CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman has called on chancellor Philip Hammond to give public bodies greater flexibility to respond to Brexit and other areas of financial uncertainty.
Chancellor Philip Hammond has launched a further sale of mortgage assets from the former Bradford & Bingley bank, which was nationalised in 2008 at the peak of the financial crisis.
Government plans to offer shares in Lloyds Banking Group to the public have been scrapped after chancellor Philip Hammond said that ongoing market volatility means it is “not the right time for a...
Effective finance ministries around the world have four characteristics in common, while being well adapted to local institutional, political and cultural contexts. A global association could help...
The government is to guarantee European structural and investment funding for projects signed off before the Autumn Statement, chancellor Philip Hammond has announced, but projects using EU funds...
Potential fiscal, economic and social benefits should be assessed when reforming services, and an analysis tool developed in Greater Manchester can help with this
George Osborne will abandon his fiscal rule that requires the public finances to be in surplus by the end of the parliament, saying that he must be “realistic” about the impact of Brexit.
The £27bn boost to the public finances used by George Osborne at last November’s Spending Review to reduce the scope of planned spending cuts could turn out to be “illusory”,...
Government finance professionals have gone from advising on protecting money to being policy advisers and leaders, involved in high-profile work, David Allen tells PF
Treasury permanent secretary Sir Nicholas Macpherson has announced he will step down after nearly a decade in the post, leaving the civil service at the end of March.
Public sector borrowing was £6.82bn in April 2015, a decrease of £2.5bn compared to same month last year, the lowest in the months of April since 2008, the Office for National Statistics...
New Chief Secretary to the Treasury Greg Hands has begun to work with Whitehall departments to agree in-year spending reductions ahead of the post-election Budget on July 8.
The next government has been urged to set a fiscal target to increase the proportion of public money spent on early intervention programmes as part of its deficit reduction plan.
Nearly a million public sector workers are to receive average pay increases of 1% in 2015/16, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has confirmed.
The Treasury still needs to learn lessons from the financial crash and must plan for a wide range of different crisis scenarios, a committee of MPs said today.
The government has recovered a further £1.36bn from collapsed Icelandic bank Icesave to repay the Treasury for refunds made to British savers in the institution during the financial crisis.