UK Financial Investments is meant to be looking after the taxpayers’ massive stake in the country’s failed banks. But concerns are mounting about the Treasury agency’s ‘hands off’ approach. Paul...
Experts have warned that adding defence spending to the politically sensitive areas to be spared from cuts would require more than 16% to be slashed from other Whitehall budgets over three years.
Public sector debt hit a record high of 56.5% of gross domestic product at the end of June, figures from the Office for National Statistics have revealed
The National Audit Office has refused to sign off the Treasury’s 2008/09 resource accounts in full because Parliament had not authorised £24bn of expenditure as part of the banking bail-out package
The Department for Communities and Local Government has difficulty in making urgent investment decisions, a report from the National Audit Office has found
MPs have called for an urgent review of the way quangos operate across government following the Learning and Skills Council’s ‘catastrophic mismanagement’ of its college building programme
The MPs’ expenses scandal highlighted the need for parliamentary reform, both to make elected representatives more accountable and to give them more power over the Executive. This could be done...
Justice Secretary Jack Straw has rejected suggestions from MPs that the emergency legislation to clean up Parliament is being rushed through dangerously fast.
The language of government is blighted by meaningless jargon that must be fought with a ‘constant barrage of mockery’, an influential MPs’ committee has been told.
A £50bn government scheme to support the construction industry and increase the supply of housing is ‘doomed to fail’, according to the Commons’ communities and local government select committee
The Welsh Assembly Government’s proposals to bring consistency to charges for home care services might mean some people will pay more than they currently do, campaigners have said.
Welsh political leaders have welcomed the report of the Holtham Commission on funding for Wales and called for early implementation of its main proposals.
A reformed system for MPs’ expenses should give politicians flat-rate allowances without the need for receipts, the new head of the National Audit Office has said.
Policy experts have dismissed Conservative plans to save money by cutting quangos. They say the potential gains are negligible and similar proposals have proved ineffective in the past.
A new financial watchdog is to be set up to monitor financial stability and respond to emerging risks under measures set out in the banking white paper.
Experts have questioned whether a public sector pay freeze would do much to restore the public finances and have warned that job losses will be needed to save more money.
Conservative health policies hark back to the days of family doctors and GP fundholding. They also promise to increase funding and scrap targets in favour of outcomes. But what do all these pledges...