Transport

  • Public Finance
    21 Feb 02
    Leader of the Commons Robin Cook has backed what he called the most fundamental overhaul ever of select committees. The modernisation committee, which Cook chairs, recommends limiting party...
  • Public Finance
    14 Feb 02
    Ken Livingstone has been forced to tone down his ambitious plans for London's transport network, after he reluctantly agreed a deal to save the capital's 2002/03 budget.
  • Public Finance
    14 Feb 02
    Scottish local authorities are increasingly suffering from central control of funding, an analysis published this week shows.
  • Public Finance
    7 Feb 02
    Whitehall's largest union is to hold more strikes in benefits offices after the Department for Work and Pensions refused to hold conciliation talks in the long-running dispute over staff security.
  • Public Finance
    31 Jan 02
    Senior mandarins are increasingly confident of heading off the unwelcome spectre of a business leader being imposed as civil service chief when Sir Richard Wilson retires in August.
  • Public Finance
    31 Jan 02
    As many as 2 million bus journeys will be scrapped in the new financial year unless central government makes a cash injection of £10m, local authority transport officials have warned.
  • Public Finance
    17 Jan 02
    The government has underspent its transport budget by more than £500m in the past two years, Transport Secretary Stephen Byers said this week.
  • Public Finance
    17 Jan 02
    NHS managers gave a qualified welcome to this week's announcement giving greater independence to the best trusts but remained sceptical over Alan Milburn's masterplan for a brave new world in the...
  • Public Finance
    13 Dec 01
    Postal unions have reassured the public that they do not intend to disrupt the busy Christmas mailing period, despite the threat of strike action in the wake of Consignia's announcement that 30,000...
  • Public Finance
    13 Dec 01
    The government has lost millions of pounds because of poor accounting by civil service departments in Northern Ireland, according to the province's financial watchdog.
  • Public Finance
    6 Dec 01
    Chancellor Gordon Brown's scenario for revitalised health spending including an instant £1bn boost was designed to bring certainty and clarity to the argument over funding.
  • Public Finance
    6 Dec 01
    Private companies must be allowed to absorb swathes of the public sector if service improvements are to be achieved, a former Treasury mandarin has claimed.
  • Public Finance
    29 Nov 01
    Regional rail services look set to move back into public sector control with ministers preparing to give major cities a key role in managing local train networks.
  • Public Finance
    15 Nov 01
    The Treasury had a leading role to play in the demise of Railtrack, Transport Secretary Stephen Byers admitted to MPs this week.
  • Public Finance
    1 Nov 01
    Pressure is mounting on the Treasury to come clean on how public spending is officially defined in the wake of the Railtrack collapse and allegations that it disguised projected spending increases as...
  • Public Finance
    25 Oct 01
    Bob Kiley, the Transport for London commissioner, has launched a bid to take control of London's overground rail commuter lines and stations in the post-Railtrack era.
  • Public Finance
    25 Oct 01
    Who said politics is no longer about ideas?
  • Public Finance
    18 Oct 01
    The outgoing chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority, Sir Alastair Morton, has told MPs that the government should seize on the demise of Railtrack as an opportunity to restructure fundamentally...
  • Public Finance
    18 Oct 01
    Last week's Private Finance Initiative global summit in Dublin was a slightly curious affair.
  • Public Finance
    11 Oct 01
    Public-private partnerships could supplant full-scale privatisation as the policy of the future following Railtrack's demise, a conference in Dublin was told this week.
  • Public Finance
    27 Sep 01
    The Liberal Democrats have demanded an immediate moratorium on all NHS Private Finance Initiative schemes and greater scrutiny of private sector involvement in the public services.
  • Public Finance
    27 Sep 01
    Public transport emerged as the biggest winner in next year's Northern Ireland spending plans, announced this week by Finance Minister Mark Durkan.
  • Public Finance
    20 Sep 01
    Transport unions claimed they were misled by London Underground chiefs after a company with one contract already in the bag won a second one to manage the Tube under the public-private partnership.
  • Public Finance
    13 Sep 01
    Birmingham City Council has been criticised by its own watchdog for evicting a blind man who had fallen behind with his rent payments.
  • Public Finance
    23 Aug 01
    The government's £180bn transport plan will have no effect in tackling the gridlock on many of Britain's roads, according to a leading business think-tank.

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