Scotland

  • Public Finance
    3 Jul 03
    An influential think-tank has criticised relations between council officials and civil servants in Scotland. A Scottish Council Foundation report, Innovation in public services, resulted from a...
  • Public Finance
    3 Jul 03
    Scottish Water has defended a controversial scheme to pay bonuses to all of its employees at a time when it is being criticised for soaring charges. Politicians and business leaders claimed the...
  • Public Finance
    26 Jun 03
    The inquiry into the vastly over-budget Holyrood Parliament project in Edinburgh will identify the lessons to be learned for the future procurement or construction of major public buildings, First...
  • Public Finance
    19 Jun 03
    In the hothouse atmosphere of Whitehall, secrets have a habit of leaking out. Not so Alan Milburn's resignation as health secretary last week. Even his old sparring partner Gordon Brown was said to...
  • Public Finance
    12 Jun 03
    Critical inspection reports can undermine local government's attempts to improve services, the outspoken director of finance at the London Borough of Hackney said at the CIPFA conference at Harrogate...
  • Public Finance
    5 Jun 03
    The Scottish Executive is to set up a watchdog to oversee the operation of charities in the wake of controversy over the funding of a cancer research body. Communities minister Margaret Curran...
  • Public Finance
    29 May 03
    The Scottish Parliament failed to consider the cost implications when it legislated to provide mainstream teaching for pupils with special education needs, Audit Scotland has found. In a report...
  • Public Finance
    29 May 03
    A Bill to abolish NHS trusts and establish community health partnerships in Scotland will be one of the first priorities of the Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition Executive, First Minister Jack...
  • Public Finance
    22 May 03
    Scotland's deputy first minister, Jim Wallace, is to take on the task of reviving its flagging economy, at the heart of First Minister Jack McConnell's new administration. Wallace, the Liberal...
  • Public Finance
    15 May 03
    Councils in Scotland look set to be elected by proportional representation after a deal was agreed between the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats for a new ruling coalition in Scotland. MSPs...
  • Public Finance
    8 May 03
    Though voter apathy remains an unsolved conundrum, every party was able to claim a small victory Audible sighs of relief could be heard around the Westminster village in the aftermath of the...
  • Public Finance
    8 May 03
    Labour has held on to power in the devolved administrations, strengthening its position in the Welsh Assembly but losing six seats in the Scottish Parliament. Welsh Labour leader Rhodri Morgan said...
  • Public Finance
    1 May 03
    May 1 was to have been the date when elections occurred in each of the three devolved nations of the United Kingdom Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Except, as is so often the case in the...
  • Public Finance
    1 May 03
    Social landlords should compete for the right to manage houses transferred from local authorities, a leading lender said this week. Competition might raise the quality of post-transfer management...
  • Public Finance
    1 May 03
    A Scottish trust at the centre of a stinging report on its Private Finance Initiative hit back at its critics this week. Lothian University Hospitals Trust's £210m PFI to rebuild the Edinburgh...
  • Public Finance
    24 Apr 03
    Scotland's First Minister Jack McConnell has announced an independent inquiry into the soaring cost of the new Holyrood Scottish Parliament building in an apparent attempt to head off election...
  • Public Finance
    24 Apr 03
    NHS trusts' earnings from private patients almost doubled in 2001/02, according to the latest figures from Laing...
  • Public Finance
    24 Apr 03
    Local government is still plagued with 'severe' recruitment and retention problems that are placing unmanageable burdens on staff, forcing councils to privatise services because they cannot afford to...
  • Public Finance
    10 Apr 03
    Hopes have been raised for a resolution of the dispute over the proposed GP contract after a deal guaranteeing minimum incomes was struck this week. A ballot of the UK's family doctors was...
  • Public Finance
    10 Apr 03
    Transport for London's new head of street management, Peter Hendy, opened a can of worms last week when he mused on whether local authorities would bother to introduce congestion charging if the...
  • Public Finance
    13 Mar 03
    Auditor general Bob Black has found that almost a quarter of the £18.8m claimed in Scotland by providers under the Individual Learning Accounts scheme was probably fraudulent. The much-criticised...
  • Public Finance
    6 Mar 03
    It was not the news that Health Secretary Alan Milburn already facing an embarrassing backbench revolt over foundation trusts and accusations of widespread waiting list fiddling by hospitals...
  • Public Finance
    6 Mar 03
    Authorities rated 'excellent' will not have their council tax increases capped, despite rises of up to 45%, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister confirmed this week, with ministers apparently...
  • Public Finance
    6 Mar 03
    Troubled support services firm Amey has put together an emergency refinancing deal which may enable it to buy back into the London Tube's public-private partnership. The arrangement with Barclays...
  • Public Finance
    27 Feb 03
    Unison Scotland has called for the effective abolition of the Private Finance Initiative in a manifesto launched ahead of May's elections for the country's Parliament. It said: 'The time has come...

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