Public sector graduate recruitment has remained buoyant in the recession, but spending cuts could trigger a crisis in the next few years, a careers service study has shown.
Experts have criticised this month’s Strategic Defence and Security Review, which cut defence spending by 8%, as a ‘lost opportunity’ to reshape Britain’s armed forces.
Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell has told MPs that compulsory redundancies will be ‘part of the answer’ as senior civil servants draw up job-cutting plans.
Business Secretary Vince Cable has announced a £1.3bn cash injection for the Post Office network, ruling out a closure programme but leaving open the option of mutualisation.
Prime Minister David Cameron today launched the government's National Infrastructure Plan, which sets out the country's infrastructure priorities and the scale of investment needed to meet them
It was steady as she goes at the NHS - until the white paper came
along. As the health service sails into stormy waters, it's all hands
on deck at the Department of Health, finds Noel Plumridge
The impact of the Spending Review will be less severe for the devolved administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland than it will be for most Whitehall departments, the UK government...
Local authorities are preparing for profound changes in the way they provide services and run themselves after council spending emerged as one of the worst-hit areas in this week's Comprehensive...
The Housing Benefit bill is likely to soar after Chancellor George Osborne confirmed that rents for new social housing tenants will rise to 80% of the market rate, Public Finance has learnt
The government borrowed a record high of £16.2bn in September, public finance statistics show in the build up to the Comprehensive Spending Review later today
Prime Minister David Cameron today slammed the ‘appalling legacy’ of Labour’s defence procurement practices, as he revealed an 8% cut to the Ministry of Defence budget over the next four years.
The number of senior NHS managers in Scotland will be cut by a quarter over the next four years according to a pledge given by Scottish Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon
Labour’s new shadow chancellor set out his alternative deficit reduction plan today, claiming only half of the coalition’s planned spending cuts are needed.
A new relationship between central government and local delivery bodies in Scotland would lead to better and cheaper public services, a think-tank says today
The £7bn earmarked by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to help disadvantaged children and young people from the age of 2 to 20 will not come out of the schools budget, the Cabinet Office has confirmed
