Funding for local bus services should be protected in Wednesday’s Spending Review, MPs said today. The Environmental Audit Committee said spending on buses was vital to ensuring that people were able...
The Scottish Government must show it can afford all the costs of its planned capital projects, which could reach £7.5bn over the next 30 years, Audit Scotland has said.
An initiative to cut costs on major infrastructure projects has identified potential savings of more than £1bn in the government’s High Speed 2 scheme, the Treasury announced today.
The Treasury has launched an initiative to cut costs in projects built using the controversial Private Finance Initiative by urging private operators of hospitals and schools to agree to a code of...
Thirteen existing enterprise zones have been shortlisted to share a £100m fund for investment in their local economies and infrastructure, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles announced today.
London Mayor Boris Johnson has embraced the Travers commission proposals for increased financial autonomy for the capital. But will Whitehall, asks Vivienne Russell
Auditors have said that the botched Edinburgh tram project continues to present a ‘substantial’ challenge to the city council as it attempts to implement budget cuts and restore public confidence.
The National Audit Office has today slammed the Department for Transport’s ‘unclear’ business case for the High Speed 2 rail line, warning that the scheme faces a £3.3bn funding gap.
The Commons transport select committee has supported the expansion of Heathrow airport, saying proposals for a new airport in the Thames estuary would require ‘huge’ taxpayer investment.
Whitehall should be making better use of non-executive directors brought in from the private and voluntary sector, the chair of the Commons public administration select committee has said.
The June Spending Review is going to slice Whitehall’s funding cake so thinly that departments will be left fighting over the crumbs. So how are public services meant to cope, asks Tony Travers
The government today restarted the national rail franchise programme with a call for bids to take over the East Coast mainline, currently in public hands.
Councils in the North of England should issue a collective municipal bond to raise funds for capital projects, the Institute for Public Policy Research said today.
Ministers have been urged to introduce more direct competition between operators on railway lines after a report concluded this could lower fares and reduce government subsidies.
Whitehall funds for training, housing and transport are to be devolved into single cash pots for Local Enterprise Partnerships, ministers announced today in their response to the Heseltine growth...
The High Court today threw out nine of the ten objections to the planned High Speed 2 rail line, but ruled that the government consultation on compensation was unfair.
The government should abolish the Highways Agency and devolve its funding to councils and other local bodies, a report commissioned by the Local Government Association has concluded.
Plans to fund the construction of trains for the new Crossrail line in London using private sector funding have been scrapped after it was decided that the carriages would be paid for in full by...
The botched award of the West Coast rail franchise and subsequent scrapping of the deal will cost taxpayers at least £50m in extra fees, the Public Accounts Committee has revealed.
Plans to give councils greater control of local transport spending could weaken transparency and accountability for public money, the Public Accounts Committee warned today.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has today announced plans to quicken construction of the £32.7bn high-speed rail line linking London to Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.
Network Rail has published plans to cut government support for railways by least £1bn a year by March 2019 but warned this could be at the expense of some improvements.
