A senior judge has proposed to make it easier to take public bodies to judicial review by introducing optional limits on the amount of costs a claimant can incur.
Campaign group Transparency International has urged the UK authorities to seize any property in the country owned by Pakistan’s disgraced ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
The government must refund some £27m to people who have paid employment tribunal fees since 2013, after the Supreme Court unanimously held these to be unlawful.
The government does not know the extent of the mental health problem in prisons nor how much it will cost to address, the National Audit Office has found.
The chair of the supervisory body for Scotland’s national police force has stepped down, after two committees of MSPs declared a lack of confidence in his leadership of the Scottish Police...
Labour has almost drawn level with the Conservatives after closing a double-digit gap since the snap general election was called in April, a poll today suggests.
Soldiers will be deployed on Britain’s streets as the UK’s terror threat level is raised to critical for the first time since 2007 – indicating another attack maybe imminent.
Labour has put forward plans to recruit 10,000 extra police officers across 43 forces in England Wales – to be paid for through reversing cuts to Capital Gains Tax.
Facts and figures from the April edition of Public Finance magazine highlighting findings from CIPFA’s Performance Tracker report and whether we’ve really had enough of experts
Are services achieving more with less or are they at breaking point? The Performance Tracker uses government information to assess how well they really are doing. It is hoped this data will help the...
The practice of requiring prospective employees to disclose criminal records in the initial stage of public sector job applications could soon end, the government has indicated.
Justice secretary Liz Truss has announced an immediate pay hike of up to £5,000 for prison officers at 31 jails across London and the South East in order to tackle a crisis that has seen an...
Scotland’s finance secretary Derek Mackay has urged UK chief secretary to the Treasury David Gauke to waive a £35m annual VAT bill imposed on Scotland’s national police and fire services.
Government plans to upgrade the radio communication network used by Britain’s emergency services are likely to be delayed at a cost of £475m per year, the Public Accounts Committee has...
Scottish auditor general Caroline Gardner has today raised concerns about the weak financial leadership in the country’s policing bodies and stated their continuing poor financial management was...