New official figures show that over the last year more than half-a-million more people are now in work, bringing employment to a new record high of 31.4 million, along with the revelation that the UK has an employment rate of 74% – the highest ever recorded. This growth has been driven by a rise in full-time jobs. Wages […]
Moorhouse Group – a leading commercial insurance broker – aims to double in size over the next three years and had considered outsourcing work to South Africa. Funding support of £550,000 from the Welsh Government has now secured the investment which will go ahead in Caerphilly. Moorhouse Group offers its services across the UK and […]
West Midlands lawyers are being asked to help promote awareness of new competition law compliance materials to their business clients. Over 130 law firms headquartered in the West Midlands will be contacted by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and encouraged to share the CMA’s easy-to-use competition law information with their small and medium-sized enterprise […]
The Department for Energy and Climate Change has given the go ahead for a new electric line connection, which will form a major part of the infrastructure needed for the transmission of electricity from Hinkley Point C nuclear power station. Hinkley will kick start new nuclear in the UK, providing financial and energy security for […]
UKTI is to be at the centre of a new approach to boosting British exports, and overseeing and co-ordinating export performance. A new whole-of-government approach to boosting British exports delivered through a transformed, UK Trade and Investment (UKTI), focused on priority markets and sectors, has been announced by Trade Minister Lord Maude. UKTI will be […]
Camden Council has called for plans for Crossrail 2 to join up with a redevelopment of the current Euston Station in its response to the National Infrastructure Commission’s Call for Evidence. The Council asks for the Commission to recommend to the Secretary of State for Transport and the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the process […]
Councils need to improve further the way they manage major projects like schools, roads, housing and flood prevention, says the Accounts Commission. Over the last three years councils spent £7 billion on capital investment – more than half of Scottish public sector capital expenditure. Between April 2012 and October 2015 councils completed 149 projects and […]
The latest Small Business Index (SBI) from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) for Q4 2015 shows a growing gap in confidence between businesses in Scotland, North East England and Wales and those in the Midlands and the South of England. While there is good news for the UK as a whole in terms of […]
Updata Infrastructure, part of Capita IT Enterprise Services, has been awarded a four year, £20m framework agreement by Norfolk County Council to enhance network services across the region including in council buildings, schools and libraries. The first contract under the framework, worth £10m, will see Updata install and manage wide area network (WAN), local area […]
Iran has received extensive economic and financial sanctions relief as a result of meeting its obligations under the nuclear deal agreed on 14 July 2015, meaning the country is now able to trade more freely. On 16 January Implementation Day was triggered following the verification by the International Atomic Energy Agency of Iran meeting its […]
