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Best of Brakfast Episode 174 Yana Bolder
More than two thousand jobs in Scotland are at risk after oil and energy services company Petrofac applied for administration.
The group says its operations will continue trading, while it explores options for restructuring and a possible merger or sale with its main creditors.
Sources close to the company say they are hopeful a buyer can be found quickly for its North Sea operations, possibly within days.
The Home Office has been accused of wasting billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money on asylum accommodation.
A new report by the Home Affairs Committee says flawed contracts and poor management have left the department struggling to cope with rising demand, forcing it to rely on hotels as a long-term solution. MPs say the cost of the system has tripled to more than fifteen billion pounds, with little effort made to recover excess profits.
A Home Office spokesperson said ministers were “furious” about the number of illegal migrants housed in hotels and remain committed to ending their use by 2029.
Health leaders say NHS services and jobs in England could face cuts unless the government finds up to three billion pounds in extra funding.
The NHS Confederation and NHS Providers say the current budget doesn’t cover the cost of redundancies, strike payouts, or rising medicine prices. Talks between the Department of Health and the Treasury are continuing, and Health Secretary Wes Streeting has confirmed discussions are ongoing.
A spokesperson for the Department of Health says the government remains committed to properly funding the NHS.
The government is under pressure to explain why tens of millions of pounds remain unpaid to suppliers who worked on upgrades to three prisons in England.
Around 40 companies are believed to be owed money for work at Birmingham, Liverpool and Dorset prisons after main contractor ISG went into administration last month. Smaller firms say they should have been protected by ring-fenced Project Bank Accounts, which the Ministry of Justice had promised to use.
Some of the suppliers now face bankruptcy, while others are threatening legal action. The Ministry of Justice has declined to comment.
Police are urgently searching for a man suspected of raping a woman in what officers are calling a racially motivated attack. West Midlands Police say they were called to the Park Hall area of Walsall just after seven fifteen on Saturday evening after reports of a woman in distress. The victim, in her twenties, was found to have been raped and assaulted at a nearby property by a man she […]
