The government’s apparent lack of long-term plan to recover overdue debt issued via its £47bn Covid-19 business loan scheme means fraudsters could “walk away with billions of taxpayers’ money”,...
The government failed to collect data to determine whether more than £400m spent on Covid-19 travel measures delivered value for money, according to the National Audit Office.
The government’s allocation of a post-Brexit funding pot was a missed opportunity to reform economic development allocations, with many regions receiving cuts, according to experts.
Regions across England could see a shortfall amounting to tens of millions of pounds compared to the European Union structural funding it replaces, according to reports.
The Department for Levelling up Housing and Communities is considering proposals to publish the full value of local authority investments and data on subsidiary companies.
The funding committed to social care bodies through Health and Social Care Levy, which went live today, is not enough to meet cost pressures and sector reforms, according to an expert.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, the minister for Brexit opportunities and government efficiency wants to unravel a decade’s worth of progress on social value. Joe Fyans and Callin McLinden ask if that is wise.
Prime minister Boris Johnson has promised to consider increasing universal credit in line with inflation, to mitigate the impact of soaring inflation on the cost-of-living.
The government aims to cut the number of civil servants and reform exit payments, as part of wider plans to deliver £5.5bn of savings, according to a senior treasury minister.
Public spending rises announced by chancellor Rishi Sunak last autumn are now up to a quarter less generous in real-terms due to rising inflation, says Ben Zaranko.
A lack of detail on how proposed national insurance changes will affect health and social care budgets shows the claimed link between the two is 'absurd', according to experts.
Public sector workers face a hefty average real-terms pay cut of around £1,800 pounds in 2022-23 as chancellor Rishi Sunak looks to protect his spending plans without raising taxes further, ...
High inflation is set to push the cost of servicing government debt to twice the Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecast in October, the fiscal watchdog said in its outlook accompanying the...
Rishi Sunak attempted to throw off his reputation as a high-spending chancellor during his Spring Statement by announcing a target to bring borrowing down below 2% of GDP by 2024-25.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s announcement of a £500m extension to a hardship fund distributed via top-tier local authorities provides a mere “drop in the ocean” compared to the scale of the cost of...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak will have some ‘wiggle room’ to help tackle the rising cost of living in his Spring Statement as government borrowing undershoots forecasts, according to an influential...
The government’s ‘levelling up’ agenda is reliant on detail on funding reforms omitted from last month’s white paper, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Speaking to the press for the first time about his controversial spell as communities secretary, Lord Pickles says he is relaxed about the unpicking of his austerity legacy.
The government’s decision to freeze income tax bands will provide the government with £20bn additional revenue a year, more than double initial forecasts, according to the Institute for Fiscal...
The level of fraud in the government’s Covid-19 loan schemes is around £1.5bn less than previously forecast, according to senior officials at the British Business Bank.