Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has asked local government pension funds to recalculate the disputed cost of revoking last April's increase in the scheme's retirement age to 65.
Business leaders have dismissed regional development agencies as irrelevant to the success of their companies, saying they do not understand their role or even why they exist.
Housing associations have withdrawn their objections to a government scheme for extending home ownership after ministers gave them guarantees over rent income and protection for tenants.
As students celebrated record high grades in their A-level exam results this week, schools minister Lord Adonis denied that the examination system was being dumbed down.
Internet-based information about public services could encourage social exclusion and segregation, research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found.
NHS managers will not know what hit them. Despite government assurances that there would be no significant reorganisation following the general election,
Local authorities are vulnerable to a legal challenge that their outsourced services breach new European Union rules designed to avoid the overpayment of contractors, Public Finance has learnt.
Local government must step up its efficiency drive by adopting bigger and bolder strategies, the sector's procurement champion Tim Byles has told Public Finance.
The joint government/trade union body the Public Services Forum has swung into action to set up two panels to assess problematic sickness absence and diversity issues.
Cash raised by a private consortium to finance the extended Channel Tunnel rail link must be classed as government borrowing, the Office for National Statistics has insisted.
The new licensing regime has been condemned as a 'shambles' by industry representatives as the government's own estimates suggest that at least 30% of businesses will miss the August 6 deadline.
A small rise in the number of playing fields in England is not enough to mask the dramatic loss in facilities that has taken place over the past 13 years, sports campaigners said this week.
A parliamentary committee has been urged to hold an inquiry into a £160m Private Finance Initiative project for two Glasgow hospitals that was awarded to the 'preferred bidder' in the absence of any...
Birmingham City Council has this week confirmed that it will offer emergency loans to uninsured residents whose properties were damaged by the tornado that tore through the city on July 28.
The government is on track to achieve its 2008 waiting time target but it must do more to ensure poorer people get access to care, the King's Fund said this week.
Two-thirds of local authorities have had their plans to meet the decent homes target approved by ministers but almost 10% missed this week's cut-off date for submitting firm proposals.
Civil servants this week urged the Cabinet Office to take swift action to correct problems with senior salaries that have distorted pay settlements for lower grade staff.
Social care services might soon be opened to regulatory competition from across the European Union, if the Department of Trade and Industry gets its way, Public Finance has learnt.
