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16 May 13
The National Audit Office has today slammed the Department for Transport’s ‘unclear’ business case for the High Speed 2 rail line, warning that the scheme faces a £3.3bn funding gap.
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14 May 13
Councils are facing a financial black hole of around £15bn in 2019/20 as a result of rising demand for services, such as social care, and government funding reductions, local authority chief...
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13 May 13
The UK economy would be boosted by as much as £100bn a year if the country’s transport and energy infrastructure matched standards in Europe, the Centre for Economics and Business Research said today.
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13 May 13
The Ministry of Defence's £159bn procurement plan relies on 'uncertain' efficiencies and an unconfirmed budget increase in next month’s Spending Review, the Public Accounts Committee has warned.
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8 May 13
Councils could start to ‘fail’ their communities if the government imposes further cuts in the June Spending Review, the Local Government Association warned today.
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1 May 13
The UK has yet to make a ‘sustained recovery’ from the financial crisis as economic output has been flat for more than two and a half years, an analysis by the National Institute of Economic and...
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30 Apr 13
The Edinburgh-based Green Investment Bank is in talks with ministers about extending its funding for at least a further year, Public Finance has been told.
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26 Apr 13
The government has been urged to back down on plans to make Local Enterprise Partnerships compete for a share of the proposed single local growth fund after a warning that such an exercise could be a...
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26 Apr 13
The two-year funding deal for Local Enterprise Partnerships is too short to allow them to make any long-term investments, MPs have warned.
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11 Apr 13
The King’s Fund has warned that the critical issues of how and where NHS funds are allocated are being overlooked in the heated debates over the wider health service reforms.
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10 Apr 13
Three-quarters of local government leaders say funding cuts are the most important issue facing their areas, according to an Ipsos Mori poll published today.
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22 Mar 13
The head of the Social Market Foundation has challenged the chancellor’s claim that Annually Managed Expenditure is ‘out of control’ and warned that the proposed reforms will be ‘tricky’ to implement.
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22 Mar 13
Plans to establish Community Budgets across England have taken a step forward after the government wrote to councils offering help to pool local funding across the public sector.
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20 Mar 13
Chancellor George Osborne has increased the scale of the public spending cuts he is seeking from the June Spending Review by £1.5bn.
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20 Mar 13
Public funding for universities and colleges has been cut by more than £800m as part of the ‘transition’ to a funding system based on higher student fees.
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28 Feb 11
Or perhaps not. With the pensions landscape in a state of flux, and the Hutton commission likely to recommend major changes, many public sector pension rewards might soon be blown away
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1 Feb 11
The UK is not boldly going where no other government has gone before in its efforts to reduce the deficit. At least 24 OECD countries have paved the way and they have clear lessons ministers would be...
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31 Jan 11
Could housing associations do more to boost efficiency in the age of austerity? Waqar Ahmed thinks so. But the group finance director at L&Q tells PF that the government must do its bit too
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27 Jan 11
As local authorities struggle to finalise their budgets, one thing is clear. The end of ring-fenced funds might give councils more freedom but it is going to hit the voluntary sector hard
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10 Jan 11
Labour leader Ed Miliband today indicated that local government, one of the areas worst hit by the coalition's spending cuts, would not have been let off the hook by a Labour government
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16 Dec 10
The government/s tax and benefit reforms will plunge 800,000 people into relative poverty by 2013/14, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found
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9 Dec 10
The severity of local government cuts announced in the Comprehensive Spending Review came as a shock to half of council finance directors, while almost all have denounced the front-loading, a survey...
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8 Dec 10
Chancellor George Osborne has come under pressure to reveal how much money the government hopes to generate through asset sales during the Comprehensive Spending Review period
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25 Nov 10
Economists and MPs have today questioned the government’s decision to protect certain areas of spending, such as the NHS budget.
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18 Nov 10
A Public Finance dinner debate brought together the great and the good in Scottish local government to discuss finances in advance of the SNP's budget plans. David Scott reports
16 May 13The National Audit Office has today slammed the Department for Transport’s ‘unclear’ business case for the High Speed 2 rail line, warning that the scheme faces a £3.3bn funding gap.
14 May 13Councils are facing a financial black hole of around £15bn in 2019/20 as a result of rising demand for services, such as social care, and government funding reductions, local authority chief...
13 May 13The UK economy would be boosted by as much as £100bn a year if the country’s transport and energy infrastructure matched standards in Europe, the Centre for Economics and Business Research said today.
8 May 13Councils could start to ‘fail’ their communities if the government imposes further cuts in the June Spending Review, the Local Government Association warned today.
1 May 13The UK has yet to make a ‘sustained recovery’ from the financial crisis as economic output has been flat for more than two and a half years, an analysis by the National Institute of Economic and...
26 Apr 13The government has been urged to back down on plans to make Local Enterprise Partnerships compete for a share of the proposed single local growth fund after a warning that such an exercise could be a...
10 Apr 13Three-quarters of local government leaders say funding cuts are the most important issue facing their areas, according to an Ipsos Mori poll published today.
22 Mar 13The head of the Social Market Foundation has challenged the chancellor’s claim that Annually Managed Expenditure is ‘out of control’ and warned that the proposed reforms will be ‘tricky’ to implement.
22 Mar 13Plans to establish Community Budgets across England have taken a step forward after the government wrote to councils offering help to pool local funding across the public sector.
20 Mar 13Chancellor George Osborne has increased the scale of the public spending cuts he is seeking from the June Spending Review by £1.5bn.
28 Feb 11Or perhaps not. With the pensions landscape in a state of flux, and the Hutton commission likely to recommend major changes, many public sector pension rewards might soon be blown away
31 Jan 11Could housing associations do more to boost efficiency in the age of austerity? Waqar Ahmed thinks so. But the group finance director at L&Q tells PF that the government must do its bit too
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