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18 Oct 10
Labour’s new shadow chancellor set out his alternative deficit reduction plan today, claiming only half of the coalition’s planned spending cuts are needed.
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18 Oct 10
Almost half of adults believe local authorities won’t have their funding cut, according to a survey published today
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15 Oct 10
Cuts to local government budgets are likely to cause serious problems for the NHS, health chiefs warned today
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15 Oct 10
The salaries of thousands of civil servants were published for the first time today by the government
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15 Oct 10
The £7bn earmarked by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to help disadvantaged children and young people from the age of 2 to 20 will not come out of the schools budget, the Cabinet Office has confirmed
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14 Oct 10
The majority of the public want spending on social housing to be cut to protect other services, a survey from the Local Government Association has shown
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13 Oct 10
The government's flagship Big Society policy could founder if it is not adequately financed, according to a survey of charity and social enterprise bosses
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13 Oct 10
Public sector cuts will trigger jobs losses in the private sector but should not derail the economic recovery, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers
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7 Oct 10
All eyes are on how much the chancellor will cut in his Spending Review. But maximising income from tax revenues is just as important, argues Richard Murphy
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7 Oct 10
The chancellor's statement on October 20 has been billed as a Spending Review like no other, with 25% cuts expected across most departments. But the full impact will only be understood
years down...
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7 Oct 10
The National Policing Improvement Agency has been lauded for saving money and buying more efficiently. But the Home Office plans to bring it to a halt. David Williams reports
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6 Oct 10
Local government minister Bob Neill has defended coalition plans to introduce benefit limits as ‘necessary and fair’.
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5 Oct 10
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has released a practical guide to help ensure public bodies are transparent and fair when making decisions over spending.
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4 Oct 10
Total-Place style budgeting received a firm endorsement from local government minister Bob Neill at the Conservative Party conference yesterday
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4 Oct 10
Councils are to be charged with implementing the benefits cap announced by Chancellor George Osborne today
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30 Sep 10
Elderly people over the age of 75 will bear the brunt of the government's spending cuts, a leading charity warned today
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29 Sep 10
Third sector leaders are less confident about their financial prospects than at any time since the before the recession, a survey has shown.
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27 Sep 10
Former chancellor Alistair Darling launched a scathing attack on the coalition’s economic policy at the Labour Party conference today.
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27 Sep 10
A website tool inviting residents to tell local authorities where cuts should be made will allow the 'most thorough and comprehensive consultation ever taken on local public spending', according to...
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27 Sep 10
Decisions over benefit payments should be localised and welfare spending incorporated into pooled area-based budgets, the government has been told today
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24 Sep 10
The coalition government is proposing to abolish 180 quangos, leaked papers have revealed
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23 Sep 10
Not all cuts have to be bad, sometimes you can get more for less – and that’s particularly the case with procurement, argues Paul O'Brien. Some councils have already found new ways
to make the most...
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23 Sep 10
David Cameron's Big Society could radically change the way services are delivered, and help councils empower communities. But the bad news for the chancellor is that it's unlikely to save much money...
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22 Sep 10
A decisive shift towards Total Place-style budgeting is widely expected to be included in next month’s Comprehensive Spending Review, Public Finance has learned.
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21 Sep 10
Plans to replace police authorities with directly elected police and crime commissioners came under renewed fire today after it was claimed that the move would cost £101m
18 Oct 10Labour’s new shadow chancellor set out his alternative deficit reduction plan today, claiming only half of the coalition’s planned spending cuts are needed.
7 Oct 10All eyes are on how much the chancellor will cut in his Spending Review. But maximising income from tax revenues is just as important, argues Richard Murphy
7 Oct 10The chancellor's statement on October 20 has been billed as a Spending Review like no other, with 25% cuts expected across most departments. But the full impact will only be understood years down...
23 Sep 10Not all cuts have to be bad, sometimes you can get more for less – and that’s particularly the case with procurement, argues Paul O'Brien. Some councils have already found new ways to make the most...
23 Sep 10David Cameron's Big Society could radically change the way services are delivered, and help councils empower communities. But the bad news for the chancellor is that it's unlikely to save much money...
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