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19 Nov 14
The government has succeeded in cutting spending on civil legal aid following reforms to provision, but it is not clear whether the changes have also been effective in targeting support to those who...
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18 Nov 14
The Department for Communities and Local Government must improve efforts to monitor the effect of councils’ funding cuts on the ground, the National Audit Office has said.
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18 Nov 14
Action to tackle tax avoidance has been ‘unacceptably slow’, the Public Accounts Committee said today.
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14 Nov 14
George Osborne has embarked on a tour of the country to find out what areas could benefit from additional funding for road improvements in next month’s Autumn Statement.
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12 Nov 14
A quirk in the Barnett Formula for determining the public spending share of the UK’s constituent nations has spared Scotland £600m of cuts since the UK coalition’s austerity programme began in 2010,...
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10 Nov 14
Early plans to integrate local health and social care services through the Better Care Fund are ‘inadequate’ and fail to match the scale of its ambition, the National Audit Office warned today.
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10 Nov 14
Business leaders are urging the government to boost the living standards of low earners by raising the National Insurance threshold and expanding the provision of free childcare and maternity pay.
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7 Nov 14
MPs have called on the government to produce a clear ‘map of state’ setting out the roles and responsibilities of quangos and agencies, after finding that the current arrangements lacked clarity.
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5 Nov 14
Current government spending on flood risk management does not meet the maintenance needs of defences, the National Audit Office has warned.
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4 Nov 14
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles is to send three commissioners into Tower Hamlets to oversee the work of the authority after an inspection by PricewaterhouseCoopers found it had failed to...
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3 Nov 14
More than 24 million UK taxpayers are to receive a breakdown of how their tax is spent in what is being hailed as a ‘revolution in transparency’.
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31 Oct 14
Care minister Norman Lamb has revealed that an expanded version of the government’s flagship Better Care Fund will be the likely mechanism to fully integrate health and care spending across the...
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31 Oct 14
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced that nearly all of the 151 Better Care Fund plans in England have been approved ahead of implementation of the reform from next April.
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30 Oct 14
Public Accounts Committee chair Margaret Hodge has called for a tougher tax regime that closes loopholes exploited by companies and prosecutes avoidance schemes.
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29 Oct 14
Central government and local authorities do not tackle underperformance in academies and maintained schools consistently, according to the National Audit Office.
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29 Oct 14
The next government should set a fiscal rule to ensure that total public spending does not exceed tax revenue once the existing deficit is closed, the CBI has said.
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28 Oct 14
The Home Office has failed to get to grips with the backlog of applications for asylum since Home Secretary Theresa May abolished the UK Border Agency and took the work in-house, MPs have said today.
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28 Oct 14
The health service ombudsman has said she is increasingly concerned about patients being discharged from hospital when they are not ready to go home.
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28 Oct 14
The government plans to claw back redundancy payments from NHS and council managers who return to work in the same sector within a year, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has announced.
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27 Oct 14
Government initiatives to integrate public spending are likely to lead to the creation of more public service mutual firms that can bring local provision together, Cabinet Office minister Francis...
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27 Oct 14
Ministers have been urged to block a proposed deregulation law to ensure that new homes are made accessible to disabled people.
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27 Oct 14
The prime minister and chancellor have given their backing to a proposed High Speed 3 rail scheme, which aims to provide better and quicker links between England’s northern cities.
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22 Oct 14
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has today launched an initiative to cut the rising administrative workload faced by teachers, as part of measures to help public sector workers.
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22 Oct 14
The government scheme offering free pre-school places for infants has helped only a small number of women into work, a study by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found.
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22 Oct 14
The Home Office has made slower progress than expected deporting foreign national offenders despite increased resources, the National Audit Office has found.
19 Nov 14The government has succeeded in cutting spending on civil legal aid following reforms to provision, but it is not clear whether the changes have also been effective in targeting support to those who...
18 Nov 14The Department for Communities and Local Government must improve efforts to monitor the effect of councils’ funding cuts on the ground, the National Audit Office has said.
10 Nov 14Early plans to integrate local health and social care services through the Better Care Fund are ‘inadequate’ and fail to match the scale of its ambition, the National Audit Office warned today.
7 Nov 14MPs have called on the government to produce a clear ‘map of state’ setting out the roles and responsibilities of quangos and agencies, after finding that the current arrangements lacked clarity.
4 Nov 14Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles is to send three commissioners into Tower Hamlets to oversee the work of the authority after an inspection by PricewaterhouseCoopers found it had failed to...
31 Oct 14Care minister Norman Lamb has revealed that an expanded version of the government’s flagship Better Care Fund will be the likely mechanism to fully integrate health and care spending across the...
31 Oct 14Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced that nearly all of the 151 Better Care Fund plans in England have been approved ahead of implementation of the reform from next April.
28 Oct 14The government plans to claw back redundancy payments from NHS and council managers who return to work in the same sector within a year, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has announced.
27 Oct 14The prime minister and chancellor have given their backing to a proposed High Speed 3 rail scheme, which aims to provide better and quicker links between England’s northern cities.
