Jeremy Hunt sent a welcome strong signal to the markets but has not fixed any of the major problems facing the public sector, according to CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman.
The autumn statement may have created as many problems as it did solutions for the government, says Dan Corry, chief executive of the think-tank New Philanthropy Capital and former Number 10 adviser.
Higher borrowing costs and spiralling inflation amid weaker economic growth mean public finances have “materially worsened” since March, the Office for Budget Responsibility has said.
The Autumn Statement heralds difficult times, but councils will show the same determination they always have, writes partnership working expert and local authority trading company chief executive...
Jeremy Hunt’s much-trailed “difficult decisions” have led to real-terms cuts to public investment and seemingly very little for local government and most other services as interest payments eat into...
The Autumn Statement will herald tough times for public services as they struggle with high inflation, increasing demand and constrained funding, CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman has said.
The Home Office has no idea what other departments are spending on fraud, despite plans for cross-government collaboration, the National Audit Office has warned.
Any coming cuts to council budgets in the Autumn Statement will probably lead to false economies that cost more in the long term, just like they have in the past, writes Jim McManus, president of the...
The failure of energy watchdog Ofgem to effectively regulate suppliers has saddled households with higher costs and the government with the bill for bailouts, the Public Accounts Committee has said.
Around a third of UK investors that received money from a Covid-19 support fund would have invested money had the fund not existed, an independent report has found.
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Poor understanding of fraud risks and the failure to set targets to reduce incorrect payments could see the government saddled with unacceptable levels of fraud in the benefits system, the Public...
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is set to make up to £60bn of spending cuts and tax increases to help shrink the government’s medium-term budget gap, despite the cost-of-living crisis, according to reports.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced that the government’s fiscal statement will be delayed by more than two weeks, following the appointment of Rishi Sunak as prime minister.
The heavily criticised mini-budget has put additional pressure on the UK’s debt affordability and weakened the credibility of government policy, ratings agencies have said.
Fraud seems “like an afterthought” in courts and policing when it comes to funding, leaving services unable to deal with the rising scale and complexity of cyber crime, a group of MPs has said.
Any cuts to public services will be “almost certain” to damage performance, which is already struggling in the wake of a decade of austerity and the Covid-19 pandemic, the government has been warned...
The government has abandoned most of the measures in sacked chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s ‘mini budget’ from September, with his replacement Jeremy Hunt calling stability the UK’s “most important...