Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney has announced a £290.8m investment boost for housing plus plans to shift funds from colleges and police to make up for central budget cuts.
The head of the Social Market Foundation has challenged the chancellor’s claim that Annually Managed Expenditure is ‘out of control’ and warned that the proposed reforms will be ‘tricky’ to implement.
Plans to establish Community Budgets across England have taken a step forward after the government wrote to councils offering help to pool local funding across the public sector.
Competing calls to increase growth and further reduce spending and taxes resulted in a Budget that was ‘muddling through at best’, Jonathan Portes told CIPFA's World-Class Performance Symposium.
You wouldn't know it from the headline figures, but local government, along with some other unprotected and unloved public services, looks likely to face at least 50 per cent spending cuts...
Government support worth more than £130bn is to be made available to help people buy a home, Chancellor George Osborne announced in the Budget statement.
The UK economy is expected to grow by just 0.6% this year as the ‘very challenging’ global situation continues to weigh down its performance, Chancellor George Osborne said today.
A bigger share of public spending will be focused on health, pensioner benefits and debt interest payments by 2017/18, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said.
The number of people working in local government has fallen by almost 400,000, or 14%, since the coalition took office in 2010, the GMB union said today.
Business leaders have urged Chancellor George Osborne to prioritise investment in housing in next week’s Budget as part of moves to boost the economy through construction.
The Local Government Association has urged the Treasury to back plans for a municipal bonds agency in the Budget, warning that councils could miss out on investment from pension funds if ministers...
As George Osborne prepares for his Budget on March 20, the loss of the UK's triple A rating is news he could have done without. Colin Talbot asks where did it all go wrong for the chancellor who hit...
The government has been warned that further downgrades of the UK’s credit rating are likely following the decision by Moody’s to strip the country of its triple-A rating.
The public sector recorded a surplus of £11.4bn in January, latest figures show, but analysts say the government is still unlikely to meet its borrowing target this year.
The auction of the 4G mobile spectrum raised a third less than forecast in last year’s Autumn Statement, putting the government at risk of missing its borrowing targets, it was revealed today.
A third local government pension scheme has joined the Treasury-backed Pension Infrastructure Platform, set up to boost investment in major capital projects.
Public sector job losses are set to be 300,000 higher by the end of 2017/18 than currently predicted, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies’ annual analysis of the government’s spending plans.
