MPs today urged the Department for Work and Pensions to check what help will be available for benefit claimants when the internet-based Universal Credit is introduced later this year.
Pay deals for top civil servants are becoming so ‘financially unattractive’ that it is increasingly difficult to retain talented people in Whitehall, the National Audit Office warned today.
An initiative to cut costs on major infrastructure projects has identified potential savings of more than £1bn in the government’s High Speed 2 scheme, the Treasury announced today.
England’s top universities have become less socially representative over the past decade, an examination of admissions by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission has revealed today.
Another six Whitehall departments, including the Home Office, have reached agreement with the Treasury on spending cuts for 2015/16 ahead of the June 26 Spending Review, it has been announced.
Cabinet reshuffles should take place only once every five years as frequent ministerial changes have ‘a negative impact on the effectiveness of the government’, MPs have said.
The number of children living in relative poverty has fallen by around a quarter since the financial crisis in 2007/08, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found.
The Treasury has launched an initiative to cut costs in projects built using the controversial Private Finance Initiative by urging private operators of hospitals and schools to agree to a code of...
Financial management in government must improve to ensure that public services are sustainable at a time of spending cuts, the National Audit Office said today.
Public sector employment in the UK continues to decline, falling by 22,000 to 5.7 million over the first three months of the year, official figures show.
Councils have warned that the government’s threat to remove local authorities from the process of recruiting and assessing potential child adopters could jeopardise recent improvements to the system.
Thirteen existing enterprise zones have been shortlisted to share a £100m fund for investment in their local economies and infrastructure, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles announced today.
Local government could face cuts of up to 12% in the forthcoming Spending Review if the government decides to lessen the pain doled out to the Home Office and Ministry of Defence, the Institute for...
English councils are to be given a £94m education refund for 2012/13 after Whitehall took too much from local authority grants to pay for services at academy schools.
The NHS faces a 'vicious spiral' of poorly planned services and unsustainable demand for care unless changes are made to local health care provision and some hospitals close, a coalition of managers...
The government is to launch a ‘rolling programme’ of Community Budgets at this month's Spending Review to give all areas a chance to join the pooled funding initiative.
