Quantifying savings in a meaningful way is going to be one of the toughest challenges of the government's efficiency drive, the man charged with securing more than £1bn in procurement gains has told...
Work and Pensions Secretary David Blunkett has dismissed claims that the government's proposed welfare reform package could punish the genuinely sick or disabled by forcing them back to work.
Chancellor Gordon Brown has used his first two keynote speeches since the general election to issue a stark warning to public sector workers against excessive wage demands.
The architect of Whitehall's attempt to broaden the skills base of the civil service has warned potential mandarins that the standard for senior posts will be higher than ever in future.
The government's education plans for its third term will threaten working relations between schools and local government, teaching leaders warned this week.
Local government employers have proposed a radical overhaul of council sickness management, including reducing the length of time that staff can receive full pay while absent from work.
Labour must make strenuous efforts during its third term in office to deliver a much better return on the extra billions of pounds being invested in public services, Local Government Association...
The coalition between Labour and the Liberal Democrats in Scotland might be in jeopardy following the surprise announcement by LibDem leader Jim Wallace, who is also deputy first minister, that he is...
Prime Minister Tony Blair is at odds with the Treasury over civil service pay reforms, but must quickly reach agreement to help combat gender inequalities, a leading Whitehall trade unionist has...
The Scottish Executive could have made extra savings of £400m if it had followed the Gershon formula for England and Wales, a leading member of an influential Holyrood committee claimed this week.
England's local government elections came and went with hardly a whimper, let alone a bang, but many previously hung councils have now taken on a particular political hue and in 23 it's blue
Proposals to move hundreds of civil service staff out of the Southeast to Wales contradict the government's efficiency agenda and its aim of protecting local economies, Whitehall's largest union has...
The largest teachers' union backed the controversial choice of Andrew Adonis as an education minister despite his appointment having upset several Labour MPs.
One of Scotland's biggest and most controversial Private Finance Initiative projects, the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, is embroiled in a row over £30m in extra payments demanded by the operating...
Council-owned housing companies are reviewing their contracts with their parent local authorities as part of a drive to achieve better value for money.
The cost of clinical waste disposal by NHS hospitals in Scotland could be reduced by £1.3m if the waste was handled properly, Audit Scotland has claimed.
In a move the Conservatives themselves described as 'audacious', one of the party's youngest MPs has been given the daunting task of facing Chancellor Gordon Brown across the dispatch box.
