This summer’s standard assessment tests fiasco was one in a long line of outsourcing disasters. But it provides a route map for future partnerships, says Andrew Rigby
Credit unions could take over the running of the troubled Social Fund from Jobcentre Plus under measures being considered for next year’s Welfare Reform Bill
The government has announced measures to boost social enterprises, as research shows third sector organisations have won public sector contracts worth almost £16m in the past six months
Government indecision over whether to leave Royal Mail in charge of the Post Office card account has left the fate of 3,000 post offices in the balance, senior MPs said this week
Losses from internal fraud and theft in Whitehall increased from £3.9m to over £4m in the past financial year despite a fall in the number of reported cases, a Treasury report has said
Civil service-wide pay talks are set to take place over the next three weeks after the Public and Commercial Services union suspended a national strike planned for November 10
The government could announce a combined package of tax cuts, benefit measures and capital spending to provide a ‘fiscal stimulus’ to the economy in the Pre-Budget Report, economists have...
The UK government might have to repay £190m for errors made in allocating European Union regional funding across the country, as the European Commission seeks to toughen up controls on spending
Local authorities are to receive a total of £101m to help ensure that house building continues during the economic downturn and that the industry is primed for when the economy improves
The UK government has been accused of trying to stop the process of Scottish self-government after refusing to make any commitment to increase the powers of the Holyrood Parliament
Despite the abandonment of the fiscal rules, the UK remains prudent by European measures. Steve Wilcox argues that by adopting the EU’s financial rules in the Pre-Budget Report on November 24,...
When the going gets tough, the tough invent a grand-sounding body. Philip Johnston asks whether Gordon Brown’s new economic ‘war council’ is a lean, mean fighting machine or a...