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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
Government policies need to adjust to the ‘new normal’ of an increasingly self-employed workforce, the Institute for Public Policy Research has argued.
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...
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...
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...
