The leader of the UK’s largest local authority has today urged the National Audit Office to investigate the government’s handling of its funding of councils.
Take home pay in the public sector declined in the three months to the end of July, the fourth consecutive period of decline, according to a survey of earnings.
Business rate relief for smaller firms has trebled in value since the last general election, Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has said.
Central government revenues would increase by more than £20bn if Whitehall's tax collection rates were as high as those for councils, the Local Government Association said today.
Fewer than a quarter of people whose benefits will be cut by the government’s welfare cap will be able to mitigate the effect by taking on more work or moving to cheaper housing, the Local Government...
Plans to introduce a payment-by-results system into probation services risk ‘backfiring’ as the model could penalise successful providers, the Social Market Foundation warned today.
Campaigners against the ‘bedroom tax’ have lost a High Court challenge, it emerged today. Judges ruled that the changes to Housing Benefit rules did not unlawfully discriminate against disabled...
MPs have called for responsibility for forensic science services to be removed from the current minister who has come under unusually strong attack in a select committee report.
Retained firefighters who were not eligible to join a public sector pension scheme until 2006 are to be allowed to ‘purchase’ contributions for extra years, fire minister Brandon Lewis has announced.
Government hopes to sort out problems in accident and emergency departments are pinned on a new set of boards that don’t have the power to make service changes and whose purpose and status is unclear...
The government’s scheme to improve fire service control centres in England following the decision to scrap the national Fire Control programme is running late and could fail to be value for money,...
Mutual firms delivering public services such as adult social care need better access to long-term funding, according to a report examining progress on the roll-out of employee-owned enterprises.
Revised borrowing figures for 2012/13 show the government managed to cut the deficit by £2bn compared to the previous year, the Office for National Statistics said today.
The government has been urged to improve its procurement skills after the public administration select committee said fears that G4S and Serco had overcharged on electronic tagging contracts was ‘...
The UK government has launched a short consultation on devolving stamp duty to the National Assembly for Wales in advance of its formal response to the Silk Commission proposals on greater financial...
The government has been urged to slow down plans to expand outsourcing of public services after the Institute for Government warned that Whitehall lacks the skills to manage such deals.
Maintaining current spending levels on pensions and healthcare will put public sector debt on course to hit 99% of economic output within 50 years, the Office for Budget Responsibility has warned.
