The June Spending Review is going to slice Whitehall’s funding cake so thinly that departments will be left fighting over the crumbs. So how are public services meant to cope, asks Tony Travers
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has pledged to stop judicial reviews into government decisions being used as ‘a cheap delaying tactic’ to hold up planning applications and policy changes.
Ministers today began consulting on a radical transformation of the legal aid system, including restricting access, slashing fees and introducing a competitive market for criminal cases.
Government mistakes contributed to the very low turnout in last November’s police and crime commissioner polls and ‘must not be repeated’, the Electoral Commission has found.
The four ‘whole place’ Community Budget pilots in England show that integrated spending could lead to cheaper and better services, the National Audit Office said today.
Last November’s elections for police and crime commissioners ‘failed both candidates and voters alike’ due to government mismanagement of the polls, the Electoral Reform Society has said.
MPs have called for the Independent Police Complaints Commission to be reformed after finding the ‘woefully under-equipped’ watchdog does not have the trust of the public.
The merger of Scotland’s eight regional police forces into a single national body could cost the taxpayer more than £60m in redundancy deals for civilian staff.
Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill has stepped in to end an embarrassing turf war between the two top figures in Scotland’s planned new national police force.
A compromise deal is expected later today to bring an end to an embarrassing turf war between the two top figures in Scotland’s planned new national police force.
Six ‘old and expensive’ publicly run prisons will close and three others will have their capacity reduced, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has announced.
The bulk of probation services in England and Wales are to be opened up to private and voluntary sector providers in a bid to tackle repeat reoffending, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling announced...
MPs have slammed the Ministry of Justice’s procurement of a £42m contract to provide a national interpretation service for courts, which was unable to meet demand and led to an increase in delayed...
The government’s plans for public spending cuts over the next five years are beginning to look ‘close to inconceivable’, with further tax rises or benefits cuts likely, the Institute for Fiscal...
Most Welsh councils failed to prepare their draft Whole of Government Accounts returns on time, a situation the auditor general called ‘very disappointing’.
Business leaders have urged newly elected police and crime commissioners to open up some police services to competition from private firms and reduce costs, amid budget cuts of 20% to forces in...
