European Union countries are likely to miss their collective goal of spending 0.7% of their gross national income on development aid by 2015, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...
The National Audit Office met council representatives today as part of its preparations to take over work from the soon-to-be-abolished Audit Commission.
A committee of MPs has raised ‘substantial concerns’ that the government will not be able to save the £2.6bn it has claimed can be found by reducing the number of quangos and other public bodies.
The largest public sector trade union has warned the government that its members will ‘not sit back’ and allow the national pay bargaining system for the NHS to be broken up.
Prime Minister David Cameron is set to urge voters in cities across England to back plans for directly elected mayors to head up local authorities in referendums next month.
European Union member states’ combined deficit fell last year, but levels of public sector debt increased, according to figures published today by Eurostat.
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has today set out new fiscal rules across government that will see departmental spending more closely monitored by the Treasury.
Developing and emerging market countries have called on the World Bank and its shareholders to take action to ensure it can lend enough money to support their long-term development needs.
Unison has today warned UK local authorities that the government’s roll-out of the new Universal Credit benefit could increase the strain on council resources.
Private Finance Initiative contracts are under renewed fire in Scotland after the consortium that services Edinburgh’s biggest NHS hospital cut power supplies, forcing surgeons to complete an...
Better integration of mental and physical health care for people with long-term conditions could save the health service money, according to the NHS Confederation.
The Group of 20 must encourage governments to seriously address the quality of public sector financial management, the International Federation of Accountants said yesterday.
The European Investment Bank needs more capital funding from European Union member states to do more for growth and jobs, the vice-president of the European Commission said yesterday.
Primary care trusts could be overpaying millions of pounds for some hospital treatments due to differing definitions of what an inpatient is, the Audit Commission has warned today.
MSPs will this afternoon vote through the Scotland Bill, described by Scottish Secretary Michael Moore as ‘the largest ever transfer of financial powers to Scotland since the creation of the United...
Plans for increased localism in public services do not provide the ‘necessary assurance on either probity or value for money’, the Public Accounts Committee said today.
US national Dr Jim Yong Kim has been chosen as the next president of the World Bank, beating Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to become the twelfth holder of the post.
