The Scottish Government has announced it will take over the beleaguered Edinburgh tram project, which is running over budget and will only be partly built.
The government confirmed today that it is considering spending more to protect the transport network in severe winter, after last December's snow cost the UK economy £280m a day.
The successful early completion of the main Olympic venues came as a pleasant surprise to many people. Let’s hope the rest of the public sector learns from this
The government’s decision to award a contract to construct 1,200 new train carriages to a German factory has cost the Treasury £20m in tax receipts, MPs have been told
Councillors in Edinburgh have voted to reverse their decision to cut the length of the Scottish capital’s new tram link after the Scottish government said it would not fund the truncated route.
The fiasco of Edinburgh’s new trams has plumbed fresh depths of chaos, after city councillors unexpectedly reversed a previous decision and voted to terminate the one line that survives from the...
Councils have called for the government to speed up the introduction of new powers that will allow local authorities to charge fees to utility companies who dig up roads.
The government's decision to award a £1.4bn train carriage contract to a German factory rather than a Derby plant is to be investigated by MPs and the National Audit Office.
MPs have called for the rail regulator to be reformed, saying that without more 'teeth' it is unlikely to be able to put effective pressure on the industry to reduce costs.
Edinburgh councillors have decided against pulling the plug on the city’s beleaguered tramline project, but must now raise more than £200m extra to finish it.
Almost £200m could have been cut from the cost of buying new trains in Britain over the past two decades if the orders had been planned better, according to Network Rail.
Dubbed the ‘discredited’ way to deliver public infrastructure by Chancellor George Osborne, the Private Finance Initiative has fallen far from favour. But with £200bn of infrastructure funding needed...
Councils should encourage volunteers to be on standby to help clear roads blocked by snow as part of attempts to boost the UK’s resilience to winter weather, MPs have said.
