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The UK arm of the international Westlaw group provides a comprehensive - albeit not free - service, including case outcomes, case reports, journal articles and news and business information, presumably including contract information.
Suppliers to Nissan’s Sunderland plant may still lose out to the French despite Nissan’s announcement last week that the new Micra will be built in the UK. Nissan remains committed to a 30 per cent cost reduction programme by 2003 and up to 75 per cent of the Micra parts could be sourced within the euro-zone.
A National Audit office (NAO) report has suggested that IT orders placed by the Home Office to upgrade the probation service’s computer system may have been illegal.
IT managers have disputed the belief that there is a skills shortage for implementing business-to-business technology software, according to a study by software group BSOFTB. Of the 500 IT directors interviewed by BSOFTB, more than four-fifths said there was no shortage of skills.
Ford of Europe is to raise its online spend to up to a tenth of its purchasing budget - around £700 million - by the year’s end. The move is part of a wider European restructuring to prepare for a three-year overhaul of its product portfolio. Ford will also cut its £700 million logistics spend by 20 per cent.
Ofgem has announced that former energy regulator Stephen Littlechild is to join a new advisory panel to look at gas and electricity regulation. Littlechild was director-general of electricity regulator Offer until 1998, when current Ofgem head Callum McCarthy took over.