Dr Jim Cuthbert questions whether the government’s funding method for its nuclear power programme provides value for money, given it now expects the plants to take nearly twice as long to build.
“Woeful” progress on recovering fraudulent and incorrect claims from Covid-19 job support schemes has left billions of pounds of public money at risk, the Public Accounts Committee has warned.
Creating a state-owned company to generate electricity could save UK households £21bn a year and help accelerate the transition towards net zero, a think-tank has said.
The government will struggle to achieve its net zero targets if it continues without a clear plan to decarbonise the power sector – the “backbone” of its ambition – according to the national spending...
Researchers have warned that despite some economic good news the chancellor might have “less fiscal room for manoeuvre” in the upcoming Budget than it appears.
Dysfunctional leadership and “inexcusable” poor governance arrangements contributed to the London Borough of Croydon’s financial woes, a long-awaited report has found.
A senior Labour MP has asked whether the block on new capital spending from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities will impede housing projects.
Capital spending restrictions imposed on the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities will hamper local authority investment and harm the government’s flagship policy, experts have warned.
Keeping records of people’s skills in the civil service, perhaps through a system of formal qualifications, would help teams make best use of their people to deliver services, a panel heard.
The failure to replace outdated IT systems is hindering the government’s ability to reduce the costs of managing its extensive estate, MPs have warned.
The government’s approach of funding social care simply in order to relieve the NHS shows it has the wrong perspective on the importance of care services, peers have said.
Nurses will strike in hospitals across most of the UK on 15 and 20 December after the government turned down more talks, but health secretary Steve Barclay has defended the current pay offer.
UK public sector borrowing last month was the fourth highest October figure since the Office for National Statistics began collecting data, a fact it put down to the government beginning to subsidise...
World leaders are spending on a scale not seen since the 1970s to avert multiple crises. Is it a new era of ‘big government’ – and, if so, who pays for it?
Autumn Statement plans to keep public bodies’ spending tight from 2025 onwards are unlikely to actually be followed when the time comes, economists have said.
Economic volatility from shocks such as wars and Covid-19 have been the “most difficult thing” for Office for Budget Responsibility forecasters to contend with when trying to help the government plan...