The government could announce a combined package of tax cuts, benefit measures and capital spending to provide a ‘fiscal stimulus’ to the economy in the Pre-Budget Report, economists have...
An economist who led work at the Healthcare Commission on value for money in the health service has criticised the commission’s approach to evaluating the cost-effectiveness of services
The Scottish Government is reshaping its capital investment programme to boost the economy, Finance Secretary John Swinney has told an influential committee of MSPs
The UK government might have to repay £190m for errors made in allocating European Union regional funding across the country, as the European Commission seeks to toughen up controls on spending
The government’s abandonment of its fiscal rules and new readiness to borrow have prompted questions from economists, as new figures showed a year-on-year fall in the UK’s gross domestic...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs should focus on better understanding rural economies now it has lost its climate change brief, MPs have said
The NHS Confederation has called on foundation trusts to bring forward investment projects to help stimulate the economy after figures showed they had a combined surplus of almost £400m
The government’s public service transformation programme is mired in uncertainty, with the Cabinet Office unable to say how many of the outcome targets set for 2008 have been met
Proposals to allow patients to pay privately for drugs not available on the NHS without losing their right to free care could cost tens of millions of pounds
The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham has threatened to sack more than 4,000 staff and rehire them on new contracts in an attempt to push through changes to terms and conditions
Delivery of the new Employment and Support Allowance, which replaces Incapacity Benefit, will rely on manual processes and postal services for the first nine months because a new £295m computer...
There must be changes in the 'unfair' system of funding doctors working in the poorest communities, the Scottish Parliament's health committee has said
Complaints about public services are frequently the result of a breakdown in trust between people and service providers, Scotland's public services watchdog has claimed
