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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
Councils could start to ‘fail’ their communities if the government imposes further cuts in the June Spending Review, the Local Government Association warned today.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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...
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
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
