The growing costs of councils’ care and statutory responsibilities will wipe out any funding for other services within eight years unless Whitehall provides urgent cash, the Local Government...
The Bank of England will introduce two new stimulus packages to boost bank lending in response to the ‘heightened uncertainty’ over the state of the economy, governor Sir Mervyn King has revealed.
The Home Office has defended its decision to nominate Tom Winsor, the lawyer who undertook a controversial review of police pay, as the preferred candidate to become the next chief inspector of...
The £250m fund to help councils maintain or return to weekly waste collections is now open for business, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has announced.
Millions of struggling families will miss out on help from the government’s Green Deal energy efficiency scheme and could end up in fuel poverty, according to the Local Government Association.
The government has not done enough to address concerns that the Private Finance Initiative is being used to keep the cost of major infrastructure projects off its balance sheet, the Commons’ Treasury...
The current financial crisis is just the start of the problems facing Western economies. ‘Normal’ levels of GDP growth might never return, as a result of climate change, an ageing population,...
A senior local authority figure has warned ministers that plans for pension funds to invest in national infrastructure developments will not be approved ‘just to dig the government out of a hole’.
Latest figures on fly-tipping show the ‘real impact’ councils are having in tackling illegally deposited waste, according to the Local Government Association.
The government has announced how it plans to spend £775m on the UK’s green infrastructure next year, in advance of European Commission approval for its Green Investment Bank.
It will cost Scotland up to £11bn to meet Holyrood’s targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, Audit Scotland has found. It is also uncertain how the targets will be met and who will pay.
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has been criticised for slow progress in redressing financial management weaknesses first identified in 2008.
Scottish ministers have welcomed the UK government's decision to release £103m for investment in Scottish renewable energy developments, ending a long dispute over cash earmarked for these projects.
Government plans to fast-track a 50% cut in the tariff paid for electricity generated by solar panels could cost councils hundreds of millions of pounds, the Local Government Association said today.
Public attitudes stand in the way of the radical service transformations needed to deal with local authority budget cuts, according to the New Local Government Network.
Pessimists argue that only zero growth will save the planet. But it doesn't have to be that way, says the IPPR. There are ways to achieve Treasury growth targets and reduce greenhouse gases