The Treasury will give financial backing to any Private Finance Initiative scheme that ends up on the public sector balance sheet because of new accounting rules, Public Finance has learned.
The Data Protection Registrar has warned councils that an overzealous pursuit of data matching could undermine attempts to modernise the way the public gains access to services.
Michael Bichard, permanent secretary to the Department for Education and Employment, has been created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
Housing associations and community groups were this week invited to copy a savings and loans scheme established in Cambridge to improve low-income tenants' access to affordable loans.
The first takeover of one council-owned airport by another was confirmed this week when Manchester Airport successfully completed its purchase of Humberside International Airport.
Rent reform should begin immediately, with a major increase in the subsidy paid to registered social landlords, ministers were told by the National Housing Federation this week.
An £84m hole has been discovered in the accounts of National Savings, the government agency that offers personal savings products to the public to help finance the National Debt. Fraud has not been...
Local Education Authorities found themselves in the government's sights again this week when Prime Minister Tony Blair stepped up the attack on spending on schools.
The government admitted last week it is prepared to change the data protection laws if they obstruct its plans to modernise the delivery of public services.
The future of national pay bargaining for 1.6 million local government workers is up for grabs, following the launch of a three-month consultation by the Employers' Organisation.
Changes to Britain's phone system which could end up costing councils hundreds of thousands of pounds were met this week with a collective shrug of the shoulders from the public sector.
The Private Finance Initiative must be applied wholesale to the National Health Service to ensure as many people as possible are treated, according to shadow health secretary Ann Widdecombe.
A star rating system similar to that used by hotels and restaurants is likely to be applied to local authorities as part of Best Value inspections of their services.
Public service unions have ducked a confrontation over comments from the prime minister about the future of annual pay negotiations across the public sector.