Housing groups and councils have today called for borrowing powers to build 60,000 affordable homes, saying the investment would boost economic growth by 0.6%.
Real incomes in the UK have fallen since the recession hit in 2008, the Office for National Statistics has revealed in its first national wellbeing report.
Prime Minister David Cameron plans to restrict the right to seek judicial review of government policy, saying that many of the legal challenges are ‘completely pointless’.
The Treasury’s slow reaction to the financial crisis meant that taxpayer losses were almost inevitable following the nationalisation of Northern Rock bank, the Public Accounts Committee has said.
The UK can learn lessons from how Sweden tackled its financial crisis in the early 1990s as it tries to reduce both unemployment and its budget deficit, the Institute for Public Policy Research said...
Around £48bn of spending cuts or tax increases are needed to put the government’s deficit reduction plan back on track, a report by two think-tanks revealed today.
The move by the Treasury to claim the surplus cash from the Bank of England’s quantitative easing programme is likely to cut public sector net borrowing in the short term, the Office for Budget...
A third round of City Deals could lead to the devolution of economic powers to all local authorities in England, the government’s cities adviser Lord Shipley has told Public Finance.
Businesses are preparing to walk away from Local Enterprise Partnerships and the government needs urgently to increase their powers and funding, the Work Foundation has said.
Ministers have been urged to let councils across England take on more economic development powers as part of the City Deals programme, after 20 areas were shortlisted yesterday for greater devolution.
The first female general secretary of the TUC will have her work cut out dealing with public sector disputes and the union brothers. But don’t expect Frances O’Grady to start tub-thumping any time...
Halfway through its term in office, the coalition is still looking for a route map to recovery. The chancellor’s Autumn Statement must offer some way out of here, argues Steve Freer
Nearly a quarter of a million jobs will be supported by £1bn of funds from the government’s Regional Growth Fund, the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said.
Public sector net borrowing in September was £12.8bn, down £700m compared to the same month last year, the Office for National Statistics has revealed today.
Councils have hit out at the government’s latest proposals to reform the planning system, warning that moves to remove responsibility for decisions from town halls could ‘undermine confidence’ in...
