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.
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...
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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
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.
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...
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...
The formula which allocates public funding per head to people in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should be extended to regions in the north of England, according to a think-tank
Regions are at risk of becoming ‘entrenched’ in a damaging public spending culture if nationalist parties are given too many concessions during the fight to secure a stable government, think-tanks...
A hung Parliament would offer a ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ to secure strategic gains for unionism, the leader of Northern Ireland’s main unionist party has said.
Northern Ireland’s 26 district councils have agreed their domestic and non-domestic rates for 2010/11, with variations in the increases imposed ranging from zero to more than 8%.
Replacing the Barnett Formula with a needs-based system would be ‘relatively straightforward’, according to the Independent Commission on Funding and Finance for Wales
