Ian Pearson, Northern Ireland's interim finance minister during the suspension of the Assembly, has announced a £2bn spending programme under the Reinvestment and Reform Initiative agreed last year...
It's been a remarkably successful few weeks for London Mayor Ken Livingstone. His £2.7bn budget for 2003/04 was passed with surprisingly little opposition, while his controversial £5 congestion...
The controller of the Audit Commission has hit out at the government for pressurising the watchdog to penalise certain councils in the Comprehensive Performance Assessments published last December...
Jokes about hospital food could soon be as stale as the infamous British Rail sandwich after NHS meals were given a cautious thumbs-up by the Consumers' Association.
The watchdog has surveyed...
The Private Finance Initiative is delivering most central government building projects on time and at, or below, estimated cost, the National Audit Office said in a report this week.
Transport for London chiefs were this week warned they must make the city's congestion charging scheme an immediate success or it will be 'a lethal body blow' to public-private partnerships.
London Mayor Ken Livingstone is on the point of sealing a deal with the government to transfer the London Underground to his control, after a prolonged dispute over a possible £1.5bn funding gap in...
Transport Secretary Alistair Darling this week warned rail companies they must get a grip on the spiralling costs that are undermining the government's long-term plan to improve the network.
The London Assembly and the Association of London Government are independently to evaluate the capital's congestion charge scheme following Transport for London's decision to conduct its own...
The government's use of public sector targets often referred to as 'targetitis' should reflect 'meaningful outcomes for those using and providing services', the chair of the Local Government...
'They are going up the Swanee if someone doesn't give them money,' Mayor Ken Livingstone is reported to have said last weekend of PFI contractors Amey and WS Atkins, leading players in the public-...
Tony Blair's big political ideas for the next 12 months have drawn immediate criticism following their unveiling at the state opening of Parliament this week.
Both young and old British citizens have little interest in local politics, with more than half failing to vote in this year's council elections, a survey published to coincide with Local Democracy...
The structure of Network Rail, the not-for-profit successor to Railtrack, will be 'unaccountable, introverted and deeply flawed', according to a leading think-tank.
Business leaders this week launched a scathing attack on regional transport policies adopted by the government, local authorities and service contractors.
Scottish Borders Council is downplaying reports that the Scottish Executive and Scottish Enterprise have backtracked over public funding for a £77m rail project that could help the area.
As industrial action by council workers, train drivers and firefighters escalates are we witnessing a new era of union militancy that echoes the 1979 'winter of discontent'?
The government has moved to tackle bed-blocking with a series of measures designed to make social services more responsive, increase the number of available care home beds and allow more old people...
