Two councils could bypass the Private Finance Initiative to build a multimillion-pound waste treatment facility after PFI schemes elsewhere have been bogged down by financing problems
Sustainable development will be the ‘central organising principle’ for the Welsh Assembly Government and public sector in Wales, the first minister has said
The banks have been pulling out of the Private Finance Initiative and the contractors are struggling. As a scheme designed to transfer public sector risk becomes a growing liability, frantic efforts...
Local authorities and central government have set up an emergency ‘Salt Cell’ to ensure there is enough gritting salt for roads, as the extreme winter weather continues
A programme designed to tackle fuel poverty has directed help to people who do not need it while omitting many who do, a National Audit Office probe has found
An expected second round of heavy snowfall was set to renew pressure on public sector managers this week after they faced criticism over road, transport and school closures
Plans to create 16,000 ‘green’ jobs in Scotland will aid the country’s economic recovery and protect the environment, Finance Secretary John Swinney has claimed
The government has been forced to shelve plans allowing local authorities to impose a controversial ‘bin tax’ after councils effectively boycotted the idea
Delays in developing new Private Finance Initiative waste treatment facilities could result in hundreds of millions of pounds worth of European Union fines, the National Audit Office has said
The Scottish Government and public sector bodies have been told to show stronger leadership on energy efficiency and give it greater priority at a time of soaring prices
Councils lack the funding and expertise to make adequate preparations against the kinds of floods that devastated some areas in 2007, a survey of local authorities in England shows
Schools that fail to drastically reduce their carbon emissions could cause councils to lose out under the mandatory carbon trading scheme, a think-tank has warned
One of the largest offshore wind farms in the world is to be built off the coast of north Wales. The 250-turbine Gwynt y Môr wind farm has been approved by the Department for Energy and Climate...
Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority has more than tripled its borrowing limit to plug a financing gap that threatens to derail its £3bn Private Finance Initiative scheme
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs should focus on better understanding rural economies now it has lost its climate change brief, MPs have said