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1 Apr 11
As the government embarks on radical reform of the welfare system, how is the Department for Work and Pensions' finance director coping with the changes? Hunada Nouss tells PF about bringing...
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31 Mar 11
Schools need to re-examine their use of teachers and teaching assistants if they are to meet the coming financial challenges, the Audit Commission has said
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30 Mar 11
The government today published a consultation on its plans for local authority public audit following the abolition of the Audit Commission
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29 Mar 11
Whitehall departments grappling with spending cuts could learn from how the Foreign & Commonwealth Office dealt with a sudden shortfall, according to government auditors
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23 Mar 11
Chancellor George Osborne has announced the creation of 21 new enterprise zones, in a Budget that he promised would spark growth and support business
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21 Mar 11
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
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21 Mar 11
Unions have questioned the independence of the public sector pay review bodies after they failed to challenge government recommendations on pay rises.
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21 Mar 11
The National Audit Office plans to issue comparative data about the performance of public bodies, comptroller and auditor general Amyas Morse told last week’s CIPFA international conference.
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21 Mar 11
Central government needs more finance professionals in top posts, a Treasury minister told the CIPFA international conference last week.
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18 Mar 11
Budget cuts are leaving the public sector under-resourced, resulting in poor staff morale, according to a survey published today.
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18 Mar 11
Efforts to increase accuracy and transparency in public accounts depend on sustained lobbying by the accountancy profession to overcome politicians’ fears, the CIPFA international conference heard.
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16 Mar 11
Public sector employment in the UK fell by 132,000 over the whole of last year, cutting the workforce to just under 6.2 million, according to the Office for National Statistics.
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15 Mar 11
Abolishing the Audit Commission will save less than £10m a year, a fifth of the amount claimed by government, the spending watchdog's chiefs have told MPs
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14 Mar 11
Top earners in the public sector should be subject to performance-related pay but should not have their salaries capped, Will Hutton has recommended
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14 Mar 11
First Minister Alex Salmond is to seek a deal with Scotland's trade unions that would guarantee no compulsory redundancies across the public sector
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10 Mar 11
Today's Hutton report has failed to address widespread concern that the imminent rise in employee pension contributions will lead to a mass opt-out from the Local Government Pension Scheme
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9 Mar 11
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport 'salami-sliced' the budgets of its arm's-length bodies without calculating the financial consequences, a National Audit Office investigation has found
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9 Mar 11
Final salary pension schemes in the public sector should end and a cap be put on the amount taxpayers contribute, according to Lord Hutton’s review of pensions, published today.
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8 Mar 11
The Audit Commission overstretched its remit and placed too much burden on local authorities, which are now ready to take on elements of inspection themselves, MPs were told last night
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8 Mar 11
Ministers have launched a review of councils’ statutory duties, including the requirement to designate a chief finance (section 151) officer
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4 Mar 11
A union has called on the government to ‘leave public sector pensions alone’ following a poll revealing public support for current schemes.
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4 Mar 11
The savings available from better procurement of public sector IT contracts have largely been exhausted, industry experts are warning.
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3 Mar 11
There is an ‘air of unreality’ about the future cost assumptions of public sector pensions, MPs have been told.
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2 Mar 11
The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants has said it is to leave the Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies, citing the ‘diminishing relevance’ of membership of the...
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2 Mar 11
Lack of financial expertise at the highest levels of the civil service is jeopardising Whitehall's ability to devise effective spending cuts.
1 Apr 11As the government embarks on radical reform of the welfare system, how is the Department for Work and Pensions' finance director coping with the changes? Hunada Nouss tells PF about bringing...
23 Mar 11Chancellor George Osborne has announced the creation of 21 new enterprise zones, in a Budget that he promised would spark growth and support business
2 Mar 11The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants has said it is to leave the Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies, citing the ‘diminishing relevance’ of membership of the...
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