Spending cuts of £350m, to budgets such as public health and training, will be used to wipe out this year's forecast NHS overspend of £333m, figures published by the Department of Health reveal.
The Local Government Association has called for an additional £28m in central funding to councils to help them co-ordinate carbon emission reduction commitments, following the government's Energy...
The Scottish Executive's permanent secretary John Elvidge has appointed an external review team to look at improving leadership, strategic thinking and the delivery of policy objectives for the next...
The Department of Health is considering compensating social services departments for the increased burdens created by cuts to NHS services, Public Finance has learnt.
Councils are warning that they are being starved of vital resources to fund basic services because of the government's inability to produce accurate immigration figures.
The man who made the decision to scrap the troubled Child Support Agency has told Public Finance that the organisation's demise was 'inevitable' because it 'simply was not up to the job' of...
The government's 'double devolution' rhetoric will only be meaningful if communities are involved in deciding how their public services operate, business leaders have warned.
More than a quarter of acute NHS trusts now have greater freedom from Whitehall control, following the authorisation of eight new foundation trusts this week.
High levels of public spending are exacerbating regional economic disparities and leading to dependency on central government handouts in some areas, according to a free market think-tank, Reform.
A new, more streamlined inspection regime for district councils will release them from many of the burdens of regulation, the Audit Commission said last week.
The Department of Health's finance director Richard Douglas has admitted to MPs that the apparent sudden deterioration in the NHS's finances is a product of changes in accountancy practice.
The Department of Health has failed to prove that its policy of outsourcing half a million patients to private treatment centres provides value for the extra cost it entails, the Commons' health...
Ministers will retain a stranglehold on much of the most politically charged official data unless the government creates a truly independent statistical service, senior backbench MPs are warning.