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projecting savings in excess of £10 million In a move that represents a first in the public sector, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has transferred its obligations on the surplus leasehold properties it holds to a specialist Leasehold Liability Transfer partner. The Leasehold Liability Transfer is the initiative of BIS and its partner organisation UK Shared Business Services (UK SBS). UK SBS forecasts that the transfer will deliver a 40 per cent…

Calculating the cumulative cost of carbon dioxide emissions gives new insights into the question of who is responsible for climate change. One of the major reasons for the failure of the 2009 Climate Convention Conference in Copenhagen was the issue of carbon debt. Developed countries called for emission reductions in developing countries, while the latter use the former’s historical emissions, their carbon debt, as a reason for inaction. An article recently published in Scandinavian Economic…

Public Sector Spend of £51 billion almost double that of UK Commercial Sector With government entities seeking to do more with less, the UK public sector is spending almost twice as much on outsourcing as the commercial sector, a new study by Information Services Group (ISG) (NASDAQ:III), a leading technology insights, market intelligence and advisory services company, has found. New ISG research reveals that the total contract value (TCV) of public sector outsourcing agreements reached…