The government will review local government finance 'this time next year', Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles told an influential group of MPs this week.
The government is ‘thinking about’ replacing council workers’ final salary pension scheme with one based on career average earnings, a senior civil servant has revealed
Experts have questioned the role of ministers in departmental management, urging politicians to adopt a hands-off approach and base more of their decisions on evidence
Public sector chief finance officers will be expected to sign up to a new ‘comply or explain’ best practice statement from CIPFA, the head of the government finance profession told delegates.
BBC director general Mark Thompson used his CIPFA conference address to announce a series of measures intended to make the broadcaster one of the most transparent organisations in the public sector.
The Conservatives will not set out their public spending plans because they ‘haven’t seen the books’, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Philip Hammond told Public Finance at the CIPFA conference...
Local government expert Tony Travers has predicted a severe squeeze for housing and regeneration in the wake of post-2011 cutbacks to public sector capital investment
The row over Scotland’s ability to stand on its own financially has been reignited by the news that it would show a small surplus if it received its share of North Sea oil.
The public sector must develop a culture of innovation to cut costs while improving services as spending is squeezed, the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury has said
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The UK government will be running a level of deficit normally associated with a ‘banana republic’ for the next year or so, a leading economist has warned
BBC director general Mark Thompson has announced a series of measures aimed at making the broadcaster one of the most transparent organisations in the public sector
Councils can no longer turn to Whitehall and expect it to fill funding gaps, Communities and Local Government Secretary John Denham told the CIPFA conference
The finance head of a pioneering district council has said sharing services could safeguard second-tier authorities from being absorbed into unitary authorities.
A new qualification in international treasury management will be announced today in response to the crisis over public sector investments in Icelandic banks.
New Speaker John Bercow ‘could go seriously off the rails’, veteran political commentator Matthew Parris told the CIPFA conference.
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