The Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that the government’s Winter Fuel Payment to pensioners is almost 14 times more likely to be spent on heating than on anything else – even though there is...
Public sector borrowing in April hit a record £10bn for the month, a rise of £2.7bn over the previous year, according to provisional estimates from the Office for National Statistics.
The government needs to make a 'robust assessment' of Whitehall departments’ ability to achieve its planned reforms, the Public Accounts Committee said today
The government has stolen some of the Institute for Fiscal Studies’ thunder by setting up the Office for Budget Responsibility. But there is still a big role for the institute's forensic analysis of...
The mood music has changed and, since the May 5 elections, the relationship will never be the same again. So, with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats locked into a loveless coalition, what does...
The Ministry of Defence will be without the armoured vehicles it needs until at least 2025 after spending more than £300m on procurement projects that have been cancelled.
Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude yesterday pledged to work with public sector unions over changes to pensions, denying that decisions had already been made.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has defended his controversial plans for increased competition in the National Health Service following attacks by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
The scheme for paying self-employed prosecuting barristers is too complex and could provide significantly better value for money, inspectors have said.
The plan for a national IT system for the NHS is now in ‘damage limitation mode’ and cannot achieve its main aim of giving every patient an electronic health record, the National Audit Office has...
Ministers expect to save more than £65m a year on internet publishing by launching a single government web domain, a prototype of which has been launched this week.
