Finance Secretary John Swinney has predicted a sharp decline in public expenditure and is urging Scottish authorities to collaborate more to make up the deficit.
The Welsh Assembly Government missed out on more than £700m in 2006/07 as a result of the Barnett Formula, Plaid Cymru’s economic adviser has told peers.
Sheffield City Council has threatened to sack its entire 13,000 workforce and rehire staff on new contracts in the latest dispute over pay and grading structures.
Shifting the Local Government Pension Scheme on to an unfunded basis could take some of the pressure off council finance managers, Public Finance has been told.
The Committee on Standards in Public Life’s plans to publish its recommendations on reforming MPs’ expenses at the next Parliament have been described as ‘ludicrous’ by the chair of an influential...
The government has urged local authorities to relax their approach to the planning system and identify more sites in small villages where homes could be built for local families.
Councils have reacted with fury to being labelled ‘negligent’ by the Audit Commission in a report on local authority investments in the collapsed Icelandic banks.
More of the government’s three-year house building programme could be diverted towards refurbishing empty homes. Trevor Beattie, director of policy at the Homes and Communities Agency, said it was...
Arguments over funding for Welsh and English patients who receive treatment in hospitals across the border should be resolved by a government protocol, MPs have said.
A joint venture between the Welsh Assembly Government and the Ministry of Defence to protect jobs and improve efficiency has run up costs of £113m and failed to produce savings, auditors have said...
The new regulator of health and social care services for England has promised to implement a tough enforcement regime as it opens for business this week.
Tenants are turning down opportunities to get involved in housing management and other civic activities because they fear being stigmatised, according to the Tenant Services Authority...