The government will not provide interim funding for Windrush citizens while it consults on a compensation scheme, the home secretary has confirmed today.
Central government will not financially abandon local authorities – even as grants are phased out in favour of business rate revenue, local government minister Rishi Sunak has promised PF.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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’.
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.
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...
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.
