Prime Minister Gordon Brown has asked Conservative MPs John Bercow and Patrick Mercer and Liberal Democrat MP Matthew Taylor to provide policy advice to the government.
Local government and health unions have edged closer to pay deals that would breach the Treasury's 2% limit but this week's illegal strikes by prison officers have highlighted the public sector's...
English cities could raise more than £10bn in extra finance if they were allowed to raise a supplementary business rate, according to research by Centre for Cities.
'Save-as-you-throw' waste collection schemes will not be exploited by local authorities as a way of generating extra cash, council leaders claimed last week.
The government has made slow progress against its target to clear a backlog of 450,000 asylum seekers' case files despite a five-year plan introduced last summer, the chief executive of the Border...
The government has stated that it remains committed to reducing carbon emissions despite speculation that it is set to scrap an award-winning, council-driven scheme that encourages greater use of...
Residents' satisfaction with services and value for money should be the yardsticks against which local authorities are measured when Comprehensive Area Assessments are introduced in 2009, according...
Do Whitehall figures understate the socioeconomic impact of immigration? More precise local-level monitoring and checks on outward migration will give an answer, the agencies involved say
Northern Ireland's hospitals spend £31m more a year than they need to, compared with the unit costs of their English NHS equivalents, according to reviews conducted for Northern Ireland's Department...
Serious doubts have been cast over government plans for 3 million new homes by 2020 after inspectors backed a more modest increase in house-building in Southeast England.
Civil servants have called on the government to consider in-house bids for future IT projects after spiralling costs forced the suspension of an outsourced offender monitoring system.
One of the Local Government Pension Scheme's biggest investment managers was this week accused of a potential conflict of interest over a £360,000 donation to the Conservative Party.
Local authority pension schemes have attacked many of the UK's biggest firms for not disclosing adequate information about the work of their audit committees.
