Proposed reforms to the welfare and benefits system appeared to be in jeopardy this week after talks between the Treasury and Department for Work and Pensions stalled and analysts said the plans were...
MPs have criticised the ‘startling’ speed of the strategic defence and security review, which they said risked major errors in pruning the Ministry of Defence’s budget
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt today told MPs that his ministry will have to be ‘more imaginative than any other department in Whitehall’ in seeking to slash its costs by half.
Scotland's rival political parties have united in talks aimed at persuading the Ministry of Defence not to go ahead with proposals to cut the UK's £37bn defence budget
Opponents of the government's spending cuts must marshal an intellectual case for an alternative, the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress said today
The local government secretary’s decision to transfer the Audit Commission’s value-for-money work to the National Audit Office was ‘taken in haste’ and not thought through, local government select...
The public accepts the need for huge
cuts in the Spending Review, as long as
they minimise any sacrifices and consider long-term effects. Jon Sibson explains
As the new term starts, the education secretary faces some tough tests, not least from the Treasury. Conor Ryan tracks how the coalition's star pupil became a struggling low achiever
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg claimed this morning that much of the coalition government’s spending plans are ‘not radically different’ from those of the previous government.
Charity leaders have questioned whether the government’s Big Society plan can work in practice, as spending cuts start to hit the organisations needed to make it happen.
Rival politicians and the entire public sector in Scotland need to put aside their differences in an unprecedented effort to save £3.7bn over the next four years, MSPs have been told
The government has announced plans to put more private sector representatives on the board of the Audit Commission as the regulator prepares to transfer out of public ownership
Cuts to housing benefit announced in the June emergency Budget have been slammed by poverty and housing campaigners after a new study found that the move would push thousands deeper into poverty
The Audit Commission has appointed its local government chief Gareth Davies to oversee a bid to transform the watchdog into an employee-owned co-operative or mutual
Education Secretary Michael Gove has named the first wave of new free schools that he hopes will form an integral part of his reform programme to improve choice and raise standards
Sir Bob Kerslake, the chief executive of the Homes and Communities Agency, has been appointed permanent secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government
So farewell then Audit Commission and hello amateur bean counters. David Walker takes a look at the coalition's plans for 'super audit' - and wonders if they're outside most people's comfort zone
Is local government minister Bob Neill friend or foe? In an interview with Lucy Phillips, this amiable veteran of the sector robustly defends town hall cuts but pledges to improve relations with...
Health policy experts have called for the government to encourage joint working in the NHS, criticising the ‘perverse incentives’ and existing barriers to collaboration in the system
A conservative think-tank has criticised the government’s policy on housing for being ‘not radical enough’, and has called for a wide-ranging shake-up to cut public spending by an estimated £20bn a...
