Partnerships UK (PUK), which is to emerge from the privatisation of the Treasury’s private finance initiative (PFI) task force, will handle a third of all future PFI deals.
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Partnerships UK (PUK), which is to emerge from the privatisation of the Treasury’s private finance initiative (PFI) task force, will handle a third of all future PFI deals.
Professor Daniel Jones, director of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre at Cardiff Business School and co-author of the influential The Machine that Changed the World and Lean Thinking, has written a persuasive foreword to this book.
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The Ministry of Defence has announced that food for the armed forces will be sourced in the UK wherever possible. The MoD’s food contractor buys 1,000 of the forces’ 1,300 food items from UK companies. Stocks of beef are so low in the UK that some must be sourced abroad, but the MoD and farming representatives are working to maximise the amount from the UK.
The Buying Agency is to be the first of three executive agencies to join the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), the organisation being set up next month to oversee central government procurement.
UK haulage firms need to be more energy efficient, a survey by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions has revealed. Only half of lorry capacity is being used and energy savings could be made by cutting the amount of time refrigerated trailers spent loaded and stationary, it said. The study measured 46 road logistics firms against five key performance indicators.
The 10 per cent cut in prices expected to follow implementation of the Reform of Electricity Trading Arrangements (Reta) is “conservative”, Anna Walker, director-general for energy at the Department of Trade and Industry, told a recent Energy Information Centre (EIC) conference in London.
Scotland’s new parliament will show its hand on industrial strategy on 14 June with the launch of an action plan to develop “clusters” of companies in key sectors. A semiconductor plan will be followed by strategies for food, biotechnology and, possibly, oil and gas.
Gas shippers and suppliers are among five sectors most at risk from a failure to deal with the millennium bug problem. Sir John Bourn, head of the government’s millennium task force, gave the suppliers a “red rating”, which indicates a severe risk of material disruption.
The first major hospital developed under the private finance initiative (PFI) has probably worked out to be more expensive than if public money had been used, the National Audit Office (NAO) has reported.