Introduction of the Universal Credit will lead to a £600m reduction in welfare spending after the government announced that allowances in the benefit would be frozen for three years, an analysis of...
Deeper cuts will need to be made to public service spending to meet Chancellor George Osborne’s target for a government surplus in 2018/19, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said.
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has confirmed that the government will meet the costs of the business rate reliefs set out in the Autumn Statement.
Today’s Autumn Statement was more like a mini-Budget. What it shows is that the chancellor’s ultimate aim is permanently to roll back the frontiers of the state
The Autumn Statement provided details of how the cap on overall welfare spending will be work in practice, with the House of Commons having to sanction any breaches
Chancellor George Osborne has announced that the cap limiting the amount councils can borrow to build new homes will be increased by £300m, with the allocation to be distributed through local...
The UK public finances will be in surplus by 2018/19, Chancellor George Osborne said today as he revealed a host of upward revisions to the Office for Budget Responsibility’s fiscal forecasts
CIPFA’s chief executive has called on George Osborne to empower local authorities and live up to the coalition’s initial commitment to localism and devolution.
The Treasury has doubled its target for receipts from the government’s privatisation programme to £20bn by 2020, with the taxpayer stake in Eurostar among the assets now likely to be sold
Councils could face bankruptcy if Chancellor George Osborne announces more cuts to local authority funding in Thursday’s Autumn Statement, trade union Unison has warned
The Treasury has been urged to set out more details about the development of a host of infrastructure projects in this week’s Autumn Statement as part of efforts to raise private finance to pay for...
Energy Secretary Ed Davey has today set out plans to move some government-mandated green levies on fuel bills into general taxation in a bid to limit the price rises being faced by consumers.
Current levels of state spending are ‘reckless’ and ‘suffocating’ businesses, a Conservative MP claimed today in a pamphlet for the Right-wing Centre for Policy Studies think-tank.
Chancellor George Osborne should use the upcoming Autumn Statement to increase the Discretionary Housing Payment fund, according to the Chartered Institute of Housing
Local communities in England lose £4.1bn each year to the UK’s devolved nations through the ‘outdated’ Barnett Formula for distributing public spending, the Local Government Association has claimed...
Business leaders have urged Chancellor George Osborne to stick to his deficit reduction strategy despite improvements in the economy, warning that the job of cutting spending is ‘only half done’.
The Treasury’s review of financial management is Whitehall in likely to recommend the formation of a stronger central function in government, the head of the civil service has revealed
The next two years will be ‘make or break’ for the viability of many councils and the government must not impose extra cuts to local authorities in next month’s Autumn Statement, the Local Government...
