The report was the result of a 10-month investigation into practices at Fitch, Moody's and S.& P. None of the e-mail messages or findings were attributed to an individual firm, according to standard commission practice, a spokesman said.
In keeping with commission practice, the Microsoft filing, which is not released to the public, is nonetheless released to "third parties" to the investigation -- mainly rivals like Sun Microsystems that brought complaints against Microsoft.
Refuge provision is under serious threat as a result of ongoing cuts to local funding and poor commissioning practices".
Austerity is largely responsible, but a decline in grant funding and poor commissioning practices (particularly the trend towards bigger and bigger contracts) have contributed.
Cuts to funding are hitting us all hard – but for domestic violence organisations some local authority commissioning practices are making the problem worse.
In some areas, council procurement and commissioning practices have continued as usual, while personal budgets are introduced in an entirely separate workstream.
"Despite making up 97% of the sector, small charities are disproportionately being hit by funding cuts, complex commissioning practices and changes to fundraising regulations".
We are adjusting, we are making Miranda, Mrs Brown's Boys, Citizen Khan, ourselves, in studio, in house, and our commissioning practices have to change.
Change to commissioning practices and development of local services is needed to support people to move out of assessment and treatment units and back into the community.
"Diminishing public funding and ever tighter commissioning practices are placing great pressure on care providers, but there is simply no excuse for breaking the law and HMRC urgently needs to get tougher on employers who do so," said Gardiner.
