Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has hit out at ‘draconian’ council parking policies that he says are driving people away from town centres and give many authorities a bad name
Former Chancellor Alastair Darling today urged the government to halt plans for the High Speed 2 rail line, warning that the scheme would restrict vital improvements to other part of the network.
London’s explosive population growth means it needs even more public investment in transport despite competing demands elsewhere in the country, according to London Assembly members.
The Office for Rail Regulation is urging the government to consider letting private firms take over parts of the UK’s rail infrastructure, in a bid to increase investment in the network.
The government has been urged to halt work on the development of the High Speed 2 rail line until it has decided on the future of airport capacity in the southeast of England.
The government will fund or guarantee £300bn of capital spending by the end of the decade, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has announced.
Funding for local bus services should be protected in Wednesday’s Spending Review, MPs said today. The Environmental Audit Committee said spending on buses was vital to ensuring that people were able...
The Scottish Government must show it can afford all the costs of its planned capital projects, which could reach £7.5bn over the next 30 years, Audit Scotland has said.
An initiative to cut costs on major infrastructure projects has identified potential savings of more than £1bn in the government’s High Speed 2 scheme, the Treasury announced today.
The Treasury has launched an initiative to cut costs in projects built using the controversial Private Finance Initiative by urging private operators of hospitals and schools to agree to a code of...
Thirteen existing enterprise zones have been shortlisted to share a £100m fund for investment in their local economies and infrastructure, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles announced today.
Auditors have said that the botched Edinburgh tram project continues to present a ‘substantial’ challenge to the city council as it attempts to implement budget cuts and restore public confidence.
The National Audit Office has today slammed the Department for Transport’s ‘unclear’ business case for the High Speed 2 rail line, warning that the scheme faces a £3.3bn funding gap.
The Commons transport select committee has supported the expansion of Heathrow airport, saying proposals for a new airport in the Thames estuary would require ‘huge’ taxpayer investment.
Whitehall should be making better use of non-executive directors brought in from the private and voluntary sector, the chair of the Commons public administration select committee has said.
The June Spending Review is going to slice Whitehall’s funding cake so thinly that departments will be left fighting over the crumbs. So how are public services meant to cope, asks Tony Travers
The government today restarted the national rail franchise programme with a call for bids to take over the East Coast mainline, currently in public hands.
Ministers have been urged to introduce more direct competition between operators on railway lines after a report concluded this could lower fares and reduce government subsidies.
Whitehall funds for training, housing and transport are to be devolved into single cash pots for Local Enterprise Partnerships, ministers announced today in their response to the Heseltine growth...
