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...
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.
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.
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.
The Home Office has made slower progress than expected deporting foreign national offenders despite increased resources, the National Audit Office has found.
Public sector borrowing was £58bn for the first six months of 2014/15, up more than £5bn from the same period the previous year, figures from the Office for National Statistics has revealed.
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman is to develop a new charter of pledges as part of its revamp of the complaints procedure for the NHS and other government department and agencies.
Britain is on the brink of becoming a ‘permanently divided’ nation, with increasing numbers of people trapped in low paying jobs, shut out of the housing market and hurt by public spending cuts, the...
The government has been urged to encourage the creation of ISA-style tax free savings accounts so that students can build up money to allow them to pay for tuition without taking on loan debt.
Spending across the range of benefits included in the upcoming welfare cap is expected to fall as a percentage of the economy to 2018/19, an analysis from the Office for Budget Responsibility has...
The appointment of Whitehall permanent secretaries will now be made by the prime minister from a selection of candidates, rather than on the basis of a single recommendation, it has been announced.
Efforts by the Department for Work and Pensions to tackle fraud and error in the payment of Housing Benefit has not provided value for money and overpayments represent an escalating problem, the...
Regular reporting of the long-term effects of policy choices being made by government on the overall public finances and their impacts on different generations is essential if public spending plans...
UK workers should have to pay into a new unemployment insurance scheme to ensure that welfare provision is based on taxpayer contributions, the think-tank Policy Exchange has said.
Northern Ireland’s finance minister has accused parties opposed to welfare reform of having ‘needlessly squandered £87m’, as the Treasury moved to bail out the province’s government with an emergency...
Bids are being sought for the government’s shareholding in the Eurostar cross-Channel train service as part of government plans to raise as much as £20bn in state asset sales by 2020.
Housing minister Brandon Lewis has revealed that £178m of Housing Revenue Account borrowing allocations remain available to support council housebuilding after too few authorities came forward with...
The successful implementation of a new IT system for the administration of child maintenance payments carries lessons for the public sector, a parliamentary report has said.
