Public sector employment in the UK fell by 39,000 in the first three months of 2012, the tenth consecutive quarterly drop, the Office for National Statistics revealed today.
Scottish ministers today reaffirmed their opposition to nuclear submarines, as UK Defence Secretary Philip Hammond announced the first big contract of the Trident replacement programme.
A former City regulator has poured cold water on Scottish National Party proposals for Scottish banks to continue to be regulated by the Bank of England following independence.
Holyrood will debate on Thursday why youth unemployment in Scotland is persistently above the UK rate, amid Labour claims that one of the main programmes to redress the problem is a ‘con’.
Scotland has not made much progress in decentralising power to localities but has little to learn from the English localism model, leading academics told a gathering of public policy specialists in...
As economic crisis turns to political crisis across Europe, what are the lessons for local democracy here? The May 3 elections sent out some strong messages on mayors, majorities and political...
The campaign to lead Scotland out of the United Kingdom was formally launched in Edinburgh today under the slogan ‘Scotland’s future in Scotland’s hands’.
Scotland’s 32 unitary authorities should be merged into just 19, given full control over their own finances and encouraged to install directly elected mayors, according to Reform Scotland.
Preparations for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games are on track and on budget, according to the latest six-monthly progress report from organising body Glasgow 2014
The Scottish Care Inspectorate is to spearhead a strategic assessment of care services for children over the coming year, under plans published today in the latest local government inspection...
The Scottish National Party government has promised to work in constructive partnership with Scotland’s newly elected councils, in spite of a series of local coalition deals by the unionist parties...
Scotland’s local authorities have been cutting jobs and services without fully understanding the costs of their actions, according to a report from the Accounts Commission today.
Labour and the Scottish National Party both made significant gains in Scotland’s local elections at the expense of the UK coalition parties, especially the Liberal Democrats.
All 1,223 seats in Scotland’s 32 unitary authorities are in contention at Thursday’s council elections in a campaign where local issues have struggled to be heard above the turmoil of national and...
Senior Scottish police officers have threatened legal action over what they claim are attempts to protect younger colleagues’ jobs at the expense of older officers when the eight forces are merged...
Scotland's most senior trade unionist has backed the Scottish Government’s timetable for an independence referendum and the inclusion of a question on further devolution. In doing so, Grahame Smith...
Private Finance Initiative contracts are under renewed fire in Scotland after the consortium that services Edinburgh’s biggest NHS hospital cut power supplies, forcing surgeons to complete an...
MSPs will this afternoon vote through the Scotland Bill, described by Scottish Secretary Michael Moore as ‘the largest ever transfer of financial powers to Scotland since the creation of the United...
Scotland’s deputy first minister has issued a detailed defence against the Economist’s controversial ‘Skintland’ issue, in which the magazine claimed that the country would struggle to make ends meet...
