The Wanless franchise keeps on growing. Not content with producing two influential reports on future NHS funding and public health, the former NatWest chief executive this week announced he is...
Despite ministers' rhetoric, the long-awaited reform of Incapacity Benefit outlined this week drew on a familiar political solution to a troubling financial issue: cut basic state payments to...
The Inland Revenue has denied that it was unable to cope with thousands of last-minute tax submissions this week, despite acknowledging that its website ground to a halt as the January 31 deadline...
Government auditors delivered some much-needed good news for the Department for Work and Pensions this week, heaping praise on its management of a Private Finance Initiative deal.
Local government employers have slammed trade union plans to take strike action over pension scheme changes as 'unjustified, precipitate and ultimately futile'.
Work and Pensions Secretary Alan Johnson this week suspended plans to axe 25% of staff at the troubled Child Support Agency, but in the process reignited the row over government plans to cut 80,000...
Scottish Executive permanent secretary John Elvidge has confirmed that civil service jobs will be lost in Scotland as part of the Gershon efficiency review.
Government plans to move thousands of Whitehall staff away from the Southeast received a minor boost this week when Birmingham emerged as the city favoured to host the proposed Gambling Commission.
A Conservative government would save £35bn on government spending by 2007/08 under the spending plans outlined by Michael Howard and Oliver Letwin this week.
The long-running pay dispute at the Department for Work and Pensions could end this week after leaders of Whitehall's largest trade union endorsed a three-year deal, worth up to 15% for some staff.
The sale of the Millennium Dome site in southeast London was well negotiated but long-term success is far from certain, government auditors warned this week.
Town hall leaders are demanding urgent reform of the 'out of date and failing' council tax benefit regime, which they say penalises the very people it is supposed to help.
Reform of public sector pensions looks set to destroy any hopes the government had of an easy ride up to the general election, with unions agreeing on a national day of campaigning next month.
The Department for Work and Pensions is set to overhaul councils' benefits fraud targets following concerns that they are unachievable and could drag down authorities' Comprehensive Performance...
The Ministry of Defence has forced one of the government's biggest IT partners to include a last-minute 'failure' clause in its bid for a £4bn contract, following a series of Whitehall computer...
Public service trade unions this week outlined a plan of action to defeat government proposals to reform staff pensions, but Chancellor Gordon Brown has warned he will not back down.
Local government pension deficits have tripled to around £30bn over the past three years, but council scheme managers have been urged not to panic as they strive to meet the escalating cost of...
Incapacity benefit needs to be replaced with a new system of support that encourages people to return to the workforce, according to a centre-Left think-tank.
Chancellor Gordon Brown was accused this week of using accounting tricks to inflate his civil service relocation figures by including posts moved before Sir Michael Lyons' proposals for Whitehall...
The civil service needs to ditch its 'inherent Victorian values' if it is to better formulate and implement policies in the interests of voters, an outrider for public sector reform has warned.