Local government figures have called on ministers to change the law after the Court of Appeal ruled that a group of London councils did not have the legal powers to set up an insurance mutual...
The NHS’s payments and incentive systems are ‘not fit for purpose’ as it faces cuts of £15bn to £20bn over the five years from 2011, the NHS Confederation has claimed.
A decade of rising investment in public services has led to an overall drop in productivity, according to data released by the Office for National Statistics.
Ministers in Scotland have been told by an influential committee to plan beyond next year’s Budget if they are to cope with the effects of the recession and a continuing decline in government...
The case for limited borrowing powers for the Scottish Government is gaining support as the Calman Commission on devolution prepares to publish its final report on June 15.
Gordon Brown’s wide-ranging changes have produced a beefed-up business department, shared ministerial responsibilities and a potentially big-hitting role for the DCLG
Newly appointed Communities and Local Government Secretary John Denham has pledged to consider strengthening both councils’ powers and communities’ powers to hold them to account.
The new statistics authority bared its teeth when the government misused crime data last year. But there’s a way to go before public trust in official figures is restored
A freeze on departmental spending is predicted by researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, based on the overall public expenditure squeeze detailed in last year’s Pre-Budget Report
The cost of Private Finance Initiative projects will still not count towards public sector net debt, but government departments and local authorities will have to include the projects on their...
The financial crisis has thrust Treasury select committee chair John McFall into the limelight. He talked to Judy Hirst about bankers, bonuses - and dealing with hooligans
A simpler and more open system — or a way for ministers to bulldoze through favoured projects? The Planning Act, and particularly the creation of a new quango as final arbiter, has provoked uproar
