The Ministry of Defence has forced one of the government's biggest IT partners to include a last-minute 'failure' clause in its bid for a £4bn contract, following a series of Whitehall computer...
Northern Ireland's district councils should be given a general power of competence, according to a report on the public health function in the province. The study was commissioned by the Department...
Plans to make severance payments to Scottish councillors who stand down at the next local government election will cost the taxpayer £6m, the Executive has revealed.
The Scottish Executive has been criticised by an influential committee of MSPs for providing 'misleading' information when it claimed that its efficient government plan would save £1.7bn over the...
Council leaders in Scotland have warned that the Executive's funding settlement for local government will not be enough to prevent substantial council tax rises over the next three years.
More than a third of all local authorities and three-quarters of county councils are using their new prudential borrowing powers, reveals a survey by the Local Government Association.
Thousands of public service jobs in Scotland were in jeopardy this week after Finance Minister Tom McCabe released details of the Scottish Executive's long-awaited efficiency review aimed at saving £...
The civil service needs to ditch its 'inherent Victorian values' if it is to better formulate and implement policies in the interests of voters, an outrider for public sector reform has warned.
The 'bonfire of the quangos' in Wales is likely to weaken staff morale and could affect performance during the transition period, according to the chair of one of the bodies facing abolition.
The vast majority of patients in Scotland are satisfied with the service they receive from the NHS, though they are concerned that the public have little or no influence over the way it is run.
Inspectors at the Health and Safety Executive have delivered an overwhelming vote of no confidence in their management board as it prepares to tighten the criteria for accident investigations.
Scottish Finance Minister Tom McCabe has warned health service managers that performance must improve to justify the substantial increases in resources that have led to higher spending per head than...
A Scottish health board is facing a funding crisis after the disclosure in a report by auditor general Bob Black that it is heading for a £100m deficit by 2007/08.
