Around £95m of public money is to be invested in Oxford to boost local growth, as part of the area’s City Deal, ministers announced today.
Oxford and its surrounding area will receive improvements to...
It is not yet clear what public sector bodies will take on some of the Audit Commission’s responsibilities after its abolition, the local spending watchdog said today as the date of its abolition was...
Economic migrants from outside the European Union should have to pay a £2,000 advance on National Insurance contributions when they enter the UK, a think-tank has recommended.
The Wales Audit Office has today said both Carmarthenshire County Council and Pembrokeshire Council acted unlawfully in allowing senior officers to opt-out of the Local Government Pension Scheme.
A currency union between an independent Scotland and the rest of the UK would require agreements on public spending that would amount to a ‘ceding of national sovereignty’, the governor of the Bank...
The funding and international reputation of Scotland’s universities is being damaged by the UK coalition government’s ‘nasty’ and ‘xenophobic’ immigration policies, Scottish Education Secretary...
Increasing demands are being made of the fledgling Education Funding Agency, but there are questions over its capacity to absorb new responsibilities and how its performance will be monitored,...
The Department of Health has accused the Local Government Association of making ‘misleading’ claims about the cost of planned universal deferred payment agreements for adult social care
The UK economy grew by 0.7% in the last three months of 2013, the Office for National Statistics said today, taking the expansion for the year to 1.9% – the highest growth rate since 2007
A committee of MPs has urged the government to change how the performance of the Jobcentre Plus network is monitored to ensure there is the greatest possible incentive to get people into work.
Councils in Wales are beginning to crack under spending pressures and many need to quickly improve their plans to make efficiency savings amid increasing cuts, the auditor general for Wales has warned
Housing minister Kris Hopkins today set out a plan to support the construction of 165,000 homes over three years under the Homes and Communities Agency’s Affordable Homes Programme
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has committed the next Labour government to running a surplus on current spending by 2020 and pledged to not increase borrowing for day-to-day spending.
CIPFA has reiterated its opposition to a government proposal to ditch the independent protection against dismissal offered to council Section 151 officers, warning that it could undermine the post’s...
Cities across the UK are falling further behind London and need to be given greater financial powers to grow alongside the capital, a report by the Centre for Cities has found today.
No government information technology contract should be worth more than £100m, according to Cabinet Office guidance intended to give smaller firms an improved chance of winning deals.
Finance professionals in public sector bodies must drive efficiency programmes in their organisations to ensure services are protected from ‘really challenging’ funding cuts, the head of a government...
Public money spent on the Crossrail project in London has so far been well protected and the programme is on track to achieve value for money, according to government auditors.
Serious failings in the use of confidentiality clauses in public sector severence deals means they have been used to cover up failure and pay off whistleblowers, the Public Accounts Committee said...
The government today asked the European Union to approve plans to extend a fuel duty rebate to rural areas to seven additional locations in England and Scotland
CIPFA and the Local Government Association have today announced their intention to create of an independent commission to examine the future of local government finance.
A government focus on payment-by-results contracts is hindering the ability of charities and social enterprises to win public service outsourcing deals, even as ministers pledge to open up...
