Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has asked officials to examine what role Whitehall could have in commissioning new homes, to ensure national targets for construction can be met.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has announced the creation the first-ever waiting time targets for mental health services. The plans are part of a proposed £500m investment to ensure treatment for...
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has called for the reopening of the railway between Oxford and Cambridge to connect as many as five garden cities and boost housebuilding.
Business Secretary Vince Cable has set out plans to increase the pay of apprenticeships by more than £1-an-hour in a bid to encourage more young people to take them up.
A former Treasury advisor has warned that the system of local taxation in England is ‘broke’, and has called for a radical transformation of the state through devolution in response to spending...
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has set out plans for deficit reduction based on a three fiscal rules involving both spending cuts and tax rises.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has committed the party to implement the One North plan to improve transport link across the North of England and boost growth.
Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has revealed the coalition is on track to reduce the number of government buildings in central London to just 23 by 2020, by moving offices to the suburbs.
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...
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has defended the government’s use of private- and third-sector providers in the NHS as a way to improve the efficiency of the service.
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has pledged to work with trade unions to devise ways to reduce the overall burden on teachers across the country as part of a 'new deal’ for the profession.
The current system for business rate retention is not effective as it does not give local authorities the ability to support growth, the leader of Westminster City Council has said.
Former local government minister Bob Neill has said the government should set a target for half of the total tax take in England to be devolved to councils and combined authorities.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has set out details of two new government housing schemes that are intended to open home ownership to more first-time buyers.
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.
A Labour government would reform NHS hospitals to become integrated care organisations under plans to merge physical, mental and social provision, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham announced today...
The centralised UK state has become increasing ineffective in dealing with the country’s problems and there is a need for ‘devo max’ to communities, shadow Home Office minister Steve Reed has said.
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-...
Labour has been accused of ‘abdicating its responsibility’ to reform council tax by proposing a mansion tax on properties worth more than £2m without setting out plans for a wider revaluation.
No solution has yet been found to the problem of how to introduce greater fiscal devolution in England while also maintaining elements of redistribution, shadow local government secretary Hilary Benn...
Senior Labour party figures have indicated the party is unlikely to lift the current cap on local authority borrowing for housing if it wins the next election.
Labour’s shadow local government secretary Hilary Benn has insisted the party’s plans for a constitutional convention following last week’s Scottish independence referendum no vote will lead to...
