Public sector staff worked £9.1bn worth of unpaid overtime last year, with those taking on additional work providing the equivalent of an extra day each week, according to research published this...
NHS health boards in Scotland are to receive an above-inflation average funding increase of 7.25%, bringing their allocation to £6.5bn, Health Minister Andy Kerr announced this week.
Scottish council chief executives and senior officials face new laws to make them directly accountable for their decisions and to hold them responsible for poor advice.
Town halls are on course for average council tax increases of 4% well within the government's 5% capping threshold but still ahead of the rate of inflation.
Ministers have stepped in to clear up a bureaucratic bungle at the Housing Corporation after it emerged that decisions were wrongly delegated by its board.
A conflict between the government's private investment programme in schools and the education white paper means it must choose between escalating borrowing costs or significantly reducing its...
First Minister Jack McConnell hinted at the prospect of a reorganisation of local government in Scotland as local authorities set council tax levels with an average rise of 3.3%.
Trades Union Congress general secretary Brendan Barber is urging the government to hold its nerve and introduce a state-run national pensions scheme, warning ministers that the financial services...
Whitehall's counter-terrorism strategy since the London bombings has focused on reducing risks, but communicating that to the public has proved difficult.
The NHS Confederation has called for a renewed focus on the treatment of chronic diseases after research revealed that repeated emergency hospital admissions cost the health service £2.3bn a year.
The government urged councils to incinerate a greater proportion of household and business waste this week as it launched a review of the problem of rubbish disposal.
The Department for Work and Pensions has become the first major Whitehall body to sign up to the Office of Government Commerce's new on-line procurement service.
More than half of the savings made under Whitehall's efficiency agenda have effectively been wiped out by an unexpected rise in the cost of staff pensions across two sectors this year, it has emerged.
The Crown Prosecution Service needs to modernise its systems urgently, a senior MP said this week after government auditors revealed the waste of £24m through poor case management.
Government claims of achieving billions of pounds worth of efficiency savings under the Gershon programme must be treated as provisional and require further validation, a public spending watchdog is...
Paul Coen, the incoming chief executive of the Local Government Association, has vowed to forge closer links between local agencies as the spur to achieving improvements in public services.
Bailiffs have been called in to collect an overdue £420,000 in business rates from the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust in Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt's constituency.
The official overseeing Whitehall's £40bn efficiency agenda this week urged public bodies to rethink plans to share back-office services, amid Treasury concerns that too many 'centres of excellence'...
