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Reading Time | < 1 min 21 Mar 2012

What they said about the Comprehensive Spending Review

Reading Time • < 1 minThe response to the Comprehensive Spending Review was, of course, mixed with some condemning the severity of the cuts while others applauded the boldness and approach to the announcements. Here is an early flavour of the announcements, including those on Twitter, to the Speech...
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Reading Time | < 1 min 21 Mar 2012

Comprehensive Spending Review: training and higher education

Reading Time • < 1 minThe coalition government has made much of the need to re-balance the economy in the run-up to the spending review.
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Reading Time | 2 mins 21 Mar 2012

Comprehensive Spending Review: an outline summary

Reading Time • 2 minsSpending reviews have been part of the governmental landscape since the late 1990s, but none have garnered quite the anticipation of the one which the Coalition government has just delivered.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 21 Mar 2012

Help for smaller firms to cut their carbon emissions

Reading Time • < 1 minThe Carbon Trust Standard has made it easier and more cost effective for the UK's SMEs to cut their carbon footprints and to reduce their energy costs.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 21 Mar 2012

VAT rise cost businesses as much as decrease

Reading Time • < 1 minThe cost to business of the increase in VAT to 17.5 per cent in January was as high as the earlier drop to 15 per cent, a new survey has found.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 21 Mar 2012

Chancellor confirms Pre-Budget Report to be dropped

Reading Time • < 1 minThe government is to axe this year's pre-Budget Report.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 21 Mar 2012

Business shows support for spending cuts

Reading Time • < 1 minThe heads of some of the largest companies in the UK have given their backing for the government's planned spending cuts.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 21 Mar 2012

MEPs urged to vote down new maternity leave rules

Reading Time • < 1 minA leading business group has called on the European Parliament to reject plans to extend maternity leave on full pay to 20 weeks.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 21 Mar 2012

Recession drives growth in start-up firms

Reading Time • < 1 minHuge numbers of businesses have sprung in the aftermath of the recession, a new study has revealed.
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