Recent changes at the top of government present a golden opportunity for climate change to be pushed up the political agenda, a leading environmentalist said this week.
Town halls could be forced to scrap some bus services from 2008 because they face a multimillion pound deficit under Whitehall plans to extend free travel for pensioners.
Britain's armed forces do not have enough servicemen and women to meet the demands placed on them by operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, MPs warned this week.
The army of external consultants advising Whitehall departments should be tied to performance-related contracts under plans to secure better value for taxpayers, a senior auditor said this week.
Newly appointed local government minister John Healey has pledged to forge a 'new relationship' between central and local government and to devolve extensive powers to regional and local levels.
Soaring dementia levels are being ignored by health and social services across England: 'swept under the carpet' in the way cancer was in the 1950s, a senior MP and auditors warned this week.
Major housing associations that receive the lion's share of money to build new homes face a struggle to bring some of their older properties up to standard.
First Minister Alex Salmond has appointed an influential group of leading academics and business leaders to sit on a new Council of Economic Advisers in Scotland.
The Scottish National Party has been criticised by a public finance expert for lacking financial discipline and making 'dubious assumptions' about future savings.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced an immediate review of NHS recruitment procedures after it emerged that all the suspects in the terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow had links to the health...
Labour has retained the presidency of Scotland's local government association, despite the loss of seats to the Scottish National Party in May's Holyrood elections.
The British Medical Association has called on the new prime minister to listen to doctors' advice, as a poll found limited public support for Labour's NHS reforms.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown is unlikely to introduce an independent National Health Service board and could instead opt for a constitution covering the sector, say insiders.
More than £675m raised from the sale of London's Olympic Games sites will be handed back to the National Lottery for heritage activities after 2012, outgoing Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell has...
The government must do more to prepare the public for the reality of the looming slowdown in public spending in the run-up to this autumn's Comprehensive Spending Review, MPs have warned.
