Essex County Council has launched a tendering exercise that could result in ‘any or all’ of its services being contracted out to a private firm in a £5.4bn deal.
The government’s flagship practice-based commissioning policy, designed to let GPs shape local NHS provision, is ‘not operating effectively’ and has stalled completely in some areas...
Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority has more than tripled its borrowing limit to plug a financing gap that threatens to derail its £3bn Private Finance Initiative scheme
The UK government has been accused of trying to stop the process of Scottish self-government after refusing to make any commitment to increase the powers of the Holyrood Parliament
Government indecision over whether to leave Royal Mail in charge of the Post Office card account has left the fate of 3,000 post offices in the balance, senior MPs said this week
Losses from internal fraud and theft in Whitehall increased from £3.9m to over £4m in the past financial year despite a fall in the number of reported cases, a Treasury report has said
Civil service-wide pay talks are set to take place over the next three weeks after the Public and Commercial Services union suspended a national strike planned for November 10
The government could announce a combined package of tax cuts, benefit measures and capital spending to provide a ‘fiscal stimulus’ to the economy in the Pre-Budget Report, economists have...
An economist who led work at the Healthcare Commission on value for money in the health service has criticised the commission’s approach to evaluating the cost-effectiveness of services
The Scottish Government is reshaping its capital investment programme to boost the economy, Finance Secretary John Swinney has told an influential committee of MSPs
The UK government might have to repay £190m for errors made in allocating European Union regional funding across the country, as the European Commission seeks to toughen up controls on spending
Leading NHS officials have attacked Scottish Government plans for direct elections to health boards, warning that the service could be destabilised by the introduction of party politics