MPs are to conduct a major inquiry into every aspect of the civil service amid fears that Sir Peter Gershon's reforms could decimate Whitehall expertise and leave departments at the mercy of...
Government plans to slash £21.5bn from annual public sector costs by 2008 could be undermined by the private sector's inability to deliver outsourced services, a senior CBI official has warned.
Over 95% of public servants are not saving enough for a comfortable retirement, often because they are confused about how schemes work, a leading pensions expert has warned.
The explicit efficiency targets for local government, set out in Sir Peter Gershon's review, are to be relaxed in favour of a more 'flexible' approach to meeting the overall £6.45bn figure, Public...
Home Secretary David Blunkett has rejected radical proposals to 'regionalise' the police service and grant district councils funding powers to 'buy' officers, Public Finance has learned.
Ministers are close to a final decision on a major cull of public sector inspectorates, but plans to merge up to 13 bodies into four is causing concern.
When Adair Turner published his interim report on the UK's escalating pension crisis last week, he no doubt sent civil servants at the Department for Work and Pensions scuttling back to their offices...
Collective choice, co-payments and targeted procurement are likely to be at the heart of Labour's next manifesto, according to a former Cabinet minister close to Blairite thinking.
Local government leaders are to step up their campaign for more government cash in November's revenue support grant settlement, as ministers indicate that they will be looking for average council tax...
Detailed information about individual properties will be published for the 2007 council tax revaluation exercise, but the government has denied that it will be used to compile the revised bandings.
Northern Ireland's councils have reacted angrily to proposals to cut their number from 26 to just seven, as news emerged of the initial proposals of the Review of Public Administration.
Government plans to overhaul Britain's troubled pensions system extended deeper into the public sector this week, when ministers announced plans for a radical overhaul of the firefighters' retirement...
Health and education are the big winners at the expense of local government in the Welsh Assembly government's draft budget, provoking warnings of council tax hikes next year.
Lower-paid council staff are likely to benefit from changes in proposals to overhaul the Local Government Pension Scheme published this week, at the expense of higher salaried managers.
Sixty-two local authorities in 21 areas will take part in the first Local Area Agreements as Whitehall moved this week to rationalise funding and give councils a taste of new localism.
John Prescott's announcement at the start of the Labour Party conference that top local authorities could start building homes again surprised just about everybody not least the Office of the...
Reforming council tax and equalising the balance of funding would be priorities for a first-term Conservative administration, according to the shadow local government secretary Caroline Spelman.
Many local authorities find the Bellwin scheme to defray the costs of natural disasters less than useful, according to research published by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
Local government experts have warned that the introduction of depreciation accounting across councils is unlikely to be swift, as the question of who will foot the bill for any additional costs has...