Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton could reinvest £4bn £7bn per year into the welfare system through savings and new tax income gleaned by reducing benefit claimants by 1 million - a target...
Scottish councils have warned that they face a bill of up to £560m and council tax increases of more than £80 a year if they settle disputes over an equal pay agreement.
An NHS trust accused of 'serious lapses' in its care of older people has promised to do 'whatever it takes' to bring its standards up to acceptable levels.
The European Commission has described as 'artificial' the government's rationale for removing the right of some local government workers to claim full pension benefits at 60.
The outsourcing company planning to shift hundreds of council jobs from London to the Scottish Highlands will not offer skilled staff equivalent positions in the capital if they refuse to move 580...
The trade union representing nuclear industry civil servants has urged ministers to focus on staff skills and safety in any future plans to privatise decommissioning.
Most Whitehall departments will face a spending squeeze in the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review if the chancellor sticks to the spending limits outlined in his Pre-Budget Report, independent...
Public service reforms will fail unless the government addresses 'unfair tax rules' and 'muddled regulation' in the competition for contracts, business and charity leaders have warned.
Whitehall departments should do more to identify assets that can be successfully turned into money-making opportunities, government auditors said this week.
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is refusing to compensate councils for lost grant, even though the government's own statisticians have admitted the data used to calculate it is flawed.
CIPFA president Diane Colley is to take early retirement from Rugby Borough Council, where she has been chief executive and chief financial officer for the past ten years.
Five mental health trusts could be awarded foundation status in April, even though the Department of Health has yet to finalise how they will operate the payment by results funding system.
The Treasury will make a fresh attempt to take the controversy out of the Private Finance Initiative next month, when it makes a deeply technical but potentially significant change to the terms of...
Police forces that volunteer to merge early will have some of their set-up costs met by central government, policing minister Hazel Blears said this week. But she stressed that forces themselves had...
The National Patient Safety Agency has no powers to investigate private hospitals and treatment centres, despite the increasing numbers of NHS patients they treat, a committee of MPs heard on January...
Focusing on social housing at the expense of shared equity or private homes will not be enough to meet housing need, housing and planning minister Yvette Cooper said this week.
Banks should be obliged to offer all council and housing association tenants more attractive basic accounts while ensuring they do not run up huge debts, MPs have been told.
Opposition MPs have called for an 'urgent and independent' investigation into the alleged failure of the tax credits system to deal adequately with fraud.
The government is running out of time to deliver on its localism agenda and risking disaffection throughout local government, Sir Sandy Bruce-Lockhart has warned.
A London borough has called off any further stock transfer ballots after tenants on five estates rejected plans to switch their homes to housing associations.
