract with Morgan Sindall Property Services to maintain and repair the Council’s housing stock and corporate buildings. The £300 million-plus contract integrates all the Council’s major repair and maintenance services enabling a more efficient, customer-focused […]
The budget for Road Maintenance for 2016-17 is to be distributed between the eight Local Area Committees to enable greater local decision making in line with the Highland Council’s localism agenda. The budget for road maintenance contains four main and distinct activities. These are: Revenue for Winter Maintenance Revenue for Cyclic Maintenance, which includes pothole […]
The government has outlined ways the state could use blockchain technology to track payments and provide public services. Minister for the Cabinet Office Matthew Hancock has announced that government will begin looking at blockchain technology as a practical way to improve the efficiency of taxpayer money distributed as grants to agencies and partners for research […]
KPMG Capital Advisory Group has successfully advised UCL (University College London) on a new £280 million long term facility over 30 years, provided by the European Investment Bank (EIB). This round of funding follows an initial £150 million revolving credit facility secured in March 2015, led by HSBC, alongside Barclays, Lloyds and RBS. Both rounds […]
CBI Scotland Director Hugh Aitken will encourage Scottish firms to do more with digital technology at an event with senior business leaders in Dundee. In a speech at Dundee and Angus College, he will reinforce the importance of digital technology by unveiling new IBM/CBI research illustrating that digital is fundamental to the success of firms […]
Public Health England will be holding a 3-day exhibition to unveil outline plans to create a public health science hub at Harlow in Essex. The £400 million project will involve redeveloping the vacant GSK site at the New Frontiers Science Park to create a centre of excellence for research, health improvement and protection. The state-of-the-art […]
