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22 Jul 99
Britain hopes to capitalise on the arrival of a fresh team of Brussels commissioners to reinforce its drive to pare down European Union regulation.
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22 Jul 99
The Department of Social Security has shied away from a complete overhaul of its computer system in the wake of a catalogue of IT disasters across central government in the past few months.
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22 Jul 99
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has confirmed that local authorities will be able to introduce congestion charges, with the revenue ring-fenced for local transport schemes.
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22 Jul 99
The Audit Commission has run up a bill so far of £3.45m investigating the Westminster 'homes-for-votes' case, according to its annual report.
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22 Jul 99
The government has diluted its plans to establish a state-funded bank to invest in Private Finance Initiative projects amid criticisms that such a body would face conflicts of interest.
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22 Jul 99
A central government crackdown that will allow greater ministerial intervention into failing schools, councils and police authorities was formally outlined this week.
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15 Jul 99
Scotland's new auditor general could also combine the role of controller of audit under proposals put forward by Scottish finance minister Jack McConnell.
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15 Jul 99
The future of the Tote, the state-owned pool betting monopoly, could take more than two years to sort out as horse racing's ruling bodies squabble over its destiny.
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15 Jul 99
In the normal world, a deficit is a deficit. But, in the world of NHS finance, such simple rules do not apply.
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15 Jul 99
The government is to offer financial incentives to keep 16 to 18-year-olds in education and training as part of a package to stem 'a lost generation' of youngsters.
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15 Jul 99
The government is to fund its proposed expansion of further education through more use of the Private Finance Initiative in the sixth-form sector, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Alan Milburn said...
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15 Jul 99
The Northern Ireland Office has denied that the local health service faces 'nightmare cuts' in the wake of this year's pay award to doctors and nurses.
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8 Jul 99
Councillors are over-whelmingly white, male and middle-aged and they are putting off prospective candidates, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation warned this week.
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8 Jul 99
New government measures to improve public health and save 300,000 lives in the next ten years will fail unless there is a 'massive shift' of funds to poor areas, the NHS Confederation said this week.
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8 Jul 99
The £650m third wave of NHS private finance schemes announced on July 7 will lead to the closure or downgrading of hospitals, and could spark another row over private funding.
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8 Jul 99
A campaign by the Local Government Association to overhaul the voting system for local elections has resulted in the creation of a commission to consider the issue.
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8 Jul 99
Local authorities may have to boost efforts to combat stress and bullying at work after two councils this week paid damages of more than £150,000 to ex-employees.
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1 Jul 99
The top 25 equipment projects commissioned by the Ministry of Defence are expected to cost £2.8bn more than originally forecast and will enter service on average more than three and a half years late...
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1 Jul 99
Social Security Secretary Alistair Darling did little this week to dampen speculation that housing benefit faces abolition in a bid to cut down on massive levels of fraud.
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1 Jul 99
A scientific research council has been severely criticised by the Public Accounts Committee for a 'lack of management grip' in the implementation of a new computer system.
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1 Jul 99
Unison has welcomed changes to the Private Finance Initiative which no longer require staff to transfer to the private sector.
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1 Jul 99
The National Health Service Executive has relaxed financial rules compelling NHS trusts and health authorities collectively to break even this year.
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1 Jul 99
The Treasury will give financial backing to any Private Finance Initiative scheme that ends up on the public sector balance sheet because of new accounting rules, Public Finance has learned.
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1 Jul 99
The Treasury is to raid its contingency fund to meet the military costs of the Kosovo conflict while protecting public spending levels.
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17 Jun 99
The Treasury is to release an extra £480m to bail out the Post Office's ailing IT modernisation programme.
22 Jul 99Britain hopes to capitalise on the arrival of a fresh team of Brussels commissioners to reinforce its drive to pare down European Union regulation.
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