A cross-party parliamentary group has been set up to lobby for progress on the Northern Powerhouse agenda, which was championed by George Osborne when he was chancellor.
Public service reform in Northern Ireland is “imperative” and needs to be a top priority if services are to be made more sustainable and effective, CIPFA has said.
The way public funding is distributed should be overhauled after the UK leaves the EU and made more responsive to need and focused on outcomes, according to CIPFA’s Brexit Advisory Commission.
The UK could become defined as a tax haven by the EU after it leaves the block, participants of an All Party-Parliamentary Group on Responsible Tax seminar have warned.
Commons select committees have “really taken up” Brexit and will be working closely together to hold the government to account, Public Accounts Committee chair Meg Hillier has said.
Ian Dalton will take over as chief executive of NHS Improvement at the start of next week, replacing Jim Mackey who has held the post for the past two years.
The transport provider FirstGroup has announced plans to consolidate its pension scheme assets within the Local Government Pension Scheme, in the first move of its kind by a private sector employer.
The government has announced that it will cover the full costs of dealing with the aftermath of the Manchester Arena terrorist attack, after criticism that its initial financial offer was “not...
Scotland’s councils are in danger of emptying their financial reserves before the decade’s end as they struggle to absorb continuing budget cuts, the Accounts Commission has warned.
CIPFA has called for urgent action on children’s social care as a survey out today revealed the duty has become the chief concern of upper tier council finance heads.
Councils need greater devolution and more funding, local government leaders said after the chancellor announced in the Budget London councils will pilot 100% business rate retention in 2018-19.
Housing Revenue Account borrowing caps will be lifted for local authorities in areas of “high affordability pressures” to build more homes, it was revealed in the Budget today.
