Chancellor George Osborne has breached two of his three fiscal targets, with objectives on debt and welfare spending missed, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility.
The Treasury has given the green light to plans set out by the National Infrastructure Commission for a High Speed 3 rail network in the North of England.
Small businesses are to be exempt from business rates from next April in a move that will reduce the revenue raised – which is 50% retained by councils – by £6.7bn over the next...
Chancellor George Osborne has announced he will be imposing further spending cuts in an effort to make additional savings of £3.5bn by 2019/20, as part of today’s Budget.
Soft drinks manufacturers will have to pay a “sugar tax” on their products, expected to net the Treasury £520m, chancellor George Osborne announced in today’s Budget.
A government-owned business can be entrepreneurial if it changes its philosophy and encourages ambition and risk-taking, the head of Scotland’s principal ferry operator told delegates to the CIPFA...
Details of the 44 areas that will develop of sustainability and transformation plans for the health service have been revealed by NHS England, with two council chief executives among those named to...
The governments in Cardiff and Westminster have struck a £1.2bn city deal for the Welsh capital, expected to provide up to 25,000 new jobs and attract £4bn in private investment.
Councils could make as much £14.7bn in savings through greater digitisation of services, a review by the Public Service Transformation Network and the think-tank Nesta has found.
The National Infrastructure Commission has called for a high-speed rail network in the North of England to be put at the heart of an infrastructure plan for the region.
Devolution deals that are transforming public services in Greater Manchester would not have happened without Scottish devolution showing the way, former CIPFA president and Bury Council chief...
The way the UK’s counter-terrorism policies hamper the work of aid organisations in Syria in particular is “foolish and unfair”, two former international development secretaries have said.
Prime minister David Cameron has announced a help-to-save scheme that could see the government top up 3.5 million low-income people’s savings by £1,200.
London’s deputy mayor for policy and planning has called on ministers to “move as quickly as possible” on the localisation of business rates to local government, which he said would...
Councils have urged George Osborne to impose no further cuts on local government in this week’s Budget statement following warnings from the chancellor that public spending might be cut further.
The chair of the House of Commons’ science and technology select committee has called on the government to set out a road map to increase public spending on research and development to boost...
The economy could be larger than official statistics show as measurements fail to effectively capture new forms of activity in the digital economy, according to a government-commissioned review by...
Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority have announced they are to provide additional financial advice and expertise to hospitals in a bid to tackle the £2.3bn deficit in the health...
MPs have criticised the lack of government action to encourage and support whistleblowers in Whitehall and urged the Cabinet Office to do more to create the right environment for people to come...
Council tax in England is set to rise by an average of 3.1% next year, according to an analysis by CIPFA, but residents in London will only see a 0.6% average increase.
The performance of NHS accident and emergency departments in England fell to a new low in January this year, according to official figures published today.
Government investment in large-scale science projects such as supercomputers and particle accelerators should be more systematic, with decisions backed by better information, auditors have said.
