Chancellor Gordon Brown faces tough choices over public spending and may have to cut investment in key services to balance the Treasury's books, according to an influential think-tank.
Benefit offices, jobcentres and other agencies of the Department for Work and Pensions could effectively shut down for a full week over Easter unless there is a breakthrough in the dispute over civil...
Bath and North East Somerset Council has rejected criticisms that its 1999 stock housing transfer was littered with 'inappropriate and unlawful' actions this week.
When the NHS was established in 1948, Nye Bevan believed its effect on the nation's health would be so profound that future governments would not have to increase its budget greatly.
The prudential framework for local authority borrowing is about to have a major impact on Glasgow's regeneration, according to the city council's chief executive, George Black.
Pensioners are being urged to claim the council tax reductions they are entitled to as part of a government campaign to stem mounting opposition from older people.
The government faces a tight deadline to extend trials of new voting methods this summer, after peers blocked proposals to increase the number of all-postal elections in June.
Shadow chancellor Oliver Letwin has outlined the Conservatives' policy of cutting state spending as a percentage of national income. But what does this expenditure strategy mean in policy terms?
Radical reform of the council tax is on the way but it will be at least 12 months before a replacement system is drawn up and the details finalised, Public Finance has been told.
The local government troubleshooter appointed to improve Kingston upon Hull City Council has set up a series of committees to oversee changes at the authority.
Landlords providing services for people in sheltered housing will receive £15m less next year after an independent review warned that costs were spiralling out of control.
The head of the consortium that will manage the government's £125m fund to help charities be more effective in public service delivery hopes to use some of the money to test the viability of long-...
In these times of thrift, it is perhaps ironic that the public sector has turned towards a British institution synonymous with risk to solve its financial conundrums: the City of London.
Spending per head in Scotland has increased, despite expectations that the Barnett Formula would bring funding convergence across the UK, a Scottish Parliament committee was told this week.
'Fundamental flaws' in the London Borough of Southwark's planning processes meant auditors were 'unable to refute entirely allegations of corrupt or improper practices' after officers granted...
Officials at the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs have indicated that a review of its anti-fuel poverty initiative is likely to reform the way cash is distributed to those most in...
