Cutting taxes ahead of this year’s general election would only meet the government’s fiscal rule if some departments face a “fresh round of austerity”, which is unlikely given the state of public...
Lower-than-expected output at the end of 2023 meant the UK economy experienced a technical recession in the second half of last year, the Office for National Statistics has said.
Three public bodies held more than £3.4bn worth of contracts with Fujitsu following a 2019 High Court ruling, with more than a third approved after a judge found that the Post Office Horizon system...
The Bank of England selling public debt could leave the government open to up to £130bn of losses, MPs have said, arguing policymakers “took a leap in the dark”.
The government does not properly monitor the effectiveness of tax reliefs, meaning billions of pounds of subsidies may not deliver economic growth, the National Audit Office has said.
Minimising the effects of extreme heat could improve sleep, prevent billions of pounds in lost productivity a year, the Environmental Audit Committee has said.
Concerns over the pace and fairness of government compensation and financial redress schemes have prompted the Public Accounts Committee to request that the National Audit Office investigate.
The government’s mooted solution to the local audit crisis needs to work, or the Whole of Government Accounts risks being stuck in poor quality for several years, a group of MPs has warned.
A better-than-expected outlook for public finances is likely to give chancellor Jeremy Hunt headroom for tax cuts ahead of the general election, an economist has said.
Post Office scandal lands everywhere, Levelling Up progress revealed, LGA renews social care lobbying, the cities that will escape the doom loop and more.
Depressed investment and slower economic growth caused by Brexit have wiped £140bn off the UK economy compared with if the country stayed in the European Union, researchers have claimed.
Reversing the declining performance in the NHS, courts and education systems could take two parliamentary terms and require a “bold package of reforms”, the Institute for Public Policy Research has...
The lack of quality procurement data has made it difficult for the government to demonstrate that £259bn spent in 2021-22 delivered value for money, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee...
The public never saw the real chancellor responding to the financial storm with calmness - and proper food, writes David Smith, director at Kent County Council who worked with him.