The Highways Agency lacks basic information on whether it is getting value for money from its contractors, and must improve its commercial practices, MPs have found.
The Treasury must provide more details of future public spending if it is to adequately tackle the country’s financial deficit, a committee of MPs has warned.
The government has won the backing of Parliament for its controversial bill on reducing the fiscal deficit, despite heavy criticism from both sides of the House of Commons.
The nation’s ever-expanding fiscal gap was examined recently in a video debate organised by PricewaterhouseCoopers and chaired by Public Finance editor Mike Thatcher – and asks, is it time to face...
The leader of the House of Commons, Harriet Harman, has indicated that future heads of public bodies can expect to receive considerably lower salaries than has been the case in recent years.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ‘consistently failed’ to spot problems with the payment of European Union grants to farmers, MPs have said.
Health unions have indicated that they are open to the idea of NHS workers being given job guarantees in exchange for lower pay deals and workplace mobility
Unions are considering legal action against the government over reform of the Civil Service Compensation Scheme, branding the changes as another example of politicians making public workers an ‘easy...
The chancellor failed to account for £15bn of public spending cuts from 2011/14 in Wednesday’s Pre-Budget Report, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies
An influential committee of MSPs has called on the Scottish Government to provide clearer and more detailed budget information on its commitment to protecting frontline services and supporting...
The past ten years have seen the economy go from boom to bust, and the public finances spiral out of control. Tony Travers relives a decade of war, terrorism and financial
collapse – and asks, is it...
