The government has not done enough to address concerns that the Private Finance Initiative is being used to keep the cost of major infrastructure projects off its balance sheet, the Commons’ Treasury...
The current financial crisis is just the start of the problems facing Western economies. ‘Normal’ levels of GDP growth might never return, as a result of climate change, an ageing population,...
A senior local authority figure has warned ministers that plans for pension funds to invest in national infrastructure developments will not be approved ‘just to dig the government out of a hole’.
Latest figures on fly-tipping show the ‘real impact’ councils are having in tackling illegally deposited waste, according to the Local Government Association.
The government has announced how it plans to spend £775m on the UK’s green infrastructure next year, in advance of European Commission approval for its Green Investment Bank.
It will cost Scotland up to £11bn to meet Holyrood’s targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, Audit Scotland has found. It is also uncertain how the targets will be met and who will pay.
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has been criticised for slow progress in redressing financial management weaknesses first identified in 2008.
Scottish ministers have welcomed the UK government's decision to release £103m for investment in Scottish renewable energy developments, ending a long dispute over cash earmarked for these projects.
Government plans to fast-track a 50% cut in the tariff paid for electricity generated by solar panels could cost councils hundreds of millions of pounds, the Local Government Association said today.
Public attitudes stand in the way of the radical service transformations needed to deal with local authority budget cuts, according to the New Local Government Network.
Pessimists argue that only zero growth will save the planet. But it doesn't have to be that way, says the IPPR. There are ways to achieve Treasury growth targets and reduce greenhouse gases
Planning reforms will protect the countryside while allowing more homes to be built, decentralisation minister Greg Clark told the Conservative Party conference in Manchester yesterday.
Nearly a quarter of children of secondary school age have received some private or home tuition according to a survey commissioned by education charity the Sutton Trust.
Scotland’s local authorities have poured scorn on the Scottish Government’s business case for merging the eight fire services into one, claiming it won’t save the money claimed and could cut up to 1,...
Councils in England will not be forced to carry out weekly bin collections as previously indicated by Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles, it was announced today.
