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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.
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21 Oct 14
Giving UK cities more powers and financial autonomy could boost the economy by up to £79bn a year, the independent City Growth Commission has found.
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21 Oct 14
Confusion over central government’s strategic role is jeopardising the value for money of public spending, according to the Public Accounts Committee.
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21 Oct 14
Plans to allow the Welsh government to issue bonds have taken a step further as part of a move towards greater fiscal devolution for Wales.
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21 Oct 14
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.
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21 Oct 14
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.
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20 Oct 14
Government efforts to curb tax avoidance will be undermined by low pay in civil service tax jobs, according to The Association of Revenue and Customs.
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20 Oct 14
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...
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17 Oct 14
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.
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16 Oct 14
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...
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16 Oct 14
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.
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16 Oct 14
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...
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16 Oct 14
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...
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15 Oct 14
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.
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14 Oct 14
Civil service members of the Public and Commercial Services union are to strike today over pay.
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14 Oct 14
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...
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13 Oct 14
Prime Minister David Cameron wants to give regional school commissioners additional powers to intervene at failing state schools of all kinds.
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13 Oct 14
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.
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10 Oct 14
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...
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9 Oct 14
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.
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9 Oct 14
The gap between public and private sector pay that opened up during the recession has been closed as a result of Chancellor George Osborne’s restrictions, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found.
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9 Oct 14
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly will get almost £200m to boost growth after a funding agreement was reached between government and business leaders.
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7 Oct 14
The income tax personal allowance would go up £500 to £11,000 in 2016/17 if the Liberal Democrats form part of the next government, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said.
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7 Oct 14
Care minister Norman Lamb has set a target for all spending on health and social care to be pooled into one budget by 2018.
22 Oct 14The 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.
21 Oct 14Giving UK cities more powers and financial autonomy could boost the economy by up to £79bn a year, the independent City Growth Commission has found.
21 Oct 14Public 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.
20 Oct 14Britain 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...
17 Oct 14The 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.
16 Oct 14Efforts 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...
13 Oct 14Bids 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.
9 Oct 14The gap between public and private sector pay that opened up during the recession has been closed as a result of Chancellor George Osborne’s restrictions, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found.
