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...He set aside £520mn in his November Autumn Statement to “build resilience for future health emergencies and capitalise on the UK’s R&D strengths”....
...Jeremy Hunt will this week overhaul Britain’s “flagship industrial policy” after warnings that billions of pounds of R&D tax credits for small companies offer poor value for money and are open to fraud....
...The acquisition, funded by billions of pounds of debt, has come under pressure as interest rates have risen....
...“We employ a consultancy to do our R&D claims for us because we haven’t got the time to fight the claims,” he said....
...He was married twice, first to Betty Bradley, with whom he had two of his four children, and then in 1984 to Linda Robinson, a prominent public relations executive....
...So no-one was there to point out that this (r-g) thing misses the state’s biggest contractual financial liabilities....
...Separately, WPP is also reviewing whether to sell its 40 per cent stake in Kantar, the market research company, in what would likely be a multibillion-pound deal....
...Bataller’s knowledge is based on 15 years’ operating the brand’s sister wellness centre in Alicante, where roughly 55 per cent of guests are repeat visitors, and R&R is a vastly evolved prospect....
...“Like most people I’ve got a mortgage, so I don’t particularly relish the extra payments I’ll be making from the spring of next year . . . several hundred pounds a month,” she says....
...(In the UK, the chain was rather less charitably dubbed a “posh pound shop”.) The couple sold 70 per cent of their holding in 2012 and their remaining stake in 2021....
...The culprit, Gopal reckons, is sterling: The pound is a highly relevant factor here. The main input cost in a lot of these services is likely to be wages....
...It added that it had “introduced full expensing, an effective £27bn corporation tax cut which results in a 25p tax saving for every pound invested, as well as a new £500mn per year R&D scheme system for...
...They have contributed billions of pounds of business activity and exports — and now generate more wealth than aerospace, the life sciences and automotive sectors combined....
...We cannot go toe-to-toe, pound-for-pound with the world’s largest economies. Instead, it’s right that the strategy plays to our strengths in the semiconductor tech of the future....
...A good place to start would be the r/ChatGPT subreddit, where there’s a helpful little “GoneWild” tag. Multiple entries ask something like: “Did I break it?” Or “has it had a stroke?”...
...Harrington, who will report to Hunt in September, admitted that Britain cannot go “pound for dollar” against the might of the US. “But do I think we can improve our investment offer in this country?...
...When Frank came out, she was briefly labelled the “British Badu” due to the influence of one of her favourite artists, the innovative US soul and R&B singer Erykah Badu....
...Research and development are extremely cash and time-intensive, often costing millions of pounds and taking several years before a product or service is ready for market, or the business itself is viable...
...While CD&R prevailed with a £10bn bid, this left its banks, led by Goldman Sachs, on the hook for £6.6bn. On top of this, Goldman contributed £1.3bn of preference shares, risky debt-like instruments....
...A target to hit £22bn in direct public spending a year has already been pushed back, despite the fact the government last year increased estimates for how much private spending each pound of public money...
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...“It was penny-wise pound-foolish. We’ve had subpar growth performance for some time now,” he said....
...But after decades as the aggressive, freewheeling challenger, Kirkland is now, as one former partner puts it, “the 800-pound gorilla”....
...Last year the company, which does not have revenues, narrowly avoided administration after raising several million pounds from mining company Glencore, an investor, and imposing temporary wage cuts on its...
...“The UK by virtue of Brexit has not only made itself much less attractive as a manufacturing base due to things like additional paperwork, but it has also got itself out of all of the EU-funded R&D programmes...
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