A new financial watchdog is to be set up to monitor financial stability and respond to emerging risks under measures set out in the banking white paper.
Experts have questioned whether a public sector pay freeze would do much to restore the public finances and have warned that job losses will be needed to save more money.
Conservative health policies hark back to the days of family doctors and GP fundholding. They also promise to increase funding and scrap targets in favour of outcomes. But what do all these pledges...
Wales stands to lose up to £8.5bn over the next ten years unless the Barnett Formula is reformed to take account of spending need, the Independent Commission on Funding and Finance for Wales has said...
Experts have questioned the role of ministers in departmental management, urging politicians to adopt a hands-off approach and base more of their decisions on evidence
MPs has renewed its call
for a full parliamentary debate on Spending Reviews and
Pre-Budget Reports as the political battle over public spending intensified this week
Conservative leader David Cameron has told council leaders he will scrap the Comprehensive Area Agreement inspection regime if he becomes prime minister
Public sector chief finance officers will be expected to sign up to a new ‘comply or explain’ best practice statement from CIPFA, the head of the government finance profession told delegates.
BBC director general Mark Thompson used his CIPFA conference address to announce a series of measures intended to make the broadcaster one of the most transparent organisations in the public sector.
The Conservatives will not set out their public spending plans because they ‘haven’t seen the books’, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Philip Hammond told Public Finance at the CIPFA conference...
The government’s Parliamentary Standards Bill, which is being rushed through Parliament before the summer recess on July 21, is not the way to clean up public life, leading standards experts say.
A former refugee who worked his way up from Kodak’s factory floor, the deputy chair of the Audit Commission tells Vivienne Russell how his broad perspective informs his role
Changes to Whitehall departments should be about better government but are often more to do with prime ministerial patronage. The latest casualty is Dius
Local government expert Tony Travers has predicted a severe squeeze for housing and regeneration in the wake of post-2011 cutbacks to public sector capital investment
The row over Scotland’s ability to stand on its own financially has been reignited by the news that it would show a small surplus if it received its share of North Sea oil.