Whitehall's largest trade union this week re-entered 'meaningful' talks with the Cabinet Office, despite voting overwhelmingly for further industrial action over civil service pay, privatisation and...
Local government leaders' eyes are firmly fixed on the detail of the forthcoming Revenue Support Grant for some certainty on exactly where the Comprehensive Spending Review settlement has left them.
The Ministry of Defence spends too much of its budget on military hardware and not enough on the armed forces' pay and housing, a think-tank has reported.
Costs of £28m for a controversial asylum centre that was never built could have been reduced through better Home Office planning, the National Audit Office has said.
The timing could hardly have been worse. Job creation is the Northern Ireland Executive's top priority, Finance Minister Peter Robinson announced in his Budget.
Councils in Scotland will have access to a £70m fund if they agree to freeze council tax bills under proposals being considered by Finance Secretary John Swinney.
The Scottish National Party government has once more signalled its determination to go its own way with radical proposals to reform housing, including ending council house tenants' right to buy.
Anti-poverty campaigners this week expressed disappointment that the government's new Child Poverty Unit will not include Treasury officials, despite the department's role in achieving crucial...
Pensions minister Mike O'Brien is set to lift the legal ban on divorcees accessing their spouse's retirement income under the state's Pension Protection Fund, Public Finance can reveal.
Local government leaders and environmental campaigners are awaiting further details after ministers set out proposals allowing councils to trial 'save-as-you-throw' recycling schemes.
Local authorities are to be offered incentives to free land for housing and make better use of empty properties, under government plans published on October 26.
A flagship government health policy designed to get GPs involved in the design of NHS services is failing to improve patient care, many family doctors believe.
John Healey has hit back at local government leaders for complaining about the recent Comprehensive Spending Review settlement, saying councils must be more commercial and not look to the government...
A £250m contingency fund should be created by the Treasury to help councils facing unplanned costs and potential community tensions because of poor immigration monitoring, town hall leaders have...
When in 2005 the then education secretary Ruth Kelly baulked at implementing Sir Mike Tomlinson's radical recommendations on curriculum reform, educationalists complained that the agenda had been...
Northern Ireland's first Budget since the restoration of devolution has seen a big increase in economic development spending at the expense of social housing.
