The Rural Services Network has given details of its manifesto for next year’s general election in an effort to keep countryside issues high on the political agenda
A single Whitehall department has run up a bill of more than £570m - more than a fifth of its resource budget - on consultants, temporary staff and professional services in just one year
England’s rivers, lakes and canals are to get a facelift through new government funding. Environment minister Huw Irranca-Davies said an extra £10m would be invested over the next year in improving...
A simpler and more open system — or a way for ministers to bulldoze through favoured projects? The Planning Act, and particularly the creation of a new quango as final arbiter, has provoked uproar
A groundbreaking deal to supply electricity to the entire public sector in Scotland was set to be announced by Finance Secretary John Swinney on April 30
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
