MPs have slammed the government's handling of the 2001 foot and mouth crisis as 'inexcusable', claiming ministers' slow reaction to events contributed to the spread of the disease and meant the cost...
As the British armed forces gear themselves for a seemingly inevitable conflict in the Gulf, MPs have warned the Ministry of Defence it must equip soldiers properly for extreme conditions following a...
Suspicions among council highways and transport officers that their budgets are being plundered by education and social services colleagues have been reinforced by the Commission for Integrated...
The increased use of an expensive drug has helped a campaign to cut the number of deaths from coronary heart disease, the national heart director said this week.
Launching a progress report on the...
Councils will be able to keep millions of pounds gleaned from business rates if they generate economic growth across their communities, under plans unveiled by local government minister Nick...
A new partnership body set up to boost housing in the Northwest has admitted that it must attract substantial private money because of uncertainty over government funding.
Elevate East Lancashire...
Ian Pearson, Northern Ireland's interim finance minister during the suspension of the Assembly, has announced a £2bn spending programme under the Reinvestment and Reform Initiative agreed last year...
A charity for the elderly has bitterly attacked a government U-turn on minimum environmental standards in care homes.
Ministers bowed to pressure from care-home owners and dropped key standards...
Council tax increases in London and the Southeast are set to soar above 25% for the first time, fuelling allegations that the government has shifted significant resources to the Midlands and the...
Social services directors this week urged the government to delay the introduction of council fines for hospital 'bed-blocking', as a critical report by the National Audit Office exposed the extent...
Councils hoping to pump millions of pounds into rundown housing were dealt a major blow this week when the government closed off one possible route for borrowing money.
Prison reformers have demanded a review of the Home Office's policy of jailing minors after a damning report was issued this week on the privately run Ashfield young offenders institution in...
The Treasury has opened its doors to the prospect of allowing councils to raise and control more funds locally, according to Paul Boateng, the chief secretary to the Treasury .
A decade-long catalogue of failures by the Lord Chancellor's Department and a private contractor has turned what should have been a straightforward IT scheme into arguably 'the shoddiest Private...
Council tenants, trade unionists and councillors descended on Westminster this week to increase pressure on ministers to give local authorities the same rights as housing associations.
Local government leaders have gone on the offensive over this year's finance settlement amid fears that increases in education funding could mean other services are starved of cash.
Taxpayers may end up paying millions of pounds to deal with problems caused by abandoned waste sites because of poor costing by operators, says the National Audit Office.
Four NHS chief executives have resigned after a damning report found their Scottish region was riddled with infighting and a lack of financial understanding.
The London Assembly and the Association of London Government are independently to evaluate the capital's congestion charge scheme following Transport for London's decision to conduct its own...
Local government leaders are finally seeing local tax-raising powers within their grasp after Gordon Brown indicated that authorities would be able to keep rates income generated by encouraging new...
Westminster City Council's record-breaking £224m outsourcing contract for street cleaning, announced last week, could have been run in-house for £4m a year less than the annual £32m it will cost...
The prime minister has pledged that all primary and secondary schools will have high-speed Internet access by 2006 as part of a £6bn information technology spend over the next three years.
