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27 Jun 18
A sense of unfairness contributed to the Brexit outcome and this is reflected in the UK tax system, Ed Miliband has said.
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23 May 18
The government has spent at least £239m on 26 inquiries since 2005 but does not monitor their effectiveness, the official public spending watchdog has revealed today.
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4 Oct 16
The ministerial architect of the Government Digital Service, which was created to improve the quality of schemes to digitise public services, has warned that recent changes risk undermining the...
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4 Oct 16
Housing minister Gavin Barwell has indicated that the government will look to provide greater flexibility in how funding to support affordable homes can be used.
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13 Jan 16
The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has accused some Whitehall departments of “playing fast and loose with taxpayers’ money” after a report found spending on consultants and temporary staff...
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22 Jun 15
David Cameron has today pledged to end the “merry-go-round” of low-paid workers having their wages taxed but then receiving in-work benefits such as tax credits.
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15 May 15
Jim O’Neill, the leading economist who has called for a major programme of devolution to the UK’s cities to boost economic growth, has been named as a Treasury minister in David Cameron’s government...
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4 Mar 15
The government is to sell its entire interest in Eurostar for £757m, the Treasury has announced.
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3 Mar 15
Richard Douglas, director general of finance at the Department of Health, is to retire at the end of May, he announced today.
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27 Feb 15
A St David’s Day devolution package for Wales will transfer powers over energy projects, port development and voting arrangements.
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25 Feb 15
There has been very little frontline progress on the delivery of the government’s Universal Credit benefit reform, despite £700m having been spent on it, the Public Accounts Committee said today.
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23 Feb 15
The Treasury has sold a further £500m of shares in the bailed-out Lloyds Banking Group, taking the total that has recovered from selling the public sector stake in the firm to nearly £8bn.
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20 Feb 15
Public sector borrowing was £6bn lower over the first ten months of the financial year than the same period last year, the Office for National Statistics has said, following a £8.8bn surplus in...
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20 Feb 15
The Department for International Development should ask other UK government departments to provide details of their aid expenditure in order to enhance transparency, according to the aid spending...
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13 Feb 15
Chancellor George Osborne has pledged to devolve skills funding to combined authorities in the Midlands as part of a 15-year plan to make the region ‘an engine for growth’.
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11 Feb 15
A future Labour government would introduce a tax dodging Bill that would see stronger independent scrutiny of the UK tax system and make country-by-country reporting information publicly available.
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9 Feb 15
Both Labour and Liberal Democrat spending plans in the next parliament would provide a short-term boost to growth due to the proposals to borrow to pay for infrastructure development, an economic...
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9 Feb 15
The government has announced a £6bn expansion of its Priority School Building Programme, with 277 schools set to be refurbished over the next three years.
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9 Feb 15
Chancellor George Osborne has announced a three-month extension to the sale period for the government’s pensioner bonds to May 15.
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5 Feb 15
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has pledged an end to austerity in three years after May’s general election if the Liberal Democrats are returned to government.
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4 Feb 15
Commissioners are to be sent in to run all the executive functions of Rotherham Borough Council following a damning report into the authority’s governance.
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4 Feb 15
Almost all of the accelerated fiscal consolidation planned by the coalition government to the end of the decade is set to come from spending cuts, an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has...
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3 Feb 15
New civil service chief executive John Manzoni has set out plans to strengthen the central functions in Whitehall, including the finance profession, as part of a far-reaching reform plan.
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3 Feb 15
The Department of Health has failed to meet its target to move people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour out of hospitals, according to a report from the National Audit Office.
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30 Jan 15
A Whitehall-commissioned review has urged councils to do more to increase housing supply, but has been criticised for failing to recommend changes to the Housing Revenue Account, which limits...
27 Jun 18A sense of unfairness contributed to the Brexit outcome and this is reflected in the UK tax system, Ed Miliband has said.
23 May 18The government has spent at least £239m on 26 inquiries since 2005 but does not monitor their effectiveness, the official public spending watchdog has revealed today.
4 Oct 16The ministerial architect of the Government Digital Service, which was created to improve the quality of schemes to digitise public services, has warned that recent changes risk undermining the...
4 Oct 16Housing minister Gavin Barwell has indicated that the government will look to provide greater flexibility in how funding to support affordable homes can be used.
22 Jun 15David Cameron has today pledged to end the “merry-go-round” of low-paid workers having their wages taxed but then receiving in-work benefits such as tax credits.
15 May 15Jim O’Neill, the leading economist who has called for a major programme of devolution to the UK’s cities to boost economic growth, has been named as a Treasury minister in David Cameron’s government...
4 Mar 15The government is to sell its entire interest in Eurostar for £757m, the Treasury has announced.
3 Mar 15Richard Douglas, director general of finance at the Department of Health, is to retire at the end of May, he announced today.
4 Feb 15Commissioners are to be sent in to run all the executive functions of Rotherham Borough Council following a damning report into the authority’s governance.
3 Feb 15New civil service chief executive John Manzoni has set out plans to strengthen the central functions in Whitehall, including the finance profession, as part of a far-reaching reform plan.
