Road pricing, cutting congestion, reducing carbon monoxide emissions and improving accessibility to public transport will be at the heart of Scotland's 20-year strategy on transport, Transport...
Inaccuracies in the way hospitals code the activities they perform to bill primary care trusts 'undermines' the payment by results regime, the Audit Commission has warned.
Housing associations could miss out on grants to build homes if they fail to work effectively with local authorities, the Housing Corporation warned this week.
Services for older people are 'teetering on the brink', Local Government Association chair Lord Sandy Bruce-Lockhart was due to tell the House of Lords on December 7.
Tackling antisocial behaviour costs taxpayers £3.4bn a year, but half of all antisocial behaviour orders are breached and some towns are dogged by perceived threats of yobbish acts, a study has...
Ed Balls, the economic secretary to the Treasury, has challenged other European countries to follow the UK's lead and set up robust accounting procedures for the spending of European Union funds.
A patient survey that will decide whether GP practices receive a bonus of up to £8,000 is biased and potentially pejorative, the British Medical Association said this week.
Personal advisers working for Jobcentre Plus spent only half their time interviewing clients because of the burden imposed by paperwork, government auditors have said.
What links climate change, transport, planning and health? Answer: they are some of the issues that Chancellor Gordon Brown has outsourced to expert, independent review.
The transfer of hospital services into the community moved a step further this week as the government told primary care trusts to develop local markets with a range of providers.
An all-too familiar debate was reignited this week as ministers unveiled the provisional local government grant settlement for 2007/08. Councils were quick to warn that they faced tough choices...
Scotland's traditional dependence on social rented housing is set to change dramatically over the next 14 years, the body representing the housing profession has predicted.
NHS budget cuts, tight eligibility criteria and foot-dragging on personalised services have created 'pockets of poor performance' in adult social care, England's inspectorate has found.
Local government faces fresh strike action in the New Year after the government announced pension scheme reforms deemed unacceptable by trade unions, Public Finance has been told.
Chancellor Gordon Brown is poised to announce cuts to the administrative budgets for all Whitehall departments in his Pre-Budget Report on December 6, Public Finance has been told.
Wendy Alexander, who resigned from Jack McConnell's Cabinet four years ago, has returned to Labour's front line as convener of Holyrood's powerful finance committee.
Ministers are prepared to intervene in the 500 English schools deemed 'inadequate' following this week's Ofsted annual report, the country's most senior education official has told Public Finance
Children's minister Beverley Hughes this week came under fire from MPs concerned that greater independence for schools undermines the chances of children in care.
A leading government contractor is planning the wholesale relocation of UK jobs to offshore centres possibly putting hundreds of public sector roles at risk, Public Finance has discovered.