Consultants spending at Â£2.8bn
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Public sector spending on consultants has increased by almost a third over the last three years, an official report says.
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Employees' savings are on average Â£51,000 short of the sum needed to fund a comfortable retirement, a report says.
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Reform must go hand in hand with a Â£200m rise in spending on NHS buildings, says the Welsh health minister.
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The UK's current account deficit falls to Â£7bn ($13.2bn) in the second quarter of 2006, official figures show.
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Pay for NHS consultants has risen by 16% in the last three years, with average salaries in excess of Â£110,000, figures show.
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Business & money: Households will spend an average of nearly Â£200 on supermarket food in Christmas week
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Architect of budget increase criticises the inadequate return the investment has yielded.
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The Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care should ask for its money back. It hired consultants to identify cost savings in the hospitals.
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The British government spent 1.75 billion pounds (3.20 billion dollars, 2.52 billion euros) last year to hire outside consultants, some of who were paid roughly 10 times that of a civil servant doing same job, a report said.
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Parents in Britain are spending an average of nearly Â£3,000 a year on each child, a survey suggests.
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National health spending soared above $2 trillion for the first time in 2006 and has nearly doubled in the last decade.
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The government spent 1.75 billion pounds last year to hire outside consultants, some of who were paid roughly 10 times that of a civil servant doing same job.
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The export value of UK education and training is Â£28bn, more than financial services, a report says.
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Company has brought in hundreds of millions of dollars in consulting revenue related to Microsoft's .Net software in the past two years.
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Business & money: Â· Scant detail 'designed to antagonise', says analystÂ· Debt suspected to have soared to Â£300m
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The unpaid work of carers saves the UK Â£87bn per year - more than was spent by the NHS last year, say experts.
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Sick leave by council staff costs Northern Ireland ratepayers more than Â£15m a year, the Audit Office finds.