{"id":123886,"date":"2021-12-18T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T07:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/year-of-delays-how-uk-government-services-seized-up-in-the-covid-crisis\/"},"modified":"2021-12-18T15:14:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T08:14:21","slug":"year-of-delays-how-uk-government-services-seized-up-in-the-covid-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/year-of-delays-how-uk-government-services-seized-up-in-the-covid-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Year of delays: how UK government services seized up in the Covid crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFrom driving licences to passports, the pandemic has worsened waits for BritonsYear-long waits for driving licences, long delays to register a property purchase, or gain a tax rebate a birth certificate \u2013 2021 could well go down as the year government systems stopped working as they should. Maybe it was inevitable in a pandemic that service levels would suffer. However, the failure of successive governments to properly invest in technology has been horribly exposed over the past 12 months. This is where it went most wrong. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
\nRead more…Year of delays: how UK government services seized up in the Covid crisis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From driving licences to passports, the pandemic has worsened waits for BritonsYear-long waits for driving...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-wea","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":118773,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/uk-student-housing-market-faces-oversupply-amid-covid-19-crisis-but-singapore-private-equity-firm-sees-values-in-investment-plan\/","url_meta":{"origin":123886,"position":0},"title":"UK student housing market faces oversupply amid Covid-19 crisis but Singapore private equity firm sees values in investment plan","date":"September 30, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The market for student accommodation in the UK, the hottest market outside North America in recent years, is entering a lull period amid the Covid-19 crisis. 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