The public sector could increase the productivity of its workforce by £8bn a year by using its buildings differently, according to a report being launched today by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles.
Plans to encourage employee-owned mutuals in the public sector will not succeed without changes in the way outsourcing contracts are awarded, a Cabinet Office adviser has warned.
The race is on to complete the venues for the London 2012 Games and Dennis Hone is stewarding it. The chief executive of the Olympic Delivery Authority talks to Neil Merrick about the false starts...
Justine Greening has been propelled to the top role in transport, just in time to oversee the controversial high-speed line planned between London and Birmingham. She will have a tough job defending...
Retired public servants will still get 'a very good pension' even after the government's proposed reforms take effect, Treasury permanent secretary Sir Nicholas Macpherson has said.
Plans to localise business rates could end up with the government clawing back funds to pay down the deficit, a local government think-tank has warned.
Opposition to the government’s public sector reform plans is strong among both the general public and the workforce, the Trades Union Congress has warned.
Complaint handling by government bodies is 'inconsistent, haphazard and unaccountable', the Whitehall ombudsman has found after surveying 35 departments and quangos.
A disastrous back-office shared services project by the seven academic research councils has led to a massive overspend, the National Audit Office has found.
At least 20 NHS trusts seeking to be self-governing by 2014 are not 'financially or clinically viable in their current form', the National Audit Office has warned.
Unemployment in the UK has hit a 17-year high, with more than 2.5 million people now out of work, the Office for National Statistics has revealed today.
The flagship venue for next summer’s London Olympic Games will remain publicly owned after plans for the stadium to be taken over by an east London football club were abandoned.
