The Cardiff and London governments should collaborate closely to close the Welsh ‘broadband gap’, the Commons Welsh affairs select committee said today.
Transport Secretary Justine Greening today outlined plans for £4.2bn of new investment in Britain’s railways, including the extension of electrification across the network.
Welsh people on low incomes are set to be £74 a year worse off following the government’s localisation of Council Tax Benefit, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found.
Public sector employment in the UK fell by 39,000 in the first three months of 2012, the tenth consecutive quarterly drop, the Office for National Statistics revealed today.
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The case for varying public sector pay on a regional basis is ‘deeply flawed’ and would be ‘economically damaging’, according to Welsh Finance Minister Jane Hutt.
The UK’s devolved governments are set on a collision course with Chancellor George Osborne over his proposal to abolish national pay deals in the public sector.
Most local authorities in Wales had their accounts ready on time, despite the challenges posed by the introduction of International Financial Reporting Standards, the Wales Audit Office said.
The Welsh auditor general has criticised a climate of informality and failure to effectively challenge decision-making at Pembrokeshire County Council.
The 710,000 public sector job losses now expected by 2017 will hit the devolved nations and the Northeast hardest, the Trades Union Congress said today.
The UK's four children's commissioners have urged the government to reassess its spending plans, saying the cuts risk pushing more families into poverty.
Welsh auditor general Huw Vaughan Thomas has warned that the public sector in Wales must collaborate to cope with 'unprecedented' financial pressures, particularly on the NHS.
A sudden spike in complaints about members of the National Assembly for Wales occurred in the run-up to last May's elections, according to a report published today by the standards commissioner.
Reform of the Wales Audit Office and a more interventionist approach to local authorities are included in the Welsh Programme for Government announced yesterday by First Minister Carwyn Jones.
The Wales Audit Office has been through a difficult year but has emerged stronger and is now on a 'sound footing', the auditor general for Wales has said.
A test being developed by Cardiff scientists could save the NHS tens of millions of pounds annually in the costs of wound treatments, the Welsh Government has said.
Welsh ministers should monitor how much is spent through its Merlin contract, which provides IT services for the government and Assembly, auditors have said.