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14 Jun 13
Another six Whitehall departments, including the Home Office, have reached agreement with the Treasury on spending cuts for 2015/16 ahead of the June 26 Spending Review, it has been announced.
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13 Jun 13
Business leaders have called on Chancellor George Osborne to restrain public sector pay, ending automatic salary increases based on tenure.
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12 Jun 13
More than 40% of council chief executives and leaders now fear Whitehall funding reductions will lead to frontline service cuts, a dramatic increase on the 2% who voiced these worries a year ago,...
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7 Jun 13
Local government could face cuts of up to 12% in the forthcoming Spending Review if the government decides to lessen the pain doled out to the Home Office and Ministry of Defence, the Institute for...
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6 Jun 13
Finance standards in Whitehall are inconsistent, unclear and hindering reform, the government's lead non-executive director Lord Browne said today.
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5 Jun 13
High levels of child poverty in the UK are costing the country at least £29bn every year, or more than £1,000 per household, research shows.
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3 Jun 13
Former care minister Paul Burstow has urged the government to set out a clear plan for the future of adult social care funding in the June 26 Spending Review.
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3 Jun 13
A Labour government would consider means testing the winter fuel allowance paid to pensioners and use the savings to fund health and social care, Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls said today.
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3 Jun 13
The government is on the way to managing its finances as well as the best-run FTSE 100 companies, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude said today as he announced that Whitehall exceeded its savings...
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31 May 13
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has indicated the government will expand the number of ‘whole place’ Community Budgets in next month’s Spending Review.
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28 May 13
The Department for Communities and Local Government is among seven Whitehall ministries that have signed up to extra funding cuts of between 8% and 10% in 2015/16, Chancellor George Osborne announced...
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17 May 13
English councils have reiterated calls for borrowing caps to be scrapped to enable them to invest in a house building drive.
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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.
14 Jun 13Another six Whitehall departments, including the Home Office, have reached agreement with the Treasury on spending cuts for 2015/16 ahead of the June 26 Spending Review, it has been announced.
13 Jun 13Business leaders have called on Chancellor George Osborne to restrain public sector pay, ending automatic salary increases based on tenure.
12 Jun 13More than 40% of council chief executives and leaders now fear Whitehall funding reductions will lead to frontline service cuts, a dramatic increase on the 2% who voiced these worries a year ago,...
6 Jun 13Finance standards in Whitehall are inconsistent, unclear and hindering reform, the government's lead non-executive director Lord Browne said today.
28 May 13The Department for Communities and Local Government is among seven Whitehall ministries that have signed up to extra funding cuts of between 8% and 10% in 2015/16, Chancellor George Osborne announced...
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.
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.
