Business leaders in Scotland are divided over how far the UK government should go in giving the devolved Holyrood Parliament extra powers over taxation
Billions of pounds’ worth of public investment could be better safeguarded through a better-designed and compulsory performance-checking system, the government’s spending watchdog has said
The most detailed public spending figures ever to be published by the government are available online from today, in an attempt to increase transparency on how taxpayer money is used
Could the influence of the private sector help the civil service provide more for less? If so, it will test relations both with the unions and within the coalition itself, reports Lucy Phillips
The new government has already announced £6bn worth of cuts and more are on the way. In the run-up to this month's emergency Budget, Public Finance held a round table to assess the risks ahead. David...
The Public Accounts Committee must improve the way it measures government spending plans, such as the £6.2bn proposed cuts, according to one of the candidates for the role of chair
The appointment of a new chief executive at Monitor looks set to be dragged out as the foundation trust spending watchdog awaits further details of its beefed-up role
Plans for environmentally friendly light rail schemes are likely to be shelved in the forthcoming emergency Budget because they are considered unaffordable, Public Finance has been told
Proposals by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith to ‘urgently’ reform the benefits system will be expensive and the worst off in society might have to cover the costs, think-tanks have...
The government has failed to meet targets to increase the participation in sports of ‘priority groups’ despite over half a billion pounds worth of initiatives, the National Audit Office has found
Spending cuts to the Department for Communities and Local Government are only the first step on a very long journey, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Ministers’ promises to prioritise cash for new social homes amid broader cuts in communities spending has been questioned by experts and dismissed by the Opposition as ‘false’.
Peter Housden, the outgoing permanent secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government, has been appointed Scotland’s top civil servant.
Sweden's response to its 1990s fiscal crisis could provide the coalition government with an instruction kit on how to reassemble the UK economy. Alison Moore spoke to former premier Göran Persson...
It was never meant to be like this. Whitehall is tearing up the rulebook and getting used to the political and practical consequences of a coalition government. Peter Riddell reports from within the...
