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The handover marks the end of a 13-year licence for Smart DCC, a subsidiary of Capita, after years of spiralling costs and delays

This week, we tracked more than 60 tech funding deals worth over €1.3 billion and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. Cate Lawrence1 hour ago

Following the UK government’s latest startup and scaleup measures, founders and industry insiders weigh in on what the country’s tech ecosystem needs to help businesses grow, compete globally and stay in Britain. Cate Lawrence2 hours ago

As he prepares to deliver his first Budget next week, Chancellor John Healey has has been making a bold pitch to the country. In an interview with the Times last week, Healey said he wanted to back the “bloody-minded entrepreneurs” who challenge the status quo and drive innovation. He also went out of his way to…

A GP in a market town sends an urgent referral on a Monday morning and can estimate, with uncomfortable accuracy, how long the patient will wait. The estimate surprises nobody in the building. Less often discussed is how that wait looks beside other health systems, and what it will cost the Exchequer over the next…

LONDON, Sept 24 (Reuters) – Tesco, Britain’s biggest food retailer, has committed £20 million ($26.5 million) to a venture capital fund launched by Leon Restaurants co-founder Henry Dimbleby to help drive innovation across the UK food sector, it said on Thursday.

Jonathan Portes explains why the ONS updated its productivity estimates for the period between 2009 and 2019 from 0.7 per cent to 1.3 per cent and what this change actually means for the UK economy. 

Increasing productivity has been close to an article of faith for successive chancellors and one of the few economic ambitions that crosses party lines.

For eighteen months, ministers and NHS chief executives have repeated a single figure so often it has become a kind of incantation. Two per cent. That is the annual productivity gain the health service has been told to find, year after year, as the price of its settlement, the proof that reform is working, the…