The Chancellor’s 2012 Budget has revealed the plans for a further shake up of the public sector.
Figures from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) reveal that public sector job cuts will be even more severe than originally forecast. In addition, the government has announced controversial proposals for the ending…
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, claims that his 2012 Budget was ‘an advertisement for investment and jobs in Britain’ but within the business community, there was a somewhat mixed reaction to his boast.
There was certainly no direct extension of plans to help reduce unemployment; the Youth Contract…
The European Union has launched an extensive consultative process to examine the issue of the gender imbalance in the boardroom.
In the ‘Women in Economic Decision Making in the EU: Progress Report’, published by the Justice Commission earlier this month, it was reported that progress to redress the gender imbalance…
According to the British government, the uncertainty around Scotland’s future as part of the United Kingdom is harming investment in the Scottish economy.
The Scottish Government has announced that it will hold a referendum in Autumn 2014 on the question of independence from the rest of the UK. However this…
The ongoing drive for efficiency and increasing pressure to lower costs is shaping the recruitment landscape in central government. As a result the market is seeing several continuing developments.
Many departments are acknowledging that skills of people within their departments are not always aligned correctly to the new and increased…
2011 was a year shaped by efficiency drives and cost savings. In particular we noted:
• Tighter controls and funding cuts led to increased opportunities for project managers and business analysts.
• The reliance on information technology combined with a reducing candidate pool created almost continual demand for technical architects.…
A year of being at the forefront of many news stories, we are seeing change at almost every level of Central Government. As the demand for change leads to a focus on transformation, we are seeing a supporting increase in project management roles.
Critical to the success of government policy…
Worth £100bn a year and larger than the UKs utilities or agriculture industries, the internet boom is due to create 365,000 jobs in the next five years. At 6% of our countries entire GDP, such a large economy needs a robust approach to protection and security in order to prosper.…
The UK government has announced £950m worth of grants to businesses in order to help the creation and maintenance of more than 200,000 jobs.
Announcing the grants, Prime Minister David Cameron spoke of an “all-out mission” to help get the economy moving.
The grants to English businesses fall within the…
Thousands of public sector jobs should be moved to Liverpool, according to one of the most prominent members of the House of Lords.
Former secretary of state Lord Heseltine has written a report with Terry Leahy, former CEO of Tesco, investigating how to boost the economy in the north west.…
