A committee of MPs has called on ministers to bring forward plans to create a single public services watchdog for England as part of reforms to the role of the Parliamentary and Health Service...
More than one in five police community support officer jobs in England have been cut since the coalition government came to power in 2010, a study of police numbers by Unison has revealed.
Increased fiscal devolution to cities is a ‘necessity’ to boost the growth rate of the UK, a leading economist examining plans to increase the powers of municipalities has told Public...
Ed Miliband has said a future Labour government would end ‘abuses’ of zero-hours contracts by allowing employees to demand fixed hours when they have worked regularly for more than six months.
A Whitehall programme to help central and local government share offices and other property is to be extended to 15 new authorities across the country.
The government’s abolition of support payments to employers who have to pay out a large proportion of their wage bill on sick pay will make it harder to meet Chancellor George Osborne’s target for...
Councils will need to sign a pledge setting out how many potholes they will fix over the next year to qualify for money from a new Whitehall road-repair fund, Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin...
Changes to government contracts with providers of asylum seeker accommodation were poorly planned and unlikely to realise the savings intended, the Public Accounts Committee has warned.
The coalition’s controversial decision to increase university tuition fees to £9,000 is unlikely to substantially reduce the total taxpayer contribution to the sector, according to an analysis by the...
Total public sector borrowing in 2013/14 was £107.7bn, nearly £7.5bn lower than the previous year, according to the Office for National Statistics’ first estimate of the deficit for the whole of the...
The chair of the Public Works Loan Board has stepped down after it was revealed that he had not declared a bankruptcy when he was being appointed to the role.
Jobseekers, carers, single parents and disabled people are being pushed further into poverty because of the government’s welfare changes, a report has claimed today.
Chancellor George Osborne today said the ‘tough decisions’ taken to cut government spending since 2010 have allowed the Treasury to prioritise infrastructure investments to boost growth.
The government should levy a windfall tax worth around £450m on payday loan firms and use the money to support an expansion of other forms of credit, the Institute for Public Policy Research said...
Scotland would have the second highest deficit among industrialised countries if it becomes independent in 2016, the Treasury has warned in its latest economic analysis ahead of September’s referendum
An agreement between the Treasury and an independent Scotland to cover a proportion of the historic UK debt may not be enough to reassure credit ratings agencies that all obligations will be met, a...
The Treasury must do more to boost confidence in the ability of the public sector to manage and report the use of off-payroll arrangements to pay staff, a House of Lords committee has said
Public sector productivity will need to improve to maintain services amid continuing government cuts, the head of the government finance profession has said.
There are currently ‘inexplicable’ differences in pay across the civil service that need to be examined as part of the government’s deficit reduction programme, a senior Treasury figure has said.
The Cabinet Office must work closely with other Whitehall departments to ensure forecast savings from shared services, including some finance functions, are realised, auditors have said.
The Public Accounts Committee has again slammed the government’s procurement of suppliers for its £1.2bn rural broadband programme, saying it failed to establish meaningful competition in the market.
Taxpayers lost out after the government set an overly cautious share price for the privatisation of Royal Mail in order to ensure the sale went ahead, the National Audit Office has said.