Scotland spends £11.2bn more than it gathers from taxes, according to the annual Government Expenditure and Revenue in Scotland report, published this week by the Scottish Executive.
A government scheme that encourages tenants to buy shares in their homes must be made more flexible if the take-up is going to improve, says a new report.
The troubled Child Support Agency will be swept away and replaced with a new body that will deliver simpler and more effective ways of collecting child maintenance, Work and Pensions Secretary John...
Sir Michael Lyons' Inquiry into the future of local government has been delayed once more this time so that he can take into account the recommendations of the Barker, Eddington and Leitch reviews...
Northern Ireland's schools are to be encouraged to move towards cross-community co-operation under proposals from a government-commissioned review led by Sir George Bain.
Road pricing, cutting congestion, reducing carbon monoxide emissions and improving accessibility to public transport will be at the heart of Scotland's 20-year strategy on transport, Transport...
Inaccuracies in the way hospitals code the activities they perform to bill primary care trusts 'undermines' the payment by results regime, the Audit Commission has warned.
Housing associations could miss out on grants to build homes if they fail to work effectively with local authorities, the Housing Corporation warned this week.
Services for older people are 'teetering on the brink', Local Government Association chair Lord Sandy Bruce-Lockhart was due to tell the House of Lords on December 7.
Tackling antisocial behaviour costs taxpayers £3.4bn a year, but half of all antisocial behaviour orders are breached and some towns are dogged by perceived threats of yobbish acts, a study has...
Ed Balls, the economic secretary to the Treasury, has challenged other European countries to follow the UK's lead and set up robust accounting procedures for the spending of European Union funds.
A patient survey that will decide whether GP practices receive a bonus of up to £8,000 is biased and potentially pejorative, the British Medical Association said this week.
Personal advisers working for Jobcentre Plus spent only half their time interviewing clients because of the burden imposed by paperwork, government auditors have said.