The chair of the Audit Commission is to launch a defence of the regulator’s new local government inspection regime, arguing it is an essential tool in making services more accountable
Deputy Prime Minister Harriet Harman has vowed to fight discrimination against elderly people, promising new rights for carers and extra obligations on public services
Lord Mandelson has published the government’s strategy for economic growth, pledging investment in infrastructure and in sustainable and communications technologies
The Highways Agency lacks basic information on whether it is getting value for money from its contractors, and must improve its commercial practices, MPs have found.
The Treasury must provide more details of future public spending if it is to adequately tackle the country’s financial deficit, a committee of MPs has warned.
The government has won the backing of Parliament for its controversial bill on reducing the fiscal deficit, despite heavy criticism from both sides of the House of Commons.
The nation’s ever-expanding fiscal gap was examined recently in a video debate organised by PricewaterhouseCoopers and chaired by Public Finance editor Mike Thatcher – and asks, is it time to face...
The leader of the House of Commons, Harriet Harman, has indicated that future heads of public bodies can expect to receive considerably lower salaries than has been the case in recent years.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ‘consistently failed’ to spot problems with the payment of European Union grants to farmers, MPs have said.