Former deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine has dismissed the office of London mayor as a 'non-job' insufficiently powerful to manage the economic changes likely to affect the capital over the...
More than 100 defunct NHS sites across England are to be sold to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister as part of a regeneration deal estimated to be worth £400m.
Social landlords need £8.4bn to be pumped into affordable housing during the next three years so they can build 140,000 new homes by 2008, the chancellor was told this week.
Council leaders are to deliver a stark warning to ministers that key public services will suffer unless they are given significant new resources in the forthcoming Spending Review, Public Finance...
The Accounts Commission in Scotland has told councils to review their policy on financial reserves after it was disclosed that these currently amount to almost 9% of total annual expenditure.
The concept of 'choice' must be extended across Britain's public services to ensure the government's radical reforms are successful, according to leading thinkers from the two main parties.
Fire authorities are being dilatory in implementing the modernisation agenda due to come into force following last year's firefighters' strike, the Audit Commission says.
The Local Government Association has launched a review of the Improvement and Development Agency as part of its programme to scrutinise its central bodies.
The Scottish Executive is on course to meet the majority of targets set out in its draft budget for 2004/05, Finance and Public Services Minister Andy Kerr announced this week.
Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy has told his party's spring conference that he is not scared to use the word 'redistribution' when describing his tax and spending plans.
Gordon Brown's pledge to prune Whitehall's army of Sir Humphreys and slash billions of pounds from the government's annual spending bill ensured that these issues dominated last week's post-Budget...
The introduction of proportional representation (PR) in Scottish local government has moved a step closer, following a decision by a committee of MSPs to approve the principles of the Local...
British local government is not powerful enough to underpin a switch to a social insurance scheme for national health care, while Conservative Party plans for 'patient passports' to ease the burden...
The Conservative Party will go back to first principles and avoid the lure of quick-fix solutions to the council tax controversy, its new local government finance spokesman has told Public Finance .
Unnecessary impositions and over-zealous regulation by government agencies will be the focus of attempts to eradicate the 'regulatory creep' burdening Britain's public sector, according to the man...
Gordon Brown threw down the gauntlet to the Conservatives this week when he used his Budget statement to promise substantial extra investment in key public services well into the next Parliament.
The maze of regulations governing how local authorities manage their investments will be swept away when a simplified 'prudential' framework comes into effect on April 1.
