The shared services centre set up to make Scotland’s eight police forces more efficient is failing to provide adequate ICT support, auditors warned today.
Eight councils in the west of Scotland are likely to begin sharing services in an arrangement that could save them up to £70m over five years, it emerged today.
The impact of the Spending Review will be less severe for the devolved administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland than it will be for most Whitehall departments, the UK government...
The number of senior NHS managers in Scotland will be cut by a quarter over the next four years according to a pledge given by Scottish Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon
A new relationship between central government and local delivery bodies in Scotland would lead to better and cheaper public services, a think-tank says today
Scotland’s free bus travel scheme for older and disabled people is open to error and fraud because of inadequate planning, according to a public spending watchdog.
The governance structures of Scotland’s public sector bodies are too complex, risking confusion over decisions about spending cuts, Audit Scotland has warned
Scotland's rival political parties have united in talks aimed at persuading the Ministry of Defence not to go ahead with proposals to cut the UK's £37bn defence budget
The public utility Scottish Water is to be transformed into a 'dynamic' agency with powers to become one of the country's biggest generators of renewable electricity, First Minister Alex Salmond has...
Rival politicians and the entire public sector in Scotland need to put aside their differences in an unprecedented effort to save £3.7bn over the next four years, MSPs have been told
Scottish local authorities should be given a discretionary power to raise supplementary taxes, according to proposals for local taxation reform drawn up by leading revenue and valuation officials
Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney has called for a wide-ranging debate on the tough choices that lie ahead following a warning by his chief economist that Scotland faces long-term spending cuts...
Councils in Scotland would lose millions of pounds if their legal right to chase up local tax debts was restricted to five years, leading finance officers have warned
Claims by the Holyrood government that Scotland would have a budget surplus of £1.3bn if it received a geographical share of North Sea oil should come with a 'health warning', a leading public...
