The Scottish Government has defended its decision to bail out private companies after it was criticised by auditors for having substantially reduced the value of £140m in loans and guarantees.
The government will produce a white paper on further devolution in England, the chancellor has announced in his speech to the Conservative Party Conference today.
Labour has promised to scrap the “unmitigated disaster” of Universal Credit and replace the Department for Work and Pensions with a ‘Department for Social Security’.
More than half of young people now go to university but more must be done to improve diversity in higher education, according to university leaders and the education secretary.
The prime minister’s plans to cut revenue received from National Insurance contributions and higher income tax would cost billions a year, a think-tank has said.
Failing to adopt a ‘more joined-up’ approach to planning the UK’s towns and cities will make it impossible to meet the challenges of climate change, population growth and environmental risks.
Housing should be considered infrastructure along with roads and rail to help solve the shortfall in UK homes, a housing association director has told the Labour conference.
The abolishment of Ofsted under a Labour government must see it replaced with an independent body that can still hold schools to account, former Liberal Democrat MP and chair of the Education Policy...
NHS accountants have been told to raid their capital budgets in sometimes “barely legal” circumstances, Public Accounts Chair Meg Hillier told a Labour conference fringe session.
Growth and local investment is at risk if the government does not provide details of replacement EU funds for communities, council leaders have warned.
Labour’s policy for providing free personal care for over 65s does not appear to protect against longer-term “catastrophic costs”, an assistant director of the Health Foundation told an audience at...
