The government’s mooted solution to the local audit crisis needs to work, or the Whole of Government Accounts risks being stuck in poor quality for several years, a group of MPs has warned.
A better-than-expected outlook for public finances is likely to give chancellor Jeremy Hunt headroom for tax cuts ahead of the general election, an economist has said.
Post Office scandal lands everywhere, Levelling Up progress revealed, LGA renews social care lobbying, the cities that will escape the doom loop and more.
Depressed investment and slower economic growth caused by Brexit have wiped £140bn off the UK economy compared with if the country stayed in the European Union, researchers have claimed.
Reversing the declining performance in the NHS, courts and education systems could take two parliamentary terms and require a “bold package of reforms”, the Institute for Public Policy Research has...
The lack of quality procurement data has made it difficult for the government to demonstrate that £259bn spent in 2021-22 delivered value for money, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee...
The public never saw the real chancellor responding to the financial storm with calmness - and proper food, writes David Smith, director at Kent County Council who worked with him.
A proposed real-terms cut to capital budgets risks exacerbating school maintenance backlogs and shows the government does “not care about the state of school buildings”, a union leader has said.
The government has only met its target to show debt will fall by “pretending” certain measures, including the fuel duty freeze, will end this year, economists at the Institute for Fiscal Studies have...