The government lacks a coherent strategy for implementing its flagship payment-by-results system and use of the contracts so far has been seriously flawed, charities warned today.
The Court of Appeal has today upheld a ruling that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt exceeded his powers when he ordered Lewisham hospital to cut or close departments.
A revised government analysis of the proposed High Speed 2 rail line has slightly downgraded the economic benefits of the route, but has also concluded Britain cannot meet its future transport needs...
The benefit cap will struggle to fulfil its two main objectives of saving public money and encouraging people into work, the Chartered Institute of Housing said today as it published the results of...
Public sector borrowing for the current year looks set to undershoot the Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecasts, according to public finance figures released today
A total of 40 projects are in line for support from the government’s £40bn UK Guarantees programme, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has revealed today.
The number of people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance has fallen in every local authority in Britain over the last 12 months, according to the Department for Work and Pensions.
The government has struck a deal to support the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset, but the terms could see energy company EDF receiving above-market payments...
The government has set out details of the investment regulations for the reformed Private Finance Initiative, including the terms under which the Treasury will provide cash for capital projects.
The next UK government could increase public spending by £20bn a year – 1% in real terms – from 2016 and still manage to cut the deficit, according to a Fabian Society commission.
The chair of the local government select committee has written to Prime Minister David Cameron asking him to justify his claim that councils face only a 2.3% cut in resources following June’s...
Shares in Royal Mail have jumped in value at the start of trading today, after the government announced the price and allocation of equity in the privatisation that will raise nearly £2bn for the...
Private or voluntary firms that win outsourcing contracts for public services will be required to offer employees continued access to public sector pensions, the government has said.
Labour leader Ed Miliband has appointed former shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Rachel Reeves to the shadow work and pensions brief in a reshuffle of his frontbench team.
Three new junior ministers have been appointed to the Department for Communities and Local Government following David Cameron’s government reshuffle, which concluded yesterday evening.
Continuing to ringfence NHS and schools spending is placing ‘the full burden of financial stringency’ on other Whitehall departments and could lead to waste in protected areas, the Treasury select...
The government’s plan to privatise the Royal Mail amounts to ‘flogging off a national institution on the cheap’ and could leave taxpayers shortchanged by future asset sales, Labour’s shadow business...
Prime Minister David Cameron has warned that the ‘crisis’ in the public finances caused by the government’s deficit is not over, and he indicated further cuts to spending will be needed.
The ‘friends and family test’ used to judge the quality of NHS hospitals is to expanded to other public services, including job centres and further education colleges, Cabinet Office minister Francis...