19 May 2009 - I have to admit we are playing catch-up on waste issues at the moment. Scratch any trade association chief executive and the chances are he or she has a list of important but not pressing ... Read more »
18 May 2009 - I feely admit that this time last year I was one of those saying that we shouldn’t talk ourselves into a recession when everyone seemed to want to wallow in bad news. Am I being ... Read more »
18 May 2009 - The government has announced this week that the National Minimum Wage (NMW) for workers aged 22 and over will rise by 7p, or 1.2%, to £5.80 an hour. The new rate will come into effect on ... Read more »
15 May 2009 - A visit to a member company showed the good and bad aspects of the working in the thriving public sector construction programme. The good is that, over the past two years, the impression is that ... Read more »
14 May 2009 - Officials from the Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) faced a critical audience when they explained the thinking underpinning the Government’s trade credit ... Read more »
12 May 2009 - The Construction Products Association (CPA) will once again produce Construction Products Innovation and Achievement (CPIA). This publication has now run for five years, and is well ... Read more »
11 May 2009 - I have received via the Construction Products Association a request from the UK Trade & Investment Adviser in the Moscow Embassy. They have received an enquiry from a well-established ... Read more »
08 May 2009 - As part of this year’s budget, Alistair Darling announced the world’s first carbon budget, which sets binding limits for greenhouse gas emissions over a five year period. The ... Read more »
07 May 2009 - Following Pauline Kelly raising the apparent inconsistency of Government timber procurement policy with Dennis Walker at the recent meeting with CPA Trade Association Presidents, I met civil ... Read more »
