HM Income and Customs (HMRC) has sacked 179 workers for gross misconduct in 2024, the best quantity in not less than 5 years, in accordance with information obtained by way of a freedom of knowledge request.This represents a 43% improve from 2020 when 125 workers had been dismissed...
The UK is presently badly off monitor to fulfill the brand new authorities's 100 per cent clear energy by 2030 goal, with a brand new evaluation suggesting photo voltaic and wind initiatives are on track to account for lower than half of electrical energy era by the tip...
Biffa Waste Companies Ltd has launched a authorized case to reclaim roughly £200 million from Scottish ministers, citing vital losses from investing within the authorities’s aborted bottle recycling scheme.The corporate’s authorized crew has filed a case on the Court docket of Session, Scotland’s highest civil court docket, looking...
UK wind energy capability breezes previous 30GW milestone
Completion of Viking Wind Farm means UK's mixed onshore and offshore wind capability is now able to powering over 26 million properties, in line with RenewableUK.
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'Complete buildings strategy': SBTI publishes guidelines for constructing sector local weather targets
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Scotland’s final remaining oil refinery at Grangemouth will shut between April and June subsequent 12 months, ensuing within the lack of 400 jobs and leaving the UK with solely a handful of refineries.The closure, introduced by Petroineos—a three way partnership between Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos and PetroChina—comes as...
HS2 has revealed a closing IR35 legal responsibility of £6.2 million in its 2023/24 accounts, following a compliance evaluate by HMRC. This fee concludes the tax obligations underneath the Off-Payroll Working Laws launched in 2017.The evaluate discovered that solely 5% of HS2’s contractors had been labeled as exterior...
A service provider money advance is an alternate finance methodology the place you promote a portion of your future gross sales to your supplier in alternate for a lump sum upfront.On this association, generally referred to...
Raising private equity funds is seen as the holy grail for businesses who want to grow quickly, simply because the strength of capital opens the door for rapid growth.If your business has an innovative product that can disrupt the market as well as strong figures...
The final remaining financial institution in Paddock Wooden, NatWest, has completely closed its department on Station Street, marking the top of all banking companies within the increasing Kent city.This closure follows the earlier exits of HSBC and Barclays, leaving native residents with no devoted financial institution.
Paddock Wooden has...
The Financial institution of England is beneath rising stress to chop rates of interest this week as job vacancies and manufacturing unit output present indicators of a slowing financial system.In line with the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), job vacancies fell by 3.2% in August, with almost 720,000...