Capita pledges pension-scheme ‘lessons’ for huge DWP contract
27 Mar Commercial

Capita pledges pension-scheme ‘lessons’ for huge DWP contract

Richard Holroyd tells MPs the firm will sign a charter with the departments that are members of the Synergy shared-services cluster
by Jim Dunton
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Cabinet Office told Capita to prepare for six-figure pensions backlog, firm acknowledges
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Department says it mistakenly left the company off a list of those referred to the high-priority lane in November
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2022: The year that procurement drives significant societal change Partner Content
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Proxima recently sat down with procurement leaders from both the public and private sector, including Simon Tse of the Crown Commercial Service, to discuss the trends to keep an eye on for 2022