Weak economic growth means public sector job cuts should be delayed, if necessary beyond the next general election, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development has warned.
David Cameron has called for Britain not to be ‘paralysed by gloom and fear’ about the economy, promising that the government’s austerity plan will work.
Local government staff and civil servants will be barred from working full time for trade unions while taking a salary for their job, the government has announced.
The coalition talk might be all about small government. But in the real world, the unprecedented shocks to the UK - banking crises, terrorist attacks, riots - show we rely on the state more than ever
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will give his personal backing to plans to extend Community Budgets, confronting those Whitehall departments that are ‘digging in’ against the changes, a senior...
More than three-quarters of English universities and colleges met their targets for recruiting students from low-income backgrounds last year, but some of the most prestigious institutions failed to...
The Ministry of Defence’s difficult financial position is worse than it need have been because officials and politicians spent the past decade resisting spending reviews, a study by the Royal United...
Two of Scotland's most senior economists will today back the Scottish Government's demands for control over corporation tax, despite a lukewarm response to the idea from business.
November 30 marks the next stage in the industrial dispute over public sector pensions reform and is likely to be on a scale 'unprecedented for a generation or more'. Can anything be done to avert...
The UK economy faces a lost decade of economic stagnation due to the ‘deepening crisis’ in the world economy, shadow chancellor Ed Balls warned the Labour Party conference today.
The lack of a reform programme for the civil service will doom to failure the radical ambitions of the government’s Big Society approach, MPs have warned.
The watchdog established to scrutinise MPs expenses after abuses of the system were exposed in 2009 has proved expensive to run and is not yet value for money, a Commons committee has concluded.
The number of people who take part in voluntary and civic activities remains at its lowest level for a decade, despite the government’s emphasis on the Big Society.
Whitehall needs to better understand the impact of means-testing benefits if it is to achieve value for money from them, the National Audit Office says today.
