Fera Science launches £1m Laboratory for Insect Bioconversion at York base

Capita plc (‘Capita’) today announces it has secured an extension to its contract to deliver Personal Independent Payment (PIP) assessments for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

Fera is supporting farmers to make informed decisions about their use of pesticides.

RE:NEW, the Mayor of London’s retrofitting programme to make London’s homes more energy efficient, has been named Large Scale Project of the Year at the National Energy Efficiency and Healthy Homes Awards.

Three members of the EFRA Select Committee spent a day at National Agri-Food Innovation Campus (NAFIC) near York to see the very latest science and technology being developed by Fera Science Limited (Fera).

Capita plc today announces that it has agreed with Transport for London (TfL) to expand its current contract to include the Central London Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ).

Capita has added an automation function to its benefits software, helping councils reduce claim processing times to less than two minutes - 20 times quicker than processing the same form manually.

Capita today announces that it is making all meetings screen-based by default, even after Covid restrictions end, as it looks to reduce corporate travel by 75pc by the end of the decade.

Capita has upgraded its market leading One Revenues and Benefits software so that it now fully supports local authority residential and domiciliary care contribution assessments (known as Financial Assessments).

Capita has been re-selected by Westminster City Council to manage the authority’s revenues and benefits services for a further seven years, commencing November 2018, with the option to extend for three years, in a deal worth approximately £65 million over ten years.