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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
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13 Sep 10
Opponents of the government's spending cuts must marshal an intellectual case for an alternative, the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress said today
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10 Sep 10
The Welsh Local Government Association has warned that the public sector cuts to be announced next month put Wales at greater risk of returning to recession.
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10 Sep 10
Three ideas for cutting the deficit put forward by members of the public are to be taken forward, the government said today
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10 Sep 10
Social housing provider Lovell has paid £28m to acquire the majority of Connaught Partnerships' social housing contracts and assets, it was announced today
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10 Sep 10
Chancellor George Osborne has announced a further £4bn of cuts to the welfare bill, on top of the £11bn outlined in June
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9 Sep 10
Charity bosses have told the chancellor they fear cuts announced in next month's Spending Review will hit the poorest hardest
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9 Sep 10
The public accepts the need for huge
cuts in the Spending Review, as long as
they minimise any sacrifices and consider long-term effects. Jon Sibson explains
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9 Sep 10
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg claimed this morning that much of the coalition government’s spending plans are ‘not radically different’ from those of the previous government.
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8 Sep 10
Local government experts fear district councils will suffer more from the spending cuts than their metropolitan and county counterparts.
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8 Sep 10
Rival politicians and the entire public sector in Scotland need to put aside their differences in an unprecedented effort to save £3.7bn over the next four years, MSPs have been told
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12 Aug 10
'Personalisation' is about to be rolled out across the public services. And it could be an effective way to empower citizens and cut costs. But what is the track record so far in social care?...
20 Sep 10Councils in England are to be given new borrowing powers to finance growth in towns and cities, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced today
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...
12 Aug 10'Personalisation' is about to be rolled out across the public services. And it could be an effective way to empower citizens and cut costs. But what is the track record so far in social care?...
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