Local authorities are protesting to the government after having their budgets for housing investment cut. While total housing expenditure is increasing by 6% in 2003/04, some councils are worse off...
Local government leaders have gone on the offensive over this year's finance settlement amid fears that increases in education funding could mean other services are starved of cash.
Westminster City Council is on the brink of launching legal action against the government's registrar general after allegations that the 2001 census was wildly inaccurate.
Gordon Brown has vigorously rejected suggestions that the government's performance targets are hindering rather than helping efforts to improve public services.
Average council tax bills in London are likely to top £1,000 if Mayor Ken Livingstone's estimated cost of policing the capital in the wake of heightened terrorism fears is accepted by the London...
Four NHS chief executives have resigned after a damning report found their Scottish region was riddled with infighting and a lack of financial understanding.
Birmingham's housing department should be broken up into 35 community-based organisations, according to the commission set up after tenants rejected stock transfer.
The London Assembly and the Association of London Government are independently to evaluate the capital's congestion charge scheme following Transport for London's decision to conduct its own...
Northern Ireland's largest programme of public sector infrastructure rebuilding was announced on December 11 by acting finance minister Ian Pearson in the province's annual Budget.
Local government leaders are finally seeing local tax-raising powers within their grasp after Gordon Brown indicated that authorities would be able to keep rates income generated by encouraging new...
The prime minister has pledged that all primary and secondary schools will have high-speed Internet access by 2006 as part of a £6bn information technology spend over the next three years.
Further education colleges are to receive an extra £1.2bn in funding over the next three years but resources will be dependent on reaching performance targets, Education Secretary Charles Clarke...
Paul Boateng has lashed out angrily at the CBI after it accused the government of hitting business with a £47bn tax bill to pay for improvements to public services.
Social services are on the verge of collapse, despite the government's promise of a 6% increase in spending in each of the next three years, the King's Fund said this week.
Transport commissioner Bob Kiley has attacked London Regional Transport for giving 'illegal' financial guarantees to one of the consortiums involved in the controversial part-privatisation of the...
The Office for National Statistics this week mounted a staunch defence of the way it compiled the 2001 census after fears about the data grew.
Members of the London Assembly are urging its budget...
The independent review into the fire service will not be rushed into reporting early, its chair told Public Finance this week as ministers and the TUC scrambled for a solution to halt the impending...