A local government think-tank has called for citizens to be given a leading role in the audit regime that follows the abolition of the Audit Commission
The Ministry of Defence is to be broken up and control of the armed forces handed to local authorities under the next phase of the government’s localism drive.
A Lords inquiry has backed calls for the Audit Commission’s in-house audit division to become a stand-alone entity, saying this would stop further ‘oligopoly’ by the Big Four accountancy firms.
VIDEO INTERVIEW: The chief executive of Ipsos Mori talks to Public Finance about public opinion on spending cuts, the March 2011 Budget, Chancellor George Osborne and his opposite number Ed Balls. He...
Complaints about the impact of cuts on public services should be made to local councils, Chancellor George Osborne has told the Treasury select committee.
Costs of local authority audit could rise if government plans to abolish the Audit Commission go ahead unchanged, CIPFA chief executive Steve Freer has told MPs
The public sector's target culture has made it unresponsive to areas plagued by crime and antisocial behaviour, the government's safer communities champion has said
Ministers are drawing up legislation to allow councils to recover all their costs from issuing and monitoring alcohol and late-night entertainment licences.
Labour says the chancellor's 'Budget for growth' won't work, and he needs a Plan B. But where are the Opposition's own alternatives for the economy and public services? Liam Byrne talks exclusively...
Concern that there will be a mass opt-out from the Local Government Pension Scheme has been reignited after the chancellor said in his Budget that he would go ahead with increasing public sector...
Local Enterprise Partnerships are to be tested to the limit as hard-pressed councils strive to be part of the 21 new 'enterprise zones' announced in the Budget
Audit Commission staff are in favour of establishing an employee-owned mutual, but slow and unclear movement by the government risks derailing the plans, MPs were told last night.
Two major development projects in Scotland are to be funded using Tax Increment Financing, which allows councils to borrow against future gains in business rate income
A London council has called for enterprise zones to be extended beyond the Midlands and North of England ahead of this week’s Budget, in which ten new zones are due to be announced.
