Social landlords and other house builders could be offered grants covering periods of up to five years under plans to step up the construction of affordable homes.
Union leaders are warning the government that it faces losing the next general election unless it radically rethinks its policy on public services and halts the march towards marketisation.
Alan Johnson has vowed to unveil wide-ranging proposals next month to put a stop to the 'chill indifference' of the state to children in care and banish the deep-seated disadvantage that condemns...
The city of Manchester has earned the right to take on greater self-government, economic researchers said this week in a report that gives a boost to the city-region agenda.
Pressure is mounting on the European Commission to publish a legal framework establishing the limits to which public services must abide by its rules on free market competition.
Moves to inspect housing associations more rapidly and to give them less advance warning of visits by inspectors could be unfair on the sector, the head of the Audit Commission has warned landlords.
The NHS foundation trust regulator has warned primary care trusts to be realistic in contract negotiations over the number of patients that need hospital care.
The Scottish Executive has performed well against most of its transport targets but should provide a fuller picture of what is being achieved for a rising, multi-billion pound investment, auditor...
The Treasury insisted this week that it has always intended to conduct a cross-government policy review to identify the major challenges facing the UK over the next ten years.
Sickness absence rates across the civil service rose last year, despite a blizzard of Whitehall initiatives to tackle the problem, the Cabinet Office has revealed.
The Office of National Statistics has recalculated public sector net debt to include Private Finance Initiative deals in a move that threatens the chancellor's sustainable investment rule.
Tighter controls over the financing and accountability of Parliamentary 'czars' have been recommended by an influential committee of the Scottish Parliament.
A leading public finance expert has poured scorn on the latest attempt to establish a methodology for measuring service outcomes that will enjoy public trust, warning that official statistics are...
Sir Michael Lyons has insisted that he has not ruled out relocalising the business rate but admitted that it was not the answer to the problem of local government funding.
Cabinet Office officials this week admitted that many of Whitehall's human resources functions are inadequate, after it emerged that the four HR directors whose departments were criticised in...
The Liberal Democrats successfully shrugged off their image as a high tax-and-spend party after members endorsed radical proposals that shift the focus of taxation from income to wealth and pollution.
Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt has removed the symbolic ceiling on private sector involvement in the NHS but has also conceded an important element of finance policy that experts say will curtail...
Almost 3,500 public sector care home places for elderly and disabled people were lost last year and fewer than one third were replaced by independent provision, a report says.
Treasury officials this week rejected accusations by trade unions that they dragged their feet over wage deals for 2006 so that they would fall under Chancellor Gordon Brown's strict new 2% pay...
