VIDEO INTERVIEW: Andy Sawford, chief executive of the Local Government Information Unit, gives an analysis of the May 2011 local elections. He tells Public Finance what the results mean for council...
Faced with the need to save money, public bodies are rushing to sell off their buildings. But there is another way – looking at public sector assets as a whole and working out how to make better use...
A second economic forecast within a week has cast doubt on the government's ability to meet its deficit reduction strategy, by predicting a slower than expected fall in borrowing of up to £4bn
A landslide victory in the Scottish Parliament election has left Alex Salmond and his new Scottish National Party administration facing the daunting challenge of meeting its ambitious programme of...
The Scottish election campaign enters its final days with party leaders refusing to be drawn on claims that 25,000 public sector workers could lose their jobs and others suffer real-terms pay cuts of...
Insufficient data means it is impossible to conclude whether Private Finance Initiative projects offer better value for money than conventional procurement, the National Audit Office says.
It’s all in the timing. One year after the coalition government was formed, the turn of the electoral cycle means that on May 5 it faces its largest test short of a general election.
MPs have condemned the Ministry of Defence for being unable to control or explain the spiralling cost of the Typhoon fighter aircraft project, citing ‘an overall failure to control defence spending’.
The government plans to tackle the causes of child poverty and barriers to social mobility, not just the symptoms, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said.
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council has had its accounts for 2009/10 qualified because it failed to include the finances of two associated bodies in them
As the government embarks on radical reform of the welfare system, how is the Department for Work and Pensions' finance director coping with the changes? Hunada Nouss tells PF about bringing...
The Ministry of Defence is to be broken up and control of the armed forces handed to local authorities under the next phase of the government’s localism drive.
VIDEO INTERVIEW: The chief executive of Ipsos Mori talks to Public Finance about public opinion on spending cuts, the March 2011 Budget, Chancellor George Osborne and his opposite number Ed Balls. He...
