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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
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20 Sep 10
Councils in England are to be given new borrowing powers to finance growth in towns and cities, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced today
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17 Sep 10
Council leaders warned the government today that a combination of grant cuts and increasing demand for services could leave them with a funding gap of up to £20bn a year by 2014/15
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16 Sep 10
Ministers have hugely ambitious infrastructure plans. The only problem is they don't intend to pay for them. With capital spending being cut at an unprecedented rate, can the private sector step up...
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14 Sep 10
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt today told MPs that his ministry will have to be ‘more imaginative than any other department in Whitehall’ in seeking to slash its costs by half.
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14 Sep 10
The government will review local government finance 'this time next year', Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles told an influential group of MPs this week.
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14 Sep 10
Scotland's rival political parties have united in talks aimed at persuading the Ministry of Defence not to go ahead with proposals to cut the UK's £37bn defence budget
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14 Sep 10
The government has been managing expectations of next month’s Comprehensive Spending Review since June’s emergency Budget, and voters now know to expect incredibly harsh settlements for the services...
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13 Sep 10
The Unite union has told Prime Minister David Cameron that councils have already axed vital services such as meals on wheels and social care provision for elderly people as they prepare for spending...
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13 Sep 10
A major government programme to move people off Incapacity Benefit and into work has come under scathing criticism from Parliament’s spending watchdog
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...
7 Oct 10The 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
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...
16 Sep 10Ministers have hugely ambitious infrastructure plans. The only problem is they don't intend to pay for them. With capital spending being cut at an unprecedented rate, can the private sector step up...
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