Prime Minister David Cameron announced today that the government will spend almost £450m in a bid to turn around the lives of 120,000 problem families in England.
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The Department for Transport’s plans to cut tens of millions of pounds from its spending on road maintenance and rail may not be financially sustainable, the National Audit Office warned today.
The lack of checks on small-scale spending across police forces poses a ‘major risk’ to public money and could damage the reputation of the police service itself, inspectors have warned.
The government’s implementation plan shows that ministers are serious about getting to grips with the problems associated with public sector ICT projects
The Ministry of Defence failed to deliver any armored vehicles in more than a decade, despite spending £1.1bn on a procurement scheme, the Public Accounts Committee has said.
The National Housing Federation has hit out at ministers’ calls for social landlords to be more transparent about their spending, saying they do not want to become government bodies ‘by default’.
Plans to give English cities outside London more power to raise funds, decide on infrastructure projects and develop new businesses and jobs have been announced today by the deputy prime minister.
The government has offered to postpone the planned rise in NHS pension contributions for lower-paid workers, meaning almost half the staff would not pay more next year.
The civil service has been protected from the brunt of the government’s spending cuts and as a result is making little effort to reform, councils are claiming
Senior public sector staff expect private companies to play a greater role in providing public services, but almost half believe such collaboration will affect quality, a survey has found.
There is a ‘real risk’ that preparations for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will cost more than the £9.3bn of public money set aside for the event, the National Audit Office warned...
Revenue & Customs needs to target its training funds more effectively if it is to improve productivity while reducing running costs, the National Audit Office said today.
The Autumn Statement has made it ‘inconceivable’ that the government will eradicate child poverty by 2020, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned.
The first audited Whole of Government Accounts do not give a ‘true and fair’ view of what the UK public sector owns and owes, according to the chair of the Public Accounts Committee.
