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| Oct 2, 2026 | National Audit Office launches review into Capita’s handling of civil service pension scheme | Capita has said the public spending watchdog has launched a review into its administration of the Civil Service Pension Scheme, after admitting its performance “remains below” the standards expected.
The National Audit Office (NAO) has laun... |
| Sep 9, 2026 | Why Labour can’t kick Whitehall’s consultancy habit | Since coming to power, Labour has been vocal about cutting spending on external consultants to save taxpayers money. However, data suggests it has actually moved in the opposite direction, as the private sector shows it is a necessity and n... |
| Aug 25, 2026 | An overly complicated tax system is holding the UK back | Tax simplification should be integral to the government’s growth agenda, writes Adam Frais
Byzantine, Kafkaesque, labyrinthine – descriptions that will be all too familiar to anyone trying to navigate the UK’s infuriating tax system.
Comply... |
| Aug 11, 2026 | Can John Healey deliver Burnham’s make-or-break devolution agenda? | Devolution is Andy Burnham’s preferred growth lever. Maurício Alencar explores how devolution under Chancellor John Healey could save Britain – or destroy it.
In 1998, two of the closest aides of then-chancellor Gordon Brown produced a repo... |
| Aug 10, 2026 | Burnham is wrong. Devolution will only grow Whitehall | Despite promises to streamline, the Civil Service has only grown and grown. Burnham’s devolution will make it worse, says Arthur Reynolds
Labour’s economic vandalism has forced the private sector to cut jobs for 22 months straight. But in a... |
| Jul 31, 2026 | MoD Spreadsheet Exposed 18,500 Afghan Allies to Taliban: No One Will Ever Be Held Accountable For ‘Foreseeable Failure’ | By Joshua Mitchell
Published: Jul 31 2026, 7:36 AM EDT
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| Jul 23, 2026 | UK Power Grid Has No Instruments to Track the Currents That Can Destroy Transformers | By Frederick Rodriguez
Published: Jul 23 2026, 2:48 PM EDT
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| Jul 21, 2026 | Formal Statement by Jingye Steel Co., Ltd. | SHIJIAZHUANG, China, July 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- In relation to the UK Government's compulsory nationalisation of British Steel Limited ('British Steel'), a subsidiary of Jingye Steel Co., Ltd. ('Jingye'), Jingye ... |
| Jul 20, 2026 | Solar Storm Warning Gap May Shrink From Minutes With New Deep-Space CubeSat | By Collin Mercer
Published: Jul 20 2026, 3:14 PM EDT
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| Jul 14, 2026 | Which shadowy MoD figures are blocking London’s secret new town? | With a £4.7bn black hole in defence funding and a 1.5m home building target both likely to test Andy Burnham, could creating a new town on a west London airfield be a welcome revelation for the new PM? If, that is, he can face down a shadow... |
| Jun 7, 2026 | UK MoD Afghan Data Breach: 49 Deaths Confirmed, 24,000 Still Stranded as Resettlement Stalls | By Scott McCain
Published: Jun 07 2026, 05:15 AM EDT
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| May 22, 2026 | The road to growth: Why motorway services are key to EV revolution | Motorway services will be central to the EV transition, but urgent action is needed to unlock grid capacity, writes Tim Gittins
The UK has now passed a significant milestone with more than 2m electric vehicles on the road. It is a powerful ... |
| May 20, 2026 | Taxpayers on the hook over ‘dangerously outdated’ government IT systems | One in four government computer systems are running on outdated technology, a new report has found, with taxpayers having to pay more for failures across Whitehall.
The findings, published by Westminster think tank Re:State and supported by... |
| May 7, 2026 | Exclusive: Ajax tank maker handed £12m from MoD despite trial pause | The company behind the failed Ajax tank was paid more than £12m in the period trials were paused, City AM can reveal, laying bare the scale of dysfunction inside national defence procurement.
General Dynamics continued to receive taxpayer c... |
| Mar 24, 2026 | NAO: The government’s new Financial Transaction Control Framework needs improvement | The National Audit Office’s new report assesses whether the government’s new Financial Transaction Control Framework offers value for money to the taxpayer, says Rachel Fenn
The government plans to increasingly use financial transactions (F... |
| Mar 19, 2026 | UK to raise steel tariffs in bid to ‘save domestic production’ | The UK government has reduced steel import quotas and raised tariffs to 50 per cent outside unit limits as part of a strategy to save the industry, an “bold” move that is likely to draw criticism from economists and opposition groups.
Quota... |
| Feb 5, 2026 | Making Tax Digital set to boost SME productivity | Britain’s push to digitise tax ahead of the Making Tax Digital (MTD) deadline is set to help close its productivity gap with countries like France and Germany, City AM understands.
According to Starling Bank, wider use of digital financial ... |
| Dec 10, 2025 | Asylum seekers’ cost to taxpayer is unknown, public auditor says | The full cost of asylum to the British taxpayer is unknown as the government has not processed data on how much local authorities spend on migrants, the National Audit Office (NAO) has said.
In a broad report mapping out asylum seekers’ jou... |
| Nov 21, 2025 | Reeves vows to halve consultancy bill, but government can’t track its spending | Despite the government setting an ambitious target to halve overall spending on consultants, a new report suggests, the lack of consistent data hinders efforts to track progress toward spending targets.
Rachel Reeves has set targets to halv... |
| Nov 13, 2025 | Reeves’ £28bn wealth fund under fresh scrutiny | Rachel Reeves’ flagship National Wealth Fund has come under scrutiny after an audit identified “weaknesses” in the multi-billion pound vehicle’s risk controls.
An audit of the National Wealth Fund (NWF) pointed to potential failures in the ... |
| Nov 11, 2025 | BBC has no right to taxpayer money if it cannot prove impartiality | Unless the BBC can prove, definitely, that it is unbiased, it has no right to taxpayer money, writes Oliver Dean
The BBC’s latest bias scandal has blown a hole in the last remaining defence of the licence fee. For decades, the corporation’s... |
| Oct 14, 2025 | Meat and coffee prices drive grocery price inflation | Grocery price inflation in the UK passed five per cent in September to its highest level since July after the cost of fresh meat and coffee jumped.
Like-for-like grocery price inflation rose to 5.2 per cent over the four weeks to 5 October ... |
| Sep 10, 2025 | Government urged to rethink digital procurement as ambitions stall | The government’s ongoing ambitions for digital transformation risk grinding to a halt unless it overhauls the way it funds and invests in technology, according to a new report from techUK.
The body’s recent ‘Financing the Future’ study posi... |
| Sep 9, 2025 | Shopper confidence falls as Brits expect food inflation to climb | Surging food inflation has dented Brits’ confidence at supermarkets, with many expecting food prices to climb even further, according to new data.
Inflation at the grocers hit five per cent in the four weeks ended August 10, down from 5.2 p... |
| Aug 19, 2025 | Audit costs for English councils soar as bankruptcies mount | Audit costs for local English councils have more than tripled over the past three years, coinciding with a period in which many councils have fallen into bankruptcy.
A new report by the Audit Reform Lab at the University of Sheffield found ... |
| Aug 10, 2025 | Over 100 civil servants set to be axed in cull of security teams | More than a hundred jobs could be cut from the organisation in charge of vetting people for security clearance as the Government looks to slim down the Civil Service.
The Cabinet Office has proposed reducing the staff at UK Security Vetting... |
| Jun 25, 2025 | The Battle for Al Fresco: A Local Fight with National Implications | In the heart of London, a culinary revolution has been stifled. Northcote Road, once a vibrant hub for dining and socializing, is now a battleground for political ideologies. The Labour-run Wandsworth Council has scrapped a beloved pedestri... |
| Jun 25, 2025 | The Price of Promises: Tax Hikes and Asylum Challenges Loom Over Labour's Ambitions | In the political arena, promises often come with a price tag. The Labour government, under the leadership of Keir Starmer, is making bold commitments. But as the saying goes, every silver lining has a cloud. The recent pledge to ramp up def... |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Borders watchdog casts doubt on Labour pledge to end asylum hotels | The Labour government’s pledge to end the use of hotels for asylum seekers by 2030 has been dismissed as unachievable by the UK’s borders watchdog.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves reiterated at the Spending Review nearly a fortnight ago that the g... |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Absence of defence spending plan ‘entirely unsatisfactory’ | The government has been “entirely unsatisfactory” in failing to assess whether their defence spending plans are affordable, a group of senior MPs has said, in a damning assessment of ministers’ transparency. The row comes amid concerns spen... |
| May 22, 2025 | UK government borrowing blows past estimates on Labour’s spending plans | Government borrowing spiked in April, official data has shown, reflecting Rachel Reeves’s difficulties in controlling public finances.
The rise to £20.2bn in monthly borrowing was more than economists’ prediction of £18bn.
Capital Economics... |
| May 14, 2025 | UK research fund suffering from Labour’s lack of strategy, watchdog says | The government should give the UK’s largest single public fund for scientific and technological research more deadlines and clearer targets in order for projects to succeed, an independent watchdog has said.
The National Audit Office (NAO) ... |
| Apr 14, 2025 | Private school VAT case dragged back into court | The parties involved in legal action over the VAT decision on private schools have been recalled to court for an extra hearing as the government aims to make a report inadmissible.
At the start of the month, three claimant groups faced the ... |
| Mar 17, 2025 | NAO Urges Home Office to Publish Skilled Worker Visa Evaluation | The Skilled Worker visa is the main route for working in the UK, adaptable to economic needs and government policies. However, changes to the route have not been fully assessed and there has been limited collaboration with the Home Office a... |
| Feb 10, 2025 | Is Digital Transforming Driving Up HMRC Tax Collecting Costs? | An increasingly complex tax system, more people paying tax and HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) investing in staff and IT contributed to HMRC’s costs of collecting tax rising by 15% (£563 million) in real terms between 2019-20 and 2023-24, a... |
| Jan 29, 2025 | NAO: UK Government ‘Slow’ to Address ‘Severe’ Cyber Threats | The cyber threat to the UK government is severe and advancing quickly, the National Audit Office (NAO) has found, as it urges the government to act now to protect its own operations and key public services.
The public spending watchdog eval... |
| Jan 22, 2025 | Supply Chain Butler Revolutionizes How Healthcare Problems Are Solved | Supply Chain Butler eliminates inefficiencies, reduces costs, and delivers innovative solutions to transform healthcare systems.
Supply Chain Butler eliminates inefficiencies, reduces costs, and delivers innovative solutions to transform he... |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Hurry up HS2, the diggers are coming | Time is short for the government on HS2. That’s been the message this week as politicians and executives gather at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool.
Two key stories have emerged over the last couple of days in the Times and Telegrap... |
| Sep 3, 2024 | Defra to Invest £150M in Hosting and Storage Technologies | The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has issued a notice to suppliers and contractors about a proposed £150m-plus deal for “innovative and cost-effective solutions” for hosting and storage technologies.
Among the se... |
| Jul 19, 2024 | Enhancing Cybersecurity Communication in Healthcare: Insights from Recent Breaches | The healthcare industry is facing a growing threat from cyber incidents, as evidenced by a staggering 93% increase in large breaches reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights between 2018 and 2022. Recent cyberattacks on major healthcare ... |
| Jul 15, 2024 | WannaCry Wasn’t Enough: Why Healthcare Still Struggles with Cybersecurity Communication | Mike Walters, President & co-founder of Action1 Corporation
According to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), cyber incidents in health care are on the rise. From 2018-2022, there has been a 93% increase in large breaches reported to ... |
| Jul 12, 2024 | The failures of the last government mean Labour had no good prisons options | Frequent headlines about crises in our public services have begun to lose their bite. But the situation in prisons is so severe that it threatens the functioning of the whole criminal justice system. Court hearings have already been delayed... |
| Jun 7, 2024 | 4G “Unlikely” to be Extended to 95% of U.K. by End of 2025, Causing Issues for Rural Businesses | The U.K. government’s target of extending 4G coverage to 95% of the country by December 2025 is looking unlikely, according to a report from the House of Commons. Businesses and individuals in rural areas will be most impacted by the failur... |
| May 2, 2024 | Is AI the Catalyst for Public Sector Change? | In an era where the digitisation of public services is no longer a luxury but a necessity, progress depends on effectively leveraging data insights. Digitisation holds greater significance now as the Spring Budget highlights the government’... |
| Apr 23, 2024 | Rwanda plan: Why can’t the government devote legislative time to anything else? | Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda plan finally passed late last night, two-and-a-bit torturous years after his predecessor, Boris Johnson, first floated the idea of sending asylum seekers to the East African nation.
It’s taken the passing of a previous ... |
| Feb 22, 2024 | £1bn Rural Network Rollout Faces Delays | A recent report by the National Audit Office (NAO) shows that progress on the initiative, known as the Shared Rural Network (SRN), has been slower than anticipated.
The SRN launched in March 2020 with the ambitious goal of achieving 95% 4G ... |
| Feb 9, 2024 | House of Lords report provides clear direction for regulatory reform | The committee rightly focusses on getting some basics right
The IRC sensibly argues that regulators should be given better prioritised objectives, with clarity from government as to how these are to be balanced. It is also fair in saying th... |
| Feb 2, 2024 | Defra moves forward in legacy IT replacement | Last year, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) claimed that Defra had no intentions of replacing or modernising legacy systems.
However, the department responded that it had already switched 30 legacy systems to modern alternatives in recen... |
| Jan 12, 2024 | Six lessons government should learn from the Post Office scandal | Post Office Ltd is a public corporation. This means that it has greater autonomy from government than most public bodies, and its board is responsible for its operations. But the government is its sole shareholder and agrees its business pl... |
| Dec 11, 2023 | FCA Slow to Take Crypto Enforcement Action, UK's Public Spending Watchdog Says | The U.K's Nationa Audit Office said the country's financial regular is slow to take enforcement action against companies breaking rules.
It highlighted the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) delays in registering crypto firm... |
| Jul 17, 2023 | National Audit Office Launches Review of FCA | The National Audit Office (NAO) has launched an investigation of Financial Conduct Authority’s effectiveness and ability to manage a growing list of responsibilities, including the overseeing of online fraud, crypto and risks surrounding ar... |
| Jul 17, 2023 | National Audit Office launches probe into FCA as regulator sizes up crypto and AI | The National Audit Office (NAO) has launched a probe into the functions of the the Financial Conduct Authority, as the regulator’s remit swells to take on oversight of technologies like cryptoassets and artificial intelligence. |
| Jul 14, 2023 | ‘Disastrous’ Stonehenge Road Tunnel Gets Go-Ahead From U.K.’s Transport Secretary | Traffic passes along the busy A303 that currently runs besides the ancient neolithic monument of ... [+] Stonehenge near Amesbury, Wiltshire, England. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| Jul 13, 2023 | UK Government Criticized Over Use OF AI To Evaluate Benefits Claims | A Jobcentre Plus branch in Glasgow, run by the UK Department for Work and Pensions.getty |
| Jul 12, 2023 | DWP Widening Use of Anti-fraud Tech Amid Concerns From Campaign Groups | In a recent National Audit Office (NAO) report concerning the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) financial accounts, it has come to light that the DWP is expanding its use of machine learning for identifying potential benefits fraud.
Si... |
| Jul 1, 2023 | Understanding common internet-facing footholds exploited by bad actors | Ransomware remains a persistent threat with real-world consequences, with the ability to halt business operations, and cause significant reputational and financial damage.
Ransomware incidents have gained the attention of the general public... |
| Jun 24, 2023 | Statistics Paint ‘Vivid’ Picture Of England’s Emergency Care Crisis | A paramedic is seen by a line of ambulances outside the Royal London Hospital in east London on ... [+] January 5, 2021. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images |
| Jun 13, 2023 | Making Tax Digital Scheme Five Times Over Budget, Says NAO | The recently published report, Progress with Making Tax Digital, which digs into the efforts surrounding the development of the scheme, outlines that it’s now costing £1.3 billion up from the initial forecast of £226 million.
Making Tax Dig... |
| May 26, 2023 | Gartner: Global Government IT Spending to Grow Around 8% in 2023 | In response to various factors resulting in both worldwide and localised turmoil and pressures — from inflation to the tech talent shortage — the research firm has predicted that government IT spending will rise to a total of $589.8 billion... |
| Dec 8, 2022 | NAO Investigation Reveals Gov Department Using Outdated Tech | Across the whole of government, legacy systems have become an increasingly large pain point, creating inefficiencies and major constraints to improving and modernising systems.
An investigation by the NAO has revealed that Defrea – a govern... |
| Aug 17, 2022 | Challenge Launched To UK's GPS Monitoring Of Migrants | Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images Getty Images |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Guardian: в Великобритании будут использовать умные часы для наблюдения за преступниками-иностранцами | Министерство внутренних дел и Министерство юстиции Великобритании будут требовать от осуждённых за преступления мигрантов фотографироваться до пяти раз в день при помощи умных часов с функцией распознавания лиц, сообщает Guardian. В мае пра... |
| Mar 14, 2022 | How Aberdeen City Council is Transforming Services with Technology | The onset of the coronavirus pandemic promoted a rapid acceleration in digital transformation as organisations pivoted to adopt new technologies and adapt to a remote world.
Throughout this period the strain of the pandemic placed enormous ... |
| Mar 9, 2022 | Senior civil servants don't understand IT needs before signing contracts | Engaging commercial partners on major IT projects is "problematic on all sides," as most senior civil servants don't completely grasp the needs of projects before signing contracts.
That's according to Yvonne Gallagher, ... |
| Feb 11, 2022 | IR35: NAO says HMRC is over-collecting tax from the public sector | The HMRC is under fire after a damning report from the National Audit Office (NAO) found that the agency is collecting more tax than it is due.
According to the report, HMRC has not been informing contractors that they could be entitled to ... |
| Feb 10, 2022 | Spending watchdog finds £845m of errors in government modelling | Financial modelling company Gridlines is calling for transparency around how business critical government models are created and used.
National Audit Office finds spreadsheet errors of £800m and £45m in two financial models that had not bee... |
| Aug 2, 2021 | 4 Key Constraints Preventing Healthcare from Proper Cybersecurity | Seth Carmody, VP of Regulatory Strategy at MedCrypt
Healthcare was created to help people. So why is this industry the most heavily targeted by cybercriminals and ransomware attacks?
In the first half of 2020 alone, the Department of Health... |
| Dec 18, 2020 | The impact of Covid on machine learning and data science in UK banking | By David Bholat (Advanced Analytics), Mohammed Gharbawi and Oliver Thew (Fintech Hub).footnote [1]
We conducted a survey of banks to understand the impact of the Covid-19 (Covid) pandemic on their use of machine learning (ML) and data scien... |
| Nov 12, 2020 | Stonehenge Road Tunnel Gets Go-Ahead Despite UNESCO Saying It Would Trash ‘Outstanding Universal Value’ Of Wider Ritual Landscape | Traffic passes Stonehenge on the A303 road in Wiltshire, as Highways England is holding a public ... [+] consultation on its plans for putting the A303 into a 1.8-mile (2.9km) dual carriageway tunnel where it passes the ancient stone circle... |
| Oct 21, 2020 | Europe Predictions 2021: Digital Acceleration In Financial Services | In Forrester’s 2021 Banking and Insurance Predictions, we outline two areas that can benefit from technology-driven innovation in particular: fraud and claims management. |
| Oct 7, 2020 | British Business Bank Comments on Bounce Back Loans and NAO Investigation | The British Business Bank has issued a response to a review by the National Audit Office Investigation into the Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS).
The British Business Bank notes that the report highlights that the Bounce Back Loan scheme has ... |
| Jul 16, 2020 | Stonehenge Tunnel Decision Delayed Thanks To Fresh Archeological Discoveries | Traffic passes Stonehenge on the A303 road in Wiltshire. (Photo by Steve Parsons/PA Images via Getty ... [+] Images)PA Images via Getty Images |
| Mar 8, 2020 | FOI: UK Gambling Commission Financial Sanctions Spending Evaluation | According to the results from a freedom of information request /FOI/ submitted to the UK Gambling Commission by the Gambling Business Group /GBG/, the strategic voice of the gaming industry, the commission has collected a total of £58.9 mil... |
| Mar 5, 2019 | Report by National Audit Office Criticises UK Gov Verify Service | The UK Government’s flagship identity verification scheme has been heavily criticised by the National Audit Office for failing to reach user targets.
In a report published this week, the NAO says Gov.UK Verify has only reached 3.6 million u... |
| Jan 24, 2019 | UKCloud now accepts payment cards to enable faster access to sovereign Public Cloud services | UKCloud asserts their Public Cloud credentials by now accepting payment cards to make it easier for any organisation across public and private sector to accelerate their digital transformation.
London – 24th January 2019 – UKCloud, the mult... |
| Nov 2, 2018 | NHS Scotland to Transform Healthcare with New Microsoft Deal | It is believed that this new deal between NHS Scotland and Microsoft will revolutionise healthcare in Scotland. As part of the agreement, the health service will merge more than 100 separate computer systems providing its 161,000 staff acce... |
| Apr 24, 2018 | The 1 percent will continue to get healthier. The 99 percent should, too | Seventy years ago this month, the World Health Organization was created. This milestone offers an opportunity to assess the WHO’s progress toward fulfilling its mandate to promote “health for all.”
Amazing advances have been made during the... |
| Feb 8, 2018 | 200 NHS Trusts Fail Basic Cybersecurity Tests | The Care Quality Commission (CQC) recently subjected the NHS’s cyber security defences to on-site assessments, which all trusts failed to pass. It was found that inadequate patching on IT systems, a core vulnerability targeted by the WannaC... |
| Oct 11, 2016 | Digital Economy Bill: Why the Tories want to police more of the online world | Enlarge
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| Aug 29, 2016 | Could the Blockchain End Bureaucracy? | Alexander Hitchcock is a researcher at Reform, a UK-based think tank where he has authored reports on healthcare, welfare and public procurement.
In this opinion piece, Hitchcock discusses how blockchain technology could be used to fight bu... |
| Aug 8, 2016 | The real scandal is that you still believe TV licence detector vans are real | Central Press/Getty Images reader comments 88 with 53 posters participating
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| May 25, 2016 | National Audit Office investigation finds 3.2m people could have paid the wrong amount of tax | |
| Nov 13, 2015 | Government agrees record £13bn sale of former Northern Rock mortgages as George Osborne says taxpayers will actually make a profit out of the bailout | |
| Jan 23, 2014 | E-Learning Course Could Provide the Solution to the NHS’ Failure to Accurately Record Elective Waiting Times | An e-learning course designed to improve understanding and compliance with the NHS’ 18 Week Referral to Treatment standard could help address elective waiting time issues highlighted in a report published by the National Audit Office today.... |
| Jul 5, 2013 | Satellite Operator Notes Disappointment at UK’s Preoccupation with Terrestrial Broadband | Patrick Biewer, Managing Director of SES Broadband Services, has said today’s criticism of Rural Broadband in the UK by the National Audit Office is overly focussed on terrestrial solutions and says satellite services are now more than capa... |
| May 17, 2013 | How best to spend £30 billion | How best to spend £30 billion
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As the National Audit Office questions the government's case for a second high-speed railway line, perhaps it is time to ask what alternatives there might be, says The Scientific Alliance.
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| Apr 7, 2005 | University used as case study by national construction report | University used as case study by national construction report
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The University of Cambridge's approach to construction of new buildings has been used as an example of good practice in a national report to Government.
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| SMEs awarded more government contracts than ever before – but is it enough? | UK small and medium-sized businesses received £21bn worth of government contracts in 2021/22, equating to around £3.8k per SME, according to figures released by the Cabinet Office.
The contracts covered a breadth of sectors, including publi... |
| Fact checking the government’s new childcare policy | Parents in the UK have been promised a lifeline in September 2025, when the government will extend its 30 hours free childcare offering to all eligible children under five.
Expectant mums and dads, who had been braced for budget-busting fee... |
| Government's flagship digital tax scheme five times over budget and three years late, NAO | Making Tax Digital, the government's flagship programme to digitise the tax system, is facing severe delays and cost overruns, according to a report by the National Audit Office (NAO).
Making Tax Digital (MTD), announced under David Ca... |
| Even if Russia's new military weapons worked, they couldn't have saved its army in Ukraine | Russian T-14 tanks in the Victory Day parade in Moscow's Red Square, May 9, 2016. Reuters
Intelligence reports say Russia's latest weaponry is not as devastating as it might look.
None of Russia's high-tech weapons, even if t... |
| Britain’s defense sector vies for stretched government funding on path to 2.5% | British defense officials are growing quietly concerned that funding may come under pressure ahead of Finance Minister Rachel Reeves’ upcoming Autumn budget.
Maria Eagle, the U.K.’s minister of defense procurement, joined a chorus of voices... |
| HMRC overtime pay skyrockets following staff cuts | Efforts by His Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) to cut staff numbers and automate services have caused its payroll to increase by 2%, as new research suggests the helpline is being forced to pay through the nose for staff to work over... |
| Tackling the problems of the future with today's data: What the Government can do to prepare itself | How can we best use data to reach our goals? This is a question that every business and public sector organization often asks themselves. Data is an incredible asset, and Government has some of the richest data sets available. The potential... |
| The 'COVID-industrial complex' — a web of Big Pharma, Big Tech, and politicians — are profiting off the pandemic at the expense of the public | Protesters protest high drug prices. Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images
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| New UK procurement regulations to support and protect SMEs | New UK procurement rules have become law today, aiming to deliver simpler, more effective public sector procurement and helping SMEs access a greater share of approximately £300bn of expenditure per year.
Procurement is the process of findi... |
