Key agencies axed in green business support shake-up

James S Murray
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Envirowise, NISP and others to be folded into WRAP as part of government's Landscape Review

The government today announced a major overhaul of its green business support services that will see six agencies axed and their remits folded into an expanded Waste Resources Action Programme (WRAP) designed...

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