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20 May 99
Critics of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) have leapt on a National Audit Office report criticising the first major NHS hospital built under the policy.
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20 May 99
The role of negotiating grants to the new Scottish assembly has been given to John Reid, who impressed Number 10 when transport minister by facing down protesting lorry-drivers angered by increases...
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29 Apr 99
On May 6, the local council elections in England, Wales and Scotland will be an important test of the state of the parties.
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15 Apr 99
The capital's fire engines will be supplied and managed by the private sector for the first 20 years of the next century, following this week's announcement of a £45m Private Finance Initiative deal...
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8 Apr 99
The government is pressing ahead with funding changes for supported and sheltered housing despite objections from housing associations.
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29 Oct 98
Council house repairs in England and Wales are in line for a £1.2bn cash boost from 2000/2001, according to a briefing note from Local Government Association chief executive Brian Briscoe.
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29 Oct 98
Councils face a multi-million pound bill after the second serious floods this year highlighted insurance inadequacies.
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8 Oct 98
Chancellor Gordon Brown has denied that the worldwide crisis in financial markets and the possibility of a UK recession threaten the government's extra funding commitments on health and education.
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24 Sep 98
The battle against NHS fraud will be lost without further government support, health service accountants warned this week.
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24 Sep 98
The health department is poised to scrap the controversial scheme that has failed to stem the rise of the NHS's £6bn drugs bill and replace it with strict price controls.
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3 Sep 98
The government has cleared the way for an expansion of the Private Finance Initiative into quangos and other non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs).
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23 Jul 98
Local government minister Hilary Armstrong has urged councils to refurbish rather than build new homes with the new money from the Comprehensive Spending Review.
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16 Jul 98
The NHS Executive is to clamp down on health authorities and trusts that do not put enough cash aside to cover clinical negligence claims against them.
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16 Jul 98
Nurses, midwives and non-clinical NHS staff could be offered large pay increases soon, despite Gordon Brown's insistence that he will keep the lid on public sector pay.