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14 Nov 14
The Treasury has announced that an extra £300m will be made available to the NHS to ensure that the service is well prepared for the pressures of a cold winter amid ‘unprecedented demand’.
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12 Nov 14
The cost of out-of-hours health services varies ‘unacceptably’ and NHS England lacks the information needed to understand why, according to the Public Accounts Committee.
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7 Nov 14
MPs have called on the government to produce a clear ‘map of state’ setting out the roles and responsibilities of quangos and agencies, after finding that the current arrangements lacked clarity.
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4 Nov 14
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles is to send three commissioners into Tower Hamlets to oversee the work of the authority after an inspection by PricewaterhouseCoopers found it had failed to...
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31 Oct 14
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced that nearly all of the 151 Better Care Fund plans in England have been approved ahead of implementation of the reform from next April.
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28 Oct 14
Political parties must rule out local government reorganisation to give councils in two-tier areas the confidence to develop and implement voluntary collaboration plans, the New Local Government...
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28 Oct 14
The government plans to claw back redundancy payments from NHS and council managers who return to work in the same sector within a year, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has announced.
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21 Oct 14
Public sector borrowing was £58bn for the first six months of 2014/15, up more than £5bn from the same period the previous year, figures from the Office for National Statistics has revealed.
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17 Oct 14
The government has been urged to encourage the creation of ISA-style tax free savings accounts so that students can build up money to allow them to pay for tuition without taking on loan debt.
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15 Oct 14
A future Labour government will require councils to produce homebuilding plans for their area and allocate enough land to meet local needs, Ed Miliband has announced.
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15 Oct 14
UK unemployment has fallen below 2 million for the first time in almost six years, after the largest annual fall in people out of work on record.
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10 Oct 14
Local government trade unions have suspended strike action planned for next Tuesday following a revised pay proposal from the Local Government Association.
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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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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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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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10 Sep 14
A decision by the Department of Health to prioritise the financial stability of local health economies over fair funding allocations has meant that there has been ‘very slow progress’ towards reform...
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2 Sep 14
A proposal by the Mayor of London Boris Johnson to create a new Thames Estuary airport has been ruled out by the government’s Airports Commission which is developing plans for additional aviation...
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29 Aug 14
The government’s education policies are damaging the life chances of a generation of children and must be reversed, the new president of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers has said today.
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28 Aug 14
Parish councils and the Local Government Association are to work together to develop community benefit schemes to manage the locally retained revenues from fracking for shale gas.
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27 Aug 14
England’s core cities have called for decade-long public service funding settlements to form part of Chancellor George Osborne’s devolution plan for the North.
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27 Aug 14
Councils have been forced to abandon building projects, cut back on school maintenance and borrow additional money in order to plug a £1bn ‘black hole’ in funding for school places, the Local...
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13 Aug 14
The UK unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest level in nearly six years following a 132,000 drop in the number of people out of work in the second quarter of the year, the Office for National...
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11 Aug 14
Iain Duncan Smith will today defend the government’s welfare reforms by insisting that measures including the introduction of a £26,000 benefit cap are ensuring a ‘social recovery’ in the UK...
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1 Aug 14
Council spending will have fallen by nearly 30% by the end of the current parliament as a result of government funding reductions, an analysis of expenditure by CIPFA has found.
14 Nov 14The Treasury has announced that an extra £300m will be made available to the NHS to ensure that the service is well prepared for the pressures of a cold winter amid ‘unprecedented demand’.
12 Nov 14The cost of out-of-hours health services varies ‘unacceptably’ and NHS England lacks the information needed to understand why, according to the Public Accounts Committee.
7 Nov 14MPs have called on the government to produce a clear ‘map of state’ setting out the roles and responsibilities of quangos and agencies, after finding that the current arrangements lacked clarity.
4 Nov 14Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles is to send three commissioners into Tower Hamlets to oversee the work of the authority after an inspection by PricewaterhouseCoopers found it had failed to...
31 Oct 14Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced that nearly all of the 151 Better Care Fund plans in England have been approved ahead of implementation of the reform from next April.
28 Oct 14Political parties must rule out local government reorganisation to give councils in two-tier areas the confidence to develop and implement voluntary collaboration plans, the New Local Government...
28 Oct 14The government plans to claw back redundancy payments from NHS and council managers who return to work in the same sector within a year, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has announced.
21 Oct 14Public sector borrowing was £58bn for the first six months of 2014/15, up more than £5bn from the same period the previous year, figures from the Office for National Statistics has revealed.
17 Oct 14The government has been urged to encourage the creation of ISA-style tax free savings accounts so that students can build up money to allow them to pay for tuition without taking on loan debt.
15 Oct 14A future Labour government will require councils to produce homebuilding plans for their area and allocate enough land to meet local needs, Ed Miliband has announced.
15 Oct 14UK unemployment has fallen below 2 million for the first time in almost six years, after the largest annual fall in people out of work on record.
10 Oct 14Local government trade unions have suspended strike action planned for next Tuesday following a revised pay proposal from the Local Government Association.
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.
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-...
10 Sep 14A decision by the Department of Health to prioritise the financial stability of local health economies over fair funding allocations has meant that there has been ‘very slow progress’ towards reform...
2 Sep 14A proposal by the Mayor of London Boris Johnson to create a new Thames Estuary airport has been ruled out by the government’s Airports Commission which is developing plans for additional aviation...
29 Aug 14The government’s education policies are damaging the life chances of a generation of children and must be reversed, the new president of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers has said today.
28 Aug 14Parish councils and the Local Government Association are to work together to develop community benefit schemes to manage the locally retained revenues from fracking for shale gas.
27 Aug 14England’s core cities have called for decade-long public service funding settlements to form part of Chancellor George Osborne’s devolution plan for the North.
27 Aug 14Councils have been forced to abandon building projects, cut back on school maintenance and borrow additional money in order to plug a £1bn ‘black hole’ in funding for school places, the Local...
13 Aug 14The UK unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest level in nearly six years following a 132,000 drop in the number of people out of work in the second quarter of the year, the Office for National...
11 Aug 14Iain Duncan Smith will today defend the government’s welfare reforms by insisting that measures including the introduction of a £26,000 benefit cap are ensuring a ‘social recovery’ in the UK...
