Peers questioned minister Lord Martin Callanan over the government’s lack of progress on retentions reform.
Lord Callanan, a junior minister at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy whose remit includes corporate responsibility, said the government is still working with the Construction Leadership Council and others to try to reach a consensus on retentions.
His comments maintained the government’s neutral stance on the controversial topic, set out in February last year as it published the results of a public consultation on retentions reform. The consultation concluded three years ago, in January 2018.
In the House of Lords debate, crossbench hereditary peer Lord Aberdare, Alastair Bruce, noted that it is also three years since the collapse of Carillion, which resulted in “many small construction firms losing hundreds of millions of pounds in retentions”. He asked: “What are the government doing now to prevent small construction firms, already un
Friday, 11 December 2020
Earlier this week, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach made the dramatic announcement of sanctions against those who run Olympic sport in Belarus.
It brought the curtain down on a year when the Executive Board (EB) met no fewer than 18 times. It also marked the first century of its existence.
Established in 1921, and originally known as the Executive Commission , the EB is effectively the cabinet of the Olympic Movement. It meets when convened by the President on the latter s initiative or at the request of the majority of its members, and has general overall responsibility for the administration of the IOC.