Lack of logistics expertise, obsolete IT systems and confused management have led the Ministry of Defence to waste money on inefficient transport of military equipment and stores around the world,...
Complaints about the impact of cuts on public services should be made to local councils, Chancellor George Osborne has told the Treasury select committee.
With almost 2 million English households in housing need, what direction of travel should the coalition take to help close the gap? A range of government policies seem to be flying in the face of the...
Whitehall departments grappling with spending cuts could learn from how the Foreign & Commonwealth Office dealt with a sudden shortfall, according to government auditors
The chancellor should spell out the economic conditions that would make him deviate from his deficit reduction plan, the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies told MPs yesterday.
Labour says the chancellor's 'Budget for growth' won't work, and he needs a Plan B. But where are the Opposition's own alternatives for the economy and public services? Liam Byrne talks exclusively...
The National Audit Office has warned the government’s new centralised savings body that it must set benchmarks and produce quantifiable data to measure its success.
Lower growth forecasts mean the chancellor's deficit plan depends on a strong economic recovery from 2013 onwards, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said.
Local Enterprise Partnerships are to be tested to the limit as hard-pressed councils strive to be part of the 21 new 'enterprise zones' announced in the Budget
Two major development projects in Scotland are to be funded using Tax Increment Financing, which allows councils to borrow against future gains in business rate income
The Treasury could be in line for an £8bn ‘windfall’ this year because of higher than expected tax receipts and lower government spending, leading economists said today.
The National Audit Office plans to issue comparative data about the performance of public bodies, comptroller and auditor general Amyas Morse told last week’s CIPFA international conference.
A London council has called for enterprise zones to be extended beyond the Midlands and North of England ahead of this week’s Budget, in which ten new zones are due to be announced.
After addressing the CIPFA international conference in London, the former US comptroller general and founder and CEO of the Comeback America Initiative talks to Public Finance about: fiscal...
Public sector employment in the UK fell by 132,000 over the whole of last year, cutting the workforce to just under 6.2 million, according to the Office for National Statistics.
