More than a quarter of a million extra school places will be needed in England next year, but it is not clear if the Department for Education has provided enough funding to meet demand, auditors...
The government’s proposals on long-term care have been broadly welcomed but there are concerns that they do nothing to address chronic under-funding in the sector.
The coalition's flagship Universal Credit programme remains on track although it has been taken over by a Whitehall troubleshooter, the government's chief operating officer has insisted.
The public sector recorded a surplus of £11.4bn in January, latest figures show, but analysts say the government is still unlikely to meet its borrowing target this year.
Twenty more cities in England are to be given extra economic powers as part of the government’s City Deals programme, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has announced.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt today set out details of the government’s plans to overhaul inspections of NHS hospitals in England following the ‘disaster’ of failures in care at the Mid Staffordshire...
A new ‘Cabinet’ made up of the leaders of eight of the largest cities in England will urge the government to offer Community Budget deals across the country
The National Audit Office has warned that funding cuts facing councils over the next two years will pose ‘increasing difficulties’ for town halls, and urged Whitehall to better understand the impact...
Is it right to spend public money on major sporting events, such as the Commonwealth Games and Ryder Cup, at a time of financial austerity? Public Finance and Northern Trust recently hosted a debate...
The cost of hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London this summer is likely to be below the £9.3bn budgeted for the events, the National Audit Office said today.
Chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has announced that the government will provide an extra £120m of funding for flood defences following the heavy rainfall across England and Wales in...
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has added its voice to speculation that the chancellor will have to ditch his debt-reduction target in next week’s Autumn Statement.
The government’s welfare reforms could be undermined by plans to finance the construction of 80,000 new affordable homes through higher rents on the properties, the Public Accounts Committee warned...
Many employees in local government and the NHS could be being paid in a way that can lead to tax avoidance, the Public Accounts Committee warned today.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has scrapped the West Coast Main Line rail franchise competition, citing ‘unacceptable mistakes’ by his department.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls today called on the government to use the £4bn windfall from the sale of the next generation of mobile phone licences to build 100,000 new homes.
Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney is to end the public sector pay freeze and boost capital spending, he announced today in his draft Budget for 2013/14.
The economic contraction in the second quarter of the year was not as deep as first estimated, according to revised figures issued today by the Office for National Statistics.
The Bank of England should move beyond the narrow inflation measure ‘that did nothing to prevent the deepest recession for almost 70 years’, a leading think-tank said today.