Economy

  • Public Finance
    7 Feb 02
    The government is considering a radical change to the structure of the Local Government Pension Scheme as it seeks to reduce the rising cost of contributions from the public purse.
  • Public Finance
    7 Feb 02
    Local government employers are preparing themselves for the worst pay dispute 'in a decade' after negotiations with trade unions broke up without agreement this week.
  • Public Finance
    7 Feb 02
    Education watchdog Mike Tomlinson praised teachers for improving the quality of education on offer in England's schools as he published his annual report for 2000/01.
  • Public Finance
    7 Feb 02
    Wendy Thomson's Office of Public Service Reform is to carry out a review of the willingness of government departments to let councils enjoy the new autonomy Stephen Byers promised them in his recent...
  • Public Finance
    31 Jan 02
    Government officials are considering a fundamental reorganisation of police pensions after it was revealed that the total liability for English and Welsh forces may have leapt to £36bn.
  • Public Finance
    31 Jan 02
    As many as 2 million bus journeys will be scrapped in the new financial year unless central government makes a cash injection of £10m, local authority transport officials have warned.
  • Public Finance
    24 Jan 02
    Local government employers have slated the trade unions' pay demand and warned that it could make many authorities' in-house services too expensive to run.
  • Public Finance
    24 Jan 02
    The teaching unions have given a lukewarm response to the 3.5% pay award announced for English and Welsh schoolteachers for 2002.
  • Public Finance
    17 Jan 02
    The Department of Health must take urgent action to combat obesity in England, the Commons' Public Accounts Committee said this week.
  • Public Finance
    17 Jan 02
    Walsall council is in danger of 'slipping down the same slippery slope' as Hackney, Audit Commission controller Sir Andrew Foster has warned.
  • Public Finance
    17 Jan 02
    The government has underspent its transport budget by more than £500m in the past two years, Transport Secretary Stephen Byers said this week.
  • Public Finance
    17 Jan 02
    London Mayor Ken Livingstone faces a battle to force his proposed budget through the capital's assembly after the Association of London Government dismissed it as 'unacceptable and unrealistic'.
  • Public Finance
    10 Jan 02
    Unions and the private sector are still wrangling over the details of the government's Best Value review three weeks after the final deadline for talks, leaving the timetable for reform looking...
  • Public Finance
    10 Jan 02
    Principals in further education colleges received average salary increases of 4.5% last year, according to a report.
  • Public Finance
    10 Jan 02
    Ian Blair, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service, has warned that the force's 2002/03 financial settlement could throw the capital's policing into 'crisis', despite a likely...
  • Public Finance
    10 Jan 02
    Nurses will feel 'sorely let down' by a pay rise that will give experienced staff nurses an extra £9 a week, according to the Royal College of Nursing.
  • Public Finance
    13 Dec 01
    Local authorities are to be ranked for the first time, with high-performers promised the freedom to sell their services and set their own council tax levels, according to this week's long-awaited...
  • Public Finance
    13 Dec 01
    The Scottish Executive has been accused of 'massaging figures' after it announced an 11% grant increase for local authorities.
  • Public Finance
    13 Dec 01
    The NHS has two years to regain public confidence or its principles of a tax-funded, equitable service may be lost for good, health minister Lord Hunt said last week.
  • Public Finance
    13 Dec 01
    Gordon Brown has rejected suggestions that promised service improvements resulting from increased public spending are being thwarted by Whitehall's reluctance to spend the extra money.
  • Public Finance
    13 Dec 01
    Reduced crime and cleaner roads are more important to people in deprived areas than health and education, surveys reveal.
  • Public Finance
    6 Dec 01
    Education and social services are in line for a budget increase of at least 4% in next year's finance settlement for local authorities.
  • Public Finance
    6 Dec 01
    Chancellor Gordon Brown's scenario for revitalised health spending including an instant £1bn boost was designed to bring certainty and clarity to the argument over funding.
  • Public Finance
    6 Dec 01
    Almost two-thirds of public sector organisations fear they will be unable to afford the next round of pay increases, according to Public Finance 's latest survey.
  • Public Finance
    29 Nov 01
    Chancellor Gordon Brown propelled the debate on the future funding of the National Health Service to the top of the political agenda as he announced a £1bn boost in spending for next year in his pre-...

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