The draft civil service Bill, published in a consultation document this week, will help maintain the values and high standards of the civil service, the First Division Association said this week.
London Mayor Ken Livingstone has vetoed for a second time a £1bn plan to build a giant, privately-financed hospital in the capital's East End, leaving the project behind schedule and exposed to...
Britain must become an asset-owning democracy to improve the country's social mobility, Labour's chief election strategist Alan Milburn said this week.
The Ministry of Defence came under far-from-friendly fire again this week over its procurement record when the National Audit Office slammed new budget and time overruns.
Peter Morgan, head of accountancy development at the National Audit Office, has called for greater transparency in the presentation of Private Finance Initiative accounts.
The speeches, rallies and debates are over. Months of speculation have come to an end. There were shouts of jubilation and tears of despondency, but the people have spoken: there is to be no elected...
Policing in England will have a 'slimmed-down landscape' from next year with just three core bodies: the Police Standards Unit, an improvement agency and the Home Office.
Whitehall's inadequate risk management and squandering of civil servants' vital commercial skills are hobbling government efforts to boost the value for money of public services, according to the...
The announcement of the provisional revenue support grant settlement has been postponed, leading to suggestions that councils could be in line for a funding increase.
The new university access regulator Sir Martin Harris has claimed that top-up tuition fees could generate up to £200m a year to fund bursaries for poorer students.
The NHS minimum wage will be set at £5.69 an hour after the largest health union voted in favour of a groundbreaking pay deal for more than a million health service staff.
Woking Borough Council, which is borrowing £62m for housing through the prudential code, is setting up its own development company to avoid having rents revenue clawed back through the subsidy system.
In the wake of the biggest civil service strike for ten years, the leader of the Public and Commercial Services union has accused the government of turning the civil service into a 'political...
Local authorities will have to submit efficiency statements next April, outlining how they will reach the £6.45bn savings target, which will be measured under the Comprehensive Performance...
The initiative giving GP practices the power to commission care for their patients should not extend to mental health services, a leading charity said this week.
Scottish Finance Minister Tom McCabe has warned health service managers that performance must improve to justify the substantial increases in resources that have led to higher spending per head than...
Local authorities can overcome cuts in funding for vulnerable people by persuading providers of support services to accept smaller surpluses, housing professionals have been told.
Local authorities and registered social landlords must find housing efficiency savings of £835m per year by 2008 under the government's strict Gershon targets.
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has angered councils and trade unions by ruling out a review of how local authorities raise money to meet the decent homes target.