The Department for Work and Pensions is making little headway in its struggle to tackle benefit fraud, the auditor general has said in qualifying its accounts for the 14th year in a row.
Council tax bills in Scotland are set to rise by an average of about 4.5%, after the local government funding settlement announced this week by Finance and Public Services Minister Andy Kerr.
A Treasury-commissioned report on the state of the UK housing market has prompted calls for a £2bn funding boost to reverse the 'crisis' that has plagued the social housing sector.
Regional housing boards will be given more time to draw up future funding plans, but have been warned they must continue to reflect government priorities.
All public bodies will be required to produce commercial-style accounts by 2006 under Treasury plans to improve the sector's financial transparency and service delivery.
Local authorities, refugee groups and social workers have condemned controversial plans put forward by the government in this year's Queen's Speech to take the children of failed asylum seekers into...
Honours committees are out of step with modern society and dominated by an elderly, white male elite, according to government policy papers released by an influential committee of MPs.
Northern Ireland's auditor general, John Dowdall, has issued a disclaimer on the Department for Social Development's 2002/03 accounts effectively refusing to sign them off.
Kingston upon Hull City Council has been dealt a double blow as it strives to shed its tarnished image following a second damning Audit Commission report, with councillors again at loggerheads and a...
Teachers in England and Wales are to receive an inflation-only, multi-year pay increase for the first time as the government moves to head off a repeat of the schools funding crisis that saw mass...
London councils that have or plan to set up arm's-length companies to manage their housing stand to lose more than £167m per year because of cuts in government management and maintenance allowances.
Ministers and civil servants have been accused of knowingly underestimating the costs of the Holyrood Scottish Parliament building, which have soared to £400m, ten times the original estimate.
