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20 Jun 12
Public sector employment in the UK fell by 39,000 in the first three months of 2012, the tenth consecutive quarterly drop, the Office for National Statistics revealed today.
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6 Jun 12
An offender levy comes into force in Northern Ireland today along with powers for police officers to issue fixed-penalty notices.
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19 Mar 12
The UK’s devolved governments are set on a collision course with Chancellor George Osborne over his proposal to abolish national pay deals in the public sector.
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21 Feb 12
Chancellor George Osborne has been urged to use next month’s Budget to end uncertainty over whether corporation tax powers will be devolved to Northern Ireland.
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20 Jan 12
Just one in four English voters back the current devolution settlement, according to a survey published today.
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16 Jan 12
The 710,000 public sector job losses now expected by 2017 will hit the devolved nations and the Northeast hardest, the Trades Union Congress said today.
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16 Jan 12
Almost eight out of ten English voters want Scottish MPs barred from making laws that only affect England, according to a survey published today.
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23 Nov 11
The UK's four children's commissioners have urged the government to reassess its spending plans, saying the cuts risk pushing more families into poverty.
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28 Sep 11
Northern Ireland's only intercontinental air link has been handed a tax break to help it survive.
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15 Aug 11
Scottish ministers will this week publish a consultation paper on Scotland taking control of Corporation Tax, undeterred by a weekend intervention from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of...
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1 Jun 11
Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson has warned his Scottish counterpart that Scotland could lose Westminster block grant if it follows Belfast’s bid to set its own corporation tax.
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19 Apr 11
It’s all in the timing. One year after the coalition government was formed, the turn of the electoral cycle means that on May 5 it faces its largest test short of a general election.
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28 Feb 11
Rents for Housing Executive tenants in Northern Ireland will rise by 3.75%, ministers have announced
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28 Feb 11
Northern Ireland's social development minister is arguing that Westminster's planned welfare reforms will not work in the province, with its particularly high levels of disadvantage and economic ...
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19 Jan 11
Disputes between the devolved nations and Whitehall over funding issues should be resolved independently and not by the Treasury, the author of the review into Welsh funding and finance has said.
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11 Jan 11
Retired public servants in Northern Ireland are today lobbying politicians in a dispute over backdated equal pay
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4 Jan 11
Tony Redmond, former chair of the Commission for Local Administration in England and local government ombudsman, has been knighted in the latest round of honours
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21 Dec 10
Seven out of seventeen Northern Ireland Government departments have had their finances qualified this year, with millions of pounds of public money not properly accounted for.
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10 Dec 10
Northern Ireland will be hit harder by benefit cuts and tax rises than any other region in the UK except London, according to research published today
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26 Nov 10
Absenteeism has risen in Northern Ireland's councils, according to the chief local government auditor
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18 Nov 10
Should the public sector start drowning its sorrows as the cuts kick in? Doom merchants certainly seem to think so. But perhaps in reality the glass is half full and not half empty. Tony Travers...
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20 Oct 10
The impact of the Spending Review will be less severe for the devolved administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland than it will be for most Whitehall departments, the UK government...
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23 Sep 10
There must be no ‘wringing of hands’ or ‘whingeing’ about the spending cuts to come, the Northern Irish finance minister has said.
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25 Aug 10
School buildings in Northern Ireland are vastly underfunded, despite a £353m underspend by the Department for Education, auditors have found
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14 Jun 10
Public servants have once again been richly rewarded in the latest round of honours
20 Jun 12Public sector employment in the UK fell by 39,000 in the first three months of 2012, the tenth consecutive quarterly drop, the Office for National Statistics revealed today.
6 Jun 12An offender levy comes into force in Northern Ireland today along with powers for police officers to issue fixed-penalty notices.
20 Jan 12Just one in four English voters back the current devolution settlement, according to a survey published today.
16 Jan 12The 710,000 public sector job losses now expected by 2017 will hit the devolved nations and the Northeast hardest, the Trades Union Congress said today.
19 Apr 11It’s all in the timing. One year after the coalition government was formed, the turn of the electoral cycle means that on May 5 it faces its largest test short of a general election.
28 Feb 11Rents for Housing Executive tenants in Northern Ireland will rise by 3.75%, ministers have announced
18 Nov 10Should the public sector start drowning its sorrows as the cuts kick in? Doom merchants certainly seem to think so. But perhaps in reality the glass is half full and not half empty. Tony Travers...
