Former care minister Paul Burstow has urged the government to set out a clear plan for the future of adult social care funding in the June 26 Spending Review.
A Labour government would consider means testing the winter fuel allowance paid to pensioners and use the savings to fund health and social care, Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls said today.
The government is on the way to managing its finances as well as the best-run FTSE 100 companies, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude said today as he announced that Whitehall exceeded its savings...
The Treasury is clamping down on annually managed expenditure to cut the welfare bill. A far better strategy, argues James Lloyd, would be to split the DWP into two, with a ministry for working-age...
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has indicated the government will expand the number of ‘whole place’ Community Budgets in next month’s Spending Review.
Chancellor George Osborne has announced a change to the system of tax breaks in order to clamp down on what he called the ‘unacceptable’ use of some reliefs by utility companies.
UK spending cuts planned for the next two years are ‘appropriate’, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said today. The international body also called for infrastructure...
Government statistics should be presented in a way that is accurate and meaningful, rather than ‘spun’ into a good news story for the government, MPs have said.
The plan to abolish the Audit Commission is one of 89 major Whitehall projects facing significant obstacles to implementation, according to a Cabinet Office review.
The Department for Communities and Local Government is among seven Whitehall ministries that have signed up to extra funding cuts of between 8% and 10% in 2015/16, Chancellor George Osborne announced...
Higher education funding should be reformed to protect universities from an ‘avalanche’ of government cuts, the Institute for Public Policy Research said today.
The two separate National Insurance rates paid by self-employed people act as an ‘open invitation’ for tax avoidance and should be scrapped, the CentreForum think-tank said today.
Plans to create a government-backed business bank are part of moves to ‘shift’ lending to firms away from conventional financiers, Business Secretary Vince Cable said today.
Hospitals are to share £260m of additional funding to speed up the move to electronic patient records and prescriptions, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced.
Around £200m could be saved each year if the efficiency of England’s fire services was improved, an independent report commissioned by the Department for Communities and Local Government has...
The National Audit Office has today slammed the Department for Transport’s ‘unclear’ business case for the High Speed 2 rail line, warning that the scheme faces a £3.3bn funding gap.
The way the English NHS pays hospitals for accident & emergency admissions is ‘broken’ and could lead to care failures within six months, foundation trusts warned today.
Councils are facing a financial black hole of around £15bn in 2019/20 as a result of rising demand for services, such as social care, and government funding reductions, local authority chief...
The Department of Health, the NHS, local authorities and regulators have today signed a landmark agreement to integrate health and social care services within five years.
