Sajid Javid has said the health service needs “one of the most comprehensive reform plans that this country has ever seen” if it is to avoid becoming unsustainably expensive and requiring cuts to...
The government has told NHS England to give private hospitals up to £270m before the end of March as part of an arrangement that does not necessarily mean they will treat any NHS patients.
The UK Treasury has denied reports that it is to drop the recently-implemented digital services tax amid fears it could jeopardise a post-Brexit trade deal.
Former chancellor Sajid Javid has urged the government to review the current tax system to help reinvigorate the economy in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, including cutting employers’ National...
The chancellor’s aim of raising the UK’s economic growth to 2.75% per year is “unlikely” in the current climate, according to Britain’s oldest economic think-tank.
Asking ministers to find departmental savings worth 5% was not unexpected or unprecedented, but it may be difficult to achieve and is unlikely to free up enough money to meet the government’s other...
Chancellor Sajid Javid’s £13.8bn Spending Round is likely to exceed the government’s borrowing limits, the chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility has warned.
As the battle for Brexit rages on, the government turned around a super fast one-year Spending Round. But sustainable funding requires longer-term thinking, writes Jonathan Werran.
New chancellor Sajid Javid outlined the government’s plans for education funding as he “turned the page on austerity” in his Spending Round, although Labour criticised his commitments as “meaningless...
Councils and their local public service partners will receive a new statutory duty to work together to combat serious violence, home secretary Sajid Javid has announced.
Local authorities must not become a “replacement” for the security services under the government’s updated counter-terrorism strategy, council leaders have warned.
James Brokenshire had replaced Sajid Javid as housing, communities and local government secretary after Javid was appointed home secretary following Amber Rudd's resignation, the government has...
None of the 36 local authorities that have asked for central government support to install tower block fire safety measures such as sprinklers have received any funding so far, housing secretary...
Communities secretary Sajid Javid has named four members to the Grenfell Recovery Taskforce, which will oversee the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea’s efforts to recover from last month...
