The Highways Agency has been criticised for losing more than half a billion pounds through procurement delays to a Private Finance Initiative contract for the M25 motorway.
Should the public sector start drowning its sorrows as the cuts kick in? Doom merchants certainly seem to think so. But perhaps in reality the glass is half full and not half empty. Tony Travers...
The Department for Transport will miss its targets to increase the number of passenger places on commuter trains, the Public Accounts Committee has said
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills was Whitehall’s greatest user of cars last year, figures issued by Transport Secretary Philip Hammond have shown.
Prime Minister David Cameron today launched the government's National Infrastructure Plan, which sets out the country's infrastructure priorities and the scale of investment needed to meet them
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 Local Government Association has called for radical reform of the bus subsidy system, which it said costs the public sector £1.3bn a year but gives it minimal influence over services.
Proposed changes to the distribution of the formula grant for local government would leave the capital £100m out of pocket, London Councils is claiming
Plans for environmentally friendly light rail schemes are likely to be shelved in the forthcoming emergency Budget because they are considered unaffordable, Public Finance has been told
