Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said today that there will be ‘no let-up’ in the government’s tough decisions on spending.
English city councils should be given more powers over housing to enable them to play a greater role in the supply of new and decent homes, the Institute for Public Policy Research said today.
The government’s lack of support and information for elected mayors campaigns contributed to voters’ widespread rejection of the structure in the ten referendums held yesterday, according to a...
The management of large Whitehall IT and construction projects has improved since the government set up the Major Projects Authority, but the monitoring system is still not ‘built to last’, the...
The Public Accounts Committee today called for an end to the routine use of the Private Finance Initiative to pay for public infrastructure, saying some of the private sector profits were ‘difficult...
Unison’s health service members have narrowly rejected proposed changes to NHS pensions, but the low turnout in the ballot means no industrial action will result.
Warnings by MPs about the total costs of staging the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London this summer are a ‘bit misleading’, according to the Games’s finance director.
The government has relaunched the civil service pension scheme as a mutual joint venture, partly owned by staff and government and partly by a private firm.
The Local Government Association has today called on the government to provide more cash to help English councils access their full allocation of European funding.
Arts Council England has had its financial statements qualified after auditors said more than £9m in grant payments anticipated as National Lottery spending were instead paid from government grant-in...
The Public Accounts Committee today urged the Treasury to exercise greater control over Whitehall spending cuts, including setting central standards for both the planning and reporting of cost...
Following a long and painful battle, the Health and Social Care Act finally made it on to the statute book. But after all that legislative surgery, the prognosis remains unfavourable for the NHS
The National Audit Office met council representatives today as part of its preparations to take over work from the soon-to-be-abolished Audit Commission.
A committee of MPs has raised ‘substantial concerns’ that the government will not be able to save the £2.6bn it has claimed can be found by reducing the number of quangos and other public bodies.
The largest public sector trade union has warned the government that its members will ‘not sit back’ and allow the national pay bargaining system for the NHS to be broken up.
Prime Minister David Cameron is set to urge voters in cities across England to back plans for directly elected mayors to head up local authorities in referendums next month.
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has today set out new fiscal rules across government that will see departmental spending more closely monitored by the Treasury.
Unison has today warned UK local authorities that the government’s roll-out of the new Universal Credit benefit could increase the strain on council resources.
