Government support worth more than £130bn is to be made available to help people buy a home, Chancellor George Osborne announced in the Budget statement.
The UK economy is expected to grow by just 0.6% this year as the ‘very challenging’ global situation continues to weigh down its performance, Chancellor George Osborne said today.
Public sector employment has fallen for the thirteenth consecutive quarter to just over 5.7 million, the Office for National Statistics reported today.
Government mistakes contributed to the very low turnout in last November’s police and crime commissioner polls and ‘must not be repeated’, the Electoral Commission has found.
The government is to ‘massively extend’ the tax-free childcare support available to working parents with young children, Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced...
Local authorities could face a ‘deluge’ of legal challenges over social care services unless the government clarifies which costs count towards the planned lifetime cap on charges, MPs and peers...
Whitehall funds for training, housing and transport are to be devolved into single cash pots for Local Enterprise Partnerships, ministers announced today in their response to the Heseltine growth...
A bigger share of public spending will be focused on health, pensioner benefits and debt interest payments by 2017/18, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said.
The National Fraud Initiative has uncovered £1bn in incorrect and dishonestly obtained payments in the UK since its establishment in 1996, the Audit Commission announced today.
The first internal audit standards to apply across the whole of the public sector will help ensure transparency and accountability at a time of spending cuts, CIPFA has said.
The High Court today threw out nine of the ten objections to the planned High Speed 2 rail line, but ruled that the government consultation on compensation was unfair.
More than a quarter of a million extra school places will be needed in England next year, but it is not clear if the Department for Education has provided enough funding to meet demand, auditors...
Pay for public sector staff such as NHS workers and senior civil servants will rise by an average of 1% from April, the Treasury confirmed this afternoon.
The public sector is ‘woefully underprepared’ for the impact of an ageing society and urgent government action is needed to avert a crisis in English health and social care services, peers warned...
Design principles should be incorporated into public services to help make them more streamlined, relevant and useful, according to a report published today.
Sales of government property and land have raised more than £1bn since the coalition came to power in May 2010, according to figures released by the Cabinet Office today.
Whitehall’s central procurement team has come under fire for the way it chose marketing and advertising agencies to work with over the next three years.
The four ‘whole place’ Community Budget pilots in England show that integrated spending could lead to cheaper and better services, the National Audit Office said today.
A think-tank has been criticised for suggesting that people who live a healthy lifestyle should be able to jump to the front of the queue for non-emergency NHS treatments and operations.
More government investment in broadband should be a no-brainer for Britain. It would boost the economy and help bring us up to speed with other countries
