The chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility has written to David Cameron challenging claims the prime minister made about the impact of government spending cuts on economic growth.
Business leaders have urged Chancellor George Osborne to prioritise investment in housing in next week’s Budget as part of moves to boost the economy through construction.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt will today hit out at ‘coasting’ NHS hospitals, warning that complacency and mediocre care can lead to increased fatalities.
The Public Accounts Committee has criticised the government’s deficit reduction plan, warning that the coalition ‘does not fully understand’ the impact of public spending cuts.
Controversial competition regulations for the NHS have been withdrawn after health minister Norman Lamb admitted they ‘created confusion’ around the coalition’s reforms.
The government should abolish the Highways Agency and devolve its funding to councils and other local bodies, a report commissioned by the Local Government Association has concluded.
More than half of the town halls developing new Council Tax Benefit schemes to take effect in April will receive cash to keep bills down, local government minister Brandon Lewis announced today.
Ministers today announced the creation of four evidence-gathering bodies to measure the effectiveness of government policies and improve the value for money of £200bn worth of public spending.
The government’s track record on IT projects is notoriously poor. So is the launch of the Universal Credit going to break the mould or repeat the big, costly failures of the past?
Plans to fund the construction of trains for the new Crossrail line in London using private sector funding have been scrapped after it was decided that the carriages would be paid for in full by...
The Ministry of Defence has wasted significant amounts of public money buying more military supplies than it needs, resulting in a £4.2bn stockpile of goods, MPs have found.
The discretionary fund set up to help people pay their rent once the ‘bedroom tax’ is imposed next month is more than £100m short of what is needed, according to the National Housing Federation.
The coalition's flagship Universal Credit programme remains on track although it has been taken over by a Whitehall troubleshooter, the government's chief operating officer has insisted.
As George Osborne prepares for his Budget on March 20, the loss of the UK's triple A rating is news he could have done without. Colin Talbot asks where did it all go wrong for the chancellor who hit...
Attempts to improve central government procurement are being held back as Whitehall departments are unwilling to make the changes needed to reduce costs, the National Audit Office has found.
The botched award of the West Coast rail franchise and subsequent scrapping of the deal will cost taxpayers at least £50m in extra fees, the Public Accounts Committee has revealed.
MPs have called for the UK Statistics Authority to be given more control of Whitehall’s use of official government data to ensure the integrity of the information used.
Last November’s elections for police and crime commissioners ‘failed both candidates and voters alike’ due to government mismanagement of the polls, the Electoral Reform Society has said.
The government has been warned that further downgrades of the UK’s credit rating are likely following the decision by Moody’s to strip the country of its triple-A rating.
Nearly half of councils in England have not yet signed up to the government’s council tax freeze for 2013/14, figures published by ministers today have revealed.
The government’s flagship Work Programme had an ‘extremely poor’ record of finding jobs for the unemployed in its first 14 months in operation, the Public Accounts Committee said today.
