The government has been urged to provide more support to housebuilding in cities after it was revealed that targeted action across England could re-start work at more than 118,000 sites.
The current round of financial ‘City Deals’ between the government and major cities should be boosted to tackle low pay, a joint report by two think-tanks said today.
Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has pledged to reduce spending on government transactions after publishing the costs of providing many basic services.
Local authority arm’s-length bodies are to be brought within the scope of Scotland’s Freedom of Information legislation, Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament yesterday
Plans to overhaul the audit regime for local public bodies contain ‘serious’ risks and gaps that could weaken accountability for public money, MPs have warned.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced plans for the NHS to become paperless by 2018, in a move he said could save billions of pounds a year while also improving services.
MPs have accused the government of repeating the mistakes of the Private Finance Initiative when awarding contracts for connecting offshore wind farms to the National Grid.
Plans to replace the Disability Living Allowance with Personal Independence Payments will penalise people with mobility problems and should be rethought, disability campaigners said today.
The Ministry of Defence is beginning to ‘make realistic trade-offs’ in its procurement of major projects but could still do ‘consistently better’, government auditors said today.
Network Rail has published plans to cut government support for railways by least £1bn a year by March 2019 but warned this could be at the expense of some improvements.
Prime Minister David Cameron today backed proposals to introduce a cap on adult social care costs as part of the coalition government’s mid-term review.
Overweight people could lose their entitlement to some benefits if they do not attend exercise classes, according to a report from a London council today.
Campaigners have urged the government to end the annual above-inflation hike in rail fares after it was revealed that the price of many season tickets has soared by 50% in a decade.
CIPFA has urged local authorities to be ‘extremely careful’ if they plan to follow Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles’ advice to use their reserves to close funding gaps.
The team of public servants who ensured the success of the London Olympic and Paralympic Games were among the recipients of the latest round of honours
Accountants from across the public and private sectors have called on the government to adopt a long-term industrial strategy and said ministers should stop ‘talking down’ the economy.
MPs have slammed the Ministry of Justice’s procurement of a £42m contract to provide a national interpretation service for courts, which was unable to meet demand and led to an increase in delayed...
