The Blair government's determination to downgrade local authorities in favour of control from Whitehall has been likened to Soviet-style centralist rule by the leader of the Local Government...
Health Secretary Alan Milburn is to use his speech to the NHS Confederation conference on June 30 to announce an additional £60m investment in information technology for the NHS.
The row over whether the NHS should be given full responsibility for the care of the elderly resurfaced this week as the Local Government Association claimed an Audit Commission report backed the...
A cross-party group of MPs has refused to accept the government's revised proposals to partially privatise the defence research laboratories, warning that they are based on a 'wing and a prayer'.
The National Audit Office has finally been allowed to glimpse the hallowed halls of the Royal Household with its first report into the costs of maintaining the royal palaces.
The Gaming Board, the regulatory body for casinos, bingo clubs, gaming machine suppliers and local lotteries, needs to raise its game and show results, according to the National Audit Office.
Members of a Scottish Parliament committee have criticised Chancellor Gordon Brown for turning down an invitation to give evidence on European Union structural funds.
In a move designed to boost public confidence in figures published by the government, an independent Statistics Commission, appointed by Chancellor Gordon Brown, has been set up to scrutinise the...
The government must guarantee the future of rural post offices or face a further decline in countryside communities, a cross-party committee of MPs has warned.
Moves towards regionalisation in England have brought about no significant devolution of power, according to findings published by the Local Government Association on May 8.
Politics is a cyclical game. Representatives of the party in power at Westminster are always liable to be told to get on their bikes at mid-term local elections.
The Higher Education Funding Councils are joining forces with universities' representatives to set up an equal opportunities action group to combat racial and sexual discrimination.
Most Whitehall departments have delivered on the myriad targets set out in the Public Service Agreements, despite the fact that Treasury Chief secretary Andrew Smith believed them to be too...
Generic drugs manufacturers this week hit back at government allegations that they were 'ripping off' the NHS. Prices rose by a third between April and December last year while the number of generics...
The NHS could save up to £53m a year by becoming more efficient at hip replacement operations, the National Audit Office said this week in a report which slams the huge variations in the standards...
