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Francis Maude has announced that 192 government quangos are set to be axed, and a further 289 to be reformed.
This morning, Cabinet Office minister Maude published the definitive list of bodies to be scrapped including the Infrastructure Planning Commission and development corporations in the Thames Gateway.
The Homes and Communities Agency …
Public sector funding could be lost to the private sector under mandatory energy efficiency scheme the Carbon Reduction Commitment, a government committee has warned.
Today, the Committee on Climate Change has published recommendations to government on the CRC. It warned that the potential for the public sector and private sector to …
RICS president Robert Peto has today warned of the threat of a second recession led by cuts to public spending.
Speaking today at the Association of Chief Estates Surveyors autumn conference in Newquay, Peto said that property professionals would “find out the future of our lives” at the government’s spending review …
The Ministry of Defence’s property arm Defence Estates has completed a new headquarters for the British Army in Andover in Wiltshire.
Defence Estates has upgraded two buildings at the British Army’s Land Forces site in Wiltshire, to complete an ‘open plan’ working environment. The new site was developed after the integration …
Public property in Scotland should be more centrally managed, better maintained, and run through the Scottish Futures Trust, a key budget report has recommended.
Scotland’s Independent Budget Review Panel says the public sector can better coordinate its investment in property and its disposals programme through setting up a property advisory team …
The Ministry of Justice has entered talks to vacate Lancaster Castle prison and return it to the Queen’s property portfolio, the Duchy of Lancaster.
Yesterday, the ministry announced that it wanted to relocate 238 offenders to another site, because the medieval castle (pictured) is costly and difficult to run as a …
More than half of property people in local authorities are worried about losing their jobs as a result of government spending cuts, a PublicPropertyUK.com survey suggests.
Today, PublicPropertyUK.com and public sector jobs site jobsgopublic.com have published the results of their survey, How will spending cuts affect you and your job?
It reveals …
Staffordshire Police has put the freehold interest of 5,573 sq ft of commercial office space at Crossfields, 35 Cannock Road in Baswich, near Stafford, up for sale.
The 1881 Victorian building formerly accommodated Staffordshire Police until their move to the new Force Headquarters in Stafford. It is located on a 1.68 …
What it is: The Audit Commission has published a report that says the police service could save up to £137m by reducing back office costs, as part of a wider report on how the police can make savings in the face of public sector spending cuts.
When it came out: 20 …
