Soaring rents are forcing more working people to rely on Housing Benefit, with the number of employed claimants more than doubling since 2009, the National Housing Federation has warned.
The public sector employment outlook has deteriorated in the last three months, with employers now unlikely to hire extra staff, a poll by recruiters Manpower has found.
New year, new challenges. In 2014 there will be more funding cuts, more upheavals and ever more demand for public services. The best way to motivate your team in trying times is to lead from the...
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.
Lurking under treacherous public spending waters is an iceberg of off-balance sheet costs and other hidden debts. Future generations will have to pick up the tab
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.
Government policies to support local economic growth such as the creation of local enterprise partnerships and City Deals may not be value for money, the National Audit Office has warned.
The nationwide rollout of the government’s Universal Credit benefit reform is unlikely to meet the 2017 target, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has admitted.
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
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
Two government departments did not work effectively together when introducing overlapping programmes to support troubled families, according to a report published today by the National Audit Office.
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.
A return to economic growth will bring no relief for the public sector. Crushing austerity is here to stay for at least a decade, whoever is in office. So what will this vice-like grip on the...
Chancellor George Osborne should use the upcoming Autumn Statement to increase the Discretionary Housing Payment fund, according to the Chartered Institute of Housing
