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20 Sep 01
Sir George Young, the former transport and housing minister, is the early front-runner to replace David Davis as chair of Westminster's principal audit body, the Public Accounts Committee but...
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20 Sep 01
Transport unions claimed they were misled by London Underground chiefs after a company with one contract already in the bag won a second one to manage the Tube under the public-private partnership.
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20 Sep 01
Business leaders are demanding that the government keeps its promise to overhaul radically the 'failing' planning system in its forthcoming green paper.
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20 Sep 01
Airline bosses have met Transport Secretary Stephen Byers to discuss the crisis in the industry following last week's terrorist attacks on the US. British Airways and Virgin Atlantic have urged the...
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20 Sep 01
Imagine a massive disaster occurring in the UK and the political response being led by a councillor. Impossible.
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20 Sep 01
Birmingham looks set to become the battleground for directly elected mayors, with both sides claiming victory in this week's consultative referendum.
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20 Sep 01
Council leaders have urged the government to find time for legislation to introduce the promised changes to the capital controls regime.
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13 Sep 01
Local authorities could be faced with bills of millions of pounds to clear up old landfill sites, following a recent report in the British Medical Journal which suggested a link between birth defects...
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13 Sep 01
Heart and lung transplant patients who died at a south London hospital could have survived had they been treated elsewhere, an investigation by the Commission for Health Improvement said this week.
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13 Sep 01
Senior CIPFA officers met local government minister Nick Raynsford this week to press for important changes to the Best Value regime and to discuss other issues concerning councils.
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13 Sep 01
The proposed shake-up of the Ofsted inspection regime unveiled by chief inspector of schools Mike Tomlinson has been given a ringing endorsement by the Local Government Association.
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13 Sep 01
Birmingham City Council has been criticised by its own watchdog for evicting a blind man who had fallen behind with his rent payments.
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13 Sep 01
The government's £2bn New Deal for Communities programme is helping to cut crime rates and boost the local economy in some areas, the first annual review has shown.
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13 Sep 01
A Scottish NHS Trust behind a flagship Private Finance Initiative hospital is threatening to make 200 staff redundant in an attempt to cut costs.
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13 Sep 01
Plans to implement a new model for Private Finance Initiative projects in the NHS have been put on hold while the Department of Health carries out a review of its legality.
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13 Sep 01
Local authorities fear they may be excluded from crucial decision-making after housing associations dominated a government programme to provide low-cost housing for more than 11,000 key public sector...
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13 Sep 01
Fierce clashes over the government's privatisation agenda were averted this week with the early closure of the Trades Union Congress in Brighton, but union activists warned that they would press...
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13 Sep 01
The Whitehall watchdog, the Commons Committee on Standards in Public Life, is considering imposing stiffer codes of conduct for ministers and special advisers.
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13 Sep 01
It is unlikely that large numbers of English NHS patients will be sent for treatment to other European Union countries in the near future, Public Finance has learned.
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13 Sep 01
The Northeast will be the focus of the campaign for directly elected mayors, with Prime Minister Tony Blair's constituency Sedgefield confirming that it will join three other neighbouring boroughs...
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13 Sep 01
The public sector procurement process is excluding small businesses and is overly skewed in favour of large and well-established firms, according to a new report.
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13 Sep 01
Ministers' attempts to convince unions that the public sector is safe in government hands failed this week when plans to give extra rights to state employed staff who switch to the private sector...
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13 Sep 01
Social landlords are becoming less popular with their tenants, according to a new government survey.
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13 Sep 01
More than 200 firefighters and dozens of police officers were still missing in New York 36 hours after the cataclysmic terrorist attacks on September 11 which are feared to have cost thousands of...
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6 Sep 01
The Employers Organisation is demanding a 'joined-up' approach to public sector pay negotiations after this year's talks left many authorities facing a wages bill they cannot afford.
20 Sep 01Sir George Young, the former transport and housing minister, is the early front-runner to replace David Davis as chair of Westminster's principal audit body, the Public Accounts Committee but...
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