A government target of building 3 million new homes by 2020 is unlikely to be achieved because of the dramatic slowdown in the industry in the past two years, a Joseph Rowntree Foundation study has...
Ministers are seeking ways to reduce ring-fencing of public service funding as documents to be released with next month’s Pre-Budget Report reveal a tangled web of funding streams
Giving the Welsh Assembly full law-making powers over the 20 devolved policy areas would substantially improve the current system, a landmark report has said
Councils in London are preparing a new round of lobbying to secure more government funding for primary schools after data showed capacity problems were worse than first thought
The chair of Ofsted has launched a stinging attack on civil service governance, culture and practices, suggesting that Whitehall is risk averse and unable to deal with failure
Plans by an independent commission to give Scotland more power over finance and taxation are flawed and a ‘messy fudge’, the Holyrood government has claimed
A Right-leaning think-tank and leading consultancy have recommended that councils cull spending by 20% by 2011 through doing less, outsourcing more and becoming more financially innovative.
If governments prove incapable of agreement on limiting climate change at Copenhagen, individuals will need to slow it through their own actions. An accounting approach to sustainability can help...
The government has ‘taken its eye off the ball’ in helping the NHS to reduce health care-associated infections, according to the Public Accounts Committee
The controversy over MPs’ expenses has been passed to the new independent regulator after the public standards committee published its long-awaited report into the issue
A year and a half into the recession, how close are the public finances to Treasury forecasts and what does the future hold? In the run-up to the Pre-Budget Report, the IFS’s Carl Emmerson and Gemma...