NHS organisations in England were promised fewer inspections and less bureaucracy this week as more regulators signed up to an initiative designed to reduce red tape.
The Commons Public Accounts Committee has criticised the £5.2m Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain project in Hyde Park, saying poor management has led to spiralling costs.
Chancellor Gordon Brown this week injected further momentum into the government's devolution agenda but the tone emerging from Number 11 points towards a regionalist approach at the expense of...
Regulation provided by the watchdog Postcomm has helped to improve the delivery of Royal Mail services, auditors have reported, but some targets go unmet, despite the threat of competition to the...
As education leaders rushed to praise a Budget that promised huge increases in education spending, it emerged that the Treasury's familiar sleight of hand was in evidence.
New Treasury guidance will cap the number of Private Finance Initiative contracts lasting more than 25 years and limit those that include 'soft' services such as cleaning.
Auditors this week called on Whitehall departments to improve the data underpinning crucial government targets amid fears that more than half of Public Service Agreements are flawed.
The Audit Commission has roundly condemned Bradford City Council's planned £1.2bn procurement of an asset management programme as 'failed', 'inadequate' and 'falling short' of the standards expected...
A housing association whose chief executive was suspended by the Housing Corporation might have broken the law when it rehoused its own staff, according to inspectors.
Government funding of a Loyalist museum in the Shankill area of Belfast has been criticised as 'irregular' in a report from the Northern Ireland Audit Office.
NHS foundation trusts lead the way in recovering from deficits but their immediate future looks less promising, according to foundation trust regulator Monitor.
Ministers have come under new pressure to build more homes after it was revealed that the number of households in England is increasing by more than 200,000 a year.
Up to 1.5 million local government workers will embark on a series of strikes starting on March 28 and leading up to May's local elections, nine unions have announced.
The Treasury's public sector pay committee has created a 'tension' between ministers' policy of local pay flexibility and the chancellor's requirement that all major remuneration decisions must pass...
