The government should learn to do less and pass power back down to citizens, former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown told the CIPFA conference in Liverpool last week.
Ministers must set out ‘quickly’ how they will respond to failing public services in the new environment of increased competition and spending restraint, auditor general Amyas Morse has said.
Barclays is unlikely to have acted alone in its manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate and there is ‘a lot more to come’, according to the former deputy governor of the Bank of England,...
The head of the civil service told the conference that the involvement of CIPFA members will be crucial to maintaining public services as the spending cuts begin to bite.
A summary of the Whole of Government Accounts for 2010/11 is due to be published next week and the full audited accounts in October, the Treasury official responsible revealed yesterday
People might have to pay for some NHS services once the health and social care systems are integrated, the deputy director of the Reform think-tank told CIPFA conference delegates
A continuing rise in the UK deficit could increase government borrowing costs if bond markets fear the coalition is ‘losing control’, journalist Paul Mason told CIPFA’s annual conference today.
The public’s desire to simultaneously have lower taxes and better public services is just one example of the ‘broken political discourse’ that needs urgently to be addressed, RSA chief executive...
The quality of government reporting, auditing and financial management is the biggest challenge facing the public finance profession right now, the new CIPFA president told the conference this...
The 2012 CIPFA conference begins in Liverpool this week. Speakers include Newsnight’s economics editor Paul Mason, campaigner and TV producer Phil Redmond.
