The British Government Panel on Sustainable Development has called for the Government to prepare a comprehensive strategy on both the agricultural and medical uses of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).It is embarrassing timing for the Government, given the current assertions from the Prime Minister himself that food so modified is safe.
In its fifth annual report, the panel calls for guiding principles, safeguards, monitoring of results, and transparency as the practice spreads. 

Health Secretary Frank Dobson has tried to reverse the emerging tend for seeing new technology principally as a drain on NHS resources.He told a conference in York: “New technology is sometimes portrayed as a threat to the future of the Health Service - but that’s either by pessimists, economists or right wing commentators who have always said our country can’t afford the NHS. 

Bond S, Dent P Journal of Property Valuation & Investment, (UK), Vol 16 No 4 98 Start page: 369. No of pages: 17Reviews the literature of public sector asset valuation based on registers, to plan purchase and sale of property; to minimize rates; and to ensure proper costing of in-house bids for contracts.