The government has been warned today that it is ‘missing a major trick’ by devolving economic powers to cities only rather than offering them to wider local government.
Police representatives and the Home Office have struck a deal on future pensions for officers and staff, as part of the government’s changes to all public sector schemes.
Every junior minister in the Department for Communities and Local Government has changed as Prime Minister David Cameron completes his reshuffle of the government.
Community Budgets could be rolled out to all local authorities as part of the next Comprehensive Spending Review, the permanent secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government has...
Introducing local pay into the public sector would free more than £6bn a year that could help create more than a quarter of a million jobs, the Policy Exchange think-tank claimed today.
The greatest risk in the process of closing the Audit Commission is that functions will ‘fall between gaps’, the proposed next chair of the spending watchdog has told MPs.
As the Audit Commission prepares to bow out, incoming controller Marcine Waterman explains how it is going back to its regulatory roots while continuing to protect public money and audit quality
English local authorities will continue to receive extra government funding to tackle homelessness in their area until 2015, housing minister Grant Shapps has revealed.
The Treasury has been criticised for failing to provide funding for a cross-government initiative to make more efficient use of the public sector estate.
The British Chambers of Commerce today downgraded its growth forecast for the year, predicting that the UK economy will contract by 0.4%. It had previously forecast growth of 0.1% in 2012.
The coalition partners don’t agree on much. And the political perils of shrinking the state mean that small is no longer quite so beautiful, argues Philip Johnston
The coalition partners don’t agree on much. And the political perils of shrinking the state mean that small is no longer quite so beautiful, argues Philip Johnston
The proportion of honours awarded to civil servants and other public sector workers should be ‘rebalanced’ with those given to people who volunteer in their local communities, MPs have recommended.
Councils could mitigate the cut in Council Tax Benefit funding by tackling fraud and error when they take over the system next year, Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles said yesterday.
The government is set to complete the deal to transfer the West Coast rail line from Virgin Trains to First Group tomorrow, despite calls for MPs to examine the contract first.
People are confused about the coalition government’s economic aims, with almost half believing ministers plan to reduce the national debt rather than the structural deficit, according to a think-tank...
The Bank of England should move beyond the narrow inflation measure ‘that did nothing to prevent the deepest recession for almost 70 years’, a leading think-tank said today.
