The youngest adults are the least likely to be sympathetic to poor people or proud of the welfare state, Ipsos Mori chief executive Ben Page has revealed today
Labour is set to announce proposals to revamp Local Enterprise Partnerships across England to improve their ability to help deliver economic growth, shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has...
Solving the ‘jobs puzzle’ in the economy is fundamental to understanding how the country can recover, BBC economics editor Stephanie Flanders has told CIPFA’s annual conference
The new CIPFA president has called for a ‘proper conversation’ about the future of public services amid spending cuts in her speech to the CIPFA annual conference this morning
As the June Spending Review extends austerity cuts across government, ‘smart skills’ will be essential for Whitehall finance staff to address the challenges
Local Enterprise Partnerships boundaries could be redrawn, Business Secretary Vince Cable has indicated, saying that the scope of the 39 areas is ‘not set in stone’.
The Labour Party has signed up to the coalition’s public spending limits for 2015/16. But this is based on a false consensus on the meaning of debt, deficits and the UK’s monetary position
Those who take the risks reap the rewards. Or do they? The truth is that from Silicon Valley to Singapore, innovation relies heavily on state funding. It’s time for the private sector to give...
Growth remained flat at the start of 2012, meaning there was no double-dip recession, according to the latest estimates from the Office for National Statistics.
The Spending Review provided evidence that the coalition is starting to think more radically, and attack some tougher fiscal targets. There must be no let up in this approach
Sir Stephen Houghton, chair of Sigoma, has called for a new independent body to set council funding every three years, after warning that authorities could ‘wither away’ under the current finance...
Local government anxiously awaits the outcome of the Spending Review. But it's not just the overall totals that count, it's also the fairness of the distribution system - and poorer councils...
There is no need to limit this week's Spending Review to one year or to have it so early. These decision are caused by the desire of the two coalition parties not to tie themselves together ahead of...
Chancellor George Osborne has missed his target to cut public sector borrowing year on year, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics.
Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed that he has taken the first step towards selling the government’s stake in the bailed-out Lloyds Banking Group. He said the Treasury was now ‘actively...
An initiative to cut costs on major infrastructure projects has identified potential savings of more than £1bn in the government’s High Speed 2 scheme, the Treasury announced today.
The number of children living in relative poverty has fallen by around a quarter since the financial crisis in 2007/08, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found.
Public sector employment in the UK continues to decline, falling by 22,000 to 5.7 million over the first three months of the year, official figures show.
‘Innovative’ finance schemes allowed the Welsh Government to spend around £1.3bn more on infrastructure projects in the past year than it originally planned, Finance Minister Jane Hutt has announced.
