Agriculture Secretary Margaret Beckett will try to convince angry farmers this week that government proposals for wholesale change are the only way ahead for an industry that is in freefall.
Housing associations will be able to apply for a share of a £300m renewal fund under a programme announced this week by the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Bank of Scotland.
Efforts by local authorities to prepare for the euro have almost ground to a halt, with councils blaming government dithering over the new currency, which came into use in 12 European countries on...
Ian Blair, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service, has warned that the force's 2002/03 financial settlement could throw the capital's policing into 'crisis', despite a likely...
The government has lost millions of pounds because of poor accounting by civil service departments in Northern Ireland, according to the province's financial watchdog.
Increasing patient expectations will provide the greatest impetus for the NHS to improve, Neil McKay, NHS chief operations officer told the HFMA conference.
The Benefits Payment Card was 'one of the biggest IT failures in the public sector' and wasted £1bn, according to the Commons Public Accounts Committee.
The chief executive of Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council has accused the Audit Commission of costing the taxpayer 'hundreds of thousands of pounds by producing 'unusable' inspection reports.
Chancellor Gordon Brown propelled the debate on the future funding of the National Health Service to the top of the political agenda as he announced a £1bn boost in spending for next year in his pre-...
Social housing needs billions of pounds more in funding from 2003/04 onwards to tackle social regeneration and to provide 20,000 extra homes per year, the government was told this week.
Benefits payments over the Christmas period could be thrown into chaos as the largest civil service union announced it would hold a strike ballot among its 50,000 members working in Benefits Agency...
The government's review of Best Value could escalate the costs of delivering council services, raising the spectre of future cuts in vulnerable areas, it has emerged.
Local authorities need to address the failings rampant in the administration of housing benefit as poor management is causing hardship for claimants, according to the Audit Commission.
Pressure is mounting on the Treasury to come clean on how public spending is officially defined in the wake of the Railtrack collapse and allegations that it disguised projected spending increases as...
Central government must invest in the voluntary sector if it wants to see more not-for-profit organisations involved in the delivery of public services, according to one of the sector's leaders.
Public-private partnerships could supplant full-scale privatisation as the policy of the future following Railtrack's demise, a conference in Dublin was told this week.
Shadow local government secretary Theresa May has pledged that a future Conservative administration would scrap the Government Offices for the Regions and hand their powers back to local authorities.
Business leaders are demanding that the government keeps its promise to overhaul radically the 'failing' planning system in its forthcoming green paper.
