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The National Access and Scaffolding Confederation (NASC) is a United Kingdom construction trade association representing companies involved in scaffolding and access work. Founded in 1945, the NASC represents its sector as a member of Build UK (formerly UK Contractors Group). [citation needed] It is also a member of the Trade Association Forum. [1]
It expanded rapidly in formwork and scaffolding under GKN ownership in the end of the 1980s. [2] In June 2000, GKN Kwikform merged with RMD (Rapid Metal Developments, established in 1948), the formwork and scaffolding unit of RM Douglas (part of Tilbury Douglas), to form RMD Kwikform. [3] [1] Tilbury Douglas renamed itself Interserve in 2001. [4]
This category is for "Companies Act companies", which are companies that are created under the 1985 or 2006 Companies Acts, and registered with Companies House as normal, but are fully or partly-owned by the UK Government. Other types of company should go into the relevant sub-category.
After extensive privatisation of the public sector during the Margaret Thatcher administration, there remain few statutory corporations in the UK. Privatisation began in the late 1970s, and notable privatisations include the Central Electricity Generating Board, British Rail, and more recently Royal Mail.
At around £290 billion every year, public sector procurement accounts for around a third of all public expenditure in the UK. [1] EU-based laws continue to apply to government procurement: procurement is governed by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, Part 3 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015, [2] and (in Scotland) the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations of 2015 ...
A cost-plus contract is often used when performance, quality or delivery time is a much greater concern than cost, such as in the United States space program. [9] Cost plus contracting was expanded to include services such as engineering, consulting, and a variety of other such efforts in the 1980's. [10]
Parts I and IA (Scotland) relate to goods.Part II related to services. Part III is "supplementary". The sections on goods apply to "relevant contracts for the transfer of goods", being those where one person agrees to transfer property in goods, i.e. ownership of the goods, to another person; [3] the Act also applies to contracts for the hire of goods (sections 6 to 10A).
Debt interest has grown as a proportion of government spending in the last few years as a result of rising interest rates, and increased debt due to primarily to the cost of the Covid pandemic. [10] In financial year 2018–19, debt interest was £43 billion - around 5% of total government spending [ 11 ] compared to around 10% in 2023–24.