Is the government really guilty of wasting billions on consultants and outsourcing companies?
Some see an ‘ideological obsession’ on the part of ministers and their advisors with using the private sector, rather than the public sector to deal...
Category : Business
The Issa brothers ought to have got their ducks in a row before they moved to buy Asda
The city’s nostrils are twitching – why did Deloitte quit the Issa brothers just as they were acquiring the supermarket? Something doesn’t smell right, writes...
Confusion and uncertainty reign as pubs and bars grapple with the prospect of more local lockdowns
Hospitality staff tell Ben Chapman of fear and fatigue over talk of local lockdowns...
John Lewis to become major housebuilder in £300m overhaul
Partnership plans to build homes at 20 of its sites across the UK...
Pret a Manger to cut 400 more jobs as coronavirus restrictions tighten
Coffee and sandwich chain axes staff just two months after making 2,800 redundancies...
‘Grim beyond belief’: Serco profits to surge as Test and Trace records worst ever week
Outsourcing firm expects bumper revenues as Covid-19 case numbers surge and millions of people face tougher lockdown conditions that threaten thousands of jobs...
Taxpayers lost billions to fraud thanks to ‘astonishing’ lack of pandemic planning, MPs say
Hastily assembled measures may have caused huge losses, says Public Accounts Committee...
Business leaders call on the government to make ethnicity pay reporting mandatory – it should listen
A diverse, fairly compensated workforce offers firms different perspectives that should help them better serve customers and profit from them. This is an open goal...
Tesco and Princes reduce catch of yellowfin tuna after warning Indian Ocean stocks now at ‘critical’ level
Big brands vow to reduce purchases from region, as overfishing reduces populations to dangerously low levels...
Ryanair closes Cork and Shannon bases after row with Irish government
Exclusive: Airline boss tells Grant Shapps ‘We need predictability. We can’t have this flip-flopping policy’...