Plans for the next stage of the Cardiff Capital Region Metro, which aims to create an integrated public transport system for south east Wales by 2030, have been set out by Welsh transport minister...
Devolved administrations in the nations and regions of the UK are increasingly getting the blame when public services go wrong, but Whitehall still carries the can where division of power is murky, a...
Scrutiny of local council decisions in Wales has improved to help authorities take spending decisions based on evidence but best practice is not yet applied across the country, the Auditor General...
The Welsh Government has confirmed it intends to make full use of the direct borrowing powers it will be granted following the passage of the Wales Bill later this year.
When David Cameron and Nick Clegg crossed the Severn to hand over new fiscal powers to the Welsh Assembly, they kept a ‘lockstep’ on income tax. But there’s no turning back from the...
Public sector funders in Wales paid grants to a rural tourist centre even though they knew the underlying business case was unrealistic, auditors said today
Health services in all four nations of the UK have improved significantly since devolution, a study by the Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation has found
A ten-year £92m project to disperse Welsh Government offices around the country suffered from poor governance and weak cost estimates and might not have been value-for-money, auditors said today
Welsh finance minister Jane Hutt has criticised Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget, saying it was full of missed opportunities and would do nothing for economic growth in Wales.
If local government restructuring in Wales results in a higher cost base it could prove disastrous. But is hard to see how the process will not end up costing a lot more than it saves
The Wales Audit Office has today said both Carmarthenshire County Council and Pembrokeshire Council acted unlawfully in allowing senior officers to opt-out of the Local Government Pension Scheme.
Councils in Wales are beginning to crack under spending pressures and many need to quickly improve their plans to make efficiency savings amid increasing cuts, the auditor general for Wales has warned
The number of councils in Wales should be cut by around half to save money and ensure they are able to provide quality services amid funding pressures, a report commissioned by the Welsh Government...
The Welsh auditor general has urged local authorities to ensure they have effective financial management arrangements in place after his annual audit review revealed that performance had slipped back
Local communities in England lose £4.1bn each year to the UK’s devolved nations through the ‘outdated’ Barnett Formula for distributing public spending, the Local Government Association has claimed...
Cardiff could be handed control of £3bn in tax revenues, including powers over business rates, UK ministers said today as they accepted almost all of the recommendations of the Silk Commission on...
Councils in England have called for extra financial powers to be given to local authorities following the government’s announcement that a range of taxes would be devolved to the Welsh Assembly.
Wales is to receive a suite of new tax and borrowing powers after UK ministers today announced they had agreed to the Silk Commission’s key recommendations on devolution.
The Welsh government has struck a deal with two opposition parties to reform social care provision and increase school spending, First Minister Carwyn Jones has revealed.
More than half of Welsh local authorities have difficulty in accurately measuring their performance due to partial or inaccurate information about services, Wales’ auditor general has said
Schools in Wales could potentially save £9m a year if the level of teacher absences could be reduced to the level in England, a report by the Wales Audit Office has found