The planned shift to English Votes for English Laws highlights the need to review “unsatisfactory” arrangements for approving public spending across the UK, a committee of MPs has said.
A banking scandal on an epic scale, flagrant misuse of public funds, fearless investigators and a grasping Scottish cabal in Westminster. Familiar? It happened 200 years ago.
Council spending in England fell by almost a third over the duration of the last Parliament, with housing and planning the areas that were hardest hit, CIPFA analysis has found.
Views from the 2015 CIPFA CFO Summit which considered challenges for public services around the upcoming Comprehensive Spending Review and the need for service transformation.
The pace of public sector job cuts is set to quicken to 2018/19, an analysis of government spending plans by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found, with a projected workforce reduction of more...
Rules governing council borrowing could be loosened in the next parliament as part of moves to improve the integration of public services, ministers have indicated.
Public sector procurement needs to become increasingly commercial in its approach. Better market intelligence and contract management are key to doing it smarter
