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New £30.6m Emergency Care campus at Stepping Hill

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust has been awarded £30.6 million to provide a new Emergency Care Campus Development at Stepping Hill Hospital incorporating an Urgent Treatment Centre, GP assessment unit and Planned Investigation Unit. The funding is part of the £1.8m cash injection into UK wide NHS … [Read more...]

Gender pay gap closed at Greater Manchester Combined Authority

New figures reveal the gender pay gap has all but been eliminated by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, GMCA, which includes the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service. Greater Manchester is believed to be the first Combined Authority in England and Wales to have virtually eliminated … [Read more...]

Applications open for £3m Fast Track Digital Workforce Fund

Following the successful launch of a £3m Fast Track Digital Workforce Fund, businesses across Greater Manchester are being invited to apply for funding. The aim of the ‘Fast Track Digital Workforce’ Fund is to help employers across all sectors (public and private) in the Greater … [Read more...]

£8million fund to fill vital skills gaps in Greater Manchester

An £8million investment pot is being proposed to fill vital skills gaps and drive productivity in Greater Manchester. The funding will help provide innovative skills provision and will be linked to employer needs and skills gaps. In particular, the funding will be used to tackle technical skills, … [Read more...]

Mutual FM report growth across global equity markets

Corporate and personal financial planning firm Mutual Financial Management are seeing global equity markets buoyant having made headway in the first half of 2019. The MSCI World index has advanced 19.6% in the year to date and the Lindsell Train Global Equity fund has bettered that with gains of … [Read more...]

UK: Tax gap remains low

HMRC has confirmed that the tax gap remains low as 94.4% of all due tax in 2017/18 was collected creating a tax gap for 2017 to 2018 of 5.6%, a fall from 7.2% in 2005/06. The tax gap is the difference between the amount of tax that should, in theory, be paid to HMRC, and what is actually … [Read more...]

Stockport based Together expands in London and the South

Two experts with more than half a century of experience in the financial services industry have joined Stockport based Together as the lender widens its distribution network. Marylen Edwards is its new key account manager in the South, while Russell Harvey joins as a specialist underwriter … [Read more...]

HMRC issue Making Tax Digital Stakeholder Comms Pack

HMRC have provided stakeholders with Making Tax Digital information to support businesses that need to make the transition to digital VAT business record keeping and submission of VAT returns using MTD-compatible software from 1 April 2019. Most VAT-registered businesses with a taxable … [Read more...]