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28 Jan 15
Government cuts to benefits mean total welfare spending will be £16.7bn lower by the end of the parliament than it would have been without the changes, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found.
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27 Jan 15
The Treasury needs to undertake a rigorous assessment of its UK Guarantees programme to determine whether government underwriting is necessary in all cases and work out if the projects will deliver...
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27 Jan 15
Academy funding must be made more transparent and new rules governing spending are needed to tackle possible conflicts of interest in the sector, the education select committee has said.
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27 Jan 15
Revenue...
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23 Jan 15
The chair of the Treasury select committee has backed the creation of a grand committee to implement a system of ‘English votes for English laws’, which could also have responsibility for local...
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22 Jan 15
Low-income families with children and the very well off are the two groups that have lost the most from the coalition government’s changes to tax and benefits for working-age people, the Institute...
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16 Jan 15
Major government investment decisions on rail infrastructure are being taken without a clear strategy for national transport networks, a committee of MPs has warned, which could hinder value for...
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15 Jan 15
Chancellor George Osborne has proposed a new fiscal rule that would require the Treasury to run a surplus unless the Office for Budget Responsibility has judged the economy to be facing abnormal...
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14 Jan 15
MPs have approved an update to the coalition government’s Charter for Budget Responsibility, which forecasts that a further £30bn of public spending cuts or tax increases will be needed to close the...
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12 Jan 15
Prime Minister David Cameron has said the next Conservative government would get Britain ‘back to living within its means’ by running a surplus on day-to-day government spending by 2017/18.
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9 Jan 15
Northern Ireland’s politicians have been told that they will be given control of corporation tax before May’s general election if they push on with agreeing the budget and implementing welfare...
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8 Jan 15
Melanie Dawes, a senior civil servant in the Cabinet Office, is to replace Sir Bob Kerslake as permanent secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government.
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8 Jan 15
The government is unable to show that its policy of paying most undisputed invoices within five days is having the intended effect of helping small- and medium-sized businesses bid for work, auditors...
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7 Jan 15
The Public Accounts Committee has criticised the Treasury’s Whole of Government Accounts for not providing enough information on the impact of the coalition’s deficit reduction plans on public...
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5 Jan 15
Government policies need to adjust to the ‘new normal’ of an increasingly self-employed workforce, the Institute for Public Policy Research has argued.
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5 Jan 15
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has called on the Treasury to change how it analyses party policies ahead of the general election after claiming the current regime could lead to misleading information...
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5 Jan 15
Professor Julian Le Grand, who has advised the government on the creation of public sector mutuals and has undertaken a review of children’s services in Birmingham, is among the public sector...
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22 Dec 14
A newly-published future spending plan has unveiled around £191bn worth of government investment in construction to 2020 and beyond.
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19 Dec 14
Government borrowing will need to fall by more than a quarter in the rest of the current financial year in order for Chancellor George Osborne to meet the latest public sector borrowing target, an...
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19 Dec 14
The Home Office is to investigate the extent of the threat posed by organised crime to public services procured by councils as part of a government anti-corruption drive.
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18 Dec 14
Councils in England will face an average cut in spending power of 1.8% in 2015/16, local government minister Kris Hopkins has announced, but London boroughs and urban authorities will face larger...
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18 Dec 14
An independent review has urged the government to reform the process of state privatisations after finding that the controversial sell-off of the Royal Mail could potentially have raised an extra £...
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17 Dec 14
Chancellor George Osborne has announced the government will step up the privatisation of Lloyds by adopting a six-month trading plan to sell more of the state-owned shares in the bailed-out bank.
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17 Dec 14
Local government secretary Eric Pickles has named the former chief fire and rescue adviser for England Sir Ken Knight as the lead commissioner in the government’s intervention into Tower Hamlets.
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15 Dec 14
The coalition has reduced the period over which the government must forecast a balanced budget from five years to three, meaning an extra £30bn of spending cuts or tax rises will be needed to close...
28 Jan 15Government cuts to benefits mean total welfare spending will be £16.7bn lower by the end of the parliament than it would have been without the changes, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found.
27 Jan 15Academy funding must be made more transparent and new rules governing spending are needed to tackle possible conflicts of interest in the sector, the education select committee has said.
23 Jan 15The chair of the Treasury select committee has backed the creation of a grand committee to implement a system of ‘English votes for English laws’, which could also have responsibility for local...
22 Jan 15Low-income families with children and the very well off are the two groups that have lost the most from the coalition government’s changes to tax and benefits for working-age people, the Institute...
12 Jan 15Prime Minister David Cameron has said the next Conservative government would get Britain ‘back to living within its means’ by running a surplus on day-to-day government spending by 2017/18.
8 Jan 15Melanie Dawes, a senior civil servant in the Cabinet Office, is to replace Sir Bob Kerslake as permanent secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government.
7 Jan 15The Public Accounts Committee has criticised the Treasury’s Whole of Government Accounts for not providing enough information on the impact of the coalition’s deficit reduction plans on public...
18 Dec 14An independent review has urged the government to reform the process of state privatisations after finding that the controversial sell-off of the Royal Mail could potentially have raised an extra £...
17 Dec 14Local government secretary Eric Pickles has named the former chief fire and rescue adviser for England Sir Ken Knight as the lead commissioner in the government’s intervention into Tower Hamlets.
15 Dec 14The coalition has reduced the period over which the government must forecast a balanced budget from five years to three, meaning an extra £30bn of spending cuts or tax rises will be needed to close...
