COMPANY NEWS
Contracts and appointments
• Liverpool City Council’s cabinet member for employment, enterprise and skills, Cllr Nick Small, has been appointed chair of EUROCITIES Economic Development Forum of 78 member cities, until 2014.
• Paul Hillman, environment director at Ramboll UK, has been named President of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM).
• Climate Energy has bolstered its management team ready for the Green Deal by appointing Gary Mills as executive director, while Mark Davies has stepped up from non-executive to full-time executive chairman.
• ISG has won a £3.5m contract from Alliance Leisure to transform Ramsgate’s ‘dry’ sports centre into a much larger facility through the addition of two swimming pools, a health suite and spa.
• BT has won a Surrey County Council contract to replace up to 40 separate networks in Surrey and Berkshire with one, aimed at saving £5m over seven years for SCC alone. Councils of different tiers throughout the two counties are set to take part, alongside fire and health services and a university, with possible savings totalling £120m.
• Business Secretary Vince Cable has appointed Douglas Richard and Hazel Moore to serve on the governing board of the Technology Strategy Board, and re-appointed Sir Christopher Snowden, Sara Murray and Stewart Davies.
• The Manchester office of national law firm Gateley has launched an EU procurement training academy in association with Achilles, aimed at helping organisations get to grips with the complexities of public procurement regulation.
• Argyll and Bute Council is extending its IT integration campaign to its environmental services, trading standards and animal welfare services, with help from software house NDL. It has made savings of more than £100,000 a year since integrating its CRM and social care IT systems last year.
Businesses call for 2030 carbon target for power sector
The Government must put a 2030 target in place to decarbonise the power sector, 50 businesses have argued.
Such a target would stimulate investment in the UK and refurbish ageing infrastructure, they say in a letter to Chancellor George Osborne.
Osborne has previously been opposed to a 2030 target, and instead supports new gas-fired power stations. Labour and the Liberal Democrats support a 2030 carbon target.
It would in effect ensure almost all of the UK’s electricity would be from low-carbon sources and would require a huge expansion of renewable energy.
The businesses, which include big names from a number of industries such as Asda, Microsoft and Sky, have not specified a target, but simply call
Civil servants surveyed on pensions mutual
A poll has shown that 84% of civil servants back a mutual business model to manage their pensions, following the April 2012 launch of MyCSP, the first Government mutual joint venture for pension administration.
But while 44% see no challenges in
working in a private sector
environment, 80% are concerned about changes to employment benefits. Over 250 senior civil servants were surveyed.
The MyCSP model gives
employees a 25% ownership stake, representation at board level and a share in profits. Equiniti Group’s Paymaster business was selected as the private sector partner and has a 40% stake. The Government retains a 35% stake.
Andrew Cleminson, group sales director at Equiniti, said: “We are delighted that the mutual joint venture has such a high level of support from civil servants.”
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for a target to be put in place. They are coordinated by the Aldersgate Group, a coalition of businesses that support a greener economy.
The letter reads: “The
Government’s perceived commitment to the low carbon transition
is being undermined
by recent statements calling for unabated gas in the power sector beyond 2030 and the absence of a specific carbon intensity target.”
Peter Young, chairman of the Aldersgate Group, said: “The message of this letter is loud and clear: we must put an end to any po- litical uncertainty surrounding the UK’s energy fu- ture and start
unleashing the billions of pounds of overdue investment which will deliver new growth for our econ- omy.
“Both the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties understand this huge growth opportunity and backed a 2030 carbon target for the power sector at their party conferences. Now the Conservative
party must step
up to the mark and provide the full cross-party support which businesses have been calling for.”
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