Public services in Scotland are delivered as part of a patchwork operation that is starting to fray. Minister Tom McCabe is stitching together a reform package that might begin with a reorganisation...
Edinburgh has sounded the death knell for city congestion charging schemes outside London by voting three-to-one against the council's proposed two-zone scheme.
Health Secretary John Reid put his commitment to improving public health into action this week by diverting more NHS cash into the most deprived areas of England.
Edinburgh residents are due to start voting next week on whether the Scottish capital will become the second city in Britain to introduce congestion charging.
Scottish Executive permanent secretary John Elvidge has confirmed that civil service jobs will be lost in Scotland as part of the Gershon efficiency review.
The health service in Scotland might face a shortage of staff in the future because of poor strategic planning, the Scottish Parliament's health committee claimed this week.
Welsh confidence has been dented. The young Assembly government was determined to be different and remodel the NHS around the principle of health promotion rather than the target-driven regime...
The Scottish committee of inquiry into the future of local government finance has stressed its independence from the Lyons review in England, raising the possibility that Scotland could embark on a...
Audit Scotland has urged the Scottish Prison Service to carry out a detailed assessment of the £30m correctional programmes for prisoners, which accounted for 12% of the cost of operating its prisons...
Council tax collection in Scotland is still lagging behind that in England, with more than £600m uncollected, according to figures published this week.
Serious storms that battered Scotland, Northern Ireland and the north of England, leaving thousands of people without power, prompted an emergency statement from ministers this week.
The Ministry of Defence has forced one of the government's biggest IT partners to include a last-minute 'failure' clause in its bid for a £4bn contract, following a series of Whitehall computer...
Northern Ireland's district councils should be given a general power of competence, according to a report on the public health function in the province. The study was commissioned by the Department...
Council leaders in Scotland have warned that the Executive's funding settlement for local government will not be enough to prevent substantial council tax rises over the next three years.
Plans to make severance payments to Scottish councillors who stand down at the next local government election will cost the taxpayer £6m, the Executive has revealed.
The Scottish Executive has been criticised by an influential committee of MSPs for providing 'misleading' information when it claimed that its efficient government plan would save £1.7bn over the...
