Posted: 19th January, 2016
HS2 Ltd is recruiting an independent Construction Commissioner to look into any complaints during the building of Britain’s new high speed rail network. With building work scheduled to start in 2017 on the London to West Midlands leg of HS2, a commissioner is being recruited to impartially investigate any issues that arise during construction of... Read More
Posted: 12th January, 2016
Nearly £22m of grant funding has been awarded to organisations and projects which support vulnerable children, adults and older people by the Welsh Government. The funding has been awarded over three years to a number of organisations supporting children, young people and their families, looked after children and care leavers, older people, people with learning... Read More
Posted: 12th January, 2016
Mental health giant Priory Group has won a 10-year contract from Birmingham City Council to run five residential children’s homes. Due to start in April this year, the deal is expected to be worth around £20 million in revenue over the next five years and up to £40 million for the full term of the... Read More
Posted: 12th January, 2016
Mulalley, a family owned residential developer and construction group, has been appointed as sole provider to undertake all Planned Maintenance and General Improvement Building works for Croydon Council for up to 14 years. The long term contract has a potential value of £210 million. Mobilisation for the programme will commence this month with works starting... Read More
Posted: 14th December, 2015
Nearly 270,000 households have now been helped to purchase a home through government backed schemes including Right to Buy and Help to Buy since 2010. This has been boosted by latest figures showing nearly 3,000 people bought under the Right to Buy scheme between July and September, a 3% increase. And councils received £230 million... Read More
Posted: 14th December, 2015
An online fashion retailer and a Bermondsey company selling ethically-sourced coffee from across the world are just two of the small businesses to receive funding from the Mayor Boris Johnson’s ‘MMC London Fund’. A total of £78million has been invested in 19 of the capital’s small and medium sized businesses, helping them to innovate and... Read More
Posted: 14th December, 2015
Increased digitalisation could boost the Scottish economy by up to £13 billion according to a Deloitte report commissioned by the Scottish Futures Trust. Highlighting the potential economic and social benefits of increased digitalisation, the report concludes that, if Scotland were to become a world leader in digitalisation, Scotland could see an increase in GDP of... Read More
Posted: 14th December, 2015
HS2 Ltd has published a shortlist of firms in the running to win a share of £900m of preparatory work ahead of the start of major civil engineering on the first stage of the project, between London and the West Midlands. The enabling works contracts cover a range of activities including utility diversions, ecology surveys,... Read More
Posted: 7th December, 2015
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has awarded a new Life Science Enterprise Zone to the Greater Manchester Local Enterprise Partnership. The new zone will include two strategic employment sites, Manchester Science Partnerships’ Central Campus and the Clusterlabs site owned by the Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CMFT), both located within Corridor... Read More
Posted: 7th December, 2015
At a special event at Birmingham University on 4 December, a plan to make the Midlands an ‘engine’ of growth was unveiled. The Midlands Engine will be focused on 5 primary themes – skills, innovation, transport, promoting the ‘Engine’, and finance for business. The ‘Engine’ is a product of the coming together of 11 Local... Read More
