Security firm G4S has issued the Ministry of Justice with £23.3m in credit notes after it acknowledged it charged for monitoring electronic tags when equipment had not been fitted or had been removed
Cardiff could be handed control of £3bn in tax revenues, including powers over business rates, UK ministers said today as they accepted almost all of the recommendations of the Silk Commission on...
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’.
Economic growth and quality of life in a host of regional cities is outstripping London as the capital ‘pays the price’ due to its problems with transport congestion, housing affordability and income...
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has revealed details of a £950m investment plan for Southampton and Portsmouth as part of a devolution deal between the cities and government.
Almost 10,000 jobs will be supported by the government’s investment in road building and improvement next year, the Department for Transport has announced today.
Government action is needed to address the public’s lack of confidence in outsourcing deals, including concerns that private sector firms are making unfair profits, the National Audit Office has said...
Prime Minister David Cameron has said the government’s Help to Buy programme is helping a new generation onto the housing ladder after it was revealed more than 2,000 people have put in offers on...
Government plans to impose a charge for NHS services to migrants could adversely affect vulnerable people who have been trafficked into the country, MPs have warned
The government’s one-stop birth and death notification system has achieved a satisfaction level of more than 96% among those who use it, ministers said today.
The coalition’s Whitehall efficiency drive saved £5.4bn in the first half of the current financial year, including £2.3bn from cutting the size of the civil service and reforming central government...
MPs today hit out at the ‘extraordinarily poor’ implementation of Universal Credit by the Department for Work and Pensions, saying it had led to public money being wasted.
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...
The Department for Work and Pensions needs to take ‘immediate steps’ to allow people to save into collective defined contribution pensions, the Royal Society of Arts think-tank said today.
Chancellor George Osborne’s pledge to keep Britain’s public finances in surplus could drive the Scots out of the United Kingdom, a former first minister of Scotland has told Public Finance
Prime Minister David Cameron today announced that the proposed register of the beneficial owners of UK companies will be made public as part of moves to tackle tax evasion
The government does not know whether the New Homes Bonus paid to councils when they approve housing developments is effective and there is an urgent need to examine the scheme properly, MPs have said...
Ipswich has agreed a City Deal with the government. The deal, agreed today, aims to boost employment in the city by improving the skills of the workforce.
Sharon White, the Treasury’s director general for public services, has been appointed second permanent secretary at the department with responsibility for managing the UK’s public finances.
