The government's controversial new back-to-work scheme is to be piloted in two parts of the UK, the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said today.
Erick Pickles has upstaged Iain Duncan Smith when it comes to pushing through radical benefit reforms. Peter Kenway explains how Council Tax Support, not Universal Credit, became the big welfare...
The second phase of the government’s £130bn Help to Buy scheme to will be launched next week, three months earlier than planned, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced.
The rural broadband programme was mishandled by civil servants through a ‘wildly inaccurate’ business case, which had seen BT contribute less than expected and local authorities far more, the Public...
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has asked the Office for Budget Responsibility to examine Labour’s spending plans ahead of the next general election to assess their affordability
Lower public sector borrowing in August means the government is on track to borrow less than the Office for Budget Responsibility has forecast for 2013/14, economic analysts said today.
Whitehall is not doing enough to drive the integration of public spending through Community Budgets and other schemes, according to a report published by MPs today.
Commercial and contracting skills in Whitehall remain weak and underdeveloped, the Public Accounts Committee said today as it issued its verdict on civil service reform.
Cuts to the money county councils receive from the government’s New Homes Bonus will hit the delivery of vital infrastructure projects such as rural broadband and transport schemes, ministers have...
Public spending cuts are going to be needed until 2020, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has said, despite the government planning to eliminate the structural deficit by 2018.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has told delegates at the Liberal Democrat conference today that the country’s economy is ‘growing stronger by the day’.
Home Office attempts to encourage police forces to improve their procurement practices have not been a success, the Public Accounts Committee said today
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said he would support continuing to ring-fence spending on both the NHS and schools over the five years to the end of the next parliament in 2020.
Business Secretary Vince Cable today pledged to tackle the ‘abuses’ of zero-hours contracts, after admitting that their use is much more widespread than government thought.
A series of infrastructure projects intended to boost economic growth have been given the go-ahead in Preston after the city agreed the first of the second round of City Deals with government...
Whitehall’s first attempt to spin out a service into a mutual company is on track to achieve projected savings, but was beset by early delays and governance issues, the National Audit Office said...
The Royal Mail is likely to be privatised before the end of the year after the government announced today that the sell-off of the firm would begin ‘in the coming weeks’
The number of people working in local government fell by nearly 50,000 in the second quarter of 2013, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics today.
The government’s tax and benefit reforms have strengthened people’s incentives to be in work despite falling wages, the Institute of Fiscal Studies has found
Old computer systems, vital to the delivery of public services, could fail, hitting the delivering of a host of functions including pensions and welfare benefits, government auditors have warned.
London suffered the biggest cut in public spending per head of population in the first two years of the coalition government’s austerity programme, an analysis of Treasury figures has revealed
The government’s troubled families scheme has successfully turned round the lives of 14,000 households in England in its first 15 months, ministers claimed today