A former environment minister has urged the Treasury to ‘get its act together’ on climate change by including natural resources in the UK’s economic assets
The Conservative Party will not reveal its immediate strategy for cutting the public deficit before the general election, the chair of its policy review has admitted
Five private companies are in the running to take over a debt-ridden Cambridgeshire hospital, with just one rival shortlisted from within the health service
Ministers are giving tacit backing to a Private Members’ Bill that could significantly extend the powers of councils to oversee local services and utilities
Millions of pounds of funding for improving care for people with dementia is probably not being spent on relevant services, the National Audit Office has warned
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...