The Private Finance Initiative deal to build the Channel Tunnel rail link was 'fundamentally flawed' because it relied on over-optimistic passenger forecasts and cushioned shareholders against risk,...
The Greater London Authority's Labour-led transport operations scrutiny committee has castigated Mayor Ken Livingstone for spending too much time opposing the part-privatisation of the Tube, while...
London Mayor Ken Livingstone's decision this week to introduce congestion charges on the capital's crammed roads could pave the way for other big cities to follow.
Leader of the Commons Robin Cook has backed what he called the most fundamental overhaul ever of select committees. The modernisation committee, which Cook chairs, recommends limiting party...
Ken Livingstone has been forced to tone down his ambitious plans for London's transport network, after he reluctantly agreed a deal to save the capital's 2002/03 budget.
Whitehall's largest union is to hold more strikes in benefits offices after the Department for Work and Pensions refused to hold conciliation talks in the long-running dispute over staff security.
Senior mandarins are increasingly confident of heading off the unwelcome spectre of a business leader being imposed as civil service chief when Sir Richard Wilson retires in August.
As many as 2 million bus journeys will be scrapped in the new financial year unless central government makes a cash injection of £10m, local authority transport officials have warned.
NHS managers gave a qualified welcome to this week's announcement giving greater independence to the best trusts but remained sceptical over Alan Milburn's masterplan for a brave new world in the...
The government has lost millions of pounds because of poor accounting by civil service departments in Northern Ireland, according to the province's financial watchdog.
Postal unions have reassured the public that they do not intend to disrupt the busy Christmas mailing period, despite the threat of strike action in the wake of Consignia's announcement that 30,000...
Chancellor Gordon Brown's scenario for revitalised health spending including an instant £1bn boost was designed to bring certainty and clarity to the argument over funding.
Private companies must be allowed to absorb swathes of the public sector if service improvements are to be achieved, a former Treasury mandarin has claimed.
Regional rail services look set to move back into public sector control with ministers preparing to give major cities a key role in managing local train networks.
Pressure is mounting on the Treasury to come clean on how public spending is officially defined in the wake of the Railtrack collapse and allegations that it disguised projected spending increases as...
Bob Kiley, the Transport for London commissioner, has launched a bid to take control of London's overground rail commuter lines and stations in the post-Railtrack era.
The outgoing chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority, Sir Alastair Morton, has told MPs that the government should seize on the demise of Railtrack as an opportunity to restructure fundamentally...
Public-private partnerships could supplant full-scale privatisation as the policy of the future following Railtrack's demise, a conference in Dublin was told this week.
The Liberal Democrats have demanded an immediate moratorium on all NHS Private Finance Initiative schemes and greater scrutiny of private sector involvement in the public services.
