Up to £3bn a year can be saved in infrastructure costs if the public and private sectors follow actions set out in a government report, its authors have claimed.
Ministers have scrapped the scheme to streamline and link up England’s fire and rescue control centres following concerns over serious project overruns.
A UK Cabinet minister has rejected claims by the Scottish Government that it would have been ‘short-changed’ by almost £8bn if the Calman plans for tax reforms had been in operation over the past...
'Serious organisational failings' in the Ministry of Defence have led to inefficiency and long-term additional costs, a damning report from the Public Accounts Committee has said
Local authorities will not have the necessary resources to sustain current social care eligibility levels, the Commons health select committee has warned
Local government minister Bob Neill has told Public Finance that today’s Decentralisation and Localism Bill will usher in a new ‘can-do’ era for councils.
Welfare reform is crucial to the coalition’s agenda. But ministers’ plans are driven by cuts rather than consistent principles, while Labour seems out of touch. Policy thinkers Gavin Kelly and Nick...
Some councils in England’s most affluent areas could see an increase in their funding from central government in today’s revenue support grant settlement, Public Finance has learnt
Housing minister Grant Shapps has given more details on his reforms to social housing, due to feature in the government’s forthcoming Decentralisation and Localism Bill
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has defended his decision to ring-fence council public health budgets, denying that the move is at odds with a wider government drive to remove local finance...
Chancellor George Osborne has come under pressure to reveal how much money the government hopes to generate through asset sales during the Comprehensive Spending Review period
Only five years ago, Danny Alexander was working for a national park. Now, after a rapid ascent, he is second in command at the Treasury and is vital to maintaining the coalition. He talks...
The strategy for tackling child poverty should be overhauled, with more funding targeted during the first five years of life, according to a major review published today
