The Home Office should take advantage of the opportunities presented by the Lyons review and move significant numbers of staff out of central London, a senior MP has urged.
Ambitious plans to use on-line auctions to save £200m on procurement contracts over three years have stalled, throwing into doubt the government's drive to slash billions of pounds from public sector...
Auditor-general Sir John Bourn has backed the European Court of Auditors in its view that the timetable for reform of the European Union's accounting procedures is over-ambitious.
The prospect of fire strikes flared up again this week as the Fire Brigades Union agreed to suspend its conference and pull out of the proposed modernisation programme.
Spiralling public sector inflation is a deeper and more complex problem for local government than the council tax issue, the leader of Kent County Council said this week.
Senior MPs have expressed concerns that the Ministryof Defence is facing a cash crisis in the run up to this year's Spending Review, despite denials from the department's permanent secretary.
Ministers were motivated by political expediency when pushing through reforms to the way that £2bn of European Union agricultural subsidies are paid, according to MPs.
Ministers are celebrating after successfully banning the use of bed and breakfast accommodation for families with children beyond six-week emergency periods...
The rapid expansion in the NHS nursing workforce has been over-reliant on overseas recruitment and might not be sustainable in the long term, nursing leaders have warned.
The economic development agency Scottish Enterprise (SE) has been told to review its performance management system following criticisms of the way targets are set and monitored.
Business leaders have expressed scepticism about government plans to slash £20bn off the cost of running Whitehall, describing proposals as 'crude', and claiming that ministers could 'spin' success...
School inspections should take into account external social and economic influences to give a more rounded picture of performance, according to a Commons' committee.
Devolution has increased the exposure of public sector managers and senior civil servants, all of whom now 'manage in a goldfish bowl', Scotland's auditor general Bob Black said this week.
Labour and the Conservatives have fired the opening salvos in this year's local elections campaign, levelling allegations of high spending and town hall mismanagement at one other.
The number of Northern Ireland's local authorities is set to be cut from 26 to a maximum of nine as a result of the first proposals emerging from the province's Review of Public Administration.
The government is to give housing associations staged funding to take over council 'sink estates' as part of a package of measures announced this week to boost its decent homes standard.
The government-backed project set up to inject £125m of public money into the voluntary sector will fail unless public sector agencies get on board, the head of the consortium charged with managing...
