Every young person out of work for more than a year should be given a publicly funded ‘Youth Job Promise’, according to the independent experts examining last summer’s riots.
A series of ‘predictable flaws’ in the immigration system for students allowed as many as 50,000 people from outside Europe to enter the UK to work rather than study, the National Audit Office has...
The government will work with cities to devolve decision-making powers and encourage the private sector in areas where the public sector dominates the economy, Chancellor George Osborne said today.
Chancellor George Osborne has revealed that four large high street banks have signed up to the government’s £20bn scheme to boost lending to small businesses.
Plans for Whitehall departments to save money by sharing back-office services have cost £500m more than projected, the National Audit Office revealed today.
Around 15% of English local authorities plan to increase their council tax in April despite the offer of government cash to freeze bills, a CIPFA survey shows.
MPs and councillors have put out to consultation a draft code that aims to confirm councils’ statutory powers and their independence from central government.
English councils are considering issuing small local bonds to raise funds for essential capital projects, according to the New Local Government Network.
The government has launched a review of its powers to control pay and bonuses in public sector bodies, following rows over the rewards for the heads of state-backed companies.
Fewer than half of the government’s 206 major infrastructure schemes are on track to be delivered on time and on budget, according to the Major Projects Authority, which oversees the work.
Government departments exceeded their savings targets last year but will have difficulty making all the reductions needed by 2015, the National Audit Office has said.
The major elements of the government’s controversial reforms to public sector pensions will not save any money over the long term, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said.
The government does not have a ‘good enough grasp’ of the costs of its plans to abolish more than 260 public sector bodies, the National Audit Office warned today.
