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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.
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6 Oct 14
Business Secretary Vince Cable has set out plans to increase the pay of apprenticeships by more than £1-an-hour in a bid to encourage more young people to take them up.
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6 Oct 14
A former Treasury advisor has warned that the system of local taxation in England is ‘broke’, and has called for a radical transformation of the state through devolution in response to spending...
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6 Oct 14
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has set out plans for deficit reduction based on a three fiscal rules involving both spending cuts and tax rises.
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6 Oct 14
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has committed the party to implement the One North plan to improve transport link across the North of England and boost growth.
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3 Oct 14
Welfare spending cuts mean that three-quarters of councils will have to scrap or significantly reduce support schemes for vulnerable people from next April, the Local Government Association has...
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3 Oct 14
The government has been urged to allow local areas to retain all of the value of assets seized from criminals to boost crime prevention initiatives and help tackle anti-social behaviour.
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3 Oct 14
Councils will need to set out more details about their spending of parking charges and plans to tackle fraud under a revised transparency code being introduced by the Department for Communities and...
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2 Oct 14
The new civil service chief executive has indicated that he wants to improve the examination of Spending Review decisions to ensure that government policies can be implemented in the most effective...
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2 Oct 14
Government contracts worth £16.6bn to promote renewable electricity generation were poorly conceived and managed and did not secure best value, the Public Accounts Committee has concluded.
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1 Oct 14
Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to balance the public finances by 2018 and said a Conservative government would not increase taxes to tackle the £25bn funding gap that still needs to be...
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29 Sep 14
Chancellor George Osborne has set out plans to freeze the value of most benefits for two years from April 2016 as part of an extra £25bn worth of cuts needed to balance public spending.
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29 Sep 14
William Hague has said the Conservatives are ‘wholeheartedly committed’ to increasing the autonomy of Scotland and Wales, but indicated this must be matched with reforms to ensure that only English...
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26 Sep 14
Sir Bob Kerslake, the outgoing head of civil service, has warned that the next government will face a more difficult task in cutting the deficit from 2015 as many easier savings have already been...
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24 Sep 14
Stop-go funding deals for road repairs have made it difficult for local authorities to maintain roads cost-effectively and has put value for money at risk, the Public Accounts Committee has warned.
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23 Sep 14
Labour leader Ed Miliband has set out a 10-year plan for Britain’s future that includes a £2.5bn boost for health and social care, a large expansion of housebuilding and halving the number of low-...
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22 Sep 14
Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has said that proposals to increase the minimum wage to £8 an hour will form part of the next Labour government’s ‘driving purpose’ to tackle levels of low pay...
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22 Sep 14
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has said the next Labour government would extend the coalition’s below-inflation annual increases in Child Benefit, meaning that the value of the payment would likely fall...
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22 Sep 14
Northern cities are being promised major new infrastructure investment to help rebalance their economies. So will the chancellor make good on his warm words of support for the One North initiative...
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22 Sep 14
The promise by pro-union parties to devolve new tax powers to Holyrood were mired in confusion and doubt over the weekend, prompting First Minister Alex Salmond to claim that Scottish voters were...
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19 Sep 14
Prime Minister David Cameron today set Britain on a headlong programme of constitutional reform, after the people of Scotland voted by a 55-45% margin in yesterday’s referendum to reject the option...
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18 Sep 14
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has indicated he would back a new constitutional settlement between central and local government that would lead to greater fiscal decentralisation across England.
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17 Sep 14
Public sector employment fell by a further 11,000 to 5.39 million in the second quarter of 2014 to hit the lowest level recorded since records began in 1999, the Office for National Statistics has...
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11 Sep 14
Changes to the audit regime for councils being introduced following the abolition of the Audit Commission could weaken accountability for public money and lead to politicisation of scrutiny, MPs have...
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10 Sep 14
A coalition of 21 healthcare bodies has called for NHS services to be reconfigured to meet the needs of the growing numbers of people with ongoing issues, especially older people, those with long...
7 Oct 14Care minister Norman Lamb has set a target for all spending on health and social care to be pooled into one budget by 2018.
6 Oct 14Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has set out plans for deficit reduction based on a three fiscal rules involving both spending cuts and tax rises.
3 Oct 14Welfare spending cuts mean that three-quarters of councils will have to scrap or significantly reduce support schemes for vulnerable people from next April, the Local Government Association has...
2 Oct 14The new civil service chief executive has indicated that he wants to improve the examination of Spending Review decisions to ensure that government policies can be implemented in the most effective...
1 Oct 14Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to balance the public finances by 2018 and said a Conservative government would not increase taxes to tackle the £25bn funding gap that still needs to be...
29 Sep 14Chancellor George Osborne has set out plans to freeze the value of most benefits for two years from April 2016 as part of an extra £25bn worth of cuts needed to balance public spending.
26 Sep 14Sir Bob Kerslake, the outgoing head of civil service, has warned that the next government will face a more difficult task in cutting the deficit from 2015 as many easier savings have already been...
24 Sep 14Stop-go funding deals for road repairs have made it difficult for local authorities to maintain roads cost-effectively and has put value for money at risk, the Public Accounts Committee has warned.
23 Sep 14Labour leader Ed Miliband has set out a 10-year plan for Britain’s future that includes a £2.5bn boost for health and social care, a large expansion of housebuilding and halving the number of low-...
22 Sep 14Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has said the next Labour government would extend the coalition’s below-inflation annual increases in Child Benefit, meaning that the value of the payment would likely fall...
22 Sep 14Northern cities are being promised major new infrastructure investment to help rebalance their economies. So will the chancellor make good on his warm words of support for the One North initiative...
19 Sep 14Prime Minister David Cameron today set Britain on a headlong programme of constitutional reform, after the people of Scotland voted by a 55-45% margin in yesterday’s referendum to reject the option...
18 Sep 14Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has indicated he would back a new constitutional settlement between central and local government that would lead to greater fiscal decentralisation across England.
11 Sep 14Changes to the audit regime for councils being introduced following the abolition of the Audit Commission could weaken accountability for public money and lead to politicisation of scrutiny, MPs have...
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