Kate Priestley

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United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) Estates Head Kate Priestley's role is to oversee the construction budget for the NHS worth 1.8 billion pounds sterling per year. Priestley forecasts more women will be admitted to construction boards which have previously been dominated by men. The work of NHS Estates is to give advice to the health authorities and trusts on the best way to find funding through the private finances initiative scheme. Priestley hopes to make savings of some 30% by changing the procurement process. In the past Priestley worked as a psychiatric social worker.

Officials and employees, Cover Story, Behavior, United Kingdom. National Health Service, Women government executives, Priestley, Kate, NHS Estates

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Downturn fails to ease skills shortage fears

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The UK construction industry requires an extra 350,000 people to become qualified in construction skills by the year 2002, to compensate for the high number of qualified people leaving the profession due to retirement. The total number of people employed in the UK construction industry is expected to increase to 1.48 million by the year 2003 from 1.38 million people in 1997. The number of directly employed construction staff is expected to increase due to changes in taxation law affecting self-employed people.

United Kingdom, Construction industry, Employment, Statistics

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Home truths

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The white paper on rural issues will be used by ministers to propose ways that local authorities can have more power and responsibility to provide new homes in partnership with housebuilders. This is due to DoE projections estimating a 23% rise in the number of households by 2016, and the need to find a further 4.4 million homes over the next 21 years.

Forecasts and trends, Housing

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