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26 Jan 12
Investment in infrastructure is the chancellor’s way of providing a necessary stimulus to the flatlining economy. But how does he intend to find the funds without dipping into the public purse or...
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8 Apr 10
The government now owns billions of pounds worth of banks in the UK, which it will have to restore to the private sector at some point. But when, how and what should the taxpayer get back? PF...
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2 Feb 10
Problems at Mid Staffordshire and Basildon foundation trusts caused an awkward year for outgoing Monitor chair Bill Moyes. But standards are rising, he tells David Williams
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23 Jul 09
A Lords inquiry has issued the latest in a series of official reports calling for the scrapping of the controversial 30-year-old funding mechanism for the UK nations. But replacing it will not be easy
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23 Jul 09
UK Financial Investments is meant to be looking after the taxpayers’ massive stake in the country’s failed banks. But concerns are mounting about the Treasury agency’s ‘hands off’ approach. Paul...
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15 Jun 09
The local government map of England became a lot less complex and varied on April 1 as 43 councils vanished to be replaced by nine giant unitary authorities.
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8 Jun 09
Is April the cruellest month? By the time Alistair Darling finished his 2009 Budget speech, it was looking a lot nastier than November. The litany of figures the chancellor recited revealed just how...
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8 Jun 09
The Learning and Skills Council is being abolished after a series of high-profile disasters, the most damaging of which - the Building Colleges for the Future programme - has left a £5.7bn deficit
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5 Mar 09
Proponents of ‘social insurance’ believe it is an answer to the huge policy challenge of caring for elderly people. But there is a fear that the recession might put an end to such radical...
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9 Oct 08
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28 Aug 08
As councils congratulate themselves on increasing household recycling rates, a House of Lords committee has highlighted a problem that could wreck the drive to cut down on landfill. Of Britain's...
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17 Jul 08
Outsourced public services are big business. DeAnne Julius's landmark review last week valued this relatively young sector at £79bn, with the potential to keep on growing. Business Secretary John...
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10 Jul 08
If Sir Peter Gershon has left one legacy it is that he has made efficiency a major part of public sector discourse. This, at least, is the view of Chief Secretary to the Treasury Yvette Cooper.
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28 Feb 08
If a government department spends more than £40bn a year, should it have a qualified accountant as its finance director?
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21 Feb 08
The credit crunch scored a first this week, the nationalisation of a bank. But behind the scenes it is also having a serious impact on public sector pension schemes and proposed PFI projects. Paul...
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6 Dec 07
If the government was looking for someone to crack the whip over the house-building industry, John Callcutt was probably not the right man.
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15 Nov 07
Local government finance directors in Scotland are overwhelmingly opposed to plans to replace the council tax with a local income tax.
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20 Sep 07
It was inevitable that Professor Martin Cave's recommendation that all providers of social housing should come under a single regulator would fail to please everybody.
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13 Sep 07
No wonder the King's Fund had to take it upon themselves to commission Sir Derek Wanless's review of progress against his 2002 recommendations on funding the NHS.
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16 Aug 07
NHS foundation trusts have been accused of circumventing the cap Parliament imposed on their private patient work by establishing arm's-length bodies whose income does not show up in their accounts.
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2 Aug 07
So it's official. Councils are cordially invited to the government's bumper house-building party that is due to run until at least 2020.
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21 Jun 07
'Grotesque failure' and 'total farce' were the more polite terms anti-poverty activist Bob Geldof used earlier this month to signal his disenchantment with the aid record of the world's richest...
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7 Jun 07
'It'll never last,' tends to be the not-so-cynical reaction when we read of apparently loved-up celebrities jealously guarding their wealth and status by drawing up complex pre-nuptial agreements....
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3 May 07
Outsourcing education services to private companies is meant to iron out performance problems, but its critics in the public sector claim it's a far from ideal solution that often makes things worse.
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19 Apr 07
He's a 'Stalinist', grumpy, tax-and-spend loner who has suppressed public sector wages, hidden national liabilities and pillaged our pension pots.
26 Jan 12Investment in infrastructure is the chancellor’s way of providing a necessary stimulus to the flatlining economy. But how does he intend to find the funds without dipping into the public purse or...
8 Apr 10The government now owns billions of pounds worth of banks in the UK, which it will have to restore to the private sector at some point. But when, how and what should the taxpayer get back? PF...
2 Feb 10Problems at Mid Staffordshire and Basildon foundation trusts caused an awkward year for outgoing Monitor chair Bill Moyes. But standards are rising, he tells David Williams
23 Jul 09A Lords inquiry has issued the latest in a series of official reports calling for the scrapping of the controversial 30-year-old funding mechanism for the UK nations. But replacing it will not be easy
23 Jul 09UK Financial Investments is meant to be looking after the taxpayers’ massive stake in the country’s failed banks. But concerns are mounting about the Treasury agency’s ‘hands off’ approach. Paul...
5 Mar 09Proponents of ‘social insurance’ believe it is an answer to the huge policy challenge of caring for elderly people. But there is a fear that the recession might put an end to such radical...
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