Gordon Brown’s wide-ranging changes have produced a beefed-up business department, shared ministerial responsibilities and a potentially big-hitting role for the DCLG
Newly appointed Communities and Local Government Secretary John Denham has pledged to consider strengthening both councils’ powers and communities’ powers to hold them to account.
The new statistics authority bared its teeth when the government misused crime data last year. But there’s a way to go before public trust in official figures is restored
A freeze on departmental spending is predicted by researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, based on the overall public expenditure squeeze detailed in last year’s Pre-Budget Report
The cost of Private Finance Initiative projects will still not count towards public sector net debt, but government departments and local authorities will have to include the projects on their...
The financial crisis has thrust Treasury select committee chair John McFall into the limelight. He talked to Judy Hirst about bankers, bonuses - and dealing with hooligans
A simpler and more open system — or a way for ministers to bulldoze through favoured projects? The Planning Act, and particularly the creation of a new quango as final arbiter, has provoked uproar
With the recession - and government efforts to end it - putting growing pressure on the public purse, there has never been a greater need for visionary and creative public finance leaders.
