Chancellor George Osborne today said the ‘tough decisions’ taken to cut government spending since 2010 have allowed the Treasury to prioritise infrastructure investments to boost growth.
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has threatened to issue legal directions to compel five London councils to limit the frequency of town hall newspapers, accusing some authorities of acting...
The government should levy a windfall tax worth around £450m on payday loan firms and use the money to support an expansion of other forms of credit, the Institute for Public Policy Research said...
Public sector funders in Wales paid grants to a rural tourist centre even though they knew the underlying business case was unrealistic, auditors said today
Take-home pay in the public sector has fallen in real terms over the last year, an analysis published today has found, despite official figures showing that wages across the economy are catching up...
Nearly nine out of ten people believe that government restrictions on councils opening new schools should be lifted, according to a poll carried out for the Local Government Association
The Metropolitan Police today said it had seen no ‘credible evidence of criminality’ at the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and would not be investigating further
Scotland’s island councils look certain to win increased autonomy from Holyrood regardless of the outcome of the independence referendum, after Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael threw the weight...
The total government subsidy of the railways has fallen to £4bn, with no net support being provided to train operators across Britain, according to figures published by the industry regulator today
The unemployment rate fell to 6.9% in the three months to February, the first time it has dipped below 7% since the recession hit in 2009, according to official figures published today
A financial crisis in the NHS is drawing closer, with one in eight trusts and clinical commissioning groups likely to have overspent their budgets for the year just ended, the King’s Fund said today.
More than 120 communities are to be given greater control over local public services as part of the expansion of the government’s neighbourhood Community Budgets scheme.
More than 7.5 million people are to benefit from extended GP opening hours after the Department of Health allocated £50m to pilot late night and weekend appointments, it was announced today.
More people believe that councils in England should be given extra powers than are satisfied with their town halls’ current responsibilities, a poll for the IPPR North think-tank has found.
The government has launched a review of the business rates system that will look at possible reforms to the administration of the property tax, which is collected by councils
Health services in all four nations of the UK have improved significantly since devolution, a study by the Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation has found
Scotland would have the second highest deficit among industrialised countries if it becomes independent in 2016, the Treasury has warned in its latest economic analysis ahead of September’s referendum
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has proposed the creation of extra council tax bands to implement the Liberal Democrats’ proposed mansion tax.
Scotland’s much-criticised cultural quango has published a ten-year plan aimed at radically restructuring public support for the creative industries and boosting the incomes of those who work in the...
