A generation of US-style super-highways in the UK was predicted this week after the government unveiled plans for Britain's second private toll motorway.
Former bank chief executive Sir Peter Burt is to head the four-member team that will carry out Scotland's independent review of local government finance, the Executive has announced.
The assertion that the Labour government has presided over a huge rise in the number of back-office administrative staff is a myth, according to a leading think-tank.
Up to 11,000 civil service posts could be slashed following this week's overhaul of benefits and pensions processing at the Department for Work and Pensions a third of the job cuts targeted by the...
Whitehall's intelligence community has come under fire again, with MPs expressing serious concern that the government's focus on counter-terrorism has left Britain vulnerable to espionage.
Last week's row over which party would offer patients genuine choice of where and when they are treated in hospital left NHS managers bemused. Few believe the mantra of choice is the key to...
The accounts of seven of Northern Ireland's 17 departments and major public bodies have been qualified for 2002/03 in the second year of resource accounting.
Council budgets for 2005/06 will be thrown into turmoil next week when the Office for National Statistics finally accepts that its 2001 Census was flawed.
An unprecedented row has broken out between the Scottish Parliament's chief executive, Paul Grice, and auditor general Bob Black over a damning report which is highly critical of the management of...
Primary care organisations are timid and lack the strategic vision to make the most of the new doctors' contract, according to GPs' leader John Chisholm.
A national education funding quango would be a 'retrograde step' for the sector, which must retain local flexibilities in determining how schools receive and spend cash, according to the incoming...
Ten new NHS foundation trusts were launched this week but there was disappointment in three candidate trusts, including two turned down for financial reasons.
A sign of a more aggressive Whitehall emerged this week with the Cabinet Office's summary dismissal of contractor ITnet after an £83m project looked in danger of becoming delayed and over-budget.
Electoral Commission chiefs have rejected calls for a code of practice to govern non-broadcast political advertising, despite concerns about election materials.
Favouring maths teachers over other specialists could deprive some subjects of staff and leave schools facing equal pay claims, teaching unions have warned.
Scottish Finance Minister Andy Kerr is to include financial management in senior civil servants' personal performance targets in an effort to tackle underspending by the Executive and public bodies.
