By John Walker on March 10, 2010
The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer confirmed today that his Budget Report Statement to the House of Commons will occur on Wednesday the 24th March 2010 at 12.30 pm.
news source: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/budget2010.htm
Posted in UK Budget |
By John Walker on March 9, 2010
Barclays has become the first bank in Europe to launch commercial contactless debit cards to its business customers. From March, all Barclays Business customers receiving new or re-issued cards will find that they come with contactless technology as standard. This enables them to pay for low value transactions by holding the card over a reader, [...]
Posted in Debit and Credit Card Merchant Services, Financial Services, Ideas and Innovation, Product Launches, Sales, Technology |
By John Walker on December 9, 2009
The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, introduced a temporary lower rate of VAT in last year’s pre budget report.
There was some speculation that he might have extended this reduction beyond the original term. However, in today’s pre-budget report statement to the House of Commons, he said:
I can confirm that VAT will return to [...]
Posted in Procurement, Professional and Business Services, Sales, Taxation, UK, UK Budget | Tagged Alistair Darling, Chancellor of the Exchequer |
By John Walker on December 6, 2009
British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) Economic Forecast - December 2009
Ahead of the Chancellor’s Pre-Budget Report, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has today published its latest Economic Forecast. The business group, which calls itself “the National Voice of Local Business”, has made downward revisions to its GDP expectations for 2009 and 2010, but is more [...]
Posted in Economic Cycles, Employment Levels, England, Forecasts, Lending and Borrowing, Political and Economic Philosophies, Public Spending and State Aid, Scotland, Taxation, UK Budget, Wales | Tagged British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), capital investment, double-dip recession, GDP, international credit rating, labour market, public spending cuts |
By John Walker on November 5, 2009
Google Wave Protocol was demo’d at the 2009 Google IO Conference in May this year.
You can see the long developer’s demo video. But, below is a shorter introduction to this new radical concept that may, one day, become a replacement to ‘traditional’ email.
There is one key aspect of Wave that the video (above) does not [...]
Posted in Business Culture, Business Software, Computer Services, Customer Support, Fashion, Trends and Memes, Ideas and Innovation, Information Technology, Internet Services, Market Research, Product Launches, Skills and Training, Technology, Telecommunications, Telecommunications Services, Television and Radio Broadcasting, Worldwide | Tagged Google IO, Google Wave, Wave Protocol |
By John Walker on October 23, 2009
The Communication Workers Union today (Friday) again reiterates the offer of unconditional talks at ACAS to bring the postal dispute to an end. Royal Mail has so far not taken up this offer but it will remain open.
Dave Ward, CWU deputy general secretary, said:
We have six days before any further strike action would take place. [...]
Posted in Critical Infrastructure, Organized Labour / Unions, Transport and Distribution, UK | Tagged strikes |
By John Walker on July 27, 2009
The Insurance Industry Working Group (IIWG) today published its report into the medium and long-term challenges facing the insurance industry.
The group was set up in October 2008 to look at the challenges and opportunities facing the UK Insurance Industry. It is co-chaired by Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling and Andrew Moss, Group Chief Executive [...]
Posted in Business Continuity Planning, Industry Reports, Professional and Business Services, UK |
By John Walker on June 23, 2009
London workers spent an additional 1.3m hours getting to work on the morning of Wednesday 10th June alone due to travel disruptions caused by the Tube Strike, equivalent to 188,000 lost working days. A survey of 1,000 Londoners, commissioned by Citrix Online, found that 33% of London-based employees were disrupted by the strike by London [...]
Posted in Employment Levels, Industrial Relations, London, Organized Labour / Unions, Transport and Distribution |
By John Walker on May 7, 2009
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee today voted to maintain the official Bank Rate paid on commercial bank reserves at 0.5%. The Committee also voted to continue with its programme of asset purchases financed by the issuance of central bank reserves and to increase its size by £50 billion to a total of £125 [...]
Posted in Monetary Policy, UK |
By John Walker on April 22, 2009
The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, today, announced the government’s mid-term economic forecasts and their tax and spending plans.
Amongst the measures, he announced a 50% rate of tax on incomes above £150,000.
…However, as the economy recovers and wages start to grow again, it is right that we take additional steps.
I believe that it is fair [...]
Posted in UK, UK Budget |
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