Scottish Infrastructure Secretary Alex Neil will tomorrow defend the Scottish Government’s plans for increased capital spending, after a setback for a showcase rail project raised fresh doubts over...
Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that the government will increase the discounts offered to council house tenants to buy their homes as part of a plan to boost construction of new homes.
Shadow communities and local government minister Caroline Flint has pledging that a future Labour government would stop Housing Benefit going to landlords who house tenants in sub-standard properties.
Local authorities could be given the power to charge an additional tax on owners of homes that have been empty for more than two years, a Liberal Democrat minister has announced.
A radical funding initiative designed to kick-start construction of affordable housing in Scotland has been hailed as 'innovative and helpful' by the Scottish Government, despite falling short of its...
Local authority spending in England has fallen for the first time since the introduction of the council tax in the early 1990s, according to figures published by the government and CIPFA today.
Scrapping the housing revenue account will over time give English councils control of more than £50bn in rental income to use for new homes and other capital investments, according to research...
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that the government’s Winter Fuel Payment to pensioners is almost 14 times more likely to be spent on heating than on anything else – even though there is...
The government scheme established to help homeowners avoid repossession has helped less than half the people it was expected to and has cost more, according to auditors.
Councils should be freed from many of the confines of planning legislation to allow local people to shape their future, the Local Government Association has said.
Talk of shared services is nothing new, but now it is increasingly turning into action as public bodies seek to find savings without harming services. While a few pioneers are making headlines,...
