The Office of Government Commerce's trading arm this week reported that it had made efficiency savings worth £321m on £2bn worth of procurement deals during 2004/05.
The Scottish Parliament's health committee is to conduct an inquiry into the Executive's flagship legislation which provides free personal care for the elderly.
The Child Support Agency's backlog of unresolved cases has continued to grow despite all the efforts to cut it, benefits minister James Plaskitt has revealed.
The CBI is warning the government that 'short termism' in its procurement practices is preventing external service providers from bidding for contracts and undermining provision, Public Finance has...
The Department of Health has abandoned plans to publish a white paper on adult social care, opting instead to incorporate it into broader proposals on integrated health and social care services...
Sir Andrew Turnbull this week delivered his final speech as Cabinet secretary, calling for further Whitehall reforms and attacking critics who questioned civil service values under his stewardship.
The Audit Commission has published its first Comprehensive Performance Assessments of fire authorities and judged just under half of them to be high performers.
Carol Gilby, who was suspended as chief executive of North East Derbyshire District Council after falling out with the political leadership, is to return to her job after being exonerated by an...
People who assault fire officers in the course of their work could be imprisoned for up to two years under the provisions of a draft order published in Northern Ireland.
Schoolchildren from the poorest families are failing to match the attainment levels of their more affluent counterparts, the education secretary admitted this week.
The head of the government body set up to encourage private investment in primary care trust accommodation has confirmed that the government is 'pushing' the initiative as a way of increasing private...
Newly merged housing associations are coming under increasing pressure from their regulator to make efficiency savings over and above those identified in their business plans.
Nearly a quarter of the initial bids received for social housing grant over the next two years are from private developers and other non-registered social landlords.
Prince Charles and the Queen should submit their annual accounts to the National Audit Office for proper scrutiny, senior backbench MPs have said this week.
The number of staff employed by the Scottish Executive has increased by 32% since the devolved Parliament was set up in 1999, latest figures have disclosed.
Government plans to cap eight councils' budgets received the go-ahead in the High Court this week when an appeal for a judicial review by South Cambridgeshire District Council failed.
Government plans to slash the number of people claiming incapacity benefit have suffered a blow after a detailed statistical exercise revealed there were 135,000 more recipients than estimated.
