Councils with ideas for approaching their finances “more flexibly” this year should feel able to speak with the government, secretary of state Angela Rayner has said, vowing to work collaboratively...
The government’s mooted solution to the local audit crisis needs to work, or the Whole of Government Accounts risks being stuck in poor quality for several years, a group of MPs has warned.
A senior Conservative MP has suggested the government should row back on more of the tax cuts outlined in last month’s Growth Plan to “reassure the markets” after weeks of turbulence.
A group of MPs has criticised the government’s procurement at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, which they say has left officials needing to burn billions of pounds worth of surplus or faulty...
The government has said it is working to improve its evaluation work to ensure major projects provide value for money after a parliamentary committee warned there was “no evidence [of] what is...
MPs have criticised the government for allowing “billions and billions” of pounds to be lost to fraud and error in Covid-19 support schemes, and particularly for lacking information on loans and...
The need to restore and renovate Parliament is a one-off opportunity to reform how parliamentarians conduct their business at Westminster, writes director of the IfG Bronwen Maddox.
MPs will receive a 1.8% pay rise for the coming financial year, raising the salary to £77,379 from April, the parliamentary standards watchdog has revealed.
The UK seems set to enter a period of minority government with Theresa May remaining in office, supported by some form of cooperation arrangement with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). Akash Paun...
Senior pro-Brexit MP Bernard Jenkin has revealed that the parliamentary committee he chairs has been asked by government to help develop a plan on how the civil service can prepare to leave the...
Two parliamentary select committees have launched a rare joint-inquiry to scrutinise the government’s life chances strategy and the impact of early years intervention.
Parliamentary select committees must take a longer-term approach to scrutiny of government to improve the impact they have on the work of Whitehall, the Institute for Government has said.
Cities that appoint metro mayors will receive a suite of new powers, while a law will be passed to freeze personal taxes until 2020, the Queen’s Speech has confirmed.
