The Private Finance Initiative is delivering most central government building projects on time and at, or below, estimated cost, the National Audit Office said in a report this week.
London Mayor Ken Livingstone is on the point of sealing a deal with the government to transfer the London Underground to his control, after a prolonged dispute over a possible £1.5bn funding gap in...
Transport Secretary Alistair Darling this week warned rail companies they must get a grip on the spiralling costs that are undermining the government's long-term plan to improve the network.
The London Assembly and the Association of London Government are independently to evaluate the capital's congestion charge scheme following Transport for London's decision to conduct its own...
The government's use of public sector targets often referred to as 'targetitis' should reflect 'meaningful outcomes for those using and providing services', the chair of the Local Government...
'They are going up the Swanee if someone doesn't give them money,' Mayor Ken Livingstone is reported to have said last weekend of PFI contractors Amey and WS Atkins, leading players in the public-...
Tony Blair's big political ideas for the next 12 months have drawn immediate criticism following their unveiling at the state opening of Parliament this week.
Both young and old British citizens have little interest in local politics, with more than half failing to vote in this year's council elections, a survey published to coincide with Local Democracy...
Business leaders this week launched a scathing attack on regional transport policies adopted by the government, local authorities and service contractors.
The structure of Network Rail, the not-for-profit successor to Railtrack, will be 'unaccountable, introverted and deeply flawed', according to a leading think-tank.
Scottish Borders Council is downplaying reports that the Scottish Executive and Scottish Enterprise have backtracked over public funding for a £77m rail project that could help the area.
The government has moved to tackle bed-blocking with a series of measures designed to make social services more responsive, increase the number of available care home beds and allow more old people...
As industrial action by council workers, train drivers and firefighters escalates are we witnessing a new era of union militancy that echoes the 1979 'winter of discontent'?
Nick Raynsford has revealed a talent for nifty conjuring tricks in his proposals for reforming the notoriously complex Standard Spending Assessment, the method by which authorities receive their...
The Comprehensive Performance Assessment seems to have annihilated its unloved predecessor, despite the Audit Commission's protestations to the contrary. But all is far from rosy in the embryonic new...
