The National Union of Students Wales has welcomed the Assembly Government’s plans to phase out the tuition fees grant in favour of increased maintenance grants for students from low-income families...
Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has welcomed the Post Office’s five-year contract to support the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency in issuing photographic driving licences. Mandelson, whose plan...
Rising unemployment and repossessions will take waiting lists for social housing to a record high of almost 2 million by 2011, according to an National Housing Federation study...
Housing associations must accept that the boom years are over and focus on raising standards for their growing customer base, a leading finance director told the conference...
Former first minister Henry McLeish has condemned the Scottish government-brokered freeze on council tax as a ‘gateway to disaster’, and called for a rethink of public spending priorities...
Finance Secretary John Swinney has predicted a sharp decline in public expenditure and is urging Scottish authorities to collaborate more to make up the deficit.
The Welsh Assembly Government missed out on more than £700m in 2006/07 as a result of the Barnett Formula, Plaid Cymru’s economic adviser has told peers.
Sheffield City Council has threatened to sack its entire 13,000 workforce and rehire staff on new contracts in the latest dispute over pay and grading structures.
Shifting the Local Government Pension Scheme on to an unfunded basis could take some of the pressure off council finance managers, Public Finance has been told.
The Committee on Standards in Public Life’s plans to publish its recommendations on reforming MPs’ expenses at the next Parliament have been described as ‘ludicrous’ by the chair of an influential...
The government has urged local authorities to relax their approach to the planning system and identify more sites in small villages where homes could be built for local families.
Councils have reacted with fury to being labelled ‘negligent’ by the Audit Commission in a report on local authority investments in the collapsed Icelandic banks.
More of the government’s three-year house building programme could be diverted towards refurbishing empty homes. Trevor Beattie, director of policy at the Homes and Communities Agency, said it was...
Arguments over funding for Welsh and English patients who receive treatment in hospitals across the border should be resolved by a government protocol, MPs have said.
