The Ministry of Defence’s difficult financial position is worse than it need have been because officials and politicians spent the past decade resisting spending reviews, a study by the Royal United...
Two of Scotland's most senior economists will today back the Scottish Government's demands for control over corporation tax, despite a lukewarm response to the idea from business.
November 30 marks the next stage in the industrial dispute over public sector pensions reform and is likely to be on a scale 'unprecedented for a generation or more'. Can anything be done to avert...
The UK economy faces a lost decade of economic stagnation due to the ‘deepening crisis’ in the world economy, shadow chancellor Ed Balls warned the Labour Party conference today.
The lack of a reform programme for the civil service will doom to failure the radical ambitions of the government’s Big Society approach, MPs have warned.
Planned increases in council workers' pension contributions could be avoided, the umbrella body of councils in England and Wales has told minsters today.
The watchdog established to scrutinise MPs expenses after abuses of the system were exposed in 2009 has proved expensive to run and is not yet value for money, a Commons committee has concluded.
The number of people who take part in voluntary and civic activities remains at its lowest level for a decade, despite the government’s emphasis on the Big Society.
Finance Secretary John Swinney's Scottish budget, announced today, includes a £500m boost for preventive spending, a £0.75bn transfer of funds from revenue to capital projects, a further one-year...
The Wales Audit Office has been through a difficult year but has emerged stronger and is now on a 'sound footing', the auditor general for Wales has said.
Local authorities could be given the power to charge an additional tax on owners of homes that have been empty for more than two years, a Liberal Democrat minister has announced.
The Liberal Democrats today called for the Dilnot proposals on care funding to be used as the basis for implementing 'long-term overdue reform of the social care system'.
The doomed attempt to streamline fire control services in England is 'one of the worst cases of project failure' the Public Accounts Committee has seen, its chair said today.
