A police authority has pointed to problems with the way local government finance legislation is framed after the government imposed a cap on its budget.
Finance Minister John Swinney has won parliamentary approval for Scotland’s £35bn spending plans after making eleventh-hour concessions to opposition parties
Health inequalities among children under five have barely improved in the past decade despite more than £10bn of government investment, research has shown
A leading civil servant has warned that public spending cuts could reach 20% over the next seven years and that compulsory public sector redundancies cannot be ruled out
The senior civil service depends too heavily on external recruits, who are paid more yet perform no better than career public servants, according to a report by MPs
The Audit Commission has hit back following revelations that it used taxpayers’ money to pay for research from a lobby group with links to the Labour Party
Cases of public sector fraud and data manipulation are set to increase over the coming months as government spending cuts put more pressure on managers to meet performance targets, experts have warned
A long list of essential infrastructure projects is crying out for attention, but traditional funding sources are drying up. Mark Hellowell asks whether the new government agency Infrastructure UK...
Scotland’s public spending watchdog is to be exempted from a list of bodies that could be abolished by ministers under sweeping powers to reform the public sector.
An appeal for ministers to write off £16bn of council debt as part of major changes to the housing finance system has failed, town hall representatives have admitted.
The gap between rich and poor is wider now than at any time since the Second World War, despite a decade’s worth of government programmes aimed at overcoming socioeconomic inequality, experts have...
A group of former Whitehall mandarins has called for increased parliamentary scrutiny of the Budget and government fiscal policy, as political tension over the state of the public finances increased...
