Employee-owned organisations are not an easy way of making savings, according to the head of a think-tank that will be working closely with the government’s mutual pilot projects.
The coalition needs to be more restrictive with health and welfare spending if it is serious about paying down the deficit and reforming public services, a Right-wing think-tank is warning.
The decision to scrap the Audit Commission was a 'logical' step in the coalition's agenda and should not have come as a shock to anyone, local government minister Bob Neill has told Public Finance
Defence secretary Liam Fox has outlined plans for reforming his department, emphasising the need for it to become more efficient, cut costs, and to tailor the armed forces to the threats Britain...
Economic forecasts this week say that the fiscal tightening set out in the coalition government’s June Budget has increased the risk of a double-dip recession
As the public deficit grows, so do grumbles about arts subsidies – and the culture secretary has been dutifully wielding the axe. So what does the future hold for the UK’s museums, galleries and...
The University and College Union has warned that a graduate tax could lead to medical staff, teachers and social workers paying significantly more for their education
People living in social housing in England will be able to swap homes more easily with other tenants anywhere in the country, the government announced today
The government today claimed to have saved almost £6.5m in advertising and marketing costs in just one month, but the move has led to hundreds of job losses
Equality campaigners have mounted a legal challenge to the emergency Budget, claiming that it exacerbates differences between men’s and women’s incomes
The Treasury has been accused of taking a ‘blunderbuss’ approach to public spending cuts by the think-tank founded by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith
Eighty-five per cent of the claims put in by councils for housing and council tax benefits subsidy were inaccurate, according to the local government spending watchdog
